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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hello Judy, I can't speak directly to FIDER accreditation policies, but for similar types of accreditation visits from NASAD, the National Association for Schools of Art & Design, I have provided information on scope and purpose of collections, numbers held and staff credentials. For example, within the Department of Art, I manage the slide and videotape collections and I provided a brief summary of the nature of the collection (teaching resource used in all levels of art history and studio classes with both major monuments and special topics coverage based on art historical chronology). I also listed the total holdings, 120,000 slides and 150 videotapes. I also briefly summarized the number of staff, both full-time and work-study student hours per week, and credentials of full-time staff including degrees held and number of years of experience. I also included annual budget information and statistics on circulation and acquisition from my annual reports. We were also asked to obtain information from our central library as to both visual and textual resources: total number of volumes, total number of audiovisual resources, annual budget allocated to art purchases etc. The central library has this information readily available in our case and it was simply a matter of asking for a copy of the statistics for that year. If you have book materials in your collection as well as audiovisual materials, you should probably provide statistics for both. A notebook was provided to the accrediting body about 6 weeks before the actual visit. This material included information on the entire department and its programs as well as general information on the university. Each section was indexed and followed a checklist provided by the accrediting body. At the time of the actual visit, a review team visited our facility for 3 days and at one point during the visit, the team visited the slide library and talked with me and they did actually open some of the slide cabinets and look at the filing system, etc. The questions asked were fairly general in nature as most of the information was provided in the notebook. Following the visit, the accreditation review team wrote a report which was presented to the department and to the dean of our college. We were accredited and have maintained the accreditation through subsequent reviews. I hope this information in helpful. Sandra C. Walker Past-President, Visual Resources Association Visual Resources Specialist, Department of Art The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1715 Volunteer Blvd., Rm. 215 Knoxville, TN 37996-2410 Phone: 423-974-3196 FAX: 423-974-3198 E-mail:[log in to unmask] On Tue, 9 Apr 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > Our chair of interior design is preparing an evaluation report for > FIDER accreditaion visit in Nov. He has asked me for a list > of "library resources, computing/electronic resources and teaching aids" > > Has anyone out there done this before, and what exactly are they > looking for in terms of resources? > > thanks in advance. > > judy donovan > [log in to unmask] >