Acquisitions

Department Head: Wayne Pedersen, Associate Professor, 515 294-0440, wap5@iastate.edu
Staff: 2 Faculty, 17.25 FTE Merit
Physical Location: 204 Parks Library
Units: Monographs Acquisitions; Electronic Resources; Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery

Monographs Acquisitions Unit

Unit Head: Steph Scherbart, Library Assistant IV, 515 294-5078, stephs@iastate.edu
Unit Telephone: 515 294-0425

Responsibilities: Orders and receives monographic titles in a variety of formats, including individual ebooks. Claims or resubmits unfulfilled orders. Monitors and processes the library approval plan. Coordinates monographic gift processing. Provides service to patrons and staff by telephone.

Electronic Resources Unit

Unit Head: Janet Arcand, Assistant Professor, 515 294-6650, jarcand@iastate.edu
Unit Telephone: 515 294-1413
Report problems with electronic resources: erproblm@iastate.edu 

Responsibilities: Manages the Library's electronic serials collection and large collections of ebooks. Maintains usage data related to electronic resources and license and contract information. Oversees print serial check-in and government documents acquisitions. Provides service to library staff by email and telephone.

Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Unit

Unit Head: Wayne Pedersen, Associate Professor, 515 294-0440
General telephone: 515 294-8073
General email address: borrdesk@lib.iastate.edu

Responsibilities: The major function of this unit is to provide ISU students, faculty, staff and Library Visitor Cardholders access to materials that are not available in the ISU Library collections. ILL/DD also provides copies and loans of Iowa State University Library materials to other libraries worldwide through its lending service, and supplies library materials to individuals and organizations without libraries through its Document Delivery Service (DDS). Provides service to patrons and library staff by email, telephone, and web forms.

This department is part of the ISU Library's Collections & Technical Services Division.