Professors send departments requests of books to add to our holdings from their fields of expertise.
The library has friends in the University community and in Bellevue who donate books for inclusion in the collection. Once a book has arrived at the library it goes to Technical Services. If the book is a donation, a decision is made to add or not add it to the collection. If a book is part of a book order, it is checked in on an order confirmation report. Next, a search for the correct book record is made on OCLC , a huge library database with millions of records for books and other media.