Collection Development Librarians

As Collection Development Librarians, we are charged to:

Provide outreach to faculty and graduate students
Promote the university's scholarly communication initiatives
Select print and electronic books
Review and adjust approval plan profiles for my subject areas
Assess the collection supporting my subjects
Make preservation, gift, and de-selection decisions
Recommend materials suitable for digitization
Recommend journal subscriptions and cancellations, online journal backfiles, microform materials, databases, datasets, and other resources
Work collaboratively with colleagues throughout Academic Library Services and the Laupus Health Sciences Library to build strong collections

As Head of Collection Development, Joseph Thomas is charged to:

Advance campus efforts relating to scholarly communication and the development of an institutional repository
Provide leadership for the development and management of the library's collections in all formats
Manage and strengthen the library's collaborative collection development program with academic departments and schools
Coordinate the library's subject liaisons' program
Direct collection assessment to inform data-driven materials budgeting and planning
Represent the library in statewide and regional buying consortia

Select this link for a complete list of Liaison Librarians and the departments we serve.