The information materials collection of the University Libraries exists to support the curriculum and related research of The University of Akron. It has been, and continues to be, acquired and organized by The University Libraries with the advice of the faculty and administration of the university in accord with the goals and objectives of the university. The collection of information resources and the access to information is the responsibility of the University Libraries when such resources have general usefulness. Acquisition of and access to information resources which have multiple uses or potential multiple uses are the chief responsibility of the ULLR. The policies included in this document are intended to guide the selection, acquisition, inclusion, and maintenance of information materials in the library collection. While not intended to be static, these policies are expected to provide the basis for continuity and consistency of the information materials collection, evolving over time and reflecting and supporting the university's mission, goals, and objectives.

These collection policies are a written definition of the specific collection needs supported with the funds established for acquisition of information resources and discrete collections in the library. The subject bibliographers, and other University Libraries personnel having collection responsibilities, have written these policies in consultation with the appropriate teaching departments and faculty. It is intended that no policy is included in this compilation that does not reflect the teaching department's assessment of their library needs. Each policy describes which materials should be acquired to serve the curriculum and research goals of the department and the university in general.

The product of an effort to examine the information support needed to reach the university's goals and the goals of the individual departments of the university, the policies are a standard by which to evaluate the collection, to formulate the cost to reach or maintain the defined collection, and to make spending decisions which set priorities for the use of available funds. The policies are not intended to be a permanent guide, but should change and be revised as the goals, objectives, and emphases in university and departmental operations change. Review and change should occur continually as a part of an interactive process between the University Libraries and the faculty. These policies will provide for decision making related to necessary levels of acquisition, choices between specific items, decisions on repair, replacement, or continued inclusion of items in the collection, and an evaluation standard for judging collection response to instructional and research needs.

There are some general considerations that necessarily apply to all collections in the library. The most important of these is that any item collected shall be considered to be available to any appropriate user of the library so long as there is no danger to the physical condition of the material. Library collections are gathered on the principle that information resources need to be shared, and that the sharing makes more information available to all. That is, the University Libraries must give priority to the acquisition of materials which are not for the exclusive instructional or research use of a single individual or department. Materials which are collected cannot be used exclusively by a department or a faculty member, but should be available for any other university faculty member or student if requested.

Since everything in the University Libraries collections should be widely available (except for physical protection as noted above) acquisitions will be only in generally usable formats; the library must have access to appropriate equipment for the use of materials requiring readers, players, projectors, or other devices. Thus, no materials will be acquired in formats that restrict access and none will be stored in locations which are not reasonably open and under University Libraries control or in which prompt access to the information is not provided by the storing agency.

Whenever there is a question about the appropriateness of the purchase or acceptance of materials into the collection, or about the value of retaining something in the collection, these policies should provide the basis and rationale for a decision. If any interested party feels that the decision arrived at does not reflect departmental, University Libraries, or University of Akron missions, goals, or objectives, the policies may be reviewed and amended by the collection management department as appropriate. In ordinary circumstances, such discrepancies should not occur; these policies should be under constant scrutiny and review, especially as changes occur in university policy and departmental curricula.

ORGANIZATION OF THE POLICIES. These policies are written in a uniform manner to facilitate comparison between the various collections comprising the entire University Libraries collection of information materials. The various sections of each policy are:

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This is a statement specifies the subjects needed to support the purposes of the department or unit for which a collection is established. For each subject included a level of collecting (defined below) is specified reflecting the relative importance of the subject to the curriculum.

CURRICULUM: A general description of the curricula to be supported by the collection described above establishes the reasons for maintaining the collection. The description is abbreviated since university curricular documents can be consulted for details.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: A statement of the geographical areas to be covered in the information collected.

LANGUAGE: A statement of the usable language or languages for the information in the collection described.

PERIOD COVERAGE: A statement about the relative importance of currency and specific historical periods.

PUBLICATION TYPES: This should specify the intellectual levels and organization of the information collected.

FORMATS: The relative quantities for the inclusion of various publication media should be given in this statement.

REMOTE SOURCES: This should specify which information resources will be readily available to supply the needs of this collection without our having to acquire them locally.

EXCLUSIONS: This is a statement to eliminate anything not needed which would be acquired by a literal interpretation of the above.

COLLECTION LEVELS. In writing the descriptions of the various collections the terminology used to specify collecting intensity for the subjects mentioned is taken from the American Library Association publication Guidelines for Collection Development (1979). The levels of collection specificity are defined as follows:

Comprehensive level. A library endeavors, so far as reasonably possible, to include all significant works of recorded knowledge for a defined field. This level of collecting intensity maintains a "special collection"; the aim is exhaustiveness. (At present the University Libraries does not collect in any subject at this level which might include purchase of rare books and manuscripts.)*

Research level. Includes the major published source materials required for dissertations and independent research.

Advanced study level. A collection adequate to support the course work of advanced undergraduate and master's degree programs, or to sustain independent study.

Initial study level. A collection adequate to support undergraduate courses.

Basic study level. A highly selective collection which serves to introduce a subject and indicate sources of information available elsewhere.

Minimal study level. Few selections are included beyond very basic works.

For a more detailed description of these levels, including specific types of publications appropriate for each level, the title cited above should be consulted.

CONSTRAINTS. General constraints on the collection of materials are governed by the university's and the University Libraries' goals and objectives and by practical considerations. Some of these restraints merit specific mention because there is recurring misunderstanding about them.

1. Duplication. Multiple copies of information sources are avoided unless there is a strong service reason for such duplicates to be available. This limitation is necessary not only to assure the widest possible variety in the collection, but also to avoid unnecessary use of storage space (one of the costlier aspects of library operations). The library uses a guideline, based on experience, for the acquisition of multiple copies of works required for use by all students in a course; these are usually reserved circulation items.

2. Formats collected. The University Libraries has usually collected only formats which are usable in the library and for which equipment for use is readily available on campus. With the proliferation of audio-visual and computer formats for information storage formats collected will change, but formats that the University Libraries cannot access will not be collected.

3. Expendability. The University Libraries does not collect information materials which are consumed by their initial use or which are too fragile to survive multiple uses. Thus, we do not have such things as ditto masters, except as samples of a type of material. There are no user-completion materials, such as test answer sheets in multiples, for users to complete and keep; again, samples of such answer sheets may be in the collection as examples not to be used. Some rare books and manuscripts are collected, and the use of them restricted to researchers, because of their research value and unavailability in inexpensive and durable formats, but no currently published materials are added to the collection if they are judged insubstantial for the rigors of normal library uses. The expenses of record keeping, monitoring, repair, and replacement are too high for the University Libraries to try to maintain collections of such materials.

4. Content. Subject matter or treatment will not be a constraint that precludes collecting any material if that material answers a collection need stated in these policies. Due to societal conditions some of the materials may need to be restricted and access limited to protect the materials. No one in the university community should be denied access to any materials in the collection unless such access poses a physical threat to the material. In that circumstance the University Libraries may seek from the user demonstration of a valid reason for access. The requirement that the materials collected have a basis in collection policy should be enough prevention of the inclusion of frivolous matter in the collections.

*The collections in Archival Services which parallel the library material collection in several fields such as history, are described in a separate document put out by that division. Rare books in the collection have been acquired as gifts or as purchases by the Friends of the University Libraries.

The compilation of these policies was helped by the cooperation received from the faculty members consulted on the information needs of their departments. We are also grateful for the support received from departments in the University Libraries. Support for the writing of these policies also came from departments in the University Libraries. Those library and media departments which have specific selection roles have helped with policies, notably Claudia Salem Burdge and Anne Peterson in the reference department and John V. Miller, Jr., assistant director for archival services, and those responsible for acquiring and maintaining materials have contributed important operational considerations for the policies, especially Julia Gammon of the acquisitions department and Thomas Bennett of instructional support services. This project could not have been completed without Lenora F. Clark and Renee M. Wilson of the collection management office who have worked long and carefully to compile and produce the finished text of this document.

While the library has often had various documentation for its collection acquisition and maintenance operations, these policies have been compiled as a result of the recent reorganization of the information services at The University of Akron into the the University Libraries. Dr. George V. Hodowanec as director has made suggestions, followed and supported the writing and compilation of these policies since the collection management department was organized. We now have a complete and comprehensive guide to identify information needs, to set priorities for expenditures,and to evaluate materials in the collection for retention, replacement, or repair.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A collection supporting the Interdisciplinary Program in Anthropology needs coverage at the initial study level for studies of old world archaeology, world cultures, human evolution, kinship, the place of magic and religion in social organization, pseudoscience, the occult, and credulity in American culture. In theory and research methodologies, culture and language, cultural and personality, cultural anthropology, ethnology, new world archaeology and medicine in social organization, materials are collected at the advanced study level. The library has a special collection on "Indians of North and South America".

