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What We Do
Our mission is to provide information resources in all formats for the campus community by allocating and managing library materials budgets, selecting, acquiring, cataloging and processing all resources via the library management system.
Current Projects and Initiatives
- Migrate to the new SUNY Library Management System, ALEPH500 . This includes data review, training, ALEPH configuration, functionality testing, and setting up Cataloging, OPAC, Serials, and Circulation modules (July-Dec. 04); switch to production on ALEPH (Jan.05) with transition to ExLibris support; planning for implementation of Acquisitions module for July 05. Announcing new system to campus.
- Conduct a usage study of archival journal material held by Feinberg Library in order to determine best access for students, faculty & staff . Costs for maintenance of microform archival copies of periodicals continues to increase 15% annually. Online access to journal archives is clearly the preferred format for our students. We need to study use of both bound and microform formats of journal archives, as it is our belief that neither format is used if the archives are in digital format. Usage statistics from JSTOR and ECO (OCLC's Electronic Collections Online) will complement our usage study of bound and microform formats.
- Develop effective ways to communicate to liaisons, subject area faculty and administrators the trends in information resources and the realities of balancing costs and access
. Conversations with faculty. students and staff, plus comments drawn from the LIBQual+ assessment, indicate considerable misunderstanding of emerging trends in the information market, and, more importantly, misunderstanding of how the Library's collections mirror these trends. CDM proposes making a variety of reports, forms, databases and visual materials available on the Web both to assist liaisons in communicating these trends, and to educate the college community via the Web.
Contact Information
For more information about Library Collection Development and Management, please contact:
Carla Hendrix
SUNY Plattsburgh
101 Broad St., Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Office: Feinberg Library 243
Phone: (518) 564-5183
E-mail: hendrica@plattsburgh.edu