2006-2007

Accomplishments

Eliminated duplicate journalsin print and electronic formats

1,036 journals whackedas of January 2008

Supplemental textbooks for reserves

• We “worked” with the bookstore to acquire the supplemental textbooks for the spring semester.

Added Resources

• Middle Eastern Studies

• Literacy Studies• Cultural Diversity• Homeland Security• Global Studies• Forensics• Nursing• Netlibrary VI

• Blackwell Synergy551 extra journal titles in STM

• Emerald Management Extra

125 extra journal titles • 25,063 journal issues

added

Continued to adapt to Banner

• Work around accounting problems related to Banner

• Follow all TBR and governmental guidelines• Used the Cheney method to eliminate obstacles.

Acquisitions “acquires” books

Collection development and assessment

• Accreditation reports

• Program reviews

Worked on approval plan with history department

E-notes for book selection

New Collection tools for faculty

Choice online for selection

New Collection tools for faculty

Suzanne trains new library liaisons

Collection development blog

Exhibits in Special Collections

• New additions to the Tennessee Imprints Collection are the focus of this exhibit which features 13 works dating from the 1820s to the 1860s.

• Making Music: Selected works from the Dimensional and Artists’ Books Collection

“Printing Press in the Schools”

Cataloging

• Added records in Voyager for electronic books• Dewey re-class project; correct Cutter nos.• Corrected typing/spelling errors• Relabeled 300 reference books• Added 3,258 Marcive records for government documents• New web site for GovDocs• Added online journal links to Voyager using Serials

Solutions MARC records.• Binding Contract• 8,340 books cataloged

Catalogers decide; Dewey goes…..

5130 bound volumes of periodicals added.

Toni is overzealous in binding periodicals

Faculty and staff accomplishments

• Attended the following conferences etc.

• Potomac Technical processing librarians meeting

• North Carolina Serials conference• NASIG• College of DuPage

Teleconferences• Excellence in Faculty Leadership

seminar• Volunteer Voices Digitization and

Metadata Training Workshop.• TLA Staff Day• Library Information and Technology

Association National Forum

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• Charleston Conference • Solinet: Evaluation Technical

Services• Solinet Caring for Scrapbooks

workshop 4/07• In house Research Gateway

workshop• Analyzer Training• Instructional technology

conference• Five Weeks to a social library• EndUser conference

(Endeaver)

Staff and faculty news

Reclassified one position from Account Clerk III, skill level 5 to Library Assistant III, skill level 6.

Maima Massaquoi passed the CPS examination.

Rachel Kirk, promotion and tenure

GREAT WORK!—ChristopherCrowell, right, chairman of MTSU's Employee Recognition Committee, presents Lisa Wales, acquisitions

account clerk II for the James E. Walker Library, with the latest Quarterly Secretarial/Clerical Award as library assistant professor

Rachel Kirk, left, looks on.

Articles published and in process

• “Censorship and the Librarian: Evaluating the Professional Literature to 1939 and the Library’s Bill of Rights”

• “Survey of Cataloging Education: Are Library Schools Listening?”• “OPAC views: the relationship between cataloging and the OPAC.”

(in progress)• “Cataloging programs without copy catalogers.”• “ A selected Review of Articles Focusing on Research Methods

Used by Academic Faculty in Science, Social Science, and Humanities.”

• Effective Recruitment of African American Librarian” (unpublished research)

• “Tennessee Bibliography 2006”• “Why am I Reading This? Undergraduate Students & Assigned

Journal Articles” (in progress)

Presentations

• EDI and Perl: Simple Scripts to Make Life Easy VUGM EndUser meeting.

• “The Internet and Experience Effect: A Closer Look” at LITA

• “From Bookselling to Publishing: Problems of Markets, Specialization, and Capitalization in the British Book Trade, ca. 1780-1825” at TLA

• “Collection Assessment using RCL and World cat” Presented at TLA

Additional research

• Guest Lecture“Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Moveable Children’s Books” (English 6300)

• Other publicationsCataloging Policy and Procedures ManualERIC ED492939Special Collections Policies and Procedures Manual

• Conference Proceedings Collection Assessment RCL Collection Assessment Worldcat

University Service

• Faculty Senator• Loan and Scholarship committee• Library Digitization Team…developing a digital collection for the university

centennial• University General Education Committee• Library Committee• Curriculum Committee• Student Appeals Committee• Academic Appeals subcommittee for the College of Mass Communications• Grade Appeals Committee• Planning committee for the 3rd International Conference on Cultural

Diversity• Santa’s little raiders program• Donated photos for the Royceanne Miller benefit sale• Mouse pads with pictures of Walker Library sold with proceeds going to

Books from Birth project.• Zinia Randles oversees the Book Rack project which provides free

recreational paperbacks to library patrons.

Public Service

• Volunteer Voices, the digital library of Tennessee history.

• Printing Press Project demonstration for the Murfreesboro Rotary Club

• Linebaugh book sale • Project help …..Zinia volunteered to set up

library, design the physical layout, and select new materials.

• Lucinda working with Cumberland University on cataloging project and manual.

• Ah, nothing like digging up an old burial site on a warm week-end afternoon!

Professional Service

• Editorial board member Tennessee Libraries

• Co-organized conference panel on “Issues in the History of the Book.” At TLA

• TLA awards committee

• Chair, of the Cataloging Special Interest Group for Exlibris

2007-2008

Goals and objectives

• More of the same…………Buy more stuff; catalog more stuff, etc. etc. etc and so forth………………

Establish a collaborative rapport with faculty

• New Books for New faculty

• Highlight faculty publications

• Expand liaison program

“GPO on the road”

• Beverly and Suzanne visit academic departments to talk about resources in Government Documents.

“Pop-ups for Grown-ups”new exhibit for Special Collections….coming soon next year

Cataloging projects

• Re-classify Special Collections using LC instead of Dewey

• Investigate possible problems related to a new ILS

• Catalog curriculum materials

• Experiment with a Collection Management wiki

• Arrange a series of cataloging webcasts for staff development.

• Re-vision to …………

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