During FY 2008-09 our libraries absorbed a budget reduction of $100,000 as well as the increased cost of existing journal subscriptions by utilizing lapsed salary from vacant positions and IFR funds. (We were the only SUNY doctoral center library to avoid journal cancellations during 2009.) For FY 2009-10, we must cut an additional $320,000 from our budget and cope with anticipated inflationary expenses of $269,175 (5% on monographs; 7.6% on journals; and 2.0% on electronic databases). I believe the library can absorb most of these budget reductions and additional expenses by eliminating vacant staff positions and spending our remaining IFR funds. However, we need your assistance in canceling $100,000 of journal subscriptions to successfully balance the library budget.

Library bibliographers will be contacting each academic department to identify titles proposed for cancellation. The proposed cancellation list will be shared with the campus community before any action is taken. Our desire is to work with all concerned parties to minimize disruptions to research and curricular programs. Thank you for collaborating with us in this difficult, but necessary, endeavor.

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2010 cancellations by departmental fund code.

2010 cancellations in title order.

Collections moved to Library Annex@Conklin
Binghamton University Libraries are dedicated to preserving our print collections, which continue to grow at a rate of over 23,000 items per year. In order to house our newly acquired and cataloged materials, this summer we identified a number of low use materials in the Bartle and Science Libraries which were moved to our Library Annex@Conklin. The goals of the moving project were to alleviate crowded stack areas and to create adequate growth space, which in turn supports long-term, steady growth of the library collection. Materials selected were chosen in consultation with subject librarians. Materials included large multivolume sets as well as bound volumes of journals available in electronic format.

The Library Annex@Conklin offers an electronic desktop delivery service, a public reading room open 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Monday – Friday and a delivery service to Bartle, Science and the Downtown Center. More information about the Library Annex.

Want to see us somewhere else online? We welcome your suggestions.

For more information, please call the Bartle Library Reference Desk at x72345.

For more information about linking, see http://library.binghamton.edu/webdocs/articlelinks.html.

The old URL (http://referenc.lib.binghamton.edu:2048/login?url=) will remain active until January 1, 2009.

If you need assistance, please call the Bartle Library reference desk at 777-2345 or send an email message to refquest@binghamton.edu.

Now on WorldCat.org you can designate the Binghamton University Libraries as your favorite library. It’s quick and easy to do, and it saves you time—because then all our materials come up first in your results sets. We’re hoping to have 50 people "favorite" the library by December 1, so please give us a heart next time you’re online at WorldCat.org!

Ms. Kerr will discuss cooperative collection development programs and services offered by CRL for BU faculty and students, with emphasis on new initiatives such as the recently announced World Newspaper Archive project. Two informational sessions will be given Monday, November 3, one from 3:30-4:30 pm and a second from 5:00-6:00 pm in the 2nd floor Bartle Library Staff Lounge. Light refreshments will be served.

For further information, please contact Ed Shephard, Head of Collection Development, at eshephar@binghamton.edu or (607) 777-2493.

Roberts is joint winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine and one of 26 Nobel Prize Winners to sign the Open Letter to U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research. He is also the current Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs

Bourne is the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and the author of the popular PLoS Computational Biology “Ten Simple Rules” Series. He is also a professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego and Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank.

Click here for more information on Open Access Day

For more information please contact Elizabeth Brown.