Collection Strategies

FSU Libraries strives to meet the research and learning needs of our scholars by providing timely and consistent access to scholarly materials. On this page, you can learn more about our strategies as well as find data, news, and information related to collection development activities at Florida State University.

The guidelines below are followed in collection decisions made by the Florida State University Libraries:

• Collection Development Policy & Guidelines
• Deaccessioning and Withdrawal of the General Collection
• Materials Donation Policy
• Open Access Collection Development

New Faculty Grants Deadline

The University Libraries offer New Faculty Collection Development Grants to newly hired full-time tenure track faculty. These grants provide eligible faculty members with up to $1,000 to order books and media materials for our permanent collection. Requests can be submitted via the Faculty Development Grant form. Please include your name in the request, select your department, and in the notes field add a note “New Faculty Grant.” These funds cannot be used for subscriptions or other resources that incur an annual continuing cost. The following deadlines are currently in effect:

• Faculty hired during the 2022-2023 Academic Year: January 31, 2024
• Faculty hired during the 2023-2024 Academic Year: January 31, 2025

For more information please contact your subject librarian.

New Online Collections 2022-2023

• Bloomsbury Drama Online additions: National Theatre Collections 1 & 2, Royal Shakespeare Company Live Collections 1 & 3
• Children’s Literature & Culture
• Global Health
• Newspaper Archives: Miami Herald, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Early American Newspapers, Series 12, 1821-1900, and the Birmingham News
• SAGE Campus
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
• British Periodicals Collections I-III
• Indian Claims Insight