The decision to select library materials is the responsibility of the Liaison Librarian, Douglas Morton, in consultation with the Faculty Library Representative, tbd.
The policy is to support the teaching and research needs of students and faculty in the Department of Management Sciences from the undergraduate to the post-doctoral level.
The Department of Management Sciences does not offer an undergraduate degree; instead offering a Management Science Undergraduate Option Program. Participating students will be exposed to some of the fundamental principles of the management sciences, such as operations research, economics, and organizational behaviour.
At the graduate level, the major areas of specialization are:
English language materials are preferred, however, major foreign language works may be purchased as required to meet special needs.
Priority is given to materials published in North America and Europe.
The primary emphasis of collecting activities is on material published in the last 5 years.
When relevant to the subject matter, priority is given to materials using examples applicable to the North American environment.
In general, the Library does not acquire any type of material in a format for which access cannot be provided by the library.
The following types of materials are generally included: monographs, periodicals, reference works, conference proceedings, government publications, and standards in print or electronic format as available. Introductory texts and laboratory manuals are purchased very selectively.
The following types of materials are generally excluded: manuscripts, theses, reprints, patents, software, except where accompanying a monograph, sound and video recordings.
The Management Sciences collection encompasses many fields and relies heavily on the resources of other departments. Occasionally, materials may be acquired which are on the borderline between Management Sciences and other disciplines such as Mathematics, Psychology, Accountancy, Economics, or Systems Design Engineering. Normally, this is done only if these materials are not purchased by the respective discipline.
Applied Economic
| Capital and capital markets | 4 |
| Consumer behaviour | 3 |
| Corporation finance | 4 |
| Financial institutions | 4 |
| Investment and investment management | 3 |
| Investment for production | 4 |
| Labour economics | 4 |
| Market structure and industrial organisation | 4 |
| Marketing research | 3 |
| Modelling for energy policy analysis | 4 |
| Product design and development | 4 |
| Productivity – measurement and determinants | 4+ |
| Public enterprise | 4 |
| Structural unemployment and technology | 3 |
Business and Industrial Management
| Business and society | 2 |
| Business, commercial and corporate law | 1 |
| Business management | 4 |
| Economic development of industrialized countries | 4 |
| Economics of health care | 3 |
| Industrial management | 4 |
| Industry studies – manufacturing | 4 |
| Industry studies – resource industries | 4+ |
| International business operations | 1 |
| International economic operations | 1 |
| Managerial and business economics | 4 |
| Office automation | 4+ |
| Research methods | 4+ |
| Technological change | 4 |
| Personnel management and manpower planning | 4 |
Industrial Engineering
| Transportation and physical distribution | 4 |
| Applied optimization | 4+ |
| Engineering economics | 2 |
| Facilities location and layout | 4 |
| Industrial research, new products | 4 |
| Manufacturing and materials | 4 |
| Product design | 3 |
| Production and inventory control | 4 |
| Quality control | 4 |
| Reliability | 3 |
| Warehousing and logistics | 4 |
Organizational Behaviour
| Cognitive psychology | 4 |
| Cross cultural and international management | 4+ |
| Industrial and business psychology | 4 |
| Industrial relations | 4+ |
| Industrial sociology | 4 |
| Interpersonal relations | 4 |
| Organizations | 4+ |
| Measurement of productivity in production of services | 4 |
| Motivation to work | 4 |
Quantitative Techniques in Management
| Business and economic forecasting | 4 |
| Decision support systems | 4+ |
| Decision theory | 4 |
| Large scale optimization | 4+ |
| Management information systems | 4+ |
| Management science | 4+ |
| Operations research | 4+ |
| Probability and statistics | 4 |
| Scheduling | 4+ |
| Simulation | 4 |
Information Systems
| Software design | 4 |
| Database design | 4 |
| Applied artificial intelligence | 3 |
| Knowledge engineering | 4 |
The library does not collect in this subject.
The collection supports minimal inquiries about this subject with a limited selection of monographs and reference works.
The collection serves to introduce and define the subject. Only the most important reference works, general surveys, the most significant works of major authors, and a limited selection of representative general periodicals is collected.
The collection supports all courses of undergraduate study and master’s degree programmes. Materials collected include a wide range of reference works, fundamental bibliographic tools, and an extensive collection of monographs and periodicals. Access to owned or remotely-accessed electronic resources, including texts, journals, data sets, etc. is provided.
The collection includes major published source materials required for doctoral study and independent research in the subject. All formats, including appropriate foreign-language titles, are acquired. Historically important monographs, archival materials, and back-runs of serials are acquired as necessary.
The collection is exhaustive in its depth and scope. All relevant materials, in all formats and applicable languages, are retained and preserved. The collection may be recognised as a national resource.
All collections should be systematically reviewed for currency of information and to ensure that essential and important resources are retained. Superseded editions and titles containing outdated information should be withdrawn as necessary. Classic retrospective materials should be retained and preserved to serve the needs of historical research.
Adapted from RLG guidelines.
The Library continues to explore various initiatives from a TriUniversity Group and Ontario Council of University Libraries perspective.
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