The following is a summary of University of Waterloo (UW) Library resources in support of the graduate program in Fine Arts at Waterloo prepared by Christine Jewell, Liaison Librarian for Fine Arts.
Material is collected to support learning, teaching, and research to the Master’s level in Fine Arts, with an emphasis on studio art.
The decision to purchase Library materials for Fine Arts is the responsibility of the Liaison Librarian in consultation with the Faculty Library Representative. Selection is guided by the Collection Development Policy and the Approval Plan subject profile for the department.
The UW Library collection includes 120 current electronic and print serials and over 38,000 monographs in subject areas of interest to Fine Arts.
Materials located in UW’s Musagetes Architecture Library are readily accessible to Fine Arts students. Special funding has been allocated to ensure that the Dana Porter collection and the Musagetes collection have duplicates of titles that are of value to both Fine Arts and Architecture.
Libraries at UW, University of Guelph (UG) and Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) compose the Tri-University Group of Libraries (TUG) consortium. Library resources at UG and WLU are readily accessible to UW students, faculty, and staff. These collections enhance the depth and breadth of local materials available in subject areas of interest to Fine Arts. Over 70,500 monographs are available to students and faculty in Fine Arts through TUG.
The University of Waterloo Library's print collections in Fine Arts are housed in the Dana Porter Library. Access to the entire UW Library collection, as well as materials held by our TUG partners, is available through the World Wide Web (Web) accessible union catalogue TRELLIS
http://trellis1.tug-libraries.on.ca/.
The Library's automated circulation system allows users to charge out materials during the hours that the Library is open and to renew items online. With the exception of reference materials and the current issues of journals, most of the materials in the Library’s collection circulate. Graduate students and faculty may borrow most monographs for a term at a time.
The Library also provides a service for faculty, graduate students, and staff whereby copies of print journal articles are delivered to an on-campus address. Faculty, graduate students, and staff can also place holds on UW Library books for pickup at any of the UW Libraries’ circulation desks. Both these services are free of charge to the user.
The Library subscribes to a number of electronic research databases that are accessible via the World Wide Web. The following are databases are of particular interest to Fine Arts:
The Library has embedded linking technology into the research databases, allowing users to link directly from the database to the UW Library full text electronic journal subscription or to the TRELLIS catalogue record for holdings and call number information.
UW faculty, students and staff may access Web accessible research databases and full text electronic journals from off-campus via the Library’s proxy server.
Books and journal articles held by the University of Guelph or Wilfrid Laurier University or located in the Musagetes collection may be requested through TRELLIS, the union catalogue of the TriUniversity Group of Libraries. Books and copies of journal articles are delivered to UW faculty, students, and staff within three working days; the cost is absorbed by the Library.
The Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery (ILL) service provides faculty, students, and staff with books, copies of journal articles, theses, and government documents from libraries within Canada and abroad. The UW Library uses the RACER Web based interlibrary loan system to facilitate ILL access and service for users. With few exceptions, the cost for this service is absorbed by the Library.
Canadian university libraries extend in-person borrowing privileges to students, faculty and staff from across the country. Graduate students, faculty and staff are entitled to borrowing privileges at participating libraries.
The Library has a well developed Web site (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca) that organizes and provides access to Web resources, some freely available to anyone, and others funded by the Library and restricted to UW faculty, staff, and students. These resources include, for example, full text electronic journals, research databases, research guides arranged by academic discipline, catalogues of libraries around the world, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and style guides. It includes a Subject Guide of Web pages for Fine Arts, developed by the liaison librarian for Fine Arts. See http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/fine/index.html.
Reference assistance is available in person or by telephone at the Library's information desks which are staffed by professional librarians and specially trained library assistants. UW students, faculty and staff may also use the email or chat reference provided through the Ask a Librarian service (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/comments/). The Liaison Librarian for Fine Arts is available to meet in person or by telephone, email, or chat for assistance in finding research resources.
The Liaison Librarian for Fine Arts is available for consultation with individuals or small groups of students. The Liaison Librarian also works with faculty and staff to develop course-integrated library instruction in the form of lecture, hands-on instruction, Web pages, or online courseware modules.
The Library also offers orientation programs including tours, workshops on database searching and using the World Wide Web, and seminars for graduate students.
During the past seven years, the Fine Arts library fund has spent $448,055 on information resources. Table 1 provides further details. It should be noted that a small percentage of the Fine Arts monograph and serials funds support the sub-department of Film Studies. Reference materials, electronic research databases, and full text electronic journals packages are purchased from general library funds.
Table I
FISCAL |
SERIAL |
BOOK |
APPROVAL |
TOTAL |
1998/99 |
9,159 |
17,180 |
32,178 |
58,517 |
1999/00 |
10,671 |
20,568 |
32,151 |
63,390 |
2000/01 |
9,281 |
21,098 |
37,929 |
68,308 |
2001/02 |
10,726 |
14,491 |
39,605 |
64,822 |
2002/03 |
10,000 |
21,082 |
34,961 |
66,044 |
2003/04 |
10,750 |
20,354 |
32,512 |
63,617 |
2004/05 |
8,868* |
20,578 |
33,911 |
63,357 |
|
69,455 |
135,352 |
243,248 |
448,055 |
* What may appear to be a decline in serials expenditures deserves comment. Because many electronic journals are purchased in packages paid by the central Electronic Resources library fund, it is not possible to identify individual serials expenditures for titles supporting specific departments.
More detailed information, including lists of serials purchased for Fine Arts and full text electronic journal titles in subject areas of interest to Fine Arts is available in the Library.
We would be pleased to discuss the Library's holdings and services with an appraiser at the time of a campus visit. We believe that a high level of support for the graduate program in Fine Arts has been provided by the Library, both in holdings and in services.
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