As part of the University’s strategic budget reduction process, the USF Libraries – Tampa campus is tasked with reducing recurring spending by $2,033,500, or 15.3 percent of the E&G base budget.
To meet the requirements of the reduction, it was necessary to 1) surrender vacant and soon to be vacant positions; 2) suspend or modify five service programs; 3) reduce operational expenditures; and 4) cancel memberships.
However, because the majority of the base budget is tied to collections, the impact must largely accrue to our collections budget, primarily recurring subscriptions. To meet the reduction targets, we must:
- aggressively modify our seven “Big Deals” – the large subscription bundles that include Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer/Nature, Wiley, Oxford, Cambridge, and Sage;
- reevaluate prior “luxuries” such as maintaining subscriptions to both Web of Science and Scopus;
- target low use/high cost content even if they are research intensive; and
- consider cancellations of anything on the margins of our institutional mission.
It is going to be very difficult to balance our desire to do no harm and to meet these targets, but we believe that we can manage by employing an equally aggressive service plan that preserves our unwavering commitment to meeting USF faculty information needs by any means available.
For comprehensive information concerning the reduction’s impact on library collections and services, please visit our “Revisioning Collection Management” website at: https://lib.usf.edu/collections-and-discovery/revisioning/
Join the conversation on December the first:
We invite you to participate in Q&A sessions the first week of December to learn more, and a morning and afternoon option is available to accommodate schedules. Please register for the session you would like to attend at https://usf.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_daI7kmqQXjCKzWd. Microsoft Teams login information for both sessions are below:
Morning Session: Tuesday, December 1st from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Microsoft Teams meeting: Click here to join the meeting
Or call in (audio only): +1 813-694-2079,,560828959#
Phone Conference ID: 560 828 959#
Afternoon Session: Wednesday, December 2nd from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Microsoft Teams meeting: Click here to join the meeting
Or call in (audio only): +1 813-694-2079,,497345238#
Phone Conference ID: 497 345 238#
We look forward to engaging with you throughout this process.
Thank you, and Go Bulls!