Mellon 8: Tri-College Cooperative Collection Management Program

Grant Description | Steering Commmittee | Collection Policies | Bibliographers & Selectors | Faculty
Catalog Enhancement Project | Approval Project | Collection Assessment Project | Statistics | Background Information

Grant Description

• Project Summary and Basic Statistics
  (formerly TalkingPoints)
• Mellon Grant

• January 7, 2003
• February 3, 2003
• March 20, 2003
• April 8, 2003
• April 22, 2003
• May 6, 2003
• May 28, 2003
• August 21, 2003
• September 26, 2003
• November 11, 2003
• February 11, 2004
• March 5, 2004

• Tri-College Last Copy Policy
• Haverford Collection Development Policy
• Sample of Swarthmore Subject-Specific Policy

• List of Bibliographers and specialities
• Haverford Bibliographers meeting January 28, 2003
• Swarthmore Selectors meeting, February 2003
• March 2003 Meetings
  • Agenda for Trico March meetings
  • Summary Results of all three meetings
  • Science Bibliographers Notes
  • Social Sciences Bibliographers Notes
  • Humanities - Philosophy & Arts Notes
  • Humanities - History & Language Not
• List of College Departments, Programs and Concentrations (Summer 2003)

• Faculty and Administration Meetings
  • Haverford Educational Policy Committee, February 2003
  • Swarthmore Faculty Committee Discussion Points, February 2003
  • Swarthmore Council on Educational Policy, March 2003
• Faculty Survey
  • Faculty Survey, Summer 2003 (This is Bryn Mawr's copy of the survey. The other libraries are the same, with names appropriately shifted, and without the graduate student question)
  • Faculty Survey Results - Preliminary Summary
  • Survey Committee Meeting, July 24, 2003
  • Survey Committee Meeting, January 20, 2004

• Pubs Committee Minutes, July 2003 (includes bibliographic enhancement recommendations)
• Comparison of Supplementary Information available from Blackwell and Syndetics
• Table of Contents Scanning Test Report (Jessica Poland)

• Approval meeting January 2003
• Approval meeting July 2, 2003
• Approval meeting (Science) July 7, 2003
• Vision of Virtual - ideas suggested to ABC for virtual approval shelf and decision system
• Initial comparison of Profiles
• Recent Duplication in Chemistry (QD), gathered Summer 2003
• Approval Statistics for English and Political Science, gathered Summer 2003
• Duplication in PR/PS call numbers, gathered Summer 2003
• Political Science Detailed Collection Statistics
• Approval Pilot Ideas
• Approval Meeting, January 7, 2004

• CA Project Meeting June 2003
• CA Project Meeting August 20, 2003
• Draft Retention Decision Grid (August 2003)
• Sample Book Flag (September 2003)
• Haverford Science De-Accessioning Project documents (2000-2002)
  • Collection Issues
  • Guidelines for withdrawal
  • Sample Dept. agenda
  • Instructions for multiple copies
• CA Project Meeting March 8, 2004

• Collection Statistics
  Preliminary set of example tables from the Collections/Space Planning Group (2002)
• Instructions for accessing the M6 FileMaker Collection Statistics
• Journal Use Summary Statistics 2001-2002
• Collection Growth Summary Statistics
• Summary of ACAS test results
• Statistics Meeting, June 4, 2003
• Statistics Meeting, January 6, 2004

• Mellon 6 Planning Grant Report with Appendixes
• Focus Group Reports from Mellon 6 - Faculty and Students
• Review of InHouse Use studies and results - Chapter from "If you want to evaluate your library" (Lancaster, 1988)