Library Course Assessment for
MA Cohort in International Leadership
November 22, 2004
Serials | Monographs | Videos | Bibliographic Tools | Cost
This is the Library's report on the proposed MA Cohort in International Leadership. This program will be offered jointly by SFU and Capilano College, either at the College, or the Vancouver campus of SFU, where space has been allocated for the program. This assessment determines the cost of providing adequate library support for the program if it is offered at SFU Vancouver. While some of the required resources may be available at Capilano College, students attending the program at SFU, if it is located here, will need to have library resources at hand. Although a good number of the items on the program reading lists are available in the Bennett Library, the Belzberg Library collection will need significant development to support this program. Some allowance has been made for resources from Bennett Library to be delivered on demand to students studying downtown, but the core resources for the program should be available at the Belzberg Library.
The program will be offered beginning in Fall 2005, for a cohort of 32 students. The program and course proposals included detailed reading lists. This assessment is based on comparing Belzberg Library holdings to those lists.
Serials
The SFU Library collection includes all but a few of the journals included on the reading lists. As most of these are now available electronically, they are accessible from all Library locations, including Belzberg. Some are also in print at Belzberg Library in support of SFU’s MBA programs based downtown. The following titles, available at Belzberg Library, will be useful for students in the program.
American Economic Review
Asia Pacific Business Review
Asian Survey
Canadian Journal of Economics
Economic Journal
Economist
Educause Review
Environment and Planning A
Environment and Planning D: Society & Space
Environmental Science and Technology
Euromoney
Explorations in Economic History
Far Eastern Economic Review
Finance & Development
Financial Times
Food Policy
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Harvard Business Review
International Political Science Review
Journal of Asian Studies
Journal of Development Economics
Journal of Economic Issues
Journal of Futures Markets
Journal of Human Development
Journal of Investing
Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
Latin American Politics and Society
Management Learning
McKinsey Quarterly
MIT Sloan Management Review
New Left Review
New Media & Society
New Statesman
Pacific Affairs
Review of International Political Economy
Skeptic
Sociological Review
Wall Street Journal
Wilson Quarterly
Other titles from the existing SFU collections in Political Science, Business, Economics and Area Studies will supplement these. There are three additional titles, listed as core resources for MIL 809, that should also be acquired:
Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies $70/yr
Harvard Asia Pacific Review $40/yr
Asia Pacific Review $210/yr
Total: $320/year
Some back issues of each title should also be acquired to provide depth to the collection.
One time cost: $800
Monographs
Monograph holdings at Belzberg are very shallow in the subject areas covered by the program. The number of books on the reading lists for each course is indicated below, and the number of these held at Belzberg.
MIL 800 & 801 Professional Development Seminar I & II
1 of 37 books held at Belzberg
MIL 802 Core Seminar I
1 of 12 books held at Belzberg
803 Core Seminar II
3 of 18 books held at Belzberg
804 & 805 Global Issues I & II
reading lists are heavily weighted to journals
3 of 10 books held at Belzberg
*37 of SFU’s 569 books on LC Subject Heading “Globalization” are held at Belzberg, including many recent imprints
806 Global Markets I
1 of 5 books held at Belzberg
807 Global Markets II: Asia
0 of 7 books held at Belzberg
808 & 809 Regional Focus: Introduction to Asia & Advanced Seminar on Asia
4 of 49 books held at Belzberg
810 Regional Focus: Introduction to Latin America
0 of 32 books held at Belzberg
811 Regional Focus: Advanced Seminar on Latin America
3 of 40 books held at Belzberg
In total, only 15 out of 210 books on the reading lists are held at the Belzberg Library. Allowing for some duplication of titles across these lists, a minimum of 160 books will need to be added to the Belzberg collection to provide required and suggested readings. At an average book cost of $65, this amounts to $10,400.
One-time cost: $10,400
Some ongoing funds will also be required to supplement this collection each year the program is offered and to build a relevant collection of supplementary material. 30 books/year at an average cost of $65.
Ongoing cost: $1,950
Videos
Several videos are also included on the course outlines. These are available in the SFU collection, or can be borrowed for screening in class. No additional video resources are required.
Bibliographic Tools
The Library’s existing bibliographic tools will be adequate for locating resources for this program. In particular, the following indexes provided by library license will be useful:
ABI/Inform Global
Business Source Premier
Clase & Periodica
EconLit
International Political Science Abstracts
LADB: Latin American Data Base
PAIS International