"Whereas the newly renovated library is a state of the art facility, a flagship library of which all of CUNY can be justly proud and "Whereas it is the library's mission to provide for the research and instructional needs of students and faculty in all disciplines taught at the College and "Whereas lack of funds to acquire the needed materials to satisfy those research needs, including the purchase of books, paper journals, and electronic subscriptions, will have a deleterious effect on faculty and student academic activities at the College
"Therefore, be it resolved that the Brooklyn College administration do everything in its power to restore cuts recently targeted for the Library, to include print and electronic journals, and that it make increased funding for library materials in the years ahead a high priority."
Doubtless, this resolution and a similar one introduced by science faculty were instrumental in the restoration, a few weeks later, of $166,666 to the Library's budget. The resolution was followed by the committee's very supportive April 9, 2003, annual report:
"This year has been one of grand achievement and crisis. The grand achievement, of course, is the new library of which we are all proud and for which we thank President Kimmich, the University, the State, and generous donors. The crisis arises from the budget cutback for journals and books, serious in 2002/03 and looming larger for 2004."
While praising the Library for patching together the money needed to renew three out of four large e-journal packages, the committee goes on to say:
"We must note that the Library will not be able to sustain the cuts outlined above for a 2nd year. Subscription and book budgets will be vulnerable again in the coming year, in part because of increasing costs due to mergers in the publishing industry and in part due to CUNY's budget crisis."
The committee also made several excellent and creative suggestions for solutions to the Library's budget issues:
"Donors have made several large gifts to the new Brooklyn College Library via the BC Foundation; these include the Topfer, Everett, and Wohl gifts. Even a small part of these large gifts would enable the Library to reinstate IDEAL and restore the book budget."
"Because librarians and faculty throughout the university have spoken to Executive Vice Chancellor Louise Mirrer about their deep concerns re journal cuts, she has indicated she may be able to increase the shared CUNY budget for electronic journal subscriptions and requested a list of desired packages from the Council of Chief Librarians. (CUNY currently funds about $800,000 in shared e-journal packages across the CUNY library system.) The list prepared by the Council of Chief Librarians totals approximately $3,000,000, and it is likely that EVC Mirrer will fund only a small amount of this total, making this only a partial solution. EVC Mirrer has made it clear that she intends for her money to better libraries' positions and that individual colleges are expected to keep their libraries' budgets strong. Faculty members who are concerned about sharp potential cuts to the library's acquisition program should voice their support now to EVC Mirrer through letters or petitions."
" The library committee supports allocation of a larger part of the Student Technology Fee program to the restoration of journal subscriptions. ($100,000 was spent in 2002-03.)"
" Faculty pursuing grants should consider including a budget allocation to library costs when submitting grant proposals. And, the College should designate a portion of all grant overhead to support Library collections."
Finally, who could fail to agree with the committee's summary statement:
"A College that has worked as hard as Brooklyn to recruit the best faculty and the finest students, including those in the new CUNY Honors College, is obligated to provide those faculty and students with the tools they need to achieve academically and intellectually. Strong Library collections are an essential part of such tools, and the Committee on the Library urges the College to make the Library a top priority for 2003-04, restoring the cuts of 2002-03 via either tax levy or other funding sources. There is no single solution, but a mix of those recommendations above should do the job."In addition to chair Mitchell Langbert, the committee included Professors Michael Cholbi (Philosophy), Carolann Daniel (Sociology), and Theodore Muth (Biology).
SUBJECT SPECIALISTS | LIBRARY REPRESENTATIVES | TECHNOLOGY REPRESENTATIVES | |
AFRICANA STUDIES | BETH EVANS | LYNDA DAY | PRUDENCE CUMBERBATCH |
ANTHROPOLOGY | MARIANA REGALADO | SOPHIA PERDIKARIS | ARTHUR BANKOFF |
ART | MIRIAM DEUTCH | MICHAEL JACOFF | RONALDO KIEL |
BIOLOGY | IRWIN WEINTRAUB | CHARLENE FOREST | JOHN BLAMIRE |
CHEMISTRY | IRWIN WEINTRAUB | IRA LEVINE | JAMES HOWELL |
CLASSICS | FRED BOGIN | CHRISTOPHER BARNES | CHRISTOPHER BARNES |
COMPUTER & INFORMATION | JAMES CASTIGLIONE | ROHIT PARIKH | LORI SCARLATOS |
DOCUMENTS/LAW | JANE CRAMER | ||
ECONOMICS | JAMES CASTIGLIONE | MITCHELL LANGBERT | TAIWO AMOO |
EDUCATION | MARTHA CORPUS | DAVID BLOOMFIELD | BARBARA ROSENFELD |
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | WILLIAM GARGAN | WENDY HALL MALONEY | MAURICE WATSON |
