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Hospitality Administration
Selector: Sarah Struble
GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE COLLECTION
The library's Hospitality
collection focuses on materials concerned with hotel and food service
management. Important aspects include administration, accounting and
finance, computer applications, marketing, human resource management,
food production and beverage management. A vital ancillary interest
is tourism marketing and management. There is also some additional
coverage of food culture and culinary history.
The Hospitality collection supports the School
of Hospitality Administration, which offers a BA in Hospitality
Administration. The curriculum includes a firm foundation
in liberal arts, management courses in accounting and organizational
behavior, extensive fieldwork, and elective courses specific to
the hospitality service industry. The collection is also of
interest to graduate and undergraduate School of Management students
who frequently undertake business projects and assignments involving
the hospitality sector. The School of Management also offers
a minor in Hospitality Administration for SMG undergraduates and
a minor in Business Administration for SHA undergraduates. Other
programs on campus that use this collection include BU Global's
Diploma in Sustainable Economic Development via Tourism, Metropolitan College's
MLA in Gastronomy, and MET's certificate programs in Culinary
Arts and Wine Studies.
SCOPE OF COVERAGE
1. Languages collected (primary and selective) or excluded: English language primary and secondary materials are collected.
2. Geographical areas covered by the collections in terms of intellectual content, publication sources, or both, and specific areas excluded, as appropriate: The hospitality industry is global. The School of Hospitality Administration requires of its students "significant exposure with a culture outside the United States" in recognition of this international dimension. While global in outlook, materials collected are principally North American and Western European in origin.
3. Chronological periods covered by the collection in terms of intellectual content, movements or schools, and specific periods excluded, as appropriate: Materials collected concentrate on current standards and information about the hospitality industry. Materials dealing with culinary history and the historical coverage of important aspects of hospitality service are collected selectively.
4. Chronological periods collected in terms of publication dates, and specific periods excluded, as appropriate: Currently published material is collected. Older materials important to the collection are acquired selectively, often because of a request or to replace missing and worn items.
GENERAL SUBJECT BOUNDARIES AND LIBRARY LOCATIONS
All materials collected by Hospitality in the following Library of Congress classifications are found in Mugar Memorial Library.
Collected:
| TP 500-660 | Fermentation industries, Beverages, Alcohol |
| TX 341-641 | Nutrition, Foods and food supply |
| TX 643-840 | Cookery |
| TX 901-953 | Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service |
| Z 5986 | Food Service. Restaurants. Bibliography |
| Z 6250 | Hospitality Industry. Hotels. Bibliography |
| Z 7914.F63 | Useful arts and applied science. Technology. Food. Bibliography |
Collected Selectively:
| SB 387-399 | Grape Culture. Viticulture |
| TP 368-456 | Food processing and manufacture |
| Z 6011-6019 | Voyages and travels. Bibliography |
RELATED SUBJECTS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS
Anthropology: The Anthropology and Hospitality selectors may consult on materials specific to eating and drinking customs in the GT2400-3390.5 range.
Geography: Some travel and tourism marketing materials fall in the geography call number ranges G149-G180, Travel, Voyages and travels (General), normally collected by the Geography Selector. Current materials of immediate interest to students of and practitioners in the hospitality industry which fall in this range are acquired by the Hospitality Selector.
Health Sciences: Some materials related to nutrition in the call number range TX341-TX641 would be of more immediate interest to health service professionals and are acquired by the Health Sciences Selector.
Management and Economics: The Hospitality and Management or Economics selectors consult about materials in the HD-HJ call number range that are specific to the hospitality industry. These materials are generally located in Mugar Memorial Library.
TYPES
OF MATERIALS
Collected: Periodicals, trade journals, monographs and reference material, including atlases, indexes and abstracts, bibliographies, directories, and encyclopedias.
Collected Selectively: Cookbooks, guidebooks (primarily travel guides, especially those with emphasis upon accommodations and/or eating establishments) and textbooks (very selectively).
Not Collected: Dissertations, audiovisual materials.
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