Periodicals fill the shelves in the reading room of Siegesmund Engineering Library, Potter Engineering Center, at Purdue University. The subscription for many of the periodicals will not be renewed. (By John Terhune/Journal & Courier)
By Eric Weddle, Journal & Courier
eweddle@jconline.com
The libraries of Purdue University are feeling the economic pinch.
As administrators grapple with finding millions in savings across the campus, the library system is expecting another year of price increases from print and electronic journal publishers.
Already, library shelves have been pruned by $800,000 this academic year through canceling hundreds of subscriptions, switching from print to digital versions of journals and forgoing binding.
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