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You are responsible for returning or renewing your books by their due dates, which are available by logging into your library account. You can renew your book up to 2 times.

Every patron will get an initial courtesy notice, 4 days before a book is due, and then two overdue notices.

�������� Library does not charge daily fines for any materials. However, after 21 days overdue, the book is declared lost and a bill for replacement will be issued. You may return the book, provide an exact replacement copy, or pay the bill at the bookstore.

If the book isn’t returned or the replacement cost is not paid by 90 days after the bill is issued, we will send it to collections and a hold may be placed on your registration.

We’re happy to work with you to resolve any problems. Please come talk to us at the Circulation Desk, call (763) 424-0732, or email us at library@nhcc.edu

Introduction and overview:

The primary goal of the Library is to develop and maintain collections that support the curriculum and instructional programs of �������� and the needs of students, faculty, and staff of the college. The library serves a community of life-long learners with a broad range of interests and prior educational experiences. Therefore, library resources also include a variety of general information resources in subject areas not necessarily covered by classroom instruction, but generally supportive of a learning environment and the college’s dedication to liberal arts education, multicultural diversity, and the research needs of students and faculty. This includes the acquisition of books that contribute to a varied collection of quality fiction and nonfiction, addressing the purely recreational and leisure reading needs of our patrons, although they might be directed to the Hennepin County Library for a more extensive collection of materials of this type.
 

Although the library’s staff is primarily responsible for the quality of the collection, the selection of new materials and the withdrawal of dated or obsolete materials are collection development activities ideally shared with other members of the college community. Librarians, teaching faculty, and college administrators will initiate most new material requests. Recommendations from the teaching faculty are particularly important to building a collection that supports student success. Students and other staff are also encouraged to suggest additions to the collection. 
Although library staff are primarily responsible for deselection or weeding of the collection, teaching faculty are strongly encouraged to periodically review their subject areas to identify items which should be withdrawn and bring such materials to the attention of the library staff.
 

Within the constraints of available funds, facilities, and staffing, the library will acquire and make available materials in various formats, evaluate existing collections, and develop policies and procedures to maintain the quality of collections and information resources. Selection of materials by the library does not imply endorsement of the contents or the views expressed in those materials. No material will be excluded from the collection because of the race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political or social viewpoint, or controversial nature of either the author or of the material. The library subscribes to the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights.

General guidelines for the selection of materials:

The following guidelines will assist library staff, teaching faculty, and college administrators in the selection of quality materials for inclusion in the library’s collections. It is recognized that some of these criteria may take precedence over others and that the overall quality of content in an item should be a primary consideration. Ultimately, responsibility for collection evaluation, development, and coordination lies with the library staff. General factors to be taken into account are:

• Relevance to the curriculum-based needs of students.
• Relevance to the instructional needs of teaching faculty.
• Relevance to existing collections.
• Scope and content, comprehensiveness, depth of coverage, factual accuracy.
• Scholarly value or literary merit.
• Probable need based on existing programs and collections.
• Potential need for proposed and future programs.
• Intellectual content and scholarly worth.
• Currency and timeliness.
• Representation of differing viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs.
• Authoritativeness of the author(s), editor, or publisher.
• Cost of item or set of items.
• Availability of materials through interlibrary loan or document delivery.

Library materials purchased from the library budget become the property of �������� and will be housed in the Learning Resources Center. Library materials are accessible to the entire college community. For this reason, resources acquired for library collections are compliant with fair use laws, copyright laws, and licensing agreements as defined by MnSCU policies, ADA guidelines, and state and federal law.
 

Duplicate copies of books, while not normally acquired, will be considered on a title-by-title basis. Out-of-print materials, while not normally acquired, will be considered on a title-by-title basis, particularly if they are meant to be replacement copies or to fill gaps in the collection. Curriculum and instructional support, as outlined above, do not include the purchase of computer software applications or monographs, serials or other non-print materials intended to reside in department offices or classrooms. These should be purchased from individual department budgets.
 

The �������� Library does not collect textbooks and accompanying study guides (though gift donations of current textbooks are welcomed, where they may be placed on course reserve or added to the general collection); certification exam study guides (except for those exams required in NHCC curricula); computer software; dissertations or theses (except for those written by NHCC faculty and staff); working papers; annual reports; workbooks; lab manuals; scattered issues or single issues of journals.
 

In addition to these general guidelines, policy statements regarding specific formats and areas of the collection are included below.

Reference collection:

The reference collection is intended to meet the verification, location, and information needs of the college community by providing basic reference works in subject areas covered by the curriculum, as well as general informational requests. Verification and location services, such as FirstSearch, enable the library to facilitate access to holding in other collections through interlibrary loan. The reference collection may include both print and electronic materials.

Audiovisual and electronic materials:

Non-print media, including films, videocassettes, videodiscs, audiocassettes, multimedia software, compact discs, CD-ROMs, online subscriptions, and Internet resources may be relatively expensive. Selection of these materials should emphasize support for classroom instruction, as well as the quality, effectiveness, and currency of the material. Additionally, audiovisual materials with closed-captioning are to be purchased whenever possible, in keeping with MnSCU policy on ADA compliance.
 

Whenever practicable, faculty should have an opportunity to preview non-print media before a purchase decision is made. Whenever possible, selectors should negotiate a test or trial period for expensive media. Film or videodisc rental, temporary online subscriptions, or free Internet access may be a cost-effective alternative to actual purchase. Additionally, many audiovisual materials may be available through interlibrary loan, which should be encouraged for the provision of occasional-use items and for more in-depth faculty and student research. Requesters asking for particularly expensive items will be asked to provide justification.
 

