College of Education librarians coordinate selection with other librarians, especially, in the School of Information, Health Sciences, Psychology, and English Departments.
Acquisition, cancelation and other collection decisions in these areas of overlap is decided in consultation with faculty and librarians responsible for collection development in these fields.
In addition, many formal and informal cooperative arrangements make the vast holdings of other libraries within the CSU system, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond available to SJSU students.
One Education liaison is a voting member of the College of Education Curriculum Committee—a committee comprised of one representative from each of the departments, College Leadership and others. Membership on this committee allows proactive participation in changing the curriculum, offering new courses and obtaining new resources necessary to support the College of Education.
College of Education collects primarily at C1 level, providing information about a subject in a systematic way in order to support a wide range of library users from general to college and master’s degree levels. See Appendix A
Materials are purchased in the format that most effectively delivers the information needed by the discipline.
Individual departmental pages can be accessed from the left side bar and provide further information specific to the department.