QUESTION: LibraryD1

Faculty notify the department chair if they want the library to acquire additional holdings.

We are unclear what the process is for acquiring new books. 

We have a faculty member who is designated as our library representative and this person parcels out the book notices to various faculty depending on their areas of expertise—although it is often hard to tell from the notice what a book is really about. We receive stacks of announcements and are asked to rate them on the cursory information available on publisher’s printouts.

We do this and send back our ratings—with the understanding that anything below a “1" is not likely to be ordered. Are we our own bibliographers or is there another selection process such as regular ordering from the new book lists of specific social science publishers?  

The Department library representative collects and forwards requests for new purchases to the library acquisitions department.  The representative also works with Anna Creech, Kirsten Erickson and Jennifer Jaques when seeking funding for new periodicals, the renewal of current subscriptions, or cancellation.

One faculty member serves as liason to the library for the purpose of updating and suggesing resources related to aviation.  Additionally, that person offers guidance as to utilization of certain government documents and charts from the FAA.

One faculty member in the department serves as the Library Representative.  This person is responsible for communication with the library staff about chemistry department needs.  The Library Representative brings information to the department meetings about new information resources and services.  Individual faculty needs are brought to the Library Representative who brings them collectively to the department for discussion if necessary. The department discusses current and future needs each time a program review is done and when new faculty join the department.

The department library liaison has worked on auditing the current library collection and over the last two years books have been purchased that reflect some department needs, but not all. 

January, 2008
Our library representative, a faculty member, regularly solicits our opinion at faculty meetings.

One member of the DOE faculty reviews book acquisitions of the library

We have a member of the library board. He assists in library planning.  He also involves many department faculty members in recommending new books for purchase.

Dr. Steve Olson is the department library representative. Dr. Olson collects and forwards faculty endorsements of publications to the library acquisitions department. He also works with the library to evaluate appropriate journals for new subscriptions, renewals of current acquisitions, or cancellation.

Faculty request library resources that they need to support their programs.  Faculty also review and prioritize resources that the library is considering for acquisition.

The Dept has a representative on the College library committee.

Library Representative:  One member of the faculty is chosen to represent the department to the library in matters of materials acquisition and library service. That member works with library personnel and correlates the departmental needs with the available monies dedicated to acquisitions to bring new works into the library.

We have one faculty member who is our department liaison.  

1. Faculty send evaluation cards to Pat McLaughlin, Acquisitions, to endorse the purchase of key publications and decline acquisition of unsuitable materials.

2. Dr. Dan Herman is the History representative to the Library Advisory Board.

3. Faculty work with Kirsten Erickson, Periodicals, to evaluate appropriate journals for new subscriptions, renewals of current acquisitions, or cancellation.

4. Professors cooperate with several professional librarians, including Gerry Hogan, Head of Reference; John Creech in Computer Services; and Jan Jorgensen in Government Documents to prepare tours for students, prepare customized web-pages with specialized links to course-specific websites, and offer individual help with research projects.

The library solicits input from the IET department on which books and publications to purchase.  The library send over cards of potential books to purchase and the department prioritizes the cards and sends them back to the library.  

The department chair is the designated liason with the library. Approximately 6 times a year books and periodicals are reviewed and marked for purchase. The library sends us a list of acquisitions that are passed out to the faculty.

One faculty member collects resource requests from other faculty in order to add to the library resources. With our new departmental library, we will solicit more books for the legal and related holdings.

CB faculty participate in library acquisitions with each CB department assigning a library representative.  The library assigns a subject area librarian to assist students and faculty in the CB. 

Communication with the library is done through the Department’s Library Liaison.

The music faculty library/liaison works with the music librarian to keep current with standard music publications and collects requests from department faculty.   These requests are then forwarded to the library’s collection development librarian.  The library specialist also works closely with the faculty in acquiring book, scores, and recordings, and separately orders materials for the collections.  Often when new faculty members arrive on campus, they ask the library to acquire materials on their subject area before fall term starts.  The library specialist orders these items through the music library’s account and often these materials are rushed through Collection Development so that new faculty and their students have access to these items during the fall term or later on in the school year.  Students’ suggestions for music library acquisitions are either referred to their faculty liaison or handled directly by the library specialist.  

The department library representative circulates the new book cards to the appropriate faculty for them to evaluate and prioritize their acquisition.  In addition, any faculty requesting the purchase of a specific booth or other media item submits that request to the library through the library representative

1. Faculty send evaluation cards to our library liaison, Kirsten Erickson, to suggest the purchase of key publications, audio and video media, and computer programs.

2. Dr. Li and Dr. Szpek have served as Departmental representatives to library acquisitions.

3. Faculty also work with Kirsten Erickson to continuously evaluate appropriate journals for new subscriptions, renewals of current acquisitions, or cancellation.

One faculty member in the Physics Department serves as the Library Representative.  This person is responsible for communication with the library staff about the Physics Department’s needs.  The Library Representative brings information to department meetings about new information resources and services.  Individual faculty needs are brought to the Library Representative who brings them collectively to the Department for discussion if necessary. The department discusses current and future needs each time a program review is done and when new faculty join the Physics Department.  In general, this approach has proven satisfactory and the library has proven responsive within the limited resources available.  

The Chair serves as library collections and acquisitions liaison; periodically, the library sends out review cards of new titles, and the Chair circulates these around the department.  Each faculty member ranks certain selections from one to three - from essential to “please buy if funds available,”  (or not at all, meaning do not buy) and the cards are sent back to the library. Presumably, this ranking is used to determine which selections will be purchased for the library from the department’s allocated budget. The Chair also occasionally discusses library journal holdings and the like with relevant librarians.
Jan. 08

(January 2008)
See Standard 5.B for a discussion of faculty involvement in library and information services.

   Judy Hennessy (our department’s library representative) works closely with library staff to order texts, journals, and media resources within the funding parameters provided by the library

Requests of faculty for library acquisitions are directed to our department library liaison.  

Department liaison also circulates material supplied by the library and collects requests monthly

Faculty send evaluation cards to  Acquisitions to endorse the purchase of selected books, periodicals, and video support materials.