My situation here at the University of Southern California is perhaps
rather unique.
I am a not media librarian--at least not in the sense that many on this
list appear to be. Among
my responsibilities is that I am the selector for our Leavey Libray's
video collection,
which entails each year selecting dvds with a budget of around
$45,000--sometimes
less, often more.
In addition, I am the Library's selector for a myriad of different
disciplines--including Theater,
Dance, Historiography, Asian History, African History,
Australian/Oceania History, British
History, Middle East History, West European History, Holocaust Studies,
GLBT Studies, and
Library Science.
Because my office is located in our university's political science
library, and that I do reference
work there, my "reviewing officer" is the head of the political science
library. Because of the
work I do with the Leavey Library, I am often in communication with that
library's director, but
I do not in any sense report to her.
It is all rather crazy at times.
Cheers,
Anthony
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Anthony E. Anderson
Social Studies and Arts & Humanities Librarian
Von KleinSmid Library
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
(213) 740-1190 <tel:%28213%29%20740-1190> [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
"Wind, regen, zon, of kou,
Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou."
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<mailto:%5Bmailto:[email protected]%5D> *On Behalf
Of *Widzinski, Lori
*Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:41 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* [Videolib] Who do you report to?
Greetings,
I see by the Videolib Archives that this question hasn't been asked in
a while, and so I'll pose it to the group this morning. To those of
you in media centers in academic libraries, to whom do you report?
Public Services? Library Director? Collections?
Thanks!
Lori Widzinski
Head, Multimedia Collections and Services
University at Buffalo Libraries
State University of New York
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