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Goals and Objectives 1:
Develop and maintain a quality collection of library materials reflecting the needs of the academic community.

Review departmental book allocations and adjust to accommodate demonstrated departmental needs and to support areas targeted for collection strengthening. 

A significant increase in library materials funding for books covered inflation as well as adjustments to departmental allocations to support basic, ongoing needs.  The funding enabled the Library to begin responding to curricular changes and interdisciplinary needs and to target critical collection weaknesses (Appendix A).  Librarian subject selectors worked with faculty liaisons for each academic department to develop core book collections.  Materials funds carried forward from FY1999 were also applied to the book fund to enable one-time expenditures above the allocations in every discipline.  A total of $826,440 was expended and encumbered for books in FY2000.  Special target areas in FY2000 included reference materials, library science, health sciences, legal reference (Appendix E), sociology/anthropology, foreign languages, and juvenile materials (Appendix F).  A total of 19,366 item records were added to the CONSULS database – 10,865 added to the circulating collection and 8,501 added to reference and special collections (Appendix C).  This represents a major investment in strengthening core collection quantity and quality after many years of serious underfunding.  The administration has reaffirmed its commitment to library collections building by its recent approval of the FY2001 Library Materials Budget Request – the funding will enable the library to continue adding approximately 20,000 new items to the collection. 

FY2000 Subject Selectors – Book Funds  

Strengthen the reference collection – evaluate the currency and usefulness of the materials; deselect, relocate, or shift the collection and relabel shelves.  

The Reference Team, assisted by some of the subject selectors from other departments, worked diligently to complete this ambitious project.  The Reference Collection Upgrade Project Team included Shirley Cavanagh, Susan Clerc, Paul Holmer, Ed Hoyer, Fran Hughes, Susan Miller, Clara Ogbaa, Tina Re, Winnie Shyam, and Diane Tomasko.  Over $200,000 was devoted to purchasing current reference materials; 8,111 new items were added.  The result is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of reference books forming the core of the library’s print collection.  In FY2001, the quality and currency of reference materials will be maintained, with a particular focus on the science and medical collections.

Integrate government documents into the reference, serials, and circulating collection to facilitate access; discard outdated materials. 

This project, coordinated by Shirley Cavanagh, began in summer 1999.  All new federal publications received by the library are now immediately integrated into the Library’s other collections: reference, circulating materials, periodicals and microforms.  A total of 859 new government publications were received in FY2000.  Based on a thorough assessment of the collection, 39,964 outdated items were discarded.  The project will be completed in FY2001.

Expand the array of online reference and full text resources; shift CD-ROM resources to web access as available.  

A significant increase in the allocation for electronic resources enabled the library to take advantage of consortial pricing opportunities, to respond to the shift from print to electronic resources in many disciplines, and to expand the scope of resources available from remote locations.  Susan Clerc, Electronic Resources Coordinator, developed an Electronic Resources Collection Development Policy (Appendix G).  Four titles formerly on CD-ROM were shifted to online subscriptions: Books in Print from Bowker, Social Work Abstracts, Sport Discus, and Ulrich’s International Periodical Guide. Ten new electronic resources were acquired in FY2000.

New Electronic Resources Added in FY2000

America: History and Life: Indexes and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, book reviews, and books in the field of American history.  

APPhoto Archive: A large collection of historical and current photographs from the Associated Press

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online): Working papers, conference proceedings, journals, books, policy briefs, economic indicators, maps, and country data.

Contemporary Authors: A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other field.  Provides complete biographical and bibliographical reference for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.

DISCovering U.S. History: Provides a contextual understanding of the commonly studied people, events, and social movements that have shaped America.  Essays devoted to such topics as: Government and Politics, Art, Dance, Film, and Music, Business and the Economy, Science and Technology, and Social History.

DISCovering Science: Provides comprehensive coverage of the following scientific disciplines: Physical and applied sciences, Medicine, Technology, Information sciences, and Mathematics.

Gale’s Literature Resource Center: Full-text author biographies, critical essays, and more drawn from several Gale resources, including the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the Literary Criticism sets.

Gale’s Ready Reference Shelf: Integrates information drawn from the following Gale databases; Encyclopedia of Associations: National Associations, Encyclopedia of Associations: International Associations, Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations, Publishers Directory, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, Directories in Print, Newsletters in Print, Gale Directory of Databases, Gale Guide to Internet Databases, Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers, Research Centers Directory, Government Research Centers Directory, International Research Centers Directory, Encyclopedia of American Religion.

Grove Dictionary of Art: Dictionary entries on all aspects of art.

JSTOR: Full-text access to backfiles of 117 core journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.

Compile and analyze journal use study data to assist in serials collection development decisions

A preliminary review of the data gathered for the past three years revealed that many journal titles receive little use.  The subject selectors will begin working with faculty to determine which titles can be cancelled, and to select more appropriate titles to reflect current curricular needs.  Thirty-eight new journal titles were added in FY2000:

1. Adbusters 

2. Against the Grain

3. American Journal of Audiology

4. American Journal of Otology

5. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

6. Annali d’Italianistica

7. Applied Psycholinguisitics

8. Bible review

9. Biblical Archaeology Review

10. Bottom Line Personal

11. Contemporary Sociology

12. Dyspagia

13. Educational Assessment

14. Educational Researcher

15. Equity of Excellence in Education

16. Forum Italicum

17. Groupwork

18. Harvard Education Letter

19. Howard Journal of Communication

20. Information Today

21. Italica

22. Journal of Coastal Research

23. Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation

24. Journal of Family Nursing

25. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation

26. Journal of Nursing Law

27. Journal of Nursing Measurement

28. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

29. Nursing Diagnosis

30. Old Testament Abstracts

31. Public Perspective

32. Real Estate Economics

33. Research in Accounting Regulation

34. Research in Governmental & Non Profit Accounting

35. Seminars in Hearing

36. Seminars in Speech and Language

37. Wired

38. Women’s Health