UNIVERSITY
Library to ax 2,000 periodicals
By Colleen Pohlig
Emerald Associate Editor____________
The University's Knight Library will slash peri
odical subscriptions by at least 2.000 in the com
ing months in response to rising costs.
Inflation is the driving factor in the mass-can
cellation. University Librarian George Shipman
said. He said 1090's Measure 5 tax initiative has
nothing to do with the cuts, the first of their kind
in 10 years.
The library ideally should bo spending 70 per
cent of its purchasing fund on periodicals and 30
percent on books. Shipman said. Because of infla
tion, however, the library's 17,(MM) periodicals are
expected to cost about 75 percent of its $3.1 mil
lion buying budget.
The Knight Library can't keep pace with rising
costs, though the administration has tried for the
last 10 years.
"From 1982 to 1992. the University buying bud
get has increased 88 percent.” Shipman said. "But
cost for library materials has risen 210 percent in
that same period."
Letters were sent to faculty last month notify
ing that tough choices will need to be mado with
departmental library representatives and library
subject specialists about what subscriptions to
maintain.
Under library budgeting policy, each academic
department is budgeted so many dollars and the
department tells the library what periodicals are
necessary for research and to maintain up-to-date
information in that field.
Under the mass-cancellation project, each
department will be asked to cut those requests to
bridge the 16 percent inflation rate library admin
istrators are projecting.
Because the inflation rate is an educated esti
mate, the library administration is handling the
cancellation project in three phases
Periodical decreases, in the first phase, will
begin at $375,(M)0 and may reach $550,(MM) to bring
the materials budget back into balance. This will
depend on next year's material acquisition bud
get and the actual rate of inflation.
"We will cut only as deeply as we must to bring
the materials budget back into balance, but we
need to be prepared for the worst-case scenario.”
'In m wan It penalizes the
students who work harder,
because the journals that will
probably be cut are the less
used and less-common:
Tim Gleason,
journalism associate professor
Shipman said.
The effects of the cancellation on research are
not yet known hut are expected to make access to
materials a little tougher
"Whenever resources of an institution are
diminished, it hurts everyone," said Tim Gleason,
who has taught Information Gathering, a journal
ism research doss. "In a way. it penalize* the stu
dent* who work harder because the journals that
will probably be cut are the less-used and less
common."
Choryl Kern-Simirenko. assistant librarian for
collection development and resource services, said
she believes the mass-cancellation will have a
direct impact on students and faculty members
who are researching.
"The serial cuts certainly reduce support for
research and instruction." she said. "We'll still
provide bibliographic access though. Anyone can
still learn about what's available, even though we
may not have it in the library."
Various data bases at the library notify users
where to find the material, if unavailable at the
University.
Interlibrary Loan is a service that allows stu
dents and faculty to access unavailable material
from other university libraries Shipman said use
of this service has doubled in the last two years
The last decrease in periodicals was in 19H2. but
wasn't nearly as wrenching as this one, Shipman
said.
"This is the biggest (cut in materials) the Uni
versity has faced," Shipman said “There's a lot
of academic activity with students and faculty, and
it hurts not to have the materials — it really hurts
at an altruistic level.”
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