Our liaison program assigns every librarian to serve as liaison to one or more academic department. Each academic department has a library representative who works with their respective liaison on collection development. They, along with department faculty, are the first line in book selection. Liaisons support them in this and supplement selection as necessary; and liaisons maintain communication with departments regarding library resources and services. Liaisons are not subject specialists (necessarily) but all work with a subject specialist to maintain a Research Guide (LibGuides) for their departments' academic disciplines. The program has been in place for a very long time and don't know by what process it came to be. I suspect it is modeled on another library's and/or resulted from studying the literature.
James Rodgers
MA, MLIS | Assistant Professor | Acquisitions | Mississippi State University Libraries | 395 Hardy Road | P.O. Box 5408 | Mississippi State, MS 39762 | 662-325-0778
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I am on a task force here at The UT Arlington Library working on a new structure for Liaison Librarians. Collection Development/Acquisitions will be one element of that role. We would like to pose two questions:
1. How are your Liaison (subject) Librarians structured?
2. How did you decide on this structure?
Thank you,
Debra Lou Carter
Monographs Manager
carter_at_uta.edu
Universtiy of Texas at Arlington Library
Information Resources
702 Planetarium Place
Arlington, TX 76019-0497
Ph: 817-272-1507 ( tel:817-272-1507 )
Fax: 817-272-5804 ( tel:817-272-5804 )
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