X. Collections Program Officer - Function and Role

THE RONALD WILLIAMS LIBRARY

COLLECTION MANAGEMENT POLICY

X. Collections Program Officer - Function and Role

The Collections Program Officer provides leadership, coordinates the bibliographers' efforts, and has responsibility for the integrity of the overall collection. Since scholarly publications often are interdisciplinary, she/he encourages collaboration and teamwork among bibliographers, as well as communication between the Library and the academic departments. She/he initiates continuing review of the policies and processes concerning the collections. At present, the Collection Program Officer is the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Information Services.

Responsibilities of the Collections Program Officer

The Collections Program Officer is responsible for a number of activities. These include:

• planning, calling, and chairing all Collection Development Committee meetings;
• participating with Library Administration in computing allocations to subject funds based upon the allocation plan;
• leading strategic planning review for collections and access to materials;
• coordinating, reviewing, and advising bibliographers concerning their activities,
• working with the primary vendor and each subject bibliographer to create and revise a profile for the approval program and acting as contact to the vendor for revisions of the profiling;
• initiating and leading periodic review of the collection management policy;
• coordinating policies that meet the research and information needs of academic programs;
• coordinating the systematic evaluation of the collection and directing ongoing analysis efforts to identify gaps in the collection;
• providing orientation and training for new bibliographers;
• participating with the Library Administration and the Library faculty in identifying library needs in relation to existing and proposed academic programs and representing them to the University community;
• monitoring collection development trends in academic librarianship.
  

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