University of Michigan - Flint

The Sociology division supports the curricula of several departments at UM-Flint: Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. All three offer undergraduate degrees, and the Criminal Justice Department also supports a criminal justice concentration in the MPA program.

Monographs. The collection holds 11,413 monographs, which is equivalent to a 3a, and is 70% of the number from the modified ACRL standard (16,217). A high percentage of the titles were published in the last decade.

Acquisitions. The Criminal Justice and Social Work departments have their own book budgets ($4758 and $3852, respectively). The Sociology Department shares its book budget with the Anthropology Department. The 1997/1998 monographs allocation for these two Departments is $4382. To divide this figure equitably between the Anthropology and Sociology departments and conspectus divisions, $3462 (79%) of the money was assigned to Sociology, and $920 (21%) to Anthropology (based on the proportion of graduating seniors for the most recently available two years). The total book allocation for the Sociology, Social Work, and Sociology departments is $12,072. Taking a proportional share of librarians' budgets, plus the reference allocation, yields a weighted total of $14,631. This is sufficient to buy approximately 446 books at a discounted average price of $32.77 apiece. This amounts to about 14% of the total domestic publishing output for sociology and its related disciplines, for an AC rating of 3a. Acquiring 15% of the relevant publishing output per year would require a monographs allocation of $15,795 for the three departments together, not including Anthropology.

Periodicals. There are 168 Wilson-indexed sociology periodical titles, of which the Library has paper subscriptions to 83 (49%=2b) and web access to 34 more (70% total=3a).

Sources consulted: SISS, RSSW, BTCS.

Prepared by Dorothy Gae Davis and Paul G. Streby.

Ratings for Sociology CL=Current collection level; AC=Acquisitions commitment; GL=Goal level
LC class	Line no.	Category	CL	AC	GL	Comments
GF	SOC 000.4	Human Ecology (Anthropogeography)	2b		3b
H	SOC 001	Social Sciences - General	2b		3b	Social theory needs work; periodicals=3a/3b
HM	SOC 004	Sociology (General & Theoretical)	3a		3b	Book collection needs updating; periodicals=3a/3b
HN	SOC 006	Social History, Social Problems, Social Reform	2b		3b
RA 3 - 420	SOC 007.5	Medicine & the State	3b		3c	Almost all titles deal with health care & service administration
HQ	SOC 008	Family, Marriage, Women, Sexual Life	3b		3b	Periodicals=2b/3a
HS	SOC 012	Societies - Secret, Benevolent, etc.	3a		3b	Book collection needs updating
HT	SOC 013	Communities, Classes, Races	3b		3b
HV	SOC 022	Social Pathology, Social & Public Welfare	3a		3c	Periodicals=2b/3a
DIVISION AS A WHOLE			3a	3a	3b/ 3c

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