Some subject allocations will be able to purchase several books, other subjects may be able to purchase just one. The book budget for 98-99 was escrowed . The bulk of it went to cover periodical and continuations costs for 98-99. Just a few periodical subscriptions have been added in order to support new programs. A few new contiuation titles were added during the Bond project to support new programs and to take advantage of significant discounts.
Some new programs remain unrepresented in our journal collection.
All 'dead wood' is now carved out of our periodical collection. Non-essential subscriptions have been replaced with necessary subscriptions for new programs. Redundancies with Deschutes County Library's periodical collections have been reduced to standard news periodicals in high demand by the COCC community. We are now forced to discontinue primary, academic subscriptions in order to purchase new, necessary subscriptions for new programs. Due to price increases, soon, we will be canceling subscriptions in order to pay, not for new subscriptions, but for ongoinng costs.