Statistics
Access:
15,696
total entrances
8,544 undergraduates
4,063 graduate students
1,652 faculty/staff
776 alumni,faculty/staff/student family members
661 visitors
Circulation:
8,288
charges at circulation desk
325 renewals at circulation desk
9,024 online renewals
127 laptop charges
305 reserve charges
666 holds placed
7,365 items discharged
3,899
items received from other libraries
11,254 books shelved
432 bound periodicals shelved
877 unbound periodicals shelved
399 newspapers shelved
12.5 hours shifting
6 trucks sent to Annex
Reference:
806 questions
553 (69%) at Reference desk
152 (19%) by e-mail
101 (12%) by telephone
Government
Information/Microform Media:
431
items charged
277 reference questions and service transactions
Instruction:
28 sessions for 505 participants
General
Government
Information/Microform-Media Merger:
January witnessed the grand
opening of our new combined Government Information/Microform-Media unit on the
4th floor. Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, Nancy Dolinger, and Rachael Bankes spent much
of the fall semester planing and executing the transfer of equipment and collections.
Dewey James and Susan Grider provided a great deal of assistance with infrastructure
improvements and scheduling the many vendor services that the move required.
We now provide circulation and in-house viewing of our DVD/video collection in the combined unit. We have also moved our heavily used microform materials to the 4th floor, along with readers and reader-scanners. We have retained lesser-used microform materials and readers in the former Media Center on the 6th floor, which will now become a reading area with carrels.
Transitions:
Dale Manning announced his intention to retire in the early summer. He will
work on a part-time basis for most of the spring semester. Dale began working
in the libraries in 1972. He holds a doctorate in English from Vanderbilt and
was one of our first subject bibliographers. He has been a major influence in
building our collections and developing our instructional program, and we will
sorely miss him as both colleague and friend.
Facilities:
John Haar and Janet Thomason
met with Estimating and Design personnel to plan the move of our Reserves unit
to the 4th floor to make way for Divinity Library expansion. We are planning
both space for reserve materials and office space for LaRentina Gray.
Personnel:
We posted the position of
Administrative Services Coordinator (formerly our Administrative Assistant II
position) and interviewed four candidates.
Video
Shoot:
Central hosted the taping
of interviews of several students for the Board of Trust. The taping took place
in the Reference Room.
Circulation (Janet Thomason)
Stacks
Maintenance:
Stephanie Dillard interviewed,
hired, and trained new student workers. She created shelfreading, shifting,
shelving, sorting, and periodical/reference shift schedules that coordinated
with both our needs and students' school and personal schedules. She also updated
the master shelfreading list accordingly, created a master shifting list, and
created a grid-format daily schedule chart in Excel.
Our stacks maintenance student workers are now shifting on the:
-- 8th floor in the Ds and
Es
-- 8th floor in the Ns
-- 7th floor in the PRs
-- 3d floor in the Zs
and they will soon begin shifting oversize books from the 2d floor to the 3d floor to make way for the Divinity Library's summer expansion. Staff are feverishly working to transfer designated books on the 3d floor and oversize to the Annex so that they will be able to shift. LaRentina Gray, Janie King, Ben Darling, Kelly Lockaby, and Stephanie all worked extremely hard on this project.
Reserves:
January is normally quite busy, and this year was no exception as many items
had to be processed for spring reserve in the very short time between semesters.
By the end of the month lists arrived at a much slower pace, and LaRentina began
archiving electronic items that were on reserve in the fall. The total number
of requests placed on ereserve is 54, the total for print reserves is 64.
Periodicals:
Jan. 25 was the last day for NamHang Kim, our periodicals student assistant.
Following NamHang's departure, Janet worked in Periodicals to keep receipt of
newspapers and other essential items current while recruiting to fill a staff
position. We sent 141 titles to the bindery.
Circulation:
We hired and trained five new student workers. Ben assisted LaRentina with processing
electronic reserves during the first two weeks of the semester. Janet continued
working on withdrawing LP recordings and weeded the leisure reading collection.
We withdrew 60 LPs. Janet visited the Annex to look at shelving that needs to
be moved back to the GLB. She also participated in interviews for the Administrative
Services Coordinator position.
Circulation staff met on
Jan. 31, and Debra Stephens supervised the Central circulation desk during the
meeting.
Collection Development (Mary Beth Blalock)
Electronic
Resources:
The Electronic Resources Committee met on Jan.
11. After discussions with the Management Library and determining the number
of additional users we would need to provide campus-wide access to Factiva,
the Committee approved funding for three additional users. If eight users prove
to be inadequate, we will reevaluate user demand and the value of the database
in relation to cost. We deferred a decision regarding a subscription to the
Shakespeare Collection for a month until Professor Leah Marcus has an
opportunity to use the database with her Shakespeare class and provide some
comments on its value. We approved the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
as well as the International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, both one-time purchase
offers, pending funding availability. We did not approve a subscription to America's
Newspapers, a Newsbank product, because of a lack of relevant content as
well as the annual cost. We also did not approve the Oxford Humanities Journal
Archive for purchase due to the duplication of titles in JSTOR and
other online resources. We scheduled a retrial of ARTstor for the spring
semester.
