LIBRARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

January-June 2006

SERVICES

City Planning & Landscape Architecture developed a new Web site feature, “What’s New” column on Library’s page

Education and Social Science began offering Instant Messaging Reference Service on weekdays

ESS worked with IDEALS Early Adopter group to provide access to publications of the Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security Program.This is the first collection entered into IDEALS

ESS created a new guide to full-text test/assessment instruments available in print resources http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/instrumentgui.htm

ESS provided Electronic Purchase Request Form on ESSL Web site http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/purchase.htm

Library and Information Science designed and implemented a new form, which will be maintained by the LIS Library, for off-campus faculty to submit reserve requests online: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/lsx/info_fac.html

LIS instituted twice-weekly office hours at GSLIS, in space made available by the School. 

LIS completed a four-year analysis of post-workshop evaluation forms from GSLIS’s LEEP orientation (“boot camp”), wrote up the results for publication, and used the findings from this assessment to plan further improvements in the information literacy program for masters-level GSLIS students

University Archives planned and oversaw the development of Archon, an innovative and state-of-the-art open-source collections management program for archives and manuscript collections as well as for the management of "digital libraries”

UA initiated a Student Life and Culture primary source tutorial project; UI student life in the Cold War resource guide; and chapter history project, funded by Society for the Preservation of Greek History

Slavic & East European initiated new educational wiki, Digital Slavist http://digitalslavist.xwiki.com/xwiki/ bin/view/Main/WebHome

Geology completely revised the GEX and DAS web home pages

Chemistry conducted usability testing on an Analytical Sciences website (asdlib.org) using SCS students

Asian redesigned the Asian Library website

Latin American & Caribbean contributed to the development of a guide to key electronic resources for undergraduate research on Latin America. This project was sponsored by SALALM (The Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials).

Women & Gender Resources ceated pathfinder for Women’s Studies reference resources available at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/wst/womgui.html

Architecture and Art garnered support for ART SALES CATALOGUE ONLINE, providing online access to over 18,000 historical sales catalogs covering the period 1600-1900.

A&A received funding from the Dean of Fine and Applied Arts for a microfilm/fiche scanner for the Unit available to all users within the College.

A&A offered capus wide and special workshops for ARTstor for the College of Fine and Applied Arts faculty and staff 

History, Philosophy, and Newspaper provided library instruction for 15 different history courses and one external group

Music, since January 2006, has begun circulating CD and DVD materials to all library patrons with a valid ID, including courtesy card holders

M provided instructional support in music bibliography and in using the Music Library for various graduate courses, including Problems and Methods in Music Research

Acquisitions set up Wiki for Technical Services Division

Cataloging participated in ways to introduce Gaming resources into the Library’s collections, including figuring out how to catalog games, gaming guides, consoles, web social networking gaming and interaction, etc.

Cataloging continued enhancing Online Research Resources (ORR), Discover Service (SFX) and federated searching (first, Webfeat, then UIUC Search Assistant). Usage for ORR during this period of time was 2.78 million clicks and for Discover/SFX service there was 200,000 clicks

Entrepreneurial worked with IRIS on new services plan and in new pricing structure

Undergraduate consolidated all e-reserve processing from throughout library system including LIS e-reserves

UG conducted the pilot textbook reserve project

UG transitioned from library-supplied headphones to allowing use of personal headphones and making earbud headphones available for sale

EXHIBITS

Center for Global Studies had an exhibit: "Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration" for Joint Area Centers conference in February, 2006

Education and Social Science prepared an exhibit in main corridor:  "School of Social Work: Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence: Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Educating for the Future"

Veterinary Medicine created a display called "Veterinary Medicine Research Around the World" featuring covers of serial publications from other countries

Asian created exhibits: Pioneers of Korean Studies; Modern Korean Literature in Translation (in collaboration with Modern Languages and Linguistics Library); Middle East History and Culture

Latin American & Caribbean traveling exhibit (funded by a grant from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UIUC), Encountering Latin America through your Library has been featured in 9 Illinois libraries between January and July 2006

Music, during spring semester, mounted an exhibition of photographs of “Rom [Gypsy] Musicians” in collaboration with Professor Svanibor Pettan, a visiting Faculty member from Slovenia and renowned expert on this music. Preceding this exhibition was a further “world music” exhibit

Collections helped organize and set up the Andrei Codrescu exhibit

COLLECTIONS

Rare Book & Manuscript received a gift of Stravinsky materials from an alumnus 

Slavic & East European acquired a number of important microfilm sets and electronic resources

SEE pursued significant expansion of its Inventory of Slavic, E. European & Eurasian Digital Projects (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/inventory)  

Biotechnology Information Center purchased for a one-time fee, online access to the Online Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, the Encyclopedic dictionary of genetics, genomics, and proteomics and the Dictionary of bioinformatics and computational biology

