Cornell University Library
Collection Development Manual

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NOTE: Sections in green refer to procedures at Mann Library.

Library Context

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Budget

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Selection Tools

WorldCat Selection (WCS)

http://connexion.oclc.org

Log on with your authorization code and password. Contact Deb Schmidle (dj13) if you do not know your authorization code.

WorldCat Selection is a web-based software application supported by OCLC that serves selectors and technical services staff in pursuit of streamlined, faster, and more accurate ordering of library materials. Currently, online bibliographic records are received from the Library of Congress, as well as the vendors Aux Amateurs, Coutts, Harrassowitz, Yankee, and Tuzot.

WorldCat Selection Tool Values for Selectors (Excel file)

Additional Procedures at Mann. Selectors rotate weekly to review records received in WCS. A schedule is set up each semester by Linda Stewart. Selectors should find a substitute if they will not be available during a week for which they were assigned.

Publishers' catalogs and flyers received at Olin.
They come in the mail to the Library, or to individual selectors. In Olin Libary, Ada Albright distributes them to Olin selectors or to other libraries as appropriate. You will discover the ones that are most useful to you, and those which you want to look at carefully. Catalogs should be routed on to the next selector in a timely manner. If you want it returned to you, write "return" or "last" by your name on the routing slip. Selectors usually keep in their offices a small stock of useful catalogs, especially those specific to their fields. To order from a catalog, either mark the catalog and send it to Acquisitions with an indication of which pages have orders on them, or photocopy the relevant pages and use the photocopy to place the order. The latter method allows for quicker routing of the catalog.

Publishers' catalogs received at Mann.
Catalogs received at Mann Library are distributed by Judy Wayno. Mann selectors ordering from a catalog should mark the items desired, initial them, and send the catalog to Linda Stewart with an indication of which pages have orders on them. Linda will assign a fund and forward it to Library Technical Services in Olin.

ILL requests.
Ada Albright in Olin routes copies of ILL requests to relevant selectors so you can see the titles patrons are requesting on Interlibrary Loan. (This is not yet possible for the Borrow Direct service.) You may want to purchase items that are available.

ILL requests filled by Mann.
On request, Mann's Interlibrary Services Department runs an annual report of monographs and serials requested by Mann patrons. This report is distributed electronically to all selectors. Linda Stewart typically reviews the monograph report and purchases appropriate items. All selectors use the serials report in evaluating subscriptions.

Electronic sources of new electronic information.
Internet Scout Project - http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html
The Voice of the Shuttle - http://vos.ucsb.edu/

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Searching

Pre-selection Searching.
You are NOT responsible for ascertaining whether or not the library already has a copy of something you are ordering, although if you suspect that we do, it saves some work in Acquisitions if you check the catalog before you send them the order. Pre-selection searching is generally for your own education about the collection, and to help you make informed choices.

Some questions that may lead you to do some searching before ordering an item are: Do we already have this title? (one which looks familiar, or one that is not brand new and is clearly in scope) What else has this author published? Do we have other works by this author? Do have we a standing order for the series? Do we have other numbers in this series? Do we have an earlier edition? What else do we have from this small publisher? Do we have recent works on this topic?

You may want to check RLIN or WorldCat to get more complete bibliographic information (Is this title part of a series? Who is the current publisher of this serial?) or to find out more about an author, or to see if copies are owned by peer institutions. If many RLIN libraries own a book that we lack, you may decide that we should have it too. If no RLIN libraries own the book, you may decide we should get it so there is a copy readily available. There is often a time lag between the publication of a foreign book and its showing up on RLIN. There is always a time lag between publication of a book and many libraries showing up on RLIN as owning it. In other words, if the book is published in the current year, the number of locations in RLIN is probably still incomplete.

Pre-selection searching at Mann.
Pre-selection searching is performed for print catalogs and flyers by Judy Wayno or her student assistant. Reviewing records in Worldcat Selection is the responsibility of the selector assigned to review records in WCS that week.

