From the glossy, model-covered pages of Cosmopolitan magazine to scholarly debates of literary journals, LSU Libraries is gauging faculty use of publications to ultimately decide what stays and what goes from Middleton Library’s bookshelves. LSU Libraries is conducting a faculty survey from Feb. 9 through March 12 to evaluate how publications are used to determine which subscriptions may be cut in light of upcoming budget cuts.Nancy Colyar, assistant dean of libraries, assures students that “as long we know it’s being used,” the title will have a place in Middleton.According to Colyar, the library is more concerned with the addition of new titles than the discarding of old ones.”We don’t have a target list of what we want to get rid of or … add,” Colyar said. “We would like to have a list of new titles … faculty wants so that if and when we get the money, we’ll already have those titles on hand. So we’re looking to get a new list of titles … more than anything.”The survey requires faculty members to list at least five titles they “consider essential to their research or teaching.”  Also, new areas of study in the University will undoubtedly call for the addition of new titles and resources, which the library wants to obtain with the help of the surveys, Colyar said.Since the survey doesn’t include student responses, students who use the library’s resources should talk to their faculty advisor.”We aren’t surveying the students directly because, hopefully, what they are using … relates to what [their] faculty member or professor will include [in the survey],” Colyar said.Students who do independent research or reading that requires specific titles not included in a faculty member’s list should notify a professor and suggest adding it to the survey list, Colyar said.Some undergraduate students, like Brent Jeansonne, sociology junior, think problems will eventually arise.”I don’t see how [the library] can do this reorganization without surveying the students,” Jeansonne said. Jeansonne said many students may not be aware of the survey or might have professors who won’t respond to the survey, which will eventually cause problems for students who need titles the library had previously discarded.And this concern isn’t completely groundless, Colyar said.”Right now we don’t have a lot of faculty who’s answered the survey,” she said. —-Contact Natalie Roy at [email protected]