As part of our ongoing space planning initiative, the printed indexes listed below have been flagged for withdrawal. Many of these have an electronic equivalent or are seldom used and no longer meet the needs of our curriculum. Please send comments or concerns to Bryan Sinclair (sinclair@unca.edu).

Abstracts for social workers -- 1965-1973; 1977-1993
America, history and life -- 1965-1973
Biological & agricultural index -- v18, 1962-v49, 1995
Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service -- v46, 1960-v54, 1968; 69-71
Cumulative index to nursing literature -- 1975-1976
Index to legal periodicals & books -- 1994 - 1995
Index to U.S. Government periodicals -- 1970-1987
Int'l bibliography of economics -- v. 12 1963-v.17 1968; v.19 1970-v.53 2004.
Internet & personal computing abstracts -- 2002-2003
Microcomputer abstracts-- v. 15, 1994 - v. 20, 1999, Indexes v. 17, 1996 - v. 20, 19
Microcomputer index -- v. 6, 1985 - v. 14, 1993
MLA Bibliography 1921; 1925-1955, 1970-1975
Physical education index -- v.10 1987-v.24 2001
Physical fitness/sports medicine -- v. 9, 1986 - v. 16, nos.1-3, 1993/94
Physical Review & Physical Rev. letters --1986; 1994 - 2002
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin -- v. 1, 1802 - v. 6, 1806, 1960-1971
Research in education -- 1969-71; 1973-74
Sage urban studies abstracts -- v. 3, 1975 - v. 30, 2002
Social work abstracts -- v. 30, 1994 - v. 39, 2003
Social work research & abstracts- 1988-1993; MF 1977-87
The Wall Street Journal -- 1978 - 1993.

Posted by Brandy at 02:37 PM | Permalink

Dear campus community,

As you well know, college libraries have experienced radical change beginning early in the second half of the twentieth century. Many of you will recall Ramsey Library’s card catalog from the early 1980s, a periodical collection which topped out at about 1,800 titles, and when the only computer in the library was a word-processor in the administrative office. I can. In addition to being more than twice as big and considerably more attractive, today’s Ramsey Library offers services and collections exceeding what would have been found in a small research library of the 1980s: access to full text articles from over 35,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers worldwide; a building brimming with more than 110 computers including nearly 30 laptops available free for student use; full access to library electronic library resources and the Web from fixed workstations or wireless; electronic course reserve; easy and direct remote access to all electronic products; and a virtual on-line publishing house making rich primary sources and images available from Ramsey’s growing Special Collections. And we continue to evolve to better meet the information needs of the UNC Asheville learning community.

Continue reading "Proposed Withdrawal of Bound Journals" »

Posted by Site Administrator at 05:48 PM | Permalink

In order to make room for our growing collection of DVD films, we have flagged 225 VHS films as candidates for withdrawal. These films meet one of the following criteria:

a) we have them on DVD;
b) we are in the process of replacing them on DVD; or
c) they don't fit our collection/support the curriculum

Review the list. Send any comments to sinclair(at)unca.edu.

Posted by Brandy at 01:04 PM | Permalink

In light of our rapidly growing online holdings and ever-present budgetary and space concerns, the library has compiled a list of redundant microfilm titles for withdrawal, binding or limited retention. These titles have been carefully evaluated to ensure that we will not lose coverage by ending our microform subscription. In every case, the library has either a JSTOR, SCIENCEDIRECT, PROJECT MUSE, LION, or publisher subscription for the backfiles, or the subject bibliographer has approved cancellation based on either a decision to switch to binding or on the availability of the title in one or more of our aggregator services such as ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER or INFOTRAC.

The microfilm list is available for review. Members of the campus community may report any concerns to the appropriate subject bibliographer.

Posted by Brandy at 04:11 PM | Permalink