Virginia Tech's University Library plans to cancel nearly $900,000 worth of subscriptions in the 2009-2010 budget year.
In a letter to the university community, Eileen Hitchingham, dean of university libraries, wrote that potential budget cuts and anticipated inflation costs facilitate a need for mass cancellations.
Hitchingham said that the university must cancel $500,000 worth of subscriptions to accommodate library budget cuts. They must also cover $400,000 worth of cuts to meet inflationary cost increases.
Hitchingham requested university professors and researchers supply input on the titles that are most important for research, teaching and learning so that they may be preserved.
Tech's library budget ranks 100 of 107 in overall funding among the Association of Research Libraries. Paul Metz, director of collection management for University Libraries, wrote that this ranking will likely drop with anticipated budget cuts.
Metz said that the university has been aggressive in recent years in obtaining "all title" deals from venders such as Elsevier, John Wiley, Springer-Verlag, Blackwell and Taylor & Francis/Routledge. While the resources have been heavily used, Metz wrote, annual price increases exceeding inflation have demanded subscription cancellations be made.
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So they can afford to move the entrances around and renovate, but not maintain their subscriptions? How are we ever going to be a Top 30 Research Institution with a library that will rank dead last in funding?
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