The Monroe Library has several advisory groups, which serve to provide feedback, guidance, and support to the library. If you are interested in joining one of these advisory groups, please contact Dean Mary Lee Sweat at 504-864-7047 or sweat@loyno.edu.

Student Library Advisory Committee (SLAC)

Students from across campus meet with the Monroe Library Dean and other staff to provide feedback on issues of interest and concern to students. The library has implemented several SLAC suggestions, including prioritizing use of the library during finals for Loyola students, making earplugs available for students that enjoy the first floor environment but want to tune out some of the activity, and turning the third floor copy room into an additional group study room.

Liaisons

The library's liaison program links a member of the library faculty with an academic department or college. In this role the librarian liaison has a number of responsibilities: to make departmental faculty aware of library services and collections; to coordinate the selection and ordering of books, periodicals, and other materials and information services in the department's discipline or subject area; to facilitate and promote use of the library's instructional program by departmental faculty; to promote communication with the department's faculty and students.

Library Visiting Committee

This mission of the Library Visiting Committee is to support the library's central role in advancing teaching and research at Loyola. Members of the Visiting Committee will advise the dean on ways the library can achieve its goals, serve as advocates for the library in the community, and support the library's fund raising programs.

University Library Committee

This Committee has the responsibility to advise the Dean of Libraries and the faculty and staff of the Monroe Library on matters of general policy, procedures, goals, and objectives. It is comprised of faculty representatives from each of the colleges as well as student representatives.