Assistance by CRIO staff in 106 Olin. Send Howard work that you would like him or the student assistants to do. Some examples: Searching items in Voyager, in RLIN, or in Worldcat; sorting returned orders by fund number; photocopying, special projects.

Searching symbols used by CRIO staff:

Pre-order searching, done in Library Technical Services.
The last thing the Order Unit does before placing an order is check to see if we already have it. If we do, they will send the order back to you with a note to that effect.
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Types of Orders

Firm (or unit) orders.
This is the typical order for a new title. Put your initials and a fund number and, if you like, an estimated price on the bibliographic information. The price is so that your fund will be encumbered by something; the default price is 0. (When managing your funds, it is helpful to have some idea of the funds already encumbered for monographs.)

Firm order procedures for Mann monographs.
All selectors may select monographs in any Mann subject area, although the assigned subject selector is the preferred decision-maker for high-cost items. Mann orders, either from print or electronic sources, are submitted to Linda Stewart, who assigns the fund and submits the orders to LTS.

Specific editions.
If you know you want, for example, "this ed.," or "English language ed." before you place the order, indicate that on the order to avoid getting the it back with the question, "Want this ed.?" If you know there is a paperback edition and you prefer to get that instead of the hard cover (sometimes the case with expensive Routledge books), put "paperback edition" on your order. For Mann Library, the default format is paperback. If a hardback is desired, this should be indicated on the order.

Additional copies.
When ordering something we already have in another library, put A on the order, so Acquisitions will know that you know about the other copy. If the other copy is in Olin, put "copy 2" on the order.

Replacements.
Add -03 to your fund number, and make a note ("copy 2") so Acquisitions knows that you want another copy, if the original copy is still in Voyager. If the missing item has been withdrawn, and the record has already been removed, you don't need the "copy 2" note.

Replacement costs are reimbursed with money received from patrons by Access Services for lost books. This money is distributed proportionately, once a year, based on the percentage of the total Olin funds controlled by each selector, regardless of how many items he/she actually replaced.

In the case of Olin media replacements, the following workflow was established in 2003:

In the case of fragile material that must be either withdrawn or replaced, see the following procedure:

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/operations/brittlebooks.html

Patron requests:
Respond to the patron, letting him/her know that item was ordered, or not and why. If you would like more information about the request, ask the requester if he/she has more information. Put "Req" plus requester's name and e-mail on order. If the item is going to come on an approval plan (for instance, a university press book), put "Please create xbo" (expected on blanket order) on the order. A record will be created on Voyager, and the patron will be notified when the item comes. Library Technical Services notifies patrons to confirm that the order has been placed.

OP/Antiquarian books:
These usually come to our attention via a patron purchase request or an interlibrary loan request. If it is something that you want to get, put "Please S & Q" (Please search and quote) on the order. You may want to look online at sites like BookFinder.com, or other online antiquarians to find a copy yourself, but Acquisitions will do it if you don't, and show you the results, if there are several options. You may have, or receive in the mail, catalogs from antiquarian book dealers. If you have time and money to pursue OP items, look at them relatively quickly, as items can be sold before your order is received. Give the catalog to Acquisitions with your orders marked and funded.

New & Noteworthy Books
If you see a book on the Olin review shelves that you think should be cataloged for the N & N section in Olin, circle "New & Noteworthy" on the yellow flyer that you insert in the book. Be sure to circle "RUSH" on the flyer as well.

If you are unit ordering a book that you think should be N&N, put your fund number and initials on the order and add a note that this item should be processed for the N & N shelves when it is received.

