Dear John
I am struggling with finding comparative figures for my whole
budget. I haven't found anything specific to teaching resources
collections - and in my budget I divide the money up by courses -
so the Geography PGCE for example has a pot of money which they
can use for main library books - eg teaching methodology in
geography or textbooks, videos etc as they wish.
I should love to hear if anyone has comparative figures for
library budgets - in general or in education libraries. Two
references that others might find useful are:
Resources for learning in college libraries : the report of the
LA college library survey 1993-94 / Tricia Hamm, David Marsden,
Steve Wisher - LA 1856041875
which does have some figures for per capita spending and stock
figures from the survey
Guidelines for college libraries : recommendations for
pe=rformance and resourcing / edited by Kathy Ennis - LA : COFHE
1856041530
I understand from a recent ELG Committee meeting that COFHE have
funding to produce a new edition of the last. On p. 16 the LA
recommends a library budget of £26 per FTE student excluding
salaries. I think that is totallly inadequate.
In the Times Higher Education Supplement No. 1332 of May 15 1998
there were league tables published (probably been one more
recently) which include per capita library spending.
Any more sources of information people can give?
Judy
Judy Reading
Librarian
University of Oxford, Department of Educational Studies
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:52:15 -0000 "Makin, John" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> 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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