CURRICULUM: The interdisciplinary program offers an undergraduate degree emphasizing cultural anthropology. The four required courses are: Cultural anthropology, Introduction to archaeology, Introduction to linguistics and Evolution of man and culture. In addition, concentration and program electives are required as delineated in archaeological, biological, cultural and linguistics fields. Since the departments of biology, classics, English, geography and planning, geology, history, modern languages and sociology are cooperating with anthropology in this program; the existing funding for these departments will take care of the appropriate field. Anthropology will fund only the anthropology curriculum.

Many courses are cross-cultural or specifically related to non-western, pre-industrial cultures including courses on the evolution of man and culture, world cultures, and magic, myth and religion. Courses on Native Americans include native and modern cultures and cultural adaptations. Culture and medicine includes western and non-western folk medicines. Pseudoscience covers American contemporary and historical belief in the supernatural. The courses on language and personality include examples from all types of cultures. Major theories of cultural anthropology and field work methodologies are studied. A minor in interdisciplinary anthropology is also possible.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Materials on non-western cultures are needed for cultural anthropology, human and cultural evolution, and magic-myth-religion. Materials on western cultures are needed for Native Americans, new world prehistory, and pseudoscience. Materials covering both areas are needed for lower division courses in cultural anthropology, world cultures and advanced courses in personality, medicine, and language. Essentially, courses on the new world and its native cultures, medicine, language, and personality require extensive geographical coverage. A selection of studies on less-common non-western cultures is needed for general cross-cultural study. More intensive collection is needed for major non-western cultures with emphasis on kinship, magic-myth-religion, and medicine.

LANGUAGE: About ninety percent of this collection is in English. Other languages are Spanish, French, and German. Nationals writing in those languages study many areas of the world which were part of colonial empires. Landmark studies and writings by major authors are collected regardless of language.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There are few limits. Prehistory and studies of pre-industrial societies predominate. Recently published studies are collected more intensively than earlier studies. Contemporary studies are needed for the study of medicine in the last 200 years and of North American Indians during the same period. In these fields current imprints are acquired at an advanced study level. Recent studies are collected at the initial study level for pseudoscience and the occult during the past two centuries.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Descriptive, historical, and theoretical studies published as monographs and serials are collected at the advanced study level. Special collections are needed.

FORMATS: Print monographs and print or microform journals are collected. In addition, the Human Relations Area File microfiche collection is important. Videos and other audiovisual software are acquired selectively for this collection.

REMOTE SOURCES: The Center for Research Libraries collection supports advanced studies with its collections on Native Americans and anthropology.

EXCLUSIONS: Normally this collection will not acquire materials on, genetics, calcified tissues, human growth and development, body composition, and living non-human primates.

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SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The collection in support of the teaching program and research of the biology department needs to be broadly based in the biological sciences. The two basic divisions are natural sciences and medicine-physiology. Included in natural sciences are botany, zoology, ornithology, ecology, evolutionary theory and genetics; genetics studies could be medically oriented, as well. The physiology-medicine component includes anatomy and physiology, microbiology, histology, immunology, medical technology, and cytotechnology, and environmental health. All of the above should be collected at the initial study level. In addition to the broad base, the department needs support at the advanced study level for ecology, aquatic ecology, animal pathology, behavioral biology, cardiovascular physiology, respiratory physiology, endocrine and reproductive physiology, microbiology, virology, immunobiology, molecular biology, histology and cytology.

CURRICULUM: The biology department offers the bachelor of arts degree in biology, as well as the bachelor of science degree with specialization in botany, ecology, zoology or microbiology. In addition, pre-professional or high school teaching specialization is possible. The department also grants a bachelor of science in medical technology and a bachelor of science in cytotechnology. A master of science in biology within one of the specializations is also offered by the biology department.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Biological research is not geographically bound. Ecological, zoological, and botanical materials will be locally comprehensive and nationally selective for the United States, with international coverage at a minimum level.

LANGUAGE: At least ninety percent of the materials will be English language or translations.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Biological teaching and research is dependent upon current coverage which is achieved through the serials collection. This is especially important for the highly volatile areas of microbiology, cytology, virology, cancer research and cardiovascular physiology. The basic collection will emphasize recent imprints; only significant historical works will be collected. At the same time, botany, zoology, and ecology require a cumulation of data over a greater time span, usually twenty to fifty years.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Scholarly research journals are the primary source of biological information. The library collection in support of this department, therefore, is heavily committed to the serials collection, at about eighty percent. Monographs are necessary, as well, for synthesis and explication and are about twenty percent of the information resource. Although no significant collection of non-print materials is required, computer software may be collected.

REMOTE SOURCES: Students in the biology department have access to, and occasionally use, the libraries of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, area hospitals and the Ohio Agricultural Research Center at Wooster.

EXCLUSIONS: The biology collection does not include materials with a clinical medicine focus, materials which are primarily biochemistry or popular treatments of biology intended for lay users.

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SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is established to support the curriculum and research of the chemistry department. The following subjects should be collected at the research level: inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, aliphatic compounds, aromatic compounds, heterocyclic compounds, organometallic compounds, biological chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, analytical chemistry, crystallography, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Carbohydrates, qualitative and quantitative analysis should be collected at the advanced study level. General works should be collected at the initial study level.

CURRICULUM: The chemistry department offers the bachelor of science, bachelor of arts, master of science, and doctor of philosophy degrees. The undergraduate program is accredited by the American Chemistry Society, and it prepares students for immediate employment or graduate study. Secondary teaching certification may be obtained by meeting the College of Education requirements. Chemistry is the only major offered. The undergraduate program requires the principles of chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, quantitative analysis, analytical chemistry, and advanced chemistry courses. Mathematics and physics courses are also required. The master's program requires twenty-four credits of chemistry courses, a thesis, and reading proficiency in a foreign language. The doctoral program requires twenty-four credits of coursework, sixty credits of research, a dissertation, four cumulative examinations, and proficiency exams in organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical chemistry. The students are required to propose a new field of research and defend it. Graduate courses are offered in the chemistry of polymers, quantum chemistry, thermodynamics, analytical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and biochemistry, although no specific courses are required. The chemistry department courses are an important part of the programs for polymer science and chemical engineering. Students in biology, nursing, physics, and home economics also take chemistry courses as part of their programs.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limit for appropriate materials. The primary geographical areas for inclusion in the collection should be the United States for about sixty percent of the collection, and Europe, Russia, Japan, India, China, and Australia for the other forty percent.

LANGUAGE: Most circulating materials in this collection should be in English. The reference materials will be about twenty percent German and the remainder in English. Chemical research may be reported in any language but attempts should be made to maintain a balance of at least 70 percent of the serials titles in English and the other 30 percent maximum in the more common foreign languages of German, Russian, French, Japanese, or Chinese.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The acquisition emphasis should be on materials published in the most recent five years. However, the retrospective holdings of all chemistry serials should be comprehensive as chemists need to retrace the research to the origins of the subject under investigation.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works are collected at the initial study level, and professional works, handbooks, journals, symposia, and proceedings collected at the research level.

FORMATS: Print, including microform, is collected at the research level and comprises at least 95 percent of the collection. Computer software and audiovisual software is collected at the initial study level, but is no more than five percent of the collection.

REMOTE SOURCES: The collections at Youngstown State University,Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University may be used for interlibrary loans filling in the University Libraries' collection. The Center for Research Libraries gives access to expensive foreign journals not in high demand.

EXCLUSIONS: Textbooks and popular works generally will not be acquired under this policy by purchase, although gifts of these materials may be added to the collection if the library identifies a use for them.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the department of classics needs to cover the following subject areas: archaeology, ancient history and historiography, ancient languages, philology, philosophy, ancient religion, mythology, coins, inscriptions, seals, art, architecture, painting, pottery, mosaics, sculpture, ancient literature, ancient science (including medicine), ancient economics and commerce, and ancient military and naval science. All of these are of major importance and, although some are specialized parts of a larger subject area, they should be acquired at the research level because they form part of both the undergraduate and graduate collection. Other users of the classics collection include freshman composition students who use the Homeric collection and students taking courses on the Bible as literature who use the ancient history and archaeology collection. These courses are given by the English department. Philosophy students use the ancient philosophy collection. History, literature, and art students use the collection to supplement course work.

