A limited collection of representative general periodicals Defined access to a limited collection of owned or remotely accessed electronic bibliographic toots, texts, data sets, journals, etc. This collection is sufficient to support the basic informational and recreational reading needs of an educated general public or students through the first two years of college. The collection should be systematically reviewed for currency of information and for assurance that essential and important information is retained, including significant numbers of retrospective materials. Defined access to a broad range of specialized electronic resources This collection supports upper division undergraduate courses. Defined access to a broad range of specialized electronic resources This collection supports master's degree level programs as well as other specialized inquiries.
Older material is retained and systematically preserved to serve the needs of historical research.
A comprehensive level collection may serve as a national or international resource. A summary of the Conspectus information is included in the discussion of the collection development for each subject area and collection. The unavailability may be for a number of reasons, including missing and failure to be returned by a borrower. The Library tenders for a binding service every two years. Each branch library is allocated funds from the Collection Development budget to support binding of their collections.