Serials Review and Reduction Project 2009/2010

Due to the current economic climate, Randall Library, other libraries across the state of North Carolina and the whole country have had to reduce their expenditures on purchased materials, whether they are one-time purchases such as books and DVDs or continuing subscriptions, such as journals, magazines, newspapers, and databases.

During fall term 2009/2010, the library will be contacting the various academic departments and asking them to consider titles to which the library has subscribed using the portion of the library budget that has been allocated to individual departments’ subscriptions. Each department will be asked to decide (and communicate with library faculty) whether these titles are essential, useful, or not useful.

In addition, library faculty will collect information on how heavily these resources are used and whether they are critical to the library’s mission. Library faculty will then decide which titles to cancel, taking into account faculty input and library-gathered data. For more information on this project please see the following webpage.