Mike Binder, Dean

WKU Libraries

August 23, 2010

WKU Libraries Kick Off

New People

Amanda Drost, Kentucky Library cataloger

John Gottfried, Business LibrarianRobert Harbison, Interim

Owensboro Campus LibrarianAmy Hardin, Development DirectorDarlene Malosh, Owensboro Library

AssistantTammera Race, Science/Technology

catalogerAmy Slowik, Electronic Resources

Librarian

Year in Review

WKU’s repositories ranked #237 out of 800

225,000 processes for acquisitions, bibliographic access and serials

TopSCHOLAR® grows to 3,400 documents, with 100,000 downloads by May

7,153 records added to PastPerfect Catalog

80,000 MARCIVE records completed for federal documents

85 linear feet of manuscript and folklife archives processed

94 new titles added to Popular Music Collection

Numbers Count

451,522 visited Main Library, up 2%, incl. 12,556 during finals’ week, up 6.2%

763 hours of instruction provided to 15,943 students in 572 classes

393 entries by 206 artists featured in US Bank Art Show

318 visited “Save the Planet” KHQS Annual Show

9,000 school and camp students served

232 events featured in Java City since inception

Numbers Count

Owensboro Campus Library opened Java City remodeled and upgraded  New water-saving toilets installed  New lights with motion sensors

installed Grimshaw collection in Robert Penn

Warren Room cataloged Phase I and first half of Phase II of

off-site storage completed First graduate intern from Indiana

University worked in DLTS and DLSC

New Happenings and Changes

China Academic JournalsCivil War DatabasesThe Dictionary of Irish Biography from

OxfordHeinOnline + Selden Society

Publications Index (1914-1983) and the Readers’

Guide Retrospective IndexNew Wilson Retrospective Indexes: the

Education SAGE EncyclopediasNineteenth Century British Pamphlets

from JSTOR\American History in VideoOxford Reference Online

New Electronic Subscriptions

Gary & Steven West, very fine Victorian era furniture

Janice Bohannon, fine Victorian furniture

A late nineteenth-century diary of Bowling Green native Josie Underwood.

An 1833 letter describing Lost River Cave and mill

An 1862 Civil War letter describing Bowling Green in the wake of the departure of Confederate occupying forces.

New Donated Collections

New Value-added ServicesLibraries’ and KY

Museum’s Social Networking Presence, such as Facebook

Libraries’ website redesigned with ADA compliance

iPhone app implementedThe Horse in Kentucky

website set upEducational web page

developed

Publications Hawiang Yuan’ This Is China: The First 5,000

Years by Berkshire Press Rosemary Meszaros’ Rising Through the Ranks:

Women in War by VDM Nancy Richey’s Images of America: Barren County

by Arcadia Publishing Grants and Scholarships

Carol Watwood received a grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine

Charles Smith received a Faculty Research Grant to edit a travel diary kept by Alfred Russel Wallace

The Far Away Places series coordinated by Peggy Wright and Brian Coutts received two grants from the Global Encounters Program

Professional/Academic Achievements

Awards and Recognitions Brian Coutts elected for two year term on the Executive Board of the Law and

Political Science Section of ACRL Charles Smith (for Research) and Brian Coutts (for Public Service) were

University Library Award winners Charles Smith featured speaker at the Echoes of Darwin Conference held in

Porto Alegre, Brazil Christy Spurlock received "Emerging Professional Award" from Kentucky

Museum and Heritage Alliance Haiwang Yuan’s book Princess Peacock received the 2009 American Folklore

Society-Children’s Folklore Section Accolade Award

Professional/Academic Achievements

International Reach

Final plans developed for Confucius Institute’s Exhibition Center in Helm Library for fall, 2010

2009-2010 Canadian Studies Library Support Program Grant Received in the amount of $2,411.00

17 volumes of books and a CD received from Sister City Kawanishi, Japan

Talks on Russia and China conducted in Helm 100

What’s in the Future

Project to bar code current periodicals

MARCEdit to match TOPCAT record numbers with OCLC numbers

To explore search and discovery systems such as Summon, Primo, and WorldCat Local

Confucius Institute Reference renovations Web-based e-commerce New Kentucky Museum website SOKY Book Fest website redesign SOKY Reads Garden Café The ERC in new location

Collection growth is driven by patron demand and will include new resource types

Budget challenges will continue and we will evolve as a result Changes in higher education will require that we possess diverse skill

sets Demands for accountability and assessment will increase Digitization of unique collections will increase and require a larger

share of resources Explosive growth of mobile devices and applications will drive new

services Increased collaboration will expand our role within WKU and beyond We will continue to lead efforts to develop scholarly communications

and intellectual property services

(based on C&RL News, June 2010, pp. 286-292)

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