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.

FORMATS: Printed materials including microforms are the principal formats collected, about five percent of the collection may be computer software and audio-visual software.

REMOTE SOURCES: No use of remote sources is practical.

EXCLUSIONS: In-depth studies on the subjects described will be covered on the policies of the graduate and baccalaureate departments.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The thread that connects the various programs and their library acquisitions in public service technology is the idea of public service. But this area is manifest in diverse and varied sections of the library collection. Thus, the department purchases materials in library science, police science, elementary education, gerontology, fire protection, signing for the deaf, and social work. Library materials are acquired at a basic study level. Films and video-cassettes are utilized by the faculty and are options for purchase. There is a high degree of overlap of interest between public services technology and the departments of social work, communicative disorders, psychology, and elementary education. A common concern also exists with law, polymer science, and urban studies. The library technician program is supported to a degree by professional purchases for library operations.

CURRICULUM: Public services technology offers associate degrees in five programs. Several of these programs have optional concentrations. The degree programs are: 1) educational technology, with options in child development, elementary aide, and library technician; 2) handicapped services; 3) criminal justice administration, with an option in security administration and a social work emphasis; 4) fire protection technology; and 5) community services technology, with options in alcohol services, gerontology, volunteer programming, and social services. Public services technology is one of the smaller departments in the community and technical college, but the enrollment and the size of the faculty have remained constant for a number of years.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The concentration of the collection is on developments within the United States.

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 purchased by this fund. To a lesser extent, handbooks, scholarly, and professional works are also acquired.

FORMATS: Printed formats account for about ninety percent of the collection with 16mm films and video-cassettes making-up the remainder.

REMOTE SOURCES: Almost no access to remote resources is needed.

EXCLUSIONS: Advanced material of a scholarly or research nature is not purchased by public services technology. Such material is the responsibility of the baccalaureate colleges.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The children's literature fund is intended to acquire children's and young adult literature, both fiction and nonfiction, to support coursework and research in the College of Education. This collection is mostly used by the departments of Elementary Education and Secondary Education. The bulk of the purchases each year are provided by the approval plan, which acquires titles from selective publishers. This is supplemented by acquisitions of favorably reviewed titles from publishers not on the approval plan. Acquisitions include a wide range of award winning books, including multiple copies of Caldecott and Newberry award winners. Overall, this collection is at the advanced study level.

CURRICULUM: The children's literature collection supports courses in children's literature, young adult literature, reading, elementary and secondary methods, and language arts, among others. While the College of Education offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, the children's literature collection primarily supports the bachelor's and master's degree programs and their certifications. This collection also provides support to the Department of English and its interest in the genre of children's literature.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The children's literature collection includes primarily United States publications, with a smaller number of publications coming from other English-speaking countries.

LANGUAGE: Most of the children's literature collection is in English, though there are some books in other languages. These foreign language books may or may not include translations. They constitute a small but important part of the collection, particularly since they support courses on children's literature, multicultural education, and bilingual education.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The children's and young adult literature collection, both fiction and nonfiction, should include current as well as historical materials.

PUBLICATION TYPES: This collection includes children's picture books (i.e. juvenile easy books), juvenile and young adult fiction, and juvenile and young adult nonfiction.

FORMATS: The children's literature collection is in book form and includes children's big books. Pop-up and similar type books are generally excluded from the collection. Children's literature in media formats is purchased by the Curriculum Center fund and housed in the Audio Visual Services department.

REMOTE SOURCES: The primary remote source for supplementing the children's literature collection is the Center for Research Libraries' collection of children's literature published in the United States since 1950.

EXCLUSIONS: Excluded are most pop-up and foreign language books, as well as any children's literature materials wholly or partly in media formats.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The department of educational administration needs a collection to support the study and examination through research of all aspects of the administration of educational programs in public and private insti)tutions throughout the world. The major emphasis is on the administration of elementary and secondary education in the United States, but the curricula and research cover higher education and world wide interests in educational manage)ment theory and practice. All aspects of administrative problems are covered: personnel, curriculum management, pupil and student services, financial manage)ment, public relations and support, governmental relations and legal aspects, and decision making. The collection must assure resources for information on all current practices in the field of educational administration and the historical development of the profession at a research level of collection. Theories of administration need coverage at the advanced study level, while research level coverage is needed for the prevalent types of administrative practice in the school systems and educational institutions of the United States. While the collection shares many of the same materials used in other curricula, it needs to include advanced study level of the specific application of admini)strative techniques applied to educational or instructional problems. The most thorough coverage needs to be given to any material related to the state of Ohio. Initial study level coverage is needed for adjacent states as well.

CURRICULUM: Major emphasis in the curriculum is to educate administrators who may be certified to practice in Ohio and the United States in elementary and secondary education. Other students seek competency for administration in educational institutions in foreign countries or in higher education. The department offers programs leading to certification for administrative positions and to masters degrees or doctoral degrees in educational administration. The doctoral program is appropriate for those seeking higher education teaching or administrative careers.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Complete coverage is needed for the United States while all major educational systems and organization world-wide should be included.

LANGUAGE: This is an English language collection.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Major emphasis is on current and recent administrative and organizational practices originating since the nineteenth century. Study and research may include examination of the earliest historical record of educational organization so that some inclusion of bibliography for these materials and basic documentation must be included in the collection.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Graduate and professional level materials will usually be acquired with an occasional popular work if it has significant public impact on public opinion relative to education. Legal reference and working manuals used by educational administrators need to be included. Update and reporting services used by practicing administrators need to be included for examples. Dissertations are needed to support doctoral and faculty research. Research reports and data are collected.

FORMATS: Printed books and journals will make up the bulk of the acquisitions of the department. Some statistical databases may be needed from time to time to support doctoral research. Audiovisual materials are needed for course instruction and as examples of staff development resources.

REMOTE SOURCES: This department, with its emphasis on doctoral research, may benefit from the NEOMAL resources. It may also benefit from the resources of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research as a source for survey data.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular treatments on education and textbooks are excluded.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library materials collection to support the department of counseling and special education includes advanced study level information on the practice and theory of special education of students at all educational levels, including the education of the disabled and gifted. It also includes research level coverage of school guidance programs and practices, family and educational counseling, and information on educational and school psychology at the research level. The coverage for special education includes all aspects of assessment, curriculum, instruction, and administration including educational prescription. Guidance coverage needs to be complete enough so that no aspect of vocational, educational, or career guidance is neglected. Counseling coverage extends to individual and group counseling for therapy in behavioral and attitudinal situations. While the emphasis is on educational settings, the focus of the department, and therefore the collection, is on recognition and remediation for individuals regardless of their environment. School psychology coverage needs to be thorough, including all current theory and experimentation, child study, and assessment in the field. Care is taken to assure that all the various subjects included in this department's information needs are developed as an integrated collection of information, providing the basis for recognition of the individual's needs, prescription for development, and the therapy, instruction, or guidance to effect a program. Both current theories and practices and historical development are included in the collection.

CURRICULUM: The curriculum of the department of counseling and special education prepares undergraduate students for certification to teach special pupils through the secondary level. Special education curriculum includes developmental disabilities and physical handicapped. Graduate programs lead to counselor certification and administrative competencies in school programs for counseling, guidance and special education. Doctoral level programs are included for educational psychology and counseling; the latter leading to state licensure. The department coordinates with the department of psychology on doctoral study. The department's programs lead to bachelors degrees and masters degrees in special education, masters degrees in school psychology, and masters and doctoral degrees in counseling.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Concentration of the collection will be practice and theory in North America and Western Europe, but no major ideas or trends from throughout the world can be omitted. Collection of United States publications will be at a research level for counseling and school psychology and at the advanced study level for special education. European and English-speaking countries will be collected at the initial study level for all subjects; pertinent titles from the remainder of the world will be collected at a basic study level.

LANGUAGE: Primary collection will be in the English language except that major theoretical works not available in English or translation should be acquired in foreign language to assure complete coverage. Effectively, that means that one or two percent of collection may be in foreign languages.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Historical treatment of special education in the nineteenth and twentieth century is collected at initial study level. Advanced study level coverage of current developments in the United States and basic study level collection of current practices in special education throughout the world is observed. School psychology requires research level coverage on the theoretical and experimental bases and historical developments. Research level collection is necessary for educational psychology. Emphasis in counseling is advanced study level coverage of current information, and basic study level coverage of historical theoretical works. Guidance emphasizes current materials collected at an advanced study level, and historical coverage at the basic study level.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Special education needs advanced study level collection of theoretical and professional publications and a basic level collection of popular treatments. Sample special education instructional materials used in instructional programs are covered in the curriculum center policy. School psychology needs research level coverage of professional and theoretical treatments and research reports. Counseling materials include professional works and research reports. Guidance information collection includes the information materials used in the provision of guidance, as well as the theory and practice of guidance as described in research studies and the professional literature.

FORMATS: Principle colleciton will be in print formats with about ten to fifteen percent of acquisitions in audiovisuals or computer software, the lattr will be especially useful for special education and counseling.

REMOTE SOURCES: No significant remote resources are identified.

EXCLUSIONS: Closely related curricular areas are found in psychology, communicative disorders, home economics and family ecology, and elementary and secondary education. Specific subject areas supporting those departments are not the responsibility of this policy.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The curriculum center is a laboratory collection of elementary and secondary education materials, including textbooks, curriculum guides, teaching devices, a picture file, a pamphlet file, and juvenile literature supporting course work, student teaching, field experience, microteaching, and classroom instruction in the College of Education. The center supports curricula in the areas of elementary, secondary, physical, and special education as well as some course offerings in educational administration dealing with curriculum development. Complete sets of elementary textbook series from major publishers in science, mathematics, language arts, and social studies are needed. All other subject areas require a representative sample of texts. Secondary subjects which require complete text series include general mathematics, language arts, general science, and literature. A substantial representation of texts are needed in business education, biology, chemistry, physics, algebra, foreign languages, geometry, history and reading. A representative sample of texts in all other subjects is sufficient. Representative texts which demonstrate a variety of instructional approaches or unique or innovative instruction are also required. The center currently houses no media requiring the use of hardware, although such material compliments the Center's collections. Overall the collection can be characterized as being at the advanced study level.

CURRICULUM: The College of Education offers bachelor or master of arts or bachelor or master of science degrees in elementary, secondary or special education and bachelor or master of science in technical education. Master of arts in counseling is also awarded. Doctor of philosophy degrees are awarded in elementary, secondary, special education, and educational psychology, as well as guidance and counseling. Additionally, state certification in counseling, school psychology, and as visiting teacher or reading specialist are available. Institutes and workshops are also offered as additional inservice training or toward certification. The collections in the curriculum center are closely correlated to course offerings at the bachelor's and master's levels and certification, institutes, and workshops. The center does not collect materials to support doctoral level research or course work.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Textbook examples in the center are selected from those available nationwide. When identified, specific texts used in area school systems are collected. Local curriculum guides are obtained when possible. National coverage of curriculum guides is available through the Curriculum Guides on Microfiche collection which is housed in the microforms area. The juvenile and young adult literature samples that which is available in the United States. Some foreign titles are collected for foreign language study and as examples of such literature in other countries. They account for about five percent of the collection.

LANGUAGE: Languages for which teaching certification is available at the university will have text and curriculum guide coverage. Bilingual materials are included. Examples of foreign language juvenile and young adult titles are provided for foreign language practice and for literary comparison. More frequently these titles are translations into English. The major portion of the collection will be in English, about ninety-five percent.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The curriculum collections in the center are current materials. Although it is important to keep representative examples of updated texts for comparative study, objectives do not include historical curriculum holdings. A historical perspective needs to be maintained in the juvenile literature collection.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication types include curriculum materials and textbooks for elementary, secondary, and special education and some adult basic education textbooks and curriculum guides. In addition to a balanced juvenile and young adult literature collection, a file of maps, pamphlets, posters, and other ephemeral materials is collected. Juvenile periodicals are part of the general periodicals collection.

FORMATS: Formats collected are textbooks and curriculum guides, pamphlets, mounted pictures, and teaching devices consisting of kits, realia, flash cards, simulation and board games, and similar materials that may be used to enhance instruction in the classroom. An extensive collection of curriculum guides in microfiche format, housed in the microforms area of the library, is considered part of this collection.

REMOTE SOURCES: Those remote resources that supplement center holdings are the music resource center in the music department which collects elementary and secondary music textbooks and tapes, a collection of materials in the counseling and special education department consisting of texts, guides, and teaching devices for handicapped students, the reading laboratory collection in the elementary education department containing complete basal reading series from major publishers and supplemental reading materials for individual and classroom use, and the science and mathematics resources in the secondary education department which maintains a variety of manipulative devices and experimental equipment; therefore, the curriculum center need collect only representative examples of the these materials. The Center for Research Libraries collects children's literature published in the United States since 1950, school district, municipal, county, and state curriculum guides, and textbooks dating from the eighteenth century with the majority of holdings dating from 1920.

EXCLUSIONS: Excluded are those materials that require the use of hardware such as educational computer software, films, filmstrips, transparencies, and audio and video tapes. Periodicals are not stored in the Curriculum Center. No expendable or consumable materials are collected.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library materials needed to support the department of elementary education include comprehensive information for the organization and practice of education in elementary schools, public and private, in the United States and general information on its theory and practice in countries through)out the world. A collection of advanced study level information is needed on these aspects of elementary education: organization of schools, instructional theory and technique, teacher responsibilities, classroom organization, student placement, student evaluation, student behavior, student role, instructional resources, preschool, and instructional techniques. All primary and inter)mediate instruction are covered from preschool and kindergarten through middle school. Research level coverage is needed for curriculum design, curriculum development, teacher education, supervision of teachers, reading, and children's literature. Coverage needs to compare both the current theories and practice of elementary education and the philosophy and practice of elementary education in various civilizations throughout history.

