Collection Development Librarians
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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.
