[Eril-l] Collection Development policy statements around "canned courses"

[Karen Jensen]

Thank you for bringing up this topic. I would love to say we have all our
parameters spelled out in our collection policy, but our policy is lagging
far behind actual practice. We have been putting collection dollars toward
quite a few resources that support faculty and students only in specific
departments, or for streaming video on limited occasions, and this has been
happening for quite a while. For example, obviously our campus computing
department pays for and supports the institution-wide courseware, but a
different department on campus provides Endnote licensing, and the library
pays for JoVE. Another example is Lynda training videos, which the library
has paid for until just recently, when the price and access options
exceeded the library's ability to manage and pay for it. So we have a real
mix of what we're doing and not doing, but we need to update our policy so
that we can determine reasonable limits.

Sorry I have no relevant snippets as originally requested, but will be
interested in anything posted to the list.

Karen Jensen
Collection Development Officer
Rasmuson Library
University of Alaska Fairbanks
907-474-6695
kljensen at alaska.edu



On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Judith Nagata <jnagata at coastal.edu> wrote:

> I am also very interested in this topic. I have had similar discussions
> with colleagues at a few institutions on foreign language learning software
> (e.g. Mango), expensive streaming videos for specific courses, accounting
> software/content that only a few classes will use, etc.  Although one can
> argue that the library supports the university’s mission of teaching and
> learning (and should buy and license the resources), the library has to
> pick and choose resources and needs some sort of parameters to maintain
> their budget. I am wondering if anyone has made a distinction between
> content and tools (bad word because this can also cover discovery services)
> or research and learning (also problematic) as part of their collection
> development policy?
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> Great question, James.
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> Judith Nagata
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> Electronic Resources Librarian
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> Kimbel Library and Bryan Information Commons
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> Coastal Carolina University
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> P.O. Box 261954
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> Conway, SC 29528-6054
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> Ph: 843-349-5018 <(843)%20349-5018>
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> http://www.coastal.edu/library/
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> *From:* Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] *On Behalf Of *James
> Buczynski
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:58 AM
> *To:* Eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* [Eril-l] Collection Development policy statements around
> "canned courses"
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> Good Morning,
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> Many of our long time traditional vendors are beginning to offer “canned
> courses” as part of their product mix. Add in all the new vendors offering
> “educational content” and you end up with a growing trickle of requests to
> license access to things that in the past were outside our domain. It’s
> increasingly difficult to know what is, and is not us. Some recorded
> lectures on DVD or streamed online, okay, sure we can do that. An online
> canned course with readings, video lectures, exercises, and online
> quizzes….humm, is that library, College IT Services, college bookstore or
> the requestor’s department that would fulfill that request especially if
> institutional licensing is now available?
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> I’m looking for collection development *policy statements* that address
> this burgeoning marketplace of eLearning content. The statements can be,
> yes we do that; or no we don’t. Rather than a flood (I’m optimistic this is
> widely figured out) of links to collection development policies, snippets
> of the relevant clauses would be most helpful.
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> Thank you,
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> James
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> James A. Buczynski
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> Collections Coordinator
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> Seneca Libraries
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> Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
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> King Campus, Garriock Hall
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> 13990 Dufferin Street, King City, Ontario, L7B 1B3
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> Ph: 416.491.5050x55197 <(416)%20491-5050>
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> Fax: 905.833.1106 <(905)%20833-1106>
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> Email: james.buczynski at senecacollege.ca
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