The Brown University Library: Issues, Concerns and Challenges

An Information Packet for the Brown University Faculty
Merrily E. Taylor, Joukowsky Family University Librarian
September 2000

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Cover Memo to the Faculty

1. The Library section from "The Report to the Faculty, Administration, Trustees, Students of Brown University, by an Evaluation Team Representing the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges," (March 1998).
2. A Few Words on the ARL Statistics
3. The ARL Membership Criteria Index
4. The Library's Serials Rankings
5. Library Support for the School of Medicine
6. Average Annual Increases in Some of Brown's Peer Institution Libraries Between 1990-1999
7. Changing ARL Ranking: It Can be Done
8. Charts Illustrating Brown's Current Environment
   • Chart 1: Increases in monograph and serial costs in ARL libraries, 1986-1999
   • Chart 2: Effect of one-time allocations from University Administration
   • Chart 3: Brown's ARL ranking in Total Library Expenditures 1980-1998
   • Chart 4: Comparative Ivy League ranking in Total Library Expenditures 1980-1998
   • Chart 5: Increases in serials cost compared to CPI, Health Care, and Brown's increases in acquisitions expenditures
   • Chart 6: Expenditures for electronic resources, 1995-
   • Chart 7: Average monograph prices 1999
   • Chart 8: Average serial prices in various disciplines 1998/99
   • Chart 9: Ivy League ARL rankings for current serials received, 1972-1998
   • Chart 10: Brown's experience with serials cost, based on our own holdings
   • Chart 11: Price increases from four major commercial serials publishers, 1995/96-98/99
9. Report of the Faculty Library Committee, May 2000
10. Addressing Acquisitions Budget Increases via a Formula
11. Conclusion

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