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Collection Development: University Library

An Important Update on Donations

We are not able to accept donations in the form of physical materials for the academic year 2025-2026. We will update our site when we are able to take donations again. 

Collection Development

Do you want to see a particular book, journal, DVD, or other item added to the library? Is there a specific topic you would like the library to get more resources for? Please use the form below to make a suggestion.

Thank you for your interest in donating to the University Library. Unfortunately, we are not currently accepting donations at this time. We will update our website when we can begin receiving donations again. 

Explore our Online and Print Collections

Below is a list of our currently subscribed databases.  To get to our full A-Z database list, click on the View More Results link.  

If you are off campus, you will be prompted to login to access the databases.

The login information for faculty and staff is:
Username = Network ID
Password = Network Password

Library Services and Collections Information

2024 Visitor and Services Information

The library had 110,697 visitors in fiscal year 2024.  Librarians and staff at the information desk answered 6,790 in-person questions, 529 phone and 474 online questions received either through chat or email.  Library staff also answered 156 text questions.  Over 5,824 volumes, media, equipment and study rooms were checked out.

2024 Collection Information

Number of print books, media and curriculum resources           32,366

Number of electronic books                                                        1,007,560

Number of databases                                                                 452 

Number of journals                                                                     173,435

Number of items borrowed through interlibrary loan                   1,002 

 

Contacts

Research Services (Instruction, faculty research, purchase requests/ collection development, research guides and tutorials, OER, copyright, scholarly communications, Innovation Lab):

Archives & Special Collections (Archives and history instruction, tours, archival research):

Public Services (Interlibrary Loan, TexShare, room reservations, course reserves, circulation questions, events, First-Year Experience):

Digital Resources/ Technical Services (Database access issues):

Administration (Suggestions and questions about the library, its collections, its activities, and its services):