4.139 Provost
LIBRARY ACQUISITION POLICY
Date Adopted/Most Recent Revision: 11/07/03
  1. General
    All materials purchased with library funds must be housed in Moffett Library. Any exception to this policy will be made by the University Librarian.

  2. Guidelines
    Guidelines for the acquisition of library materials are as follows:

    1. Library materials acquisitions should be considered and accomplished in a spirit of professional cooperation by the faculty and library staff involved in order to use available funds to develop a collection appropriate to the needs of Midwestern State University's degree programs and to the university's community requirements.
    2. A full-time faculty member from each degree/program area will be appointed at the beginning of each academic year by the dean to act as library liaison.
    3. Book/AV allocations will be divided for each academic year by degree/program areas. These allocations will be established by the University Librarian with the approval of the Library committee and will be sent to the degree/program area library liaisons.
    4. The library liaison will receive and review material purchase requests from area faculty and recommend to the Collection Development Librarian the materials to be ordered. These materials should fall within the guidelines of the collection development policy for that degree/program area. Final responsibility for determining additions to the collection will rest with the University Librarian.
    5. All serial publications shall be reviewed annually in March by library liaisons. Each liaison should identify items to be dropped and prioritized items to be added so changes can be made for the following year depending upon the availability of funds.
    6. First-year periodical subscriptions will be charged against the degree/program area library allocation. Subsequent renewals for the periodical will be added to the library serials budget.
    7. The library will utilize available funds for additions to the collection by:

      1. Purchasing materials in microform whenever possible;
      2. Purchasing paper bound books when available;
      3. Encouraging the use of on-line data bases where applicable to reduce need for hard-copy indexes/abstracts.