Collection Development Manual
VIII. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
This collection's primary purpose is to house the University's permanent records. Additionally, these materials are joined by donated materials concerning the Evansville area, faculty publications, student theses, and persons associated with the University. The University has not employed an Archivist for many years, and there is no separate budget for Archives. Therefore, no materials are solicited or purchased for this collection.
Established in 1982, this is largely the working collection of noted Samuel Johnson scholar, James L. Clifford. Works included are concerned with Johnson and relevant 18th Century life. A special Clifford fund and an oversight committee support the collection and determine its policies. Some books purchased with general library funds are housed in the collection to better support the courses taught in connection with it. Duplication of titles in the general collection is discouraged but not prohibited.
This is a very limited non-circulating collection of books which are kept in a controlled space because of age, condition, format, or value. The library does not currently purchase or seek to collect rare books due to their high cost and the library's lack of space, staff, equipment, security, and climatic controls.
This is a multi-departmental collection of materials relating to elementary and secondary education, nursing, and physical therapy. Housed in Graves Hall 243, it holds educational textbooks and workbooks, children's literature, and multimedia materials for use in these various disciplines. More substantial materials on methods and theories of teaching, history of education, medicine, etc., are part of the general collection of the main library. Cataloging of substantial materials actually housed in the Center is done by the Catalog Department and appears in the main online catalog.
The Music Listening Library is really a listening laboratory rather than a true library. Although a few reference works are housed there, most of the collection consists of recordings for the use of music students and faculty. Music scores and literature are housed in the general collection. The recordings (mostly CD's and a decreasing number of LP's) are selected and purchased by the Music Department with departmental funds and are then cataloged into the main library computer system by the Catalog Department. The format preference for recordings is Compact Disk.
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