Last Meeting: Minutes of the February 07, 2012 meeting were approved as distributed.
Special Agenda Items: None.
Special Agenda Items: None.
Area Reports:
Media Service: (Ralph Herndon): Four interviews for the Jaguar History Project have been conducted.
Curriculum Center: (Cindy Britt): No report.
Reference: (Fay Verburg): No report.
Library Instruction: (Camilla Baker): All twenty-five bibliographic instruction classes for March have been assigned.
Special Collections: (John O’Shea): Lyn Dennison, Dottie Demarest, and Carol Waggoner-Angleton met with Kim Gray, ASU’s Grant Office Director, last week to discuss a grant on the reformatting of audio materials. There was also a meeting with Professor Alan MacTaggart which went well. He will be very supportive of the last project associated with Augusta’s viewpoint: Understanding the Civil War Book Series which will begin in September 2012 and continue through April 2013. Both grants are from the Georgia Humanities Council.
Carol has interviewed a second group of student assistant applicants and the hiring process will be complete by the end of the week.
Acquisitions/Cataloging: (Kyle McCarrell): The library’s strategic funding request for help with purchasing the Springer ebook collection was approved. The library is waiting on a final invoice from Springer in order to expend the funds.
Automation: : (Rod Bustos): Automation staff met with colleagues from GHSU recently. On January 27, Rod met with Sandra Bandy, Electronic Collections Librarian, regarding the GHSU institutional repository. She provided an overview of the system and discussed her efforts in trying to get faculty to add content. On February 21, Rod and Owen Angleton met with Christina Yau , GHSU Systems Librarian, and Tom Cutshall, Virtual Services Librarian, at GHSU. Various issues about the websites, Libguides, and other systems Reese Library supports were discussed. GHSU staff will be coming to Reese Library for a field trip on February 28.
Eleven student computers funded by Student Technology Fees were recently replaced in the library. These computers are located on all three floors and are installed with the Windows 7 operating system.
Outreach:(Various): Camilla Reid reported that Owen Angleton has placed a link to the Reese Library Facebook page on the Reese Library homepage.
At the request of Student Affairs and a group of ASU students who are nursing mothers, a comfortable chair and privacy screen will be added to the children’s area of the Family Room.
The 2012-13 schedule for the second floor gallery is being set. This includes a special display in fall 2012 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Reese Library as a federal depository library; and in January-March 2013 having a baseball-themed display to coincide with the NEH/ALA Pride and Passion: African Americans in the History of Baseball traveling exhibit.
Special Collections and Automation have completed the digitization of a collection of Augusta-area American Legion baseball league programs from the mid-20th century.
Matthew Whittington is working with Communigraphics to reproduce the door design applications for the Family Room. Hopefully, these will be ready and installed in the next few weeks.
Electronic Resources/Serials: (LouAnn Blocker): LouAnn gave a reminder that Jay Turner of the Georgia Public Library Service is coming to the East Central Georgia Regional Library headquarters library to do some training and wants to drop by and visit informally with us on the morning of March 22.
Current trials: ProQuest Black History databases (extended to March 16) and IBISWorld, mentioned last time, and a new trial through the end of February, CultureGrams, which was requested by Maria Darley from Study Abroad. Links are available from the library trials page at http://guides.aug.edu/trials
LouAnn distributed copies of a spreadsheet listing current subscriptions designated as ‘library’ and not allocated to any one department, and asked library faculty to look these over and think about items we might trade for other titles or cut if we have a flat or reduced budget next year.
Government Information: (Yadira Payne): Yadira participated in the Army Flight Simulator that came to campus February 21.
As the library representative on the Ft. Gordon Liaison Committee, Yadira will be participating in the Ft. Gordon Tour on February 24. The primary purpose of this trip is to identify the fort’s needs from ASU in the following areas: learning, continuing education, distance education, and library and digital resources.
Business Services: (Ginny Loveless): No report.