CURRICULUM: The curriculum of the department of elementary education is organized to educate undergraduate students for certification in elementary private and public schools, to enhance, at the master degree level, the competence of elementary teachers, to advance their certification in non)degree post)-graduate programs, or to provide doctoral programs in elementary education for practicing teachers or administrators in the elementary school or for those who teach elementary pedagogy in teacher training institutions.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Coverage of elementary education in the United States or the world should include description of any major education system and philosophy, with emphasis on English-speaking societies and Western Europe as being the most culturally relevant to our national tradition.

LANGUAGE: The primary collection is in the English language except that major theoretical works not available in English or translation are acquired to assure full coverage. Non)-English materials will be acquired to provide instructional materials for multi-cultural or bilingual training. Less than ten percent of the collection is in foreign languages.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Historical treatment of elementary education from ancient times to the present is included, however, research level coverage of current educational practices in the United States is necessary, with a initial study level sample of recent and current elementary education practices from throughout the world.

PUBLICATION TYPES: While there is no limitation on publication types, most materials will be in print formats. It is important that course instruction have available not only samples of the varieties of instructional materials used in elementary classrooms, but, also, materials for the teaching of the university courses incorporating the instructional techniques being taught. Covered separately are collection policies for a sample laboratory collection of elementary education instructional materials. All levels of publication except college textbooks are needed, popular treatments through professional level.

FORMATS: Printed books, journals, moving pictures, video recording, sound recordings, filmstrips, slide programs, printed visuals, overhead transparencies all are included in useful formats with the collection being about ninety percent print formats.

REMOTE SOURCES: The NEOMAL schools all have good education collections which may supplement our resources, but because of the demands of our program not much sharing can be contemplated on the undergraduate level; graduate and doctoral research into specialized areas may benefit from a coordination of resources among these institutions. Doctoral students exploring textbook development or children's literature may find useful resources through the Center for Research Libraries.

EXCLUSIONS: The program in Elementary Education is comprehensive enough that few exclusions exist.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the department of educational foundations needs to cover all social and behavioral topics in education as well as teaching methodologies and the technology of instruction. Major concerns for this department include the history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology of education, and comparative and international education; all of which are collected at the research level. Research design and methods in education, both historical and empirical, are included at the research level. Collected at the advanced study level are works on local, regional, and national systems of education, organized formally or loosely structured, controlled by governments, religious agencies, or private groups. The design and use of technical instructional devices need to be collected at the advanced study level. Examples of the instructional materials used at all educational levels and studies of individual institutions will be collected at the initial study level. Current interests in technology cover not only the traditional audiovisual media but also the use of computers for instruction. The department is concerned with the study of education and learning as a human activity, the effectiveness of instruction, the measurement and evaluation of teaching and learning, and the subject areas of the economics and politics of education.

CURRICULUM: While the department of educational foundations has no undergraduate program of its own, it provides the undergraduate courses that teach the role of education in society, the psychological bases of learning, methods of testing and measurement, and the uses of instructional technology for the students majoring in other departments. On the graduate level the department offers a masters degree which can be structured to the exploration of any aspect of education in which the department has expertise. The department serves the masters and doctoral programs in the other education departments by providing the basic core courses common to all education degree programs; these include the philosophy, history, psychology, sociology, and statistics of education and educational research methodologies. The only area in which the department provides a teaching certificate program is for school library-media specialist.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Primarily coverage will be education in the United States, but heavy collection interests exist on educational systems throughout the world. Research and experimentation interests are not limited by national boundaries.

LANGUAGE: With rare exceptions this collection is in English.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The historical aspects of education have no time restriction in this collection, but the portions of the collection which deal with educational technology concentrate on current materials having a normal retention up to ten years.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The collection includes historical and empirical research reports, research methodologies, historical treatments, philosophical studies, psychological studies, educational technology handbooks, research journals, and some examples of information materials used for instruction.

FORMATS: Printed formats comprise about eighty percent of this collection. The interest in technology require sound recordings, photographic and print illustrations, and computer software. Two to three 16 mm films are acquired each year to support the instruction of the department. The collection also includes computer datatapes relative to research topics; these statistical databases are compilations of research survey data.

REMOTE SOURCES: Some historical study may be supported by the Center for Research Libraries collections. Some empirical studies may draw upon the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research resources. Instructional use of 16 mm films relies to some extent on off-campus collections.

EXCLUSIONS: Normally collection for this department will not acquire material relative to specific subject and grade-level instruction or the techniques of management in education. Textbooks are not collected.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The education general fund is established to support the interdisciplinary needs of the College of Education. The principle function of the fund is to acquire those research resources that include the interests of more than one department including journal resources that cover education in general. The acquisition of curricular resources that might be needed by more than one department is also included. Whenever an appropriate department fund is the proper location of a title that fund should be used in preference. Coverage is at the advanced study level.

CURRICULUM: The education general fund supports all curricula of the college of education which includes all aspects of education at all levels through doctoral programs.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: While principle coverage is the United States the interests of the college extend to the global aspects of education and the major educational systems of the world are represented.

LANGUAGE: This collection is in English except for occasional works, which may amount to one or two percent, in major European languages.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Current materials are of greatest importance, but doctoral programs often need historical treatments back to early history; current materials are collected at the advanced study level, historical treatment at the initial study level.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication types are usually research documentation or information for education practitioners. Samples of popular treatments are collected when they are expected to be influential on public attitudes and policy on education. All levels of treatment are acquired except that college textbooks are avoided.

FORMATS: Formats are mostly print with some of the research materials in microforms and occasional acquisition of audiovisual formats; these are about ten percent of the collection.

REMOTE SOURCES: When appropriate, checking should be done to coordinate the acquisition of potentially low use items with the Center for Research Libraries and NEOMAL policies. Normally the question of remote resources does not fit the purpose of this fund.

EXCLUSIONS: This fund should not be used to duplicate the acquisition role of other education funds.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library material needed to support the department of physical education and health education includes extensive information on the organization and practice of health and physical education in elementary and secondary schools in the United States, and general information on theory and practice throughout the world. Advanced study level collection of information is needed on fitness, physical training, outdoor education, sports medicine from infancy through old age, and all aspects of physical education: organization of programs, instructional theory and technique, adapted physical education, teacher responsibilities, teacher education, supervision of teachers, classroom organization, student placement, student evaluation, student behavior, student role, instructional resources, curriculum design, curriculum development, and instructional techniques. Health, athletics, kinetics, and outdoor pursuits are collected at the initial study level. Advanced study level collection is needed for all theories and techniques used in educational and non-educational settings. Both current theories and practices and historical development are included in the collection. Emphasis is given to all variations of Olympic games.

CURRICULUM: The curriculum of the department of physical education and health education is designed to educate undergraduate students for certification to teach in elementary and secondary schools, to coach athletics, to perform athletic training and sports medicine, outdoor education, and to plan and run health, physical education, and athletic programs. The curriculum also includes skill instruction designed not only to teach skills to physical education students, but to all university students as part of the general education component. Graduate study emphasizes athletic training for sports medicine, curriculum design, sport management, sport behavior, exercise physiology-adult fitness, health education, and outdoor education.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Coverage of physical education and sports in the U. S. should be comprehensive, with a strong representation of health, physical education, outdoor education, and sports throughout the world.

LANGUAGE: Primary collection will be in the English language except that major theoretical works not available in English or translation may be acquired to assure full coverage.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Historical treatment of physical education and related fields of study from ancient times to the present is included. However, advanced study level coverage of current educational development in the United States is necessary, with a good sample of recent and current practices in physical education and sports from throughout the world.

FORMATS: Printed formats make up about 60 percent of the collection with the remainder being divided between sound recordings, 16 mm films, single concept 8 mm films, videotapes, and computer software

PUBLICATION TYPES: It is important that course instruction use not only samples of the varieties of instructional materials used in elementary and secondary classrooms, but, also, materials for the teaching of the university courses. Research reports and data have become more important as the fields of sports medicine and administration are emphasized. Sample curriculum materials are included in a separate policy. While college levels of treatment are needed, except textbooks, the most important publications are professional treatments and association publications and the research monographs in the subject area. A basic level of popular treatments are acquired.

REMOTE SOURCES: Some graduate research into specialized areas may benefit from a coordination of resources among NEOMAL institutions.

EXCLUSIONS: The program in physical education is limited to masters level and exclusions can be made for in-depth studies of the philosophy and history of sports and physical education.

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SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library materials needed to support the department of secondary education include a collection at the advanced study level of information on the organization and practice of education in secondary schools, public and private, in the United States, and general information on the theory and practice in countries throughout the world. Specific information is needed on all aspects of secondary education: organization of schools, instructional theory and technique, teacher responsibilities, teacher education, supervision of teachers, classroom organization, student placement, student evaluation, student behavior, student role, instructional resources, curriculum design, curriculum development, subject instruction, and instructional techniques. All secondary and postsecondary instruction are covered from middle schools through high schools and instruction in higher education. Research level coverage is needed for all theories and techniques used in secondary, technical, and higher education. Both current theories and practices and major historical theories and practices need to be covered.

CURRICULUM: The curriculum of the department of secondary education is designed to educate undergraduate students for certification to teach in secondary private and public schools and technical programs, to enhance, at the masters degree level, the competence of secondary teachers and technical educators, to advance their certification in non-degree post-graduate programs, or to provide doctoral programs in the secondary education area for practicing teachers or administrators in the secondary schools or technical programs or for those who teach pedagogy in teacher training institutions.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Coverage of secondary education in the United States and the world should include description of any major education system and philosophy, with emphasis on English-speaking societies and western Europe as being the most culturally relevant to our national tradition. About eighty-five percent of the collection will concern secondary education in the United States.

LANGUAGE: Primary collection will be in the English language except that major theoretical works not available in English or translation will be acquired to assure full coverage. Non-English materials will be acquired to provide instructional material for multi-cultural or foreign language teaching. About ninety-five percent of the collection will be in the English language.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Historical treatment of secondary education from ancient times to the present will be included. However, emphasis in coverage is on the current educational practices in the United States with samples of recent and current practices in secondary education from throughout the world.

PUBLICATION TYPES: While there is no limitation on publication types, most materials will be in print formats, that is about ninety percent. It is important that course instruction have available not only samples of the varieties of instructional materials used in secondary classrooms, but, also, materials for the teaching of the university courses incorporating the instructional techniques being taught. Covered separately are collection policies for a sample laboratory collection of secondary education instructional materials. All levels of publication are needed except college textbooks. Popular treatments through professional level are collected.

FORMATS: While the principal medium is print for most of the collection all media will be acquired: films, recordings, filmstrips, slide programs, printed visuals, overhead transparencies and computer software all are included in useful formats.

REMOTE SOURCES: Graduate and doctoral research into specialized areas may benefit from a coordination of resources among NEOMAL institutions. Doctoral students exploring textbook development or young adult literature will find useful resources through the Center for Research Libraries.

EXCLUSIONS: Few college textbooks will be acquired on this policy.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: Library support for the biomedical engineering department needs to encompass the interdisciplinary nature of its teaching and research program. Basic requirements in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and engineering are met by the collections supporting the respective departments. The biomedical engineering collection needs materials at the advanced study level on bioengineering, biometry, biomechanics, biological physics, biomedical instrumentation, biomaterials, biomedical computing, and biological transport phenomena. Materials are needed at the research level to support the interests of the department in cardiovascular research, hemodynamics, biological signal processing, artificial organ research, and biomedical imaging.

CURRICULUM: The department of biomedical engineering offers the masters of science in engineering and the doctor of philosophy in engineering. In conjunction with the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, a program leading to a combined MD/PhD is also available.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Since the subject is not geographically bounded, there is no geographical limitation for this collection.

LANGUAGE: English is the primary language of the collection, with five percent of the collection in German, French or Italian.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Biomedical engineering is a recently developed discipline. For the most part the collection will consist of recent publications and current materials.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The information sources for biomedical engineering are primarily monographs, journals, proceedings, symposia and society publications.

FORMATS: The main format is print, but the collection should include, as well, five percent non-print materials in 16mm films, filmstrips, videocassettes, and computer software formats.

REMOTE SOURCES: Library collections of Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Library and area hospitals are available and utilized by the department of biomedical engineering.

EXCLUSIONS: Materials covering basic physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology are not purchased in support of this department, rather such materials are included in the collections supporting respective departments.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is established to support the curriculum and research of the chemical engineering department. Works describing chemical processes and equipment, chemicals, electrochemistry, fuel, food processing, fermentation, petroleum refining, the gas industry, plastics and plastics manufacture, coal, colloids, powders, kinetics, coatings, catalysis, and biotechnology are collected at the research level. Works describing materials for engineering and construction, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, environmental pollution, and water treatment are collected at the advanced study level. General works on chemical engineering are collected at the initial study level.

