The project of adding cataloging for all of the library's periodicals titles
to the library's online "book" catalog (Illinet
Online) has now been completed, ahead of schedule too, thanks to the
dedicated efforts of Linda Chitwood, Cataloging Associate. Thus, you can
now find records for all of our periodicals subscriptions
online, along with the same summary of what we own for each
title as you are used to seeing in the printed lists. (For now, we
are also maintaining copies of the printed lists in the library.)
If you have had occasion to use our coin operated copiers recently, you
will have noticed that we have halved the cost
of photocopies, from 10 cents to 5 cents each. In doing this,
we are responding to repeated requests from students that we lower this
cost to them. Though we will monitor this change carefully, we believe
that there will be a sufficient increase in volume of photocopying because
of the lower price to keep the revenues at a level which covers the library's
costs for providing the service. We hope we are right! Meanwhile,
enjoy.
The library on a regular basis receives gifts of books from various sources,
and these we sort through and process as time permits. We are now going
through some backlogged large gifts, adding some new book titles
to the library's book collection and making others available on the library's
book
sale shelves (next to the sofa grouping on the main floor, behind
the Faculty Publications shelf). As a result, the book sale shelves are
full of newly added works right now. And, at 25 cents per volume, the prices
are unbeatable.
Millikin
University faculty publications are now shelved together, on
the low shelves next to the sofa grouping on the main floor. Some of these
are books which the faculty member authors have recently given to the library,
while others we have pulled from the library's existing circulating collection.
The collection includes one video and one music CD. In addition, a ring
binder on the same shelf provides a list of journal articles and other
types of faculty publications over the years.
The
library faculty (Virginia McQuistion, Susan Avery, and Cindy Fuller) have
completed
CWRR library instruction for the semester, the last session
taking place the week after Thanksgiving. During the semester, the three
librarians between them taught 120 CWRR sessions along with a number of
other more specialized sessions on how to do library research in both traditional
and electronic information environments.
At
a University of Iowa symposium on Nov. 11-12, 1999, Virginia McQuistion,
Susan Avery, and Nancy DeJoy (CWRR Coordinator and English Department faculty)
gave a presentation entitled "Creating a Successful Faculty/Librarian Partnership
for First Year Students." The name of the symposium was Powerful Learning,
Powerful Partnerships.
The
Spring 1999 issue of Library Trends contains an article by Karin
Borei entitled "The Rewards of Managing an Electronic Mailing List." The
overall title of the issue is Human Response to Library Technology.
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An
additional photocopier. We are hoping to have that one available
already sometime in December 1999. (We are leasing it, as opposed to buying
it, for additional improved long-term reliability.) It will be located
on the main floor, next to the two e-mail work stations.
