What's New
Introducing the Newly Updated Bowker Book Analysis System
Introducing Bowker Book Analysis System (BBAS), the newly updated library collection management tool from ProQuest. This powerful collection-assessment tool eliminates tedious manual comparison via customized reports for data cleansing and management, and compares your library holdings against the comprehensive core bibliography of Resources for College Libraries (RCL). BBAS provides instant identification of the gaps and overlaps in your monograph collection—so you can make better informed selection decisions, while saving time and resources for your library.
Features
The Resources for College Libraries database is designed to connect high-quality titles to higher education institutions, all in an easy-to-use, responsive interface.
The database features:
- 90,000+ records across 125 curriculum-driven subject disciplines
- 4,500 new titles added each year, on average
- Select full-text Choice reviews and Choice OAT identifiers
- LC classification for search and browse
- Connect directly to local catalog holdings
Subject Specialists
Access a top-tier team of subject selectors
RCL’s experienced subject specialists select the most essential historical and contemporary titles for the undergraduate library collection and to support student research. Because every RCL and RCL Career Resources subject undergoes peer review, you can feel confident that all titles have been vetted by academic librarians and teaching faculty. With over 500 contributors to date, consider them part of your core collections team.
Our knowledgeable subject editor group includes:
- 25% with doctoral degrees
- 40% founding editors
- 400+ peer reviewers from 350 diverse academic institutions
RCL subject editors are experienced selectors and current practitioners, selecting books based on what’s best for students, not for sales. The editorial development of RCL is managed independently by CHOICE, a publishing unit of ACRL, a division of the American Library Association.
Download the subject editor rosters for RCL and RCL Career Resources.
Download the RCL Referees and RCL Career Resources Referees.
Use Cases
Librarians
From supporting student success to ensuring diverse collections, RCL provides academic librarians with time-saving and trustworthy content. Whether you are undertaking a weeding project to make more study space, creating library guides for research support, or need assurance that you are selecting the best resources in the discipline, RCL helps simplify your workflow and build quality collections.
Students
With RCL, students easily find quality-based resources for research assignments. RCL’s curated collection is built for strategic exploration, helping connect learners to the subject literature and better understand the evolving contexts and constructs of scholarly inquiry.
Faculty
From identifying new course materials to conducting literature reviews, RCL ensures that teaching faculty have access to current and canonical titles. For engaged educators balancing teaching and scholarship, RCL serves as a time-saving discovery tool.
Hear It From the Experts
Long considered an authoritative resource for collection development, this webinar introduces new ways RCL can be used to support academic programs, improve liaison work, and contribute to student success. In this webinar, you’ll learn three methods for utilizing RCL’s core content in your library’s workflow:
- Preparing accreditation or program reports
- Managing new or interim subject responsibilities
- Creating instruction and research tools
Subscribe
The RCL database is available in three subscription options, allowing you to select the content that suits your institution’s curriculum and collection development needs. From allied health to world history, RCL’s subject disciplines cover the primary programs of study across two- and four-year colleges and universities, supporting both the traditional liberal arts and technical college degree tracks.
RCL covers the four-year liberal arts and sciences college curriculum.
Download the subject list and scope notes for RCL
RCL Career Resources covers the two-year community and technical college curriculum.
Download the subject list and scope notes for RCL Career Resources
RCL Plus includes access to all RCL + RCL Career Resources content, for those institutions supporting workforce education and liberal arts study.
Contact us to get RCL today.
Meet Your Subject Editors
Get to Know RCL. Find out about the educational backgrounds of our RCL subject editors – and how they describe RCL in three words.
- Roberto C. Delgadillo – RCL Subject Editor
- Ann Hallyburton – RCL Career Resources Subject Editor
- Robert Kelly – RCL Career Resources Subject Editor
- Susan L. Wiesner – RCL Subject Editor
- Jeremy Darrington – RCL Subject Editor
- Angela Courtney – RCL Subject Editor
- Anamika Megwalu – RCL Career Resources Subject Editor
- Angela Weaver – RCL Subject Editor
- gerardo a. colmenar – RCL Subject Editor
- Glenn McGuigan – RCL Subject Editor