Re: FW: below message for acquisitions and collection development lists Linda Wobbe 10 Nov 2009 21:36 UTC

Hi Patricia,

You probably already know about this, but just in case...

National Center for Education Statistics has an Academic
Library comparison tool:
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/compare/index.asp?LibraryType=Academic

...Linda

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:50:58 -0500
  Patricia Pettijohn <ppettijohn@NELSON.USF.EDU> wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
>
>
> The University of South Florida St. Petersburg (USFSP)
>is an autonomous
> and separately accredited university in the Florida
>State University
> System operating under a local board of trustees as part
>of the larger
> University of South Florida System.  USFSP offers 26
>undergraduate and
> 10 graduate degrees through three Colleges: College of
>Arts and
> Sciences, College of Education, and College of Business.
>We have 3900
> students registered with USFSP as their home
>institution.
>
>
>
> I would greatly appreciate hearing from institutions
>with 3000-6000
> students with a roughly similar breakdown of
>undergrad/grad degrees on
> the following questions:
>
>
>
> 1)      Student FTE
>
> 2)      Number of undergrad and grad degrees offered
>through what
> faculties or colleges
>
> 3)      Total number of print resources in the library's
>collection
>
> 4)      Total number of electronic resources you provide
>access to
>
> 5)      Total acquisitions budget and percentage devoted
>to electronic
> resources
>
> 6)      Do you acquire access to electronic resources on
>your own or as
> part of a group or consortia?
>
> 7)      If you acquire some or all electronic resource
>access as part of
> a group or consortia, what is the formula that is used
>for apportioning
> costs?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any information you're able to
>share. Please send
> any answers directly to:
>
> Carol Hixson, Dean of Library, Nelson Poynter Memorial
>Library, USFSP,
> hixson@mail.usf.edu
>
>
>
>
>

Linda Wobbe
Head, Collection Management
Saint Mary's College of California
1928 Saint Mary's Road; PO Box 4290
Moraga, CA 94575-4290
(925) 631-4232; (925) 631-4229
(925) 376-6097 fax
LWobbe@stmarys-ca.edu