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Summit library system is very useful and with the addition of inter-library loan, many things can be obtained.  They are, however, for fairly short checkout periods.  

Checkout periods for regular faculty use of our own library resources are not appropriate for research projects.  The items should be checked out for an academic year, subject to recall.  It would be useful to have a separate library budget for the museum and museum studies program.  

Resources at the library are being discarded (e.g., films-ethnographic films are irreplaceable and were decommissioned without our knowledge) and sent to other institutions without our knowledge based on whether or not they have been checked out.  We would like to participate in this decision-making.

Inquiries are being made regarding the purchase and maintenance of Artstor, an image database comprised of over 300,000 works.  This database would be of great service when illustrating studio lectures, assisting with the delivery of general education courses and, as well, it would resolve the needs of non-western art history courses for which slides are extremely difficult and expensive to acquire.

The CWU library currently is adequate for the level of research in which Aviation Faculty are engaged.  Currently the I&ET department has a budget for ordering library resources which the Flight Technology program shares with other programs in the department.  Plans are to establish our own separate budget now that we have achieved department status. Resources may be ordered at any time during the year.  Additionally, Faculty utilize an interstate library system and have books sent to the Ellensburg campus.  Generally the library provides outstanding service considering its limited resources.

The journals/serials budget has been cut time and time again, resulting in a reduced capacity to meet our student and faculty need. We attempt to make up for some of this deficit by making our personal subscriptions available for students (approximately 48 titles). Decreased serials funding has also placed a much greater burden on the interlibrary loan department, who are understaffed already. As a department we strongly advocate increased funding for books and journals.

The library has reasonable holdings for course work. The department would benefit greatly from a subscription to SciFinder, which is a more up-to-date and user-friendly electronic searching service. It is currently held by most of our peer institutions. The following journals, not currently subscribed to, would also enhance our programs and our faculty work:

1.	Journal of Research in Science Teaching
2.	Journal of Chemical Education
3.	Methods in Enzymology
4.	Journal of Luminescence
5.	Journal of Solid State Chemistry
6.	Surface Science
7.	Surface Science Reports
8.	Applied Surface Science
9.	Surface and Interface Analysis
10.	Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design
11.	European Journal of Organic Chemistry
12.	Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
13.	Synlett

Faculty research needs are also only marginally being met. The faculty require a wider range of discipline specific journals, books and some audio/video materials. While there is a small selection available through the current resource channels, the situation needs the dedicated attention of a person with time to audit the current holdings, gather lists of needed resources and obtain them through the library budget, and perhaps other funding sources. 

Some faculty in the department find that they must access off campus library resources in order to work on research projects. Some faculty purchase the library resources that they need with personal funds. Others try to manage with what is available.

January, 2008
Again research in computer science wheter student- or faculty-related is closely tied to access to digital libraries especially those offered by the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.  The Department has access to all necessary libraries either through library subscriptions or through personal faculty subscriptions supported by the department.

The library does not carry the kind of holdings that provide support for widespread faculty research in economics. This is not the fault of the library, but a reflection of limited budgets. With the high cost of books and professional journals today, only a limited number of these items can be obtained. However, the staff of the library are very helpful purchasing books and journals most vital to the mission of DOE, and also with requesting materials through interlibrary loan. The DOE bears some of the cost of subscriptions to journals and books necessary for teaching and research. DOE faculty strongly recommend that the library continue to receive funding for the purchase of educational materials.

Research material is housed in the Brooks Library. Many of the holdings/resources specific to education are outdated. In the last few years, there has been input and more recent resources have become available. This pattern of acquiring recent and recommended materials must continue. The DOE Library Representative has provided opportunities for faculty input to suggest new holdings as they become available. Often times, for research purposes, student’s must utilize other sources such as SUMMIT because adequate recent resources on the topics are just not available at the CWU library.

Brooks library has very adequate online resources to electronic data-bases which represent best practice journals in special education. Continuing access to the full spectrum of journals is necessary for our students to have access to current evidence-based practices in education.

Curricular materials, necessary to support prospective educators, such as textbooks, instructional manipulatives, kits and games, curricular and educational assessments, and educator curricular resource books are housed within the Curriculum Library at the Educational Technology Center housed in Black Hall. Because of the lack of a budget to obtain materials and adequately develop the curriculum libary, this collection is not comprehensive, is very dated and not reflective or supportive of best-practices for students soon to be teachers in the field. The collection is dependent on donations and faculty who are able to write publishers to obtain donations. Current materials supporting statewide education curriculum, such as a comprehensive library of recent recommended curricular materials supporting evidenced-based practices across all core curriculum served by the DOE and that supports the unique learning of all students is necessary. An adequate budget, faculty input and stewardship, and adequate resources such as staff to catalog newly acquired materials within a timely manner would benefit students both undergraduate, graduate and faculty.