CURRICULUM: There are two undergraduate majors, classics and classical civilization. The latter is substantially the same as the classics major except that no ancient languages are required. Classics faculty teach the ancient history field for the history department's masters and doctoral programs, and the department offers graduate courses at the 500 level. For the master's degree a student selects three fields of which ancient history must be one, the second another history field, and the third a cognate field such as Roman topography. The ancient history field of the doctorate is divided into concentrations on Greece, Rome, and the ancient Near East. Study of the ancient Near East is further divided into the following cultures: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine. Study of Greece and Rome is further divided into time periods from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic World, Rome and the Empire. Additional fields in history complete the requirements. The language courses, Greek, Latin, Egyptology, and Assyriology, as well as the archaeology courses for Greece, Rome, the ancient Near East, and Christian archaeology, also use the resources for the subjects detailed above. Courses in literature, mythology, and history and the reading and writing seminars in ancient history--offered in the history department and taught by professors in classics--also require these resources. In order to teach and study materials about those ancient civilizations, particularly those whose writing is not yet deciphered or requires advanced study and transliteration, artifacts are of major importance, so study of other than printed sources is required; hence, therefore, the value of archaeology to ancient history.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The Greek and Roman worlds and the Roman Empire, Egypt, and the ancient Near East should be covered at research level. Other pertinent areas in Europe and Asia will be covered at the advanced study level.

LANGUAGE: English, German, French, Italian, ancient Hebrew, ancient Egyptian, Greek, Greek Linear B, Etruscan, Latin, languages of the ancient Near East and Asia Minor such as Sumerian, Akkadian, or Hittite, are collected either as ancient languages to be studied or modern languages in which materials are presented. About three-fourths of the collection is in English.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Coverage begins with predynastic Egypt and Mesopotamia and ends with the fall of Rome in the West (A.D. 476) and Byzantium in the East (1453). Materials are collected up to the research level.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication types collected are: general works, scholarly works, professional studies, textbooks, collections, handbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. Both monographs and periodicals, are included in the collection. Research and excavation reports as well as many museum publications present some of the most important primary source materials because artifacts are described and ancient texts are published therein.

FORMATS: Printed formats, including microforms, are about ninety percent of the collection; 16 mm films, and slide sets comprise the remainder. Materials are now available on CD-ROM. The department has Perseus 1.0, a database of texts and images, for ancient Greece.

REMOTE SOURCES: Case Western Reserve University has a strong collection in classics, particularly in older published works. These supplement our collection.

EXCLUSIONS: Materials on the archaeology of the New World and the Pacific basin are excluded. They are covered by the anthropology program. Materials on sub-Saharan Africa and the Far East, except for areas of conquest, trade, or exploration in ancient times, also are excluded. They are covered by history, general education and Pan African studies.

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SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A collection supporting the curriculum and research of the Economics department must include the following: economic theory, monetary theory and policy, international trade and policy, comparative economic systems, money and banking, econometrics and economic statistics, natural resources and the environment, energy, industrial organization, regional economics, economic development. economic history, labor economics, law and economics, public finance theory and policy, public choice, history of economic thought, mathematical economics, consumer economics, theory of distribution, and welfare economics. Works in all of these areas are required at the advanced study level. Materials acquired for support of the department of Economics are also used by the departments of geography and planning, history, political science, and urban studies and public administration, plus all departments in the College of Business Administration and the College of Law.

CURRICULUM: The Economics department offers three degrees: a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Science in Labor Economics, and a Master of Arts. Based on fundamental theory courses, the undergraduate programs are designed to provide the student with a background for graduate work or an entry level career position. At the graduate level, the student can specialize in economic development and planning, economic theory and policy, industrial organization and public policy, international economics, labor and industrial relations, or quantitative methods. The department offers minors in economics and labor economics, and it provides support courses for the College of Business Administration, the departments of political science and urban studies and public administration, and the certificate programs in peace studies, planning, environmental studies, Afro-American studies, and Russian and Latin American area studies.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Economics is an international discipline. Theoretical materials are transnational. Practical materials acquired for the collection can be concerned with any country or region of the world, or international economic issues.

LANGUAGE: With few exceptions this collection will be in English. Exceptions will be French, German, Russian, and Spanish for texts of classic studies, major authors, and specialized reference works, making up about five percent of the collection.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Historical and theoretical studies have no time restriction. Older works of major writers or that are landmarks are collected when possible. Otherwise, current imprints are acquired. Major works are retained indefinitely.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Descriptive, historical, empirical, theoretical, and mathematical-statistical studies at the advanced study levels are acquired, as are specialized reference works.

FORMATS: Print monographs and journals are of primary importance. Instructional use of 16mm films and videotapes is infrequent and comprises less than five percent of the collection. Some microcomputer software may be needed.

revised 10/26/94

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection to support the curriculum and research of the department of English needs great diversity at both an advanced and an initial level. The linguistics, poetry, and literature of England, America, and the English-speaking world are emphasized, especially that of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The literature of the United States and Great Britain is collected at the advanced study level while that of the remainder of the English-speaking world is acquired at the initial study level. Coverage of English language linguistics and composition theory is desired at the advanced study level. Collections need to be especially strong in satire and literary criticism and theory and in individual American authors to support seminars.

CURRICULUM: Writing courses are provided in several areas: poetry, fiction, script writing, and technical or professional writing. Appreciation of poetry, fiction, and drama and film are also taught in introductory courses. Courses on Shakespeare, the early English language, the Bible as literature, and women's studies are important to the department's curriculum. Courses covering the works of important individual writers, both British and American, are offered annually. Other course areas include popular culture, science and detective fiction, Gothic literature, and travel literature.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The collection is about eighty-five percent the literature of England and the United States with the remainder is literature of other English-speaking countries, especially Australia, Africa, and Canada.

LANGUAGE: The collection is almost completely in English. Modern European and Latin American fiction is taught in translation as are Greco-Roman classics. Some criticism and commentaries are acquired in European languages on occasion.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The collection is about fifty percent the literature of nineteenth and twentieth century England and America. The eighteenth century is about ten percent, the seventeenth century about five percent, Shakespeare and his contemporaries are approximately fifteen percent, and early English including Anglo-Saxon about five percent. The remaining collection is divided between the Old and New Testament of the Bible, rhetoric and linguistics.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Scholarly works, research reports and data, critical and historical treatments, and extensive holdings of poetry and fiction, especially the major American and English authors are the publication types acquired.

FORMATS: The great majority of this collection is in printed books. The audio-visual emphasis is on collecting the film or videotape productions of printed literary works and the phonotapes and records of poets reading their own works; these comprise about ten percent of the collection. Journals, principally criticism, account for another ten percent of the printed resources.

REMOTE SOURCES: The Center for Research Libraries provides strong support for much of the research originating in this department with its holdings of less prominent journals and literary works.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: Within the library collection, many subject classes bear the name of geography: geography, mathematical geography, physical geography, and anthropogeography. In addition, subjects such as cartography, demography, oceanography, meteorology, aerial photography, conformal representation, and property law are collected for the department of geography. To support the department's curriculum, acquisition needs to be at an advanced study level in all these subject areas. Materials acquired for support of the department of geography are also used by the departments of economics, geology, history, political science, urban studies, mathematical sciences, marketing, art and law.

CURRICULUM: Four degrees are offered by the department of geography: bachelor of arts, bachelor of science in geography/cartography, master of arts, and master of science. Courses required for these degrees include human, physical and economic geography, climatology, cartography and computer mapping, spatial analysis, remote sensing of the environment, and research methodology. In addition, there are courses which cover various geographical areas of the world, land use analysis, regional planning, transportation planning, and site selection for industry.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The entire world is the subject matter of this department. However, special attention is given to the United States, East Asia, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Materials on other geographical areas may be collected at the initial study level.

LANGUAGE: English language materials are primarily acquired. Some purchases are made in Spanish, Portuguese, French and German.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Materials of geographical interest, regardless of the time period covered, are collected, but recent publications are acquired almost exclusively. Classic titles and reprints are sought when required by the curriculum and consist of about ten percent of the collection.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Scholarly studies, professional works, handbooks, research reports and research data are the major types of publications acquired on this fund.

FORMATS: Printed books and serials are about eighty-five percent of the collection with maps and atlases about ten percent and computer software about five percent.

REMOTE SOURCES: Faculty and graduate students are heavy users of interlibrary loan services to access specialized research materials unavailable in the collection. The University of Akron Law Library is also used for research.

EXCLUSIONS: Legal materials on geographic topics are collected by the law library. Materials dealing with urban problems are collected for the department of urban studies.

