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Program Quality Review

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS/SERVICES, SPRING 2000

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
URI total	418522	1588691	2007213	416802	1405294	1822096	391203	1520471	1911674
FLM	225	1813	2038	1147	1569	2716	958	1873	2831
ART	10402	6398	16800	6728	6100	12828	8250	6254	14504
ENG	5163	10658	15821	10992	10210	21202	10580	11047	21627
LAN	9028	22051	31079	7319	19429	26748	11011	20699	31710

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 [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
PN1993-1999 MOTION PICTURES	2494	0.304	351	1.229	402	0.630	732	631
PN1600-1989 DRAMA	953	0.116	28	0.098	27	0.042	30	25
PN2000-3300 THEATRE	3542	0.432	166	0.581	200	0.314	128	94

3. 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

4. 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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