How important that is depends on what you're looking for. In most of the areas where current information is important, one reason we don't have as many books as we'd like is that we spend most of our money on serials. Remember, if we don't have something here, we can get it for you. Actually, from some people's point of view, the problem is that we get too many serials, in fields they're not interested in. Serials have been inflating in price far faster than books have for many years.
Many scientific journals cost hundreds or thousands of dollars each for a yearly subscription.
For that reason, we are shifting some of our most expensive serials to electronic delivery only. Instead of continuing to get paper copies, we will pay for the online delivery of articles and tables of contents through the Uncover Reveal service . See 3A1 above to see how that works. If there's a particular serial you think we should be getting, talk to the appropriate departmental library representative. See also answer 3A8 above.