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SCOPE AND PURPOSE: Library support for the teaching program and research of the geology department covers, at the initial study level, geological theory and practice, areal geology, and general field data. Collection at the advanced study level is required for the major concentrations in earth science, geophysics, economic geology, engineering geology, and environmental geology. Materials at this level will include methodological, as well as interpretive, treatments of structural geology and tectonics, historical geology and paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and mineralogy. Collection at the research level includes the emphasis of the department on areal geology of Ohio and adjacent states, tectonics of North America, ground water hydrology and pollution, coal geology, petroleum geology, coastal geology, marine paleontology, geomorphology, mineral chemistry and petrology, astrogeology, and applied geophysics.

CURRICULUM: The geology department offers a bachelor of arts degree or a bachelor of science degree in geology with major concentration in geology, engineering geology, and geophysics. The department grants a master of science degree in geology with specialization in geology, earth science, engineering geology, environmental geology, or geophysics.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Although the concentration of study is United States geology, in particular Ohio and adjacent states, publications on areas of field school activity or areas of particular faculty research are needed, as well. Areal geology, illustrative of geologic theory or practice, has no geographical limitations.

LANGUAGE: The collection is primarily English language and translations into English.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Geological studies depend upon retrospective data and theory, as well as current field studies, interpretation, and theory. The collection is not limited by any period constraints, but concentration is on acquisition of recent materials.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication types collected are current and retrospective monographs, journals, state and national geological survey publications, society publications and field studies in the subject areas of specialization. Filmstrips, 16 mm films, videocassettes and computer software constitute five percent of the collection. Computerized data, in the form of well-logs and spectra, are needed also. A major information resource for the geology department is the map collection, which needs to include United States Geological Survey maps, detailed state maps, and national and international maps. These will be geologic maps of the United States and individual states, United States geologic quadrangle maps, mineral resource maps and charts, geophysical investigation maps, and topographic maps.

REMOTE SOURCES: There are no usable remote resources for this collection.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular works on earth science are not collected.

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SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the department of history requires a range of materials that are both primary and secondary sources in ancient, medieval, and modern history including social, political, intellectual, religious, economic, military, demographic, constitutional, and diplomatic history. The collection is further divided into North America, Central America, South America, Britain and the Commonwealth, Europe, Africa, and the Far East. The specialized fields covered include the history of science and technology, women's history, black history, sport history, family history, historical methods, historiography, business and labor history, environmental history, history of transportation, immigration, peace and war, public history or historical agency administration, urban history, regional history and material culture. Primary sources are the most important as the library is the laboratory for study and research in history. The library is also a center for journals from the state historical societies which are collected at an advanced study level. The extensive United States document collection provides additional primary source material for history. Other disciplines supported in part by the history collection include classics, political science, economics, education, English, sociology, peace studies, black studies, criminal justice, business, law, urban studies, philosophy, communication, theatre, the general education program, the sciences, and indeed any discipline studied historically.

Archival and manuscript material is collected on Ohio and the local area for the most part. The most outstanding area archival collections are the archives of both major and minor rubber and aerospace companies that either are or were located in the city of Akron.

The library has special collections pertaining to history. Major ones are:

1. Primary Source Materials on the Thirteen Colonies: Established in the 1950s, this is an extensive collection of print and microform colonial and revolutionary records, public documents, personal papers and collections, society publications, periodicals, and newspapers.

2. Primary Source Materials in English History: Established in the 1960s, this is an extensive collection of print and microform public documents and calendars, personal papers and collections, society publications, and serial publications. It emphasizes the Tudor-Stuart period although there are materials from the 19th and 20th centuries.

3. Collection on North American Indians: This collection was established in 1959. It contains all the publications of the U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology and other documents pertaining to native american, valuable sets by Catlin, Schoolcraft, McKenny-Hall, and a large number of other series and single works. The Friends of the University Libraries have a special fund to add to this collection.

4. Liberia: Established in 1987-88 and composed mainly of gift materials from the library of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. It consists of monographs from the 19th and 20th century including some early 20th century readers used in the schools in Liberia. These are also microform documents and archival materials.

The collection levels for the different fields are:

1. Ancient History: Collected under the policy for the classics department.*

2. Medieval History: Medieval history of Britain and Europe is included. The collection is strongest in English medieval history, however the collection on French medieval history is being developed. Materials should be collected at the advanced study level.

3. Modern European History to 1789: The Reformation portion of the collection is the strongest in primary sources. The Reformation and France from the 17th century through 1789 should be developed at the research level. Materials in the other European fields from the Renaissance to 1789 should be collected at advanced study level.

4. Modern European History Since 1789: The library collection emphasizes the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era throughout Europe; the European wars and revolutions of the 19th century, the unification of Germany and Italy, the social, economic, political, and intellectual history of France and Germany, the Spanish Civil War; the First and Second World Wars including the background to those conflicts and the aftermath, and Russia since 1900. These should be developed at the research level. Minor countries of Europe and provinces of the major countries for this period are covered at the initial study level.

5. The History of England and the Empire: Research emphasis in the British history collection begins at the end of the medieval period. The Tudor/Stuart period is the dissertation field. England and the empire/commonwealth from the Tudor/Stuart era on are of major importance. Materials from the 15th century to present day should be acquired at research level for Great Britain, Ireland and Canada. Materials for India should be acquired at research level for the later 19th century to the present. Those for the medieval and earlier eras may be acquired at the advanced study level.

6. History of America to 1877 and the United States Since 1877: The United States history collection is the library's largest and strongest history collection Studied in greater detail than other fields of history, this area should be developed at the research level.

7. History of Latin America: The emphasis in the Latin American collection should be on Mexico, the nations of Central America, and the Caribbean region during the 20th century and on the relations of the United States with those countries. Materials for this collection should be acquired at the research level. United States relations with all Latin American countries is of prime importance. Next in emphasis is the 20th century history of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia which should be acquired at the advanced study level. The other countries and eras are less important in the collection and should be acquired at the initial study level. The collection is over ninety-five percent in English.

8. History of East Asia: The collection on the Far East should be built at the research level for 19th and 20th century China, emphasizing works on national history, major cities, wars, and political social, and economic change. Relations with the United States and major European countries are included. There is special emphasis on Sino-American relations in the 20th century. Vietnam from the Geneva Agreement through United States military involvement should be built at the research level. The history of Japan during World War II should be collected at the research level. The remainder of the Far Eastern history collection should be at the advanced study level. Collection levels apply only to English language materials.

9. The History of Science and Technology: The history of science and technology collection extends from ancient times through the 20th century. Emphases is upon science and technology in Great Britain and the United States, although the collection should cover all areas. The collection should be built at research level for Great Britain and the United States and at advanced study level for other areas.

CURRICULUM: The department offers undergraduate and graduate work culminating in a doctor of philosophy degree. Master's work is offered in ten fields and doctoral work in nine, of which five are dissertation fields. The bachelor's degree requires a minimum of thirty-two credits in history which must contain a distribution of United States history and European history, or non-United States history, and the historical methods course.The master's degree requires the course in historiography and concentrated study in three fields. Two must be chosen from the following: ancient, medieval, Europe-Renaissance to 1750, Europe from 1750 to the present, England and the Empire, America to 1877, the United States since 1877, Latin America, East Asia, or the history of science.

The fields for the doctorate are the same as for the masters degree. Four fields are required. Three fields must be from the following: ancient, medieval, Modern Europe to 1815, Modern Europe since 1789, England and the Empire, the United States, to since 1607, Latin America, the Far East and the history of science. One cognate in a related field for both master's and doctoral degrees is allowed. The dissertation field for the doctor of philosophy degree must be a subfield or specialty of one of the fields described above.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: All areas of the world are studied to some extent. The greatest emphasis is upon North and South America, Britain, Europe, Vietnam, China, and India. Secondary emphasis is upon the rest of the Asia and Africa. Little is collected on the South Pacific. Specific geographic collection levels are in the subject statements above.

LANGUAGE: The languages collected are English, German, French, Spanish, Latin, Russian, and Chinese (limited amount). The collection is predominantly in English with a moderate amount in French, German, Spanish, and Russian for European history. There is also a moderate amount in Latin for the medieval and early modern period and in Spanish for Latin American history.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Levels of coverage are detailed in the statements on specific subjects above.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The publication types included are: general works, scholarly works, professional materials, catalogs, documents, collections, handbooks, research reports and data collections, dictionaries, encyclopedias, museum publications, and dissertations. Monographs and journals are both included. Documents are national, international, association, state or local. Collections include collected works, documents, and retrospective works on particular topics.

FORMATS: Formats include: print, microform, 16mm films, videotapes, slides, and multi-media.

