Notes on Operations

Exchange unit is the central receiv-ing area for incoming gift materi-als donated to the main and branch libraries. The Smathers Library has gift acceptance policies and proce-dures that are consistent with other large academic libraries, and benefit from thousands of donated books, serials, and other items each year.1 The library views gift donations as an excellent method of bolstering collec-tions by adding items not previously held, filling gaps in periodical hold-ings, or replacing missing and dam-aged monograph titles. In fiscal yea