Dear Colleagues,
I have been asked to discover what it costs/what it should cost to
acquire materials/stock for a TP Library/Collection each year...I am aware
of the studies by Deborah GIBBONS "Teaching Resources Collections", LISE,
1998 and Gill SIMS "Teaching Resources Collections: a report", Kingston
University, 1999.
GIBBONS says, p18, that "...the funding should be adequate to provide
up-to-date materials for the number of students using the collections".
While SIMS writes, p9, that "...of the 22 libraries who were able to supply
figures, the amount spent per student ranged from £0.85p to £17.76p for
1997/8. The median average was £13.07 per student."
Here at NTU I work on a notional figure of £5,000 per year out of the
£23,500 I get for book buying for Education [1999/2000]...there is no
rationale behind this number, it was plucked out of the air some years ago
by a colleague now retired.
Can anyone give me more recent figures to work on?
Cheers John Makin, Education Librarian, NTU.
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