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Campus-wide Budget Impacts

Books and periodicals

• In order to “protect” the Library Materials allocation academic and support personnel payrolls will be reduced by 14% and 6% respectively;  training/travel and binding will be eliminated.
• The 4% reduction translates into an actual 14% decrease in purchasing power due to price increase factors, most especially in high-cost scientific/technical subjects;  the Library will be unable to acquire current books across the disciplines.
• The Library will forfeit access to both current and retrospective runs of journal content if electronic journals must be cancelled.
• Document Delivery and InterLibrary Loan requests and staff work load will increase; user access to current Library materials will be delayed.
• In 2004-2005 the Library expects to be able to provide roughly one-third of a “book” for every FTE student (or one book for every three students).