As the subject specialist for political science, I receive and review lists of materials to be

withdrawn from the stacks completely or to be moved from the Main Library to Remote Storage.

These lists can be quite large and must be reviewed within two weeks; careful consideration

must be given to ensure relevant materials for our researchers are not disposed of or moved off-

site. In addition to this work, I am also still working on reviewing federal documents that had

been housed in Remote Storage but have since been moved to 3 West to determine what

should be kept and what should be discarded per our regional library’s discard policy. This is an

ongoing and time-consuming project as titles can be generic and SuDoc numbers have

changed over time making it difficult to find the exact titles in our catalog and in the catalog for

our regional library. To make additional space for the Writing Center and other help centers,

International Documents were removed from 3 West and moved to Remote Storage. For the

upcoming year, it is possible that cataloged Canadian Documents may be moved to Remote

Storage as well. This will help us identify Canadian Documents that do not have catalog records

so that we can address this issue and then move those items out to Remote Storage as well.

One large project I undertook this year was reviewing Canadian documents and sending
the most useful parts of that collection to Remote Storage. This required identifying the ranges
with materials that would be the most useful to our researchers, having barcoded items from
those ranges processed and sent out to Remote Storage, and reviewing the items in those
ranges that were not barcoded and determining if they should be catalogued, barcoded, and
processed for Remote Storage. Items that were determined to not be of interest to our
researchers or for which there were digital equivalents were disposed of.

24-25 year I reviewed duplicate titles in the call number ranges
of HX, JA, JC, JF, JK, JS, JX, JV, and JZ (1273 items).

A Packaging faculty member requested the library investigate gaining access to United States
Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF) to support her classes that focus on
pharmaceutical packaging. I discovered that USP-NF offers free access to academic institutions and I
worked with Iris Kovar-Gogh to set this up. 24-25

Amid substantial budget reductions for FY 2025–2026, I completed a review of subscription resources

across the DOCSR, POLSR, MILSR, PKGSR, and FOOSR collections. This analysis identified more

than $100,000 in subscriptions scheduled for cancellation through 2027, while flagging an additional

~$25,000 in resources for reevaluation while we continue to work within the library’s new fiscal

constraints. Additional collections work included a review of ~390 duplicate titles in the U-V call number

ranges.

Responding to the large-scale removal and revision of federal government websites and datasets, I

joined the Tracking Government Information Project in November. This collaborative, crowd-sourced

effort preserves public access by systematically documenting censorship, content removals,

agency/program eliminations, funding cuts, and data purges. I contribute regularly by monitoring high-

priority sources (CDC, EPA, BLS websites, and relevant social media channels) and submitting the

observed changes, deletions, or modifications—directly supporting the preservation and transparency

of vital government information during a period of significant administrative change.