Evolving with the Faculty to Face Library Budget Cuts

Abstract

A decade of budget cuts caused radical changes to the periodical collections at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Impassioned resistance by the faculty to journal title cuts led the librarians to try multiple ways of presenting data and ensuring that the materials most needed by the faculty were preserved. In the end, experience showed not one plan, but that a combination of plans were needed, including data mixed with alternative possibilities, faster interlibrary loans using newer technology, and the conscious pursuit of mutually sympathetic relations with faculty.

Keywords:

• collection development
• periodicals
• deselections
• relations with faculty

Notes

© Mary Ann Trail