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The University/College Library welcomes faculty participation in collection development. The Collection Development Librarian, Michelle Apps, solicits purchase requests from faculty through each department’s designated Library Liaison. Faculty input is important in order to properly expand and improve the library’s growing collection. U/CL will purchase materials that conform to the Collection Development Policy, a copy of which can be viewed on the U/CL web page (“Library Services; Collection Development”). There are two ways for faculty to request the purchase of materials: |
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1. Approval Slips – vendors furnish U/CL with approval slips for new titles, which are distributed to each department’s Library Liaison. The Library Liaison will then distribute slips within the department. Faculty should simply sign their name to any slip that they wish the library to consider for purchase and return it to their Library Liaison for initialing. The Library Liaison will return the slips to the library. One copy of the slip could be kept for your records. |
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2. Request Cards – these cards are for materials faculty located and would like to have the library consider for purchase. Please fill out the order card as completely as possible. Order cards are available from the department’s Library Liaison or Michelle Apps. Please make sure that your name is clearly printed in the Requester space. You may keep one copy for your records and give the cards to your Library Liaison for initialing. The Library Liaison will return the cards to the library. If the item being requested were from a publisher’s catalog or a journal review, it would expedite ordering if the page (or a photocopy of it) could be attached to the order card. |
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Please note that the U/CL Collection Development Policy for ordering library materials states that the department’s Library Liaison must initial faculty requests or they will be returned. |
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In order to know the status of materials that have been ordered, faculty can check on the U/CL web page under Finding Books. The U/CL catalog can be searched by author, title, or subject. |
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While requests for orders may be submitted year round, the bulk of the selection takes place during the fall semester. If you have any questions, need request cards, or want more information, please call Michelle Apps, at (954) 201-6330 or email her at mapps@broward.edu. |