See also the section in this manual on Electronic Acquisitions.
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Interactions with the Acquisitions Department

Your orders should be sent to Acquisitions, 110 Olin, placed in the designated box in 110, or they can be sent electronically to LTSORD-L

For an organization chart and staff of the Acquisitions, see http://www.library.cornell.edu/tsweb/deptinfo/stafflist.htm
For a list of contact persons in Library Technical Services arranged by topics, see http://www.library.cornell.edu/tsweb/deptinfo/contacts.htm

LTSORD-L@CORNELL.EDU: Use this to communicate with the Order Unit for monographs.

LTSREC-L@CORNELL.EDU: Use this to communicate with the Receiving Unit.

ERLM-L@CORNELL.EDU: Use this to communicate with the E-Resources Unit.

LTSSER-L@CORNELL.EDU: Use this to communicate with the Serials Management Unit about payments (print and electronic); print orders; claims and cancellations (print and electronic).

Orders returned from LTS:
LTS will return your paper orders only if they have a question or need more information prior to ordering, for instance, "Want this ed?" or "Want c. 2?" Mark the order accordingly and send it back to LTS. If you do not send it back, the order will not be placed. If no paper order is returned, assume the order having been placed, that we already own the title, that we have a standing order for the series the title belongs to, or that it will be supplied through one of the approval plans.

Other communications with Acquisitions:
LTS will keep you informed if in the process getting the item something has changed. For instance, sometimes the vendor tells us that plans for the publication of a title have been abandoned and so the order is cancelled. In certain cases, orders are sent out only with price estimates (or no price at all) because we do not have specific pricing information at the time of order. Vendors have been asked to confirm a price before shipping if the actual price of the item is $100 or more over the price anticipated at the point of order. In other words, if we sent a purchase order without price information and the title cost $50, it would be shipped. However, if the title were $100 or more, the vendor is required to give us a price quote before fulfilling the order. Thus a title we estimated would cost $40 may be shipped if it really costs $65, but not if it is $140 or more. Acquisitions will contact you to confirm your continued interest in the case of a higher price.

Claiming:
LTS no longer does automatic claiming of firm or standing orders unless they are rush orders. However, they will claim on demand, if asked to do so by subject specialists. Send an e-mail to LTSORD-L@CORNELL.EDU asking that such-and-such a title be claimed. Give them the order number, which you can get from the order record in the Acquisitions module of Voyager. Don't request claims for items ordered fewer than 60 days ago for domestic items, 180 days ago for foreign items.

Monographic series are supposed to be claimed routinely, but the "claim on demand" system operates here as well. Send an e-mail to LTSREC-L@CORNELL.EDU and request that they claim particular volume[s] of a series. Give the brief title and, most important, the order number.

Serials claims are handled by E-Resources & Serials Management at Mann Library. Submit serial claims requests to LTSSER-L@CORNELL.EDU.

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Gifts and Exchanges:

Gifts

The gift policy is on the web: http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/giftpolicy.html

Gifts come in all sizes. If you receive a small gift directly, give the volume(s) to the staff in G & E. Large gifts are defined as collections consisting of 200 or more titles, regardless of format. Before accepting a large gift, consult the Large Collections Workflow Guidelines and the accompanying Large Collection Selection and Processing Checklist.

Write a letter of thanks or not, as you feel to be appropriate, giving G & E a copy if you do write one. (It is customary for the selector to write to the donor in the case of a large gift.) G & E will write a form letter of thanks. G & E will also place on your shelf in 110 Olin gifts the library receives that are in your subjects, for your retention decision.

Exchanges.
CUL has many exchange partners around the world who send us material that would be hard to obtain otherwise. Some exchanges are clearly defined: you send us this title and we send you that title. Others are based on partners' selections from lists that we send out and our selections on lists they send us. Still others are a mixture of the two. Selectors pay for these exchanges, based on the subject of the material received and agreements established over time.

