As the subject specialist for Political Science (including Military Studies), Packaging, and Government Information, there is a lot of collection development work to be done. With the considerable budget reductions starting in 2025, I carefully reviewed my lists of resources for the fund codes DOCSR, POLSR, MILSR, PKGSR, and FOOSR, and identified over $100,000 in subscription resources that would could cancel through 2027. I flagged an additional ~$25,000 in resources that require re-evaluation in the upcoming 2026-2027 year.

I have undertaken large-scale collection moves for the government documents collection. Most notably, I coordinated the complete relocation of the International Documents collection from the 3 West stacks to Remote Storage. Because of its high research value and almost comprehensive cataloging, the entire collection was moved intact. I also managed the move of Canadian government documents from 3 West to Remote Storage. Given that this collection was not fully cataloged and the Canadian government has made significant progress in digitizing its materials, I performed a detailed review of call number ranges and the collection as a whole. This allowed me to strategically select high-value materials for Remote Storage while responsibly discarding items of lower research value.

Additional collection work has included reviewing duplicate titles for the call number ranges in my areas (over 1,800 items thus far) and of course making careful, and informed decisions regarding my collection funds every year.