About the Collections Division in the MSU Libraries

The Collections Division has the overall goal of providing a collection of information resources which will support the identifiable research needs of the university community as well as those of scholars worldwide.

About the Collections Division:

• Collections Management: Units & Staff.
• Collections Division Goals & Objectives: 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, and 2008-2009 (draft).
• Collections Division Annual Reports for 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-07.
• Subject Selectors in the MSU Libraries.
• Collection Development Policy Statements and the policy statement on writing these documents.

Procedures, policies and online forms:

• Recommend an item for purchase (online form).
• Monographic Order procedure statement.
• Electronic Resource Order Form (PDF) and procedure.
• Tech Services division page.

Intranet pages intended for staff (intranet login required for some):

• Collections Management intranet page.
• Bibliographers Manual table of contents (current text).
• Bibliographers Manual revision project in wiki format.
• Monographic Order Card (intranet: PDF) and procedure statement.
• Serials cancellation form.
• Gifts: general statement of policy and procedures.
• Resources Under Consideration wishlist for staff use (passworded) and faculty use.
• Bibliographers and fund assignments by call number, selector, and fund code.
• Library instruction statistics for bibliographers and others.
• MSU Libraries Organizational Profile, including Goals & Objectives 2007-2008.
• Organizational profile statistics (prepared by the Main Offce).
• North American Title Count 2005 (via Intranet).
• University travel documents.

Web sites of potential interest:

• ARL statistics: interactive edition.
• ALCTS: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services of ALA.
• The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition by Mary H. Munroe.
• North American Title Count 2001 (via MSU citrix server).
• Liblicense-L List Archive.
• CIC library New Proposals list (details passworded).
• Price per article or citation: JournalPrices by Ted Bergstrom and Preston McAfee.
• Journal Value Project from U. of Wisconsin.

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Updated: 21 March 2008.