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 Collection Development homepage:
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. To discuss this, we encourage you to set up an appointment with us by calling 862-2454. If you wish to peruse the new Approval Books, please go to Technical Services,
Room 133 in Dimond Library.
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 website 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; you can also search and submit book requests through
WorldCat or submit requests directly at the Reference Desk on the main floor of Dimond.
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. You can
review recent additions to our collections online.
Milne Special Collections and Archives, on Level 1 of the Library, maintains an archive of faculty publications. Please send them (
via email to eslomba@cisunix.unh.edu) a bibliography of your published work so that they can update their holdings.
Again please visit
Collection Development on the Library website. 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,
Jennifer Carroll
Interim Head, Collection Development
September 24, 2009
