An experiment with materials budgeting using a formula for allocation of funds has been undertaken by Ward Edwards Library at Central Missouri State University. Such factors as average costs of books and periodicals, number of titles available, number of faculty, and number of credit hours generated and degrees awarded are used. Reaction from teaching faculty members across campus indicates that most of the factors used in the process are understood. While they may not like the inclusion of some data, they respect the library's attempt to apportion funds equitably and to build a balanced collection.

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The poster will address the important issue of how we can use opportunities in teaching our medical students how to take a wider view of psychiatry and learn to ‘think outside the box’ thus broadening their vision, enabling them to challenge presently held concepts, while at the same time learning the basic tenets of our profession.Clearly, this is done by involving our students in clinical research based and audit based activities. However not all schools or teachers are comfortable with doing this, while the medical curriculum is broad, and there is a risk that students ‘only study for exams’.Research based activities, including simple things such as using basic it skills to do a literature search for a review article or carrying out a useful clinical audit, using a unit held database, are however things which students can easily do, and these can lead to publishable case reports, posters, or ever articles in peer reviewed journals.The poster will illustrate how we developed research activities with students at Cambridge University Clinical School. It shall discuss the advantages, difficulties, and indeed enjoyment of carrying out such activities.