CURRICULUM: The department of chemical engineering offers the bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of philosophy degrees. The undergraduate program is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and prepares students for immediate employment or graduate study. Chemical engineering is the only major offered by the department. The undergraduate program requires principles of chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, mathematics, the engineering core (including courses in FORTRAN, engineering fundamentals, materials science, statics, basic electrical engineering, engineering graphics), material and energy balances, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, chemical reaction engineering, fluid and thermal operations, mass transfer, process analysis and control, process, and plant design and economics. The master's program offers either a thesis or non-thesis option. Both options require transport phenomena, chemical reaction engineering, classical thermodynamics, six credits of chemical engineering electives, and three credits of approved mathematics. The thesis option requires six credits of approved electives and six credits for thesis. The non-thesis option requires eighteen credits of approved electives. The doctoral program requires 90 credits of graduate work which includes 60 credits of course work and 30 credits of dissertation. Graduate level courses in chemical engineering include chemical engineering analysis, advanced polymer engineering, advanced plant design, advanced reaction engineering, advanced thermodynamics, momentum transport, fluid mechanics, mass transfer, process control, and pollution control.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limit for these subjects. The primary geographical coverage included in the collection is the United States represented by eighty percent of the materials, Great Britain by ten percent, and Japan, India, Russia, and the remainder of Europe making up the last ten percent.

LANGUAGE: Monographs and ninety percent of the serials in this collection are in English with the remaining serials distributed among German, French, Japanese, and Russian.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Emphasis for acquisition will be recent publications with retention for most limited to twenty years except for serials which will be kept for an indefinite period.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works are collected at the initial study level. Professional works, scholarly monographs, data compilations, journals, proceedings, and symposia are selected at the research level.

FORMATS: Printed formats including microform are about ninety-five percent of the collection with computer software and audiovisual software making up the remainder.

REMOTE SOURCES: The collections at Youngstown State University, Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University may supply scarce journals and out-of-print monographs. The Center for Research Libraries can be a source of foreign journals not in high demand.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular works are excluded from this collection.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is established to support the curriculum and research of the civil engineering department. Information resources describing the mechanics of transportation, engineering mechanics, materials for engineering and construction, surveying, structural engineering, engineering geology, foundations, tunneling, environmental engineering, hydraulics, bridge engineering, and building construction should be collected at the research level. Works describing the legal aspects, engineering in general, technology in general, highway engineering, railway construction, cement industries, and general aspects of civil engineering should be collected at the initial study level.

CURRICULUM: The department of civil engineering offers the bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of philosophy degrees. The undergraduate program is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. The undergraduate program prepares students for immediate employment or graduate study. Civil engineering is the only major offered by the department. The undergraduate program requires courses in chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics, engineering core courses (which include FORTRAN, materials science, introduction to engineering, statics, mechanics of solids, basic electrical engineering, engineering graphics, dynamics, thermal science, and fluid mechanics), surveying, structures, soil mechanics, water supply and waste disposal, hydraulics, transportation engineering, engineering materials, hydrology, and construction administration. The curriculum permits specialization in environmental engineering, foundation engineering, hydraulic engineering, structural engineering, or transportation engineering. The master's program offers either a thesis or non-thesis option. Both options require fifteen credits of civil engineering course work and three credits of approved mathematics or science courses. The thesis option requires six credits of approved electives and six credits for the thesis. The non-thesis option requires twelve credits of approved electives and two credits of work on a special problem. The doctoral program requires 90 credits of graduate work which includes 60 credits of course work and 30 credits for dissertation. Graduate level courses in civil engineering include advanced mechanics of materials, structures, finite element analysis, composite mechanics, soil and rock mechanics, foundations, water and wastewater treatment, advanced fluid mechanics, coastal engineering, hydraulics, hydrology, advanced engineering materials, elasticity, plasticity, and advanced geotechnical testing.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limit for included subjects. The primary geographical areas included in the collection are the United States represented by about eighty percent of the collection and Europe and Japan comprising most of the remainder.

LANGUAGE: This collection is exclusively in English.

PERIOD OF COVERAGE: The emphasis for acquisition will be recent publications and retention will be limited to imprints of the most recent ten years for monographs in most instances; serials will be retained indefinitely.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works are collected at the initial study level. Professional works, journals, proceedings, standards, and data compilations are collected at the research level.

FORMATS: Printed formats including microform should comprise about ninety-five percent of the collection. Computer software and audiovisual software make up the remainder of the collection.

REMOTE SOURCES: The collections of Youngstown State University, Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University may supply some journals and out-of-print monographs. The Center for Research Libraries will be used for foreign journals not in high demand.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular works are excluded from this collection.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is established to support the computer engineering specialization in the electrical engineering department. Works on computer organization, computer architecture, software engineering, computer aided design, integrated circuit design, machine intelligence, expert systems, computer graphics, industrial information systems, systems engineering, control engineering, telecommunications, and networks are collected at the research level. Literature on computer languages, computer security, computer workstations, and display devices are collected at the initial study level.

CURRICULUM: The department of electrical engineering offers the bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of philosophy degrees with specialization in computer engineering. The undergraduate program is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and prepares students for immediate employment or graduate study. The undergraduate and graduate coursework includes the required courses in the electrical engineering curriculum and appropriate electives. The collection development policy for electrical engineering may be consulted for a list of the required courses. Appropriate electives include computer methods, software engineering, system simulation, integrated system design, and special topics on the undergraduate level, and include computer architecture, computer algorithms, and special problems on the graduate level.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limitation for this collection. The geographical areas represented are the United States for ninety-five percent of the collection and Great Britain for the remainder.

LANGUAGE: English is the only language collected.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Emphasis for acquisition is recent works; emphasis for retention is materials published in the past ten years. Serials are kept indefinitely.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works are collected at the initial study level. Professional works, scholarly monographs, data compilations, journals, proceedings, societal transactions, symposia, and standards are collected at the research level.

FORMATS: Printed materials including microform should be maintained at about ninety-five percent of the collection, the rest being computer software and audiovisual formats.

REMOTE SOURCES: The collections at Youngstown State University, Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University may be used to access esoteric journals and out-of-print monographs.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular works are excluded from this collection.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is established to support the construction technology curriculum. Works describing the construction industry, the legal aspects of construction, structural engineering and geology, engineering geology, earthworks, foundations, hydraulic engineering, construction details, and building construction should be collected at the initial study level.

CURRICULUM: The Community and Technical College offers a two-year associate degree in construction technology whereas the College of Engineering offers a five-year baccalaureate degree which includes one full year of on-the-job experience. The curriculum is designed to provide knowledge in the technological aspects and familiarity with business and management principles. The curriculum is accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Construction technology is the only major offered by the department. The associate degree program requires physical education, English, mathematical analysis, technical report writing, physics, technical drawing, surveying, statics, construction techniques, construction administration, elements of structures, materials testing, strength of materials, and cost analysis and estimating. The baccalaureate program requires that students meet the requirements of the associate degree program plus twenty-one credits of general studies including public speaking or oral communication, institutions in the United States, western cultural traditions, and eastern civilizations, field management, foundation construction methods, computer applications in construction, construction form-work, legal aspects of construction, mechanical service systems, electrical service systems, hydraulics, accounting, business finance, management principles and concepts, mathematics for technical applications, environmental geology, statistics, and six credits of technical electives.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Publications about the United States should represent at least ninety-five percent of the geographical coverage of this collection. the remainder might include coverage of other countries.

LANGUAGE: English is the only language collected.

PERIOD OF COVERAGE: The emphasis for acquisition is current publications, materials published in the past five years. The emphasis for retention is those materials published in the past ten years. Journals are kept indefinitely. Newsletters are retained up to five years.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works, professional works, textbooks, building codes and standards, construction cost data, journals, and newsletters are collected at the initial study level.

FORMATS: Print and microform are collected at the initial study level and comprise at least ninety-five percent of the collection. Computer software and audiovisual software, also to be collected at the initial study level, complete the collection.

REMOTE SOURCES: The department uses information available on campus almost exclusively, although the resources of nearby libraries may be used on occasion.

EXCLUSIONS: The College of Business Administration collects works on accounting, finance, and management principles, subject areas which are required in the construction technology curriculum; a few specific works on construction management may need to be acquired for construction technology. The mathematics, geology, and civil engineering collection policies sufficiently cover most of the required and elective subjects taken by construction technology majors.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is established to support the curriculum and research of the electrical engineering department. Solid state physics, acoustics, optics, electricity and magnetism, the production, distribution, or transmission of electric power, telecommunications, electronics, photoelectronic devices, and process control are collected at the research level. Works on electronic data processing, electronic computers, applications of electric power, electric lighting, electrical machinery, radios, radar, telephones, telegraphs, television, nuclear engineering, and general works should be collected at the initial study level.

CURRICULUM: The department of electrical engineering offers the bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of philosophy degrees. The undergraduate program is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. The undergraduate program prepares students for immediate employment or graduate study. Electrical engineering is the only major offered by the department. The undergraduate coursework includes the engineering core curriculum consisting of FORTRAN, materials science, statics, introduction to the mechanics of solids or dynamics, introduction to electrical engineering, engineering graphics, and thermal science, basic chemistry, basic and advanced physics, calculus, differential equations, a mathematics elective, computer science, circuits, electrical measurements, electromagnetic fields, transmission lines and networks, the physics of electronic devices, switching and logic, control systems, and several technical elective courses. The master's program offers either a thesis or non-thesis option. Both options require six credits of mathematical physics, three credits of random signal analysis, and three credits of electromagnetic fields. The thesis option requires twelve credits of electives and six credits for the thesis. The non-thesis option requires nine credits of electrical engineering electives and nine credits of approved electives. The doctoral program requires 90 credits of graduate work which includes 60 credits of course work and 30 credits for the dissertation. Graduate level courses in electrical engineering include circuit analysis, statistical communications, digital signal processing, advanced electromagnetics, design of digital systems, topics in electronics and electromagnetics, control systems, random process analysis, power system analysis, stability, and economics, protective relaying, surge protection, and optimal control.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limit for appropriate materials. The primary geographical areas for inclusion in the collection are the United States for eighty percent of the collection, Great Britain for ten percent, and Japan, the U.S.S.R., and the remainder of Europe for the remaining ten percent.

LANGUAGE: English is the only language collected.

PERIOD OF COVERAGE: The primary emphasis in the collection is those materials published in the most recent five years. Most monographs are not kept in the collection beyond ten years of their publication. Serials will be kept indefinitely.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works are collected at the initial study level. Professional works, textbooks, journals, proceedings, transactions of societies, electrical codes and standards, and electrical data compilations are collected at the research level.

FORMATS: Printed formats on paper and microform are collected at the research level and should comprise about 95 percent of the collection. Computer software and audiovisual software may be about 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 a resource for highly specialized journals and out-of-print monographs.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular works are excluded from this collection.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This fund is established to support the interdisciplinary serials serving the various engineering departments. While all the serials in this collection are recognized as important to engineering, the subjects covered in them are not as specific as the curricular interests of the various engineering departments.

CURRICULUM: The curricula covered by this collection is the curricula of the engineering and technology departments as described in the collection development policies for the individual departments.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The geographical coverage is about 60 percent United States, fifteen percent Europe, ten percent Japan, and five percent U.S.S.R.

LANGUAGE: English is about eighty-five percent of the language of the collection while the remainder is confined to Russian, German, French, and Japanese.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Nearly all of the journals in this collection are kept on an indefinite basis.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Only journals, proceedings, transactions, symposia, and newsletters are collected under this policy.

FORMATS: Printed formats including microform are the only ones collected.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote sources are not important to this policy but are addressed on the policies of the individual departments.

EXCLUSIONS: No serials will be acquired on this fund which are identifiable with the policy of a single department.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is established to support the curriculum and research of the mechanical engineering department. Works describing mechanics, engineering materials, machine design, tribiology, automotive engineering, acoustics and noise, continuum mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, heat engines, engineering mathematics, numerical methods in mechanical engineering, system design and control, optimization, and reliability are collected at the research level. Works describing mechanical vibration, engineering design, fluid flow, control engineering, computer aided design, and computer aided engineering are collected at the advanced study level. Works describing engineering in general, mechanical design, steam engineering, steam power plants, miscellaneous motors and engines, hydraulic and pneumatic machinery, and mechanical applications of electric power are collected at the initial study level.

CURRICULUM: The department of mechanical engineering offers the bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of philosophy degrees. The undergraduate program is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. The undergraduate program prepares students for immediate employment or graduate study. Mechanical engineering is the only major offered by the department. The undergraduate program requires courses in chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering core courses (which include statics, mechanics of solids, basic electrical engineering, engineering graphics, engineering design, dynamics, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics), heat transfer, kinematics of machines, analysis and design of mechanical components, engineering analysis, mechanical metallurgy, thermal system components, design of energy systems, design of mechanical systems, vibrations, system dynamics and control, two additional design courses, and two laboratories. The master's program offers either a thesis or non-thesis option. Both options require fifteen credits of mechanical engineering course work and three credits of approved mathematics courses. The thesis option requires six credits of approved electives and requires six credits for the thesis. The non-thesis option requires twelve credits of approved electives and two credits of work on a special problem. The doctoral program requires a minimum of 90 credits of graduate work which includes 60 credits of course work and 30 credits for the dissertation. Graduate level courses in mechanical engineering include mechanics, dynamics, advanced thermodynamics, finite element analysis, advanced fluid mechanics, advanced heat transfer, advanced stress analysis, advanced vibrations, modal analysis, control design, advanced engineering analysis, and tribology.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Geographical coverage is principally the United States with about thirty-five percent covering Europe and Japan.

LANGUAGE: English is the only language acquired.

PERIOD OF COVERAGE: Emphasis for acquisition is current materials. The primary emphasis for retention is imprints of the recent ten years. Serials are kept indefinitely.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works are collected at the initial study level. Professional works, textbooks, journals, standards and codes, proceedings, and transactions are collected at the research level.

