Horn Library Content Strategy

Quantitative Methods

a.   Languages:  Generally English.  Some Spanish language materials may be acquired.

b.   Treatment of Subject: College level treatment to advance critical thinking and numeric competency.  Emphasis on applications in business and economics.  Primarily periodicals and monographs are collected.  Faculty recommended textbooks, videos; multimedia, software, and statistical databases may be purchased.  Statistical materials should be purchased in electronic format.  Access to statistical sets needed for projects will be acquired. We do not collect textbooks or dissertations in this area; except for textbooks to put on reserve for Basic Statistics.  Assignments in some courses require the use of corporate financial statements or investment statistics.  Recommended industry applications:  automotive, pharmaceutical, financial services, consumer electronics, computers, snack food and beverages.  Career materials will be collected.

Interdisciplinary Relationships: Materials purchased for Quantitative Methods could be used for statistical analysis in economics, finance, operations management, marketing, MIS and science courses.

Science

a.   Languages:  Acquisitions are restricted to English language materials.

b.   Geographical Guidelines:  The primary focus is the U.S.  Environmental/sustainability issues are covered globally.

c.   Treatment of Subject: Popular and beginning college level scientific treatment to advance critical thinking and science literacy.  Some theoretical materials will be purchased but those with application to business or industry are preferred.  Basic encyclopedias and handbooks that address topics in specific courses will be purchased.  Primarily periodicals and monographs and some basic reference items are collected.   Faculty recommended books, audiovisual; software and multimedia products may be purchased.  Biographical materials are seldom purchased unless the subject has made a significant contribution in the industrial or business field. Encyclopedias and directories should be purchased in electronic format where possible.  Textbooks are not purchased.  Career-related materials may also be purchased.

Interdisciplinary Relationships:  Materials purchased for Science courses could be used by students in the Rhetoric program, ECN3635 (Process of Technological Change), and graduate level courses covering industries such as biotechnology and technology product development/innovation.  Topics of current interest are environmentally friendly companies, technological innovation, and new product development in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Math:  American Mathematical Monthly, Jrnl of Math and Statistics, Jrnl of Applied Mathematics and Decsion Sciences, Jrnl of Amer Statistical Assn., Jrnl of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, SIAM Jrnl on Applied Mathematics

Science: Nature, ScienceNews, Scientific American, Ecology and Society, Environmental Science and Policy, Environmental Hazards, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Biotechnology, Jrnl of Commercial Biotechnology, Nature Biotechnology

Earl K. Bowen, Richard J. Cleary, Nathan Karst, Dennis F. X. Mathaisel, Dessislava Pachamanova, Gordon D. Pritchett, Terence Reilly, John C. Saber,