About 20 years ago I encountered a situation in which for NLN (National League for Nursing?) accreditation we had to have the primary medical/surgical text book in the library. I was at a relatively well-funded community college, and we did buy it, and the accreditation team member who visited the library did look for it.
Ann
Ann Campion Riley
Interim Director of Libraries
University of Missouri
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In 25 years I have never known any accrediting agency to require that we carry the adopted textbooks. We have a very limited, flat budget in comparison with the number of accredited programs that we strive to support. Nursing, education, engineering, are just the larger accredited programs we have. We have never failed an accreditation, and we do not purchase the course textbooks. We would not be able to afford even the statewide consortium TexShare participation fee. There would be no databases, not even EBSCOHost.
Best wishes!
Sarah Tusa, Associate Professor
Coordinator of Collection Development & Acquisitions
Mary & John Gray Library
Lamar University
Beaumont, Texas
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I am wondering if anyone has experiences to share related to a particular issue we're having with a program accreditation review. Our nursing program is up for a CCNE review in Spring 2018, and the CCNE standards have only this to say about library support:
Academic support services are sufficient to ensure quality and are evaluated on a regular basis to meet program and student needs.
Elaboration: Academic support services (e.g., library, technology, distance education support, research support, admission, and advising services) are adequate for students and faculty to meet program requirements and to achieve the mission, goals, and expected program outcomes
The program director, however, is insisting that there are certain texts that CCNE will expect the library to have and that the library not putting required course texts on reserve is going to be a problem. We are a small campus and the library doesn't have the budget, staff, or space to purchase textbooks (our CD policy states that we don't) or to offer course reserve of required texts (we do reserve for supplemental items only).
Has anyone known an accrediting agency to look for specific textbooks or require particular library services? Anyone dealt with a department insisting on such things for accreditation, regardless of whether the standards supported such demands? Feel free to send a private email.
Thank you!!
Amanda Scull, MLIS
Assistant Professor
Collection Development Librarian
Mason Library 110
Phone: (603)358-2714
ascull_at_keene.edu<mailto:ascull_at_keene.edu>
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