2024-2025 Impact Report_final version

Contents Message from the Dean

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Meet Copley Library’s Associate Deans

The 2024-2025 Retreat: Supporting Neurodiverse College Students

in Academic Libraries Faculty Jennifer Bidwell

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Alma Ortega Laura Turner

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Catherine Paolillo

Enhancing Undergraduate Learning with Information Literacy Instruction Library Faculty Serve on National Science Foundation

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(NSF) Grant-Funded Research Team From Pilot to Signed MOU: the State Commission for Human Rights of Baja California (CEDH-BC) and USD Copley Library Human Rights Cases Digitization Project Hidden Poisons in the Stacks: Special Collections Investigates The Journey of a Collection: Honoring the Legacy of Fr. Mike Blastic

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Where Are They Now?

Copley Library Student Employees FY2024–2025

Student Awards

Celebrating Sister Virginia (Gina) Rodee on Her Retirement

Faculty Presentations Faculty Publications Copley Library Statistics

Top 10 Circulating LC Classification Subclasses Total Checkout

Top Ten Databases Used

Library Expenditures 2024–2025

Cover (left to right): Keana-Leoni Balalio (Class of 2025); Nathan Colberg (Class of 2029)

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