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I. General Description of the Collection and Its Users

The subject scope of the collection includes Food Management, Hotel and Resort Manage ment, Travel Management, Hospitality/Tourism and Nutrition and Dietetics. The collection is developed in support of the curriculum of the School of Food/Hotel/Travel Managment in the College of Applied Science and Technology. The collection primarily supports undergraduate coursework (student research, faculty teaching needs). Emphasis is on preparing students for the development, management, and operation of a hospitality industry facility or foodservice operation and clinical dietetics (dietetics/nutrition).

II. Description of the Programs Served by the Collection

A. Undergraduate Programs

1. Food Management

Covers public feeding and lodging. Emphasis is on institutional management: restaurants, hotels, motels, airlines. public institutions, commercial and contract feeding, health care organizations, clubs and leisure facilities.

2. Hotel and Resort Management

Covers sales, management, and marketing in hotels, resorts, clubs, and recreational enterprises.

3. Travel Management

Covers transportation accomodation, travel services, and tourism economics. Emphasis is on management and marketing(planning, arranging, coordinating) of travel for business and industry, tour operations, travel agencies, and convention bureaus.

4. Nutrition Management

Traditional Program in General Dietetics (B.S.)
Coordinated Program in General Dietetics

Covers food management, food science, nutrition and diet therapy for health care facilities, community nutrition programs, educational institutions, day care facilities, and commercial foodservice operations. Emphasis is on food systems, management, nutritional counseling, clinical dietetics, and community nutrition. The coordinated undergraduate program in general dietetics combines the undergraduate curriculum with planned clinical study to meet the requirements for membership in the American Dietetic Association (900 hours of planned and supervised clinical experience.)

5. Food Marketing and Distribution

Covers food marketing and logistics strategies, food quality and production management, and foodservice operations management. Emphasis is on practical applications of distribution processes as well as commodities, market cycles and conversions and standards.

B. Graduate Programs

1. Foodservice/Restaurant Management

Covers computerized systems for food service, food and beverage marketing strategies; and product development and problem solving in food service.

2. Hotel/Resort Management

Covers organizational strategies of hospitality firms; hospitality resource management; and problem analysis and decision making in the service economies.

3. Travel and Tourism Management

Covers tourism policy analysis; travel marketing systems; and tourism planning and travel product development.

4. Meeting Planning/Conference Management

Covers meeting planning management; convention and exhibition management; and legal issues and evaluation of events.

5. Nutrition/Health Management

   Covers food management, food science, nutrition and diet therapy for health care facilities, community nutrition programs, educational institutions, day care facilities, and commercial foodservice operations.

III. Subject and Language Modifiers

A. Geographic Areas

The geographic focus of the collection is primarily on the United States.

B. Chronological Limits

No restrictions. Emphasis, however, is on current developments and analysis of recent events.

C. Languages

No restrictions. Emphasis is on English-language materials. Only selected foreign language statistical sources and multilingual dictionaries/encyclopedieas are acquired.

IV. Date of Publication

General emphasis for acquisition of new titles is on current publications in all subject areas. Acquisition/retention of material older than ten years is based upon importance of the work to the discipline; usefulness for historical information/perspective; extent of current publishing in the discipline; curriculum needs for new program development; usage of existing material of same age; and physical condition of the material. Retrospective acquisition of serials to meet new program needs will be extremely selective and limited to the past five years. Document delivery will be utilized instead to meet these needs whenever feasible.

V. Level of Treatment

A. Level of Treatment

Primary emphasis is on a collection which supports curriculum driven needs of the students and faculty. The needs of NTID students are accomodated whenever possible. Major published sources containing research reporting as well as scholarly work appearing in core or recommended lists will be acquired. Pertinent reference sources will be acquired as appropriate, including dictionaries, handbooks, directories, statistical sources commercial research reports, and company/industry surveys. Every effort is made to accommodate faculty requests for curriculum related titles.

B. Textbooks

Not acquired routinely unless classic titles or useful as general surveys or handbooks for a particular area not otherwise represented.

C. Multiple Copies

Acquired only when heavy use is anticipated or at the curriculum based request of a faculty member.

D. Newspapers

Essential sources of current information on domestic and international business and finance are acquired. Local papers and selected metropolitan and international daily papers are supported by general reference, business, and economics.

E. Government Documents

Acquired selectively when their content is appropriate to the scope of the collection.

F. Maps/Atlases

Acquired selectively when appropriate for specific representations (for example, commercial atlases, census maps).

G. Other

Pamphlets are acquired only if sufficiently substantial to warrant cataloging. No pamphlet/vertial file is maintained.

VI. Cooperative Collection Development Agreements

No contractual cooperative collection development agreements for this discipline have been made between RIT Library and any other library. Informal working relationships with other members of the RRLC exist and closer associations will be pursued in the future.

Where faculty and student research needs fall outside the primary undergraduate curriculum-based scope of the onsite collection, access to this information will be provided through traditional, as well as, commercial document delivery services.

VII. Publication Formats

A. Microforms

Journals are routinely retained in microfilm with the exception of titles containing substantial graphical material or mathematical notation.

B. Non-Print Materials

Acquisition of traditional non-print materials (slides, videotapes, video discs, films, sound recordings, slide/tape programs) is very selective and made in consultation with the Media Resource Center, usually at the request of a faculty member. Non-print materials are generally housed in the Media Resource Center.

C. Software and CD-ROM

Indexing and abstractinig services and other specialized sources will be acquired in these formats where they meet subject collection criteria, as well as, the Electronic Resources Policy criteria (in process).

VIII. Collection Maintenance

Continuous maintenance of the collection is carried out based upon systematic evaluation in light of curriculum shifts, use statistics, core bibliographies, physical space limitations and alternative availability of information. Current periodical titles will be reviewed annually prior to their renewal. All other areas of the collection should be reviewed every three to five years. Included in the process are weeding of materials no longer relevant to curriculum needs, elimination of superfluous titles where information is duplicated in more current or authoritative sources, and the ordering of replacement copies of damaged/heavily used items still relevant to curriculum needs.

A. Weeding

1. Duplicates Only Weeded
a. Monographs
At least one copy in good condition of standard classic titles listed in major general bibliographies of business and special subject lists, such as Harvard Business School Core Collection should be retained in the collection. Second (and higher numbered) copies that do not circulate for five years should be deselected.
b. Serials
A highly selective collection of business serial titles are kept in both paper and microform for up to five years after which the paper is weeded.
2. Selective Weeding
   a. Monographs
   In general, food, hotel and travel management materials should be reviewed every three to five years to remove materials no longer relevant to the curriculum, older materials where sufficient coverage is provided by contemporary titles, and multiple copies of materials where high use is no longer a factor.
   b. Serials
   1. Indexing and Abstracting Services
      Indexing and abstracting publications should be discarded only when equivalent or improved coverage and access is available through new sources, printed or electronic (i.e. covers approximately same or more pertinent journal titles in the field and/or provides enhanced search capabilities pertinent to our programs). Duplication of coverage should be monitored annually. If the library has a run of less than ten years and the materials covered are indexed by another resource, the volumes should be deaccessioned.
   2. Scholarly Publications
      Long runs of key scholarly journals in all aspects of business that meet the criteria given in the introduction to this section should be retained indefinitely. Priority for retention should be given to titles accessible though indexing and abstracting services available at RIT Library and titles not available in any other Rochester-area library. Titles that have ceased publication need to be reviewed carefully. If the library has a run of less than ten years and the journal is available through an alternative source, either an area library or a document delivery service, then it should be deaccessioned. If the title is not readily available through an alternative resource and it meets the collecting levels assigned in Section IX: Subject Divisions then it should be retained.
   3. Trade Journals
      Retention of trade journals should be carefully scrutinized. Those that primarily provide timely information (industry news, new products, market trends, etc.) should be discarded after a period of one to five years. An example of this would be Travel Weekly . Those that include articles of more lasting value should be considered for longer retention, particularly if they are accessible through indexing and abstracting services available at RIT Library. An example of this would be Restaurants & Institutions.
3. Current Edition/Year Only Retained
   a. Monographs
   1. Modern (post-1980) textbooks
   2. Modern (post-1980) manuals of practice
   3. Career guidance and professional information (legal, business, tax, grant, etc. materials)
   4. Standards
   b. Serials
   1. Newsletters, calenders, other curent awareness services providing timely information about events and activities of organizations, employment opportunities.
   2. Membership directories of industry-related organizations
   3. Directories of corporations except in cases when information included is more extensive than basic directory information. An example would be the Moody's series. When comprehensive information is available then the retention should mirror the curricula needs.

B. Replacement of Materials

1. Lost, Mutilated

Every effort should be made to replace lost or heavily mutilated titles if they are judged to be of continuing relevance to the collection. When mutilation is confimed to a few pages, replacement copies of these should be requested through the Information Delivery Service (see RIT Library Bindery Policy: Monographs and RIT Library Bindery Policy: Serials).

2. Gifts which duplicate existing holdings should be used to upgrade the condition of the collection by replacing worn circulating copies with more sound gift copies.

C. Stacks Maintenance

The business collection, particularly the reference section, is fairly heavily used therefore requiring shelf-reading on a on-going, consistent basis. The condition of items shelved in these areas should be monitored to ensure those in need of repair and rebinding are attended to before they are irreparably damaged.

IX. Subject Divisions

 

	Support Level (see Introduction for key)
A. Foodservice/Restaurant Management
1. Career Development	D
2. Food Preparation	C-2
3. Sanitation and Safety	C-2
4. Nutrition Science	C-1
5. Menu Planning and Merchandising	C-1
6. Institutional Management and Marketing Covers hotels, motels, resorts, clubs, airlines, educational institutions, businesses, government agencies, restaurants, and health care organizations.	C-1
7. Purchasing and Inventory Control	C-2
8. Accounting/Finance	C-2
9. Personnel and Training	C-2
10.Design and Equipment	C-1
11. Food, Labor, and Cost Control	C-1
12. Hospitality Industry	C-1
13. Health Care Organizations	C-1
14. Food Science	C-1
15. Company Analysis	C-1
16. Banquets and Catering	C-1
17. Beverage Operations	C-2
18. Statistical Analysis	C-2
19. Security/Law	C-1
B. Hotel/Resort Management Includes convention facilities, hotels, motels, bed and breakfast inns, night clubs, theaters, cabarets, restaurants, hostelsm health resorts, seasonal resorts, dude ranches, golf courses, health spas, campgrounds, theme parks and condominiums.
1. Hotel Operations	C-1
2. Resort and Recreation Operations	C-2
3. Reservations	C-1
4. Housekeeping/Maintenance	C-1
5. Hospitality Safety	C-1
6. Food, Labor and Cost Control	C-1
7. Personnel and Training	C-1
8. Food Systems	C-1
9. Accounting/Finance	C-1
10. Beverage Operations	C-2
11. Statistical Analysis	C-2
12. Banquet and Catering	C-1
C. Travel/Tourism
1. Travel Costs and Expenses	C-1
2. Guidebooks	D
3. Tourism Economics	C-1
4. Tourism Statistical Analysis	C-1
5. Travel Agencies	C-2
6. Travel/Tourism Law	C-2
7. Transportation Modes	C-2
8. Reservation/Travel Systems	C-1
9. Career Development	C-2
10. Tourist Trade	C-1
D. Dietetics
1. Diet Therapy	C-1
2. Meal Planning/Menu Preparation	C-2
3. Sanitation/Safety	C-1
4. Nutrition Science	C-1
5. Nutritional Deficiency Disease	C-2
6. Digestion	D
7. Food Habits	C-2
8. Diet Evaluation	D
9. Psychological Aspects of Diet/Nutrition	C-2
10. Vitamin Research	C-2
11. Nutritional Disorders	C-1
12. Nutrition and Special Groups	C-1
13. Policy	D
14. Institutional Programs	C-2
15. Health Care Management	C-2
E. Meeting Planning/Conference Management
1. Marketing and Convention Sales	C-1
2. Convention Facilities	C-1
3. Convention/Exhibition Management	C-1
4. Meeting Planning Management	C-1
5. Legal Issues	D
6. Evaluation	C-2

[rev. 7/94]

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