Periodicals and newspapers:

Journals are collected in print and digital formats. While many periodicals are held and retained in print, a growing segment of this collection in digital, primarily in the form of online databases obtained individually or via cooperative purchase agreements. Future purchase of individual publications in digital formats is a possibility. Request will be considered on a title-by-title basis. Regional, national, and international newspapers are collected in print and digital formats.

Weeding or deselection:

Library resources will undergo routine evaluation to determine whether deselection is appropriate. Building a viable collection of materials to serve the college community is a dynamic process that includes the assessment and removal of materials that are obsolete, damaged beyond repair, or no longer relevant to the curriculum. The withdrawal of deselected materials allows the NHCC Library to keep its collection current and supportive of the college’s curricular and educational goals. Teaching faculty are encouraged to assist library staff to identify materials to be deselected in their appropriate subject areas. Library staff is solely responsible for weeding such general and non-curricular areas as reference and the McNaughton popular reading collection, as well as the paperback collection.

General guidelines for weeding the collection include:

• Outdated materials
• Superseded editions
• Excessively worn or damaged materials (items in poor condition, but still valuable in terms of intellectual content will be considered for repair or replacement)
• Low usage
• Space limitations
• Better coverage of the subject by other materials in the collection
• Duplicate copies of material (dependent on demand for a given title)
• Duplication of material in multiple formats
• Easy availability in other collections locally or nationally (as determined by interlibrary loan procedures)

The NHCC Library appreciates and encourages donations to the library’s collection. Gifts will be considered for inclusion in the library’s collection on a case-by-case basis, using the following guidelines:

1. Gifts should be relevant to the library’s mission to participate in the teaching and research programs of the college.
2. Donors may not place special restrictions on the use or disposal of gifts. The library becomes the owner of all donated materials and, as such, reserves the right to determine its retention, location, cataloging treatment, and all other considerations related to its use, maintenance, or removal.
3. Because of limitations of space, money, and staff, the library reserves the right to accept or discard, at its discretion, any donated materials.
4. Donated material must be in good, usable condition. Paperbacks or hardcovers that are falling apart, missing pages, have yellowed paper, or are extensively marked up will be rejected. Books that have mold and mildew will be rejected outright.
5. Donations of journals and serials are rarely added to the collection, unless it is a run of several years. Individual issues will be rejected outright. National Geographic will be rejected outright.
6. Audiovisual materials may be considered if they are in good condition. DVDs and CDs will be accepted for consideration; VHS tapes will not.
7. Duplicates of material already in the collection will generally be rejected.

While gifts are free in the sense that the library doesn’t have to pay for them, there are several costs involved in adding any item to the collection: evaluation, data entry, accounting, cataloging, classification, adding labels, and other processing. In some cases, these handling costs may exceed the value of the item.
 

By law, librarians cannot appraise the value of donations for tax purposes. We can provide donors with a letter of acknowledgment of their donation, unless they feel this is unnecessary. The valuation of gifts for tax purposes will be the responsibility of the donor.

As a general policy, the �������� Library does not purchase textbooks for the collection. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis if the materials support long-term research or cover new, emerging research areas. The reasons for this policy are as follows:

• Any attempt by the library to purchase all textbooks currently in use would quickly consume a significant portion, if not all, of the library’s annual materials budget;
• Libraries generally purchase one or a limited number of copies of any given title. The library could not purchase enough copies of textbooks for them to be available to all students. Even purchasing a single copy, meant to be placed on reserve in the library, could have a detrimental effect on the library’s budget;
• Textbooks are updated frequently, often annually or biennially. It would be a continuing strain on the library collection budgets to constantly purchase new editions;
• Textbooks are designed to be used by students for courses of study. Students must refer to them often and need them throughout a course. They will need them longer than the loan period for library materials, even when renewals are considered.
   

Faculty or their departments may elect to donate textbooks to the library, where they can be placed on course reserve at the circulation desk. Textbooks will also be considered for placement within the library’s general collection.

Generally, the print magazines in the NHCC library will be held onto for a period of five years. Newspapers must be weeded out more frequently than this—one year’s worth of back issues will be held onto. Periodicals required by academic departments on campus (for example, the various nursing journals we still subscribe to in print) will be held onto for up to 10 years, as space permits.

When billed replacement cost for items lost or damaged while in his/her possession, a patron may elect to provide a suitable replacement copy. This often results in savings for the individual and is the fastest way to make the materials available again for other library users. The patron must consult with a library staff member regarding provision of replacement copies.

Replacement criteria:

The replacement should be the same edition and have the same binding as the copy being replaced. Matching the ISBN is the easiest way to do this. Lost hardcover books should be replaced by hardcover books; paperbacks may be replaced by paperback or hardcover copies. Providing a paperback replacement for a hardcover is sometimes acceptable; there will be an additional charge to cover the cost of adding a hardcover binding to the replacement book. A newer edition may be acceptable, with prior approval. Replacement copies may be “used,” but may not be damaged, may not have writing on or in them and may not be “ex-library.”  Condition should be listed as “Very Good,” “Like New,” or “New.” When replacing Juv books, the dust jacket is preferred, but not required. Adult books never need the dust jacket.

Recommended vendors:

Charges:

If you choose to provide a replacement copy, the library will waive the replacement cost, but will charge a $5 handling fee per item for processing the replacement item. An additional charge may apply for enhancing the binding if a paperback is provided as replacement for a hardcover book. Charges may be added to/remain on your account until the replacement copy is received by the library.
 

Return THIS FORM to the library with the replacement copy. Having the replacement copy mailed directly to the library from the vendor will expedite processing of all account credits:

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