Faculty Collaboration

Do you remember Faculty Reference Desk hours in the library? Way back before the library was renovated, back in the days before Hope International University – when Gary Tiffin was Dean of Pacific Christian College and Jeff Wilson was the Library Director. Some current faculty have been around long enough to have participated in this project. The program provided a presence of subject specific experts in the library at a specified time every week. It was a unique effort of collaboration between the library and faculty.

Today faculty are not assigned weekly office hours in the library. The Library doesn’t even have a Reference Desk! But collaboration between the faculty and library is essential to the core objective of the library: to support the curriculum of the University. That’s why we need faculty input by making recommendations for acquisitions of books, videos, periodicals, electronic resources, and any other material to which students need to have access.

First, check the OPAC to see if we already have what you would recommend.
Go to the library’s web site and Search for books and more in the Darling Library.

Ways to make a request:

• Publisher’s catalog or flyer. Circle your recommendations and send to the attention of Sarah Kimakwa in the library.


• Use an online request form. You can also print this form out and send it to Sarah.


• Contact Sarah directly.

Information needed for ordering:
 Author
 Title
 Publisher
 Date
 Edition
 ISBN or ISSN
 Any other pertinent information (i.e., specific format, rush order)

If you have any questions, please refer to the Collection Development Policy or contact Sarah Kimakwa, Acquisitions Manager, or Robin Hartman, Library Director

Special Hours - Spring Break and Easter

Beginning Saturday, March 24th, the Darling Library will reduce its hours of operation for Spring Break, resuming normal hours on Sunday, April 1st.

Special Hours are as follows:

Saturday (3/24) - CLOSED
Sunday (3/25) - CLOSED
Monday through Thursday (3/26-29) - 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday (3/30) - 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday (3/31) - CLOSED

Regular hours begin Sunday (4/1) - 2:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

The library will also be CLOSED the following weekend Good Friday (4/6) through Easter Sunday (4/8) and re-open at 2:00 p.m. on Monday (4/9), resuming regular hours on Tuesday (4/10).

For a complete list of regular library hours and all exceptions, please see the library's web site.

Collection Development Policy, Revised

The Collection Development Policy has been under review by the Hope Library Committee off and on for over a year. On March 2, 2007 a major revision was approved. This document was created in 1988 and has undergone some minor revisions over the years to accommodate changes in technology (e.g., to remove references to the collection of vinyl records). This review made significant changes to reflect new directions in library collaboration with the teaching faculty and to make it more flexible in terms of the ways information is delivered.

The full Policy may be viewed on the library's website, including links to appendices addressing special issues related to the collection of Biblical Commentaries, Electronic Resources, and Periodicals.

An abridged Faculty Reference Guide is also available. From here, faculty may link to an online request form to make recommendations for library acquisitions. Requests for assistance with making purchase recommendations should be forwarded to Sarah Kimakwa, Library Acquisitions Manager. Questions about the policy can be directed to Robin Hartman, Director of Library Services.

Library Committee: David Timms (Chair), Erik Maiershoffer, Curtis Holtzen, Robin Hartman, Terri Bogan.