Materials with greater relevance to the curriculum and student, faculty, and staff research and developmental needs should be given greater consideration. This includes materials about journalism and New York City, materials about the tools of the trade, such as publishing software or photography, and materials about related topics such as economics and queer studies.
Materials with greater evidence for credibility should be given greater consideration. Evidence may include methodology, authority, and authenticity.
For some materials, such as software manuals, currency should be given a great deal of consideration. For other materials, such as memoirs giving insight into past experiences, currency might be less of a consideration.
Materials that are very expensive or in poor condition, possibly requiring cost or effort to repair, may be given greater consideration for exclusion from the collection.
Materials created by current and former faculty, current and former students, and other people with strong ties to the Newmark J School community should be given greater consideration.
The Research Center maintains a collection of electronic materials and of access points to electronic materials. However, due to the instability of these collections, the presence of materials or related materials in electronic form, should not be part of the consideration for whether to maintain materials in the print collection, except in the case of consumable serials.
Because the collection serves to provide access to materials, it may not always be necessary to maintain copies of books that can be borrowed from other CUNY libraries. Conversely, if a book is not present in the collections of of other CUNY libraries, it may more important to include it in the Newmark J School collection.