Textbooks on Reserve: Opportunities and Challenges SUNYLA 2012 Justina Elmore, SUNY Geneseo Lisa Errico, Nassau Community College Katrina Frazier, Nassau Community College Karen Gelles, Farmingdale State College Andrew Leykam, (CUNY) College of Staten Island Mary B. Morse, Niagara County Community College Parker O'Mara, SUNY Plattsburgh Michelle Toth, SUNY Plattsburgh

Plattsburgh Textbooks-on-reserve program Goal: Support students’ academic needs by providing access to required textbooks. Parker O’Mara- pomar001@plattsburgh.edu Michelle Toth- tothmm@plattsburgh.edu

History Proposed fall of 2010 Project pilot initiated spring of 2011 Project just completed 3rd semester

Statistics Number of courses/ number of titles

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Funding sources Books are purchased with funds from the monograph account (state funds) or summer IFR (Income fund reimbursable) Library may apply for a College Auxiliary Services grant for $5000 yearly to support book purchases Library would agree to purchase textbooks from the college book store

Circulation policies Textbooks-on-reserve items circulate for 2 hrs. Textbooks cannot leave library $ .50/hour fine on reserve items Patron is blocked if having any overdue items or unpaid fines

Textbooks on ReserveOpportunities and Challenges Nassau Community College

The NCC Library has been offering textbooks since 1972 HISTORY Over 40 Years The NCC Library has been offering textbooks since 1972 Board of Trustees requested that the Library begin buying textbooks for students It began as a small selective collection and has grown into a more comprehensive one.

We purchase one copy of all required textbooks on campus. We do not include ebooks, “recommended” titles, Lab Manuals, Kits, Instructors’ Editions, Workbooks or Study Guides.

CIRCULATION POLICIES Textbooks are located in close stacks behind the Circulation Desk with the following restrictions: -Loan Period is 2 hours with valid NCC ID -In-house use only (Can not be removed from Library) -Fines are 50 cents an hour plus a $5.00 processing fee ; Students records are impounded for outstanding books and unpaid fines.

Textbook Expenditures 1995-2011

FUNDING IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TEXTBOOKS Faculty Donations Bookstore Discount OTHER Library Budget

NCCC Reserves The Reserves Collection at Niagara County Community College is a collection of permanent items along with books, articles and media for individual courses.

Collection Statistics 300 courses with items on Reserve 400 total Reserve items 120 textbooks 107 textbooks (+22 duplicate copies) (Spring 2012)

Textbooks on Reserve No Library budget to purchase textbooks No list provided prior to semester start of titles for textbooks. Bookstore is not helpful All textbooks on reserve come directly from faculty members Faculty are encouraged to put textbooks on Reserve in the Library

Policies for Reserves Circ Items on Reserve circulate according to the directives of the faculty, ranging from 2 hour in- house to 3 day Most of the items are 2 hour in-house reserve Fines for 2 hour reserve items are $1 per hour Library and College holds are placed on students who are delinquent

Textbooks at SUNY Geneseo Milne cannot afford to purchase textbooks for 5000+ students in all fields. Those we do buy quickly become outdated. Circulating reserves Faculty appeals Book list Interlibrary Loan 1 in 5 request textbooks Textbooks = 15% total volume It's a real balancing act sometimes...

Textbooks at SUNY Geneseo Increased unique titles by 600% (still there were 3 times that on the booklist that we did not have)--and this is only required texts, not other recommended readings. Total circulation increased 50%. Number of individual students using the service increased 139% (1 in 4 Geneseo students use the service).

Textbook inflation has increases twice as much as home prices... What we are currently doing--Stop gap measures. We need to change the paradigm surrounding publishing. (ie. Open textbooks and Open Education models like Open SUNY).

Textbooks at Farmingdale State College History Spring'09, ASC starts donating $$$, between $6K-10K/semester. Workflow Determine budget, get title list from Campus Bookstore. Sort title list by price, exclude those we own. Starting with the most expensive and working down the list, we order one copy of each until we have exhausted all funds. Add a few low-cost books used by many sections. Books arrive last minute, processed in time for day 1. Books are shelved by Course Number. Policies 2 hour reserve, in-house use only, $1 per hour fine. Students who do not return books are reported to the Dean of Students ASAP.

Funding provided by ASC for 7 semesters (Total>$50K) Number of books purchased each semester (Total=434)

Circulation of Reserve and Regular Collection by Semester (as of 5/1/12)

If students do not know a title, a static page (left) links to the Browse feature of Aleph which creates an always updated shelf-list (below) sorted by Course Number. http://far.sunyconnect.suny.edu:4520/F?func=find-e&find_scan_code=SCAN_CNO&request=bcs&adjacent=N&local_base=far30

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