Library Information

Vogel Library will select physical and digital materials for the collection that support and enrich these four facets of Wartburg College and the Wartburg community:

• The curriculum of Wartburg College
• The Common Learning Outcomes of Wartburg College
• The scholarship of the Wartburg community
• The personal development of the Wartburg community

Vogel Library is committed to developing a dynamic and inclusive collection that promotes social justice and intellectual freedom. Librarians manage the collection informed by ALA’s Library Bill of Rights, Freedom to Read, and Intellectual Freedom Principles for Academic Libraries statements while remaining committed to the ALA Core Values of Librarianship (such as democracy, diversity, and social responsibility). At the same time, we want to push librarianship further and be agents for more progressive change.

Vogel Library librarians, in cooperation and consultation with the faculty, develop and manage the collection. See our policies for Archives and Interlibrary Loan for more information regarding resource sharing and resource retention.

Vogel Library welcomes recommendations for the collection: use the Recommendations for the Library form or contact the appropriate liaison librarian or the Library Director.

To share concerns about a current item in the collection, contact the appropriate liaison librarian or the Library Director to begin the discussion. If the concern is not resolved through discussion, the formal reconsideration process will be invoked.

The library will purchase two copies of works authored or edited by current or retired Wartburg faculty and staff: one copy for circulation and another to be retained in the Wartburg College Archives.

Browse our collection of faculty and staff publications at the link provided below.

The criteria for deselection follow the overall collection goal with the following factors strongly considered:

• Obsolete, inaccurate, out-of-date, or out-of-collection-scope subject matter
• Obsolete format or compromised physical condition
• Lack of use or space constraints

Deselected material may be sold (such as to Better World Books), donated, or disposed of as seen fit by Vogel Library.