Associate Director/Circulation: : (Jeff Heck): QR code development is progressing. Katie Glaeser and Maryska Connolly-Brown are reviewing options such as bit.ly to allow shorter URLs and provide statistical counts of use.
Director: (Camilla Reid): The vacancy announcement for the Assistant Library Director for Education Media Support Services position has been posted on the ASU Human Resources site and the State of Georgia Applicant Clearinghouse. It has also been sent to the CSRA, GLA, and SELA listservs. Camilla Reid is currently putting together the search committee representing a range of university academic departments and support services. LouAnn Blocker will be the committee chair.
David King, Interim Director of GHSU Greenblatt Library, and Camilla are co-leaders of the ASU-GHSU Consolidation Library Work Team. Other members of the team are Fay Verburg and Ginny Loveless from Reese Library and Kathy Davies and Marianne Brown from Greenblatt Library. Regular meetings either in person, via Wimba, or conference call will be scheduled on Wednesday mornings. Many other faculty and staff from both libraries will be involved in the process as well.
Committee Reports: : (Payne): Ft. Gordon Liaison Committee: there is a service opportunity available if anyone is interested. It is for volunteering your time to teach at the VA Transition Center (near Burlington Coat Factory). Yadira has the list of needs and can put people in contact with the point person if interested.
Women’s Studies: March is Women’s History Month. Events have been posted with two items from Reese Library included. Also included is a virtual art exhibit that Yadira created to reflect the feminist voice on campus. Guidelines and submission deadlines have been posted to the Women’s Studies LibGuide under the “Woman Defined, Said She” tab http://guides.aug.edu/content.php?pid=165378&sid=2516045. Please consider submitting artwork to this virtual exhibit.
Lyceum Committee: Kelly Thomas and Yadira were interviewed on Comcast Live regarding the Lyceum Committee and the remainder of its events for this season. The final event for the season is Ballet Folklorico de Antioquia, Columbia on March 10. Tickets are on sale now.
(Reid): The Library Committee met last week. Discussion included the Outreach Librarian search, the library website redesign, the ongoing interior changes being made in the library, and consolidation issues. The committee recommends having a tab on the ASU homepage for Reese Library. They will formally request this through the appropriate channels.
(Heck): The Georgia Library Quarterly has had some editorial board changes as two members have stepped down and two public library representatives have been chosen to fill the open slots. The next deadline for submission is March 1.
ASU/GHSU Consolidation: Work in selecting the membership of the Shared Governance Working Group has begun, and the Consolidation Working Group is scheduled to meet.
(McCarrell): Online Education Council: Training for Augusta State members regarding the Desire2Learn (D2L) system is presently occurring. Initial feedback from the Administration part of the training is that it is a much better and more robust system and much easier to manage (i.e. more intuitive). Training from the state for the user side of the system was still upcoming. Also, initial discussions with GHSU regarding distance learning has commenced. They presently do not have any written policies in place but are looking forward to working with ASU.
Outreach Librarian Search Committee: The Search committee brought four candidates to campus to interview for the vacant Outreach Librarian position. After getting feedback from faculty and staff, the committee settled on one candidate pending acceptable references. It is hoped that this search will be completed sometime next week.
(Blocker): The Black History Month Committee has another excellent event coming up: the African American Scholars Recognition Program to honor high-achieving high school graduates from area schools. It’s a great opportunity to meet with these students and their families. Also, the Phi Kappa Phi lecture that is listed on the Black History Month brochure had to be moved from the original date of February 23. It will be held on February 28 at 2:30 p.m. in University Hall 170.
Miscellaneous: : (Payne): Government Information and Reference will be hosting the upcoming Kid’s University fundraiser. It will be held in the lounge February 29 beginning at 9:30 a.m.
The CSRA Library Association is holding a conference volunteer meeting February 25 at 11:00 a.m. at Panera in Augusta. The CSRALA is also holding an event tonight from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at University of South Carolina- Aiken. Participants will learn about local archives and special collections in the CSRA and tour the Gregg-Graniteville Memorial Room at the University of South Carolina-Aiken.
