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CORNELL UNIVERSITY
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Suggested best practices for liaisons who are selectors include:
• Maintain regular contact with department/program to learn about researchers’ needs
and discuss collection development issues
• Develop, monitor and analyze collections to support advanced researcher’s subject
areas
• Build and maintain relationships with faculty and other researchers, including
participating in joint projects, and inform them of new resources in their areas of
interest, including electronic databases and other research tools
• Participate in the department/program activities, as appropriate to discipline and
specific library’s policies and expectations
• Build relationships with donors, including communicating with endowment fund donors,
working with Library Development, and assisting in the gift process
• Communicate with colleagues inside and outside Cornell to seek opportunities to pool
funds and share resources where appropriate, and coordinate related efforts
• Follow “Competences for Selectors” established by CDExec
(http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/cdcompetences.html)
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Strategic Objective III.1 Formalize the Network of Library Liaisons… Appendix 4
18
Suggested best practices for liaisons who are selectors include:
• Maintain regular contact with department/program to learn about researchers’ needs
and discuss collection development issues
• Develop, monitor and analyze collections to support advanced researcher’s subject
areas
• Build and maintain relationships with faculty and other researchers, including
participating in joint projects, and inform them of new resources in their areas of
interest, including electronic databases and other research tools
• Participate in the department/program activities, as appropriate to discipline and
specific library’s policies and expectations
• Build relationships with donors, including communicating with endowment fund donors,
working with Library Development, and assisting in the gift process
• Communicate with colleagues inside and outside Cornell to seek opportunities to pool
funds and share resources where appropriate, and coordinate related efforts
• Follow “Competences for Selectors” established by CDExec
(http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/cdcompetences.html)
