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

State of Library2006

Enjoy Just a Few of OurMany Library Accomplishments

& some of the people who made them happen

Fall 2005-Fall 2006

Completed

relocation to Oak Street Facility

Conservation

Aces Library

revised its home page and web presence

Raised over $15,000 for

Korean Collection

Korean Committ

ee

Platform and outline drawings of 16th St SP station. Western Architect Magazine July 1917

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

Asian Library

developed the 1960’s

Golden Age of Korean

Films Collection.

launched BELLOG, the library’s Blog.

Business and Economics Library

City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library

implemented a new Home Page

Classics Library partnered with

Classics Department in

the 100th Anniversary

Celebration of the Department of the Classics

A Refurbished Communications Library

Education and Social Sciences Library

developed a service called Social Work Research at a Distance

Geology Library

created the Library web page for the Atmospheric Science Department

History Philosophy and Newspaper Library merged to form a new

center for historical research on campus

Candace Wilmot & Mary Stuart at Grand Opening

A new service model for Women and Gender Resources Library

Kolb-Proust Archive

Presented “Proust at the UIUC,” at the Societe des Amis de Marcel Proust in

Paris.

Finalized migrating LaborLit from a

stand-alone database to a Web-

based database (approximately 300 visitors per

month since July.)

Labor and Industrial Relations Library

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Library

Presented the traveling exhibit

Encountering Latin America through your Library to 7 Libraries

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

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

Rare Books and Manuscripts Library revamped its space,

brought new focus to its name and collection, and

dove into cataloging 1000s of hidden treasures

Andre Codrescu gave us hispersonal library, includingmany unique Romanian

titles, and joinedus for a celebration of

his literary accomplishments

A redesigned Central Reference website improved the site’s organization and to

update look and feel of pages

Expanded digitization and EAD/VRA-core description of UIUC’s Czech/Slovak poster collection 1920-1991.

“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

A collection of French WW1 posters, images from Motley Collection and subset of Collins

Collection of Irish Political Cartoons was put online by Digital Services & Development

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!)

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

Chemistry Library

completed relocation

to new facility

Gift Shop is openedin Main Library Corridor Info Nook

The Marshall Gallery and Main LibraryHallway continue to become more

warm and inviting with the addition of donor benches

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

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

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 Bandoriginal acetate disk recordings of New York Symphonic Band, WPA Symphonic Band, World's Fair Band, and Cities

Service Band of Americathe 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

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

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

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

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 F&S. the first comprehensive records survey and scheduled records for an entire college, with financial support of the College of Business

The LIS Library’s 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.

Asian contributed approximately 4,000 records to the OACIS database of Middle

Eastern serialsThe 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.

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

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

The Edible Book Contest was a feast for the eyes

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

Reference librarians Kathleen Kern and Jo Kibbee participatedin the Mortenson consulting trips to Nigeria,Ghana, & Tanzania

Biotechnology Information Center sponsored a microarray workshop for UIUC bioinformaticians

~Undergraduate game collection and equipment started ~ ~ UGL hosted first Gaming Night ~

~ UGL added Korean graphic novels & videos to collection ~

With a $239,000 grant from Save America’s Treasures, Preservation & Conservation completed repairs on Carl Sandburg's library in our Rare Book & Manuscripts Library collection.

Curator, Gene Rinkel

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

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