Your shelf in 110 Olin, north wall:
On this shelf you will find gifts, books received on exchange, unsolicited serial samples, and books with questions from LTS. You should look at this shelf regularly. Note your responses / decisions on the flyers in the items (with your initials and the date) and place the items on the sorting table. Items to be added to the collection should receive a colored location flyer. All others should be marked according to your decision: i.e. Book sale, Discard, or the initials of another selector who may be interested in adding the item to the collection

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Approval Plans and Blanket Orders

Approval plan books and those on blanket order do not have order records created for them in Voyager because they will come automatically and do not need to be ordered individually. Normally they do not show up in Voyager until they arrive. Selectors have an opportunity to see these books on the review shelves as they are received, unlike books that are unit ordered, which go directly into the processing stream.

The Acquisitions Department has statistics from vendors with whom we have approval plans.

See the Approval & Blanket Order Log for a list of vendors' and publishers' approval and blanket order plans.

Yankee Approval Plan
The largest approval plan at CUL is with Yankee Book Peddler (YBP). It is a publisher-based plan, meaning that we receive books published from certain designated publishers automatically, based on the profile we have set up with Yankee. (See below for how to get a copy of the profile and the lists of publishers.) In fact there is more than one plan, but the one you will be most concerned with is called simply APPROVAL BOOKS. The books that come on this plan are placed on review shelves in Olin 110 each Thursday morning and displayed there for one week for selectors to see and flyer for their libraries. They are arranged by LC classification. Because these books are funded centrally, you do not need to indicate a fund number. [Note: see Mann exception below.] Books that are not flyered by late Wednesday afternoon are reviewed by the CRIO Coordinator for Collections, Kizer Walker, who assigns them to the appropriate library based on the Cornell Primary Collecting Responsibilities (CPCR) chart.

Consult the Yankee Approval Plan Profile and Memorandum of Agreement (PDF) for a list of presses and authors included in CUL's approval plan. The letter "B" signifies physical receipt of the item on approval; the letter "S" stands for slip, or WCS record.

Yankee Approval Plan Publishers List (PDF)

Mann selectors have the option of funding Yankee approval books with endowments. See Approval Book Transfers to Endowments: Instructions for Mann Selectors Reviewing Yankee Books.

GOBI
GOBI is the interactive web site for Yankee that you can log in directly at http://www.gobi2.com/ge2_Login.asp or by connecting to the Yankee site at http://www.ybp.com/ and clicking on the GOBI DIRECT link.

Access to GOBI requires an individual account which can be set up by Acquisitions. GOBI is where you can find the profile that CUL has for the approval plans, and the publishers included in them.

To see Cornell's profile for the approval books, click on Approvals, then click on Approval Plan. Select the subaccounts you want (for example, YBP Approval Only, 1330-11 Approval Books)) from the pull-down menu. Click on the Subject Profile tab, and specify how you want the report to be delivered -- in GOBI or by email. Click the GO button, or hit return. It is worth looking at the profile set up for your call numbers in the Approval Plan Profile, Memorandum of Agreement to see what you can expect to get from Yankee.

For lists of publishers, click on the Publisher List tab. The list of publishers does change over time, as publishers are merged or subsumed. Adding a new publisher to the plan is not an automatic procedure, because funds to pay for the additional books must come from individual lines in the appropriated book budget. Over time, CUL has increased the number of publishers whose books come on approval plans; that process is managed centrally.

Returns.
Approval plan books can be returned. Vendors expect some returns, especially when the plan is just getting started. If there are many returns, the profile may have to be adjusted. In practice, we keep almost everything. If the book is very cheap, it may cost more to send it back than to keep it.

Review shelves, to be looked at weekly.
If you are going to be away for a week or more, give another selector your fund numbers and ask him/her to review the shelves for you.
· Yankee books. Put your library's flyer in the books in your subjects. Keep a copy of the slip if you wish. These books are funded centrally, so you do not need to indicate a fund number.
· Cornell University Press books. Flyer a copy for your library if you want it. These books are funded centrally.
· Miscellaneous approval plans. Flyer books if you want them. They are funded centrally.
· Monographic series. This shelf contains items in “review series” -- series to which we have a standing order, but whose titles need to be funded individually. Write your initials and fund on the pink flyer if the book is on your subject.
· "Second-week " shelf -- books not flyered or (in the cases of series) funded the week before. Check for books previously overlooked.

