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Advancement

The Library’s Chief Development Officer partners closely with the University Librarian to keep the library’s donors engaged and involved in library events, bring new donor support, leverage donations to promote innovation, create new knowledge, and improve the student experience at Â鶹´«Ã½.

Archives and Special Collections

Acquires, preserves, digitizes, and provides access to unique materials of enduring value, rare books, and university archives. Provides instruction on the use of primary sources in research, teaching, and knowledge creation. Archives and Special Collections seeks to build community at AU and beyond and share history through collection development, digital collections, and exhibitions.

Communications and Programming

Leverages written and visual communication to promote library services and resources to the community including newsletters, marketing materials, building signage, logo design, annual reports, and social media. The team also develops and hosts original, engaging, inclusive events and exhibits with campus and community partners that tell a range of stories for everyone to enjoy and learn from.

Library Building Operations and Services

Provides building access for nearly 100 hours of weekly. Information Desk staff serve as first contact for many of AU’s visitors needing information about library services, technical support, and building directions. Oversees the library’s Print Center. Works with all library departments to ensure the safety and security of AU Library’s patrons by continuously monitoring the conditions of the library building and its spaces, enforcing library policies, and responding to building issues. The Library Building Operations team also coordinates meeting rooms and other spaces for the AU community.

Financial Operations

Supports the seamless continuation of Library operations by overseeing the library’s overall budget and processing timely payments to faculty, staff, and vendors, ensuring all teams have the supplies and resources they need, and assisting each unit in maintaining its budget. Works to develop and fine-tune financial procedures within Administrative Services to best serve the Library's wide variety of stakeholders while assuring compliance with established university policies. Financial Operations contribute to the library's sustainability and efficiency through detailed reporting, careful budgeting, and data analysis in partnership with colleagues throughout the AU community.

Personnel Operations

Focuses on providing support to all library faculty and staff on topics relating to university human resource policies and procedures as well as training for the library. Includes working with departments on strategic recruitment, professional development, and liaising between the library and AU’s Human Resources department. The Personnel Operations team ensures support for all HR needs and contributes to the development and growth of the library’s community.

Collection Development

Builds the collection in all formats to meet the current and future research needs related to both the curriculum and faculty and student research. Works to align our collection to our values by ensuring the inclusion of under-represented voices and working to support the development of new financial models in scholarly production and publication that removes barriers to accessing scholarly knowledge.

Data Services

Provides consultations and formal instruction on . This includes preservation, sharing and archiving data to increase research exposure, purchasing datasets, and reviewing data management plans for grant applications.

Information Literacy Instruction

Information literacy is formally incorporated into university-wide learning outcomes. Our information literacy plan has three tiers. We offer curriculum integrated information literacy instruction, being paired with Writing Studies sections and appropriately integrated into the majors for subject-specific information literacy. We are available to assist faculty in creating rubrics or strategizing about assignments.

Institutional Repository

We support Open Access and Open Data initiatives by providing an institutional repository for our faculty, staff and other AU knowledge creators.

Music Library

The Music Library is a branch library serving the Department of Performing Arts and located in Katzen. ÌýThe collections represent a broad spectrum of subjects, periods, and styles, including classical music, musical theatre, jazz, blues, world music, and popular music.

Research Assistance

Offers expert research assistance through online chat, in individual research consultations, through email consultations, and through creating self-service options such as a in-depth knowledge base and Libguides. Our services include support for systematic reviews.

Scholarly Communication

Supports Open Research, including managing an Open Access Fund, consultation regarding publisher negotiations, and publishing in our Institutional Repository. Additionally, we support the adoption of Open Education Resources and promotion of both OA and OERs and their benefits. We offer consultation and tools for assessing impact of scholarship, including impact outside of academia, for both individual scholars and for the institution.

Subject Liaisons

Each academic unit has a subject-expert library faculty member serving as liaison. These experts provide research assistance, teach subject-specific information literacy, and are engaged in collection development. They are also generally responsible for outreach to their academic units.