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November 2001
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(Video clip with sound - and the players in Halloween finery of course!)
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On October 26th, 2001 we featured a
Woodwind Quintet performance under the direction of Tina Nicholson, this in addition to our First Friday
events (below).
Rusty Vinson recorded the accompanying video snippet of that performance
for us. Don't you just
love it! (You will need to have some audio capability, and you may need to use Internet Explorer
for it to work.)
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The library's new 2d
floor display space is intended to feature student creativity throughout the
academic year. Each exhibit will open with a Fabulous Fine Arts
Friday reception where we intend to showcase student musical
performances. Our first
Fabulous
Fine Arts Friday on
October 12, 2001 , was a gratifying success. The next Fabulous Fine
Arts Fridays are scheduled for November 9
(to open an exhibit of women
artists) and December 7 (winter theme).
Many of you will by now have
admired the new archives space that we created this past summer where
the music module used to be. (The music materials of course are now in
much larger space on the third floor.) The archives room is lined primarily with bookcases from the Elizabethan Study, a
feature of the old Gorin Library, and includes other furniture as well
from earlier Millikin University library incarnations. (You may be
interested to browse again the library
history pages I put together over a year ago.)
Now, Assistant Professor
Susan Avery, who has assumed the responsibilities of University
Archivist along with her continuing instruction and reference
responsibilities, has created a wonderful set of web pages to celebrate
this new archives space. (Some of the pages are still under
construction.) Click on the logo above! You will find a Millikin University
history and chronology (both compiled by Jason Butterick, who works with
Susan as Archival Associate), a sampling of photographs from the
archives including from our recent School of Music historical exhibit,
and also a detailing of policies and procedures for the creation and use
of our archives. You will be impressed!
And, please contact Amanda Pippitt (savery@mail.millikin.edu,
or x3944) if you have something you think might be appropriate for
keeping in the archives, or have questions on the necessity to
keep or transfer records or documents.
I want to remind you to check our Trial
Databases page occasionally. Through the end of November, you can
use PsycARTICLES ("PsycARTICLES provides electronic full text of articles from 42 journals published by APA and allied organizations and is a complement to APA's popular PsycINFO database.")
and you can also use a number of other databases through the Illinois
State Library's 2d annual Try-It! Illinois. Test databases offer
occasional access to resources we cannot otherwise provide, and you should
not miss out on them.
The latest library web site enhancement: library
floor plans. (Ben Gardner created these.) It is our ambition to make them interactive one of
these days, as our time permits.
The
monthly New
Acquisitions
lists are updated during the first week of every month with the
addition of a page for the previous month's titles newly catalogued
materials, sorted by subject area. Some months reflect particular
projects, such as the September list which was heavy on Juvenile
literature because during the Summer 2001 we weeded down our uncatalogued
"popular collection" of juvenile literature and then added the
remainder to the regular collection. Also ongoing is a process of adding
as many LP's (vinyl) as we can each month from an excellent gift of
classical music recordings.
 Two
of our librarians, Susan Avery and Carmen Epstein, have recently been
awarded grants through the Illinois State Library to pursue library
related projects. This follows a tradition in the library of seeking
outside support for our services.
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Susan Avery has been
awarded a "Lighting the Fire" grant of $1,800 to produce a
set of library guides for faculty as well as brochures for our
services to community patrons and local high school classes. The
faculty guides will collect in a binder our information about
faculty-specific services including class instruction, collection
development, and discipline-specific resources in all formats.
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Carmen Epstein has been
awarded a FY 2002 Library Services and Technology Act "Grow With
a Pro" grant of $1,638.00 to create a collection assessment model
for the library's research resources in traditional as well as
electronic formats. She will be working with a consultant this coming
summer (2002) on this project, which is intended to result in an
ongoing cycle of assessment and strengthening of our collections in
all the curricular disciplines.
We are in the process of
putting pictures of our entire student staff onto our web, so that we can
even more fully appreciate what they do for our day-to-day service. Take
a look!
I continue my elected service
on the 17-person state-wide governing Board
of the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO)
that includes 45 of the state's university, college and community
college libraries and the Illinois State Library.
The Board has recently concluded contract negotiations with Endeavor
Systems for a new
Illinet Online system software (Voyager) to replace the aging DRA
software we now have. The ambitious though I believe realistic
implementation schedule calls for the new software to be fully implemented
by Fall 2002.
Other
news On Oct. 23,
Nanette Wargo, another of our former library student workers and who is now
pursuing a Masters of Science in Library Science (MSLS) degree at
the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, visited the library to
discuss a class project for which she is using Staley Library as her
focus. Ms Wargo is by no means the first Staley Library student worker
to choose a career in the library profession. Cindy Fuller (MU `90,
MSLS UIUC `92, and on the Staley Library faculty from 1992 until April
2001) comes most immediately to mind, and others over the years have
included Regina (Gina) Jannick, Amy Borden, Jennifer Cisna,
Tom Wood (now archivist at UI - Springfield), Lisa Vizebicki (at UW -
Madison), Sarah Kirsch, and Jessica Morgan. Libraries are good places to
work!
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 And finally, on a more
personal note, on October 20, 2001,
Jason Butterick married Amanda Johnson in Mt. Zion.
They met while both were Staley Library student workers several years
ago, and Jason of course is presently on the library's full-time staff.
Our many best wishes to both!
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