To compare, please take a look at a list of prices for the journals, required for 380LE class in GSLIS.  This is how much a student would have to pay for the journals for a single class, without availability from Johnson Library.
 
Journal Price Availability online
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) 1999 issue - $99.95  n/a
Journal of Academic Librarianship $50.00 per year n/a
Information Processing and Management $257 per year n/a
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science $65.00 per year n/a
College & Research Libraries $40.00 per year only abstracts
Information Society $54 n/a
Journal of Documentation $345 (£12 air-speeded postage optional) n/a
.Information Processing and Management not found n/a
JASIS not found n/a
Information Processing and Management (IP&M)  not found n/a
Library and Information Science Research (LISR) not found n/a
D-Lib Magazine   free full-text
RQ not found  n/a
Total $1,170.95