Navy/Marine Corps Report

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Navy/Marine Corps Report

• James King, NRL
• Nellie Moffitt, NGLP

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Navy/Marine Corps Intranet

• NMCI affecting many Navy/Marine Corps libraries
• Most ILS products deemed legacy
• Attempted to create approved list of ILS
• Access to license resources difficult

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Consortium Procurements

• SciTech Publishers and databases
• Moving more purchases through FEDLINK
• Hoping to do more cross-service, cross-government
  deals

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SecNav Instruction

• Creates Librarian of the Navy (LoN) as additional
  duty
• Formally establishes Consortium of Naval
  Libraries LoN Advisory Board
• LoN Advisory Board one standing member for each
  community and 4 at large members
• Creates five communities of libraries
• Academic, Historical, Medical, SciTech Libraries,
  Research Lab and General

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Academic Libraries
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Naval Academy

• 25 less staff but more library instruction than
  ever
• Installing and configuring link resolver (SFX)
• Installing a coffee bar
• ILLiad installed

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Naval Postgraduate School

• FLICC Federal Library of the Year
• Maxine Reneker retired, replacement selected
• SIPRnet access added
• ILLiad installed
• Lead for NPS-wide CMS deployment
• Homeland Security Digital Library IP access

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Library of the Marine Corps

• Marine Corps University Library incorporated
  Library Archives from Navy Yard History and
  Museums Division
• The Library of the Marine Corps has 4 branches
• Breckinridge University Library (academic
  library)
• USMC Archives and Special Collections Branch
  (incorporating the University Archives on site
  and the Navy Yard Marine Corps Archives
• Quantico Library (base library)
• Virtual Library (support for the other three
  libraries)
• New wing to building planned for 2007 with
  renovation to rest
• The Tropical Storm Tammy Entire Massacre

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Medical Libraries
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Medical Libraries

• Naval Operational Medical Institute, Pensacola
• Hurricane Ivan destroyed library last year
• Naval Health Research Center
• BUMED reorganizing RD portion
• Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory
• Partnering with Mystic Aquarium with Electric
  Boat

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Naval Medical Center, San Diego

• Reporting moved from Admin to Education
• Jan Dempsey, Medical Reference Librarian, retired
  with the Meritorious Civilian Service Award
• Added UpToDate point-of-care database
• New compact shelving and electronic security
  system (3M) installed
• Joint ILS being deployed to replace 9 systems
• Parternership to create a learning resource
  center at the Maina Soko Military Hospital in
  Lusaka, Zambia (Africa) (Kathy Parker NMC-SD,
  and Marilyn Schwartz from Rocky Mountain
  University of Health Professionals will provide
  training)

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Naval Medical Center, Bethesda

• Reporting moved from Admin to Research
• Reducing the General Collection
• NNMC purchased Voyager (vendor hosted) with
  understanding that NMIMC (BUMED) is soon to
  purchase same system for all NAVMED libraries.
• Participating with WRAMC and Ft. Belvoir (maybe
  soon joined by AAFB) in planning for BRAC. 
  Determination is to have full integration of
  clinics and GME in 18 months.
• Serving on Steering Committee of Joint Medical
  e-Library (JMeL).

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Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth

• FLICC Federal Library of the Year
• Library now housed in the oldest hospital in US
• Rebuilt a general library in addition to the
  medical library

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SciTech Libraries
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SciTech Libraries

• SPAWAR, San Diego
• Staffing down by nearly 50
• SPAWAR will be reorganized from BRAC
• Library will most likely increase user base
• Naval Oceanographic Office
• Over half of staff lost homes, living in offices

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NAVAIR Technical Library

• NAVAIR Library created from merger of
• NAWC, Aircraft Division, Patuxent River MD
• General collection being moved to a base library
• NAWC, Weapons Division, China Lake CA
• Sandy Bradley moved out of the library
• Staffing down 2 people
• Storytelling project

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NSWC Library Indian Head

• New Librarian (Pamela Wheelock) and technician
  recently hired
• Found facilities destroyed by water and mold
• Collection in trailers while library being
  repaired
• Good support to re-establish

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Research Lab Libraries
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Naval Research Laboratory

• Staff shrunk 25 in 3 years
• Scopus, WoS INSPEC archive, and SciFinder
• 60 of journal archive now online
• Online Bibliography
• Deploying link resolver
• Redesigning database-driven web site
• Creating Classified DL, massive inventory
  underway
• Reestablishing branch library in Monterey

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General Libraries
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Marine Corps General Libraries

• Centralization
• Support for Deployment
• Bricks Clicks
• Wireless Access
• Website Development
• Automated Reporting Assessments
• Metrics