1. THE STATUS OF KRESGE LIBRARY

2. The Three Things All University Libraries Must Do They must pay for information to have it They must catalog the information so that students can search for it They must train the students how to use the cataloging system to find the information

3. Library Expenditures for Collections

4. Volumes in Library

5. Current Serials Titles

6. Total Number of Staff

7. Number of Librarians

8. Total FTE Enrollment

9. Graduate FTE

10. Implications for Student Services

11. Implications for Interlibrary Loan

12. Comparisons to Our Sixteen Peers 2nd lowest in total budget 4th lowest in size of book collection 4th lowest in periodical subscriptions 2nd lowest in number of librarians

13. Comparisons to Our Nineteen Aspirant Peers Smallest total budget –$1 million less than the lowest aspirant peer –$10 million less than the highest aspirant peer 2nd smallest book collection –1.5 million volumes less than the highest aspirant peer Smallest number of librarians –4 fewer than the lowest aspirant peer –39 fewer than each of the two highest aspirant peers

14. What Have We Lost? The last public university in Michigan to subscribe to JSTOR No major engineering index from FY91 to FY00 Dependency on interlibrary loan –7,909 student requests and 5,621 faculty requests in FY00 99 students in new programs without adequate library resources

15. How Did We Get to This Point? No increase in the Library’s base budget since FY94 Failure to deliver appropriated funds for new programs in both FY99 and FY00 40% inflation rate within the publishing industry since 1994

16. Conform to the NCA recommendations of 1989, 1994, and 1999 that Kresge Library should receive automatic annual increases to its base budget to compensate for library inflation rates Recommendation #1

17. Recommendation #2 Money appropriated for new academic programs be delivered to Kresge Library immediately after Board of Trustees approval of the program and before admission of students into the program

18. Recommendation #3 To keep Kresge Library in compliance with the goals of the OU 2010 Profile, the library budget of FY10 should be double the current budget. This increase should occur in regular annual increments to both the materials budget and the positions budget.