In December our colleagues in Technical Services and Cataloging added 31 items to Special Collections holdings.  Almost all were unbound REST periodical titles.  Other additions include two new REST monographs, two monographs for ACU Authors collection, one for ACU Archive, and three titles went into our staff reference collection.

Compared to past months, December was slow and considering the pace we sustained all year…a slow December was a welcome relief.

Callie Faye Milliken (Special Collections Librarian) and Dr. John Stevens (President) at the beginning of the transfer of books from the ‘old’ library in Chambers Hall to the ‘new’ Brown Library. Dr. Stevens, holding a rare copy of Biblia Sacra, led a procession of students and faculty carrying volumes into the new facility. From https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth597528/?q=books

Our goal is to build a comprehensive research-level collection of print materials by, for, and about the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.  But beyond assembly and preservation, a collection should be discoverable by those who need the information.  Collecting and preserving is only part of our task; those objects must be described and made available.  Thanks to the close and careful work of our colleagues upstairs, who describe our holdings, these materials are now discoverable. By discoverable I mean a patron can utilize our online catalog (such as by searching by author, or title, or subject) to find these materials.

31 new items…cataloged, shelved, and ready for research: