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Program Quality Review

LIBRARY COLLECTIONS AND SERVICES/1999-2000

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
GEL	286	17797	18083	1189	17978	19167	1000	16069	17069
CVE	620	31419	32039	2498	26843	29341	2760	28774	31534
NRS	1762	9415	11177	2886	7610	10496	3314	7032	10346
OCG	6625	131713	138338	23097	108561	131658	13439	145479	158918

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
Geol[QE]	10029	1.223	111	0.389	269	0.422	976	744
Phys,geog. [GB]	1977	0.241	36	0.126	120	0.188	101	90
Oceanog.[GC]	8519	1.039	24	0.084	100	0.157	458	79
Env.sci.[GE]	789	0.096	127	0.445	149	0.234	N/a	N/a
Geophys. [QC801-999]	3831	0.467	55	0.193	131	0.205	247	186
Civ.egr. [TA]	6566	0.801	206	0.721	585	0.917	1433	989
Env. Egr. [TD]	4625	0.564	124	0.434	375	0.588	618	454

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
Subject	# of titles	$ of titles	# of titles	$ of titles	# of titles	$ of titles
	96-97	96-97	97-98	97-98	98-99	98-99
Geology	92	$7,597	132	$12,296	144	$11,470
Physical Geography	60	$5,612	62	$1,034	73	$7,203
Environ. Sciences	93	$5,091	137	$11,539	164	$10,119
Environ. technology	167	$16,281	184	$16,769	206	$22,609

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 [ratio of the number of citations divided by the number of articles cited.]

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