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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