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The Van Pelt and Opie Library acquires and maintains curricular and research resources supporting the teaching and research need of the Michigan Technological University community. This activity, referred to as collection development, is guided by the library's Collection Development Policy. Working within an allotted budget, the Collections Team engages with library colleagues, consortia, and liaisons from university departments to provide relevant resources in as expedient and flexible manner as possible.
Library liaisons are faculty who work directly with the library's Collection Team to communicate the the library's initiatives, resources and services to their departmental colleagues and provide invaluable feedback from the departments to the library. Designed to not be a time intensive role, a liaison typically:
Department / College | Name | |
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Air Force ROTC | contact the library | library@mtu.edu |
Army ROTC | contact the library | library@mtu.edu |
Biological Sciences | Mike Gretz | mrgretz@mtu.edu |
Biomedical Engineering | Bruce Lee | bplee@mtu.edu |
Chemical Engineering | Yixin Liu | yixnliu@mtu.edu |
Chemistry | contact the library | library@mtu.edu |
Civil & Environmental Engineering | contact the library | library@mtu.edu |
Cognitive & Learning Sciences | Kedmon Hungwe | khungwe@mtu.edu |
College of Business | Jun Min | jmin@mtu.edu |
College of Computing (includes Applied Computing) | contact the library | library@mtu.edu |
College of Forest Resources & Environmental Sciences | Stacey Cotey | srcotey@mtu.edu |
Computer Science | Charles Wallace | wallace@mtu.edu |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Hongyu An | hongyua@mtu.edu |
Engineering Fundamentals | James Bittner | jbittner@mtu.edu |
Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences | Radwin Askari | raskari@mtu.edu |
Humanities | Andy Fiss | afiss@mtu.edu |
Kinesiology & Integrative Physiology | Kyle Bolen | kabolen@mtu.edu |
Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology | Nicholas Hendrickson | nvhendri@mtu.edu |
Materials Science & Engineering | Peter Moran | pdmoran@mtu.edu |
Mathematical Sciences | contact the library | library@mtu.edu |
Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics | Trisha Sain | tsain@mtu.edu |
Pavlis Honors College | Jean Kampe | kampej@mtu.edu |
Physics | Raymond Shaw | rashaw@mtu.edu |
Social Sciences | Mark Rhodes | marhodes@mtu.edu |
Visual & Performing Arts | Michael Christianson | mchristi@mtu.edu |