I've been doing a quick, informal check of the accrediting standards of
those organizations I can find online. None actually mentions any
particular requirement for journals or databases. The typical phrase is
"library resources adequate to serve [research and teaching]." Which is
not to say that in a site visit a place won't be penalized for not
having a particular journal. But I'm guessing that zero accrediting
bodies actually require a specific resource.
--Steven Harris
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As Jeff alludes to in his initial question, I believe that some
accrediting and other agencies are a little (or more than a little) out
of date. Doesn’t ARL still ask for a print volume count in annual
statistics?
I think it couldn’t hurt for librarians to start pointing out things
like this (an online subscription provides the same access as a print
subscription; access via pay-per-view is nearly as quick as access via
subscription, and ILL access is often almost as fast as PPV) to
accrediting agencies. They won’t know that something is wrong with their
paradigms until someone points it out.
Katy G.
Katy Ginanni, Collection Development Librarian
Hunter Library
Western Carolina University
176 Central Drive
Cullowhee, NC 28723
ksginanni_at_email.wcu.edu
828-227-3729 office
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Hello.
Similar to what Don said, I have learned that nursing/health sciences
programs are sometimes required to have paper subs to some journals for
accreditation. Perhaps for similar reasons mentioned below. This is
someting I learned from interviews I did with library directors and
confirmed by an EBSCO rep.
Jo McClamroch
Electronic Resources Acquisitions Librarian
Indiana University, Wells Library E350
1320 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
812 855-8097 voice
812 855-3072 fax
jmcclamr_at_indiana.edu
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Hi Jeff,
I read your post with some interest because we are facing serious
budget reductions and are making changes to our serials collections.
I can’t respond to your questions regarding accreditation because we
don’t have to meet these requirements. What I would like to point out
for you, though, relates to Western Washington University’s programs in
Biology.
I note that several of your faculty work with plant development. While
much of their research appears to be at the molecular level and what
follows may not be critical for them, one of your Research Associates,
Fred Rhodes, works specifically with lichen and mushroom
identification.
There are rules established by the International Botanical Society for
the acceptable naming of plants.
These rules were set to help biologists working with plants understand
the correct name of the species they might be looking at in order to
share information about that species with others so that everyone is
(more or less) sure that they are all talking about the same species.
At present (this may change soon) these rules require that the name of
a plant be published in print and that the printed description be made
available in a number of libraries around the world. Plant
identification by morphological characters (as opposed to genetic
indicators) – or taxonomy - is the traditional way of identifying a
plant and the description of those characters must be made ‘public’ in
printed form.
Your library has several journals that regularly publi
sh taxonomic
revisions or new species names. It may be important for your
researchers in the plant sciences to retain these titles in print if
they are doing taxonomic work, or it may not. You may want to check with
them about this before removing any of these print subscriptions from
your collections. This may also have something to do with retaining
subscriptions for some titles in biology.
Just a thought.
Good luck,
Don
Donald Wheeler
Collection Development Librarian
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library
The New York Botanical Garden
2900 Southern Blvd.
Bronx, New York 10458 USA
tel: (718) 817 8752 fax: (718) 817 8956
email: dwheeler@nybg.org http://www.nybg.org
member Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries www.cbhl.net
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We’ve been working on selling our campus on the idea of access vs.
ownership as a way of reframing discussions about what we subscribe to.
In particular, we’ve promoted this as a way to contain costs. We’ve had
a lot of constructive comments and pretty good buy-in so far, but one
question has me a bit stumped. Some programs will mention that their
accreditation process includes a list of core journals that they need to
subscribe to. Since we can get any article faculty or students need,
I’m not sure why a subscription is so important. In other words, the
idea that a library needs to have certain journals seems to date from an
earlier era. Do any of you have experience in communicating with
accrediting bodies about this requirement? Any other experiences that
might be relevant?
Hopefully I’ve provided enough context for my question, but if you have
any questions for me, please let me know.
Thanks,
Jeff Purdue
Collection Development Librarian
Western Washington University
516 High Street
Bellingham, WA 98225-9103
Jeff.Purdue_at_wwu.edu
(360) 650-7750
(360) 650-3954 (fax)
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