Africana received 2 videos through the Library Non-print Competition, and 7 videos purchased with African Studies and Media Center joint funds

Asian signed a three-year partnership agreement with OACIS project, managed by the Yale University Library and contribution about 4,000 records to its database

A acquired 191 reels of Al-Ahram newspaper from Egypt, covering 16 years; received about 400 titles of Persian monographs as gifts

A, in collaboration with the Undergraduate Library, ordered/received/ cataloged about 120 titles in 233 volumes of Korean graphic novels

Latin American & Caribbean secured funding through a special competition for a new microfilm resource of Jamaican folktales. This collection consists of more than 4900 handwritten stories written in Creole by 21,124 school children. Spider Trickster Tales from Jamaica is a unique resource that until recently was not widely know. It is an important and complimentary addition to the Black Caribbean database (a collaborative project between LACL and the Afro-American Bibliographic Unit). In addition, LACL received special funding that enabled the purchase of 3 new titles for its video collection

Architecture & Art undertook a collection assessment in the fields of Italian and Northern Renaissance and Twentieth century art. Titles were purchased to fill in gaps in the collection

A&A, with the help of Karen Schmidt and Naun Chew, collected approximately 5,000 titles from the Vatican's Cicognara Collection on microfiche and have been linked to the OPAC

Classics transferred in, at the request of scholars, the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, a set of over 400 volumes.

History, Philosophy, & Newspaper planned a project and obtained funding to digitize 20 years of the Daily Illini and arranged funding for and proposed purchase of Olive software for newspaper digitization projects

Modern Languages & Linguistics discovered a rare collection of late 18^th - early 19^th century Spanish plays in central bookstacks. Received $4,000 in-house seed money to support a graduate assistant for preliminary work towards a major grant 

MLL’s Proustt-Era collection initiative received special funding of $10,000 to begin a notable collection of popular literature contemporaneous with and of interest to Marcel Proust. Developed new web pages to provide a historical, bibliographical, and cultural context of the collection as well as to provide better access to holdings  

Music subscribed to a new audio-streaming database, “African American Song” from Alexander Street Press, to complement Smithsonian Global Sound and Classical Music Library databases already acquired from this producer

Conservation completed the stabilization of over 7,000 pre-1830s materials selected from the STX for Oak Street

Preservation & Conservation completed repairs on Carl Sandburg's library as part of the Save America's Treasures Grant

Cataloging participating in CROP serials holdings project (show all serials we have, both past and present with Agricultural subjects) with National Library of Agriculture heading the work

C worked with Collections Office to get Tibetan Collection cataloged and housed at Oak Street

C has been working with University of Illinois at Chicago and UI-Springfield to discover areas of collaboration and joint representation of our catalogs and digital collections and the creation of access to these collections

C has bee working on the USAIN microfilming project, for which Gail has been the cataloging advisor, finished the retrospective cataloging of agriculture theses, with records for an additional 102 theses and the associated films

Undergraduate game collection and equipment added

UG added Korean graphic novels and videos to collection

FACILITIES

Rare Book & Manuscript completed renovation of its public and technical services areas to create a more pleasant atmosphere with better facilities for individual users and class presentations, flexible exhibit space, and better staff work space

Law completed a remodeling project in February providing much more attractive space as well as new chairs, lamps and carpeting. Every seat in the main reading room now has access to an electrical outlet along with wireless network connections. It has four new large group study rooms and a classroom in the library for teaching online legal research

Chemistry worked with architects, construction workers and SCS administration to physically move the Chemistry Library. The move began June 28 with shelving installation. Materials began moving July 18

Conservation opened the new conservation lab

Undergraduate moved all Media materials to the lower level

UG remodeling of rooms 291 and 295 was completed

DEVELOPMENT/PUBLIC AFFAIRS/OUTREACH

Center for Global Studies provided a training session on website development for 18 African librarians under the aegis of the Mortenson Center

City Planning & Landscape Architecture received $1,500 from an alumnus in landscape architecture to process his books and 960 slides

Education and Social Science provided class instruction to 36 classes (789 students)

ESS provided jigsaw puzzles as a study break option during the summer terms

Rare Book & Manuscript received two significant grants: $25,000 Delmas Foundation grant to make finding aids accessible through EAD databases and links to collection-level records in Voyager, and $604,000 Andrew Mellow Foundation grant to catalog the 70,000+ backlog of uncataloged rare books

RBM launched a monthly book collectors' club, and initiated the The Harris Fletcher Book Collecting Award and T. W. Baldwin Prize for Book Collecting

RBM warded the first Velde Visiting Scholars Program. Established an Advisory Board

