Retrospective acquisition of serials to meet new program needs will be extremely selective and limited to the past five years. Document delivery will be utilized instead to meet these needs whenever feasible. The special needs of the NTID students are considered where relevant. Major published source material appearing in core collection bibliographies or recommended lists will be included. Pertinent reference sources will also be acquired.
Every effort is made to accommodate faculty requests for specific curriculum related titles.
B. Textbooks Textbooks are not routinely acquired unless useful as general surveys or handbooks for a particular area not otherwise represented. C. Serials Serials are of major importance in this field of rapid advances. G. Multiple Copies Multiple copies of monographic titles are acquired only when heavy use is anticipated or demonstrated or at the curriculum-based request of a faculty member. Cooperative Collection Development Arrangements RRLC-CCD agreements provide funding for some materials in engineering. Informal working relationships with other member of the RRLC exist and closer associations pursued in the future.