New Selector Orientation and Training Program

Selector:

Librarian For:

Supervisor:

Area Coordinator:

 

I. Orientation to academic departments served by selectors and overview of liaison skills and responsibilities (Coordinator & Supervisor)

• Review department websites and brochures
• Review faculty list with attention to chair, libary representatives, and new faculty
• Review any library and university information on department research areas, including relevant interdisciplinary areas
• Review University data on number of faculty, number of graduate and undergraduate students, national ranking, program strengths

II. Selector's role in library/department (Coordinator & Supervisor)

• Review liaison activities: user education, reference support, budget and selection (Supervisor)
• Specific approval plan responsibility/Profile
• Selection tools (Choice, bibliographies, review sources, etc.)
• Ethics
• De-selection
• Purchase request form and role of selector in process

III. Introduction to Collection Management at UVa. Library (Chair, Collections Group)

• Structure of collections function
  • Collections Group
  • Coordinators
  • Selectors (selectors meetings, lib-select listserv)
• Materials Budget/Funding
• Collections philosophy

IV. General Collections Policies (Chair, Collections Group)

• Collections approach
  • Monographs
  • Journals
  • Electronic resources

V. Orientation to Acquisitions (Director, Acquisitions)

• Relationship among university libraries (HSL, Darden, Law)
• Historical review
• Range of approval plans
• Types of orders and fund structure
• Specific funds
• Acquimation (online fund reports and open orders)
• Licensing (Digital Acquisitions Coordinator)

VI. Acquisition record and process training (Central Order Coordinator)

• Domestic approval plan - Yankee ordering on GOBI
  • GOBI options and reports
  • Claims against approval plan
• Monograph orders
• Subscriptions and standing orders
  • Subscription cycle - new orders
  • Subscription cycle - renewals
  • Subscription cycle- cancellations
• Purchase Express and rush orders/Patron holds
• Out-of- print searches
• Workflows training to display acquisition records and interpret Virgo information (Supervisor schedules with Training Coordinator)

VII. General policies (Acquisitions Staff)

• Gifts
• Cancellations
• Replacement of lost books and missing journal issues
• Purchase of items over $5000.00

VIII. Orientation to department- specific policies and resources (Supervisor)

• For example, SEL, prioritization of e-only, etc.

IX. Outreach for new selectors (Supervisor)

• Meet selectors in area
• Meet area coordinators
• Meet selectors in other areas
• Meet chair, library representative and new faculty in designated academic departments within three months