From: Robin S Lent <rslent_at_christa.unh.edu>
At UNH we have a system of Library Liaisons. Each of the Library faculty
are liaison to one or more academic departments or programs. The
teaching faculty themselves have an allocation and the responsibility for
spending it. Liaisons are advisors, conduits for information from the
Library, and consultants about approval plan profiles, department
programs, new faculty, etc.
We would like to move to a system of Bibliographers who are fully
responsible for the ordering for each department.
I'm wondering about how other libraries made this transition. Did you do
it dept. by dept.? How did you convince the faculty to give up this task
(some of our departments would like to have bibliographers and some like
the current system)? How many depts. is each library faculty member a
bibliographer for? Do they have advanced degrees in those subject areas?
Do they do the BI for those areas? Are all the Library faculty
bibliographers or only some? Do they have dual-responsibilities? Are they
always reference librarians? What other duties do they have? When you set
up the bibliographer system, did you have to hire more librarians right away?
Please send any information you can. I'll be happy to post a summary of
responses on the list.
Thanks,
Robin Lent
Head of Collection Development
University of New Hampshire
rslent_at_christa.unh.edu
Received on Wed Mar 19 1997 - 10:48:17 EST