Committee members are Janice Adlington, Yvonne Boyer, Sue Erickson, John Haar, Susan Widmer, and Mary Beth Blalock.
Outreach:
The Hugo et Baudelaire seminar,
taught by Professor Pat Ward, is meeting in the Bandy Center this semester.
Janice met with Professor Barbara Tsakirgis, our classical archaeologist, to discuss concerns about the possibility of transferring excavation reports from the 2d floor oversize area to the Annex.
Yvonne met with Professor Athere Nzabatsinda, French Department library representative, to discuss our French approval plan and the contemporary French author approval program. She also helped coordinate the visit of Ed Colker to the Bandy Center and the campus. Professor Colker, an expert in book arts, gave a lecture in Furman Hall and a seminar in the Bandy Center using examples from the Pascal Pia Collection.
Paula Covington shared information
regarding booksellers and exhibitors with coordinators of the Andean
and Amazonian Conference that will be held at Vanderbilt in February. She
also planned a library exhibit for the conference. Her other activities included
meetings with two faculty candidates for anthropology positions, graduate students
doing research for faculty, faculty members regarding instruction sessions for
their classes, and faculty regarding research interests as background information
for her book purchasing trip in February.
Gifts:
Paula met with Professor Leon Helguera, Juanita Murray, and Kathy Smith at the
Annex to determine ways to incorporate the Helguera Colombian collection into
the VUL collection--newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets, etc. (We received 20
boxes of Colombian materials as this year's gift.)
Bryan Kurowski received 93 gift items this month including almost complete runs of two political science journals, The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and Intelligence and National Security.
Yvonne met with Professor
Holly Tucker at the Annex to discuss the Morris Wachs Collection.
Projects:
Sue Erickson, in collaboration with other bibliographers,
completed a review of titles in the bibliography section on the 4th floor. Some
titles will be transferred to the Annex, some moved to the 3d floor stack area,
and others will remain in the bibliography section, which will be relocated
to the 6th floor. All bibliographers selected titles from the 2d and 3d stack
levels for transfer to the Annex in order to clear the 2d floor for the expansion
of the Divinity Library this summer. We will transfer periodicals available
in JSTOR and other selected titles to the Annex to make space for the
bibliography section.
Janice attended a LibQual+ project team meeting and is currently working on finalizing the content for the survey and other LibQual+ tasks.
Committee
and Other Activities:
Bryan
provided an orientation session for Barry Bennett, new mailroom staff, on collection
development activities and our mailroom service needs.
Dale Manning and Mary Beth worked on revising separate collection profiles for Communication Studies and Theatre, creating a profile for Film Studies, revising and updating the English profile, and on drafting a position description and related recruitment announcement for his position.
Mary Beth met with Rachel Vacek, Management Library, to discuss Central's procedures in reviewing, acquiring, and managing electronic resources. She also attended a Collections Committee meeting and interview sessions with candidates for the Administrative Services Coordinator position.
Government Information/Microform-Media (Amy Stewart-Mailhiot)
Amy conducted six instruction sessions. Larry helped with two of the sessions, as well as with updating the handouts.
We held a two-day training session for the GI/MMC graduate student assistants prior to the beginning of classes. Rachael Bankes also took part in the training.
Amy took part in the interview process for the Administrative Services Coordinator position.
Amy spent time going through the Pride gift book collection, as well as evaluating items for the bibliography and 3d floor shifting projects.
Rachael updated the paper video/DVD catalog, and processed reserve items for the new semester.
Nancy Dolinger completed a re-labeling project for the microfilm cabinets on the 4th floor, continued working on processing US and UN publications, and was in charge of the Ingram staff order.
Instruction (Melinda Brown)
In January, Central librarians (with the help of one Science & Engineering librarian) presented a total of 26 course related sessions to 471 students and 7 professors.
AAST 115 - Race, Sports & American Culture (Whiting), Peter Brush & Hilary Rudsenske, 14 students.
AHST 295 - Women, Gender & Mesoamerica (Headrick), Yvonne Boyer & Paula Covington, 4 students.
ASTR 115 - Nature of Discovery (Chappell), Melinda Brown & Carlin Sappenfield, 10 students.
CMST 100 - Public Speaking (Lynch), Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, 17 students and the professor.
CMST 100 - Public Speaking (Sloop), Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, 18 students.
CMST 100 - Public Speaking (Vivian), Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, 22 students.
CMST 101 - Interpersonal Communication (Kenner), Dale Manning, 19 students.
CMST 101 - Interpersonal Communication (Kenner), Dale Manning, 21 students.
CMST 101 - Interpersonal Communication (Kenner), Dale Manning, 22 students.
ECON 222 - Latin American Economic Development (Andrade), Susan Widmer, Paula Covington & Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, 40 students.
ECON 222 - Latin American Economic Development (Andrade), Susan Widmer & Paula Covington, 23 students.
ECON 226 - Economic History of the United States (Atack), Susan Widmer & Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, 17 students.
HIST 115 - Crusades (Messier), Peter Brush, 12 students.
HIST 200 - History Workshop (Messier), Peter Brush, 11 students.