Other vendors’ plans. You will know what they are in your subjects. Look at these books to know what is coming in on the plan. Fund them and keep the copies of the invoices that are with the books. These can be useful for monitoring the plan.

Monitoring approval plans.
You monitor approval plans by looking at the books as they come in, conscious of their conformity to the profile. The invoices that come with individual plans are useful over time, as are the reports that most vendors supply quarterly. If you have a publisher-based plan for your subjects, you could check what has been received against a publisher’s catalog if you want to be sure we are getting everything through the plan. Discuss adjustments to the plan with Acquisitions.

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Using Voyager for Collection Development

The OPAC is adequate for ordinary searching. You can see in the OPAC if we already have something, including serial issues, or if it is on order. Standing order monographic series do not appear in the OPAC under the umbrella title, only under individual number's titles.

For more detailed information about orders, funds, prices, vendors, serials check-in, claims, circulation history, payment history, etc., see the Voyager modules (Acquisitions, Cataloging, and Circulation), which should be loaded on your computer.

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Serials

Because serials represent ongoing commitments, new subscriptions are placed with care. Give Acquisitions the bibliographic information, with your initials and fund. Also indicate the volume with which the subscription should begin. (For example: MRH 4210 vol. 30 - ) If it is a new journal, you generally begin with vol. 1, but if it has just recently come to your attention, you may want to start the subscription with a later volume. You can also inquire about the availability and cost of back volumes, if you want them. The Serials folks in Acquisitions can get that information for you.

Sample issues. If you want to see an issue of a serial before you place a subscription, you may request a sample issue, giving Acquisitions your initials and fund. Samples of journals also come unsolicited, and show up on your shelf in 110 Olin. Indicate your decision on the blue flyer.

Memberships. Some journals come as a result of memberships the library maintains with societies and other organizations. Memberships in organizations that publish in your subjects are set up by you, the selector, and paid for with your fund.

Cancellations. To cancel a serial, announce your intention via CU-LIB, and wait at least a week for responses. If you go ahead with the cancellation, send the information to LTSSER-L@CORNELL.EDU. (“Please cancel......as of volume...”) In late summer, Library Technical Services asks specifically for titles we intend to cancel, to be sure the cancellation goes into effect before the subscription is renewed in the fall. Cancellations can also be done at other times of the year, effective at the end of the current subscription period.

Serial Price Fluctuation Report

This report, which appears irregularly, lists serials by fund, giving the amount paid on the subscription in a given fiscal year and again the following year, showing the percent change from one year to the next. It is necessary to keep in mind that some serials are paid for in other than annual cycles, so that a two-year subscription, for example, will skew the annual comparison. Other factors such as supplemental charges and electronic access fees also compromise the accuracy of the percent change.

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Monographic Series

Series standing orders paid for by one fund will come in automatically and be cataloged for the stacks. To find out if the library has a standing order for a monographic series, you need to look for it in the Voyager Acquisitions module. If there is no order record for the series title there, we don’t have a standing order. (There are very few exceptions.)

Series on review will show up on the monographic series review shelf to be funded. These are series to which we have a standing order, whose individual titles are on a range of subjects.

Series published by one of the Yankee approval plan publishers come, in most cases, on the Yankee approval plan. They will be on the Yankee review shelves, and need a flyer.

Titles in other series can be firm ordered, as monographs.

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Electronic Acquisitions

Selectors should submit Networked Electronic Resource Forms (NERFs) to the LTS E-Resources and Serials Management (ERSM) Unit for all networked resources, including those resources that may require special treatment. ERSM staff will do a preliminary review of networked resources selected via NERFs and will forward those that require special treatment to the Electronic Resources Committee (ERC). When considering resources requiring special treatment, ERC will contact selectors in cases such as those where more information is needed or where more than one access option is possible.

