THE STATUS OF KRESGE LIBRARY. The Three Things All University Libraries Must Do They must pay for information to have it They must catalog the information

THE STATUS OF KRESGE LIBRARY

The Three Things All University Libraries Must Do

• They must pay for information to have it

• They must catalog the information so that students can search for it

• They must train the students how to use the cataloging system to find the information

Library Expenditures for Collections

0

2000000

4000000

6000000

8000000

10000000

12000000

Cleveland StateWichita StatePortland StateOakland UniversityBall StateMiami (Ohio)George MasonSUNY-Binghamton

Volumes in Library

0

500000

1000000

1500000

2000000

2500000


Current Serials Titles

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000


Total Number of Staff

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180


Number of Librarians

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50


Total FTE Enrollment

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000

16000


Graduate FTE

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1600

1800


Implications for Student Services

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

FY91 FY94 FY99

library staffRHT 160 sectionssubject classes

Implications for Interlibrary Loan

0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

16,000

FY89 FY94 FY99

borrowedloaned

Comparisons to Our Sixteen Peers

• 2nd lowest in total budget

• 4th lowest in size of book collection

• 4th lowest in periodical subscriptions

• 2nd lowest in number of librarians

Comparisons to Our Nineteen Aspirant Peers

• Smallest total budget– $1 million less than the lowest aspirant peer– $10 million less than the highest aspirant peer

• 2nd smallest book collection– 1.5 million volumes less than the highest aspirant peer

• Smallest number of librarians– 4 fewer than the lowest aspirant peer– 39 fewer than each of the two highest aspirant peers

What Have We Lost?

• The last public university in Michigan to subscribe to JSTOR

• No major engineering index from FY91 to FY00• Dependency on interlibrary loan

– 7,909 student requests and 5,621 faculty requests in FY00

• 99 students in new programs without adequate library resources

How Did We Get to This Point?

• No increase in the Library’s base budget since FY94

• Failure to deliver appropriated funds for new programs in both FY99 and FY00

• 40% inflation rate within the publishing industry since 1994

• Conform to the NCA recommendations of 1989, 1994, and 1999 that Kresge Library should receive automatic annual increases to its base budget to compensate for library inflation rates

Recommendation #1

Recommendation #2

• Money appropriated for new academic programs be delivered to Kresge Library immediately after Board of Trustees approval of the program and before admission of students into the program

Recommendation #3

• To keep Kresge Library in compliance with the goals of the OU 2010 Profile, the library budget of FY10 should be double the current budget. This increase should occur in regular annual increments to both the materials budget and the positions budget.

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THE STATUS OF KRESGE LIBRARY. The Three Things All University Libraries Must Do They must pay for information to have it They must catalog the information