That represents about 8 percent of its library acquisitions budget.

The Government might agree, for example, to pay 25 percent of all library acquisitions.

Since 2007, benefactors who provide endowments for library acquisitions are referred to as members of the Jewel Society.

University officials said the additional state aid - the first such increase in nine years - will mainly cover rising operating costs, including salaries, library acquisitions and equipment.

According to Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, it "deals with ethical issues in all of the information sciences, from library acquisitions to database management, with a multidisciplinary approach."

The annual library acquisitions is about 50,000 new editions.

He translated many scholarly works in musicology, philosophy, history and library science, and compiled several books in library acquisitions and library cataloging.

The cuts were necessary, he went on, because expenditures like medical insurance and library acquisitions were skyrocketing while income from research grants was dropping.

Staff salaries were reduced rapidly in cost-of-living terms, and funding for facilities, library acquisitions, and other necessary resources was abruptly curtailed.

What encourages distributors and publishers is that total library acquisitions through 1994 are projected by the Book Industry Study Group to grow at an 8.7 percent compounded annual rate.