Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Engaging Faculty And Students Through Collection Assessment, Brian Gray, Daniela Solomon, Mark Eddy, Stephen Toombs

Researchers, Instructors, & Staff Scholarship

How do faculty and graduate students provide input for collection development? How well have librarians understood the research needs of recently tenured faculty or recent graduates? Four librarians from four different collection areas- the humanities, the social sciences, and 2 unique areas in engineering- all set out to see if evaluating the collection against recent publications by faculty and students can foster stronger engagement between them and the subject collectors in their areas.