James Burgett
Collection Services Team Leader, University
of Kentucky Libraries
James Burgett is Collection Development Coordinator for the University of Kentucky
Libraries, with responsibilities for preparing state and endowment budgets,
overseeing the acquisition of system-wide resources, and monitoring the CD activities
of subject teams. He is also the Team Leader of Collection Services, the unit
tasked with the selection, acquisition, and cataloging of information resources
in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Since 1997 his professional duties have included responsibility for collaborative collection development initiatives. He represents UK on the Collections Committee of KYVL, Kentucky's statewide virtual library, and chairs the State-Assisted Academic Libraries Council of Kentucky (SAALCK) CD group. The SAALCK group is tasked with seeking out areas of cooperation among Kentucky's public universities and identifying information resource needs unique to them. He collaborates closely with CD counterparts in the Information Alliance, a partnership consisting of the University of Kentucky, the University of Tennessee, and Vanderbilt University. Along with UT and VU, to identify and implement CD projects for the Alliance.
The author of several articles, including "Unpacking a Donor's Library:
A Gifts Librarian's Nod to Walter Benjamin," he most recently collaborated
with Tennessee and Vanderbilt colleagues on "The Persistence of Print in
a Digital World: Three ARL Libraries Confront an Enduring Issue."