FORMATS: Printed formats including microforms should be at least ninety-five percent of the collection; the rest will include computer and audiovisual software.

REMOTE SOURCES: Some use can be made of the collections at Case Western Reserve University for research.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular treatments of mechanical engineering are not collected.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum of the department of art has the major concerns of ceramics, crafts, fibers, metal-smithing, drawing, enameling, graphic design, photography and painting. An initial study level of collecting is suitable for the undergraduate courses while an advanced study level of collection is necessary for the advanced courses.

CURRICULUM: The programs of instruction consist of survey of art, fundamentals of sculpture, screen painting, drawing color concepts, instrument drawing, lithography, watercolor painting, enameling on metal, architectural presentations, commercial design theory, weaving, graphic video, illustration, packaging design, and publication design leading to the bachelor of arts or bachelor of fine arts degree.

LANGUAGE: The collection is primarily in the English language but ten to twenty percent is in French, about five percent in German, and perhaps two percent in Spanish and Italian. The foreign language materials generally deal with art history.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The geographical coverage is seventy-five percent United States and Western Europe. Egypt and the ancient Middle East account for about ten percent. The remainder is devoted to the Far East.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Coverage ranges from pre-historic through ancient Near East, Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome through the present. Fifty percent of the collection is twentieth century, twenty percent is nineteenth century American and European, the remainder is divided between the Near East, Egypt, Far East, ancient Greece and Rome.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Sixty percent of the collection is scholarly monographs and professional materials, ten percent are textbooks, five percent exhibition catalogs and five percent collection catalogs. The remainder is divided between technically oriented materials which range from sophisticated handbooks to the most basic how-to-do-it books. The collection level is about 75 percent advanced study level and the remainder at a research level.

FORMAT: About eighty percent of the collection is in printed formats, monographs, handbooks, and periodicals, but 16mm films and videocassettes make up about ten percent of the collection each.

REMOTE SOURCES: The two best art collections in the state are in Cleveland: The Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Division and the Cleveland Museum of Art Library. They are accessible to our faculty. This relieves our collection of the need to acquire the more expensive and esoteric monographs, catalogs, and foreign language materials.

EXCLUSIONS: Subjects not collected under this policy are South American and Southeast Asian art, the art of Eastern Europe and primitive art. Decorative arts are not of interest except as an aspect of studio art.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the department of communications needs to cover rhetoric, journalism, mass media, media sales, media production, interviewing methods, documentary and popular films, photography, telegraphy, public address (both modern and classical Roman and Greek), propaganda and communication theory. The main thrust of the department is communication theory, propaganda, and media production and sales. The department is concerned with the historical aspects of photography, telegraphy, and rhetoric as well as the contemporary aspects.

CURRICULUM: The communications department has an undergraduate program as well as a master of arts program which requires a thesis for completion. Some of the courses taught are: documentary film, film production, history of rhetoric, journalism, mass media-communication, two courses in production design, rhetorical and communication criticism.

LANGUAGE: The collection is in English. Some film materials are in French, Italian, and German.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Primarily North America. Some interest in the film industry in Australia, France and Italy. Also an interest in British television. We acquire between five and ten percent U. S. materials.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The twentieth century is the main focus of the collection. Early film, photography, telegraphy and rhetoric in their pre-twentieth century contexts make up about ten percent of the collection.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The material consists of a research level collection of dissertations, experimental results, reference works, monographs and a good selection of periodicals. There is also a section which is at an initial study level which supports undergraduate course work and includes basic monographs and a nearly complete collection of major writers. There are also selections of the work of secondary writers.

FORMATS: The collection is composed of about two-thirds print materials, and one-third audiovisual. The audiovisual collection consists of 16 mm films, filmstrips, videocassettes and about 60 video discs.

REMOTE SOURCES: Kent State University is used for its collection of popular and commercial films and videocassettes making it less necessary for the department to purchase in this area. Bowling Green State University is used for its outstanding collection of popular culture materials which the University of Akron does not collect or need to collect.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular culture and intercultural materials are not collected.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the department of communicative disorders must provide the materials needed to support students preparing for professional work in speech-language pathology or audiology. To support this program advanced study level collections are required in hearing testing, diagnosis, and rehabilitation, normal and abnormal speech and language development, disorders of speech, and speech testing, diagnosis, and therapy. Initial study level collections are required in the linguistic bases of speech and language, phonetics, the social-psychological aspects of hearing and speech disabilities, the physics and physiology of hearing and speech, and the practice of these therapies in a public school setting. This is a professional and research collection, and the dept. is building toward a doctorate in audiology in the mid 1990's.

CURRICULUM: The department offers undergraduate and masters level education is working toward a doctoral program in audiology. The bachelors program provides pre-professional training in preparation for graduate studies. The bachelor's degree requirements include basic courses in phonetics, linguistics, the biology of speech and hearing, and advanced work in hearing measurement and evaluation, speech and hearing diagnosis and therapy, and language disorders. The masters program leads to students' certification by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in speech or hearing therapy. The required curriculum includes clinical practicums and research courses or a thesis. The variety of other upper-division undergraduate courses includes communication problems in retardation, cerebral palsy, and cleft palate, stuttering, instrumentation, aphasia, dysphagia, head trauma, adult apraxia, pediatric and geriatric audiology, voice pathology, child language assessment and therapy aural rehabilitation, industrial audiology, evoked potentials, and electronystagmography.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Almost exclusively coverage will be therapy interventions and research methodologies as practiced in the United States, Canada, England and Australia.

LANGUAGE: This collection is entirely in English.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Current materials, dealing with contemporary research and practice are emphasized. Exceptions to this emphasis are works by major figures in the field or landmark works which have continuing value.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Emphasis is on descriptive, empirical, practical, and research works; a selection of curriculum materials; and specialized reference works. Some textbooks and some samples of materials used in practice are collected.

FORMATS: Printed monographs and journals are emphasized; these constitute about ninety percent of the collection. Sixteen millimeter films, videotapes, and filmstrips are used for instruction on implementation of interventions and also for students of sign language. Periodic acquisition of 16mm films or videotapes maintains a useful collection. Some microcomputer software covering diagnosis and therapy is acquired.

REMOTE SOURCES: Interlibrary loan of print resources is important for the research done in this department. Other than instructional audiovisuals this collection should supply the essential resources needed by the department with its emphasis on training practitioners.

EXCLUSIONS: Acquisitions on this policy do not include materials on non-human communication, bilingualism, English as a second language, or surgical techniques relating to the speech and hearing mechanism.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY FOR

THE SCHOOL OF DANCE, THEATRE AND ARTS ADMINISTRATION

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library collection in support of curriculum in the Department of Dance in the School of Dance, Theatre and Arts Administration covers dance history, physical analysis, choreography, notation, teaching and learning theory, ballet, jazz and modern dance.

CURRICULUM: In dance, admission to the program is by audition only. Although the emphasis is on ballet technique, two years of modern dance technique is required. Two degrees are offered: BFA in Dance, BA in Dance. The BFA in Dance has a dance performance option, and a musical theatre performance option. The degree programs in dance are heavily weighted toward the student who wishes to pursue professional training in dance. Students must pass a juried faculty practical exam in their sophomore year to be admitted to upper-division standing. All students are required to study ballet technique every semester. There are four courses in dance history and required library reading in other related courses such as notation, choreography, and dance analysis.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Dance literature is divided into 50% American and British, 30% Russian, and 20% Western European coverage.

LANGUAGE: The dance collection is 90% English with some French and German.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The dance collection is nearly 80% twentieth century literature, with 20% on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in support of the history of dance courses.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Professional treatments are needed for all concentrations in dance. The serials collection in dance needs only those titles dealing with current techniques, choreography and dance history. Audio and video recordings are essential to the collection.

FORMATS: Video recordings represent almost 20% of the dance collection, and books represent approximately 80% of the collection. Also available are audio recordings and accompanying music.

REMOTE SOURCES: OhioLINK exponentially increases the materials available to the dance students and faculty. The New York Public Library branch at Lincoln Center is sometimes used; Interlibrary Loan is also available.

EXCLUSIONS: No additional exclusions are noted for dance.

revised 12/97

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The collection for home economics and family ecology needs to cover many diverse areas. Advanced study level collections are required in the program areas of graduate study, on the social, psychological, economic, nutritional, and health aspects of the family over the lifespan and on children from infancy through adolescence; in the dietetics program; and in the area of food science and nutrition generally. Initial study level collections are sufficient in the food science and nutrition business option and the business and communication and costume options of textiles and clothing. The collection for this department helps to supply materials for the certificate programs for child care worker, interior design, and life span development. Students in nursing, education, and sociology are served by various information materials in foods and nutrition, family dynamics, clothing, textiles, and dietetics.

CURRICULUM: The graduate level programs have six options: child development; child life; clothing; textiles and interior; family development; and, food science and nutrition/dietetics. At the bachelor's level there are four program areas, each with subareas: 1. family and child development (a. family development, b. child development, c. child life specialist); 2. food science, 3. textiles and clothing (a. business option, b. interior design option, c. theatre costume); and, 4. dietetics (a. coordinated undergraduate program, b. traditional dietetics). In addition a home economics education major, preparing a student to teach at the intermediate and secondary level, is available. The courses in child development cover development from infancy through adolescence, parent-child relations, child nutrition, and child care. Courses on family dynamics, family economics, home management, and family nutrition, combine in the family development option. In the foods and nutrition concentration the option of food science/product development emphasizes technical aspects for industrial applications in food production or research, while the business option stresses skills used in management, marketing and communications. Courses are now available at the graduate level in food science and nutrition. Textiles and clothing courses include clothing construction, interior design and family housing, the fashion industry, historic and stage costume, and needle arts. Dietetics includes courses on health and nutrition, food service management, therapeutic nutrition, and community nutrition. Courses for home economics education are from those listed above.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Coverage for home economics education is primarily the United States. The family and child development and child life specialist literature emphasizes the United States, Canada, and England with selective contemporary and historical coverage of other countries for cross-cultural studies. Dietetics and foods and nutrition emphasizes developments and practice in the United States, but a selection of studies on the work of international food agencies and on nutrition assessment and policies in other countries is needed also. The business and communication options of textiles and clothing emphasize the United States, France, and Italy; the costume option has no geographical emphasis.

LANGUAGE: Most of this collection is in English. The exceptions are in the textiles area; well-illustrated books in any major language are useful there.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The business and communication options of textiles and clothing, and both foods and nutrition options focus on current materials with exceptions for classics in those fields. The dietetics, child, and family programs, and child life specialty also emphasize current materials with exceptions for writings of major authors, landmark studies, and basic titles cited in bibliographies like Books for College Libraries. The theatre costume option has no period limitations since historical interest is high. Home economics education is a professional program requiring current materials.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Descriptive works, empirical and historical studies, trade books, and theoretical studies are needed as well as specialized reference resources.

FORMATS: Print monographs and journals are emphasized. All subject areas need films or videotapes for instruction. Dietetics requires the continuing education phototapes of the American Dietetic Association and computer software. One new video or film for each program area annually, a subscription to the phonotapes, and selective purchases of nutrition software are needed.

REMOTE SOURCES: No remote resources are very useful except rental audiovisuals for instruction.

EXCLUSIONS: Family cookbooks and popular works are not collected.

revised 11-21-89

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection to support the curriculum and research of the school of music needs to cover the subjects of music education, performance, composition, theory, music history and literature, and jazz studies all collected at the advanced study level.

CURRICULUM: About two thirds of the students are enrolled in performance, and about one-third in music education. Coursework is also offered in musical theatre, marching band organization and technique and the teaching of music to the retarded and handicapped. The masters degree is available in music education, performance, composition, theory, and music history and literature.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The music collection is eighty-five percent western European, Russian, and North American, with some interest in music of other cultures (especially Asia, Eastern Europe and South America) and ethnomusicology, the last two amounting to about fifteen percent of the collection.

LANGUAGE: The music collection is over ninety percent English and five percent German with the remainder divided between French and Italian; some opera scores are in French, German, and Italian.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Musical periods covered in the literature extends from ancient Greece and Rome through the present with twenty percent on the 20th century, forty percent on the 19th century, ten percent on the 18th century, fifteen percent on the 17th century, ten percent on the 16th century, and five percent earlier than the 15th century.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Professional treatments and handbooks are needed for all concentrations in music and scholarly works and research reports and data are needed for the programs in music. Music studies require a strong serials collection, of one hundred to one hundred and thirty current subscriptions. Music studies need a thirty percent concentration of sound and video recordings.

FORMATS: The acquisitions budget is used to collect sixty percent books and monographs, sixteen percent sheet music and performance scores, twelve percent serials, and twelve percent audio visual material.

REMOTE SOURCES: The faculty uses the Center for Research Libraries for music research. Researchers in music have access to several strong library collections within an hour's drive at Kent State University, Oberlin College, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Cooperative borrowing arrangements are in effect with some of these.

EXCLUSIONS: Audio-visual materials and scores that have broad appeal or that are important to other disciplines are acquired in the general collection in the main library. Books, monographs, and journals that relate to the curricula or research of other disciplines, are interdisciplinary, or cover the scientific or technical aspects of music, acoustics, or musical instrumentation are acquired in the main library collection or the Science and Technology Department of the library. Subjects especially needed for other disciplines are biography, music history, jazz, opera, musical theatre, ballet and dance music, popular music, music for children, folk music, religious music, music for media production, acoustics, and other technical aspects of music.

revised 9/12/90

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the department of social work needs to cover all problem areas in public welfare and community services, practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities, and ethical, administrative, or legal issues related to the field. Major needs in this collection include contemporary social policies and current intervention to alleviate or solve social problems. Studies relating to the social problems of alcoholism and addiction, mental health and retardation, crime and corrections, poverty, to specific groups (racial, ethnic, and sex-role minorities, children and adolescents, the aged, delinquents and criminals, the family, medical patients), and to governmental social welfare policies are included. Research within the field of social work and the evaluation of practice and service programs are also of importance. The theoretical approach of the department is an ecological systems perspective. Within this perspective, the interaction of the biological psychological, social and cultural bases of human behavior is emphasized. In all areas mentioned materials should be collected at the advanced study level. Information on legal aspects needs initial study level support.

