Electronic Journal Collection Grows

One of the Library's goals for the last two years has been to move our journal collection from print to an electronic format. We are making good progress in this direction. For 2002 we changed 110 journal subscriptions from print to online. As we add new journals to the collection we subscribe to the online format whenever the cost is reasonable and online access is allowed for the whole campus. Twenty-three of our new subscriptions for 2002 are online. Among them are Nature and the Nature Reviews journals and BioMedNet's popular "Current Opinion in …" and "Trends in …" journals. We have also taken advantage of online journal packages offered by associations like the American Heart Association, the American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., and the American Society for Microbiology.

The Library's participation in consortial purchases with other libraries has increased our access to online journals considerably. Our most recent acquisition has been through the Greater Western Libraries Alliance for the Wiley Interscience collection of journals. We have added 250 new Wiley journals to our online journals. Another new group of online journals is the ProQuest nursing journals bought through ArkLink, a consortium of Arkansas academic libraries. This acquisition added 87 online nursing journals to our collection. Last year the Library bought the Blackwell Science collection of about 190 online journals through SCAMeL, a consortium of academic health science libraries in five southwest states. Currently the Library's catalog has records for more than 2000 online journals.

Mary Hawks,
Collection Management Librarian

Book Sale's a Success

The Library's book sale each year proves to us that people still love books. This year the sale was better attended than ever before. We made almost $900 that will be used for the general support of the Library. Thanks to all of you who helped us find a new home for our treasures!