LIBRARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
July-December 2005
SERVICES
Architecture and Art
presented an ARTstor and scanning workshop for the
faculty and staff of the College of Fine and Applied Arts
History,
Philosophy, and Newspaper created consolidated web site for the new unit
Illinois Newspaper Project
began work on new design for merged UIUC and Chicago Historical Society INP
database
Modern Languages and
Linguistics (MLL) made major enhancements to the newly designed homepage
(arranged by language and subject rather than by format) with links to
non-textual sources, such as radio and TV broadcasts in many languages
MLL conducted a revisioning of reference and circulating collections to
better meet the actual vs. imagined needs of our users.
Initiated a project (at
request of the Department of French) to locate and order works from the era of
Marcel Proust’s productivity (1885-1922) that deal
with Proust’s and
other French authors’
homosexuality.
Music updated its web
site, which now showcases "Resource of the Month" in an attempt to
publicize new resources to users
Slavic and East European
Studies (SEES) developed website for Andrei Codrescu collection and continued
processing its contents
SEES expanded digitization
and EAD/VRA-core description of UIUC’s Czech/Slovak poster collection 1920-1991
(http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/winters/)
SEES developed new
sections for Slavic Reference Service online Guide to Slavic Information Resources which receives on average
14,086 hits per month
Business and Economics
(BE) created search interfaces for BEL’s internal
Question Database, Cue Cards Database, as well as a sample Microfiche Database
BE
launched BELLOG, the library’s blog: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/bellog/
City Planning and
Landscape Architecture implemented a new Home Page: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cpx
Education
and Social Science (ESS) enhanced reference service with addition of Women's
Studies expertise
ESS
updated Ask-A-Librarian Web site and individual research consultations
ESS has developed a
service called Social Work Research at a Distance. It is a new website
developed for UIUC Social Work students enrolled in the off-campus/satellite
program
Labor and Industrial
Relations (LIR) officially launched the new web site
LIR finalized migrating LaborLit from a stand-alone database to a Web-based
database (approximately 300 visitors per month since July)
ACES revised its home page
and web presence
Geology created the
library web page for the Atmospheric Science Department: <http://www.library.uiuc.edu/das/>
Geology created the searchable
online bibliography “Mima Mounds and Vernal
Pools”
Reference redesigned
Central Reference website <http://www.library.uiuc.edu/rex/>
to improve site's organization and to update look and feel of pages
EXHIBITS
Classics contributed to
the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Department of the Classics
Modern Languages and
Linguistics had three exhibits: SALA 25 (South Asian Language Analysis
Roundtable) Language, Culture, Globalization: Perspectives from South Asian
Languages; Tournées French Film Festival; The Local
and the Global in Sembene Ousmane’s
Moolaade; and Professor Anthony Cassell: A Tribute to his Legacy
Voice in Medieval Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch,
Boccaccio
Latin American and
Caribbean Studies completed preparation of a traveling exhibit (funded by a
grant from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UIUC), Encountering
Latin America through your Library.
LACL offered the exhibit to members of the Lincoln Trails Library System
free of charge and by the end of 2005 our outreach had secured 7 libraries (6 Lincoln Trails members and Lexington College Library in Chicago) interested in hosting
the exhibit which is already booked through June of next year (2006). This is a pilot project that we are testing
with the Lincoln Trails Library System.
We will build on lessons learned with Lincoln Trails and expect to offer
this exhibit to other library systems in Illinois
COLLECTIONS
Architecture and Art (AA)
completed the NEH preservation project for the reformatting, printing, and
binding of Western Architect, the pre-eminent journal of the Midwest providing extensive
coverage of the Prairie School
History, Philosophy, and
Newspaper (HPN) selected by Center for Research
Libraries to participate in NEH-funded Distributed
Cataloging Project for foreign newspapers at UIUC
Music purchased the
electronic database "Smithsonian Global Sound" to complement the
materials that can be offered to users in the area of streamed audio.
Smithsonian Global Sound provides an ethnomusicological
counterpart to another of the Music Library’s streamed music resources,
"Classical Music Library"
AA acquired item
bibliographic records for the ca. 5,000 titles of the Cicognara
Collection of microfiche.
HPN acquired Historical
Chicago Tribune (digital facsimile of Chicago Tribune from 1849 to the present)
HPN acquired Olin film
archive (material used by documentary filmmaker Chuck Olin in production of “In
Our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II,” and “Is
Jerusalem Burning? Myth, Memory and the Battle of Latrum”)
Modern Languages and
Linguistics received special funding for and began to build up a Marcel Proust-era special collection featuring popular literature
and gay-related topics central to Proust and other
authors of his time
Asian
contributed approximately 4,000 records in OACIS database of Middle Eastern
serials
Asian developed the 1960s Golden Age Korean films collection
Sousa Archives and Center
for American Music acquired the Walter Mitziga Sound
Recording Collection containing rare 1910-32 commercial sound recordings of the
John Philip Sousa and the Arthur Pryor Bands, studio acetate disk recordings of
the Edwin Franko Goldman Band (1940-56), and original
acetate disk recordings of the New York Symphonic Band, WPA Symphonic Band,
World's Fair Band, and Cities Service Band of America.
