Curriculum Collection Development Policy
Users & Programs Supported
Eastern Oregon University maintains a Curriculum Collection of adopted textbooks and curricular materials for the State of Oregon public school system. This collection supports the elementary and secondary curricular, research, and scholarship activities of students and faculty of the School of Education programs. The collection is available for use by campus based patrons, particularly Pre-Service teachers, off-campus students, faculty, and all teachers of Eastern Oregon. Space will be provided within this specially housed collection for individual and group study areas.
Selection Responsibility
The responsibility for the acquisition of Curricular Collection materials is delegated to a professional librarian who shall make available for inspection and evaluation all curricular materials used in teaching in the Oregon K-12 public schools.
Selection Criteria
- The emphasis of the collection is on those texts currently and regularly used in the public schools.
- Selection is based on the Oregon Department of Education Instructional Materials adoption criteria developed by stakeholders and formally adopted by the Oregon State Board of Education. Textbooks for identified subject areas are evaluated and selected on a seven year rotational schedule. EOU Library staff will contact publishers of adopted materials annually and request samples be sent at no cost for inclusion in the Curriculum Collection.
Collection Scope
The collection includes curricular materials for grades K-12 in the subject areas:
- English/Language Arts/English as Second Language(ESL)
- Health/Physical Education
- Mathematics
- Science
- Second Languages
- Social Sciences
- The Arts
Collection Arrangement
The curriculum samples are organized and displayed according to subject area and grade level.
Collection Maintenance
The library staff will arrange for regular, ongoing shelf-reading and shelving with the objective of maintaining the physical organization, appearance and condition of the collection.
Collection Retention
Materials will be kept for the duration of a seven year cycle at which time new state adoption materials will be acquired and older materials will be withdrawn. The exception to this policy is individual art prints which will be retained and added to the main collection and allowed to circulate.
