Collections

In response to the growing number of off-campus and online classes, a large number of commuting students, and preferences from many students and faculty, the Library is increasing the access to online, full-text journals (currently more than 10,000) and decreasing its subscriptions to print journals (currently less than 500).  More than half of the accesses of the Library's web page come from outside of the Library (from off-campus or from other on-campus locations) through our proxy server.  Lists of the Library's databases and periodicals is found on the Library's web page.

    List of databases (alphabetical)
    List of databases (by subject)
    Periodicals list

Many of the Library's reserve items are being made available electronically. There has been a 164% increase in the number of faculty using electronic reserves (an increase from 14 to 37) and an increase of 185% in the number of items placed on electronic reserve (an increase from 110 to 313). In addition to text materials, several sound recordings have been placed on electronic reserve for Victoria College music classes.

Print and Audiovisual Resources

During the year, 10,776 new items were added to the collection. Additionally, librarians continued updating of the collection (filling in gaps; updating older editions; removing outdated materials). This year, particular emphasis was in the following areas:  psychology, biological sciences, chemistry, education, religion, and children’s literature. In addition to the Library's purchases, over 3,500 gift books, many of which were added to the collection.  The following table summarizes our additions for the year: