Description of academic program: The Department of Computer Science offers both a B.A. and a B.S. degree. The graduate doctoral program leads to a PhD degree, with a Masters degree conferred upon completion of coursework leading required for the PhD degree. The Department also offers the Computer Science Professional Program that leads to a Masters in Computer Science degree; this program is designed to prepare individuals for a career in applied computing.
Audience/Purpose: The computer science collection is developed primarily to provide computer science materials for the faculty, students, and staff of the Department of Computer Science. It supports undergraduate and graduate instruction, graduate research through the PhD level, and faculty research. Additionally, the collection supports collaborative research with other departments and advanced level computing needs of the University as a whole.
Collecting guidelines:
Levels of selection: Comprehensive, research, instructional support, basic information; for a description of these levels, see the general policy statement. Scholarly materials are acquired in:
Comprehensive: theory of computing, computational complexity
Representative: artificial intelligence, distributed computing, parallel computing,
selected programming languages, computer software issues,
Selective: computer hardware, image processing, computer vision, computer graphics
Type of materials included and excluded:
research level treatises and monographs
reference works, including dictionaries and encyclopedias
textbooks for course reserves
textbooks at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels
conference proceedings
software manuals to support departmental instruction
EXCLUDED: dissertations from other universities
newsletters
popular works
general software manuals
technical reports
preprints
Physical formats included and excluded:
INCLUDED: print and electronic journals – prefer electronic format
print and electronic books – format preference depends on book content
electronic indexing and abstracting services
digital media, usually as part of books
audio, video – very selective
EXCLUDED: software packages
computer software packages
data sets
Publication dates collected: Only current imprints are acquired for the collection.
Languages: English is the predominant language for computer science materials. Non-English language titles are rarely added to the collection.
Geographical range: not applicable
Chronological span: Materials about current research materials in computer science are acquired. Historical titles are acquired by the History of Science Bibliographer.
Areas of Distinction
Strong collection in computational complexity
Strong collection in theory of computing
Related
The history of computer science collection in located in the John Crerar Library. The History of Science Bibliographer has primary responsibility for developing this collection. More contemporary history of computer science titles (after 1945) are usually acquired by the Computer Science Bibliographer.
Computer and software manuals of interest to the general university population are acquired by another bibliographer and located in the Joseph Regenstein Library.
Social and governmental aspects of computing are acquired by other bibliographers and located in the Joseph Regenstein Library. Computers as they relate to other disciplines are usually acquired by the bibliographer for the specific discipline.