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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 | Cory Dompier | cfdompie@mtu.edu |
Chemical Engineering | Faith Morrison | fmorriso@mtu.edu |
Chemistry | contact the library | library@mtu.edu |
Civil & Environmental Engineering | Stan Vitton | vitton@mtu.edu |
Cognitive & Learning Sciences | Kedmon Hungwe | khungwe@mtu.edu |
College of Business | Jun Min | jmin@mtu.edu |
College of Computing (includes Applied Computing and Computer Science) | C.K. Shene | shene@mtu.edu |
College of Forest Resources & Environmental Sciences | contact the library | library@mtu.edu |
Electrical & Computer Engineering | Hongyu An | hongyua@mtu.edu |
Engineering Fundamentals | contact the library | library@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 | Cecile Piret | cmpiret@mtu.edu |
Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics | Trisha Sain | tsain@mtu.edu |
Physics | Raymond Shaw | rashaw@mtu.edu |
Social Sciences | Sarah Scarlett | sfscarle@mtu.edu |
Visual & Performing Arts | Michael Christianson | mchristi@mtu.edu |