MIAMI UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY
NAVAL SCIENCE
Fund Group: Social Science
Fund: 15
Librarian: Jenny Presnell
Date: Spring 1991
Revised: June 1993; March 1995; September 1996; June 1997; April 2001;
December 2003
I. Department History, Programs, and Emphases
A. History of Department
The Miami NROTC Unit had its start in 1943 as a V-12 unit, when a radio
communications and bakers school was established. It became an NROTC
Unit in 1946 under the Holloway Plan with its original offices in the west
wing of Symmes Hall. In 1948 Rowan Hall, designed especially for the Navy,
became the home of the NROTC. In 1971, the Unit moved to its present
location in Millett Assembly Hall. Today it has 105 midshipmen in the Navy
and Marine officer reserve corps.
B. Programs.
Students can sign up for 2 or 4-year college program. Upon completion and
commissioning, midshipmen will serve a minimum of four years on active
duty. Fields of study options include: Navy, Marine Corps or Navy Nurse
options and include any other field of undergraduate study.
Study options:
1. Scholarship Option. (Navy Scholarship/ Marine Scholarship/Navy
Nurse)
Requires 20-22 hours of Naval Science and depending on the choice
above, calculus, calculus based physics, computer science, national
security policy, American military affairs, School of Nursing
requirements. Tuition is paid for. Selection is by the Naval Science
faculty. Upon commission, 4 years of active duty is required.
2. College Option.
Options and requirements of study are the same. Upon completion of
degree, students enter the reserve.
3. Two Year Option
Allows sophomores to enter the program.
C. Special Emphases and Relationships
Naval Science courses introduce students to the basics of navigation, tactics,
amphibious warfare as well as leadership practices.
D. Related Departments.
Aerospace Studies
Management
Math Physics
Political Science
II. Overview of Collections
A. Historical Patterns
Historically, American Studies has been affiliated either with the English
department or the Religion department and thus heavily reliant on
published core American Studies printed, classic literary texts. While the
approach was interdisciplinary, the library materials were generally spread
throughout the History, English, and Religion textual collections. Nontraditional studies of American Culture were generally undertaken in the
School of Interdisciplinary Studies and supported and funded by their
library.
B. Relations with Other Miami Collections
Aerospace Studies:
Political Science:
Math:
Physics:
C. Southwest Regional Depository (SWORD)
Miami has participated since the early 1990s in a shared remote storage
facility with Wright State University, University of Cincinnati, and Central
State University located on the Miami Middletown campus. The Southwest
Regional Depository houses over 1.6 million volumes in print and media
collections, including monographs, journal runs, and sound recordings. The
MiamiLINK catalog notes location of these items as SW Dep; librarians also
refer to it as SWORD, the Depository, and regional storage.
Decisions on sending items to storage are based on several criteria, primarily
use data. There are circulation and in-house use records for books, and,
generally, we will send books not circulated or used more than once in the
past ten years to the Depository. Items in areas no longer taught at Miami, not
in English, or in fragile condition are also candidates. Occasionally newly
added items (mainly gifts with older imprints but sometimes newly published
titles) will be sent directly to the Depository.
All the Oxford libraries are in zero-growth mode, so as new materials are
added, other material must be moved out, and each library has its own set of
procedures for identifying materials to transfer to the Depository. In addition
to regularly reviewing the book collections, librarians review journal runs for
disposition as well, especially as electronic editions become available in
OhioLINK’s Electronic Journal Center (where they are archived) or as JSTOR
adds them.
Items housed in the depository are available to be sent to the main campus
within a few days. The MiamiLINK catalog includes a “Request Item” feature
that patrons can use to request complete items or online copies of journal
articles or book chapters.
III. Materials
A. Formats
Books: Secondary materials are important. Much of Naval Science is selfcontained.
Periodicals: Recent increase has helped the collection. Monographs are still
the mainstay. OhioLINK has provided many journals online, especially
through JSTOR and the EJC. This is useful for the more technical titles that
we would not have been able to subscribe to in the past.
