Possibilities for Future Endowments

• Collection development
  Juvenile books
  Audio-books
  Subject Portals
   
• New library spaces
  Juvenile Room
   
• Digitization and Electronic Access
  Pleiad
  Io Triumphe
   
• Support of the Federal Depository program
   
• Reformatting of Obsolete Audiovisual Materials
   
• Cataloging of Books in Non-Roman Languages
   
• Additional Staffing
  Special Collections
   
• Visiting Scholars
   
• Visiting Authors/Poets
   
• Digital Retrospective Collections
  American Periodicals Series Online
  ProQuest Historical Newspapers
   
• Information literacy
  Developing the skill set needed today by every college graduate is one of the most important and critical goals of higher education. The library is here to ensure that teaching faculty are prepared and have the opportunity to develop the methods for teaching information skills and research process techniques, and that these methods are an integral part of the course syllabus. Such a program will borrow from the expertise of several areas, including the library, bibliographic instruction, academic skills centers, master teachers, and teaching and learning activists (micro-teaching participants). Support of this program would include an endowment to support a full-time librarian versed in information literacy and bibliographic instruction. Support would also be required for workshops, visiting speakers, continuing education and travel.
   
• Preservation Program
  This program requires funding to develop a workspace/laboratory to provide for the proper care of special collections and older library materials. Digitization of core records and selected special collection items would make unique material available to a wide audience of users and scholars. Collaboration with larger research libraries would be possible on a larger scale and permit us to do certain basic processes in-house at less cost than outsourcing. Such a program could a be a model preservation program among small liberal arts colleges.
   
• College Records Management Program