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Collection Development Group

Director | Acquisitions Coordinator | Archivist and Curator of Special Collections | Public Services/Collections Librarian | Government Documents Librarian | Liaison Librarians

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 – Carol Dickerson – 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.

Public Services/Collections Librarian – Lisa Lister – gift collections, collection development projects, supervision of acquisitions, reference collection, vendor liaison.

Government Documents Librarian – McKinley Sielaff- government documents.

Liaison Librarians

Hours

Today: 12:00pm-8:00pm

How to

Renew borrowed items

Log into your TIGER account to renew any items borrowed from our library or a Prospector library. For materials borrowed through Interlibrary Loan, contact the Interlibrary Loan office.
Borrow from the library

Campus community members must have a valid Gold Card to check out materials. See further details for students, faculty, staff, spouses and dependents, alumni, affiliates of area colleges or universities and other Colorado residents.
Borrow from other libraries

If you can’t find what you need at our library, try Prospector to search and request items from regional libraries. You can also submit an Interlibrary Loan request to borrow from other libraries.

Cite sources

Try these Style & Writing Guides.
Use Refworks

Refworks can help you organize citations and format notes and bibliographies. Check out the Refworks FAQ

Connect to the wireless

Have your own laptop? Borrow one from Circulation? Connect to the library wireless using these Help Desk instructions.
Print to a library printer

The library network printers are called “tuttfirstfloor” and “tuttbasement”. To print to these printers, first you have to map them using these Help Desk instructions.

Submit a thesis

Before submitting your thesis to the library for binding, review the Thesis Binding Policy for guidelines and instructions.
Request a purchase

You are welcome to suggest library materials for purchase, including books, videos, databases and journals.

Look at past venture grant proposals

Browse past venture grant proposals online. The Circulation Desk also keeps a folder of past proposals.
Look at LAS major applications

Browse past applications for the major in Liberal Arts & Sciences online. The Circulation Desk also keeps a folder of past LAS applications.

Find out about CC's minor in The Book

Find out the requirements for Colorado College’s new thematic minor in The Book (the past, present, and future of the written word in its material form).

Access library databases from home

When you click on our database links from off-campus, you will be asked to log in with your name and TIGER number. Once you log in, you will be able to access the database as a Colorado College user, just as if you were on-campus.

Need help?

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Circulation Desk: 389-6184
Reference Desk: 389-6662