CDL: Library budget for new programs?

From: 		"Lef, Yuliya" <ylef_at_coloradomtn.edu>
 	

I am hoping the collective wisdom of this group could help guide me in the right
direction. 

I work for Colorado Mountain College, a 2-year, medium size, multi-campus
college in rural Colorado. Recently a legislature has been passed allowing us to
offer several Baccalaureate degrees.

 Here’s the list of programs we are looking to support:

   1. General Business
   2. Environmental Studies
   3. Teacher Education
   4. Nursing
   5. upper division general education courses

I did look at the ACRL Standards and a couple of self studies based on 2000 and
2004 versions. I’ve also pulled available data from the National Center for
Educational Statistics for our potential peer groups. But I still feel we don’t
have a good starting point. The college administration needs our budget
recommendation based on data and benchmarking.

We are trying to figure out how much money we need to ask for to move us from
supporting associate programs to supporting several baccalaureate programs. Are
there guidelines or benchmarks that we could use to determine the budget or the
number of volumes and electronic resources we’ll need to add.

We think primarily we’ll need seed money to build our print collection and
yearly budget increase to support online databases. However, we are struggling
with determining what those numbers should be.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much in advance for your help.

 
Yuliya Lef, MLS
Virtual Library Director
Colorado Mountain College
Phone: 970-453-6757 *2629 / Fax: 970-453-2209
P.O. Box 2208, 107 Denison Placer Road
Breckenridge, CO 80424
http://coloradomtn.edu/library