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Acquisitions, Collection Development & Gift and Exchange:

The Acquisitions, Collection Development, Gift and Exchange are one unit of the library operations and services. Under the general direction of the Chief Librarian, the unit works collaboratively with library and academic department faculty members, the college business office and library vendors. The Acquisitions Unit provides leadership and guidance acquire all formats of library materials by utilizes the library materials budget allocated in a cost effective and timely fashion to build and enhance the resources and collection of the Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library. The Unit manages a complex array of activities and workflows to acquire library materials, including books, e-books, serials, electronic serials, electronic databases, library reserve materials, av items, microforms, maps, atlas, etc. for the library. Activities include ordering, receiving, reporting, claiming, financing and payment, bibliographic controlling, records maintaining, vendor selection, consortium pricing negotiation, maintaining vendor and client relations. Managing the library’s expenditures against the allocated acquisitions budget is essential within the given fiscal time frame. The work encompasses business relations with publishers and vendors and interacts with materials selectors and the College Business Office. Internally, the Unit supports the library subject selectors, liaison librarians and faculty members in collection building and management of the library materials budget. The partnership between the faculty and library in evaluation and selection of materials requires mutual scholarly communication. Each department designates a faculty member to form the college wide Library Resource Committee to represent their department to the library. The Library assigns a library faculty to each department as that department’s liaison with the Library. Both faculty and librarian liaisons are responsible for selecting and soliciting materials for their assigned disciplines for enhance library collection. This requires the liaisons to be knowledgeable in the curriculum offered and current collection in the subject area. Listed below is a table listing current year liaison responsibilities of the library and academic faculty. The unit monitors, coordinates, implements and evaluates all collection-related activities, including the evaluation and selection of electronic resources to be added to the library collection by using the Student Tech Fee. The Unit coordinates all activities related to the accepting library gifts, evaluating donated materials and disposing them appropriately. Weeding or deselecting of library materials by the library materials selector is also one of the functions of the unit. Through the material selection and evaluation processes and acquisitions of all formats of new library materials, the library can be a learning center to support college academic programs and curriculum and provide library users with studies and research needs at campus and off campus, remotely.

Due to the renovation project of the Library, the Acquisitions Unit is currently located in Room 414 of the Carroll Street Building where the temporary Library is sited. The office hours are Monday to Friday, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, except official holidays.

