Within the limits of funds available and on a needs basis, the LRC will try to add any materials requested by faculty through appropriate divisional procedures. The Learning Resources Faculty reserve the right, where it seems necessary and in order to maintain balance, comprehension, or depth of the collection, to select and acquire materials not specifically requested by faculty or students. Periodicals require a higher degree of selectivity than do most other materials, because of the ongoing commitment in terms of annual costs, binding and storage. Therefore, a specific need for a periodical must be demonstrated. Quality of the production.
Projected materials needs.
Availability of alternate materials. Availability of funds. The principles of the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights , Freedom to Read and Freedom to View are accepted as a guide to selection. Those portions of the materials budget reserved for use by the academic division will be determined by the Dean of the Learning Resources Center, in consultation with the Coordinator of Technical Services and the Coordinator of Collection Development librarians. The actual funds reserved for use by the academic divisions are NOT transferred from the LRC budget to the budgets of the academic divisions.