We generally try to buy two copies of faculty-, staff-, or student/alumni-authored books, one to circulate and one for special collections. Faculty books are the biggest part of it. We aim to collect most books where there is a faculty-authored chapter but that has its limits, especially when you get to things like encyclopedia. I think that the archives staff tries to maintain lists of works we don’t actually buy.
Mostly we hear about new publications through various kinds of on-campus announcements; sometimes an author will approach us with an announcement or a donation; and it’s easy enough to run a search in the GOBI database now and again for new and current books. The back file might be harder, as well defining who counts as faculty…we’re pretty inclusive about that.
Good luck!
Carolyn Coates
Acquisitions Librarian
J. Eugene Smith Library
Eastern Connecticut State University
coatesc_at_easternct.edu<mailto:coatesc_at_easternct.edu>
860-465-5557
From: acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org <acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org> On Behalf Of Katy Ginanni
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Subject: [ALCTS-acqnet] Fw: [ALCTScentral] Acquisition program for faculty-authored books
Dear colleagues,
UConn Library is planning a program to start systematically acquiring UConn faculty-published books (monographs) for inclusion in our collections. Does your library run such a program? How is it scoped, e.g., do you buy books where your faculty contributed only a chapter? How do you obtain lists of faculty-authored works? Any tech specs would be very helpful, if you’re willing to share.
Regards,
Michael Rodriguez (he/him/his)
President, ACRL New England Chapter
Collections Strategist
University of Connecticut Library
369 Fairfield Way U-1005B | Storrs, CT 06269
michael.a.rodriguez_at_uconn.edu<mailto:michael.a.rodriguez_at_uconn.edu> | 860-486-9325
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