ERSM also maintains instructions for using the NERF, as well as a tracking system for orders submitted via NERF. DRC (Database Review Committee)
This committee is responsible for tracking, evaluating, and making recommendations on subscriptions to those bibliographic and full-text databases, including electronic journals, that are funded centrally. For the full charge to the committee, see: http://www.englib.cornell.edu/cul/a2i/drc/charge.html
Use the following form for a resource to be reviewed for possible central funding. (Fund 519): http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/drcrequestform.html

ERC (Electronic Resources Committee)
This committee discusses policy issues related to electronic resources.
See the following website for their meeting minutes: http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/ERC/ERC.html

Electronic Journals.
Electronic journals are journals whose full text is accessible online, either in addition to or instead of a paper subscription. Acquiring access may involve licences, extra costs, consortial negotiations, and oversight. Cornell sometimes works with consortia when negotiating with publishers or vendors. See the following for the principles established by the NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL), of which we are a member: http://www.library.yale.edu/NERLpublic/EJrnlPrinciples.html

Voyager Fund codes, to be appended to the fund number when ordering an item:
-01 Electronic remote (accessed on the web)
-02 Electronic local (accessed locally, usually CD-ROMs)
If an item is mixed media, for example, a CD in the back of a book, or a pamphlet accompanying a CD, use -02 or not, based on the preponderant format.

Database Trials
DRC and LTS members have created a wiki space to announce and record trials of electronic resources. The space is at http://wiki.library.cornell.edu/x/CAAT Selectors are encouraged to set up trials themselves, but if they'd rather not, or if they need help setting up a trial, they should contact the E-Resources Unit at erlm-l@cornell.edu.

The reasons for this method of documentation include (as one selector/reference librarian commented): "...centralizing and tracking the availability of e-resource trials and for providing a consistent mode for feedback. There have been many trials this year and the availability dates often change. Individuals and departments have been duplicating efforts in trying to keep track of and respond to trials. Information about trials is often lost in our daily deluge of e-mail."

Once you have set up a trial, please send an announcement of the trial to CU-LIB so that all can be informed of it.

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Procedures for Transfers

· To the Annex. See Selection Policy for Shelf Space Adjustment

Most often, this involves a joint project with Collection Maintenance, who processes the books once the macrocriteria are established

· To Rare and Manuscripts. See Policy on Transfer of General Collection Material to Special Collections

Returning Annex Materials to Central Campus Libraries

Selectors may request to have Annex materials returned to the originating campus library if there is a clear sense that such titles will be needed and used. Use the Annex Transfer Request Form to initiate the return.

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Withdrawing Books

The CUL Policy on the Disposition of Library Materials is currently undergoing revision.
LTS's schedule for withdrawing books can be found at:

http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/dbqe/withsch.htm

Occasionally, the Library is asked to return or destroy material already acquired. See Policy on Returning or Destroying Materials on Request

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User Liaison

All selectors are advised to meet with their departments and programs early in the academic year in order to foster contacts with their constituencies, and discuss the condition of the collections they manage. Recently, funding pressures have been an important topic of conversation with the faculty, and some relevant documents on the issue have been prepared. See The Crisis in Scholarly Communication and Links on Scholarly Communication.

Selectors make a special effort to get acquainted with new faculty each year.Selectors offer assistance and bibliographic instruction to faculty and students in areas of specialization. The Reference Department has its own program of outreach to academic departments, and selectors have been part of that effort. Reference Librarians refer patrons to selectors when additional help is needed.

Selectors keep faculty and students informed about new initiatives and important new publications, and solicit their advice when needed.

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Interaction with Colleagues

Olin selector meetings are called by Kizer Walker.
Mann selector meetings are called by Nan Hyland.
Team meetings are called by the team leader.
General selector meetings are called by the AUL.

