ULAC Meeting Presentation:
Library Materials Budget Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes
February 25, 2002
By Arne J. Almquist, Associate Provost for Library Services
Why Create a Library Committee?
- Division of Departmental Allocations
- Advisory Input From Teaching Faculty
- Creation/Revision of an Objective Means to Allocate Funds Among Departments
- Feedback/Involvement in Potential Serials Cuts
- Communication Channel
- Build a Better Understanding, Among the Teaching Faculty and Administration, of Library Materials Cost Trends and the Acquisitions Process
- Communicate Current Materials Budget Status to the Teaching Faculty
- Build Awareness of Library Services and Issues
Initial Task...
Review the current method for allocating funds to departmental materials lines.
Create a new formula or Revise the current allocation method.
Agenda:
- Presentation on current status of the FY 2001/02 materials budget.
- Presentation on methods for allocating materials funds between academic departments (formulas).
- Creation of a subcommittee to devise a formula for NKU.
Ordering Deadlines
- Academic Departments
- Feb. 15, 2002
- (Grace Period until Feb. 28, 2002)
- Liaison Librarians
- March 31, 2002
Plan to Expend Year-End Funds
- Enforce Deadlines
- Create "Wish List" - Total $100,000
- Items should cost $500+, domestic source, in print
- All librarians have input
- Input from departmental library representatives
Items Proposed for Purchase From Year-End Funds
Priority 1: JSTOR
Click each collection title for a complete list of journal titles within that collection.
| Collection: | Archive Capital Fee: |
Annual Access Fee: |
|---|---|---|
| Ecology & Botany | $ 2,500 | $ 2,500 |
| Arts & Sciences I | $25,000 | $ 4,000 |
| Arts & Sciences II | $ 8,000 | $ 2,000 |
| Business | $ 7,000 | $ 2,200 |
| General Science | $ 5,000 | $ 3,000 |
| Total | $47,000 | $13,700 |
Total of 256 Journal Titles
Priority 2: Reference Materials
- 1930 Census Schedule for KY (51 rolls of microfilm): $1,734
- Cincinnati Enquirer, add years (@ $4,000/yr, 1902-1956)
- Biography & Genealogy Master Index
- Encyclopedia of Women/Gender Issues
- Systems of Education: $750
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology: $2,195
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (fill in gaps)
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: $9,995
- Encyclopedia of Genetics: $995
- African American Encyclopedia: $420
- New Grove Dictionary of Jazz: $550
- Encyclopedia of Biodiversity: $695
- Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Physics: $650
- Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: $500
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