Next Meeting: March 13, 2012 10:00 a.m. Media Services’ Conference Room
Curriculum Center: (Cindy Britt): No report.
Reference: (Fay Verburg): No report.
Library Instruction: (Camilla Baker): All twenty-five bibliographic instruction classes for March have been assigned.
Special Collections: (John O’Shea): Lyn Dennison, Dottie Demarest, and Carol Waggoner-Angleton met with Kim Gray, ASU’s Grant Office Director, last week to discuss a grant on the reformatting of audio materials. There was also a meeting with Professor Alan MacTaggart which went well. He will be very supportive of the last project associated with Augusta’s viewpoint: Understanding the Civil War Book Series which will begin in September 2012 and continue through April 2013. Both grants are from the Georgia Humanities Council.
Carol has interviewed a second group of student assistant applicants and the hiring process will be complete by the end of the week.
Acquisitions/Cataloging: (Kyle McCarrell): The library’s strategic funding request for help with purchasing the Springer ebook collection was approved. The library is waiting on a final invoice from Springer in order to expend the funds.
Automation: : (Rod Bustos): Automation staff met with colleagues from GHSU recently. On January 27, Rod met with Sandra Bandy, Electronic Collections Librarian, regarding the GHSU institutional repository. She provided an overview of the system and discussed her efforts in trying to get faculty to add content. On February 21, Rod and Owen Angleton met with Christina Yau , GHSU Systems Librarian, and Tom Cutshall, Virtual Services Librarian, at GHSU. Various issues about the websites, Libguides, and other systems Reese Library supports were discussed. GHSU staff will be coming to Reese Library for a field trip on February 28.
Eleven student computers funded by Student Technology Fees were recently replaced in the library. These computers are located on all three floors and are installed with the Windows 7 operating system.
Outreach:(Various): Camilla Reid reported that Owen Angleton has placed a link to the Reese Library Facebook page on the Reese Library homepage.
At the request of Student Affairs and a group of ASU students who are nursing mothers, a comfortable chair and privacy screen will be added to the children’s area of the Family Room.
The 2012-13 schedule for the second floor gallery is being set. This includes a special display in fall 2012 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Reese Library as a federal depository library; and in January-March 2013 having a baseball-themed display to coincide with the NEH/ALA Pride and Passion: African Americans in the History of Baseball traveling exhibit.
Special Collections and Automation have completed the digitization of a collection of Augusta-area American Legion baseball league programs from the mid-20th century.
Matthew Whittington is working with Communigraphics to reproduce the door design applications for the Family Room. Hopefully, these will be ready and installed in the next few weeks.
Electronic Resources/Serials: (LouAnn Blocker): LouAnn gave a reminder that Jay Turner of the Georgia Public Library Service is coming to the East Central Georgia Regional Library headquarters library to do some training and wants to drop by and visit informally with us on the morning of March 22.
Current trials: ProQuest Black History databases (extended to March 16) and IBISWorld, mentioned last time, and a new trial through the end of February, CultureGrams, which was requested by Maria Darley from Study Abroad. Links are available from the library trials page at http://guides.aug.edu/trials
LouAnn distributed copies of a spreadsheet listing current subscriptions designated as ‘library’ and not allocated to any one department, and asked library faculty to look these over and think about items we might trade for other titles or cut if we have a flat or reduced budget next year.
Government Information: (Yadira Payne): Yadira participated in the Army Flight Simulator that came to campus February 21.
As the library representative on the Ft. Gordon Liaison Committee, Yadira will be participating in the Ft. Gordon Tour on February 24. The primary purpose of this trip is to identify the fort’s needs from ASU in the following areas: learning, continuing education, distance education, and library and digital resources.
Business Services: (Ginny Loveless): No report.
Associate Director/Circulation: : (Jeff Heck): QR code development is progressing. Katie Glaeser and Maryska Connolly-Brown are reviewing options such as bit.ly to allow shorter URLs and provide statistical counts of use.