REMOTE SOURCES: Among NEOMARL schools Case Western Reserve and Kent State Universities have strong collections in American history. Kent State also has a strong collection in Latin American history. Case Western Reserve and Wooster College have good British history collections, and the former has good French history coverage. Oberlin College has an excellent anti-slavery collection and Cleveland State University has an Afro-American cultural collection.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) of which Bierce Library is a member, is of chief value for foreign dissertations, newspaper runs, microform sets and archival purchases of primary source materials in United States, British, European, Asian, and Latin American fields although coverage varies greatly for country and time. CRL resources should be considered when history acquisitions are suggested. The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research provides statistical materials on political, social, and economic topics. Materials are also available on the Internet.

EXCLUSIONS: Little material is collected on the South Pacific as it is considered primarily anthropology, except for works on the Second World War or nuclear testing. The materials on sub-Saharan Africa are covered to some extent by collection policies on Pan African studies and the general education program for basic or general works.

*The Classics department is responsible for instruction in the ancient history area. Depending on the specific field, materials are collected at either the research or advanced study level. Materials on Ancient Greek and Latin are purchased as well as those having to do with ancient Egyptian and near Eastern languages, archaeology and history.

revised 6-16-97

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library collection in support of the teaching and research of the department of mathematical sciences needs to cover the basic theory and application of mathematical principles. Departmental activities are divided into mathematics, statistics, and computer science. While there is much crossover between the three branches at the theoretical level, applied aspects of each need specialized materials. Basic, as well as advanced, materials are needed. For the mathematics division materials are needed at the initial study level in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus and number systems. At the advanced study level of collection, materials are needed for differential equations, matrix algebra, projective and Euclidean geometry, advanced calculus, numerical analysis, number theory, graph theory, mathematical models, topology, partial differential equations, and optimization. The statistics division needs basic materials at the initial study level for probability and statistics, data analysis, and hypothesis testing. Advanced study level materials are required on experimental design, stochastic processes, the theory of statistics, sample survey theory and methods, regression and correlation, biomedical statistics and non-parametric statistics. The computer science division needs materials at the initial study level on computer programming, programming languages, data structures, software design, systems design, database management, artificial intelligence and history of computer science. At the advanced study level the collection should include materials on discrete structures, analysis of algorithms, compiler design, data communications and computer graphics. Materials are needed at the research level for symbolic computation, computer architecture, and parallel process computing.

CURRICULUM: The mathematical sciences department offers bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degrees in mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics and a bachelor of science degree in computer science, with options for mathematics or business specializations. The three graduate programs offered are the master of science in mathematics, the master of science in statistics, and the master of science in applied mathematics.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Mathematical studies are not geographically limited.

LANGUAGE: Primary collection is in English language materials, but ten percent of the serial titles are in either German or French, and with one percent in Polish, Russian or Italian. Ten percent of the monographs will be in German, French or Russian, with the rest in English.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Mathematical theory and practice does not conform to period constraints. Since current theory is based on historical research, the collection will include all periods. Emphasis for collection will be on current materials, particularly for computer science and statistics.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The collection includes monographs, journals, society publications and serials in basic mathematical sciences and areas of specialization.

FORMATS: Filmstrips, 16mm films, video-cassettes and computer software are needed to enhance instruction and comprise about five percent of the collection. The remainder is in printed materials.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote sources are not useful to this department.

EXCLUSIONS: By and large mathematical applications for particular fields, such as engineering, will not by collected in support of the department of mathematical sciences. Popular works are excluded, and computer games are not purchased.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of curriculum and research in the modern language department needs to cover literature and grammar in Spanish, French, German, and, to a lesser degree, Italian and Russian. Literary authors and criticism as well as the works of major historical figures are collected at an initial study level. A sample of major contemporary fiction and representations of other genres are needed for French and German, while the collections for Italian and Russian are kept at a basic level only. Linguistics and philology are collected at the basic level. Popular literature is not collected in any depth. Spanish is collected at the research level.

CURRICULUM: The department offers undergraduate programs in Spanish, French, German, and some Italian and Russian. The major student enrollment is in the area of Spanish studies which has a wide range of courses in medieval, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century literature, a practicum in teaching, and seminars on Spanish-American literature. French studies are similar but with fewer courses offered. A graduate program in Spanish flourishes, but the masters in French has low enrollment levels.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The collection includes French and Spanish speaking countries, Germany, Italy, and Russia.

LANGUAGE: Spanish materials are about sixty percent of the collection, and French nearly thirty percent, German is at about five percent, Italian at two percent and Russian at two percent. Some English language criticism is purchased.

PERIOD COVERAGE: This collection is principally modern languages of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a sample of earlier works.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Scholarly studies, professional works, textbooks, handbooks and research reports are about seventy percent of the collection. Phonotapes and filmstrips at ten percent are heavily used but videotapes, at ten percent, are used more. Periodicals are about ten percent of the collection.

FORMATS: Nearly eighty percent of the collections is in printed format. The remainder is 16mm films, filmstrips, and, videotapes.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote resource support is not needed.

EXCLUSIONS: As an instructionally centered department there is no need for translations from the original language. Works translated into English are not part of this collection.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the department of philosophy includes the ancient, medieval, and modern history of philosophy, the philosophy of language, logic, the study of schools of philosophy and individual philosophers, basic and applied ethics, philosophy of religion, value theory, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of science, all collected at the advanced study or research level as appropriate. Research and primary source materials are necessary in all parts of the collection. Ethics as applied to the concerns of modern life and the professions is of continuing and growing importance. Works of and commentary on individual philosophers are basic to the collection, and are studied as appropriate from the introductory courses to advanced levels. These works are also important to faculty research.Other users of the philosophy collection include any field or profession in which ethical or philosophical questions are important; all such concerns are basic to the concept of liberal arts at a university and indeed to all disciplines.

CURRICULUM: The department of philosophy has a bachelor's degree program. Requirements for the bachelor's program are Introduction to Philosophy; the basic courses in ethics and logic; and the history of philosophy, ancient to modern. The department also participates in undergraduate certificate programs in linguistic studies, peace studies, and conflict resolution/management. Introduction to Ethics is a requirement for nursing and is generally taken by pre-medical students. Minors are available in several areas of philosophy.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Western European, including British, philosophy for all periods is the largest portion of the collection. American philosophy is second. These are represented in the collection at the research level while other fields are represented at the advanced study level.

LANGUAGE: The languages collected are English, Latin, French, Spanish and German. English is the predominate language. Medieval works are usually in Latin. Foreign language materials constitute a small portion of the collection.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Works on philosophy from ancient times to present day are included in the collection.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The following are the publications types collected: general works, scholarly works, professional works, textbooks, collections, handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, research reports, and primary sources. Monographs and journals are collected. Primary sources include collected works on European and American philosophy.

FORMATS: Print accounts for over ninety-five percent of the collection with 16mm films and videotapes also acquired. Microform is acquired for those items unobtainable in standard print format. A CD-ROM has been acquired for works in European philosophy.

REMOTE SOURCES: Case Western Reserve University has collection strength in philosophy, which may supplement our collection of basic works. The Center for Research Libraries has a microfilm copy of the Wittgenstein papers, 1914-1951, which is useful for research or independent study of that philosopher.

EXCLUSIONS: Works in Asian languages are excluded, as are extensive collections on Asian philosophers. Except for general materials there is not much emphasis on Asian philosophy. Materials on theology, per se are not ordered unless there is an overlap with philosophy.

revised 6-27-97

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library collection in support of the teaching program and research of the physics department needs to include materials in basic physics theory and applications. Since physics is the basis for much scientific and technical investigation, the library support must be complete and far-ranging. This should include, at the initial study level, classical and modern physics concepts, emphasizing atomic physics, quantum physics, mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, and optics. To support the particular interests of the department, materials collected at the advanced study level should include applied physics and engineering physics, polymer physics, chemical physics, geophysics, biophysics, and astrophysics.

CURRICULUM: The department offers the bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree with specialization in biophysics, polymer physics, chemical physics or astrophysics. Graduate work leading to a master of science degree in physics is available, as well.

LANGUAGE: Since physics is a basic science, worldwide research is of interest and is collected in any language.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Physics is not geographically limited.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Since physics references are often to original theory, concept, and application, the collection needs retrospective coverage of the last century. At the same time, a strong journal collection is required to maintain currency.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Physics information appears primarily in monographs and journals.

FORMATS: Recently a small amount of non-print materials have become available as 16mm films, filmstrips, videocassettes and computer software, which is about five per cent of the collection. The remainder is print.

REMOTE SOURCES: None are useful to this area of curriculum.

