Collection Services

What We Do . . .

The Collection Services Section handles a variety of services that build, maintain and preserve the collection as well as provide intellectual access to it. Its staff members create and maintain the databases that are best known to our users as GULLiver. From acquiring library materials to providing bibliographic control over legal and law-related information in all formats, Collection Services staff members support the teaching, research and scholarship of the Georgetown University Law Center.

Who We Are . . .

Collection Services consists of several departments that work with the Collection Services Administration staff who provide library systems support and with each other and related departments in the library. The departments include:

  • Acquisitions - responsible for ordering, receiving and paying for library materials and for establishing subscriptions for information resources accessed via the World Wide Web.
  • Cataloging - responsible for providing the means of accessing library materials.
  • Preservation - responsible for preserving library materials and their intellectual content to ensure their current and future availability.
  • Serials - responsible for receiving, updating, and filing continuation materials.

List of Collection Services staff.

 

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