Library Services

Purchase suggestions

PLU faculty, students, and staff may request that the library purchase a book, DVD, audio CD, or other material using this form. Your request will be routed to the appropriate subject librarian for review.

If you are a faculty member, you can also make your request through your department's faculty library liaison, listed below. This is a better option if you have a lot of requests.

Library liaisons

Every department and academic program has a designated faculty library liaison who oversees faculty collection development requests for the library, and partners with the subject librarian to grow, develop, and maintain the library collection.

Your department or program's faculty library liaison is listed below. Your liaison will contact you periodically throughout the year for your purchase requests; or, if you have a request, send it to your liaison for review.

A special notice about journals: library journal subscriptions are reviewed every September. Due to escalating journal subscription costs, the library can only add a new subscription under your department's fund if we cancel one of equal or greater cost; talk with your faculty library liaison for details. Also, your journal may already be available through one of our hundreds of databases or aggregators; check Journals@PLU for coverage dates and indexing. Finally, the library can get almost any journal article through Interlibrary Loan at no cost to you, so please consider this as an alternative.

If your department is: Then your librarian is: And your faculty library liaison is:
Anthropology Gail Egbers David Huelsbeck
Art Holly Senn Heather Mathews
Biology Genevieve Williams Romey Haberle
Business Amy Stewart-Mailhiot Janet Mobus
Chemistry Genevieve Williams Andrea Munro
Chinese Studies Gail Egbers Paul Manfredi
Communication Holly Senn Amy Young
Computer Science Genevieve Williams Laurie Murphy
Economics Amy Stewart-Mailhiot Mark Reiman
Education Holly Senn Gregory Williams
English Gail Egbers Solveig Robinson
Environmental Studies Genevieve Williams Priscilla St. Clair
First-year Program Amy Stewart-Mailhiot JoDee Keller
Geosciences Genevieve Williams Steven Benham
Global Studies Amy Stewart-Mailhiot Peter Grosvenor
History Gail Egbers E. Wayne Carp
International Honors Amy Stewart-Mailhiot Carmina Palerm
Languages and Literatures Gail Egbers Jennifer Jenkins
Legal Studies Amy Stewart-Mailhiot Kaitlyn Sill
Marriage and Family Therapy Francesca Lane Rasmus David Ward
Mathematics Genevieve Williams Rachid Benkhalti
Movement Studies Holly Senn Nicole Wood
Music Genevieve Williams Oksana Ejokina
Nursing Genevieve Williams Mary Ann Carr
Philosophy Gail Egbers Keith Cooper
Physics Genevieve Williams Chang-li Yiu
Political Science Amy Stewart-Mailhiot Maria Chavez-Pringle
Psychology Francesca Lane Rasmus Christine Hansvick
Publishing and Printing Gail Egbers Solveig Robinson
Religion Gail Egbers Antonios Finitsis
Scandinavian Studies Kerstin Ringdahl Jennifer Jenkins
Sociology Francesca Lane Rasmus Kate Luther
Statistics Francesca Lane Rasmus Christine Hansvick
Women's and Gender Studies Holly Senn Marianne Taylor

Library allocation funds

Library allocation fund status (faculty library liaisons only; if you are a liaison and cannot access this site, please notify a librarian)