University of Michigan-Flint

Monographs. The Computer Science collection holds 1982 monographs, which is equivalent to a 2a, and is 54% of the number from the modified ACRL standard (3660). The median age of the books in this division is 10 years old, with 51% published in the last decade.

Below is a list of subjects, not adequately covered by the WLN conspectus, which were evaluated for this project. Subjects deemed to require immediate attention are in boldface:

• ARCHITECTURE: Coverage is fair, but relevant course has not been taught in about ten years.
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EXPERT SYSTEMS, DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS: Fair coverage.
• COMPILER DESIGN: A few, mostly dated titles; relevant course not taught in over ten years
• COMPUTER GRAPHICS: Some coverage in two courses; more titles needed in PC graphics, game programming, microcomputer displays, GIFs, transparent GIFs, and graphic file formats.
• COMPUTER NETWORKS: Good coverage, but needs continuous updating.
• COMPUTER SIMULATION: Fair coverage, but many dated texts.
• CRYPTOGRAPHY AND COMPUTER SECURITY: Fair coverage, but needs updating.
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: Coverage is significant, but many titles cover obsolete packages or ones not used at UM-Flint. Areas that need updating are: Access, Oracle, and the theory of databases.
• DATA STRUCTURES: Important part of program; needs updating.
• DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: Not taught in specific course; holdings probably adequate.
• FORMAL LANGUAGE THEORY: Important part of program; needs upgrading.
• MICROCOMPUTER ARCHITECTURE: Intel family is covered, but needs updating to cover current processors and Pentium line. Coverage of Motorola 68000 family of processors is adequate, since that architecture is not taught at UM-Flint.
• OPERATING SYSTEMS: Not taught in over 15 years; coverage is adequate.
• PROGRAMMING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Pascal, Prolog, and Quick Basic are covered adequately. Object oriented programming needs better coverage; Arena/Simon, C++, Visual Basic, Java & JavaScript, and PERL/CGI are languages in need of upgrading.
• UNIX AND SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING: Coverage is adequate for UM-Flints purposes.
• VIRTUAL REALITY: No current courses, but popular with students, and may be taught in future. Needs upgrading.
• WORLD WIDE WEB: Constantly changing, but needs considerable expansion.

Acquisitions. The 1997/1998 monographs allocation for the Computer Science Department is $4039. Taking a proportional share of librarians budgets, plus the reference allocation, yields a weighted total of $4895. This is sufficient to buy approximately 109 books at a discounted average price of $44.78 apiece. This amounts to about 8% of the total domestic publishing output for computer science, for an AC rating of 2b. Acquiring 10% of the publishing output per year would require a monographs allocation of $6448.

Periodicals. The Library subscribes to the print version of ACM Guide to Computing Literature and to Microcomputer Abstracts through FirstSearch. There are 32 Wilson-indexed computer periodical titles, of which the Library has paper subscriptions to 12 (38%=2b) and web access to 5 more (53% total=3a). There are numerous serials published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which is the primary organization in computer science, and by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The Library receives a few of them, but ought to subscribe to several more.

Sources consulted: BCL3

Prepared by Linda Hicks, Quentin Galerneau, Jim Norcross, Kui-Bin Im, and Paul G. Streby, in consultation with Harry K. Edwards.

Ratings for Computer Science CL=Current collection level; AC=Acquisitions commitment; GL=Goal level
LC class	Line no.	Category	CL	AC	GL	Comments
Q 327	COM 001	Pattern Recognition	2a		2b
Q 334 - 337	COM 002	Artificial Intelligence	3a		3b
QA 75 - 76	COM 003	Computer Science - General	3a		3b	Subscriptions to 10 of 24 Wilson-indexed periodicals (42%=2b), Web access to 5 more (63% total=3a)
QA 76.15 - 76.2	COM 004.1	-----Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, History, biography	2a		3a
QA 76.25 - 76.33	COM 005.1	-----Study & Teaching	2a		2a
QA 76.38 - 76.4	COM 006.5	-----Hybrid & Analog Computers	2a		2a
QA 76.76	COM 010	-----Computers - Operating Systems	2a		2b
QA 76.6 - 76.66	COM 010.2	-----Programming	3b		3b
QA 76.7 - 76.73	COM 010.4	-----Programming Languages	3a		3b
QA 76.75 - 76.758	COM 011 - 016	Computer Software - Software Engineering	3a		3b
QA 76.9	COM 017	Computer Science - Algorithm Analysis	3a		3b
QA 76.9	COM 018	Computer Science - Database Management Systems	3a		3b
QA 76.9	COM 021	Computers & Society, Computer Literacy	2b		3b
QA 76.9	COM 027	Computing Systems - Expert Systems	3a		3b
QA 76.9	COM 028	Computing Systems - Fault-tolerant Computing	2a		2b
QA 76.9	COM 029	Computing Systems - Interactive Computer Systems	2a		2b
QA 76.9	COM 031	Computing Systems - Distributed Systems	2a		2b
QA 76.9	COM 032	Computer Simulation	2b		3b
QA 166	COM 034	Graph Theory	3b		3b
QA 267 - 268	COM 035	Machine Theory
QA 267.3	COM 036	-----Machine Theory - Formal Languages	3a		3b
QA 268	COM 037	-----Machine Theory - Coding Theory	3a		3a
T 57.62	COM 040	Modeling & Simulation	3a		3c
T 58.6 - 58.64	COM 041	Management Information Systems	3a		3b
TA 1630 - 1650	COM 042	Image Processing	3a		3a
TA 5105.5	COM 043	Computer Networks	3a/ 3b		3b
DIVISION AS A WHOLE			2a/ 2b	2b	3b

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