Liaison Librarians are tasked with adding materials appropriate to their areas. They may also make recommendations of materials outside of their areas to the appropriate liaison, using the Recommend a Purchase form.

Considerations for collection additions:

• relates to subject areas taught by the College
• interest in collecting fringe voices, new voices, and historically underrepresented voices
• interest in critical, issue-based work
• interest in work that is experimental in nature--graphically inventive, challenges notions of “the book,” etc.
• engages new technologies, multiple technologies, digital formats, multiple platforms
• engages varying forms of distribution, reading, and potential publics
• engages varying forms of bookmaking: techniques, production methods, and substrates
• provides teaching or research value for courses or individuals
• exemplifies historical materials and/or processes of art & design
• exemplifies material culture of historical significance
• expands the breadth or depth of existing collection in an area of high-usage

Special collections materials may include:

• Artists’ books and publication projects
• MICA alumni and faculty works
• Small press and literary press works