A Letter to New Faculty
You have probably been inundated with letters and information about UNH; I hope you will take a moment to read this note about acquiring material for the UNH Libraries.
At UNH, each academic department has a library representative who collaborates with a library faculty member (liaison) to monitor the annual allocation of funds from the Library for ordering monographs or multimedia materials. Each department has a procedure in place for spending this allocation. The list of library liaisons and department “reps” can be found on our homepage at:
http://www.library.unh.edu/coldev/. This list will be updated in September and periodically throughout the year.
The Library receives books that are ordered by individual departments, library faculty, and from our Approval Plan. Working with our Approval Plan vendor, we developed a profile of our subject needs and a list of publishers – mostly University Presses – so that we automatically receive material appropriate to our collections. We encourage you to visit the Collection Development Office, Room 131 on Level 1 of Dimond Library, to peruse the new Approval Books.
In order to keep our periodicals budget manageable in this age of escalating serials prices, we must be very circumspect in ordering new titles. Requests for new periodicals will be held until or if funds become available. Also, please visit our websites – the Library Catalog at
http://library.unh.edu or our Reference page at
http://www.reference.unh.edu – for lists of our many full text periodical and newspaper databases. For additional resources, we offer excellent Interlibrary Loan and rapid document delivery services. For ILL requests, please submit your requests online at
https://uofnewhampshire.hosts.atlas-sys.com/illiad/logon.html; you can also search and submit book requests through
World Cat or submit requests directly at the Reference Desk on the main floor of Dimond.
The Library has set aside funds to purchase material recommended by New Faculty. To spend your $200 grant, please just send or e-mail
Jennifer Carroll a list of titles. If you wish, the Library can notify you when these are received and processed.
If you feel there are notable gaps in the collection or important Reference sources that we lack, please contact your library liaison or me. We’re always happy to discuss your own research and teaching needs to make sure our Approval Plan profile reflects those needs.
Special Collections, on Level 1 of the Library, maintains an archive of faculty publications. Please send them (via email -
eslomba@cisunix.unh.edu) a bibliography of your published work so that they can update their holdings.
Again please visit the Collection Development web site on the Dimond Library homepage (
(http://www.library.unh.edu/coldev/index.shtml)) with more information and lists of new titles. We hope you will check it regularly and let us know if there is other information that would be helpful for us to add.
Welcome to UNH.
Judith Brink
Head, Collection Development
February 2, 2001
