Collection Development Policy

Our goal is to provide material needed by students to complete their assignments, studies, and explorations. If we do not own the material or cannot provide electronic access to it, we can use document delivery or interlibrary loan, or purchase it. Make suggestions about adding materials by sending e-mail to David Jensen at jensend@hope.edu.

The Collection Development Policy will be revised as needed by the Collection Development Team, with the approval of the Library Director. Revision dates will be provided within each section of the Policy.

Institutional Statement

Hope College is a distinguished and distinctive four-year, liberal arts, undergraduate college, affiliated with the Reformed Church in America. Its religious heritage is expressed through a dynamic Christian community of students and teachers vitally concerned with a relevant faith that changes lives and transforms society.

The curriculum offers Hope's students a variety of courses in 56 majors leading to a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The college has long been known for outstanding pre-professional training. Each year many graduates go on to further study in the leading graduate and professional schools in this country and abroad; others directly enter professions.

Hope College is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the American Chemical Society, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Association of Schools of Theatre, the National Association of Schools of Dance, the National League for Nursing, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the Council on Social Work Education, and other agencies.

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Prepared by the Van Wylen Library Collection Development Team, March 2002

Last Revised October 2007