A Special Thanks To…
Harmony Gardens
Gator Dining
Hippodrome State Theater
Sweet Dreams
Books Inc
The Top Restaurant
Floating Lotus Spa
University Athletic Association
Physical Plant Division
Gold Star Thanks To…
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Barbara Hood
Facilities
Documents Department
All of our Wonderful Convocation Volunteers
Building Improvements
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A new storage space for the architecture archives was created in
Room 450 Smathers Library.
• A training room was created in Acquisitions and Licensing Room 300B
for divisional use.
• Marston Renovations
o Combined the Reference and Circulation desks
o Renovated 5th Floor
• Library West Renovations
o Installation of 4-outlet domes on tables
o Addition of laptop table arms for lounge chairs
o Update of Video Conferencing Room 229
o Addition of Classroom Response Units to Classrooms 211 & 212
100th Anniversary as a Federal Depository Library
The Documents Department Celebrated its 100th Anniversary as a
Federal Depository Library in August. The Celebration took place in
Library East and was attended by dignitaries from UF and the
surrounding community along with Documents coordinators and
directors from the forty selective Federal Depository Libraries in
Florida.
Library Mini Grants Awarded 2007-2008
Laurie Taylor, DLC (Principle Investigator) and Randall Renner, DLC, "Picturing
Text: Comics and Other Imagetexts," $2,880.00
Jane Pen, DLC (Principle Investigator), David Hickey, and Hikaru Nakano,
"Digital Collection in Asian Studies: A Catalog of Chinese Bronzes," $308.00
Chelsea Dinsmore, Government Documents (Principal Investigator) and Christy
Shorey, "Digitizing Hansard's British Parliamentary Debates, 2nd Series {18201830,25 volumes}," $758.37
Valrie Davis, Marston Science Library (Principle Investigator) and Sara Russell
Gonzalez, "Developing a Database to Foster Interdisciplinary Communication
and Collaboration at UF," $5,000.00 (GatorScholar)
Jennifer Farrington, Map and Imagery Library (Principle Investigator), Hesham
Monsef, Ken Solomon, Kenny Herniman, and Jorge Gonzalez, "Developing
an Online GIS Interface for the Topographic Map Collection," $5,000.00
Travel Grants and Mini Grants
Alena Aissing received a travel award from the Center for European Studies
to spend 5 weeks in Eastern Europe in pursuit of research on the Romani and
to do on-site book selection and purchase for the Libraries’ collections.
Carrie Newsom was awarded the ACS New Professional award (a $1500
scholarship to attend the SLA Annual Meeting).
David Hickey received an award for a full travel scholarship to attend the
Summer Chinese Studies Electronic Resources Workshop at the University of
Washington, Seattle, July 18 – August 2.
Laura Jordan received a Weeks of Welcome (WOW!) mini-grant for Mystery
in the Stacks (Fall 2007).
Tom Caswell won the 2008 ARLIS/NA Andrew Cahan Photography
Conference Award.
Grants and Gifts
Matthew Loving was awarded a grant from the African Studies
Association-funded Book Donation grant program to help build
community libraries in Uganda.
Jana Ronan, Paul Victor, Laura Jordan, Blake Landor,
Missy Shoop, Carrie Newsom were awarded a 2007/08 Office
of Academic Technology Faculty Development Grant to create
UF Libraries Information Literacy Tutorials.
Laura Jordan: Donation of Classroom Response System
(CRS) to the Libraries from the Physics Department. (Fall 2007)
The first Annual GIS Day was held in November. This event was
organized by Carol McAuliffe and Hesham Monsef. It featured
poster sessions and a GPS treasure hunt.
Degrees and Certifications
• Jack Waters and Kerstin Rao both completed Pro-3 Financial
Certification.
• Kristy Mills and Tina Pruitt both completed Pro-3 HR and
Payroll Management Certification.
• Jorge Gonzalez earned an MS in Geography from the
University of Florida.
• Richard Saltzburg received an MA in Library and Information
Sciences from the University of South Florida on May 2, 2008.
• Amy Polk obtained her Microsoft Certified Trainer certification
in Microsoft Office.
Mystery in the Stacks and Guitar Hero 3
Second Annual
“Mystery in the Stacks”
event was held to provide
new students with a funfilled orientation to the
libraries with a mysterythemed information hunt.
Guitar Hero III Events helped
students blow off a little pre-finals
steam and have some spring break
fun. There were over 125 people
who came to rock out in the
InfoCommons.
More Cool Stuff
Dan Reboussin provided a library orientation tour for the
Hon. Henri Lopes, Ambassador of the Republic of Congo
to France and a former Prime Minister of his country. The
tour was conducted in French on October 3, 2007.
Judy Russell was invited by the Librarian of Congress to
advise on the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St.
Petersburg, Russia as part of the Russian-American
Joint Working Group on Library Cooperation.
Even More Cool Stuff
John Van Hook taught a course on the early history of
the book and also started a book review club at Oak
Hammock, a UF-affiliated retirement home.
