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1600 Pierce St, Lakewood, CO 80214

303.753.6046 Ext: 22405

library@rmcad.edu

Library Hours

The Library is open the following times:

Monday: 8am to 8pm

Tuesday: 8am to 8pm

Wednesday: 8am to 8pm

Thursday: 8am to 8pm

Friday: 9am to 5pm 

Saturday: 11am to 3pm

Sunday: Closed

About

The RMCAD Library provides information and services you can use to complete your classroom assignments and supplement your learning. This includes books, magazines, DVDs, databases and other academic resources.

The Library's mission is to provide essential research and academic resources critical to nurturing the integration of analytical thinking, innovation and lifelong learning. We facilitate a focused, curriculum centered collection.

Library Policies

  

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Collection Development Policy

Collection Development Policy

The Library's mission is to provide essential research and academic resources critical to nurturing the integration of analytical thinking, innovation and lifelong learning. We facilitate a focused, curriculum centered collection.

The following policy allows for addressing gaps in the collection; provides evidence for weeding; supports us when accepting or refusing donations:

 

Collection Development Policy

The collection at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design Library is constantly changing to make sure it stays up to date with the current curriculum.

  • Our collection seeks to inform and enrich teaching and learning practice in response to institutional need. 
  • Inspire future developments within art and design education.
  • Build on existing collecting strengths and address areas of weakness.
  • Celebrates the history of the institution and collects a repository of work by current students, alumni and faculty to communicate the development of education in the art and design practices.

Material Collected

  • Print: books, documents, magazines, sketchbooks
  • Audiovisual Media: videos on DVD and Blu-ray,
  • Electronic Media: databases, software, electronic books, downloadable audio books, videos and music.

Criteria

  • Curriculum needs
    • We will purchase single copies of current textbooks
  • contemporary significance or permanent value
  • attention of critics and reviewers
  • prominence, authority and/or competence of author, creator or publisher
  • timeliness of material
  • relation to existing collections
  • statement of challenging, original, or alternative point of view
  • accessibility for multiple users of electronic formats

Deaccessioning Collection Maintenance, Replacement and Weeding

  • We reserve the right to remove material from our collections due to age, irrelevance, or wear. 
  • We will replace material that is removed due to wear if the material remains relevant to the collection.

Gifts

We will accept gifts with the understanding that we will not keep all items and we will not keep them together. Items we do not keep, we will offer free of charge to students and faculty.

Becoming Michelle Obama by Michelle Obama

"Becoming is the memoir of former United States first lady Michelle Obama published in 2018. Described by the author as a deeply personal experience, the book talks about her roots and how she found her voice, as well as her time in the White House, her public health campaign, and her role as a mother. The book is published by Crown and was released in 24 languages. One million copies were donated to First Book, an American nonprofit organization which provides books to children."

                                                                                                       - Amazon

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Library Email: library@rmcad.edu | Student Learning Center Email: learning@rmcad.edu