Collection Policies

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures offers both minors and majors in Spanish at the undergraduate level leading to a Batchelor of Arts degree. Students wishing to pursue graduate study in Spanish may enrol in the program, Master of Science in Secondary Education/General offered by the Darden College of Education.

It is the library's goal to develop collections which support the needs of undergraduate B.A. students in Spanish and M.S. students in General Secondary Education. In addition the library seeks to provide materials to sustain the special research interests of faculty. This policy covers both general collection and reference materials. Another aim is to utilize diminishing monetary resources as wisely as possible in order to provide as useful a collection as possible.
 

Languages:   Spanish will be the primary language of the collection. Translations into English may be collected to augment the collection but should not replace seminal texts in original Spanish. Spanish works translated into a language other than English should not be collected. Works of criticism should be in Spanish or English.

Chronological Guidelines: Current Spanish language is emphasised. Literature has no chronological limitations.

Geographical Guidelines: Spain and Latin America are emphasised but other Spanish speaking countries are not excluded.

Treatment of Subject: A solid collection of general materials to support the undergraduate and graduate curriculum in both Spanish language and literature will be developed and maintained. Emphasis will also be placed on building areas of the collection which support the research needs of faculty. Self-teaching books, textbooks and readers will be selectively acquired. New editions of Spanish language grammars and dictionaries should be collected. A representative collection of desk-sized or concise dictionaries should be available in the general collection as well as a few to accompany the major unabridged dictionaries in the reference collection.

Types of Materials: Monographs, serial publications, bibliographies and collected works should be acquired. Periodical indexes and abstracts are necessary. Formats should include both print and electronic resources.

Date of Publication: Emphasis is on current books but older material may be selected as necessary to remedy weaknesses in the collection.

Other General Considerations:

• Other Resources:
• The Center for Research Libraries with which Old Dominion University Library is affiliated has extensive foreign language holdings, particularly in newspapers and theses. Items form these collections are available on extended loan to Old Dominion University Library patrons.
• Internet Resources include:
• The Iberian Studies Web which provides access to resources selected and evaluated by specialist members of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Western European Specialists Section. http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wess/iber
 
• The Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature page of ACRL WESS. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html#spanish
 

10/28/96

Carole Kiehl

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