EXCLUSIONS: This collection excludes popular works intended for lay users.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the department of political science should include materials in the fields of government and politics in the United States, comparative politics, international politics and institutions, political thought and theory, constitutional law, public policy, political philosophy, political behavior, and criminal justice. These fields are very broad. Within the field of government and politics in the United States are the subject areas of state and local government, American Congress, civil liberties and the judicial process, American bureaucracy, urban politics and policies, policy problems and process, the Supreme Court, the American presidency, elections, politics and the media, minority group politics, American political parties and interest groups, public opinion, political behavior and analysis, and intergovernmental relations. International/Comparative politics contains specialized studies of countries or areas such as the developing nations, the Indian subcontinent, etc. and focuses on the issues of alliances, foreign policy, arms control, political economy and politics. The area of public policy is one of the broadest and most rapidly growing fields. Public policy includes almost any area of governmental policy or interest encompassed by impact on the public.

Subjects described above which cover the government, politics, policies and analysis of U. S. government and Ohio government are collected at the research level, particularly for 20th century coverage. Other areas should have materials collected at the advanced study level except in the case of overlap with economics and urban studies. Those departments' policies provide for acquisition of the more specialized materials.

Other users of the political science collection include students and faculty in peace studies/conflict resolution, philosophy, history, education, business, law, sociology, women's studies, criminal justice, urban studies, social work, economics, communication, and gerontology. Any other department which may need information on public policy will use the collection in political science as well.

CURRICULUM: The curriculum includes four undergraduate degree programs: Political science - American Track; Political Science - international/comparative track; Political science - criminal justice; and political science - public policy management. The political science - criminal justice option is offered upon the completion of all requirements for the associate degree in criminal justice technology. In addition the department offers special tracks: pre-law, domestic government service, and international government service. The department participates in the Russian and Latin American area studies certificate programs. The Ray C. Bliss Institute offers a Certificate Program in Applied Politics for undergraduates in combination with the Political science department. Emphases is on campaign finance, campaign management, parties and interest groups, politics and the media, and public opinion/political behavior. This certificate program is also offered on the graduate level. A graduate certificate is also offered in Public Policy.

The general master's program requires core courses in Scope and Theories in Political Science and Research Methods. Also required are three graduate seminars and fifteen additional graduate credits.

The potential realized from the combination of course work with the Bliss Institute reinforces the need of collecting 20th century American materials at the research level. For background resources in economics and urban studies, those departments' collection development plans provide additional resources. The shared curricula in the criminal justice area benefits from collections that support sociology and criminal justice. Political Science is one of the departments participating in the undergraduate Canadian Studies Certificate Program.

LANGUAGE: The language collected is almost all English. Exceptions are government materials or legislative proceedings from Western European countries or Quebec.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: All areas of the world are studied, but the United States is studied in much greater breadth and depth. Area studies and country studies come next. Materials on the United States should be collected at the research level and those for the others at the advanced study level.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Period coverage emphasizes the 20th century. Courses on political theory and thought, diplomacy, foreign policy, political ideas, the Constitution and the Presidency all have an historical component. Twentieth century materials on the United States should be collected at the research level. Materials on earlier eras should be collected at the advanced study level. The library's retrospective collection of U. S. documents strengthens the resources for the study of earlier eras.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Types included are: general works, scholarly treatments, professional books, collections, handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, research reports, primary sources, and documents. All levels of government documents, national and international, are collected. Government documents also comprise most of the primary sources and some of the published collections.

FORMATS: Over ninety-five percent of this collection is in printed formats. Other formats acquired are: 16 mm films, videotapes, and computer software.

REMOTE SOURCES: The ULLR has a membership in the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research which is a major data repository which provides access to international and national statistical data in computer formats for political, economic, and social research. The Center for Research Libraries holds such sources as the Harvester Microform Primary Political and Social Sources, a set which includes the archives of British political parties and election materials. It also holds Census materials and other specialized primary source materials for other areas of the world.

EXCLUSIONS: Government documents below the national level are excluded except for the United States, Canada, Western Europe and India. National documents from countries other than those named are not collected unless they are part of international document sets.

revised 12-12-97

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the psychology department needs to cover all areas of industrial and organizational psychology, developmental psychology, industrial gerontological psychology, and counseling psychology. Of the subject areas acquired to cover these fields of psychology, a research level collection is needed in:

Gerontology and geriatrics

Labor and personnel issues

Leadership and organizational development

Occupational orientation and training

Social and personal problem areas including alcoholism, learning disabilities, mental illness, and others to which therapy interventions can be applied

Minority groups experiencing special problems or discrimination

Individual development over the life cycle, infancy and childhood, adolescence, middle age, and old age

Psychological testing and measurement

In addition, the collection must contain initial study level materials in the history of psychology, human experimental psychology, perception and sensory processes, and learning.

CURRICULUM: Undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs are offered. The doctoral curriculum emphases are industrial and organizational, applied developmental, industrial gerontological, and counseling psychology. The last is a joint program with the department of counseling and special education. Masters emphases are industrial and organizational, developmental, and counseling psychology. An undergraduate minor in psychology is available, and the department contributes courses to the interdisciplinary program in life-span development. Other users of psychology materials include students and faculty in sociology, management, education, social work, family ecology, nursing, and communicative disorders.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Primarily coverage will be psychology in the United States or in the English speaking, developed countries or those industrialized, non-English language countries which play a major role in world affairs like Japan or Russia. Cross-cultural studies are used in the graduate study areas. Materials in the history of psychology or classic works will include studies of the field's development in Europe.

LANGUAGE: With rare exceptions this collection will be in English. The exceptions are German and French acquisition of classic studies or major reference works and will be less than five percent of the collection.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The collection emphasizes current information and applications. Recent imprints are of interest to support graduate study. Studies showing historical development of the field since the nineteenth century are of less importance. Most classic works are collected, as well as current imprints on the history of psychology.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Descriptive, historical, philosophical, empirical, and theoretical studies will be acquired as well as specialized reference works.

FORMATS: Print monographs and journals are of primary importance. Basic microform collections in the field, such as the manuscript collection indexed in Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, are collected. The introductory course and counseling courses use films and videotapes; at least one new acquisition for each of these areas annually is important to keeping the course information support current. Audiotapes of major figures in psychology are acquired selectively for graduate study. Increasingly, microcomputer software is acquired.

REMOTE SOURCES: The department needs access to off-campus film resources. Since print resources provide most curriculum support, interlibrary loan is adequate to support some special topic research.

EXCLUSIONS: This collection avoids material relative to parapsychology, physiological intervention, language, drug therapy, teaching and classroom dynamics, or marketing.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection supporting the department of sociology needs to cover many topics. Collection at the research level is needed in deviance and corrections, sociological theory, social psychology, social change, urban analysis, race and ethnic relations, medical sociology, social organizations, social gerontology, and methodologies and techniques of social research. Advanced study level acquisition is required in family sociology, the sociology of education, personality and social systems, communications, sex roles, statistics, political and industrial sociology, population, complex organizations and the sociology of religion. Initial study level collections are needed in the sociology of law and in the history of sociology.

CURRICULUM: The department provides undergraduate majors in the areas of academic sociology, deviance and corrections, family, agency and life cycle, urban planning and social research. The sociology - law enforcement and sociology - corrections programs are coordinated with the criminal justice technology program. The department offers a minor in almost any area of interest. At the graduate level the department offers one masters degree with emphasis in the methodologies and techniques of social research. Master's and doctoral work in any area in which the department has expertise is also available; primarily these are the areas listed above for research level and advanced study level collections. Because of its breadth of curriculum the department serves students majoring in criminal justice, political science, education, psychology, nursing, social work, family ecology, and urban studies and the students taking the interdisciplinary and certificate programs in lifespan development, public policy, and environmental studies.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Primary coverage is in the emphasized areas of applied sociology in the United States, other developed English-speaking countries, and non-English developed nations, in that order. Theoretical and historical works have no geographical limits. Coverage of non-English developed countries and of major developing nations is important for cross-cultural comparisons; these acquisitions are at the initial study level.

LANGUAGE: With rare exceptions this collection is in English. Excepted languages are French, Spanish, and German. Primary sources by major writers are purchased in foreign languages as are major reference works having no English-language counterparts.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Historical and theoretical aspects of sociology have no time restriction; primary sources are collected as well as selective secondary historical studies, and there is more extensive collecting of theoretical works. The emphasis of the program is contemporary; in areas of curricular interest acquisition concentrates on recent imprints.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Descriptive, historical, philosophical, empirical research, and theoretical studies at the introductory and advanced levels are acquired, as well as specialized reference works.

FORMATS: Print monographs and journals are of primary importance. Films and videotapes, useful especially in the lower division courses, should be purchased, at least two titles annually to maintain collection currency. Computer tapes from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research are important for almost all courses looking at social attitudes and social change. Computer software, compatible with university hardware and pertinent to the curriculum, will be very selectively purchased.