MECL SUBJECT SELECTOR, WEEDING, AND LIAISON RESPONSIBILITY, 2012-2013

Departments/Subjects	Library Faculty/ Subject Selector/Liaison	Faculty Liaison (College Wide Library Resources Committee)	LC Classification of Subject Areas (not inclusive)
Accounting	Ching Chang X4865 chingchang@mec.cuny.edu	Kiho Kim Dept. of Economic & Finance X5105 kiho@mec.cuny.edu	HF, HF 5601-5689
Africana and Caribbean Studies	Kerwin Pilgrim X4875 kpilgrim@mec.cuny.edu		E185, E441-453, F1601-2175 & Appropriate Areas
Art	Ida Bazan X4816 ibazan@mec.cuny.edu		N, TT, TR
Biology	Benjamin Franz X4875 bfranz@mec.cuny.edu	Emmanuel Igwegbe Dept of Biology X4831 eigwegbe@mec.cuny.edu	QH, QK, QL, QM, QP, QR, S (Agriculture)
Business Administration	Ching Chang X4865 chingchang@mec.cuny.edu Kerwin Pilgrim X4875 kpilgrim@mec.cuny.edu	Veronica Udeogalanya Dept. of Economics & Finance X5102 veronica@mec.cuny.edu	HB, HC, HD, HE, HF, V (Naval Science)
Computer Information Systems	Qingguo Huang X4867 qhuang@mec.cuny.edu	Kim Moorning Dept. of Computer Infor. Sys. X5148 kimm@mec.cuny.edu	HF5547-5548, etc.
Computer Science	Qingguo Huang X4867 qhuang@mec.cuny.edu	Harini Patel Dept. of Physical, Environmental & Computer Sciences X6158 hpatel@mec.cuny.edu	QA75-76, QA267-268, T, TK, etc.
Creative Performing Arts	Karl Madden X4997 kmadden@mec.cuny.edu	Dwayne Bynum Dept. of Mass Communications X4983 dbynum@mec.cuny.edu Carolyn Jones (Alternate) X4983 cjones@mec.cuny.edu	PN1560-3305, etc.
Economics and Finance	Alexei Oulanov X4834 aoulanov@mec.cuny.edu	Kiho Kim Dept. of Economic & Finance X5105 kiho@mec.cuny.edu	HC, HG, HJ
Education	Ida Bazan X4816 ibazan@mec.cuny.edu	Rosalina Diaz Dept. of Education X4916 rdiaz@mec.cuny.edu	L
English	Kerwin Pilgrim X4875 kpilgrim@mec.cuny.edu	Joanna Sit Dept. of English X4843 jsit@mec.cuny.edu	P, PE, PN, PR, PS
Environmental Sciences	Benjamin Franz X4875 bfranz@mec.cuny.edu Alexei Oulanov X4834 aoulanov@mec.cuny.edu	Harini Patel Dept. of Physical, Environmental & Computer Sciences X6158 hpatel@mec.cuny.edu	QD, ETC
First Year/Special Programs, Student Services	Kerwin Pilgrim X8712 kpilgrim@mec.cuny.edu	Alexis McLean Depts. of Special Programs, SEEK, Student Services X4962 amclean@mec.cuny.edu	LB2343, ETC
Foreign Languages	Ida Bazan X4816 ibazan@mec.cuny.edu Danesh Yazdani X4877 yazdani@mec.cuny.edu	Jesus Bottaro Dept of Foreign Languages X6263 jbottaro@mec.cuny.edu	PA,PB,PC,PD,PF,PG,PJ,PK,PL,PM,PQ,PT
Geography-Interdisciplinary Studies	Danesh Yazdani X4877 yazdani@mec.cuny.edu		G,GA,GB,GC,GF,GN,GR,GT, QE
History-Interdisciplinary Studies	Yelena Novitskaya X4881 ynovistskaya@mec.cuny.edu		C,D,E,F,
Juvenile Literature - Education	Ida Bazan X4816 ibazan@mec.cuny.edu	Rosalina Diaz Dept. of Education X4916 rdiaz@mec.cuny.edu	PZ, ETC.
Library Science, Professional Tools	Brian Lym X4885 blym@mec.cuny.edu All Library Faculty		Z
Mass Communications	K.arl Madden X4997 kmadden@mec.cuny.edu	Dwayne Bynum Dept. of Mass Communications X4983 dbynum@mec.cuny.edu Carolyn Jones (Alternate) X4983 cjones@mec.cuny.edu	P87-96, A (General Works), ETC.
Mathematics	Ching Chang X4865 chingchang@mec.cuny.edu	Phillip Ording Dept. of Mathematics X5084 pording@mec.cuny.edu	HA, QA
Music (part of Mass Communications)	Karl Madden X4997 kmadden@mec.cuny.edu Qingguo Huang X4867 qhuang@mec.cuny.edu	Dwayne Bynum Dept. of Mass Communications X4983 dbynum@mec.cuny.edu Carolyn Jones (Alternate) X4983 cjones@mec.cuny.edu	M
Nursing & Health Sciences	Yelena Novitskaya X4881 ynovitskaya@mec.cuny.edu	Kathy Cunningham Dept. of Nursing X6222 kcunningham@mec.cuny.edu Anne Marie Leveille (Alternate) Dept. of Nursing X6222 aleveille@mec.cuny.edu	GV, R.
Philosophy and Religion Studies	Alexei Oulanov X4875 sweekes@mec.cuny.edu	Michael Fitzgerald Dept. of Philosophy & Religion X4950 mfitzgerald@mec.cuny.edu	B,BC,BD,BH,BJ,BL,BM,BP,BR,BS,BT,BV,BX
Physical Sciences	Alexei Oulanov X4834 aoulanov@mec.cuny.edu	Harini Patel Harini Patel Dept. of Physical, Environmental & Computer Sciences X6158 hpatel@mec.cuny.edu	QB,QC,T,TA-TP, TS
Psychology	Benjamin Franz X4875 bfranz@mec.cuny.edu	John Sumerlin Dept of Psychology X6232 jrsumerlin@mec.cuny.edu	BF
Public Administration, Political Science	Alexei Oulanov X4834 aoulanov@mec.cuny.edu	Major Owens X5097 Dept. of Public Administration mowens@mec.cuny.edu	J, K, U (Military Science)
Sociology and Social Work	Danesh Yazdani X4877 yazdani@mec.cuny.edu	Frank Riley Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences X4850 friley@mec.cuny.edu	H, HM,HN,HS,HT,HV,HX
Speech	Karl Madden X4997 kmadden@mec.cuny.edu	Dwayne Bynum Dept. of Mass Communications X4983 dbynum@mec.cuny.edu Carolyn Jones (Alternate) X4983 cjones@mec.cuny.edu	P95, PN4121-4197, ETC.
Women’s Studies	Yelena Novitskaya X4875 ynovitskaya@mec.cuny.edu		HQ, TX, ETC
Reference/E-Reference	Karl Madden X4997 kmadden@mec.cuny.edu Brian Lym X4885 blym@mec.cuny.edu	Review Title by Title	Review Title by Title
Electronic Resources	All Librarians	Review Title by Title	Review Title by Title
Audio Visual	Ian Josephs X4869 ijosephs@mec.cuny.edu Danesh Yazdani X4877 yazdani@mec.cuny.edu All Librarians	Review Title by Title	Review Title by Title
Periodicals	Ching Chang (interim) X4865 chingchang@mec.cuny.edu All Librarians/	Review Title by Title	Review Title by Title
Standing Orders	All Librarians	Review Title by Title	Review Title by Title

Staff of the Unit:

Ching Chang: 718-270-4865, chingchang@mec.cuny.edu
Wendy Stewart: 718-270-4868, wendy@mec.cuny.edu

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