Library Collection Development

• Librarians plan for and coordinate the growth of the library's collections.
• Librarians serve as liaison contacts with faculty to promote communication and interchange about the library's collections; to enhance the library's ability to support instructional programs; and to be responsive to changes in curricula.
• Instructors and Deans are encouraged to contact the liaison librarian at any time for help and guidance in shaping the library's collection
• Non-print and Video purchasing is coordinated by Johanna Bowen.
• Cabrillo College Governing Board Policy on Resource Materials Selection

BOARD POLICY 3300: Learning Resource Materials selection and Retention (Library Policy)

Recognizing that education is more than exposure through lectures and other classroom experiences to the knowledge, ideas and values of society, and that the full range of exploration of the fields of knowledge includes classroom learning, self-directed study and reading, and individualized instructional resources, it is the policy of the Governing Board that the college shall make available in the Library and in the Learning Center well-rounded collections of print and nonprint learning materials which provide to students and staff:

1. curriculum suport
2. general information
3. personal and recreational reading
4. materials for professional growth
5. cultural enrichment

The selection and retention of learning resource materials is the responsibility of the College Librarian, with the approval of the President/Superintendent under authorization of the Governing Board. The College librarian will be aided by the faculty, administration, staff, and students in determining items for addition to and deletion from the collections.

Board Policy 3300: Legal Reference: Education Code 1800 and 18172, Adopted April 4, 1988

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Revised September 30, 2002 || Johanna Bowen