REMOTE SOURCES: Computer tapes of survey data from ICPSR are very important. Most instructional 16mm film requirements are satisfied by rentals. Since print materials are of primary importance, interlibrary loan is heavily used.

EXCLUSIONS: This policy does not include acquisition of materials on the sociology of the arts, military sociology, sociology of sports, sociology of science, or rural sociology.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies draws upon library materials from the field of public administration, human services administration and public policy formulation, collected at the research level. The academic publications of a variety of related intellectual disciplines including: political science, psychology, sociology, economics and history in the social science, psychology, sociology, economics and history in the social sciences; English and philosophy in the humanities; law; finance, management and accounting in the School of Business; and a variety of other academic areas such as home economics and family ecology, social work, communication and nursing give secondary support to the department.

CURRICULUM: The Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies is a graduate-only department. The Department offers the Joint Ph.D. in Urban Studies with Cleveland State University. Concentrations in the Ph.D. are offered in policy analysis and evaluation, public administration, and urban and regional planning. The main degree offered at the MA level is the Master of Public Administration, which is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). The Department also offers the MA in Urban Studies and the Joint Law/MPA in cooperation with the School of Law.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: While primary emphasis is on the United States, the Department also has a cross-cultural interest in both western and eastern Europe, in Africa, and in Canada.

LANGUAGE: Only English language materials are purchased.

PERIOD COVERAGE: While the Department's purchases are mostly current materials, there is also interest in historical materials. The latter generally comprise no more than then percent of the collection.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Scholarly works, professional works, collections, handbooks, research reports and research data are the types of publications purchased as monographs and serials.

FORMATS: While print dominates the collection, there is recognition that computerized data and software will comprise an increasing share of the collection in the future, growing to as much as twenty percent of current acquisitions.

REMOTE SOURCES: Since it is impossible to acquire all of the documents required by the Department, heavy use is expected of Interlibrary Loan.

EXCLUSIONS: The university law library acquires legal materials related to the Department's interests. Cleveland State University's library acquires documents of and materials on the City of Cleveland.

Revised 1-7-92

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The subjects in the library collection that support the School of Accountancy are in a few, rather tightly defined areas. These include public, private, and governmental accounting, auditing, information systems, taxation, and estate planning. These narrow subject areas require acquisition at an advanced study level. Because the functions of accounting are essential to the decision-making process in corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and governmental agencies, accounting materials of at least a basic level are used by the other departments in the College of Business Administration, by urban studies, and public administration, and by political science. There is a high level of interest in tax materials from the law school. Accounting standards and tax laws are constantly changing. Thus, the collection emphasizes current materials and there is a strong reliance on serially updated services.

CURRICULUM: Two degrees are offered by the School of Accountancy: the bachelor of science in accounting, and the master of taxation. In addition, there can be an accounting concentration in the master of business administration program. The subjects covered include financial accounting, managerial and cost accounting, governmental and institutional accounting, auditing, business information systems, and taxation. In the beginning accounting courses, when the student is learning the fundamental concepts of accounting, there is very little use of library materials. At the upper undergraduate levels and in the graduate programs, on the other hand, there is a heavy use of library resources.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The primary emphasis is on United States accounting procedures and tax laws. Materials on international accounting standards and international taxation are required at a basic level.

LANGUAGE: Only English language materials are collected.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The focus of the collection is exclusively on current developments.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Scholarly works, professional monographs, handbooks, research reports, and serially updated services. Textbooks, collections, and popularizations are collected but only at a minimum level.

FORMATS: Print formats cover ninety percent of the collection, audio- and video-cassettes and computer software the remainder.

REMOTE SOURCES: The University of Akron Law Library is an important source for court cases and legal periodicals relative to accounting and taxation.

EXCLUSIONS: Legal texts and periodicals are not collected since they are available in the law library.

Revised 11-2-94

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: There are three major subject areas of concern to the department of finance: financial management of non-financial institutions, management of financial institutions, and investment management. Acquisition in these areas is at an advanced study level. In addition, sub-fields exist in real estate, insurance, personal finance, business law, international finance, and business/society issues. These sub-fields require acquisition at an initial study level. The other departments in the college of business administration utilize materials in these subject areas, as do the departments of economics, urban studies and public administration, home economics and family ecology, business technology, and law.

CURRICULUM: The finance department offers a bachelor's degree and a finance concentration is available in the masters of business administration program. Courses in business finance and business law are required for all college degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Thus, the department serves all of the business students at some point in their courses of study. Courses in international finance are presently offered at both the undergraduate and the master's level.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The techniques of financial management are applicable worldwide; thus, materials of this nature can be published anywhere in the world. While investment and business law materials are primarily concerned with the United States, the increased internationalization of business operations demands recognition in the collection.

LANGUAGE: Only English language materials are collected.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The focus of the collection is on current developments.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The library collects for this department scholarly works, professional books, research reports, research data, handbooks, and serially updated materials.

FORMATS: Print formats comprise about ninety-five percent of the collection and computer software the remainder.

REMOTE SOURCES: The University of Akron Law Library supplements the business law collection. Apart from this, very little use is made of other libraries.

EXCLUSIONS: Legal texts are collected by the law school library. Theoretical economics is collected under the policy for the economics department, and the general international business collection is managed through the International Business fund.

revised 11-2-94

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The business administration general library materials fund is used in two basic ways. First, this fund acquires business-related materials which are general or inter-departmental in nature. The second area consists of business materials that are not curriculum related to a specific department but which are necessary for a good business collection. This type of material includes histories of corporations, business education, studies of particular industries, national industrial policy, business ethics, and other general commercial topics. For the second type of material, acquisition is done at the minimal level. The first type of material supports the curriculum of the departments up to the masters level. However, since these materials are basic, interdisciplinary works, it is more accurate to assign the basic level of acquisition to these. Materials acquired for business administration general support, by definition, the departments of accounting, finance, management, and marketing. In addition, business technology, urban studies and public administration, educational administration and law use these materials.

CURRICULUM: The general aspects of the college of business administration curricula are supported.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The emphasis is on United States business. Since many United States corporations are multinational, international business materials are acquired as they relate to the United States.

LANGUAGE: Only English language materials are collected.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Only materials of current interest are collected.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works, scholarly works, statistical data, serials, and popularizations are the publication types acquired.

FORMATS: Printed formats only are collected.

REMOTE SOURCES: There is no use of remote resources.

EXCLUSIONS: Business information materials which support exclusive departmental curricula are acquired under departmental policies.

Revised 11-2-94

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: International Business focuses on business related activities across national boundaries. Materials dealing with multinational corporations, with international business research and practice, with business-related cross cultural perspectives, with import/export documentation and with the international aspects of accounting, business law, finance, management and marketing are acquired at the advanced study level. Materials acquired by international business are used by the four departments in the College of Business Administration, and the departments of geography and planning, economics, political science and law.

CURRICULUM: Undergraduates may pursue a co-major in international business along with a major in one of the traditional functional departments of the college. A concentration in International Business is an option in the Masters of Business Administration program. International Business offers courses for both undergraduate and graduate students, and all four College of Business Administration departments have courses with an international focus.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: By definition, the scope of international business is worldwide. Three areas of specialization exist, Asia, Europe, and Latin American, which require special emphasis. Recently, there has been increased interest in the Eastern Bloc.

LANGUAGE: Although students with an international business co-major have a language requirement, materials are acquired in English.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The focus of the collection is on current developments.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Scholarly work, professional studies, research reports, research data and some serially updated publications are collected.

FORMATS: Print formats account for seventy five percent of the collection. Video-cassettes and 16mm films account for the remainder.

REMOTE SOURCES: The university law library is used for materials on international trade regulation and international business law.

EXCLUSIONS: Materials on economic development and the theory of international trade are covered by the Department of Economics. Legal materials on international business are covered by the School of Law.

revised 11/2/94

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: Two major foci underlie the library collection of the management department: quantitative management and behavioral management. These centers of curricular interest are found in a broad range of the classification system. The quantitative focus is found in operations research, statistics and probabilities, standardization, and management of industrial enterprises. For the most part, the departments demands on this part of the collection are not heavy and acquisition is at an initial study level. The behavioral area, on the other hand, makes heavy requirements on the library and acquisition needs to be at an advanced study level. Included in this segment of management's concerns are, among others, applied psychology, labor, business organization and administration, corporations and industry. Because of the breadth of management's two concerns, these areas of the collection are also of interest to the other College of Business Administration departments, economics, psychology, urban studies and public administration, educational administration, nursing, and mathematical sciences. Print is the primary medium that is purchased.

