Aligning Our Books to Our Patrons

Rice Majors is the Associate University Librarian for Collections & Scholarly Communication at Santa Clara University. In that role, he does research on the collection performance and especially the performance of print monographs, looking at the comparative performance of print monographs in different academic disciplines and with different collection development strategies at different academic institutions. He has also published on the comparative user experiences of catalog discovery layers. Glenn Johnson-Grau is Head of Acquisitions & Collection Development at Loyola Marymount University where he manages library acquisitions for books, periodicals, media, and electronic resources. His interests include consortial collaboration on print and electronic collection development and shared print retention projects, as well as the impact of campus politics on academic library activities