Sousa Archives and Center
for American Music acquired the Joseph Olivadoti
Music and Personal Papers (1892‑1970) including original and published
music compositions and band method books, photographs, newsclippings,
correspondence, and concert programs documenting Olivadoti's
career in Italy and the United States
University Archives, using
library ICR funding, designed and implemented innovative, standards‑compliant
software to manage descriptive information for archival collections
The Digital Services and Development Unit has recently put online a collection of French WWI posters, a collection of images from our Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design and a small subset of our Collins Collections of Irish Political Cartoons. They are now available with our other CONTENTdm collections
The Oak Street Rapid Accession Project, the goal of which was to transfer 800,000 volumes to the new Oak Street Library Facility by the end of 2005, concluded successfully in December. A total of 826,780 were accessioned at Oak Street by the end of this project, which represents over 40,000 hours of staff time
FACILITIES
History
& Philosophy and Newspaper completed its merger of the two libraries
Rare
Book and Manuscript has remodeled its library
City Planning and
Landscape Architecture placed signs on the outside east and west doors of Mumford Hall
Communications
underwent a "face-lift”
Natural History Survey successfully completed its move from the Natural Resources Building to its new home at the I-Building in the Research Park, 1816 S. Oak Street
Law
completed a significant remodeling project
DEVELOPMENT/PUBLIC
AFFAIRS/OUTREACH
History, Philosophy, and Newspaper (HPN) solicited and negotiated contributions totaling $15,000 (to be paid over three years) from the Philosophy Department and from Professor Michael Moore, Charles Walgreen Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, to support the online 'Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy' project. This funding will guarantee perpetual access to SEP for the UIUC Library, and the investment also helped satisfy SPARC commitment for UIUC. SEP recently received the 'Charleston Advisor's' "Best Content" award:
http://plato.stanford.edu/fundraising/press-release.pdf
HPN
provided library instruction for 19 different history courses
Began
work on creation of virtual collaborative work space for UIUC and Chicago
Historical
Kolb-Proust
Archive performed preliminary work to establish a
partnership with the CNRS (Centre nationale de la
recherché sciéntifique) to digitize Proust's complete correspondence.
Caroline Szylowicz (Kolb-Proust Archive)
gave talk on ”Proust at the UIUC,” in a one-day
colloquium on Proust's correspondence at the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust (Proust's Friends Society)
in Paris.
HPN
assisted with establishment of Clifford Family Endowment for HPN
Area Studies Division
co-sponsored the first “Library Tours in Many Languages” and its
librarians/staff actively participated as tour guides in this multi-languages
event offered to new comers in August
Area Studies Division in collaboration
with GSLIS faculty, several librarians in the Division served on the Organizing
Committee for the Library History Seminar XI “Libraries in Times of War,
Revolution & Social Change” held at Allerton in
October
Asian was awarded 2 NEH Challenge grants ($9,575) for access projects
Asian was successful in securing $3,000 from the Korea Foundation to strengthen our Korean collection
Latin American and
Caribbean Studies prepared a bibliography of print and electronic resources for
Prof. Damarys Canache’s
research seminar (Fall 2005): Political Science 353 Research Paper Resources
at the University of Illinois Library. In addition, LACL provided bibliographic
instruction with special emphasis on research topics about Latin America and the Caribbean to two sessions of the
class—a total of 30 students
Slavic and East European
Studies organized comprehensive Slavic
Digital Text Workshop: Strategies for Humanists & Social
Scientists, July 5-8
Women
and Gender Resources librarian was chief PI on an ICCMP grant titled Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies requesting $34,687. The grant was funded in total. UIUC received
$2500 to purchase materials related to the experiences of transgendered
persons and bisexuals
In the Sousa Archives and
Center for American Music, "Lifescapes of
American Music" was the theme for activities that took place in November
2005 in connection with American Music Month
Rare Book and Manuscript
has established a Book Collectors' Club, The No. 44 Society
University Archives (UA)
has secured a renewal of funding for full-time professional staff to conduct
records and information management planning and development for the operations
of the Abbott Power Plant (year 3) and Facilities and Services’ architectural
documentation (year 2)
UA has secured funding for
1½ yr records center pilot study using the Oak St. Facility
UA supported a Getty
Foundation grant aimed at identifying historical building information and
supported a President’s office research project to write a comprehensive
history of campus planning
UA planned and hosted a
major public event recognizing the completion of processing and opening for
research of the Leon Dash Papers on
investigative journalism. This included
a Millercomm Lecture, exhibit, and formal opening
ceremony
Business and Economics
made presentations to undergraduates on how to research companies, on behalf of
Business Career Services
City Planning and
Landscape Architecture (CPLA) received $1,500 from an alum
to process books and slides in Landscape Architecture
CPLA held a reception in
honor of Professor Guttenberg's generous endowment to the library
In Library and Information
Science, between the LEEP on-campus orientations in July (which included three
workshops and a library tour) and the required course LIS 501 in the fall term
(which incorporated two library-focused lab sessions), all incoming LIS
students received basic disciplinary information literacy instruction. This is a milestone in the LIS Library’s
information literacy program
In Preservation a statewide Preservation Needs Assessment (LSTA Grant) is
complete; Sandburg and CIC-8 grant work is under way. Additional work being
done in support of USAIN V grant and USNP grant
IRIS Director is working
on a campus outreach plan as well as enhanced services to offer subscriber
A forum on entrepreneurial activity was held in November with updates from several innovative service points including Archives, DSD and IRIS
ACES completed the first phase of its USAIN NEH Preservation Project, and sent in the completed bibliography
ACES provided hands on instruction to approximately 650 incoming freshman at orientation
Biotechnology Information Center organized and hosted a 2-day NCBI lecture and workshop
Vet Med Library overview and orientation is now a requirement for the incoming class of first-year students in the College of Veterinary Medicine
Geology conducted geology graduate student orientation
Reference conducted library-wide GA training in August for 45+ graduate
assistants
Reference provided 16
workshop sessions for English as a Second Lanquage
(ESL)students during the fall semester