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Holdings by Collection The Library collection supports the curriculum and research needs of the College, and provides specialized material via Interlibrary Loan to outside institutions and patrons. New acquisitions are cataloged in-house by Library staff, either by downloading existing bibliographic records or by original cataloging. The EyeBrowze online public access catalog lists 25,496 records representing 76,966 items in total (several items may be linked to one record). Monographs account for 22,634 records with 27,468 items. These include books in the Main, Reference, Reserve, Rare Book Collections, and Electronic books. Print periodicals account for 826 records with 16,345 print items. The balance of the collection, 2,036 records with 33,153 items, consists primarily of slides, computer files, CD-ROMs, videos/DVDs, and microforms. Kohn Vision Science Library expenditures and holdings by collection are given in Appendices F-5a A listing of the Kohn Vision Science Library electronic resources can be found at http://www.sunyopt.edu/library/resources.shtml. Students, staff and faculty members are provided with access to full-text articles at http://www.sunyopt.edu/library/ejourn.shtml. While the Library holds subscriptions to a large collection of electronic journals, it has access to many more journals and databases provided by SUNYConnect, a program of the State University of New York, and the New York State Library’s NOVEL service (New York Online Virtual Electronic Library). Electronic databases, including the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed, Google Scholar and VisionCite Citation Index (citations to articles targeted to vision science, optometry and ophthalmology) can be found at http://www.sunyopt.edu/library/edbs.shtml. Open URL linking technology allows connection from these databases to full-text electronic content owned by the Library. The EyeBrowze online catalog, which can be accessed through the Internet, can be found at http://seneca.sunyconnect.suny.edu:4550/F. Web site The Kohn Library website (http://www.sunyopt.edu/library/) is maintained, updated, and enhanced on an ongoing basis. Every few years, the Web site is completely redesigned to keep up with new information needs, technologies, and available information resources. Virtual visits to the Library Web site for the 12 months through February 2010 increased by 8% over the previous year. The most visited page after the home page was the electronic journals portal. Page views for this period, which are detailed in Appendix F-6, were as follows: and F-5b, respectively. Electronic Resources

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