Faculty Services & Resources

Click on the disciplines to find the list of individual departments served: 

Lyena  Chavez  MSLIS	Sara Heng MSLIS		MS, MS
Education & Business & Economics	Liberal Arts		Science & Engineering, ESS, & Health Sciences
chavezl@merrimack.edu Profile & Guides	hengs@merrimack.edu Profile & Guides
978-837-5045	978-837-5064		978-837-5350
Office:  2nd Floor (Quiet Study)	Office: ERC (2nd Floor)		Office:  Research Center (2nd Floor)

McQuade's Liaison Program was created to establish an ongoing partnership between the librarians and faculty at Merrimack College. The library liaison works with departmental faculty, staff, and students to understand and support the research and information needs of the academic department, participate in collection development, support information literacy instruction, and provide referrals to the many services offered by McQuade Library.

McQuade Instruction/Liaison Librarians proactively develop working relationships with faculty in assigned areas, identifying opportunities to collaborate on projects, services, and collection decisions.  Librarians provide faculty support in the following four areas:
 

Collection Development

• Evaluate resources in terms of areas' curricular and research needs; select and manage resources 
• In collaboration with the Head of Resource Management, track and effectively manage collections budget 
• Strategically assess and make decisions regarding acquisition, retention, and preservation of collections
• Understand publication trends and develop familiarity with publishers

Teaching and Learning

• Actively engage with faculty as partners in programmatically integrating information literacy concepts and skills into curriculum
• Create, maintain, and promote subject libguides 
• Deliver and assess effective library workshops/instructional sessions

Scholarly Communications

• Help faculty submit their publications to Merrimack's ScholarWorks, our institutional repository
• Advise scholars on how they may manage articles, preprints, etc. that they gather
• Provide information and resources on retaining author rights
• Refer faculty to Repository Administrator (scholarworks@merrimack.edu) on library staff for additional help/resources

Campus Engagement

• Promote current services and collections to inform faculty of resources available to them
• Attend campus events/programs in assigned areas
• Maintain awareness of departmental focuses for research and teaching

To learn more about this liaison program, please contact Lyena Chavez (chavezl@merrimack.edu), Head Librarian.