4 Collection Development and Management
In spite of the increasing amount of electronic information resources that
the Library made available to its users, the number of analogue books and
serials continued to increase rapidly as shown in Tables 1 and 2 below. It
should be noted that the total number of items for 1996 (2,364,919) cannot be
compared with the total for 1997, because there was a significant change in the
way that microform volumes and "non book" materials were counted.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that more than 50,000 monographs were acquired,
and about 10,000 periodical volumes were added to the stock.
The figures do not include expenditure on electronic information resources.
In 1997, the total expenditure on electronic resources was $692,059, and this is
expected to increase in the years to come.
Table 1. Library Collections 1997
| LIBRARY |
MONOGRAPHS
VOLUMES
| SERIALS (incl.
NEWSPAPERS)
VOLUMES |
MICROFORMS
VOLUMES |
NON BOOK
SER +MONO
VOLUMES |
TOTAL |
| H&SS |
886,711 |
152,866 |
274,873 |
5,504 |
1,319,954 |
| Biomedical |
83,608 |
104,834 |
2,813 |
2,407 |
193,662 |
| Hargrave |
113,236 |
102,560 |
3,880 |
1,150 |
220,826 |
| Law |
50,595 |
77,470 |
8,448 |
83 |
136,596 |
| Caul/Pen |
353,330 |
191,875 |
2,511 |
26,066 |
456,782 |
| Berwick |
91 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
94 |
| Gippsland |
108,636 |
28,876 |
4,316 |
50,025 |
191,853 |
| TOTAL |
1,596,207 |
541,481 |
296,841 |
85,238 |
2,519,767 |
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Table 2. Number of Current Serials Titles 1997
| LIBRARY |
TOTAL |
Net gain or loss
for the year |
| H&SS |
7,665 |
+82 |
| Hargrave |
1,920 |
-45 |
| Biomedical |
1,636 |
-8 |
| Law |
2,186 |
-42 |
| Caulfield/Peninsula |
3,177 |
+45 |
| Gippsland |
1,405 |
+15 |
| Berwick |
33 |
+33 |
| TOTAL |
18,067 |
+50 |
Table 3 Electronic Database and Journal Expenditure 1997
| FUNDING SOURCE |
EXPENDITURE $
|
| H&SS |
50,148 |
| Hargrave |
41,385 |
| Biomedical |
73,706 |
| Caulfield |
57,384 |
| Peninsula |
14,592 |
| Berwick |
779 |
| Gippsland |
75,000 |
| Law |
119,181 |
| Library General |
3,377 |
| Central |
256,507 |
The Library continued to be the beneficiary of the generosity of others. Major
gifts included some thousands of books, journals and manuscripts from the
library of distinguished South East Asian scholar, Dr David Chandler. Lindsay
Shaw donated almost 10,000 items of Australian children's books to the Rare
Books Library, while Dr Richard Travers donated three more instalments of his
medical history collection. Other significant donations were received from
Emeritus Professor Jean Whyte, who donated her set of Brindabella Press
publications, and Peter Lyssiotis, a Melbourne poet and artist, who is donating
his archive to the Library. To ensure its long term preservation, the sciences
rare book collection was moved to the environmentally controlled stack area of
the Rare Books Library.
In 1997, the Library began moving several thousand of its lesser used materials
to the CARM store at Bundoora. Guidelines for the Library's centralised storage
facility and for the CAVAL CARM cooperative off campus store were drawn up, with
the Collection Management Librarian assuming responsibility for storage matters.
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