5. It is easier and more natural for us to think of our collections globally than it is for many other research libraries. We are younger as a research library than many of our peers, but more importantly we have far fewer branches (only Art & Architecture, Veterinary Medicine, and Geological Sciences on the main campus). Until the 1980's we did maintain separate departments, each with its own collections budget, head librarian, and reference desk, for humanities, social sciences, and sci/tech, but we have been more integrated since then. A slow but quite visible trend towards thinking of the libraries as a unity began as soon as those were merged. So far at least the Collegiate Librarian trend has not reintroduced negative centrifugal forces and competing loyalties, but that is a risk.