CURRICULUM: The department provides an accredited undergraduate program preparing students for entry-level professional practice in a variety of settings, inlcuding health, mental health, mental retardation, family service, public welfare, corrections, juvenile justice, child welfare, aging, alcohol and drug abuse, community action and development, and human relations. Courses are offered in social work practice, minority and women's issues, administration, law, and ethics, and in social work in specific settings. Works that present the systems approach to social services are important to all courses in the curriculum. Further, research methods applied to practice and program evaluation are part of the course offerings. The department's courses contribute to interdisciplinary and certificate programs in Afro-American studies and the Institute for Lifespan Development and Gerontology. Two plus two (2+2) programs with the community and technical college and with Wayne College exist in community service technology, criminal justice technology, and general social services technology.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Primarily coverage is social work in the U. S.,but collection interests exist for social services in other developed, English-language countries. A selection of titles showing history and practice in these countries is needed to show American indebtedness to others and borrowings from others. The United Kingdom and Canada are of special importance in these ways. Selected studies of the developed and developing countries are useful for a comparative, cross-cultural understanding.

LANGUAGE: This collection is in English.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Main emphasis is on current and recently published materials that provide a history of the social services field or of one of its subareas.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Principal publication types include introductory and more advanced descriptive, historical, empirical, and theoretical materials.

FORMATS: Major reliance will be on print materials. Films and videotapes useful in describing an intervention technique or social problem are acquired irregularly. Some microcomputer software is acquired.

REMOTE SOURCES: The University of Akron Law School Library is used also.

EXCLUSIONS: Materials on rural social work are not collected. The law library collection covers legal material not collected for this department.

7-20-89

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of curriculum and research of the department of theatre needs to include the materials necessary to study acting, directing,musical theatre, and scenery, costumes, and lighting design technology; which subjects are collected at the advanced study level.

CURRICULUM: The theatre options for major student enrollments are in production and performance and an arts management degree is gaining in student interest. Design technology is expanding and deepening its course offerings. Undergraduate study leads to a bachelor of arts degree and a bachelor of arts degree in general theatre. All degrees require courses in the history and the literature of the theatre. The masters degree in theatre can be achieved in arts management or in general theatre. There are various combinations that can be studied for this degree: acting, directing, design, technology, history, literature, and criticism.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The literature supporting theatre studies is fifty-five percent Western European, five percent Russian, and forty percent.

LANGUAGE: The theatre literature is ninety-five percent English and five percent French, German, or Russian.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Similarly the theatre coverage is from ancient Greece and Rome through the present with thirty percent on the 20th century, thirty percent on the 19th century, twenty percent on the 18th century, ten percent on the 17th century, and ten percent on the 16th century and earlier.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Professional treatments and handbooks are needed for all concentrations in theatre and scholarly works and research reports and data are needed for the programs in theatre along with a sampling of textbooks. Theatre studies require a strong serials collection. Theatre needs about five percent video performance recordings

FORMATS: Format distribution in the theatre literature is ninety-five percent printed format, five percent 16mm films and videotapes of productions.

REMOTE SOURCES: The faculty uses the Center for Research Libraries for theatre research.

EXCLUSIONS: Works on theatre in the Far East and South America are not collected.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection is to support the department of polymer engineering curriculum and research. Included are works on rheology, extrusion, injection molding, spinning, crystallinity, analysis, and characterization of polymers. The types of polymers include elastomers, plastics, textiles, fibers, gels, colloids, coatings, composites, and films; all to be collected at the research level.

CURRICULUM: The department of polymer engineering offers the master of science in engineering and doctor of philosophy degrees. One undergraduate course is offered. The curriculum includes several polymer engineering core courses, several polymer engineering electives, several engineering and science electives, and a thesis or dissertation.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Geographical coverage is the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and the U.S.S.R.

LANGUAGE: The collection is ninety percent English with some Russian, German, French, Japanese, and Chinese.

PERIOD OF COVERAGE: Emphasis for collection is recent imprints with retention of materials published in the most recent twenty years in most cases. Serials will be kept for an indefinite time.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works, professional works, textbooks, handbooks, research reports, journals, proceedings, transactions, symposia, standards, and encyclopedias are acquired.

FORMATS: Printed formats including microforms are about ninety-five percent of the collection with the remainder being computer and audiovisual software.

REMOTE SOURCES: Case Western Reserve University has a significant polymer information collection which can supplement research needs. Access to foreign journals is gained through the Center for Research Libraries.

EXCLUSIONS: Popular treatments will not be acquired on this policy. The information materials on the chemical properties of polymers will usually be acquired under the policy supporting the polymer science department.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This collection supports the department of polymer science's curriculum and research. Included are works on the chemical and physical properties of polymers and their synthesis, reactions, and analysis, which are collected at the research level. Works on the manufacture and applications of polymers are collected at the advanced study level. Emphasis is on acquisition of works on synthetic polymers as opposed to naturally occurring polymers.

CURRICULUM: The department of polymer science offers the master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees. Undergraduate courses are offered to those students from other departments with an interest in polymers. The master's degree requires twenty-four credits in specified courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, polymer science, and engineering and the completion of a research project and thesis. The doctoral degree requires appropriate coursework and the completion of a dissertation.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Geographic emphasis is the United States, Europe, and Japan, with some inclusion of China and Russia.

LANGUAGE: English is the preferred language and accounts for ninety percent of the collection, with German, French, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese works acquired as necessary to assure completeness.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Acquisition emphasis is current materials. The emphasis for retention is imprints of the past twenty years. Serials will be kept indefinitely.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works, professional works, textbooks, handbooks, scholarly research studies, research data, journals, proceedings, transactions, symposia, standards, and encyclopedias are collected for this department.

FORMATS: Printed formats including microforms make up almost all of this collection, but occasionally computer software and audiovisual software are acquired.

REMOTE SOURCES: Case Western Reserve University has an interest in the polymer field and a resulting strong collection of literature which should be coordinated with ours when resources are sought. The Center for Research Libraries is a source for foreign journals.

EXCLUSIONS: Information on engineering applications and the properties of polymers are collected under the policy for the department of polymer engineering.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library collection in support of the curriculum of developmental programs requires materials which provide academic support to students who need to strengthen their educational background and competence in English, college reading and study skills, mathematics, and chemistry. The use of reading and writing laboratories is part of the instruction. The library collection supports those needs. Teaching methodology resources for these skills are required for the faculty. Materials are collected at the initial study level. Other users of the collection are limited to those enrolled in the College of Education or preparing to teach in the fields represented.

CURRICULUM: The curriculum is remedial and interdisciplinary. A mathematics laboratory has been established. Courses cover English, reading, college reading and study skills, mathematics and chemistry.

LANGUAGE: English is the only language collected.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Materials need cover only the United States.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Materials that are not current or contemporary have little value in this collection.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Those included are: General works, textbooks, and remedial education materials. Journals and monographs are included.

FORMATS: Formats include print and audiocassettes. The collection is almost entirely print.

REMOTE SOURCES: None required or appropriate.

EXCLUSIONS: Materials beyond the general or introductory treatment of these subjects are excluded.

revised 12-6-89

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum of the general education program needs to provide materials in broad areas, but not in depth coverage, in the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The purpose is to provide all undergraduate students with a basic cultural background in the liberal arts. The subjects included in the library collection are: Anthropology, classics, literature/composition, geography, history, economics, government/politics, philosophy/ethics, psychology, sociology, basic mathematics, basic natural sciences, oral communication, technology in society, fine arts and physical education. Broad areas of study include: Humanities in the Western Tradition", area studies and cultural diversity. A course on the Black American is included under diversity. Area studies are: China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Near East, Africa and Latin America.

Instruction is general with few student papers required; therefore, the collections for the departments teaching the basic disciplines provide the paramount background information. It is the strength of the library collection in those disciplines that supports general education for the most part. Most of the acquisition for general education is supplementary, covering areas for which the basic disciplines provide little or insufficient coverage. For general education this means an acquisition emphasis on the Near and Far East and Africa.

Materials for the general education program should be collected at the initial study level. There is more emphasis on the historical and cultural facets of these areas in the general education collection than on current politics as compared to other policies where those subjects are included.

Other users of the general education collection are students and faculty in the basic disciplines, history, English, communication, political science, etc. that underlie much of general education program and students taking elective courses in those basic disciplines.

CURRICULUM: The program has an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum. It consists of 42 credits distributed in eight categories. Students are advised to select general education courses in conjunction with courses needed for their major during their first few years of study. The core curriculum is as follows:

English Composition - 7 credits; 2 courses

Mathematics - 3 credits

Natural Science - 8 credits minimum; at least 2 courses, one of which must be a lab

Oral communication - 3 credits

Social Sciences - 6 credits; one course from each of two different sets minimum. Sets

are: economics, geography, U.S. government/politics, psychology,

sociology/anthropology, U.S. history, science/technology/society

Humanities - 10 credits; 3 courses, "Humanities in the Western tradition I" required of all. One course from each of two different sets minimum. Sets are: fine arts, philosophy/classics, literature, "Humanities in the Western Tradition II."

Area studies and cultural diversity - 4 credits, 2 courses

Physical education - 1 credit

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The Near East, the Far East, Latin America, and Africa are covered in area studies. The other courses in the program do not have a basic geographical orientation unless that option is chosen for an existing department course.

LANGUAGE: English is the only language used.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Period coverage from ancient through present day applies to area studies and those courses in which history or government is involved.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Monographs and journals are collected. Monographs collected include: general works, scholarly works, textbooks, and selected government documents of countries in the Near and Far East, Latin America, and also Africa. Collected works of leaders in those parts of the world are purchased.

FORMATS: The library collection acquired for general education is confined to print materials.

REMOTE SOURCES: No remote resources are appropriate for general education.

EXCLUSIONS: Basic information needs in most fields in general education are met by the collections for the above mentioned disciplines; therefore, general education collects mostly in subjects that are exceptions. The most notable exceptions are: the Middle East including Moslem North Africa, India, Japan, southeast Asia, Africa (also included in the Afro-American studies program policy).

revised 1-24-95

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum of the department of Military Science should include materials in the fields of military science, leadership, and management. This includes military history, strategy, tactics, ethics and professionalism, armament and war and the morality of war. Materials are collected at the advanced study level.

CURRICULUM: The curriculum includes a two year and four year program. Basic military science (Military Science I and Military Science II) can be taken as an elective and carry no obligation for military service. The advanced courses in leadership, military operation, management and a senior special topics course lead to a commission in the Reserves, National Guard, or inactive duty assignments.

LANGUAGE: Materials are collected in English only.

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE: All areas of the world are studied; however, the chief emphasis is on the United States. Europe is second.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The period 1700 to date is of primary importance although there is an historical component in campaigns, strategy, tactics, and so forth.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication types collected are monographs including general, scholarly and professional works; handbooks; documents; maps and atlases.

FORMATS: Print format only is collected for the present and immediate future.

REMOTE SOURCES: None apply.

EXCLUSIONS: This collection excludes serials at this time.

revised 10/31/88

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of peace studies needs to cover the United Nations and its precursors, international and regional organizations and relationships, international law including conciliation and arbitration, conflict resolution and the study of underdeveloped countries and their problems. Conflict resolution includes conflict management, conflict resolution, and mediation. The history and current status of the peace movement and the human rights movement is central to this collection. Knowledge of these movements is obtained through materials on the subjects: non-violence concepts in peace and war, human rights, the literature of peace and war, economic impact of war and preparation, world geography, ecology, politics and diplomacy, foreign policy, and international relations. Peace education is also an essential element of peace studies, and it is necessary to acquire teaching and curriculum materials that may be used by teachers in the public schools. Materials for the peace studies program should be collected at the advanced study level for the subjects of human rights, disarmament, conflict resolution, militarism, peace and the history of the peace movement, the history of war in the 20th century, and the United Nations organization, its precursors, and affiliates. The rest of the subjects are acquired at the initial study level. Peace studies has specialized needs particularly in multi-disciplinary materials and retrospective collections in the history of the peace movement and human rights. Other users of the peace studies collection are those persons working in the basic disciplines of political science, history, English, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology and international business, and also persons having a research interest in disarmament, conflict resolution, the nuclear freeze movement, the United Nations system, world hunger, peace movements, and other similar urgent international problems.

CURRICULUM: The peace studies program is an undergraduate interdisciplinary certificate program. The peace studies curriculum includes workshops, special topics courses and independent study in areas related to peace and war. It also includes an option for an additional certificate program, The Certificate in Conflict Resolution/Management.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: All areas of the world are covered, but the majority of the materials pertain to the western hemisphere and western Europe. Less than twenty percent is on other areas of the world. Materials on the Western World should be acquired at the advanced study level.

