At the other end of the spectrum, faculty have been slow to take advantage of the full range of electronic resources currently available. I am pleased to be serving on the Publicity Committee for the Information Fair planned for this fall, which should address this situation. With a few notable exceptions I shall elaborate on shortly, most of the observations detailed in recent annual reports remain relevant. Coping with inadequate space in the Public Administration Collection and the Politics and Law portions of Firestone stacks consumes large chunks of time of everyone on the staff.
Withdrawals are much more labor intensive than acquisitions.
Since many of the 388 volumes transferred and the 212 volumes withdrawn from SF this year were older titles, considerable local card work was involved. Selecting pamphlets for withdrawal is extremely time consuming, as is the related card work. We are firmly committed to continuing this process as time and staff permit. We are excited by the possibility of electronically altering cards in the future, but fear that it will be many years before we can reap the benefits of this technology. Unfortunately a large proportion of the items in our Pre-1980 card catalog represent local cataloging and are not reflected in the catalog currently being scanned on Firestone's main floor.