University of Michigan - Flint

University of Michigan-Flint

Meet Your Librarian: Paul Streby

Paul Streby

Collection Development Librarian & Webmaster
Paul Streby
316 Thompson Library
Phone: 810.762.3405
Web site:
What I Do
  • Collection development. Librarians and departmental faculty share responsibility for acquiring resources for the library. Each librarian has a small annual budget for ordering books. My special role in collection development is to help make sure the collections are growing as they should. A few years back, I coordinated the conspectus project, a large-scale assessment of the library's holdings.
  • Webmaster. I have overall responsibility for the library's website. My colleagues Mickey Doyle and Kui-Bin Im also do some web development.
  • Reference desk. Nine librarians have regular shifts at the reference desk; I am one-ninth of them.
  • Reference team leader. This job is not as glorious as it sounds. It mostly means I schedule the reference desk.

 

Liaison Departments & Programs:

  • Communication
  • Foreign Languages
  • Philosophy

 

Other Areas of Collection Development Responsibility:

  • Law
  • Religion

 

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