Other selectors on campus:

Selectors campus-wide can communicate and share information via a listserv, CUCD-L @cornell.edu CUCD stands for Cornell University Collection Development.

To subscribe to this listserv:

1) Send your request to: cucd-l-request@cornell.edu
2) Leave the subject line blank
3) In the body, simply type the word "join" (without the quotes)
4) Send mail

Informal interactions among selectors are frequent, and are useful for sharing individual policies and practices. One example, not unusual, occurs when it is not clear who is responsible for a title in a subject that overlaps with another subject. Another example is the potential acquisition of a database or other expensive set that might appropriately be funded by more than one selector.

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Fund raising.

Olin and other endowed libraries work with Library External Relations. See http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/fundraising.html for the Fund Raising Opportunity Form, used to inform External Relations of something for which there may conceivably be a donor. Also see the Gifts of Books and Materials Policy at http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/giftpolicy.html

Mann Library selectors work primarily with Eveline Ferretti, Assistant to the Director of Mann. She refers questions to Library External Relations if appropriate.

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Collection Statistics.

Cornell University. Library. Annual Statistics. (Olin Z733.C81 A11 +)
Some statistics are online:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Admin/statistics.pdf
http://www.library.cornell.edu/elecres/Statistics/Annual/GrowthPrint89-98.html
http://www.library.cornell.edu/elecres/Statistics/Annual/GrowthMat89-98.html
http://www.library.cornell.edu/elecres/Statistics/Annual/GrowthPrint97-98.html
http://www.library.cornell.edu/elecres/Statistics/Annual/GrowthNon97-98.html
http://www.library.cornell.edu/elecres/Statistics/Annual/GrowthMicro97-98.html

For annual statistics from 1999/2000 forward, see: http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/AnnualStatsArchive/indexStatArch.html

North American Title Count: http://www.lib.umich.edu/systems/compare.htm 

North American title count, 1997 [computer file] : titles
Published:         [Chicago, Ill.] : ALCTS, 1998.

Location:          Olin Library

Call Number:       Oversize Z675.R45 N67 1998+
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Consortia and Networks

NERL
The North East Research Libraries consortium comprises 21 academic research libraries with the common objectives of access and cost containment, joint licensing, and possible joint deployment of electronic resources. NERL offers a forum in which members can share information about management and budgeting for electronic resources. NERL focuses on expensive (over $10K) scholarly e-resources of importance to research institutions. NERL's work is done primarily on a volunteer basis by members. http://www.library.yale.edu/NERLpublic/

CRL

The Center for Research Libraries is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/
Cornell is a member of CRL, and we borrow from them through interlibrary loan. Occasionally selectors are asked to give their opinions about items for possible purchase at CRL.

RLG Programs

RLG Programs is part of OCLC’s Programs and Research division. OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. RLG Programs is comprised of nearly 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. Our global partnership has remarkable collections for research, teaching and learning. Originally founded in 1974 by The New York Public Library and Columbia, Harvard, and Yale universities, RLG Programs combined with OCLC in July 2006. The new organization will be the leading venue for applied research, community building and prototyping of systems and services that support research and learning. See http://www.oclc.org/programs/default.htm

RLG Conspectus (now inactive)
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/conspectus.htm

RLG Conspectus Collection Depth Indicators: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/colldev/collection-depth.html

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Some Useful Web Sites

The Collection Development page, with links: http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/collectiondevelopment.html

Books in Print: http://www.booksinprint.com/bip/

WorldCat Selection Tool: http://connexion.oclc.org/

Yankee's GOBI site: http://www.gobi2.com/ge2_Login.asp

AcqWeb’s Directory of Publishers and Vendors: http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/pubr.html

Currency conversion: http://www.xe.com/ucc/

One source for OP books; there are many more: http://www.bookfinder.com/

http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/cdmanual.html
Revised and updated, 9/4/08
Send changes to Fred Muratori