Instructional Support Level. A collection that is sufficient to support undergraduate and some graduate instruction and research. A collection adequate to maintain knowledge of a subject required for limited or generalized purpose. It includes a wide range of basic monographs, complete collections of the works of more important writers, selections from the works of secondary writers, a selection of representative journals, access to appropriate non- bibliographic date bases, and the reference tools pertaining to the subject. A collection that includes the major published source materials required for dissertations and independent research including materials containing research reporting, new findings, scientific experimental results, and other information useful to researchers.
Older material is retained for historical research.
UW-L will not collect at this level. The aim, if not the achievement, is exhaustiveness. UW-L will not collect at this level. The library requires that the requests for materials to be purchased are categorized before submitting them. General Interest Material is difficult to departmentalize but is of general interest and of significance to our library.