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ALCTS – Collection Management Section (CMS)
Administration of Collection Management Interest Group (ACM-IG) and
Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries (CDLAL-IG)
Joint Program: Annual Meeting, San Francisco
When: Saturday, June 27, 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Moscone Convention Center, 122 (N)
Title: What’s changing in library liaison roles & how do these changes affect collections?
Panelists:
David Feinmark, Southern Connecticut State University
David Feinmark is the Acquisitions/Collection Development Librarian at the Hilton C. Buley Library of Southern Connecticut State University. In addition to overseeing the general acquisitions and collection development functions of the library he is also the liaison to the Department of Library and Information Science. He has published and presented in the areas of academic/public library cooperation, the use of ARL’s “Collection Analysis Project”, and on budgeting for information resources. David has an MS in Library Science from Simmons College as well as an MBA from Washburn University.
Melanie Maksin, Yale University
Melanie Maksin is the Librarian for Political Science, International
Affairs, Public Policy, and Government Information at Yale University.
She is the liaison to the departments of Political Science and Global
Affairs, as well as the chair
of the Yale University Library’s Reference, Instruction, and Outreach
Committee. She has published and presented on topics related to
government information instruction and constructivist pedagogy in
academic reference services. Melanie has a BA in History
from Swarthmore College, an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, and
will begin her MA coursework in Higher and Postsecondary Education at
Teachers College, Columbia University this fall.
Sha Towers, Baylor University
Shā Towers is the Director of Liaison Services at the Baylor University Libraries, where he leads a team of ten liaison librarians and twenty public services staff members across five service points. He serves as the liaison librarian to the departments of art and theatre. He previously served as the music librarian and head of Baylor's Fine Arts Library for nine years. He holds an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin. His current collection development interests center around building an extensive book arts teaching collection. For more about what he’s up to and in to, visit orcid.org/0000-0001-9422-941X and abou
Moderator: Michael Leach, Cabot Science Library, Harvard University
After a brief summary of the history of liaison programs in libraries, the panelists will give an overview of models at their institutions. Further discussion topics with an open forum will include: developing best practices; partnering and collaboration with various library and non-library groups on campus; the changing liaison model; what new roles are appearing for liaisons; how are the changes being developed and managed; and what types of assessments and tools being put in place to measure the success of these new programs.
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