Textbooks: Naval Science textbooks are provided by the battalion.
Reprints: Purchased only if original is in poor condition or never owned.
Dissertations and Theses: N/A
Paperbacks:
Acquired if the only format available.
Usually either
commercially or in-house bound. Sometimes purchased as second/multiple
copies.
Microforms: N/A
Audio & Visual Materials: Useful for some training materials.
Computer Software: Useful for some training materials.
Out of Print: Do not search dealer catalogues. Participate in OP searches
through Acquisitions and as the result of a purchase request.
Electronic: We select and provide access to electronic resources such as
diskettes, CD-ROMs, subscriptions, and Internet sites that support
curriculum and research needs. Versions (PC, Macintosh, other) are decided
in consultation with the Department System Liaisons. Circulation and
Location Policies for physical items are determined on a case-by-case basis.
Placement of Internet links are determined in consultation with Design Team.
B. Languages, Publishers and Geographic Emphases
Languages: English language predominates. Purchase of foreign language
materials generally by request.
Publishers: Heavy emphasis on U.S. publishers. Janes, a British publisher as
well as Brassey’s also.
Geographic: Primarily the United States, and other nations as issues of world
security change.
C. Special Concerns
NA
D. Selection Guidelines
E. Acquisitions Issues
Approval Plan: With YBP, reviewed spring 2003.
Periodicals: increased 1989-90; reduced 1992. Print titles cancelled when
received electronically.
Standing Orders: updated fall 1990, reduced 1992.
IV. Resource Sharing
A. Neighboring/Statewide Collections
B. OhioLINK
Miami is a charter participant (1992-) in the OhioLINK system, which brings
together academic libraries and the State Library of Ohio in a consortium
designed to foster cooperative lending, borrowing, and purchasing of print,
electronic, and other media resources. Through the OhioLINK consortium we
are able to acquire a wide range of digital resources: electronic journals,
indexing and research databases, e-books, and digital media (images, sound
files, videos). OhioLINK also provides several related services, including a
central union catalog, interlibrary borrowing of books (P-Circ), interlibrary loan
of journal articles, and statewide chat reference; an improved system of
cooperative collection building is envisioned. In addition, through OhioLINK
members can make last-copy decisions and share information about discards. If
an item is to be withdrawn because of condition or loss and it is the only (last)
copy in the state, attempts should be made to replace it and/or offer to other
consortium members to maintain that intellectual content within the state and
available to the Ohio community. OhioLINK has selected preferred book and
serials vendors, Yankee Book Peddler and Zwets, although member libraries are
not required to use them. One key service is the archiving of nearly all
electronic journals and full-text databases.
OhioLINK governance includes several advisory committees: CIRM
(Cooperative Information Resource Management) selects resources and
determines a funding model for acquiring them, while the User Services
Committee works with issues of access and functionality. Subject groups exist
in various areas that are venues for selection personnel to meet and discuss new
or needed resources, and these will be important in future cooperation
initiatives. OhioLINK uses several purchasing models for its digital resources:
capital, war-chest, npr, and pay-to-pay (these are explained elsewhere).
OhioLINK participation affects local collection development decisions in
several ways. The consortium has made possible the addition of hundreds of ejournals, e-books, digital media, and research databases that Miami could not
have purchased on its own; on the other hand, OhioLINK commitments nearly
always take precedence over local, and our short-term and long-term planning
has to take into account OhioLINK opportunities and commitments. Although
each OhioLINK library retains its own acquisitions budgets, because of the
constraints of state finances it is important to check holdings or plans of other
institutions before purchasing especially higher cost items. Because some types
of material do not normally circulate on OhioLINK (media, journals),
purchasing decisions are not made solely on the basis of OhioLINK holdings,
however. As always, faculty input is critical in determining whether something
needs to be owned by Miami or can be accessed within a week or so from
another school.