History & Milne Library
How are we
changing?
Milne’s Organization
You
Faculty, Students
Staff, Community, etc.
Administration
IDS Project
Library IT
Technical
Services
User Services
(IDS, Reference,
Instruction, Research, &
Service Desk)
Group Project
Spaces…
More Group Study
18 group study areas added to Milne, plus an Imaginarium
And more to add
because we get about
4,000 visitors per day.
We also made Fraser
Study Center more
conducive to group
study.
Writing & Learning Center
Welles Writing Center is moving in with the Milne Writing & Learning Center January 2012
Increased space needs in Milne Library
Getting It System Toolkit (IDS Request)
Services
Google Books
~20+ million items
Hathi Trust
2.6 million free
public domain
eBooks
&
Internet Archive,
Project Gutenberg,
and more services…
GIST Gifts & Deselection Manager
GIST is also used to
streamline Gift Management
and evaluate collections; in
roughly 13 months, we
processed over 4K donated
books and DVDs, accepting
about 700 items or roughly
$49K worth of acquisitions.
This helps – we borrow
thousands of books, yet
Milne has also doubled the
number of purchased books
in the last couple of years.
GIST can also be used to
evaluate the duplication of
collections and check for full
text options..
GIST tools are distributed to
libraries through the IDS
Project.
IDS Project
Library cooperative of 72 NY
Libraries administered by SUNY
Geneseo’s Milne Library.
Experts at innovation and best
practices in library resource
sharing. Software and tools used
across the country by libraries:
ALIAS, GIST, TPAM, Workflow
Toolkit
Turnaround Benchmarks:
• 48 hours for articles
• 72 hours for loans
IDS Conference Aug. 2-3rd, 2011 in Albany had 250 attendees.
3 Keynotes:
• Matthew Sheehy, Director of Access, Harvard Libraries
• David Ferrucci, IBM Watson Deep QA Principal Investigator
• Robert Lippincott, Senior Vice President, Public Broadcasting Corporation
Initiatives: Geneseo Authors Hall
Initiatives: Scholarly Communication Services
Scholarly Communications Services
Annual Geneseo Authors
Recognition, publishing resources,
contract consultation & publishing
research, online journal hosting,
workshops, etc.
http://libguides.geneseo.edu/con
tent.php?pid=171524
What are your interests for this
service?
Initiatives: Milne Special Collections Archive
A design proposal for Summer 2012
An innovative home for
Special Collections @ Milne
Milne Lower Level
Initiatives: Instructional Design & Library Instruction
• Milne Library, CIT, and TLC are collaborating to provide faculty a
set of coordinated instructional design and technology services
that enhances teaching and learning services, and effective use
of MyCourses, web services, and other services and tools.
• Milne Library is committed to providing exceptional library
instruction services; Milne create and lead regional professional
development efforts with programs such as LILAC, Library
Information Literacy Academy – nationally recognized with the
ACRL 2011 Innovation Award.
What research projects or changes are you hoping to incorporate
into your courses?
And how can we help?
Digital Projects
Digital Media Lab
Digital Scholarship
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Digital storytelling
Open Journal Systems
Online Archives
Social media
Custom Services
• Research or Technology
Consultations
• Project Management
• Instructional Design – in
collaboration with CIT, TLC
Thanks to a partnership between; SUNY Geneseo, Thoreau Institute, Thoreau Society…
• Researchers, Scholars, Students, Teachers will have access to 7 online
versions of Walden to see Henry David Thoreau’s evolving work.
• Community will annotate and add comments to a community version of the
text.
• Geneseo students will learn how to encode text (TEI), work on a digital
humanities project, and explore humanities on Walden pond.
Learning Environment & Digital Services
Classic Reading – concept & example
Harvard Classics
51 volume anthology of classics – compiled and edited by Harvard
University president Charles William Eliot. Started in 1909 as “Dr
Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf of Book” as key elements of liberal education.
Divine Comedy vol. 20
Great Books of the Western World
60 volumes of books on the Great Books list – essential primary
sources of Western civilization as discussed by educators in 1920s1930s. Divine Comedy vol. 21
Milne has about 16 printed versions of Divine Comedy, with a
cumulative checkout of 29 uses for the last 7 years…
Reprint Galore
Divine Comedy
Google books
Digital Humanities & Dante
Digital Humanities & Dante
History & Milne Library: Collections
Print Reference & Scholarship Dilemma
History & Milne Library: Collections
History & Milne Library
Deselection Process
“Right-sizing” Collection
Making the collection more browser friendly & useful to students.
Criteria
• Not used in last 5 years, and very low total checkout
• Widely held by IDS Project & NY Libraries (access via IDS)
• Available at: HathiTrust, Google Books, etc. (access as free ebook)
• Preserving a copy locally or cooperatively – balancing factors:
• Special Collections role; faculty authors, local history, other?
• Role of NYPL and SUNY/area research libraries
Process
History Faculty provided list of candidates for deselection, but
missed the anomalies; lost or damaged books, DVDs, etc.
How much do you want to evaluate the lists? Other suggestions?
History & Milne Library
History & Milne Library
IDS Requests
SUNY Geneseo – Milne Library
Total number of monographs purchased, all subject areas
2000
1800
1800
84%
1600
1400
1384
1375
1200
977
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
History Department – Library expenditures
2003
Books/Media
$ 3,679.14
2004
2005
$ 3,604.36 $
3,048.81
2006
$
3,424.53
2007
$ 2,996.12
2008
$
2,633.70
2009
$
1,090.59
$
2010
2011
3,034.57 † $
2,787.28
† $ 1,027.56
$ 2,007.01
Journals
n/a
n/a
$
6,981.49
$
7,156.86
$ 7,334.90
$
6,141.45
$
6,940.57
$
5,478.85
$
4,388.15
Milne Library Databases – History & relevant multidisciplinary
Database expenditures
$120,000.00
$100,000.00
$80,000.00
$60,000.00
Database expenditures
$40,000.00
$20,000.00
$0.00
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
History & Milne Library
Desired Resource List:
Purchasing Options:
a. Buy it by eliminating another resource – usage data for decision?
b. Buy it by finding outside funding (annual + ~6-8%):
• History Alumni?
• History Department funds?
• Other suggestions?
c. Keep it on the list
History & Milne Library
Thank you
Comments or Questions?