University of Technology, Jamaica 15 Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Trial for HeinOnline’s International Core (September 12, 2019 - November 12, 2019) HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 173 million pages and 270,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,700 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library (Trial date – September 24, 2019 – October 31, 2019); ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, and delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. The ACM Digital Library is the most comprehensive collection of full text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology. Print Collection The total print material circulation for the year was 11,798, which represented a significant increase of 9,118 from the figure of 2,680 for the year 2018/2019. During the period a total of 6,754 short term or overnight books were borrowed, compared to 1,446 books the previous year. This marked increase could be attributed to the change in loan policy, which allowed users to borrow overnight books for seven nights non-renewable instead of three nights. There was also an increase in the loan period of general lending books, as students were allowed loan of these books for 28 days non-renewable, instead of the previous 14-day loan period with one renewal. Staff book loans increased from 4 to 43 during the period. The reading room usage figures moved from 141 for the previous year to 340 during the review period. Reference and Research Resources The reference services information requests amounted to 290 during the period. This was a decrease by 180 requests compared to 470 requests during the period 2018-2019. However, the face-to-face Reference Desk requests increased slightly from 230 to 239. Document Delivery via OCLC also increased from 24 requests to 50 requests; an increase by 26 requests. Caribbean materials loaned decreased from 295 in 2018-2019 to 228 in 2019-2020. It is also in keeping with what is happening in academic libraries globally. Users are using open sources and having greater access to electronic resources. The library provides access to most of these resources. The usage statistics for electronic resources continued to show massive increases in the use of most databases. Statistics from the use of the major databases showed that there was an overall increase of some 3,714,791 during the year. Total databases used at the end of the year stood at 4,874,102 – a massive four hundred and twenty percent (420%) jump over the figure of 1,159,311 for the previous year. Library Archives The Archives in the Library continued to function as a central repository for university documents, including the uploading of past examinations papers for access online.
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