As I prepare my budget for 2018, the challenge is always to align the collections we maintain and determine that new content purchased, reflects the research and medical activities of our user community, and supports the mission of the Center. Scholarly journals tend to take a fair portion of our allocated content funds and considerable time is spent each year (and during the year) monitoring their use, identifying new research journals, and looking to see where research dollars have been assigned/diverted within the organization. Continue reading →