March 2, 2012

Faculty Senate Library Committee

Resolution Regarding the 2012/2013 Library Materials Budget

Whereas the University of Delaware Library continues to grow and maintain a major research collection that supports instruction, study and learning, and research by faculty, students, and staff; and

Whereas the cost of growing and maintaining a research collection, especially for electronic resources, in a variety of formats such as ejournals, databases, and ebooks, requires increased resources to even maintain the status quo; and

Whereas the demand for access to electronic resources is very high and is expected to increase significantly with the increasing availability of ebooks at a cost often substantially higher than their print counter parts, and accompanied by an increased demand for service; and

Whereas the University of Delaware Path to Prominence states that “We must comprehensively address the core facilities needed to support research and education, including libraries...” and maintaining strong library collections is essential to this support,

Therefore be it resolved that the Faculty Senate Library Committee strongly endorses a minimum of an annual 4% increase to the Library Materials Budget 2012/2013 in order to keep pace with the information needs of faculty, students and staff.

- Passed unanimously (with one abstention)

on November 10, 2011