State of Library 2006

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State of Library2006

• Enjoy Just a Few of Our
• Many Library Accomplishments
• some of the people who made them happen
• Fall 2005-Fall 2006

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Conservation

• Completed relocation to Oak Street Facility

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Aces Library

• revised its home page and web presence

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Raised over 15,000 for Korean Collection
Korean Committee
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• 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

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• Asian Library developed the 1960s
  Golden Age of Korean Films Collection.

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Business and Economics Library

• launched BELLOG, the librarys Blog.

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City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library

• implemented a new Home Page

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• Classics Library partnered with Classics
  Department in the
• 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Department
  of the Classics

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A Refurbished Communications
Library
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Education and Social Sciences Library

• developed a service called
• Social Work Research at a Distance

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Geology Library

• created the Library web page for the
  Atmospheric Science Department

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History Philosophy and Newspaper Library merged
to form a newcenter for historical research on
campus
Candace Wilmot Mary Stuart at Grand Opening
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A new service model for Women and Gender
Resources Library
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Kolb-Proust Archive

• Presented Proust at the UIUC, at the Societe
  des Amis de Marcel Proust in Paris.

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Labor and Industrial Relations Library

• Finalized migrating LaborLit from a stand-alone
  database to a Web-based database (approximately
  300 visitors per month since July.)

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Latin American and Caribbean Studies Library

• Presented the traveling exhibit Encountering
  Latin America through your Library to 7 Libraries
  

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• 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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• The Music Library updated its web site to
  showcase
• Resource of the Month

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• Rare Books and Manuscripts Library revamped its
  space, brought new focus to its name and
  collection, and dove into cataloging 1000s of
  hidden treasures

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Andre Codrescu gave us his personal library,
including many unique Romanian titles, and
joined us for a celebration of his literary
accomplishments
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• A redesigned Central Reference website improved
  the sites organization and to update look and
  feel of pages

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• Expanded digitization and EAD/VRA-core
  description of UIUCs Czech/Slovak poster
  collection 1920-1991.

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• 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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• 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!)

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• 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

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• Chemistry Library
• completed relocation to new facility

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• Gift Shop is opened
• in Main Library Corridor Info Nook

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The Marshall Gallery and Main Library Hallway
continue to become more warm and inviting with
the addition of donor benches
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We 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
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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
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• 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

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History, Philosophy, and Newspaper secured
funding joined the online Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy project. This funding
helped further our commitment to SPARC.
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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
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Rare 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
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• 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

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The 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.
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Asian 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.
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Slavic 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
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Cataloging joined the OCLC Content Cooperative
project, submitting the digital content of
books included in the Brittle Books reformatting
work done in our Preservation Unit
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The Edible Book Contest was a feast for the eyes
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Asian 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
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Reference librarians Kathleen Kern and Jo
Kibbee participated in the Mortenson consulting
trips to Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania
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Biotechnology Information Center sponsored a
microarray workshop for UIUC bioinformaticians
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Undergraduate game collection and equipment
started UGL hosted first Gaming Night
UGL added Korean graphic novels videos to
collection
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With 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
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The 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
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Cataloging 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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