The UWI Mona Campus' Annual Departmental Reports 2022_2023

THE LIBRARY, MONA

532

Reading Lists During the period under review, a total of 72 letters of request were sent to Heads of Departments and Administrative Assistants in the faculties of Medical Sciences, Humanities and Education, Social Sciences, Sport, and Science and Technology for submission of reading lists for the academic year. Reading lists for 156 courses were received and processed. Purchases and Gifts The Library continued to receive gift books and journals for addition to the col- lection through generous donations by faculty and friends of the Library. Of note, the challenge of purchasing some of the required or highly recommended texts in electronic format, from Library vendors persists. Some of the texts that are available in electronic format can cost up to four times the cost of the paperback version of the text.

GIFTS – 2022–2023

Branches

New Titles

Total Volumes

Main

457

535

Science Medical

25 48 47 46 11

28 49 61 55 33

WISC

Law WJC

Total

634

761

PURCHASES – 2022–2023

New Titles

Total Volumes

Branches

Main

29 20 31

32 22 31

Science Medical

WISC

8 3 1

8 3 1

Law WJC

E-Books

58

58

Total

150

155

Collection Launch – The Peter Abrahams Collection The official handing over of the Peter Abrahams Collection was held on April 5, 2023 under the theme “The Voice, The Man and the Activist”. Professor Hopeton S. Dunn, Professor at the University of Botswana, and Mr. Gary Allen, Chief Executive

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