In general, the level of collecting intensity is mostly focused on instructional support and support of the current faculty and graduate student research interests. With the recent increase in available materials funds, conference proceedings and other ephemeral materials not available at other OhioLINK libraries are being purchased as funds permit. Most materials fall into the QC and QB classifications. Materials in QA, QD, T, R, and Z are collected selectively. Current and retrospective collecting .
Most materials purchased are current imprints.
Recent back issues of journals may be acquired when a new journal title is ordered. Time period collected. Current collection efforts in physics focus on recent scholarship. Historically materials in classical physics and the history of physics and astronomy have been collected. The Observatory Collection contains many early books and journal runs in astronomy commencing with the first volume beginning in the nineteenth century.