University of Michigan - Flint

The Biological Sciences division supports the curriculum of the Biology Department, which offers undergraduate degrees.

Monographs. The Biological Sciences collection holds 4561 monographs, which is equivalent to a 2b, and is 58% of the number from the modified ACRL standard (7826). The monographs collection is inadequate to support the undergraduate instruction at UM-Flint. The currency of the collection offers some grounds for satisfaction: 26% of the volumes published in the last decade. However, acquisitions in biology have suffered in the past five years, and do not meet the conspectus minimum requirement that 10% of titles in science divisions to have been published in that period. The median age of the books in this division is 1977.

Acquisitions. The 1997/1998 monographs allocation for the Biology Department is $4107. Taking a proportional share of librarians budgets, plus the reference allocation, yields a weighted total of $4978. This is sufficient to buy approximately 71 books at a discounted average price of $70.25 apiece. This amounts to about 3% of the total domestic publishing output for Biology, for an AC rating of 2a. Acquiring 10% of the publishing output per year would require a monographs allocation of $14,612.

Periodicals. Through FirstSearch, students looking for biology citations can search AGRICOLA, BioDigest, BiolAgrIndex, and BasicBIOSIS. There are 131 Wilson-indexed biological periodical titles, of which the Library has paper subscriptions to 38 (29%=2a) and web access to 7 more (34% total=2b).

Sources consulted: BCL3, UTBL.

Prepared by Grant Burns and Paul G. Streby.

Ratings for Biological Sciences CL=Current collection level; AC=Acquisition commitment; GL=Goal level
LC class	Line no.	Category	CL	AC	GL	Comments
QH 1 - 200	BIO 000.5	Natural History	3a		3b
QH 201 - 278	BIO 034.5	Microscopy	2a		3b
QH 301 - 705	BIO 041.5	Biology (General)	2b		3b	Periodicals=2a
QH 426 - 504	BIO 066.5	Genetics	3a		3b
QH 505	BIO 084.5	Biophysics	2b		3b
QH 506	BIO 085.5	Molecular Biology	2b		3b
QH 540 - 572	BIO 090.5	Ecology	2b		3b
QH 573 - 671	BIO 099.5	Cytology	2b		3b
QK 1 - 474.7	BIO 109.5	Botany (General)	2b/ 3a		3b	Periodicals=2b
QK 475 - 989	BIO 149.5	Botany (Specific Fields)	2b		3b
QK 641 - 664	BIO 189.5	Plant Anatomy	3a		3b
QK 710 - 899	BIO 194.5	Plant Physiology	2b		3b
QK 900 - 989	BIO 223.5	Plant Ecology	3a		3b
QL 1 - 355	BIO 261.5	Zoology (General)	2b		3b
QL 362 - 599	BIO 322.5	Invertebrates	2b		3b
QL 600 - 613, 670	BIO 395.5	Chordates - Vertebrates	3a		3b
QL 614 - 639	BIO 408.5	Fishes	2a		3b
QL 640 - 669	BIO 438.5	Reptiles & Amphibians	3a		3b
QL 671 - 699	BIO 466.5	Birds	3a		3b
QL 700 - 749	BIO 531.5	Mammals	3a		3b
QL 750 - 991	BIO 592.5	Ethology, Anatomy, Embryology	3a		3b
QP 501 - 801	BIO 604.5	Animal Biochemistry	2b		3b
QR 1 - 354	BIO 703.5	Microbiology	2b		3b
QR 355 - 9999	BIO 751	Virology	2b		3b
DIVISION AS A WHOLE			2b	2a	3b

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0 -- Out of scope

1 -- Minimal level
1a ---- Minimal level, uneven coverage
1b ---- Minimal level, even coverage

2 -- Basic information level
2a ---- Basic information level, Introductory
2b ---- Basic information level, Advanced (Appropriate for community college students)

3 -- Study or instructional support level
3a ---- Basic study or instructional support level (Adequate to support lower division undergraduate courses)
3b ---- Intermediate study or instructional support level (Adequate to support upper division undergraduate courses; not adequate for master's degree programs)
3c ---- Advanced study or instructional support level (Adequate to support master's degree programs)

4 -- Research level (Adequate to support doctoral research)

5 -- Comprehensive level