1. 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

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

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

4. Statistics
Number of courses/ number of titles

5. Statistics

6. 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

7. 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

8. Textbooks on ReserveOpportunities and Challenges
Nassau Community College

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Textbook Expenditures 1995-2011

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

14. 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.

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Textbooks at SUNY Geneseo
Milne cannot afford to purchase textbooks for 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...

19. 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).

20. 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).

21. 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.

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

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

24. 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.

25. 72 Linear Feet of Biblio-Gold