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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]:

	FY97 Books	FY97 Jrnls	FY97 Total	FY98 Books	FY98 Jrnls	FY98 Total	FY99 Books	FY99 Jrnls	FY99 Total
Lib.	418522	1588691	2007213	416802	1405294	1822096	391203	1520471	1911674
NRS	1762	9415	11177	2886	7610	10496	3314	7032	10346
BIO	2319	143524	145843	8380	122378	130758	7697	133660	141357
PLS	928	23988	24916	4538	22610	27148	6125	24608	30733
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	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
Agriculture	2859	0.349	76	0.266	186	0.292	261	192
Conservation	168	0.020	4	0.014	1	0.002	10	8
Plant culture	4670	0.570	205	0.718	375	0.588	403	278
Forestry	702	0.086	36	0.126	42	0.066	83	72
Phys. Geogr.	1977	0.241	36	0.126	120	0.188	205	171
Oceanography	789	0.096	127	0.445	149	0.234	113	107
Natural history	5339	0.651	144	0.504	229	0.359	394	258
Biology,Gen.	8165	0.996	286	1.002	774	1.214	1133	827
Botany,Gen.	2258	0.275	65	0.228	63	0.099	140	102
Botany,Spec.	5013	0.612	124	0.424	217	0.340	616	314
Zoology,Gen.	2008	0.245	26	0.091	86	0.135	133	118
Inv./Vert zoo.	8236	1.005	310	1.086	1067	1.673	977	625
Anat,Embryol.	1552	0.189	54	0.189	126	0.198	153	136

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
Science,Gen	167	$19,728	248	$18,715	247	$18,336
Biology	331	$27,204	419	$34,889	503	$39,419
Botany	107	$11,300	125	$10,793	132	$16,701
Zoology	195	$12,436	247	$17,023	326	$23,183
Agri.,Gen.	52	$5,510	89	$6,612	81	$5,947
Plant culture	313	$17,469	349	$18,846	317	$16,478
Forestry	20	$1,644	35	$2,120	36	$2,135

* does not include university presses

4. Selective Journal Holdings: SCI 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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