Library Information for SACS
IX. CORE REQUIRMENT NINE
1. The collections have been expanded over the past five years to support KSU graduate programs and the library continues to build resources and programs for further graduate degree offerings.
For Education related programs, which includes, Early Childhood/Elementary Education, Adolescent Education, Special Education/Diversity, Instructional Technology, Administrative Leadership, P-12, Special Education Administration and Technology Leadership, the library has added since 2002, more that 2085 book titles in full-text electronic format, more that 2000 book titles, 10 databases of full-text periodicals and 55 periodicals.
Some of the most relevant Education and Education Leadership full-text databases are:
Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
Common Core Data (NationalCenter for Educational Statistics)
Education: a Sage full-text collection
ERIC (with some full-text)
Kraus Curriculum Development Library
NCES (NationalCenter for Education Statistics)
Professional Development Collection
Emerald Intelligence and Management Related Research Library
ACM Digital Library (technology and information Publications)
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
Proquest Computing (full-text journals)
JSTOR
MathSciNet
Project Muse
NCTE Journal
Project Euclid (mathematics journals)
PsycARTICLES
Wiley Interscience
Gale Virtual Reference Library
MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
PsycInfo (full-text)
Sociological Collection (full-text)
Lexus/Nexus
These databases are available on campus and off campus.
The library participates in GALILEO, the state library database and subscribes to an additional 300,000 full-text databases across the curriculum and includes ProQuest, ERIC and Lexus/Nexus. GALILEO provides access to World Wide Web resources such as the Library of Congress, full-text electronic books, journals and newspapers.
In addition the library has more than 20,000 full-text electronic books, all fully cataloged and available online.
Total holdings are more than 600,000 books, 1,500,000 microforms, 300,000 government documents and 4,300 periodicals.
The library is the only institution in Georgia to provide Early English Books Online (a full-text database of 110,000 books from 1450-1701) to support and enhance the curriculum.
Education holdings are more than 20,000 book titles, 3000 full-text electronic books and 391 journals.
The library makes use of both the University System of Georgia System and ARCHE (Atlanta Regional consortium for Higher Education) interlibrary use services. These include interlibrary loans and individual borrowing from most academic libraries in Georgia and also many national and international libraries. The University System and ARCHE services provide direct truck delivery five days a week. Interlibrary loan requests can be made online and many journal articles can be delivered electronically to users. Interlibrary loan services are provided at no cost to faculty and students.
The library has more than 75 online stations in the library for public access. In addition a wireless network allows access to library online resources throughout the library building, throughout the most of the campus and in the residence halls.
The library’s also has 24 laptop computers for library use.
The library’s hours are only two fewer than those at the University of Georgia and are longer than those at GeorgiaStateUniversity and the University of West Georgia. The library provides extended hours during final examination week.
The library provides bibliographic instruction to classes and students. The library has two electronic labs in the library which are dedicated to customized bibliographic instruction. Bibliographic instruction can also be conducted in most class rooms which are wired for technology. Program overviews are available in regularly scheduled classes and by appointment. The library also provides workshops and programs to faculty.
2. The library’s overall budget is developed each year with the Library Director in conjunction with the Vice President for Information Technology and the President’s Cabinet.
The library formulates its annual budget with input and advice from the Faculty Library Committee. Each college has representatives on the Faculty Library Committee and both undergraduate and graduate programs are represented. This committee meets twice each term and is chaired by a faculty member. College departments can propose concerns, needs or purchase needs to the college faculty library committee members who will present those items to the committee.
The charts shown below reflect trend data overtime relative to the expenditures from the library’s budget that support programming in the BCOE. These data reflect some increases overtime, awareness of the developing impact of nontraditional sources in the retrieval and access of information and the one-time allocation of resources to support developing advanced graduate programs in education.
EDUCATION:
FY / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006Books / $21,000 / $22,500 / $23,500 / $24,500 / $25,500
Periodicals / $18,000 / $19,750 / $21,500 / $22,500 / $23,500
Databases / $75,500 / $84,000 / $88,500 / $94,000 / $97,500
SPECIAL ALLOCATION TO SUPPORT GRADUATE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENTS:
FY / 2005Books / $5,000
Periodicals / $2,000
Databases / $15,500
TOTAL LIBRARY BUDGET:
FY / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006Books / $300,000 / $290,000 / $310,000 / $345,000 / $375,000
Periodicals / $350,000 / $300,000 / $325,000 / $350,500 / $360,000
Databases / $600,500 / $680,000 / $700,000 / $800,500 / $980,000