This program promotes regional coordination of collection development in academic libraries by providing formula funding based on enrollment to public and not-for-profit colleges, universities, and community colleges that meet certain conditions. These conditions include constitutional eligibility to receive State aid, membership in a reference and research library resources system, and full participation in interlibrary loan and other resource sharing programs. The nine reference and research library resources councils, working with the academic libraries in their regions, have formulated collection development plans for their regions.
The Program Administrator for the Coordinated Collection Development Program has developed these guidelines with the assistance of the Reference and Research Library Resources Systems who administer the Program at the local level. The purpose of this program is to enhance academic library collections thereby strengthening regional collections that are available via resource sharing. These guidelines provide an interpretation of Commissioner's Regulations and may be revised as the need arises.
Commissioner's Regulation §90.15 (e) Maintenance of Effort states…amount expended for library materials; therefore electronic access to a database from which library material, e.g. a journal article, journal citation, or other information sources that may be retrieved and shared, can be included as part of the total library materials expenditures in order to demonstrate maintenance of collection-building efforts from year-to-year.
Commissioner's Regulation §90.15 (d) states that grant funds shall be expended for library materials only; therefore: