ARCHIVES

Lack of space for materials and personnel

Lack of funds to purchase equipment

Lack of funds to hire an intern

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CATALOGING

Migration to Endeavor’s Voyager system will entail loss of some technical services functionality: bindery, routing, interlibrary loan

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CIRCULATION

With the non-circulation of unbound journals, photocopying has increased. Four new copiers are needed.

It is a major concern that we have no room in the stacks for newly bound journals.

Circulation is in dire need of substitutes to work when permanent employees are on vacation or out sick.

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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Faculty still wait until the last minute to submit publications

Dean’s office often requests last minute changes to the FP appendix of the Dean’s Annual Report

Departmental and faculty appointment changes remain hard to verify

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LEARNING RESOURCES CENTER

Ensuring that the LRC can continue to provide computers for staff and other library patrons who do not have access to them otherwise.

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OUTREACH SERVICES

The increase in requests for Interlibrary Loans resulting from the cancellation of current journal subscriptions will affect Document Delivery operations

Rising copyright fees will affect the price of Interlibrary Loans

Documents purchased from commercial vendors will also rise in price due to the consolidation going on in the commercial document supply industry

Space for storage of older journals needs to be addressed

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REFERENCE

The Copier Accountant One-Card System will not print the Core Biomedical Collection
 
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SERIALS

The process we are now using to report our journal holdings will possibly change

Space in the journal stacks continues to be a problem

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SYSTEMS

Most of our projects in 1999 will be related in some way to the year 2000 computer bug

The Sun host system houses Medline and is beginning to show its age. We must address the issue of whether housing databases is still cost-efficient

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