Library Gazette

Person Recognized

Craig Fansler

Given By

Heather

Reason

for a wonderful repair job on a book.

Person Recognized

Giz Womack

Given By

Susan

Reason

Giz cheerfully agreed to step in for me to teach an advanced Endnote class at the last minute when I had a scheduling conflict. I really appreciated it!

Person Recognized

Prentice Armstrong

Given By

Steve Kelley

Reason

Thanks for helping me move the boxes of Chemistry materials to be shipped out.

Person Recognized

Craig Fansler

Given By

Steve Kelley

Reason

Thanks for helping me move the boxes of Chemistry materials to be shipped out.

Person Recognized

Chris Burris

Given By

Steve Kelley

Reason

Thanks for helping me move the boxes of Chemistry materials to be shipped out.

Person Recognized

Scott Adair

Given By

Steve Kelley

Reason

Thanks for helping me move the boxes of Chemistry materials to be shipped out.

Person Recognized

Charles Bombeld

Given By

Steve Kelley

Reason

Thanks for helping me move the boxes of Chemistry materials to be shipped out.

Person Recognized

Sarah Jeong

Given By

Steve Kelley

Reason

Thanks for your help arranging to have the boxes of Chemistry materials shipped out.

Person Recognized

Steve Kelley

Given By

Sarah Jeong

Reason

Many thanks to Steve for his great work on relocating the Chemistry materials.

Person Recognized

Kaeley McMahan

Given By

Heather

Reason

For helping with a difficult faculty request.

Person Recognized

Charles Bombeld

Given By

Heather

Reason

for helping with a difficult faculty request.

Just to update everyone on the merger of Reference and Current Periodicals. Over Spring Break I started to shift the Reference collection to take advantage of the space we have made with relocations and weeding. We are consolidating our collection much more than in the past and are not leaving an enormous amount of room for growth. It is my hope that as new titles arrive in print, there will older titles that can then be relocated or weeded. I’m also banking (pun intended) on the purchase of some electronic databases over the next few years that will allow us to weed some print titles (let’s hear it for Reader’s Guide Retrospective!!) .

So with help from our students Heather and Dan I made it up through the Es. This has cleared out about an entire range of books - come see!! This coming week is perhaps my busiest of all time, so I probably won’t get back to shifting until next week, but I am hoping then to do it for an hour or two in the mornings and have the shifting complete by mid-April. This will let us do the quieter parts of the project (like filling our 2000 label holders with the labels for each title that is coming over) during the heaviest study times at the end of the semester.

Our goal is to begin moving the journals out of Current Periodicals on the Friday after exams end (May 9th) and have the shelves moved over the week of May 12th. I’ll keep you posted!! My thanks go out to everyone who has helped on this project — Brigett for doing our relocations; Judy and Charles for taking care of the weeds; Carol for signing umpteen green slips; All the liaisons for taking a good hard look at our collections and making some good, if sometimes hard, decisions (and signing umpteen green slips); Laura for helping me think through the best ways to handle the actual transfer of materials…..and the list goes on and on and on…..here’s hoping that by May the 23rd or so the project is complete!!

This week I went to the North Carolina Association of Educational Communication and Technology Conference in Concord, NC. I wrote about the sessions I went to on our professional development blog. While I was only able to spend the day, I found the conference very interesting & was really amazed at how refreshing seeing some of the same ideas discussed from a different perspective was. In the blog entry I made reference to a list of social software applications that was pretty interesting and thought that it might bear replication here.