The collection is also strong in areas of the materials that may be used for packaging such as forest products and plastics. Due to no interlibrary loan activity it appears that the basic packaging science collection is meeting the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate degree. The number of books published in packaging science is not high. Emphasis should be placed on updating the collection. Many of the titles are over 10 years old.
Food packaging is the strongest area in the collection.
More emphasis should be placed on healthcare product and electronic product packaging. A small Packaging Science Library is located in the Packaging Science Department. This library has a large collection of videos related to the packaging industry and some periodicals, books and other printed material not located in Cooper Library. Since there has not been any interlibrary loan activity, it is difficult to determine the actual cost needs for interlibrary loan or document delivery. The Packaging collection is heavily used, even the older editions of titles.