• Animation - Alex Barsky
• Art - Gayle Clemans
• Dance - Tonya Lockyear
• Design - Gala Bent
• Film & Media - Charles Poekel
• H&S - Jack DeLap
• Interior Architecture - Ozge Sade Mete 
• Music - Johnaye Kendrick
• Performance Production - Kate Myre 
• Theater - Kate Myre

Overview for Current and Potential Liaisons:

• Committee membership is determined between the core faculty member, their department chair, and the library director.
• To express your interest in serving for the coming year, even if you are already a liaison, please notify the library director and your department chair prior to fall semester.
• The Library Liaison is an academic department’s primary representative to the library for collection development issues.  They act as a go-between for their department and the library.
• Library Liaisons do not have to meet as a group, but emails are sometimes sent out to the group for advisory input on various library initiatives such as database trials.
• The Library Director meets with Liaisons from each department at the beginning of the school year to help identify subject areas in the curriculum that will require support during the year as well as upcoming curriculum changes.  They remain in touch throughout the year; especially right before and during the first weeks of spring semester to make sure faculty have what they need for spring classes.

Key duties:

• Coordinate title requests from faculty in your department and submit them to the library (this can be by email).  Faculty requests sent directly to the library will be cc’d to the liaison so they can track the library fund balance. 
• Remind faculty in your department to submit title requests that are needed for their classes or needed to support the overall program.
• Remind faculty of order-deadlines throughout the year via email and faculty meeting announcements.
• Keep faculty apprised of the current library fund balance throughout the year so they know if there is money available for requests.
• Liaisons will receive periodic fund balance reports from the library.  You can request one at any time.
• Be accessible to people in your department.  Assist colleagues by explaining how to request new titles from the library when needed.
• Talk to colleagues about what they need to support their classes.
• Read the detailed Liaison Instructions document.
• Read the library’s Collection Development Policy and the Serials Selection Policy so you are familiar with the criteria that guide how materials are selected for the collection and your role in the selection process.
• If a title in the collection is challenged by a member of the community (a request to have something removed) you may be asked to review the title along with the librarians if it falls in your subject area.
• Generally familiarize yourself with the library’s collection in your area.  This includes all formats in the physical collection as well as all databases related to your department’s subject area(s).  The library director can provide you with an orientation to the collection. 

Please note:

• The service term runs Sep- Aug.  That means service spans the summer months, however we understand people may be out of town or not working.
• The budget year runs from Jun-May.  Some purchases have to be made over the summer to support fall classes so these may take place in your absence.  The library supplies reports for all departments in September showing the balance on funds going into the fall.