A Collection Development Statement is available from the director. The reference librarian has primary responsibility for development of the reference collection. Faculty may make suggestions for reference purchases, or may buy reference materials from their own monograph budgets. Periodicals Development of the periodicals collection is a joint responsibility of the periodicals librarian and the faculty. Periodical purchases must be carefully considered with considerable librarian input.
Periodical subscriptions are a lengthy commitment, and most often serve more than one department.
Publisher catalog information may be useful. Faculty will receive the order cards, with call numbers noted, when the books have been bought, catalogued and placed on the shelves. Each year in order to complete ordering and payments before the end of the fiscal year, there is a final due date for all orders. Normally this will be April 1. Departmental budgets unspent by this point will be spent by the director.