PROPOSED LIBRARY CAPITAL CUTS IN COLLECTIONS

PROPOSED LIBRARY CAPITAL CUTS IN COLLECTIONS: CONTINUATIONS

I'm focusing our collections cuts in continuations for the following reasons:

most of these annual publications have no historical value (meaning they are used current year only) and are easy to begin again should adequate funds ever arise
information is available online for several of these items
many of these items are available at DCL

TITLE OF CONTINUATION	CYCLE	COST	DCL HAS	NOTES
Contemp. Theater/Film	multiple volumes per year	$185.47 x 5=$927.55	no
Europa Yearbook	c2	$857	yes	due 7/03
Foundation Dir.	c1	$226	yes	due 5/03
Mergent Bond Record	c1	$597	yes	bus. dept ok
Robert Morris Assoc	c1	$159	yes	bus.dept ok
Standard & Poors	c1	$2496	yes	already canceled for this year. bus. dept ok
Value Line	?	$1395	yes	bus dept ok
Amer. Assoc. of Community Colleges Directory	c1	$110.00	no	info avail online (re Tina)
How Products are Made	c1?	$109	no	due 3/03 version avail on online reference webpage (re Tina)
Literary Market Place	c2	$253	yes	ok re Pam. due 2/03
Mental Measurements	irr?	$195	no	ok re R. Walker Sands
Oregon Revised Statutes	pub every 2 years	$319	yes	avail online. ok re Tina
Organizing corporate and other business enterprises	c1	$223	no	bus dept ok
Short Story Index	c1	$175	yes	ok re Tina
Ulrich's Intl. Per. Directory	c1	$717.77	yes	ok re Pam, JoAnne
Who's Who of American Women	c2 (irregular)	$279	yes	last due 02
Gale Directory of Publications	c2	$761.08	yes (2003)	due this year or 04?

TOTAL (EST)		$9798

Possibilities for additional cuts exist in microforms, monographs,and print periodical subscriptions.

Cutting print periodicals subscriptions is generally not as attractive due to collection gaps that will occur in long standing runs.

Cutting print subscriptions to periodicals that are duplicated in full text databases is certainly possible, and will probably be reviewed. However, there is the very real possibility of our fulltext database provider either discontinuing access to various fulltext titles without notice, OR, our database provider itself being changed depending on decisions of the Statewide Database Committee.

As we merge with OSU/Cascades, we can consider which ongoing electronic subscriptions we have access to via the Valley Library collection, and cut print subscriptions accordingly.

All that said, I will be able to review a departmental/allocation breakdown of all of our print periodical subscriptions next week. Some print subscriptions will be cut based on: discontinued programs; overallocated departments or programs; and appropriateness of subscriptions to community college library.

clf 1/22/03