Title: State of Library 2006
1State of Library2006
- Enjoy Just a Few of Our
- Many Library Accomplishments
- some of the people who made them happen
- Fall 2005-Fall 2006
2Conservation
- Completed relocation to Oak Street Facility
3Aces Library
- revised its home page and web presence
4Raised over 15,000 for Korean Collection
Korean Committee
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6- Art Architecture Library 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
7- Asian Library developed the 1960s
Golden Age of Korean Films Collection.
8Business and Economics Library
- launched BELLOG, the librarys Blog.
9City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library
- implemented a new Home Page
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11- Classics Library partnered with Classics
Department in the - 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Department
of the Classics
12A Refurbished Communications
Library
13Education and Social Sciences Library
- developed a service called
- Social Work Research at a Distance
14Geology Library
- created the Library web page for the
Atmospheric Science Department
15History Philosophy and Newspaper Library merged
to form a newcenter for historical research on
campus
Candace Wilmot Mary Stuart at Grand Opening
16A new service model for Women and Gender
Resources Library
17Kolb-Proust Archive
- Presented Proust at the UIUC, at the Societe
des Amis de Marcel Proust in Paris.
18Labor and Industrial Relations Library
- Finalized migrating LaborLit from a stand-alone
database to a Web-based database (approximately
300 visitors per month since July.)
19Latin American and Caribbean Studies Library
- Presented the traveling exhibit Encountering
Latin America through your Library to 7 Libraries
20- 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
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22- The Music Library updated its web site to
showcase - Resource of the Month
23- Rare Books and Manuscripts Library revamped its
space, brought new focus to its name and
collection, and dove into cataloging 1000s of
hidden treasures
24Andre Codrescu gave us his personal library,
including many unique Romanian titles, and
joined us for a celebration of his literary
accomplishments
25- A redesigned Central Reference website improved
the sites organization and to update look and
feel of pages
26- Expanded digitization and EAD/VRA-core
description of UIUCs Czech/Slovak poster
collection 1920-1991.
27- Lifescapes of American Music was the theme for
activities that took place in November 2005 in
connection with American Music Month, overseen by
our Sousa Archives -
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29- Oak Street Rapid Accession Project completed the
transfer of 826,780 volumes to the Oak Street
Library Facility, a project which represented
over 40,000 hours of staff time. - (and boy, are we tired!)
30- University Archives 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
31- Chemistry Library
- completed relocation to new facility
32- Gift Shop is opened
- in Main Library Corridor Info Nook
33The Marshall Gallery and Main Library Hallway
continue to become more warm and inviting with
the addition of donor benches
34We acquired Olin film archive, material used by
documentary filmmaker Chuck Olin for his
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
35Modern 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
36- 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 - original acetate disk recordings of New York
Symphonic Band, WPA Symphonic Band, World's Fair
Band, and Cities - Service Band of America
- the Joseph Olivadoti Music and Personal Papers,
including original and published music
compositions and band method books, photographs,
newsclippings, correspondence, concert programs
documenting Olivadoti's career in Italy and the
United States
37History, Philosophy, and Newspaper secured
funding joined the online Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy project. This funding
helped further our commitment to SPARC.
38Natural 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
39Rare Books Manuscripts launched a monthly book
collectors' club, and initiated the The Harris
Fletcher Book Collecting Award and T. W. Baldwin
Prize for Book Collecting
40- University Archives completed
- a three-year project creating
- a comprehensive current information management
program for - Abbott Power Plant
- a two-year records and information
- management project with Facilities and Services
- a six month project to inventory
- 1,090 cubic ft of building project files from
FS. - the first comprehensive records survey and
scheduled records for an entire college, with
financial support of the College of Business
41The LIS Librarys information literacy program
reached a milestone between the LEEP on-campus
orientations in July the required course LIS
501 in the fall term, ALL INCOMING LIS students
received basic disciplinary information literacy
instruction.
42Asian contributed approximately 4,000 records to
the OACIS database of Middle Eastern
serials The Online Access to Consolidated
Information on Serials is a union list of
serials from or about the Middle East. The
mission of OACIS is to improve access to Middle
Eastern serials in libraries in the United
States, Europe, and the Middle East.
43Slavic Eastern European Library sponsored the
two-day celebratory Fisher Forum on Book Arts,
Culture and Media in Russia, Eastern Europe and
Eurasia From Print to Digital with help from a
grant from the Hewlett Foundation
44Cataloging joined the OCLC Content Cooperative
project, submitting the digital content of
books included in the Brittle Books reformatting
work done in our Preservation Unit
45The Edible Book Contest was a feast for the eyes
46Asian contributed to the successful Department
of Education Title VI applications for the
Center for East Asian Pacific Studies The
Program of South Asian Middle Eastern Studies
47Reference librarians Kathleen Kern and Jo
Kibbee participated in the Mortenson consulting
trips to Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania
48Biotechnology Information Center sponsored a
microarray workshop for UIUC bioinformaticians
49Undergraduate game collection and equipment
started UGL hosted first Gaming Night
UGL added Korean graphic novels videos to
collection
50With a 239,000 grant from Save Americas
Treasures, Preservation Conservation
completed repairs on Carl Sandburg's library
in our Rare Book Manuscripts Library
collection.
Curator, Gene Rinkel
51The Asian Library acquired 191 reels of Al-Ahram
newspaper from Egypt, covering 16 years We also
received about 400 titles of unique Persian
monographs as gifts
52Cataloging continued enhancing Online Research
Resources (ORR), Discover Service (SFX) and
federated searching (first, Webfeat, then UIUC
Search Assistant). During a 6 month period,
there were 2.78 million clicks for the ORR
200,000 clicks via Discover/SFX
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