Know your subject's major ideas, debates, methods, decisions, and traditions, especially as expressed at Rice by the faculty, students, curriculum, degree programs, and research. If this sounds like a large task, it is, but many bibliographers also think of this as comprising some of the most satisfying aspects of their work. Keep your contacts with the department as regular, lively, and mutually productive as you can. Beside knowing what the department is thinking and doing, set up channels of communication with it. Attend departmental meetings whenever possible and appropriate.
Offer classes in that discipline's bibliography.
Make whatever connections you can with the particular community within Rice that you serve as librarian. Of all the channels of communication that you open between you and the department, those through the faculty liaison are most often most important. Cultivate this professional relationship. Ask to be kept informed about the professors' research interests, their experiences with Fondren Library, their plans and ideas. Ask for help when your work would benefit from a scholar's advice or insight.