LANGUAGE: This is principally an English language collection, but there are some reprints of early works in western European languages.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The majority of the coverage is from the 17th century to the present day, about three-quarters. The emphasis is on the 19th and 20th centuries because the movements and events of those times are numerous and multi-faceted in relation to peace and war. There are fewer sources on international law and the history of human rights that date from ancient or medieval times. Materials should be acquired at the advanced study level for the 19th and 20th centuries and at the initial study level for the earlier eras.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works, scholarly monographs, professional works, textbooks, association catalogs, collections, handbooks, research reports and data, and documents both national and international, are the publication types included. Both monographs and journals are collected. Catalogs of associations having extensive peace study collections, the works of persons connected with the movement, and retrospective collections are some of the most important publications.

FORMATS: The library collection should be ninety-five percent print with the remainder audiovisual software.

REMOTE SOURCES: Kent State University subscribes to the microform editions of the complete United Nations Document Set, Oberlin College also has a set. The Center for Research Libraries has microform sets of Vietcong documents, Vietnamese newspapers and interviews. It also has a draft and military law collection on the Vietnam War.

EXCLUSIONS: Any items properly the concern of policies for anthropology, English, history, or political science should not need to be acquired on this policy.

Revised 4-1-99

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research of the Pan-African studies program needs to cover the following subjects: the black American language, literature and politics; black art and music; careers; black social and intellectual history; the history and politics of Africa; racial and cultural intergroup relations; poverty in the United States, social welfare and minority issues in social work. The scope of this collection includes black life in the Caribbean region as well as the American continents. The collection concentration is that required for undergraduate study. Subgroups include study of the black woman, the black family, the black church, and the general psychological and economic condition of Afro-Americans. Materials should be collected at the advanced study level.

CURRICULUM: The Pan-African curriculum consists of an interdisciplinary undergraduate certificate program. In addition to courses incorporating the subjects described above which are part of the curricula of those disciplines, it includes a general seminar in African-American studies. This course requires a seminar paper on the student's research interest. The other required course is in the civil rights movement in America 1945-1994. Special topics courses are avaiable.

Users of the collection are those who take one or more of the courses in the certificate program as part of their department major or as an elective course. In addition, the course on Africa is part of the world civilization program. Interest in developing this collection is shared by the general education program and the African-American studies program.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Materials on the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean area are collected at the advanced study level.

LANGUAGE: English is the only usable language.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Although the courses that form this certificate program cover ancient, medieval and modern times in Africa, the major emphasis of the program is 17th to 20th century United States and the Caribbean basin. Materials are collected at the advanced study level.

PUBLICATION TYPES: General works, scholarly studies, textbooks, collections, documents, and primary source materials are included. Both monographs and journals are collected. Collections primarily include slave narratives, materials on the slave trade and plantation life, documents from the 17th century on, and the collected works of major figures from all the time periods important to African-American studies.

FORMATS: Materials are acquired in print, film, filmstrip, videotape, microform, and multi-media. Only about five percent of the collection is non-print however.

REMOTE SOURCES: NEOMARL (Northeastern Ohio Major Academic and Research Libraries) library resources include the African-American Culture Collection at Cleveland State University, the Oberlin College Anti-Slavery Collection and Black Abolitionist Papers, the Black Culture Series, the American Colonization Society papers, Negro Newspapers at Kent State University, and the Atlanta University Black Culture Collection at Wooster College. The Center for Research Libraries makes available the papers of the American Colonization Society, the American Missionary Association, the Schomberg Collection, the George Washington Carver papers, the Douglas Collection, Travels in the Old South and the Confederacy, and some black newspapers. Therefore a rich resource exists in newspapers, historical pamphlets and broadside, and association records. Bierce Library owns some of these.

EXCLUSIONS: Many books used by this program are acquired following the collection policies of the basic disciplines of English, history, economics, social work, etc. The general education collection provides some African materials. The above disciplines' collections supply more specialized materials at an advanced study level but not in heavy concentration. However, materials on the black church must be purchased under the policy for Pan-African studies. Materials on the Moslem countries of North Africa are collected by the classics department in the case of ancient Egypt, and by general education and political science covering other countries and eras.

revised 8-16-96

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: A library collection in support of the curriculum and research needs of the women's studies program needs to cover the fields of literature, history, politics, business, health, psychology, education, law, and marriage and the family as they relate to women. It should also cover sex roles and women's occupations and professions. The collection draws upon materials in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and fine and applied arts. It is collected at the levels detailed below.The scope is worldwide and from ancient times to present day. The emphasis is on the modern period, particularly the 19th and 20th centuries, collected at the advanced study level, with greater depth on those eras and for the United States and Great Britain which are collected at the research level. The immediate background centuries, the 16th through the 18th, should also be built at the advanced study level for those two countries. Materials for other countries and eras are collected at the initial study level.Support from other departments, whose courses are part of the women's studies certificate curriculum, will have support for those courses in their collection development policies.

CURRICULUM: The program in women's studies articulates and strengthens the connections among courses offered in differing fields, and gives students a coherent background, knowledge and a theoretical framework with which to analyze and evaluate material from varied disciplines. The certificate program in women's studies is also significant for university faculty. With its emphasis on women's studies, the program becomes a means uniting faculty and community women with similar interests. By encouraging cooperation and interchange across disciplines, it opens up new areas for research.

The women's studies program is an undergraduate interdisciplinary certificate program. There already exist at the university several courses concerned with women which this certificate program may use as electives if approved by the program for cross-listing. Requirements are: Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, and Women's Studies Lecture Series. Also available in women's studies are Individual Studies on Women and a special topics option. The elective courses are drawn from the social sciences, humanities, fine and applied arts, and specified additional areas. Twelve credits (two course at the 300-400 level), one course from each of these areas are required.

Feminist Theory, Special Topics on Women's Studies and a workshop are 400/500 courses and are therefore available for graduate credit.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Coverage is worldwide with major emphasis on women in the United States, then England, then Europe and the third world. This is not because the latter areas are of less importance but because there is greater concentration of available courses in the first two areas, especially in literature, the history of women, and the women's movement. The collection should be built at the research level for the United States and Great Britain and at the initial study level for the other areas.

LANGUAGE: English is the only language necessary for the collection.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Coverage is from ancient times through the present day with emphasis on the 20th century. There will be less collected on ancient times. There will be the most on the 19th and 20th centuries because most of the major figures and movements are from those eras. The collection should be built at the advanced study level for the 16th through 20th centuries and at the initial study level for the rest except for 19th and 20th century United States and Great Britain which should be built at the research level.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The following publication types are included: general works, scholarly works, textbooks, collected works, government documents, and research reports. Journals are also included. The collected works are those of individual women, both literary and non-fiction, and the document collections include materials from all areas and times illustrating the lives of women.

FORMATS: Print and audiovisual materials are both acquired. About 95 percent of the materials will be in printed formats.

REMOTE SOURCES: Of the NEOMARL schools which have women's studies programs Oberlin College is the only one with special library resources for women's studies. The existence of that resource does not eliminate our need to collect the resources described in this policy.

EXCLUSIONS: Technical works that deal with medicine for women are not included on this policy, but are acquired under other departmental collection policies.

Revised 9-30-97

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This fund is established to permit the purchase of materials which the Director of Archival Services identifies as appropriate to strengthen the archival related holdings within its major collection areas, that is the history and development of The University of Akron, northeastern Ohio, or American psychology. Included in the scope of this fund are materials which supplement the manuscript holdings of the Archives, publications by or about the University of Akron or by University of Akron faculty, and works dealing with archival operations and philosophy.

CURRICULUM: There is no intention to support any specific curricula with this fund.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Based on the Archives' collecting policies, this fund is used for materials relating to northeastern Ohio or psychology in the United States.

LANGUAGE: Principally English language materials are acquired but some foreign language items may qualify.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Prehistory through the twentieth century is included.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Undergraduate level through graduate and professional levels are included.

FORMATS: Usually print formats are acquired, but other formats, such as manuscripts and photographs, might be included.

REMOTE SOURCES: The only use of this fund is to build the collection of materials which support the operation of Archival Services and which are considered worthy of permanent retention.

EXCLUSIONS: Materials which are not encompassed by one of the Archives' collecting areas are excluded.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The associate dean of University Libraries fund exists for the collection or materials which are pertinent to the operation of the library and may be overlooked in the library selection policies. This is a discretionary fund that allows the associate dean to correct selection oversights and to supply balance to the collection. It may also be used to purchase professional resources in support of library services or operations such materials deal with information theory and the practical aspects of library operations and information handling. This is a discretionary fund that allows the associate dean to supply the information needed to promote effective library operations.

CURRICULUM: The selection on this fund are generally based upon the curricula goals of the university. The selection of items is to promote information access important to the goals of the university.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: No geographical restrictions apply.

LANGUAGE: The language will usually be English.

PERIOD COVERAGE: No period restrictions apply.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication types are only limited to those acquired by the University Libraries.

FORMATS: The format will usually be print.

REMOTE SOURCES: This does not apply.

EXCLUSIONS: No standing orders or serials subscriptions will be acquired on this policy.

1. TYPES OF MATERIALS THAT MAY BE PLACED ON RESERVE

Scores and non-print materials from the circulating collection

Personal non-print materials - video tapes, recordings, etc.

Copies of non-print materials in compliance with the Copyright Act

2. TYPES OF MATERIALS THAT MAY NOT BE PLACED ON RESERVE

Photocopies of scores

Rental materials (Commercial or "For-Free" such as ASCPL)

Interlibrary Loan materials

Any copy of a work you do not have written permission to copy

3. NUMBER OF ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON RESERVE

The professor should try to limit the number of items to be placed on reserve to 25 per course. A score and a recording of an individual work are considered to be one item.

The Library will provide only one legal photocopy of any request. Additional copies, up to four per item, must be provided by the professor.

4. COPYRIGHT CONSTRAINTS

The Library will not, by photocopying, create an anthology.

If a professor submits a request to photocopy a part of a book or score that the Library owns, the entire score will be placed on reserve instead of the photocopy.

Permission to photocopy materials and place them on reserve must be secured from the copyright owner and proof of such provided to the library.

5. ADDITIONS TO OUR COLLECTION

If the library does not own the material requested for reserve, the professor should contact the appropriate bibliographer and request purchase of said item. Material that is requested for reserve and/or for which permission is not available will be considered for immediate purchase.

When requested material cannot be located on the shelf for two days, or when requested materials have been declared missing, the appropriate bibliographer will request a replacement copy.

6. TIME FRAME

If the professor needs reserve materials ready to circulate on the first day of the semester, the reserve request must be submitted to the Media Resource Center or to the appropriate bibliographer two weeks before the first day of the semester.

Requests not received two weeks before the first day of the semester will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis, and we will not be able to guarantee a circulation date. The delay may be as long as two weeks.

7. CIRCULATION POLICIES

Audio/Visual Services staff will adhere to the circulation period requested by the professor. Only the professor can change that circulation period.

Only two reserve items may be checked out at one time.

No reserve materials may be renewed.

8. REMOVAL FROM RESERVE

At the end of each semester materials will be removed from reserve.

Personal items will be returned to the professor.

Library materials will be returned to the shelves.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: These funds are established to permit the subject bibliographers to purchase materials which they identify as appropriate to a complete academic library collection, but which are not included in any of the collections maintained for departmental support or on any other library service policy. Included in the scope of these funds are popular works of general interest, interdisciplinary works so broad that no department recognizes a principle interest in them, provocative or controversial works which will seem irrelevant or trivial to a department with limited funds, unpopular or unorthodox views which departments feel they cannot support, titles relating to student activities or interests but not included in curricula, titles which students might seek for recreational purposes, works dealing with library operations and philosophy, or dealing with any aspect of university operation not covered in other funds.

CURRICULUM: There is no intention to support any particular curricula with these funds.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limitation for these funds.

LANGUAGE: Principally English, but some foreign language titles may qualify.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Mostly current, but some restrospective gaps may need to be corrected.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Principally popular works or undergraduate level although graduate and professional levels are appropriate in some instances.

FORMATS: Usually print formats; no serials or continuing series are allowed. Other formats are not excluded when they answer the scope and purpose.

REMOTE SOURCES: Not appropriate since these funds are established to assure balance in the local collection.

EXCLUSIONS: All titles which are provided for in other collection policies are excluded.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The government documents collection is a designated selective depository for United States government publications. The collection policy is based on requirements stated in Title 44 of the United States Code and on Guidelines for the Depository Library System as Adopted by the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer, October 18, 1977, with Minimum Standards for the Depository Library as Adopted October 22, 1976. Additionally the collection includes documents selected from non-depository documents which are within the collection policies of this library. Categories of publications to be added through the depository status are selected on the basis of curricular and research needs and in coordination with the development policies for other collections. In addition, because a depository library is required to service the Federal document information needs of the entire community, those needs are also considered in selection. Areas of particular emphasis in the collection include: economic and social statistics, education, Congressional publications, United States Census publications, United States Geological Survey publications, and United States foreign relations. Commercially printed indexes and abstracts which facilitate access to government documents are part of this collection.

CURRICULUM: The government documents collection supports the collective curricula of the university, as well as identified information needs of the community at large as part of the general information role of the library.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limit for selection of publications.

LANGUAGE: The preferred language is English but documents are not restricted for language.

PERIOD COVERAGE: By law a depository library is required to keep Federal documents for a minimum of five years, however, as a prime source for historical studies in many disciplines, retention of many items is indefinite and is judged on the basis of the subject department collection policies.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Principal publication types collected are directories, statistical tables, handbooks, agency reports; and Congressional hearings, reports, and documents.

FORMATS: Formats are almost exclusively printed on paper with the exception of the documents available only in microform or series used for research purposes collected on microform due to their volume and usage levels.

