Heads of Resource Management

Standing Committee

Committee Charge

HRM is a community of colleagues that guides BLC’s collective approach to content acquisition and management, advancing shared values of equity, access, and openness.

Heads of Resource Management leverage their collective expertise to:

  • Developing Shared Knowledge & Expertise: Fosters a community of peer to peer collaboration for the development of professional expertise.
  • Building Shared, Responsive Collections: Develops and oversees flexible, collaborative collection initiatives, and advances acquisition models that respond to emerging needs and interests.
  • Driving Systemwide Collaboration: Leverages the strengths of member libraries to establish policies and create efficiencies in shared administrative and collection management processes.
  • Setting Strategic Investment Priorities: Identifies priority areas for collective investment in collection development, management, and assessment.
  • Championing Equitable and Open Access: Advocates for an evolving collections landscape, including accessibility, open access, shared content, scholarly use, acquisition models (including ownership), privacy, and diverse collections.

The HRM Committee undertakes initiatives independently, in collaboration with other BLC communities, or at the request of the BLC Board of Directors.



Conveners

Chris Blackman
Co-chair
Head of Collections and Systems
Williams College
cblackma​@williams​.edu

Maridath Wilson
Co-chair
Head of Resource Acquisition & Management
Boston College
wilsaet@bc.edu 

Membership

Members of the HRM Committee are appointed by the BLC Board of Directors based on their expertise and their role as ‘head’ of resource management within their institution. In accordance with the BLC’s bylaws and membership requirements, all member libraries are expected to have a representative on all Committees and each representative is expected to gather input on behalf of all relevant divisions, branches, autonomous libraries, etc., and speak for their institution. The BLC Executive Director will be an ex-officio member of the Committee.

The HRM Committee has two co-chairs selected by the collective membership who serve staggered, two-year terms, with the transition of chairs occurring in July. If one of the co-chairs becomes vacant three months or more before the end of their term, the remaining co-chair will seek volunteers to fill the remainder of the term.

Meetings

The HRM Committee meets monthly on the fourth Thursday at 1:00 p.m. and additionally as needed. 

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