Director: (Camilla Reid): The vacancy announcement for the Assistant Library Director for Education Media Support Services position has been posted on the ASU Human Resources site and the State of Georgia Applicant Clearinghouse. It has also been sent to the CSRA, GLA, and SELA listservs. Camilla Reid is currently putting together the search committee representing a range of university academic departments and support services. LouAnn Blocker will be the committee chair.
David King, Interim Director of GHSU Greenblatt Library, and Camilla are co-leaders of the ASU-GHSU Consolidation Library Work Team. Other members of the team are Fay Verburg and Ginny Loveless from Reese Library and Kathy Davies and Marianne Brown from Greenblatt Library. Regular meetings either in person, via Wimba, or conference call will be scheduled on Wednesday mornings. Many other faculty and staff from both libraries will be involved in the process as well.
Committee Reports: : (Payne): Ft. Gordon Liaison Committee: there is a service opportunity available if anyone is interested. It is for volunteering your time to teach at the VA Transition Center (near Burlington Coat Factory). Yadira has the list of needs and can put people in contact with the point person if interested.
Women’s Studies: March is Women’s History Month. Events have been posted with two items from Reese Library included. Also included is a virtual art exhibit that Yadira created to reflect the feminist voice on campus. Guidelines and submission deadlines have been posted to the Women’s Studies LibGuide under the “Woman Defined, Said She” tab http://guides.aug.edu/content.php?pid=165378&sid=2516045. Please consider submitting artwork to this virtual exhibit.
Lyceum Committee: Kelly Thomas and Yadira were interviewed on Comcast Live regarding the Lyceum Committee and the remainder of its events for this season. The final event for the season is Ballet Folklorico de Antioquia, Columbia on March 10. Tickets are on sale now.
(Reid): The Library Committee met last week. Discussion included the Outreach Librarian search, the library website redesign, the ongoing interior changes being made in the library, and consolidation issues. The committee recommends having a tab on the ASU homepage for Reese Library. They will formally request this through the appropriate channels.
(Heck): The Georgia Library Quarterly has had some editorial board changes as two members have stepped down and two public library representatives have been chosen to fill the open slots. The next deadline for submission is March 1.
ASU/GHSU Consolidation: Work in selecting the membership of the Shared Governance Working Group has begun, and the Consolidation Working Group is scheduled to meet.
(McCarrell): Online Education Council: Training for Augusta State members regarding the Desire2Learn (D2L) system is presently occurring. Initial feedback from the Administration part of the training is that it is a much better and more robust system and much easier to manage (i.e. more intuitive). Training from the state for the user side of the system was still upcoming. Also, initial discussions with GHSU regarding distance learning has commenced. They presently do not have any written policies in place but are looking forward to working with ASU.
Outreach Librarian Search Committee: The Search committee brought four candidates to campus to interview for the vacant Outreach Librarian position. After getting feedback from faculty and staff, the committee settled on one candidate pending acceptable references. It is hoped that this search will be completed sometime next week.
(Blocker): The Black History Month Committee has another excellent event coming up: the African American Scholars Recognition Program to honor high-achieving high school graduates from area schools. It’s a great opportunity to meet with these students and their families. Also, the Phi Kappa Phi lecture that is listed on the Black History Month brochure had to be moved from the original date of February 23. It will be held on February 28 at 2:30 p.m. in University Hall 170.
Miscellaneous: : (Payne): Government Information and Reference will be hosting the upcoming Kid’s University fundraiser. It will be held in the lounge February 29 beginning at 9:30 a.m.
The CSRA Library Association is holding a conference volunteer meeting February 25 at 11:00 a.m. at Panera in Augusta. The CSRALA is also holding an event tonight from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at University of South Carolina- Aiken. Participants will learn about local archives and special collections in the CSRA and tour the Gregg-Graniteville Memorial Room at the University of South Carolina-Aiken.
Next Meeting: March 13, 2012 10:00 a.m. Media Services’ Conference Room