Recommendations for both selection and deselection may come from Robert Morris College faculty, staff and students. Community recommendations are also used when adding item numbers to the collection. The public services librarians, who work with patrons desiring to access government information, and the head of the acquisitions department meet annually in conjunction with the review process to discuss subject areas which need to be strengthened and subject areas which are little used. Recommendations by the public services librarians are also made at this time to add or delete particular titles or government authors. The public services librarians are made aware of periodic surveys offering new materials and are encouraged to offer recommendations as to their possible selection.
Care is given to properly maintaining the government documents collection.
Many serial publications are bound along with select monographic series. The microfiche collection is housed in specially purchased cabinets in order to insure their longevity. Compact and floppy disks are housed in the acquisitions area of the library. All bound volumes and some selected items are targeted with the 3M theft-detection strips to prevent their unauthorized removal from the library. The following section contains a listing of both publication format or content types and RMC's level of collection intensity by issuing agency.