REMOTE SOURCES: Minimal use is made of remote sources except that referrals are made to nearby documents collections when the subject is not covered in this collection or the documents are unavailable for acquisition.

EXCLUSIONS: The collection excludes subject areas which are not part of the curricula and are the responsibility of another area depository library, such as law.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: There is no direct collection purpose for this fund; it is established to cover the need for adjustment to the distributed materials budget as the events of the budget period deviate from that anticipated at the time of allocation. It is used to compensate for expenses arising from unanticipated price increases or to take advantage of opportunities to enhance the collection that were unknown at the beginning of the budget year. This fund is not expected to compensate for the depletion of department funds resulting from early expenditure of designated monies for regular selections. It may be used for direct acquisition of materials, or it may be the source of funds transferred to the departments to cover unanticipated expenses. Use of this fund shall be in accord with overall collection policies or with the policy of a particular department.

CURRICULUM: No particular curriculum is served by this fund but the composite curriculum of the university shall be satisfied by it.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: No geographical limits apply to this fund.

LANGUAGE: There are no language limits specific to this fund.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There is no period coverage specific to this fund.

PUBLICATION TYPES: There are no limits on the type of publications acquired on this fund.

FORMATS: No limits are placed on the formats acquired with this fund.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote sources are not compatible with the purpose of this fund.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This fund is governed by the collection purposes of various departments and is established to cover the acquisition of serials which may be interdisciplinary in nature, but which are not general enough in subject matter or interest to be included on the core serials fund. Every serial title collected on this fund needs to satisfy the collection needs of at least two departments, and regular reevaluation needs to be done to assure that such is the case. If a title is necessary to only one department, then that title should be acquired under the policy of that department.

CURRICULUM: No particular curriculum is served by this fund but the composite curriculum of the university shall be satisfied by it.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: No geographical limits apply to this fund.

LANGUAGE: There are no language limits specific to this fund.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There is no period coverage specific to this fund.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Only serials are acquired on this fund.

FORMATS: Print or microforms are the formats acquired with this fund.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote sources are not compatible with the purpose of this fund.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The library owns many materials which are vulnerable to deterioration or pilferage due to their age, fragility or some unique features. For others there is a need to avoid excessive handling due to delicate bindings or brittle pages. Such items should be part of this special collection. Similarly, expensive materials which are vulnerable to theft or pilferage due to their illustrations of other special features should be in this collection. As th name implies, these materials should be kept in a discrete location, used only when an attendant is present, and be unavailable when use can not be monitored.

CURRICULUM: This collection addresses no particular curriculum, but includes anything that might be at high risk regardless of subject matter.

LANGUAGE: No language restrictions apply to this collection.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical test for these materials.

PERIOD COVERAGE: While much of this collection will be 19th century materials, some recently published items will be included due to their special features. Also included are all circulating book and periodicals published prior to and including 1865 (not reprints) and more recent publications on delicate or deteriorating paper.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Included are fine editions of books with special binding, unusual illustrations, or limited or private press editions. Publications of especial local interest not suitable for inclusion in the rare books collection should be in this collection.

FORMATS: The bulk of this collection will be printed books and journals, although recordings and visuals are not excluded.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote sources do not apply to this collection.

EXCLUSIONS: Reference collection items will not be included if they are still needed for reference purposes. Items properly identified as rare books will be put in that collection. Only vulnerable items which are parts of sets will be put in this collection, the remainder of the set will remain in the former location with a shelf dummy to mark the transferred volume or volumes.

December 1991

The School of Music, in cooperation with the Bierce Library, has established a listening reserve room in Guzzetta Hall. This room will provide an on-site location for music students to complete required listening assignments. These assignments must be outlined in the syllabi of the individual courses offered by the School of Music.

Music faculty will have the choice of requesting items to be placed on reserve in Guzzetta Hall or Bierce Library. If more than one professor requests the same item, the item will be placed on reserve for the professor who makes the first request. Materials on reserve for more than one professor will not circulate.

Materials that are available in the Listening Reserve Room:

1. A compact disc recording of the assigned work. When a compact disc is not available, an LP will be substituted. If a course syllabus requires a contrast/comparison of a work, multiple performances will be provided as outlined in the syllabus.

2. A score of the assigned work, when required by the syllabi. Professors requesting materials must specify when scores are required; they will not automatically be provided.

3. A list, by course number and section, of all Bierce Library materials placed on reserve in Guzzetta Hall and Bierce Library.

4. Video materials as required by the course syllabus.

5. Personal materials provided by individual professors.

All Bierce Library materials will be checked out through the Bierce Library circulation department to the School of Music for the semester in which they are required. Materials will be returned to Bierce Library at the end of each semester.

To ensure protection of reserve materials, the School of Music will provide adequate staffing for all hours that the Listening Reserve Room is opened. When adequate staffing is not available, the Listening Reserve Room will be closed. The School of Music will be responsible for the safety of Bierce Library materials. In the event that materials are lost or stolen, the School of Music will be billed for replacement and processing costs. No materials can be replaced until payment is received, and, consequently, will not be available for future reserve requests.

Reserve books, journals and other related materials will be provided through the usual reserve services at Bierce Library and will not be transferred to Guzzetta Hall.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This fund is established to cover the fees and assessments connected with The University of Akron membership in the Center for Research Libraries to afford access to the information materials in that organization's collections for research purposes. The scope of this funding is established by the collection purposes of the various departments which the center's collections enhance. By having this membership access is gained to arcane and seldom needed resources which are beyond the limits of university acquisition but which greatly enhance the availability of these resources when they are needed for research. Specifics of the collection of the center are detailed in its collection policy statements and catalogs.

CURRICULUM: The curricula of various departments are served by this membership.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The center's collections are worldwide in scope.

LANGUAGE: There is little language restriction in the center's collections.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Most of the collections are twentieth century or reprints and special collections.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Research reports, dissertations, special collections, newspapers, schoolbooks, juvenile literature, and scholarly works are in the collection.

FORMATS: Printed books, serials, and microforms are the basis of the center's collections.

REMOTE SOURCES: This membership gives access to a remote source.

EXCLUSIONS: Exclusions are specified in the center's policy.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This fund is established to cover the fees and assessments connected with The University of Akron membership in the Interuniversity Consortium For Political and Social Research to afford access to the information materials in that organization's collections for research purposes. The scope of this funding is established by the collection purposes of the various departments which the consortium's collections enhance. By having this membership access is gained to research survey data in machine readable form which are beyond the limits of university acquisition resources but which greatly enhance the availability of these resources when they are needed for research. Specifics of the collection of the consortium are detailed in its collection policy statements and catalogs.

CURRICULUM: The curricula of various departments are served by this membership.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: The consortium's collections are national in scope.

LANGUAGE: The manuals are in English and the data in machine readable form.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Materials are twentieth century census and survey data.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Raw statistical data.

FORMATS: Computer data tapes and some printed manuals.

REMOTE SOURCES: This membership gives access to a remote source.

EXCLUSIONS: Exclusions are specified in the consortium's policy.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The microforms in lieu of binding fund exists for the collection of microforms when the binding of issues of serials is deemed impractical either because of the high levels of pilferage or the difficulty of securing replacement copies in normal-sized printed format or a combination of these conditions. In these instances a decision should be made to provide the most available format of the information, at the appropriate cost. Care should be exercised to assure that microformats do not significantly restrict the usefulness of non-textual contents. (In such cases special efforts should be made to continue the acquisition of normal sized and colored versions.)

CURRICULUM: The selection of items is related to curriculum in that selections for purchase on this fund should be serials titles in microform which are acquired as serials standing orders or subscriptions for current publications on another fund and justified on that fund's collection policy.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: No geographical restrictions apply.

LANGUAGE: The language will follow the title on the current subscription.

PERIOD COVERAGE: No period restrictions.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication types will be serials only.

FORMATS: The format will be microform only.

REMOTE SOURCES: This does not apply.

EXCLUSIONS: No titles will be acquired on this policy which are not acquired by a department fund as a current subscription.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The rare books collection is established to control the books and other rare materials which have a significant monetary value and great intellectual or artistic interest. Normally the library does not have funds to acquire such materials, and they are added to the collection only when they are received as gifts or when a specific monetary gift is received to cover such a purpose. The collection is maintained to provide to the University community an opportunity to study examples of the art of book making or to provide for research an original work of particular significance which would not otherwise be available.

CURRICULUM: The rare book collection is not related to any particular curriculum, but exists to enhance the general curricular interests appropriate to a university with liberal arts studies.

LANGUAGE: There is no language restriction on the rare book collection.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no bias in the geographical coverage, although it is principally European and American works, which are expected to continue to dominate in subsequent growth.

PERIOD COVERAGE: The collection includes Incunabula and Americana; more recently published works, European and American later than the eighteenth century, are included when by reason of their quality or content they are difficult to replace, expensive or of specialized scholarly interest rather than general interest. These include all books published before 1701, all books not in reference or special collections published before 1800, all books with fore-edge painting and all books having any rare and hard to duplicate printing or binding features.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Included are any books judged to be of significant local interest. Cultural, scientific , technical, fictional, literary, maps, broadsides, posters, notices, or almost any printed documentation may be included.

FORMATS: Printed or manuscript codex volumes, printed or manuscript scrolls, single sheet maps or documents, or any handwritten or printed rare and unusual documentation may be included in this collection.

REMOTE SOURCES: This does not apply to this collection.

EXCLUSIONS: Any material which needs wide accessibly and which would not be difficult or expensive to replace if lost, damaged, pilfered, or defaced.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The reference department collection should include all basic information needed to define, explain, identify, or access specific aspects of or comprehensive information on the social sciences, humanities, business, education, and fine arts and general information defining and explaining the sciences and technology. The collection should cover, at a basic level, all aspects of human activity to respond to questions of general interest. For curricular subjects which will be topics of graduate or doctoral research, the reference collection will need to collect at the advanced study level or at the research level respectively to help facilitate such research. Subjects serving only undergraduate programs should be collected at the initial study level. The level of acquisition for specific subjects shall be determined by referral to the most recent university catalogs or curricular documentation and the library collection policy of the appropriate department. Acquisition of the basic reference materials will be supported by the reference fund; subject specific reference materials supporting a unique curriculum may be purchased on a departmental library fund when they are an annually recurring cost. Abstracts and indexes, even if subject specific, are basically reference tools, and should always be acquired and funded by the reference collection. When costly reference materials pertaining to limited curricular interests are published singly, or at intervals of several years, their acquisition shall be a reference department responsibility, since teaching department materials funds normally will be unable to absorb the expense of large, irregularly spaced purchases. All materials in the reference collection should be retained there only so long as they serve a reference purpose. A reference purpose for collection management shall include information materials of which a major portion or the entire work are not intended to be read in a short period, but which are usually consulted briefly for specific information; materials which, due to complexity, require assistance to user; or materials which are expected to be sought by several users in a short period of time. Frequently updated sources which need interleaving of pages or sections of pages should be in the reference collection to assure their currency.

CURRICULUM: While the reference collection supports no particular curriculum, it is based on the collective curricula of the university. The collection shall have greater depth in subjects which serve curricular interests identified in departmental library collection policies.

LANGUAGE: Preferred language is English or any language taught at the university. However, nothing is excluded automatically for language alone if the information is accessible.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limit for appropriate materials.

PERIOD COVERAGE: While currency is essential for much of the reference resource, no period which might be the subject of a question or the topic of research is excluded.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Principal publication types include dictionaries (language and topical), directories, encyclopedias, bibliographies, almanacs, yearbooks, statistical compilations, biographical references, handbooks, atlases, maps, gazetteers, indexes, abstracts, codes and court reports, and general descriptive texts.

FORMATS: Nearly complete reliance will be on printed formats with appropriate use of microforms and computer databases when they are more efficient for access to information.

REMOTE SOURCES: Minimal use of remote resources except when time-sharing of computer databases is indicated as more effective use of time or resources.

EXCLUSIONS: In-depth reference materials on science and technology are appropriate for the science reference collection and should be collected on that fund and housed in that department. Although Federal government documents are included in a separate policy, some may be included on this fund for ready reference purposes.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The replacement fund exists simply for the maintenance of the collection of materials in the library by the purchase of replacement materials when existing items are damaged, in part or completely, or are missing and not locateable. Lost items are identified through inability to locate items that are sought or the failure of borrowers to return items in sufficient time for them to be available for use. Damaged materials needing replacement are identified by library staff and recommended for replacement upon discovery. Decision for replacement should be made with consideration of current collection policies for teaching department support and library operating needs.

CURRICULUM: The selection of items for replacement is based upon the appropriate curricula as expressed in departmental collection policies.

LANGUAGE: The language follows the language of the item being replaced.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Decided when the item being replaced was acquired.

PERIOD COVERAGE: Decided when the item being replaced was acquired.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication types are the same as items being replaced.

FORMATS: The format must be the same as the item being replaced.

REMOTE SOURCES: This does not apply.

EXCLUSIONS: Any variation in format or edition or version excludes the acquisition from being a replacement; the assumption is made that if a newer edition or a different format is appropriate, then it would be a new purchase on another fund even if it were not necessary to replace the lost or damaged item.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The rubber serials fund exists for the collection of serials which are pertinent to the near comprehensive coverage of rubber and polymer information at the University of Akron. Such materials are necessary for the coverage of theory and the practical aspects of polymer chemistry and technology suggested by the mission of the university. This fund exists to assure that coverage in the serial literature will continue regardless of the curricular needs of any department or unit of the university.

