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Libraries Drop Thousands of Journals as Budgets Shrink and Prices Rise.

Nicklin, Julie L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1991

University libraries are being forced to cancel subscriptions to thousands of journals, some considered essential to academic research, due to rapidly rising costs. Publishers cite increased publication costs and more articles as the source of increases. Many journals once published by nonprofit organizations have been taken over by profit-seeking…

Descriptors: College Libraries, Costs, Economic Change, Higher Education

Holdings of Research Libraries in U.S. and Canada, 1989-90.

Chronicle of Higher Education, 1991

Tabular data are presented on 107 university and 12 non-university research libraries' holdings and operating expenditures, providing information by library rank on volumes in library; volumes added; current serials; total staff; and total expenditures. A graph depicts percentages for operating expenditures. (DB)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Acquisition, Library Collection Development

Holdings of Research Libraries in U.S.and Canada, 1992-93.

Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994

The 108 university research libraries with the largest collections and 11 public and special libraries with large research holdings are listed. Data include rank (universities only), numbers of volumes, volumes added in 1991-92, current serials, permanent staff, and total expenditures in 1991-92. University libraries' total operating expenditures…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Collection Development, Library Collections

Holdings of Research Libraries in U.S. and Canada, 1995-96.

Powell, Lora Thompson, Ed.; Stewart, Jasmine, Ed. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997

Presents data on number of volumes, volumes added in 1995-96, current serials, permanent staff, and total expenditures of university and non-university research libraries in the United States and Canada. Also charts operating expenditure percentages for salaries, books and monographs, serials, and other materials and expenses. (MSE)

Descriptors: Books, College Libraries, Expenditures, Foreign Countries