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Collections Management FY24 Annual Report

The fiscal year 24 annual report from the duPont-Ball Library's Collections Management department. Includes information on library resources and library expenditures.

Collections Management in the duPont-Ball Library

Located in the basement of the Library near the north courtyard entrance, the department is responsible for the following:

  • Acquisitions — selecting books, periodicals, and videos the library needs and buying them
  • Cataloging — organizing materials in the library by description and classification
  • Electronic Resources — managing electronic resources available through the library’s catalog
  • Periodicals — managing the electronic, paper, and microform journals
  • Web Services -- development and management of a new library website

Summary of FY24 in the Department

Highlights from FY24

  1. The library spent $820,443 on library resources in FY24, spending 95.8% of the total on electronic resources.
  2. The library added the following databases in FY24:  Benezit Dictionary of Artists; Bloomsbury Open Access Ebooks.
  3. We continued to reduce the number of print volumes in the circulating collections by evaluation and deaccessioning outdated and unused materials.
  4. The reference print collection was evaluated and a number of volumes were deaccessioned.  We will continue to evaluate the Reference Collection in FY25.

Department Personnel Changes in FY24

Michael Wells joined the library faculty as Web Services and Research Librarian.

Xanthippe Pack-Brown resigned from the library staff as the Serials Collections Specialist.  This position was reconfigured to be the ILL and Circulation Specialist in the public services area of the library.

Associate Dean of the Library, Debbi Dinkins, served as Interim Library Director during FY24.