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Program Quality Review

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS/SERVICES

1. FY97-99 Expenditures for Books and Journals [including electronic databases]: all URI academic departments are provided with a yearly allocation for books. The following provides recent expenditures for your department [along with departments covering related subject areas]:

Dept.	FY97 Books	FY97 Jrnls	FY97 Total	FY98 Books	FY98 Jrnls	FY98 Total	FY99 Books	FY99 Jrnls	FY99 Total
Lib. Total	418522	1588691	2007213	416802	1405294	1822096	391203	1520471	1911674
CBA	0	28457	28457	0	32948	32948	0	24999	24999
ACC	748	8964	9712	702	5760	6462	0	9446	9446
FIN	148	10769	10917	784	9335	10119	120	8991	9111
MGS	0	3843	3843	357	4422	4779	36	4217	4253
MGT	6771	6098	12869	2446	7013	9459	521	3111	3632
MKT	1137	7134	8271	915	8597	9512	1005	7007	8012
ECN	2192	30615	32807	2645	30113	32758	2180	30357	32537
LRS	1951	12560	32618	1005	13685	14690	361	14211	14572
IIA*	13000	0	13000	13000	0	13000	13000	0	13000

*Independent Insurance Agents Endowment

2. View of Book Collections by Selective Subjects (LC): the following provides a broad look at the scope of URI’s book collection, recent activity in adding to the collection, the scope of that activity in relation to the whole and in relation to other medium size academic libraries, and the latest circulation statistics:

SUBJECT	Total Items as of 6/99	% of Total Items Held	Books Added 95/99	% of Items Added	Circ. Stats FY99	% of Total Circ.	Books Added 1983-1993	Avg. Added Peer Group
Social Sci.	2962	0.361	70	0.245	224	0.351	371	335
Statistics	1386	0.169	39	0.137	116	0.182	105	108
Economics	7251	0.917	144	0.504	368	0.577	1450	1042
Econ.hist/reg	13028	1.589	403	1.411	528	0.828	2488	1723
Econ.hist/sub	30664	3,740	802	2.810	1521	2.384	6323	4636
Transp./Commun.	3601	0.439	65	0.228	197	0.309	459	352
Commerce	14700	1.793	401	1.404	880	1.380	2271	2127
Finance	8753	1.068	312	1.093	452	0.709	1689	1345
Pub. finance	2430	0.296	54	0.189	43	0.067	396	342
Manufacture	3021	0.369	77	0.270	286	0.448	587	388

3. Scholarly Books published FY97-FY99: the following provides a look at the numbers of book titles supplied to academic libraries in FY97-FY99:

Subject	1996/97	1996/97	1997/98	1997/98	1998/99	1998/99
	# of titles*	$ of titles*	# of titles	$ of titles	# of titles	$ of titles
Social Sci.	49	$2,849	82	$4,502	83	$4,712
Statistics	39	$2,020	27	$1,620	50	$2,900
Economics	246	$25,381	345	$31,830	332	$34,538
Econ.hist/reg	380	$22,002	537	$30,346	583	$32,023
Econ.hist/sub	1274	$70,527	1448	$78,409	1663	$93,953
Transp.& Commun	105	$7,268	135	$8,668	143	$9,851
Commerce	996	$45,832	986	$47,844	1180	$61,027
Finance	536	$28,456	541	$27,531	685	$36,661
Pub. Finance	62	$3,382	75	$5,174	92	$8,206
Manufacture	190	$13,532	183	$14,544	198	$19,588

* does not include university presses

4. Selective Journal Holdings: SSCI provides rankings of scientific journals based on a number of categories. The following is the ranking published in Journal Citation Reports for 1998, by impact factor:

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