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Summer 2005 Staley Library newsletter

On July 1, we welcomed Joe Hardenbrook as our new Library Instruction Coordinator & Research/Instruction Librarian, the position previously held by Susan Avery and ably covered by Amanda Pippitt in the interim since Susan's Oct. 2004 departure for UIUC.

Joe was previously Coordinator of Library Instruction at Sam Houston State University at Huntsville, TX, where he also served as Reference & Instruction Librarian. Prior to this, Joe held several paraprofessional library positions at Indiana University and at Ball State University.

Joe's Masters Degree in Library Science is from Indiana University (Bloomington IN), and his undergraduate major was history. He has a number of publications, presentations, and service activities to his record. Joe has Midwestern roots, and is pleased to be back in familiar territory.

Joe's graphic announcing his departure from Sam Houston to his colleagues there. (It is now a link to his Millikin web pages.)

More staff news

Kelly Binkley	Debbie Myers
Not that we are at full staff even so: in late May, Kelly Binkley, daytime Circulation Associate, left for another position. Debbie Myers, long-time library student worker and a May 2005 Millikin graduate, is filling in for the summer while we conduct a search to fill the position. We are grateful to Debbie for helping us out with this before she starts at UIUC library school.

Latisha Grier (left) and Culeta Byars are our summer student workers, helping us with circulation, acquisitions and interlibrary loan activities, along with special projects such as assuring that materials in the stacks are correctly shelved and that gift and missing items are identified and processed. Both have worked with us during the academic year as well.
Chris Nelson	Shelly Mauer
Chris Nelson, MU`04 and library student worker for several years, spent the Spring 2005 semester with us classifying thousands of donated vinyl records, as a first step towards finally integrating these in the library collection. Thank you Chris!	And finally, a bit of gossip: we have just learned that another of our recent student workers, Shelly Mauer, has also decided to go to library school and become a librarian. Way to go Shelly!

Summer projects: technology (more details in fall)
To streamline searching our many databases and other electronic resources, we are implementing a "link resolver" which is a software suite that will make it easier to find full text when it is available on one of our subscriptions.

New databases coming: communications, sheet music, jazz sound files, CINAHL expanded to full text, and SportDiscus (which we had several years ago but had to discontinue for budgetary reasons).

New security gate being installed to replace the lately non-functional one that dated from the opening of Staley Library in 1968. The library entrance and exit will now be in the same place, right in front of the exterior doors.

New microfilm reader, electronic and networked.

Summer projects: library space
Every summer we do some rearranging of space and furniture in the library, and so it is this year. Most of this summer's changes will be in staff spaces, however, including moving our book mending space from behind the scenes to the Circulation Desk, where books can now be mended during slower times at the desk.

Before (click to see bigger)

After

New books and other materials
As always, be sure to check each month on the library's new acquisitions by clicking on this heading. June's new titles have just been added.

Look at earlier newsletters for a mini-review of the just concluded academic year in the library.

Karin Borei
University Librarian and
Director of International Programs
kborei@mail.millikin.edu

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