HIST 297 - Junior Honors Seminar (Figal), Peter Brush, 12 students.
HUM 108 - World Fiction: Short Stories (Kevra), Melinda Brown, 16 students and the professor.
HUM 115 - Americans in Paris (Ward), Yvonne Boyer & Melinda Brown, 15 students and the professor.
PHYS 115 - The Physics of Art & the Art of Physics (Dickerson), Carlin Sappenfield & Melinda Brown, 5 students and the professor.
PSCI 210 - Comparative Politics / Western-Europe (Faucher-King), Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, 18 students.
PSCI 210 - Comparative Politics / Western-Europe (Faucher-King), Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, 15 students.
PSCI 238 - Comparative Political Parties (Faucher-King), Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, 12 students and the professor.
PSY 208 - Principles of Experimental Design (Palmeri), Janice Adlington, 70 students.
PSY 115 - General Psychology (Fox), Janice Adlington, 14 students.
PSY 115 - Addictions & Society (Samenow), Janice Adlington, 15 students and the professor.
SOC 115 - Immigration: Community & Policy (Cornfield), Hilary Rudsenske & Sue Erickson, 15 students and the professor.
WS/FREN 239 - Medieval Women in Their Own Words (Barrett), Yvonne Boyer, 4 students.
Additional
Instruction Activities:
The following librarians attended an instruction lunch meeting to review the
First Year Writing Seminar library sessions: Janice Adlington, Mary Beth Blalock,
Melinda Brown, Peter Brush, Paula Covington, Sue Erickson, Kitty Porter, Hilary
Rudsenske, Carlin Sappenfield, Rick Stringer-Hye, and Susan Widmer.
Yvonne Boyer presented a session for five Hamblet Art Award Candidates from the Studio Arts program.
Melinda conducted an orientation for 21 high school students and their advisor who are participating in the Hunters Lane High School International Baccalaureate Program.
Melinda also
attended the Center For Teaching workshop, Classroom Response Systems, where
a panel of four faculty presented on their use of classroom response systems
("clickers" are one example), the challenges and benefits of using
them and how it had impacted the way they designed their courses.
Reference (Sue Erickson)
Activities:
At our reference meeting on Jan. 19, bibliographers
identified subject guide link updating as a project that our student assistants
could help with, in addition to simply checking links to ensure that they are
active. Sue Erickson trained our reference desk student assistant Traci in the
basics of editing webpages in Dreamweaver so that she can take on this task.
Sue met with Mary Beth on Jan. 27 to identify subsets in general anthropology to be used as a test sample for collection analysis across the Information Alliance.
Sue and Paula met with two faculty candidates for an epigrapher position in the Anthropology Department.
Both Sue and Hilary spent time on levels 2 and 3 looking for titles that could be transferred to the Annex. Sue finalized decisions for the bibliography section on the 4th floor and sent the list to the bibliographers, Mary Beth and Zora Breeding for final review.
Paula reviewed some sections of the reference collection for items to transfer.
Sue updated
the Speech
Resources subject guide and worked with Dale Poulter to revise pages related
to ICPSR
and Roper
Center data access. These pages were previously maintained by the Advanced
Computing Center for Research and Education, but have now been moved to the
library's server. Sue is now the ICPSR Official Representative for Vanderbilt
and has taken on liaison responsibility for the Roper Center.
Meetings:
Sue met with Anthropology faculty candidates and participated in interviews
for the Administrative Services Coordinator position.
Meetings, Conferences, Training
ALA
Midwinter Conference:
Yvonne attended meetings of the Romance Languages Discussion Group/WESS, the
Collaborative Initiative for French and North-American Libraries (CIFNAL), the
WESS Program Planning Committee for 2007, and the Arts Discussion Group. She
also met with our French approval vendor.
Larry Romans chaired the ALA Committee on Legislation (COL) and presented the COL report to Council. The committee passed six resolutions, including one asking Congress to add civil liberties guarantees to The USA Patriot Act. He is on ALA Council.
Amy served as secretary for the GODORT Legislation Committee.
Sue Erickson attended several meetings of ACRL's Anthropology & Sociology Section (ANSS) as part of the duties of the office of Member at Large, including chairing the ANSS Membership Committee meeting. She also attended a RUSA RSS Reference Services in Large Research Libraries program on reference collection development, and an ACRL/University Libraries Section/Current Topics Discussion Group program on Learning Commons/Spaces.
Janice Adlington: Digital Library Steering Committee meetings.
Peter Brush: LibQual+ Committee meeting; Web Spiders meeting; Faculty Delivery Services Project Team meeting.
Sue Erickson: Research Services Committee meeting, Sociology Dept. brown bag on archival data analysis; First Year Writing Seminar lunch meeting.
Bryan Kurowski: Technology Support Coordinators meeting; Ed Colker lecture.
Janet Thomason: Circulation and Access Committee meeting; CAC subcommittee meeting.
Daisy Whitten: Staff Development Committee meeting, Technology Support Coordinators meeting.
Susan Widmer: University Staff Advisory Council meeting.
Robert Wright: Technology Support Coordinators meeting.