Faculty Expertise in
Collection Strategies
Building resource sharing workflows
through faculty partnerships

Agenda
• Claremont Colleges Library
Overview
• Resource Sharing and Collections
Strategies
• Teagle Grant: Consortial
development of resources and
engagement
• Outcomes and integration
• Next Steps

Director of User Services and
Resource Sharing
Micquel_little@cuc.claremont.edu
Micquel Little

Claremont Colleges
Claremont, California

Claremont
Colleges Library
7 private colleges:
5 Undergraduate
Colleges
2 Graduate Institutions
Approximately 7,000 Full
Time Students

Resource Sharing @ CCL

Resource Sharing @ CCL
- Expands to include Campus
delivery
- Expands to include
Document Delivery
- Expands to include
absorption of local shared
catalog requests

Resource Sharing @ CCL
- Staff expand to include
cross-training across
division
- Collaborations with
Acquisitions begins with
ebook requests
- Financial system training for
future collaborations and
budget management

Resource Sharing @ CCL
- Teaching librarian
collaborations begin for
integrated information literacy
in resource sharing
- Continued collaborations with
Acquisitions for purchase on
demand of physical books
- Faculty engagement in POD
process begins with focus
groups and testing

Resource Sharing @ CCL
- Continued collaborations with
Acquisitions for purchase on
demand of physical books
- Faculty engagement in POD
process begins with focus
groups and testing

Collections Strategies @ CCL
Current processes –
traditional buying
auto-ship/slips
Librarian involvement –
traditional buying
sporadic
Faculty engagement
sporadic
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5C Consortial Grant
This project will bring faculty from
across the colleges together, working
collaboratively to engage in advising
the library in improving its tools
and venues of communication to
build collections.

5C Consortial Grant
Colleagues involved –
Collections
Teaching Librarians
Resource Sharing
Strategy for 3 meeting completion –
Focus Group discussion
Tool testing
Focus Group discussion

Focus Group One
Current Process Challenges
• Hard to find suggestion
form
• Expertise difficult to share
• Easier to buy themselves
• Not often think of the
library and their role in
building collections

Testing
The combined form
• One form – easy to find
• Suggestions vs
Recommendations
• Buying vs Borrowing

The new
form

Focus Group Two
New Process Opportunities
- Review book first
- Option to offer expertise if
difficult to obtain through
obscure publishers, etc.
- Option to purchase while
traveling and be reimbursed by
library upon return
- Easy to access form in multiple
places Add this title to the Claremont collection: Yes or No

Next Steps
• Add ISBN Search
• Communication with more faculty
• Completed implementation of new changes with
new website
• Routine reports and assessment for librarians and
faculty
• Extension to graduate and undergraduate students

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