CURRICULUM: The selection of titles is not curriculum related since this fund exists to assure that coverage is given for information resources if they are not supported by curricular needs.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: No geographical restrictions.

LANGUAGE: The language will usually be English, but is not restricted.

PERIOD COVERAGE: No period restrictions.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The only publication type on this fund is serials.

FORMATS: The format is printed serials.

REMOTE SOURCES: This does not apply.

EXCLUSIONS: Only standing orders or serials subscriptions will be acquired on this policy.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The science reference collection should contain all basic information needed to define, explain, identify, or access specific aspects of or comprehensive information on the sciences and technologies and general information defining and explaining the relationships of the sciences and technology to humanistic aspects of society. The collection should cover, at a basic level, all aspects of human activity concerning science or technology needed to respond to questions of general interest. Also included will be basic references relating to use of language and communication and other skills basic to academic activity. For curricular subjects which are topics of graduate or doctoral research, the science reference collection needs to collect at the advanced study level and at the research level respectively to help facilitate such research. Subjects serving only undergraduate programs should be collected at the initial study level. The level of acquisition for specific subjects shall be determined by referring to the most recent university catalogs or other curricular documentation and the library collection policies of appropriate departments. Research level acquisition is done for reference materials on rubber and polymers.Acquisition of basic reference materials will be supported by the science reference fund; subject specific reference materials supporting a unique curriculum may be purchased on a departmental library fund when they are an annually recurring cost. Abstracts and indexes, even if subject specific, are basically reference tools and should always be acquired and funded by the science reference collection. When costly reference materials pertaining to limited curricular interests are published singly, or at intervals of several years, their acquisition shall be a science reference responsibility since teaching department materials funds will normally be unable to absorb the expense of large, irregularly spaced purchases. All materials in the science reference collection should be retained there only so long as they serve a reference purpose. A reference purpose for collection management shall include information materials of which a major portion or the entire work are not intended to be read in a short period, but which usually are consulted briefly for specific information; materials which, due to complexity, require assistance to users; or materials which are expected to be sought by several users in a short period of time. Frequently updated sources which need interleaving of pages or sections should be in the reference collection to assure their currency.

CURRICULUM: While the science reference collection supports no particular curriculum, it is based on the collective curricula of the science and applied science departments of the university. The collection shall have greater depth in subjects which serve curricular interests identified in particular departmental library collection policies.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limit for appropriate materials.

LANGUAGE: Preferred language is English or any language taught at the university. However, nothing is excluded automatically for language alone if the information is accessible.

PERIOD COVERAGE: While currency is essential for much of the reference resource, no period which might be the subject of a question or the topic of research is excluded.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Principal publication types include dictionaries (language and topical), directories, encyclopedias, bibliographies, almanacs, yearbooks, statistical compilations, biographical references, handbooks, atlases, maps, gazetteers, indexes, abstracts, and general descriptive texts.

FORMATS: Nearly complete reliance will be on printed formats with appropriate use of microforms and computer databases when they are more efficient for access to information.

REMOTE SOURCES: Minimal use of remote resources except when time-sharing of computer databases is indicated as more effective use of time or resources.

EXCLUSIONS: In-depth reference materials on the humanities, social sciences, education, business or the fine arts are appropriate for the main reference collection. Although Federal government documents are included in a separate policy, some may be included on this fund for ready reference purposes.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The core serials collection exists to maintain in the library collection those journals and magazines which include basic information on the social sciences, humanities, business, education, fine arts, sciences and technology. The collection should cover, at a basic level, all aspects of human activity to respond to questions of general interest. For curricular subjects which will be topics of graduate or doctoral research, the core serials collection collects only those titles which are of general interest while the specific policies supporting the appropriate department will cover collection of titles to facilitate such research.

CURRICULUM: While the core serials collection supports no particular curriculum, it is based on the collective curricula of the university and that curricula's liberal arts focus.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limit for appropriate materials.

LANGUAGE: The usual language is English, but any language taught at the university is considered, as well as any language understood by a substantive portion of the university community.

PERIOD COVERAGE: While currency is essential for much of the core serials resource, no period which might be the subject of a question or the topic of research is excluded.

PUBLICATION TYPES: The only publication type included on this fund is serials.

FORMATS: Nearly complete reliance will be on printed formats with appropriate use of microforms when they are more efficient for access to information.

REMOTE SOURCES: No resource sharing is fitting for this basic serials collection.

EXCLUSIONS: Very technical or specialized serials are not acquired under this policy.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The standing orders general fund exists for the collection of monographic series in the library that are of general interest and not included in the policy of any department. The basis for including a title on this policy shall be the maintenance of a basic liberal arts collection to support the general mission of the university. Selection should be made with consideration of current collection policies for teaching department support and library operating needs.

CURRICULUM: The selection of titles for standing orders general should be based upon the appropriate curricula as expressed in departmental collection policies or on the general liberal arts curriculum of the university.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There are no geographical restrictions.

LANGUAGE: The basic language is English with titles in other languages being justified only if they are useful to a significant group of users.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There is no period restriction, but most titles will be contemporary.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Publication type is monographic standing orders.

FORMATS: The usual format is printed matter.

REMOTE SOURCES: This does not apply.

EXCLUSIONS: This policy does not include subject specific titles of limited interest. Serial titles should be included on the core serials policy.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: There is no constant collection purpose for this fund; it is established to acquire the special items which may be identified subsequent to the materials budget distribution or which may be too expensive for the normal materials budget of a department. In the event of exceptionally high inflation when department allocations are exhausted prematurely, this fund may be the source of supplemental funding and not be available for special acquisitions. This fund is not expected to compensate for the depletion of department funds resulting from early expenditure of designated monies for regular selections. It may be used for direct acquisition of materials, or it may be the source of funds transferred to the departments to cover unanticipated expenses. Use of this fund shall be in accord with overall collection policies or with the policy of a particular department.

CURRICULUM: No particular curriculum is served by this fund but the composite curriculum of the university shall be satisfied by it.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: No geographical limits apply to this fund.

LANGUAGE: There are no language limits specific to this fund.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There is no period coverage specific to this fund.

PUBLICATION TYPES: There are no limits on the type of publications acquired on this fund.

FORMATS: No limits are placed on the formats acquired with this fund.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote sources are not compatible with the purpose of this fund.

EXCLUSIONS: Nothing is excluded from this fund that is collected on any other policy.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: While there is no limit to the subject matter of Friends of the Library fund purchases, the principal aim of it shall be to acquire, for the library, those things that will enrich the collection beyond what might be done with regularly budgeted funds the normal materials budget. In general, nothing will be acquired which might be acquired under any other library collection policy as basic collection under a policy for a teaching department. Acquisitions might include any subject matter of interest to the university and might be suggested by Friends of the Library membership, bibliographers, library faculty and staff, any university faculty member, or suggested by a donor. Acceptance of any suggested acquisition is the responsibility of the library, and such acceptance will be based on collection policy and the needs of the library.

CURRICULUM: No specific curricula are served by this fund; general liberal arts resources are the chief educational objectives for this funding.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limitation for this fund.

LANGUAGE: Predominately English language materials will be acquired, but suitable works in any language, ancient or modern will be acquired as appropriate.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There is no limit on periods covered.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Rare and unusual subject matter will be the main interest for this fund. While any level of treatment will be acceptable, usually major basic works on a subject or unusual or comprehensive treatment in a special printing is preferred.

FORMATS: Printed codex books is the usual format preferred for acquisition by this fund. Often they will be rare or semi-rare historical printings or reprints of such volumes. Especially good examples of the printer's craft will be sought for acquisition on this fund; outstanding typography, fine illustrations, special binding, or overall examples of good book design will be preferred. Occasional scrolls or portfolios of loose sheets may be acquired when they are appropriate for special collections. Microforms may be acquired if they meet the criteria of enrichment by making available examples of rare books and art work which would not otherwise be available. Sound recordings or slide collections may be considered for similar reasons. The medium of the materials acquired will not be limited if other criteria are met.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote sources are not suitable for enrichment materials.

EXCLUSIONS: Any materials which can and should be acquired by the regular library materials budget are excluded from this policy.

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SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This fund was established by a bequest of Dr. Adib Karam in memory of his parents Frieda and Henry Karam, brother Ernest, and sisters, Ada, Lucille, and Annetta. That portion directed for the purchase of library materials identified four subject categories to be addressed: books in the fields of art, music and theatre; medical books in the sciences (medicine, chemistry, biology, physics, and so forth); medical books in support of the College of Nursing; items that concern the Middle East (books, maps, films, slides, audio-visual tapes, and so forth). As with other funds administered through the Friends of the University Library, the aim of the Karam Fund shall be to acquire things which enrich resources beyond what regularly budgeted funds provide in the way of basic collections. Acquisitions suggestions will be received from the membership of the Friends of the University Library, library faculty and staff, or university faculty members. Suggested acquisitions will be acquired based on overall collection policy and the needs of the library to support University of Akron curricula.

CURRICULUM: Specific curricula enhanced by this fund are the arts (Schools of Art, Dance, Music, and Theatre), medical emphasis in the sciences (Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics), the College of Nursing, and those portions of any subject which covers the Middle East.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is specific emphasis on acquiring materials dealing with the Middle East, but no specific geographical limitation for the materials covering the arts, sciences, or nursing.

LANGUAGE: Predominately English language materials will be acquired, but suitable works in languages used in the Middle East, ancient or modern might be considered as appropriate.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There is no limit on periods covered specified for the bequest.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Emphasis is on books without specification of treatment level except that monographs are specified in the sciences.

FORMATS: There is an emphasis on books and monographs except for the Middle East. As media for information delivery change, content and organization rather than medium should be the controlling factor in defining the nature of a book, but serials are obviously not intended.

REMOTE SOURCES: Does not apply.

EXCLUSIONS: Acquisitions from this fund should not include basic support literature for any subject.

11-27-91

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: This fund was established by a bequest of Kenneth Nichols. The bequest specified no specific subject categories to be addressed. Because of Mr. Nichols prominence as a journalist with a strong interest in local history, a focus of this fund shall be on journalism and history of Ohio, especially the Northeastern region. As with other funds administered through the Friends of the University Library, the aim of the Nichols Fund shall be to acquire things which enrich resources beyond what regularly budgeted funds provide in the way of basic collections. Acquisitions suggestions will be received from the membership of the Friends of the University Library, library faculty and staff, or university faculty members. Suggested acquisitions will be acquired based on overall collection policy and the needs of the library to support University of Akron curricula.

CURRICULUM: Specific curricula other than journalism and its history and the history of Ohio, especially the Northeast, are not emphasized and any subject area may be supported.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is emphasis on Ohio, especially the Northeast, but no specific geographical limitation exists for materials acquired.

LANGUAGE: Predominately English language materials will be acquired.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There is no specification on periods covered.

PUBLICATION TYPES: There is no specification on publication types

FORMATS: There is no specification on media for information acquired on this fund.

REMOTE SOURCES: Does not apply.

EXCLUSIONS: Acquisitions from this fund should not include basic support literature for any subject. November 27, 1991

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: While there is no limit to the subject matter of gift fund purchases, the principal aim of it shall be to acquire, for the library, those things that will enrich the collection beyond what might be done with regularly budgeted funds. In general, materials which might be acquired under any other library collection policy will not be acquired with these monies. Acquisitions might include any subject matter of interest to the University and might be suggested by donors, bibliographers, library faculty and staff, or any university faculty member. Acceptance of any suggested acquisition is the responsibility of the library, and such acceptance will be based on collection policy and the needs of the library. All materials acquired as gifts will be marked with a bookplate or other label recognizing the donor and the special purpose (such as a memorial or recognition).

CURRICULUM: No specific curricula are served by this fund; donors may suggest any subject matter contained in the library collections, may suggest a specific title, or may make the gift without specification with the best use to be judged by the library. This fund will also serve as a vehicle for the management of any funds received from non-university sources designated for the strengthening of particular subject collections.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: There is no geographical limitation for this fund.

LANGUAGE: Languages acquired will agree with the requirements in appropriate departmental support funds.

PERIOD COVERAGE: There is no limit on periods covered.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Unusual subject content will be the main focus of this fund. While any level of treatment will be acceptable, usually major basic works on a subject or unusual or comprehensive treatment in a special printing is sought.

FORMATS: Especially good examples of the printer's craft will be sought for acquisition on this fund. Microforms and non-print media may be acquired if they meet the criteria of enrichment.

REMOTE SOURCES: Remote sources are not suitable for enrichment materials.

EXCLUSIONS: Any materials which can and should be acquired by the regular library materials budget normally will not be acquired with the gift fund.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: The Rubber Division fund exists for the collection of monographs and serials which are important to nearly comprehensive coverage of rubber and related polymer information in the University Libraries. These information materials cover both the theoretical and the practical aspects of rubber and polymer chemistry and technology as related to the mission of the University of Akron. This fund is supported by the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society to assure coverage in rubber chemistry and technology literature regardless of specific curricular requirements of any department or unit.

CURRICULUM: The selection of titles is not curriculum related since this fund exists to assure that coverage is given for information resources not necessarily related to the curricular needs of specific courses.

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: No geographical restrictions apply.

LANGUAGE: The language will usually be English, but is not restricted.

PERIOD COVERAGE: No period restrictions are imposed.

PUBLICATION TYPES: Printed books and serials are the publication types acquired on this fund.

FORMATS: The format for materials on this fund is print.

REMOTE SOURCES: Usually no remote sources are considered for this collection since it is a special collection area for the University Libraries.

EXCLUSIONS: Only rubber related materials will be acquired under this policy.

revised 7-26-93