Collection Development Department Collection Development Responsibilities Library selectors choose most of the titles added to the collections. They work with faculty, particularly the library liaisons for academic units within the Academic Affairs Division, to select materials in accordance with the collection development policies for individual subjects. Both library selectors and faculty library liaisons welcome suggestions from users, and they can be contacted in person or via campus mail, telephone, fax, and electronic mail.
Users can also request that items be acquired by completing an electronic suggestion form .
The bibliographers in the Collection Development Department are responsible for the general collections in Davis Library . There are also nearly three dozen other library selectors in nearly a score of other library units on campus. Librarians in the Reference Department are responsible for reference materials and the federal, state, and international government documents collections in Davis Library. Selectors in the branch libraries and special collections units of the Academic Affairs Library system, the separately-administrated Health Sciences and Law libraries, and the independent campus libraries, such as the Carolina Population Center and the Institute for Research in Social Science , are responsible for building the collections within the subject scope of their libraries. Campus library collections grow at rate of more than 110,000 volumes each year and encompass a wide range of printed materials in English and most major foreign languages from publishers throughout the world.