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We're All About The Space: Taking Inclusive Library Spaces To Another Level, Catherine Fahey, Tara Fitzpatrick, Dawn Stahura, Rukmal Ryder, Elizabeth Mckeigue May 2021

We're All About The Space: Taking Inclusive Library Spaces To Another Level, Catherine Fahey, Tara Fitzpatrick, Dawn Stahura, Rukmal Ryder, Elizabeth Mckeigue

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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To (Re)Frame It, Name It: Refining Spending Codes To Reveal New Collection Trends, Julie Linden, Sarah Tudesco May 2017

To (Re)Frame It, Name It: Refining Spending Codes To Reveal New Collection Trends, Julie Linden, Sarah Tudesco

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

For college and research libraries, a major 21st century transformation has been the spending shift from print materials to electronic resources. This shift has triggered ongoing conversations about resource allocation at many institutions. Common assumptions that are drawn from these general trends:
• Spending on the sciences has increased at the expense of the humanities
• Spending on serials has increased at the expense of monographs

Overly simple expenditure codes that merely distinguish print from electronic do not allow these assumptions to be tested. This poster will demonstrate how a 2013 revision of expenditure codes used in the library’s acquisitions …