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Collection Development; Librarian-Faculty Collaboration; Resource Allocation; Organizational Collaboration
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Improving The Effectiveness Of Librarian-Faculty Collaboration On Library Collection Development, Lan Shen
Improving The Effectiveness Of Librarian-Faculty Collaboration On Library Collection Development, Lan Shen
Collaborative Librarianship
Librarian-faculty relations are essential to library collection development. This paper discusses, first of all, the reasons for the customary disconnect between librarians and faculty in light of their different priorities, visions, expertise, and status. In an attempt to bridge the librarian-faculty separation, a horizontal strategy is proposed focusing on financial collaborations between the library and other academic departments on campus, such as adopting the balanced budget, fair and rotated resource allocation, and prioritized investment through providing a General Reserve Fund. A vertical strategy is also proposed defined as an organizational and professional partnership through three different vertical levels, namely, the …