Three awards are offered each year. Faculty members receiving appointments as fellows are freed from all other regular assignments except the supervision of graduate theses and dissertations. Through these awards, the University demonstrates its continuing commitment to the excellence in teaching and research of its faculty. The Morris Library, where the main collection is held, seats over 3,000. University Libraries contain more than 2,200,000 volumes of books and journals and more than 2,800,000 items in microtext.
Collections are broadly based and comprehensive.
The University of Delaware Library serves as a depository library for U.S. government publications and a patent depository library for U.S. patents. Library Networked Databases provide access to more than 50 networked databases for University of Delaware faculty, students, and staff. Library Networked Databases contain hundreds of thousands of full-text articles, references and summaries of the contents of journals. The Library Web page is also available from the University of Delaware Web page. A database exists for virtually every subject.