Over the last decade, budget cuts have diminished acquisition of new journals, books, reference materials, and microfilmed collections.  The English Department’s faculty commends the efforts of the library staff to as they continue to facilitate research under these circumstances--particularly their responsiveness to specific requests, their acquisition of computerized databases that provide scholarly journal articles and primary sources, and the acquisition of supplementary materials by Friends of the Library. We endorse all efforts to support the library, in that it is essential to successful research by faculty and students in an institution that increasingly emphasizes research.

FCS Education
There are two specific journals requested for Family and Consumer Sciences Education at the library. They are: The Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences and The Research Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences. Both journals are used for research by FCSE students. All students are required to complete assignments that support the use of these and other journals that pertain to issues of the family and/or the consumer. Students are expected to be able to read, critique, and use referred journals in all courses. Specific assignments require that students understand reliable resources, how to find them on-line, and how to reference them appropriately.

Family Studies
Reasonable library resources are available to students and faculty for family studies related topics. Access to other libraries through SUMMUT and ILLiad as well as online databases in family studies, education, sociology, psychology, etc. provide additional resources for our students. More current resources could be added in the area of sexuality education and parenting education.

Fashion Merchandising
The new faculty member has not assessed the library resources for FM. The faculty member came from industry and brought industry resources to CWU.

Recreation and Tourism
The CWU library has limited physical resources for the RT discipline on campus. With access through Interlibrary Loan, Summit Catalog, and other on line resources, the scope of library resources increases. One thing that is very critical is the fact that the CWU library does not carry any RT academic journals such as JPRA.

Interior Design
The ID program relies heavily on industry resources to meet its education and research objective.

We are happy to have the library in such close physical proximity to our offices and to have librarians who are affable and accessible.  The library, while not able to provide the resources to faculty that large Carnegie 1 or state flagship institutions can, does a very good job as far as we are concerned in supporting our programs and individual research agendas.  In particular, we have found the inter-library loan program to be a very handy and convenient way to access materials from all over the state and region.  This service is efficient and fast and covers whatever our library cannot provide from itself.

Within the natural resources arena and other more applied fields of geography, there is also a critical need to access limited distribution technical reports that are uncommon in library holdings.  While some of these can be obtained as government documents, many are difficult to locate.  While this “gray literature” is critical to some student and faculty research, it is not typically listed in publicly-available databases, and is instead located mostly via personal communications with pertinent resource agency personnel.  In that regard, we do not believe that the CWU library can be expected to assist in this area.

The library does an excellent job with the resources it is given. Department faculty, staff and students routinely use Georef, GEOBASE and the many engines that access on-line journals (e.g., Science Direct Journals, SpringerLink). Routine use is made of all of the avenues through which on-line journals are acquired. The Interlibrary loan office does an impressive job of filling requests in a timely way. Cattrax and Summit are also excellent resources. The current library repository of US Geological Survey and other documents is satisfactory.

The main challenge is the library’s inability to maintain a number of on-line and/or print journal subscriptions that are necessary to our teaching and research programs. While interlibrary loan is a substitute for having direct access to journals and other resources, the time lag, in some cases, presents difficulties. This is particularly true because the time available to do research at CWU can be quite fragmented. If a particular article is not available when a faculty member has an open window of time, progress comes to a halt, and in some cases, cannot be reinitiated for several weeks.

Additional journals, not currently fully available except by interlibrary loan or by waiting for a period of time (e.g., 6-months following publication), that would enhance our program:

Journal of Petrology
Journal of Hydrology
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Geoderma
Quaternary Science Reviews

For the level of research undertaken by the department’s faculty, the on campus library will never be satisfactory. Faculty members may utilize an interstate library system and have books sent to the Ellensburg campus. For literature review browsing an impressive engineering library is available at the University of Washington in Seattle.

