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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
URI total	418522	1588691	2007213	416802	1405294	1822096	391203	1520471	1911674
CSC	257	8908	9165	891	8562	9453	1152	9029	10181
MTH	2328	56242	58570	2801	33447	36248	1093	35300	36393
ELE	0	40638	40638	1583	36953	38536	7645	39381	47026

1. 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 [LC]	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
QA1-99 Math.	7164	0.874	373	1.306	689	1.080	1053	879
TK Elec.egr.	6535	0.797	161	0.564	699	1.096	1257	1159
T Technology	3166	0.386	94	0.329	186	0.292	564	544

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

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
T tech.	306	$19,412	333	$20,634	343	$25,397
TK electr. engineering	1,049	$69,417	1,062	$86,011	1,181	$105,468
QA math.	2,647	$160,263	2,540	$158,601	2,857	$186,299

3. Selective Journal Holdings: SCI/SSCI provide rankings of scholarly 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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