University Archives completed: a three-year project creating a comprehensive current information management program for Abbott Power Plant ($179,000); a two-year records and information management project with Facilities and Services ($100,000); and completed work on a six month project ($10,200) to inventory 1,090 cubic ft of building project files from F&S. With financial support from the College of Business, conducted the first comprehensive records survey and scheduled records for an entire college

UA completed an NEH challenge grant project to survey and assess the preservation options for the extensive collection of student and alumni scrapbooks

UA conducted over 14 class instruction visits to the archives, with follow-up research assistance, with graduate and undergraduate classes in Rhetoric, Sociology, History and Kinesiology, and held training sessions for teaching assistants and faculty in Academic Writing, Rhetoric, and Ethnography of the University

Slavic & East European sponsored third annual Slavic Digital Text Workshop (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/ FisherForum2006/DTW2006.htm) for 11 scholars/librarians

SEE sponsored major outreach event: June 2006 two-day celebratory Fisher Forum on Book Arts, Culture and Media in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia: From Print to Digital (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/FisherForum2006/). Designed website, formed international steering committee, received grant from Hewlett Foundation ($9,000, more than requested) for total budget of $19,350

SEE sponsored popular associated event: "Prostranstvo knigi": the Space of the Book in the Imperial Russian Social Imagination http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/ readcult/Seminar 2006.htm

SEE sponsored third event: 2006 Slavic Librarians’ Workshop http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ spx/FisherForum2006/SLW2006.htm

Biotechnology Information Center sponsored a microarray workshop for UIUC bioinformaticians

BIC offered a training session on RSS to the East Central Illinois Health Sciences Librarians

BIC gave training sessions on the use of RefWorks to the Library staff, VetMed Staff, and a group of Food Science graduate students

Natural History Survey, during the months of April and May, gave library instruction sessions at the Center of Entomology, Center for Biodiversity, and the Center for Wildlife and Plant Ecology Center meetings. Beth gave a library instruction session at the Forbes Field Station in Havana, IL.

Law developed a new law school course in advanced legal research

L offered a series of legal research refresher courses for law students during the spring semester

Geology received perpetual access to AAPG DataPages through a gift

G created a web teaching module for information literacy related to global climate change. This will be presented at a workshop during the AMQUA meeting in Montana in August

Reference librarians, Kathleen Kern and Jo Kibbee participated in the Mortenson consulting trips to Nigeria (KK), Ghana (JK) and Tanzania (JK)

R sponsored workshops for patrons on Refworks, including added Advanced-level workshops

African received Center for African Studies grant for a collection development trip to purchase $1000 worth of materials in Tanzania

Asian contributed to the successful Department of Education Title VI applications for the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and the Program of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

A was successful in raising funds of $17,352 from the Photo exhibit titled “Poem in Silence” and individual donations to benefit Korean collection

A received Interdisciplinary funding of $5,509 to purchase China Academic Journal (CAJ) Century Project titles; funding was also received for subscribing CAJ series G (Economics, Politics, Law)

A received the NCC (North American Coordinating Council  on Japanese Library Resources) MVS 2005-2006: 14 volumes ($653.67)

A received $3,000 book donation from the Korea Foundation

A received free Korean e-book service with purchase of printed volumes

A offered consultation on collection development of Japanese materials for Marion Carnegie Library since spring 2006

Latin American & Caribbean completed preparation and publication of volume 12 of Bolivian Studies Journal (BSJ). This is a scholarly journal dedicated to Bolivian studies. LACL began editing and publishing BSJ in 2001. Subscriptions and individual copy sales reach an international audience of scholars

History, Philosophy, & Newspaper worked with the Development Office to secure private funding for the Historical Chicago Defender database

Modern Languages & Linguistics held Information Literacy sessions for all departments in FLB ranging from general introduction to the Library to specific resources

MLL’s Paula Carns has been holding regular office hours in an office in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

Conservation & Preservation assembled and distributed Disaster Recovery Totes to departmental libraries

C&P completed two sessions of disaster training

Acquisitions held an Acquisitions Forum and Serials forum that focused on serial checkin plans

Cataloging started the OCLC Content Cooperative project. It is submitting Digital content of books included in the Brittle Books reformatting work here at UIUC

C helped provide tours, training sessions on using OCLC, Voyager, Integrated systems, electronic resources, etc. for Mortenson Center for librarians from Africa and Vietnam

Collections created a brochure for legal issues when using electronic resources to be distributed to new faculty, students and staff. The brochure will also be accessible on the library’s webpage

Collections held 3 brown bags on how to use the OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis Tool

Entrepreneurial opened Gift shop in April 2006

E produced a new set of Library Notecards to coincide with gift shop

E finalized Amazon agreement and initiated new Buy a Book Service

Undergraduate hosted first gaming night