Dear colleagues,
We are a small (FTE 2000) liberal arts university with a Library staff
(now) of about 14 (8 librarians, director, 5 staff,)plus 1 retiring
acquisitons associate, 3 additional staff just let go, an admin shared with
IT, and 4 Instructional Technology positions + 2 vacant IT positions under
library director)
My question is- who performs your acquisitions functions? Administration
has not approved replacing the retiring acquisitions person. She
currently does firm orders, standing orders,streaming and physical media
and gifts . Are there any libraries out there that do not have a staff
acquisitions person? Do any have students performing these functions? We
were hoping to at least get a part time position, but that will not happen
either. It does not seem feasible to have either a full time librarian
already responsible for electronic resources and collections perform these
functions, or a student worker, who will be expending library funds. Our
catalog associate, who could conceivably take it on, is already
overburdened due to the fact that we have not had a cataloger for almost 2
years.
Thanks for the collective wisdom .
Kathy
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Received on Mon Dec 09 2019 - 08:27:16 EST