Charge
Under the leadership and guidance of the Collection Development Officer, the Collections Council:
- Determines the overall collections priorities of the Libraries, recommending allocation of resources reflecting those priorities
- Engages in strategic and tactical planning with respect to Libraries collection resources and University programs, priorities and initiatives
- Develops collection development and management guidelines, policies and procedures regarding selection, acquisitions, preservation, withdrawal, reformatting, etc., ensuring relevant input from users and appropriate staff
- Maintains effective communication with staff and users about collection development and management issues
- Collaborates with Libraries divisions to ensure that materials and resources are effectively delivered to users within academic programs
Current Members
The Collections Council has the following standing membership, but other library staff with needed expertise will be called to serve as needed.
- Director, Collection Strategy & eResource Management (Chair)
- Collection Coordinators from Research service area departments and Archives and Special Collections:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Arts, Humanities, and Area Studies
- Health Sciences
- Sciences, Agriculture, and Engineering
- Social Sciences
- Manager, Collection Management and Preservation
- Access & Information Services representatives (appointed)
- Law Library liaison: Associate Director for Collections Development
Sunshine Carter, Director, Collection Strategy & eResource Management (Chair)
Melissa Eighmy Brown, Director, Content Acquisitions & Delivery
Kirsten Clark, Director, Library Enterprise Systems
Laura Costello, Director, Access & Information Services
David Faust, Arts, Humanities, and Area Studies
Lisa Janette, Archives and Special Collections
Meghan Lafferty, Sciences, Agriculture, and Engineering
Allison Langham-Putrow, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Mary Miller, Director, Collection Management & Preservation
Kat Nelsen, Social Sciences
Julie Rashid, Acquisitions and Rapid Cataloging
Jason Roy, Director, Cataloging, Metadata, & Digitization Services
Jacob Sayward, Law Library
Nicole Theis-Mahon, Health Sciences
Meetings
The Collections Council regularly meets for two hours on the first Wednesday of each month. Depending on the immediacy of pending issues and decisions, the Council may meet more frequently. Summary notes of the Collections Council meetings are promptly posted on the CD Staff Website.