Collection Development Policy
Life Sciences

PROGRAMS AND CLIENTLE SUPPORTED:

Provide the literature needed to:

Support the graduate and upper division instruction of the Department of Biological Sciences in animal behavior, aquatic biology, biochemistry, botany, cellular and molecular biology, developmental biology, ecology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, neurobiology, parasitology, physiology, and virology.

Support the research of the Department of Biological Sciences and LOBUND. The current research in LOBUND is on neoplastic diseases.

Support the life science literature needs of faculty, students, and researchers in other fields such as chemistry, psychology, engineering, anthropology, and the history and philosophy of science.

SUBJECT LIBRARIAN:

Sherri Edwards
Life Sciences Library
Room 149, Galvin Building
(574) 631-4034
FAX:  (574) 631-9207

GENERAL COLLECTING GUIDELINES:

Languages:  English is the primary language of collection. Several non-English language journals are received in exchange for the AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST, a University of Notre Dame publication.

Chronological:  The emphasis is on acquiring current literature. Retrospective purchasing is made only in special circumstances, such as a new program.

Geographical:  No region is excluded.

Treatment of subject:  Emphasis is on conventionally published peer-reviewed scientific journals and books. Upper division textbooks are selectively purchased. Clinical medicine and health care books are not purchased. Popular material and general science books are dealt with in a statement on the L. Franklin Long Science Collection. The History of Science policy considers material of an historical nature.

Types of materials:  A solid collection of indexes and abstracts in the life sciences are acquired. BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS is received both on CD- ROM and paper.

Science encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and directories are purchased. Microforms, pamphlets, models, and audio- visual materials are not collected. Dissertations from other universities are rarely purchased; however, all those written for the University of Notre Dame Department of Biological Sciences are acquired. Only a few serials published by the U.S. government are collected as the bulk of those publications are housed in the Document Center, Hesburgh Library.

COORDINATION INFORMATION:

Biochemistry material is collected in the Life Sciences Library and the Chemistry/Physics Library; however duplication of material is avoided.

Both the Engineering Library and the Life Science Library collect material in biotechnology, with the greater collection in the Engineering Library since the approval plan assigns TP classification to that library. The interest in the Life Sciences Library is biodegradation.

Faculty and students have access to free copies of journal articles from the medical library associated with the South Bend Medical Foundation. Also, twelve journals from the SBMF circulate to LOBUND and Department of Biological Sciences researchers on a regular basis.

South Bend Center for Medical Education faculty and students use the collection in the Life Sciences Library, although no effort is made to collect literature of clinical medicine. In the future, it will be possible to get a medical degree from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.

COLLECTING LEVELS:

Subject	LC Class	Collecting Level
Animal behavior	QH 750-795	4
Aquatic biology	QH 90-100	4
Biochemistry	QP 501-801	4
Biology	QH 301-531	4
Biometry, Biomathematics, Mathematical models	QH 323.5	2
Biophysics	QH 505	3
Biotechnology	TP 248	2
Botany	QK 1-989	4
Cancer	RC 261-271	4
Cytology	QH 573-671	4
Ecology	QH 540-549	4
Embryology	QL 951-991	4
Endocrinology	QP 186-188; QP 571-572	4
Entomology	QL 461-599.82	4
Epidemiology	RA 649-653	3
Evolution	QH 359-425	4
Fishes	QL 614-639.6	3
Genetics	QH 426-470	4
Human anatomy	QM 1-695	3
Immunology	QR 180-189	4
Laboratory animals	QL 55; SF 405.5-407	2
Microbiology	QR 1-353	4
Microscopy	QH 201-277	3
Molecular biology	QH 506-531	4
Morphology	QL 799-950.3	3
Neurophysiology	QP 351-495	3
Nutrition	QP 141-185; TX 341-551	2
Parasitology	QL 757	4
Pathology	RB 1-214	3
Physiology	QP 1-345	4
Virology	QR 355-502	4
Zoology	QL 1-795	4
Invertebrates	QL 362-599.82	4
Vertebrates	QL 605-739	4

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:

While the approval plan contributed in developing the life sciences collections, it is the endowment, Dr. and Mrs. Martin O. Miller Library Collection in Science, which has proved vital in providing the funding for expensive books, journals, and electronic media.

The Dr. Philip J. Fagan Endowment provides the opportunity to enhance the collection in biomedicine.

The McAllister Biomedical Endowment, established in 1997, will be used to build the collection in biomedicine.

The Lawrence and Helen Baldinger Endowed Library Collection in Critical Technologies in Medicine will help provide important journals, books, and electronic databases to facilitate education and research in critical technologies in medicine.

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