Library Collections: Levels of Funding
In 1997-1998, the Library spent $905,000 on collections:
| Monographs | $ 168,000 |
| Government Publications | 15,000 |
| Periodicals and Serials | 639,500 |
| Electronic Services | 58,000 |
| Audiovisual Materials | 2,500 |
| Binding | 22,000 |
| TOTAL | $905,000 |
Growth in the Size of the Collections
"If Brooklyn College comes to mean what it should in the community--and who can doubt that it will--the Library, in a surprisingly short space of time, should contain a million volumes and seat not hundreds but thousands of readers." Asa Don Dickinson, First Librarian of Brooklyn College, in a letter to William A. Boylan, 18 November 1935
At the close of 1997-1998 the Library held:
| 821,308 | Book and journal bound volumes |
| 447,507 | Government publications |
| 1,268,815 | Total Volumes (+ 1.8%) |
| 21,246 | Non-book items (sound recordings, video cassettes, audio cassettes, multimedia, CD-ROMS) (+ 6.1%) |
| 1,576,998 | Microform pieces (+ 1.1%) |
| 4,133 | Cubic feet of archival collections (+ 8.5%) |
| 4,243 | Print journal subscriptions (+/- 0%) |
| 7,875 | Electronic subscriptions (journals, magazines, newsletters, news wires, and transcripts) |
English and American literature
French literature
U.S. politics and government
American and European history
Special education
American music
Art (painting)
Women's studies
African-American studies
Ethiopian, Somalian, and African history
Judaic studies
Chemistry (inorganic)
Biology (microbiology; cytology)
Physics (nuclear)
Archival holdings in Brooklyn studies, urban studies,
and politics
Africana Studies - Beth Evans
Anthropology - Beth Evans
Art - Miriam Deutch
Biology - Susan Vaughn
Chemistry - Elizabeth Miller
Classics - Frederick Bogin
Computer Science - Elizabeth Miller
Economics - Jocelyn Berger
Education - Renee Feinberg
Educational Services - William Gargan
English - William Gargan
Environmental Sciences - Elizabeth Miller
Film Studies - Barbara Scheele
Geology - Susan Vaughn
Government Publications - Jane Cramer
Health and Nutrition Sciences - Jocelyn Berger
History - Frederick Bogin
Judaic Studies - Frederick Bogin
Law - Jane Cramer
Library Science - Barbara Scheele
Mathematics - Elizabeth Miller
Modern Languages and Literatures - William Gargan
Music - Honora Raphael
Philosophy - Barbara Scheele
Physical Education - Renee Feinberg
Physics/Engineering - Elizabeth Miller
Political Science - Renee Feinberg
Psychology - Renee Feinberg
Puerto Rican Studies - Beth Evans
Religious Studies - Barbara Scheele
Sociology - Beth Evans
Speech - Barbara Scheele
Student Affairs - William Gargan
Television and Radio - Barbara Scheele
Theater - Barbara Scheele
Women's Studies - Barbara Scheele
The interest from these endowed funds helped build the collections in 1997-1998:
Asa Don Dickinson Fund
Jacqualyn Eubanks Liberation Fund (Social Issues)
Faculty Circle Fund
Friends of the Library Fund
Barbara Leslie Gerber Fund (English and Comparative Literatures)
Seymour Glogov Fund
John Harvey Fund (Ireland and Irish Literature)
Robert L. Hess Fund (Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa)
Alfred J. Maria Fund (Mathematics)
Music Library Fund
Luecelia Johnson McAlpin/Callie Canada Naylor Fund (Africana and Caribbeana)
Barbara Sheeran Fund (Brooklyniana)
Esther Shottenfeld Fund
Special Collections Fund
Dennis Spininger Memorial Fund (Comparative Literature)
June L. Stoppick Fund (Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Psychology)
Morris and Shirley Weinstein Fund
Significant expenditures included:
Robert L. Hess Fund: $4,100 for materials related to Ethiopia
Alfred J. Maria Fund: $3,800 for MathSciNet
McAlpin/Naylor Fund: $1,000 for materials in Africana Studies, particularly the Caribbeana
Dennis Spininger Memorial Fund: $2,300 for materials in
comparative literature
Additionally, alumnus and former New York University professor Walter Miller made a $2,500 donation to the Library for the purchase of science fiction classics.