A new graduate research assistantship for Manuscripts
was created.
Flo Turcotte assisted in production
work for a commemorative Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings stamp released
by the US Postal Service.
Courses Taught
• Research Methods in Medieval Studies: MEM4930, Fall
2007
• Medieval & Early Modern Studies Research Methods:
MEM4930, Spring 2007
• Preserving History: An Internship in Historical Archives: HIS
4944, Summer 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008
• Exploring the Virtual Library: IDH 3931, Spring 2008
Milestones
The Digital Library Collection hit the 2,000,000
page mark and has nearly doubled its production
for each of the last four years.
The Digital Children's Literature Collection solidified its
place as the largest Digital Library of literature for children
in English in the world with over 500,000 pages.
More Milestones
2 year mark reached for staffing the Information Point at
Library West on August 2, 2008. This service point has been
staffed by volunteers throughout the libraries from a wide
variety of departments.
The "Spanish Colonial: Resources for
Teachers of Florida History" project has
had five successive years of funding-no other project in grant series has had
as much success. The project is
headed by Jim Cusick and is funded
through the Florida Humanities Council
and the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Employee Excellence Awards Nominees
Behind the Scenes
Greg Allen
Will Canova
Justino Chana and Patricia Prevatt
Logan Clapp
Merrie Davidson
Michael Dietz
DLC/Erich Kesse and Stephanie Haas
Lori Driscoll
Winston Harris
Dee Hawes
Kenny Herniman
Human Resources
Vanessa Jewett
Paul Lightcap
Jim Liversidge
Tisha Mauney
Elaine Needelman
John Nemmers
Chris Nicolich and Stephen Williams
Bobbie Parker
Travis Schaben
Kenneth Solomon
Terri Smith and Todd Chisholm
Carol Whitmer
Michele Wilbanks
Beth Zavoyski
Employee Excellence Awards Nominees
Customer Service
Innovation
Lisa Bailey
Circ Staff - Library West
Circ Unit - MSL
Logan Clapp
Facilities
Debra Fetzer
April Hines
Emily Madden and Elaine Needelman
Laydene Manning
Kerstin Rao
Kenneth Solomon
Evan Wack
Matt Weaver
Logan Clapp
Christine Cogar
Sonia Coleman
Will Canova
Nathan Davies
DLC & Systems Programming
Michelle Foss
Dan Reboussin
Christy Shorey
Mark Sullivan
Laurie Taylor and Library
Web 2.0 Committee
Rita Smith
Mark Sullivan
Employee Excellence Awards Nominees
Instruction/Training
Amy Polk
Amy Polk / Bobbie Meng /
Cynthia Bowker
Denise Bennett
Jackie Brown
Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler
Marilyn Ochoa
Missy Shoop
Rita Smith, Jim Cusick,
Richard Phillips, and Susan Lupi
Tutorial Design Taskforce:
Laura Jordan, Missy Shoop,
Paul Victor, Blake Landor,
Carrie Newsom
Outreach
Chelsea Dinsmore
Christine Driver
Flo Turcotte
Jim Cusick
John Van Hook
Kelli Schoneck
Special and Area Studies Curators
Stacey Ewing and Laura Jordan
Suzanne Brown
Valrie Davis
Employee Recognition Fund Events
Documents Grants Luncheon
Extended
Hours
Pilot
Party
Systems Liaisons Celebration
MSL
Extended
Hours
"Night
Owls"
Lunch
Projects
• 41 archival collections were physically arranged, described and
made available to researchers by the Special and Area Studies
Department.
• In the Books on Demand project this year, 311 items requested
by our patrons through ILL were purchased for our collection
rather than borrowed from other libraries. Most books were for
the humanities and social sciences.
• Extended Hours Pilot for Fall 2007 and Spring 2008: Staffed the
Circulation and Reference Desks at Library West and Marston
Science Library during finals weeks.
• UF Libraries Orientation Video Team: Created promotional
videos teaching undergraduate students about the collections &
services available through the UF Libraries.
Multi-Departmental Projects
• Domestic Vendor Transition to Blackwell
(Monographs and Collection Management)
• Developed new Blackwell approval system.
• Created technical profiles with OCLC & Blackwell, revised existing
specifications with FCLA, in order to allow shelf-ready, firm, approval, and
standing orders for domestic materials from Blackwell.
• AFA Reclass and Shift Project
(Architecture and Fine Arts and Cataloging)
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Analyzed the entire Dewey holdings and withdrew over 1500 volumes.
Moved out over 2,000 linear feet of material to storage.
Reclassed some 12,000 titles from Dewey to LC.
Shifted the entire collection at AFA.
Special Funding and Initiatives
• Received Board of Governors approval of the SUS shared
storage facility.
• Return of lost book fees and fines to the library (Worth over
$150,000 per year).
• Self-check out machines funded by the provost (Worth over
$85,000).
• Grants coordinator funded by the provost ($100,000 per year
for two years).
• Development work through the Special and Area Studies
Collections Department brought in more than $200,000 in new
private donations and endowments over the course of the year.