EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 27858-4353

oe Department of Foreign Languages

and Literatures November 21 r 1988

Dr. Connor Atkinson, Chairperson
Faculty Senate

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East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Dear Connor:
Can we get this on the Agenda for Faculty Senate?

Thank you.

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Brian Harris

East Carolina University is a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina

An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

 
MEMORANDUM

Faculty Senate

Brian Harris, Senate Representative
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Use study memo (12 Sept. 1988) from Ms. Janet Kilpatrick,
Periodicals Librarian. Please see appended memo.

We believe that attempts to determine library budgets--hence holdings

and acquisitions--by means of "use study," that is, by "counting the
journal title each time" it is reshelved, undermines faculty research,
since by definition, professional journals serve as much more than "support
for our curriculum." Does the attitude underlying "use study" contradict
ECU's stated commitment to increased faculty scholarship and publication?
Does the attitude misapprehend the function of library collections and
services at a university-level institution which is committed to teaching
and scholarship, and to the continuing improvement of both?

We strongly urge that the employment of "use study" in the generation of
library budgets be immediately and carefully reviewed by the Library
Committee, the Faculty Senate, the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs,
and the Chancellor, and by any university officers who have direct
responsibility for initiating and implementing such policies.

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Joyner Library Current Periodicals
Use Study

 

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During the 1988/89 Fall and Spring semesters

will be conducting a use study of current
Jone by counting the journas.
title each time we have to reshelve it.

As you know, the price of serials keeps escal
each year. Therefore, we must continuously evaluat
our collection, weeding and adding journals,to support
Our curriculum. Next summer this information, along
with many other factors will be used for formulating

1989/90 budget strategy.

We solicit your assistance in this project.

Please do not reshelve the journals you use, byt
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put them on our reshelving truck so we may count
them. Signs are posted in the current periodicals
room, however, informing your students about this

project and requesting their help would be appreciated.