Many of our students are planning to major in humanities or Social Sciences
in College. Part of our jobs is teaching them to research - to research
through all manner of available information. Not everything is digitized
and they will be heading off to colleges which have large book collections
as well as many databases. We are not doing our job, nor fulfilling
parents' expectations if we do not teach students the many varieties of
information available.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Laura Mauler <lauramauler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Will anyone please share the total number of books in their collection,
and if possible their total number of enrolled students?
I am facing an administration-instigated overhaul of the library into a
learning commons/makerspace, and the initial renderings have us going
bookless. I need to make the case for keeping a robust and healthy print
collection, not just a few token books for themed displays (the designers'
actual suggestion); I'm hoping to use the size of your collections to
support my case.
We are meeting on this tomorrow morning, so your data is needed ASAP!
Thank you in advance for helping me fight for our print collection!
*Laura Mauler, MLIS*
*Librarian*
Drew School
2901 California Street
San Francisco CA 94115
415.430.3718 (direct)