ENGLISH | WILLIAM GARGAN | LEONARD FOX ; JOAN | LILIA MELANI |
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | IRWIN WEINTRAUB | MICHA TOMKIEWICZ | |
FILM STUDIES | JOCELYN BERGER | FOSTER HIRSCH | ELIZABETH LEDOUX |
GEOLOGY | IRWIN WEINTRAUB | DAVID LEVESON | WAYNE POWELL |
HEALTH & NUTRITION SCIENCES | IRWIN WEINTRAUB | ROSEANNE SCHNOLL | ROSEANNE SCHNOLL |
HISTORY | FRED BOGIN | NICHOLAS PAPAYANIS | KC JOHNSON |
HONORS ACADEMY | |||
JUDAIC STUDIES | FRED BOGIN | JONATHAN HELFAND | JONATHAN HELFAND |
LIBRARY SCIENCE | JAMES CASTIGLIONE | HOWARD SPIVAK | |
MATHEMATICS | JAMES CASTIGLIONE | ATTILA MATE | MARVIN KOHN |
MODERN LANGUAGES & | WILLIAM GARGAN | WILLIAM SHERZER | FABIO GIRELLI-CARASI |
MUSIC | HONORA RAPHAEL | BRUCE MACINTYRE | GEORGE (SKIP) BRUNNER |
PERSONAL COUNSELING | WILLIAM GARGAN | SALLY ROBLES | |
PHILOSOPHY | BARBARA SCHEELE | MICHAEL CHOLBI | MICHAEL CHOLBI |
PHYSICAL EDUCATION | MARTHA CORPUS | VANESSA YINGLING | VANESSA YINGLING |
PHYSICS/ENGINEERING | IRWIN WEINTRAUB | VICTOR FRANCO | KEN MIYANO |
POLITICAL SCIENCE | MARTHA CORPUS | SAM FARBER | MOJUBAOLU OKOME |
PSYCHOLOGY | MARTHA CORPUS | IAN MCMAHAN | ANDREW DELAMATER |
PUERTO RICAN & LATINO | BETH EVANS | MARIA PEREZ Y GONZALEZ | MARIA PEREZ Y GONZALEZ |
RELIGIOUS STUDIES | BARBARA SCHEELE | TOM HARTMANN | |
SEEK | WILLIAM GARGAN | WENDY HALL MALONEY | MAURICE WATSON; WENDY HALL MALONEY |
SOCIOLOGY | JOCELYN BERGER | MARY HOWARD | TIMOTHY SHORTELL |
SPEECH | JOCELYN BERGER | ADRIENNE RUBINSTEIN | NATALIE SCHAEFFER |
THEATER | WILLIAM GARGAN | SAMUEL LEITER | RICHARD KEARNEY |
TV-RADIO | JOCELYN BERGER | IRINA PATKANIAN | MARTIN SPINELLI |
WOMEN'S STUDIES | BARBARA SCHEELE | BARBARA WINSLOW |
Miriam Deutch was reappointed for another term as the coordinator of the College's Sexual Harassment Advisory Panel. As the coordinator, Professor Deutch is responsible for reviewing all complaints of sexual harassment under the University's policy, adopted by the Board of Trustees at its July 26, 1995 meeting.
Department | Author | Title |
Art | Jack Flam | Matisse and Picasso: The Story of the Rivalry and Friendship. Cambridge: Icon Edition/Westview Press, 2003
Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art: A Documentary History. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003 |
Computer and Information Science | Simon Parson, editor | Game Theory and Decision Theory in Agent-Based Systems. Boston: Kluwer, 2002 |
Computer and Information Science | Danny Kopec | Chess World Title Contenders and Their Styles. Mineola: Dover, 2002 |
Education | Herminio Vargas-Tollents | Language and the American Education of Puerto Ricans: A Historical Study on the Island's Sociology of Education. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corp., 2002 |
English | Roni Natov | The Poetics of Childhood. New York: Routledge, 2003 |
Film | Paula J. Massood | Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film. Philadelphia.: Temple Univ. Press, 2003 |
Health and Nutrition Sciences | Gerald M. Oppenheimer | Aids Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic: An Oral History. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002 |
History | Margaret L.King | Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2003 |
History | Steven P. Remy | The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002 |
Judaic Studies | Sara Reguer | The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2003 |
Library | Miriam Deutch | Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art: A Documentary History. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003 |
Modern Languages | Thomas Barran | Russia Reads Rousseau, 1762-1825. Evanston: Northwestern Univ., 2002 |
Modern Languages and Literatures | Luigi Bonaffini, editor, translator and author | Forty Floors from Yesterday/Quaranta piani de ieri. by Stephen Massimilla. Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, 2002 Scribendi licentia: Selected Poems in the Paduan Dialect. by Cesare Ruffato. Brooklyn: Legas, 2002 Schaum's Outline of Italian Vocabulary. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002 Selected Poems. by Albino Pierro. Toronto: Guernica, 2002 |
Philosophy | Jonathan Adler | Belief's Own Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002 |
Political Science | Jeanne Theoharis | These Yet to Be United States:Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in America since 1945. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003 |
Puerto Rican and Latino Studies | Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo | The Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key: The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Cuban Religion. Scranton: Univ. of Scranton Press, 2002 |
Puerto Rican and Latino Studies | Juan González | Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse. New York: New Press, 2002 |
Theater | Samuel L. Leiter | Kabuki Plays on Stage, Vol. 3: Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2002
Frozen Moments: Writings on Kabuki, 1966-2001. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. East Asia Program, 2002 |
TV and Radio | Frederick Wasser | Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001 |