·   Conducting surveys to beginning students, and re-offered at mid-point or prior to graduation to assess whether the library’s program of instruction is producing more information literate students.
·   Gather feedback from students and faculty on their experience of using off-campus services.
·    Survey off-campus library users to monitor and assess both the appropriateness of their use of services and resources and the degree to which needs are being met and skills acquired.
·   Revise the collection development and acquisitions policies to reflect the needs of the off-campus community.
·   Participate with faculty in curriculum development and course planning to ensure appropriate library resources and services are available to the off-campus community.
·    Improve the provision of library materials and services from the main library to the other off-campus sites that provide library services to faculty and students.
·    Promote library support services to the off-campus community.

Budget: The library director is responsible for addressing the library needs of the off-campus community by including the identified needs in the library’s yearly budget.  The budget is related to the defined needs and demands of the off-campus program.

Staff: The library director provides and/or ensures that appropriate professional and support staff is available to all library users at all off-campus locations. The library director will plan, implement, coordinate, and evaluate library resources and services addressing the information and skills needs of the off-campus community.  Additional support staff is available at each off-campus site.

Facilities: Arrangements have been made to provide facilities, equipment, and communication links to reach all off-campus users.  Access to facilities through agreements with non-affiliated libraries includes reserve and ready reference collections, access to electronic information, interlibrary loan services, and computerized database and Internet searching.

Resources: The library is responsible for providing and/or securing convenient, direct, physical, and electronic access to library materials for off-campus programs equivalent to those provided in traditional library settings.  The materials should be sufficient in quantity, quality, scope, currentness, and formats to:

·   Meet the student’s needs in fulfilling course assignments (required & supplemental readings, research papers, etc).
·   Meet the teaching needs of faculty.
·   Facilitate the acquisition of lifelong skills.
·   Accommodate other informational needs of the off-campus community as appropriate.

Services: The library services offered to the off-campus community is designed to effectively meet a wide range of informational and bibliographic needs.  Although services to the off-campus community is not considered traditional, the following, though not necessarily exhaustive, are essential:

·   Reference assistance
·    Access to college and other networks including the Internet
·    Prompt document delivery service such as a courier system and/or electronic transmission and interlibrary loan
·    Access to reserve and reference materials
·   Adequate library hours for optimum access by users
·   Library instruction designed to instill independent and effective information literacy skills

Documentation: To provide records indicating the degree to which to college library is meeting the guidelines in providing library services to its off-campus programs, the library, and when appropriate, the off-campus library sites, will have available current copies of at least the following:

·   Printed users guides
·   Statements of mission and purpose, policies, regulations, and procedures
·   Facilities assessment measures
·   Guides to computing services
·   Statistics on library use
·   Statistics on collections
·   Automation statistics
·   Facilities assessment measures
·   Formal written agreements
·   Library evaluations studies or documents
·   Needs and outcome assessment measures
·   Data on staff and work assignments
·   Institutional and internal organization charts
·   Comprehensive budget(s)
·   Professional personnel vitae
·   Position description for all personnel
·   Library and other instructional materials and schedules
·   Evidence of involvement in curriculum development and planning 

Clarendon College is a member of the Harrington Library Consortium (HL). HLC is a group fo made up Texas Panhandle public, private, academic, and school libraries. Those who are apart of thw HLC share a common library catalog, and cooperative borrowing privileges.

If you have a card at one HLC Library, you may borrow items from other HLC libraries using that card. Likewise, those with blocked privileges at one library are also blocked from borrowing materials at the other HLC libraries.