Transcript Textbooks on Reserve: Opportunities and Challenges SUNYLA 2012 Justina Elmore, SUNY Geneseo Lisa Errico, Nassau Community College Katrina Frazier, Nassau Community College Karen Gelles, Farmingdale State.

Textbooks on Reserve: Opportunities and
Challenges
SUNYLA 2012
Justina Elmore, SUNY Geneseo
Lisa Errico, Nassau Community College
Katrina Frazier, Nassau Community College
Karen Gelles, Farmingdale State College
Andrew Leykam, (CUNY) College of Staten Island
Mary B. Morse, Niagara County Community College
Parker O'Mara, SUNY Plattsburgh
Michelle Toth, SUNY Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh Textbooks-on-reserve
program
Goal: Support students’ academic needs by
providing access to required textbooks.
Parker O’Mara- [email protected]
Michelle Toth- [email protected]
History
•Proposed fall of 2010
•Project pilot initiated spring of 2011
•Project just completed 3rd semester
Statistics
Number of courses/ number of titles
Statistics
Funding sources
•Books are purchased with funds from the
monograph account (state funds) or summer IFR
(Income fund reimbursable)
•Library may apply for a College Auxiliary Services
grant for $5000 yearly to support book purchases
• Library would agree to purchase textbooks from
the college book store
Circulation policies
• Textbooks-on-reserve items circulate for 2 hrs.
• Textbooks cannot leave library
• $ .50/hour fine on reserve items
• Patron is blocked if having any overdue items or
unpaid fines
Textbooks on
ReserveOpportunities and
Challenges
Nassau Community College
HISTORY
Over 40 Years
The NCC Library has been
offering textbooks since 1972
Board of Trustees requested
that the Library begin buying
textbooks for students
It began as a small selective
collection and has grown into
a more comprehensive one.
We purchase one copy of all required
textbooks on campus.
We do not include ebooks, “recommended” titles,
Lab Manuals, Kits, Instructors’ Editions, Workbooks
or Study Guides.
CIRCULATION POLICIES
Textbooks are located in close stacks behind the Circulation Desk
with the following restrictions:
-Loan Period is 2 hours with valid NCC ID
-In-house use only (Can not be removed from Library)
-Fines are 50 cents an hour plus a $5.00 processing fee ;
Students records are impounded for outstanding books and unpaid
fines.
Textbook Expenditures 19952011
FUNDING IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT
TEXTBOOKS
Faculty
Donations
OTHER
Bookstore
Discount
Library
Budget
NCCC Reserves
The Reserves Collection at Niagara County
Community College is a collection of permanent
items along with books, articles and media for
individual courses.
Collection Statistics
•
• 300 courses with items on Reserve
• 400 total Reserve items
• 120 textbooks
• 107 textbooks (+22 duplicate copies) (Spring 2012)
Textbooks on Reserve
•
• No Library budget to purchase textbooks
• No list provided prior to semester start of titles for
textbooks. Bookstore is not helpful
• All textbooks on reserve come directly from faculty
members
• Faculty are encouraged to put textbooks on Reserve
in the Library
Policies for Reserves Circ
•
• Items on Reserve circulate according to the
directives of the faculty, ranging from 2 hour inhouse to 3 day
• Most of the items are 2 hour in-house reserve
• Fines for 2 hour reserve items are $1 per hour
• Library and College holds are placed on students
who are delinquent
Textbooks at SUNY Geneseo
Milne cannot afford to purchase
textbooks for 5000+ students in
all fields.
Those we do buy quickly
become outdated.
Circulating reserves
• Faculty appeals
• Book list
Interlibrary Loan
• 1 in 5 request textbooks
• Textbooks = 15% total
volume
Textbooks at SUNY Geneseo
Textbooks at Farmingdale State College
History
• Spring'09, ASC starts donating $$$, between $6K-10K/semester.
Workflow
Determine budget, get title list from Campus Bookstore.
• Sort title list by price, exclude those we own.
• Starting with the most expensive and working down the list, we
order one copy of each until we have exhausted all funds.
Add a few low-cost books used by many sections.
Books arrive last minute, processed in time for day 1.
• Books are shelved by Course Number.
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Policies
• 2 hour reserve, in-house use only, $1 per hour fine.
• Students who do not return books are reported to the Dean of
Funding provided
by ASC for 7
semesters
(Total>$50K)
Number of
books
purchased each
semester
(Total=434)
Circulation of Reserve and
Regular Collection by Semester (as of 5/1/12)
If students do not know
a title, a static page
(left) links to the
Browse feature of
Aleph which creates an
always updated shelflist (below) sorted by
Course Number.
http://far.sunyconnect.suny.edu:4520/F?func=fin
de&find_scan_code=SCAN_CNO&request=bcs&
adjacent=N&local_base=far30
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