CURRICULUM: The management department offers three degrees. At the undergraduate level, there is a bachelor of science in industrial management, which can have either a production option or a human resource option. At the graduate level, the master of business administration can have a management concentration and there is the master of science in management. Courses can generally be grouped into either quantitative or behavioral categories. Among the former are production planning, quality control, quantitative business analysis, and applied industrial statistics. The latter group includes courses in personnel management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and industrial relations. A sub-program in health service administration is centered in the management department. The department is also responsible, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, for the capstone course for all students in the college, business policy, and business strategy and policy, respectively.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Management techniques can be applied anywhere; thus, the geographical coverage is worldwide. Materials dealing with labor relations tend to be limited to the United States.

LANGUAGE: Only English language materials are collected.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The focus of the collection is on current developments in management. Classics in the field are acquired when necessary to support specific courses in the curriculum.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The department purchases scholarly works, professional works, handbooks, and serially updated materials. Textbooks, popularizations, and collections are also purchased, but only in very limited quantities at a basic study level.

FORMATS: Printed formats comprise about ninety-five percent of this collection with the remainder in 16mm films and computer software.

REMOTE SOURCES: The University of Akron Law Library is an important source for labor law and labor relations information. Apart from this, little use is made of other libraries.

EXCLUSIONS: Legal texts are collected by the law library and not duplicated on this policy.

revised 11/2/94

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: Marketing is concerned with products and services, from their initial conception, through their development, pricing, promotion, and selling, to delivering the product or service to the consumer. Located primarily in the broad subject classes of commerce and business, these concerns include professional selling and sales management, advertising and promotions management, distribution and business logistics, marketing information systems, marketing research, pricing, purchasing, industrial, wholesale, and retail marketing, consumer behavior and applied psychology. In addition to these concerns, the marketing department is the locus of the college's international business program, for which there is a separate collection development policy, and the Small Business Institute, which uses resources from all of the departents in the College of Business Administration. Acquisition at the advanced study level is required for these subjects. Materials that are the primary concern of the marketing department are also used by the other departments in the College of Business Administration and the departments of economics, psychology, urban studies and public administration, geography and planning, business technology, communication, law, and home economics and family ecology.

CURRICULUM: Two distinct undergraduate degrees are housed in the Department of Marketing--the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Marketing, and the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Advertising. For the former, the student can concentrate in industrial and organizational sales, international marketing, retail management, marketing communications, or physical distribution. The Advertising degree offers groupings of electives in graphics, writing, media and advertising management. The department also offers a co-major in international business. The masters of business administration student has a marketing concentration option. Underlying these concentrations and degree tracks are a variety of courses that include such diverse areas as consumer behavior, logistics, retail marketing research, product planning, promotional campaigns, and forecasting methodology.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The focus of the various marketing options is on the United States. The world is the focus for the various international program offerings.

LANGUAGE: Only English language materials are acquired.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The focus of the collection is on current developments.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Scholarly works, professional studies, research reports, research data, and handbooks are the primary types of publications collected.

FORMATS: Print formats make up about ninety percent of the collection, with video-cassettes and 16mm film nearly five percent, and computer software another five percent.

REMOTE SOURCES: The university law library is used for materials on trade regulation and contracts.

EXCLUSIONS: Legal resources are the province of the law library. Economic theory is collected under the policy for the department of economics.

revised 12/16/94

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library collection in support of the allied health division's programs needs to cover at the basic study level anatomy, physiology and biochemistry, as well as microbiology, pharmacology, pathology, immunology, and medical terminology. At the initial study level materials are needed in histology, radiology, surgery, respiratory therapy medical assisting, and medical law and ethics. Emphasis will be on laboratory techniques and instrumentation, medical office procedures, surgical assisting techniques and instrumentation, radiologic principles, and respiratory therapy principles, application and rehabilitation.

CURRICULUM: The division of allied health offers an associate degree in applied science in histologic technology, medical assisting technology, radiologic technology, surgical assisting technology, and respiratory care technology.

LANGUAGE: English language only is collected.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Allied health technology publication is not geographically differentiated.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Current materials are necessary to keep up with changing technologies. Since published materials rapidly become obsolete in these subject areas, the collection will retain publications of the latest ten years.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The collection contains monographs, journals, handbooks and procedural manuals. Five percent of the collection is non-print materials in 16mm films, filmstrips, videocassettes, and computer software formats.

REMOTE SOURCES: Clinical applications of allied health programs are conducted at area hospitals. The resources of these hospital libraries are available to the students during their clinical rotations.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular treatments or patient education publications are not collected.

Revised 12/91

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The collection supporting the associate studies division of the community and technical college needs to cover, at the initial study level, information on the basic studies of business writing, business and technical mathematics, and organizational information common to all technologies taught in the community and technical college.

CURRICULUM: The college provides training for industry, business, health-care establishments, and human service occupations and pre-service and in-service manpower training for entry-level positions or for advancement in employment. Basic coursework is in the arts, commercial art, and labor studies. This division provides the common courses for these various specialties, specifically technical writing and mathematics.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Ninety-five percent of the materials are pertinent to the United States.

LANGUAGE: English language publications only are collected.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Current materials are all that the collection needs.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works comprise about twenty-five percent of the collection with the remainder technical manuals and monographs.

FORMATS: Primarily printed formats are collected. Five percent of annual acquisitions are videotape formats.

REMOTE SOURCES: There is no significant need for remote sources.

EXCLUSIONS: In-depth treatments are acquired under the bachelor degree granting college collection policies and are excluded from this collection.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The subjects in the library collection that support the course offerings of business technology are broad and wide-ranging. These include, in the widest sense, commerce, finance, management, marketing, computer programming, office systems, transportation, communication, real estate, and banking. Further, the holdings in cookery, home economics, business etiquette, and business mathematics support the department's interests. Library materials are acquired at a basic level. Video-cassettes and films utilized by the faculty for instruction are collected. At this basic level of collection, a high degree of overlap of interest exists between business technology and the departments in the College of Business Administration. The policies for support of the departments of home economics, mathematical sciences, communication, and economics also call for the acquisition of information materials that are of concern to business technology.

CURRICULUM: The department of business technology offers associate degrees in seven programs, and many of these programs have a number of options. The degree programs are: 1) hospitality management, with options in restaurant management, culinary arts, hotel-motel management, and marketing and sales; 2) business management technology, with options in banking, accounting, data administration, and small business; 3) real estate; 4) computer programming; 5) marketing and sales technology, with options in advertising, fashion, industrial, computer, sales, and retailing; 6) office administration, with options in international, legal, office information management, and administrative assistant; 7) transportation, with options in airline-travel, and general.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The concern of the department is on developments within the United States and in international business.

LANGUAGE: Only English language materials are collected.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The focus of the collection is on current materials.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Textbooks, collections, popularizations and general publications are collected on this fund. To a lesser extent, scholarly and professional works, and handbooks are acquired.

FORMATS: Ninety percent of the collection is in print formats with videotapes, audio-cassettes, and computer software making up the rest.

REMOTE SOURCES: Very little access to remote resources is needed.

EXCLUSIONS: Advanced material of a scholarly or research nature is not purchased for this collection. Such material is collected under the policies for departments in the bachelor degree granting colleges.

Revised 10-26-94

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is established to support the two year programs in chemical technology, electronic technology, manufacturing technology, mechanical technology, drafting technology, and surveying and construction technology, and the four-year programs in mechanical technology and electronic technology. The collection is interdisciplinary, but should primarily cover gaps in the technical collection not covered by the engineering, chemistry, physics, and mathematics collection policies. The works acquired on this policy are less complex in nature and do not require rigorous training in calculus and higher mathematics to use.

CURRICULUM: The community and technical college offers the associate in applied science degree in chemical technology, electronic technology, manufacturing technology, mechanical technology, drafting technology, and surveying and construction technology and the bachelor of science degree in mechanical technology and electronic technology. The two-year programs in electronic technology, mechanical technology, and surveying and construction technology and the four-year program in electronic technology are accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. The curriculum varies from one technology to another; the specific courses include additional chemistry courses, circuits, electronics, business and management courses, technical drawing, mechanics, drafting, surveying, construction, materials testing, control systems, and computer programming.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The geographical coverage for this fund is almost exclusively the United States.

LANGUAGE: English is the only language collected.

PERIOD OF COVERAGE: The emphasis for acquisition is current materials. Retention is imprint date of the most recent ten years. Serials will be kept for an indefinite period.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works, professional works, textbooks, handbooks, journals, codes and standards, and electrical data compilations are collected.</