Collection Development Group

Meets once a block to evaluate proposals for new electronic resources, periodical subscriptions, and major purchases (generally items exceeding $1,000), review fund status, plan collection projects, and share information. Has developed a working collection development policy. Members and collection responsibilities:

• Director – Ivan Gaetz – Overall fund management, database contract negotiation, consortial purchases.

• Acquisitions Coordinator – Lana Slaton – processes orders for materials, selects vendors, assigns funds and maintains fund balance reports. Selects materials for current leisure reading collection.

• Archivist and Curator of Special Collections – Jessy Randall – Special Collections and Colorado College Archives, preservation issues.

• Collections Librarian – Lisa Lister – Collections management, including collection assessment and strategic space planning. Negotiates with book and e-book vendors and consortia.  Oversees the Acquisitions Department.  Manages digital institutional collections as Manager of the Digital Archives of Colorado College.  Handles gift donations.

• Government Documents Librarian – McKinley Sielaff – government documents.

• Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian - Diane Westerfield - orders, sets up, renews, and cancels electronic resources, serials and periodicals; assists director with budgeting in these areas; troubleshoot problems with electronic resources. Maintains usage statistics and ERM (Electronic Resources Management module), along with link resolver (database of e-journal holdings). Collaborates with Collections Librarian on collections and physical space issues.

• Liaison Librarians