Faculty Senate Committee
on University Libraries
March 2014
Faculty Senate Committee on University Libraries
FSCUL membership
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Frank Merat, CSE, Chair
Mary Quinn Griffin, SON
Michael Landers, SODM
Cassandra Robertson, LAW
Damir Janigro, SOM
Amy Wilson, MSASS
Sarah Gridley, CAS
Kurt Koenigsberger, CAS
Silvia Prina, WSOM
Hongjin Su, undergraduate student
representative
Lee Zickel, graduate student
representative
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Lynn Ulatowski, postdoc student
representative
Kathleen Blazar, Interim Health
Sciences Library, ex-officio
Ray Muzic, chair FSCICT, ex-officio
Andrew Plumb-Larrick, Law Library,
ex-officio
Samantha Skutnik, MSASS Library,
ex-officio
Arnold Hirshon, Associate Provost &
University Librarian, ex-officio
Mark Henderson, Interim VP ITS,
ex-officio
FSCUL activities
FSCUL has met 4 times (with two more
meetings scheduled)
Responsibilities:
The Committee on the University Libraries shall advise the
University Librarian and the University administration on policies
and procedures relating to the operations, facilities, and budget of
the University Libraries. The Committee shall report regularly to the
Senate, with recommendations as appropriate.
FSCUL: Digital Scholarship
http://library.case.edu/ksl/freedmancenter/digitalscholarship/
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Digital scholarship is the use of digital evidence, methods of inquiry, research,
publication and preservation to achieve scholarly and research goals. Digital
scholarship can encompass both scholarly communication using digital media and
research on digital media.
“Digital Scholarship Call for Participation and Action 2-11-2014” available on KSL
Website
CWRU Community and digital scholarship
• Faculty and students increasingly using digital scholarship and/or developing
digital scholarship tools
• ITS, Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship, the Baker-Nord Center for Digital
Humanities, etc. are increasingly providing support for digital scholarship
Call for Collaborative Participation and Action
• Inventory CWRU assets
• Organize working groups cutting across all CWRU communities
• Identify potential pilot projects and explore shared funding opportunities
FSCUL: Library Materials
CWRU’s ability to provide the Library Materials
expected by our faculty & students and commensurate
with our peer universities is being severely challenged
by three factors:
• The inflationary costs (~6%) of library materials
• OhioLINK Central decreasing its support for electronic resources
forcing CWRU to pick up costs of research essential resources at
much higher costs, and
• Reduced endowment funds to spend on materials due to a drop in
the University’s spending rate for endowments.
FSCUL: Library Materials
• CWRU has had to purchase reduced content at higher prices to
maintain the current availability of materials. This will probably lead
to significant cutting of electronic databases beginning as soon as
summer 2014.
• More financial details in “Library Materials Budget Overview: FY14 &
FY15” (attached)
• Requested Faculty Senate Finance Committee to review situation
and recommend short and long-term financial solutions
Examples of Recent OhioLINK cost shifts
Examples of KSL Titles Under Consideration
for FY15 Cancellation
Comparison with peer institutions
Institution
CWRU
University of Cincinnati
The Ohio State University
FY2013 Budget
$7,245,396
$10,594,035
$16,270,975
Difference
(CWRU vs. Comparison
Institution)
-46%
-78%
Note: CWRU figures include all libraries — including KSL, Health Sciences, Law and
MSASS.
Examples of requested materials unable to
purchase
Title
Visual Resources : An International Journal of Documentation
Journal of Clinical neurophysiology
Tissue Engineering, Parts A, B, & C
Middle East Report (Journal)
Images : a journal of Jewish art and visual culture
Price
estimate
$731
$1,366
$6,938
$150
$176
Discipline
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions E: Materials for Energy Systems
Roper Center Public Opinion Archives
3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
The International Journal of Ethical Leadership
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities
JapanKnowledge.com reference collection
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
Point Carbon
Language and Cognitive Processes
$1,000
$6,150
$1,895
$100
$579
$2,800
$579
$1,764
$2,291
Diplomatic History (journal)
Nanomedicine
FIAF plus
Jewish Studies Source
PsycTESTS
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of
Engineering in Medicine
ProQuest Deep Indexing: Materials Science (CSA Materials with Metadex)
MRS Bulletin
OECD Health Statistics
Advances in Civil Engineering Materials
Materials Performance and Characterization
ASM Corrosion Analysis Network
ASM Failure Analysis Database
$445
$3,125
$5,200
$1,600
$3,500
$3,577
Art History
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Political Science
Religious Studies, Judaic Studies,
Art & Art History
Materials Science and Engineering
History; Political Science
Materials Science and Engineering
Philosophy
Philosophy
Religious Studies
English
Political Science
Cognitive & Communication
Sciences
History
Biomedical Engineering
Film Studies
Religious Studies
Psychology
Biomedical Engineering
$24,001
$439
$630
$410
$410
$3,000
$1,252
Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Management
Civil Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
TOTAL: HIGH or MID-to-HIGH PRIORITY
$74,108
Sense of the Faculty
(Approved by FSCUL 13 March 2014)
The library is a critical and basic operation of the University, and the
library materials budget shapes the essence and core of the library. The
Faculty Senate Committee on University Libraries wishes to transmit its
serious concern to (the Faculty Senate and) the President and Provost
that the continued lack of sufficient funding for library materials has
resulted not only in a funding level that is significantly below that of our
peer institutions, but has now reached a point at which mission-critical
research materials can no longer be afforded and our ability to conduct
research will be irreparably threatened.
Sense of the Faculty
(Approved by FSCUL 13 March 2014) (continued)
The new CWRU strategic plan, Think Beyond the Possible: 20132018, states as a goal that CWRU will “…provide library information
content, services and resources commensurate with those of our
university peers…”
To achieve this essential goal, the Faculty Senate Committee on
University Libraries urges that the President and the Provost give
serious and immediate attention to identifying and implementing
solutions, beginning with FY2015, that will enable the funding of library
materials not only to meet the basic information needs of faculty and
students, but also to begin a multi-year process to grow the funding so
that it is fully commensurate with that of our peer institutions.