The resources needed to build, maintain, and preserve a collection such as ours cannot come from the State of Illinois alone. We will continue to seek endowment funds, and other gifts targeted for collection support. In addition, we will work collaboratively with teaching departments to increase support for departmental libraries. Individual Library Unit Objectives Actively pursue cooperative collection development activities with other institutions. Over the past decade academic and research libraries have realized that no one library can collect all the materials needed by its users.
Collection development has to evolve into cooperative collection development.
In meeting this objective we will identify common collection interests among our peers and develop cooperative programs. We will strengthen and expand the cooperative borrowing and document delivery services. Develop guides that direct users to those parts of the collection that meet their needs. Many users have told us that the collection is so large and complex that they cannot find the items they need, nor do they know of our special collections. To meet this need we intend to develop better methods to publicize the collections and to help our users be more self-sufficient .