The department relies on the library for access to journals, books, reference and video materials, and as a repository for reserve materials. The department makes extensive use of interlibrary loan services. Through their web interface, the library provides valuable resources for research in the criminal justice area providing access to Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe, NCJRS, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Proquest, newspapers, article first and a huge variety of other databases. LAJ 303 — Legal Research requires extensive use of the library, both in person in the reference area and on-line through legal research databases. All LAJ students are required to utilize legal sources in their class presentations and topical research papers. Students are required to gather, analyze and critique primary literature and the library is the chief source of their research data. 
Faculty regularly use the main library for hard copy resources, while there is a heavy reliance on computer based resources, particularly law and justice related eg. Professional journals, government documents, abstract services, etc. Also, the two major online legal resources, West Law and Lexis Nexis, are invaluable to students and faculty. In the classroom, most faculty use blackboard and various related I.T. At the Centers, there is adequate upgrading of computers, plus availability of computer labs for students. In Ellensburg, the major need in the future is a computer lab in the new building adequate for class instruction.

The music department has an account with funds allotted for the purchase of library materials.  The music library also has its own account for the acquisition of music books and scores.  There is also a budget line category called “audio” which permits the purchase of music sound recordings.  A “video” account is used to acquire videos and films on music.

Health Programs:  The Health Programs use print and electronic sources at the library on campus regularly.  In addition, the Community Health Library that is part of the Kittitas Valley Community Hospital provides additional print and electronic support to our students and faculty.

Physical Education

Food Science & Nutrition:  Faculty in Food Science and Nutrition are satisfied with the adequacy and accessibility of library acquisitions.

Para-medicine

Exercise Science:  Generally adequate and accessible.

Graduate Programs:  Typically, interlibrary loan (electronic request) has worked well for acquisition of articles.  Turn around is typically reasonable (about 1 week).  There is usually no cost associated with interlibrary loan.  We are in need of more journals at CWU’s library that would service all HHPN graduate programs.

Budget cuts have unfortunately severely diminished acquisition of journals, books, reference materials, maps, and primary source collections in the last decade. We are appreciative of the Library’s efforts to make resources more readily available to students and faculty, and encourage the continued expansion into relevant databases and inter-library loan services. This is particularly critical as the Philosophy and Religious Studies programs continue to grow and expand into areas such as Asian and Islamic Studies, where on-campus resources are limited, and library budgets preclude the acquisition of necessary primary resources and professional journals.

As mentioned previously, the CWU Library has a reasonable collection of research journals.  However, due to the diversity of the research being performed, the collection is insufficient.  Given the resources available, coupled with the high price of journals, the Physics Department does not see how this can be addressed (for its own purposes as well as University-wide).  An alternate solution is for the CWU Library to continue supporting its interlibrary loan and online database programs (ILLIAD, SUMMIT and Web of Science).  The Department believes this is the most cost effective solution to the problem that would also permit faculty to pursue their scholarly activities.

Given the increased emphasis by the administration on faculty (and even student) research, then, we believe that our library resources are less than ideal.  They remain adequate in some respects and deficient in others (especially in terms of foreign and international politics), though overall there has been some improvement over five years ago.

On the other hand, there have been some positive developments.  The library has expanded its electronic database resources to include such services as Lexis-Nexis, JSTOR, and the like. We now have access to SUMMIT, an electronic interlibrary loan system pooling the holdings of libraries in the Northwest region, which helps considerably in gaining access to research materials.  However, this does not replace or reduce the ability to find research materials in our home library, and may even lead to important delays in the case of source competition between people at various institutions; but at the same time, we welcome the expanded research base.
Jan. 08

(January 2008)
Book acquisitions primarily are managed by a wholesaler’s purchase plan guided by our university profile, but 100-200 books per year from publishers outside the purchase plan. Appropriate psychology faculty members review these titles and make purchase recommendations. In addition, our department has an annual book budget for faculty purchase requests. To some extent, we coordinate our purchases with other Summit libraries to avoid multiple purchases of seldom-used volumes.

The only chronically underrepresented portions of our library collection have been journals and video materials. Subscriptions to online journal databases have gone far to fill gaps in our print journals. Keeping up with advances in media technology from film to tape to CD to DVD has been difficult for all libraries and many professors turn to video clips from publishers and online sources instead of traditional library sources. Overall, our library holdings and staff are very commendable.

The library is a key component in the acquisition of primary source and supplemental materials.  The Theatre Department’s faculty is committed to strengthening our relationship with the library staff people, whose commitment and dedication is laudable.  The university library is a key component to the university’s success; we are committed to using extant library materials, using available funds to acquire new library materials, and taking advantage of Inter-library Loan services.

The library materials and service have been readily accessible and adequate for the work of the department.  As we move toward a research focused MA in the next few years, more resources will be needed in the research areas.

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