State of Library
2006
Enjoy Just a Few of Our
Many Library Accomplishments
& some of the people who made them happen
Fall 2005-Fall 2006
Conservation
Completed
relocation
to Oak
Street
Facility
Aces Library
revised its home page and web presence
Korean
Committee
Raised over $15,000
for Korean Collection
Platform and outline drawings of 16th
St SP station.
Western Architect Magazine July 1917
Art & Architecture
Library completed the
NEH preservation
project for the
reformatting, printing,
and binding of
Western Architect, the
pre-eminent journal of
the Midwest providing
extensive coverage of
the Prairie School
Asian Library
developed the
1960’s Golden
Age of Korean
Films
Collection.
Business and Economics Library
launched BELLOG, the library’s Blog.
City Planning and Landscape
Architecture Library
implemented a new Home Page
Classics Library
partnered with Classics
Department in the
100th Anniversary
Celebration of the
Department of the
Classics
A Refurbished
Communications
Library
Education and Social Sciences Library
developed a service called
Social Work Research at a Distance
Geology Library
created the Library web page for the
Atmospheric Science Department
History Philosophy and Newspaper Library
merged to form a new
center for historical research on campus
Candace Wilmot & Mary Stuart at Grand Opening
A new service model for
Women and Gender Resources Library
Kolb-Proust Archive
Presented “Proust at the UIUC,” at
the Societe des Amis de Marcel
Proust in Paris.
Labor and Industrial Relations
Library
Finalized migrating
LaborLit from a standalone database to a
Web-based database
(approximately 300
visitors per month
since July.)
Latin American and Caribbean
Studies Library
Presented the
traveling exhibit
Encountering Latin
America through your
Library to 7
Libraries
Law completed a remodeling project in February
providing much more attractive space as well as
new chairs, lamps and carpeting. Every seat in the
main reading room now has access to an electrical
outlet along with wireless network connections. It
has four new large group study rooms and a
classroom in the library for teaching online legal
research
The Music Library updated its web site to showcase
“Resource of the Month”
Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
revamped its space, brought new
focus to its name and collection,
and dove into cataloging 1000s of
hidden treasures
Andre Codrescu gave us his
personal library, including
many unique Romanian
titles, and joined
us for a celebration of
his literary
accomplishments
A redesigned Central Reference website improved the site’s
organization and to update look and feel of pages
Expanded digitization and EAD/VRA-core description
of UIUC’s Czech/Slovak poster collection 1920-1991.
“Lifescapes of
American Music”
was the theme for
activities that took
place in November
2005 in connection
with American
Music Month,
overseen by our
Sousa Archives
A collection of French WW1 posters, images from Motley
Collection and subset of Collins Collection of Irish Political
Cartoons was put online by Digital Services & Development
Oak Street Rapid
Accession Project
completed the transfer
of 826,780 volumes to
the Oak Street Library
Facility, a project which
represented over 40,000
hours of staff time.
(and boy, are we tired!)
University Archives planned and
hosted a major public event
recognizing the completion
of processing and opening
for research of the Leon
Dash Papers on
investigative journalism. This
included a MillerComm
Lecture, exhibit, and formal
opening ceremony
Chemistry
Library
completed
relocation to
new facility
Gift Shop is opened
in Main Library Corridor Info Nook
The Marshall Gallery and Main Library
Hallway continue to become more
warm and inviting with the addition of donor benches
We acquired Olin film archive, material used by documentary
filmmaker Chuck Olin
for his production of
In Our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade
in World War II
and Is Jerusalem Burning? Myth, Memory and the Battle of
Latrum
Modern Languages and Linguistics received
special funding for and began to build
up a Marcel Proust-era
special collection featuring popular literature and
gay-related topics central to
Proust and other authors of his time
Sousa Archives and Center for American Music acquired:
 the Walter Mitziga Sound Recording Collection containing
rare 1910-32 commercial sound recordings of the John Philip
Sousa and the Arthur Pryor Bands
studio acetate disk recordings of the Edwin Franko
Goldman Band
original acetate disk recordings of New York Symphonic
Band, WPA Symphonic Band, World's Fair Band, and Cities
Service Band of America
the Joseph Olivadoti Music and Personal Papers, including
original and published music compositions and band method
books, photographs, newsclippings, correspondence, &
concert programs documenting Olivadoti's career in Italy and
the United States
History, Philosophy, and Newspaper secured funding
& joined the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
project. This funding helped further our commitment to
SPARC.
Natural History Survey successfully completed
its move from the Natural Resources Building to
its new home at the I-Building in the Research Park,
1816 S. Oak Street
Rare Books & Manuscripts launched a
monthly book collectors' club, and
initiated the The Harris Fletcher Book
Collecting Award and T. W. Baldwin Prize
for Book Collecting
University Archives completed:
 a three-year project creating
a comprehensive current information
management program for
Abbott Power Plant
 a two-year records and information
management project with Facilities and
Services
 a six month project to inventory
1,090 cubic ft of building project files from
F&S.
 the first comprehensive records survey and
scheduled records for an entire college, with
financial support of the College of Business
The LIS Library’s information literacy program
reached
a milestone:
between the LEEP on-campus orientations in
July & the required course LIS 501 in the fall
term,
ALL INCOMING LIS students received basic
disciplinary
information literacy
instruction.
Asian contributed approximately 4,000 records to the
OACIS database of Middle
Eastern serials
The Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials
is a union list of serials from or about the Middle East.
The mission of OACIS is to improve access to
Middle Eastern serials in libraries in the United States,
Europe, and the Middle East.
Slavic & Eastern European Library
sponsored the two-day celebratory
Fisher Forum on
Book Arts, Culture and Media in
Russia,
Eastern Europe and Eurasia: From
Print to Digital
with help from a grant from the Hewlett
Foundation
Cataloging joined the OCLC
Content Cooperative project,
submitting the digital content
of books included in the
Brittle Books reformatting work
done in our Preservation Unit
The Edible Book Contest was
a feast for the eyes
Asian contributed to the
successful Department
of Education Title VI
applications for the
Center for East Asian&
Pacific Studies &
The Program of
South Asian &
Middle Eastern Studies
Reference librarians
Kathleen Kern and
Jo Kibbee participated
in the Mortenson
consulting trips to Nigeria,
Ghana, & Tanzania
Biotechnology Information Center
sponsored a microarray workshop
for UIUC bioinformaticians
~Undergraduate game collection and equipment started ~
~ UGL hosted first Gaming Night ~
~ UGL added Korean graphic novels & videos to collection ~
Curator, Gene Rinkel
With a $239,000 grant from
Save America’s Treasures,
Preservation & Conservation
completed repairs
on Carl Sandburg's library
in our Rare Book & Manuscripts
Library collection.
The Asian Library acquired 191 reels of
Al-Ahram newspaper from Egypt, covering 16
years
We also received about 400 titles of unique
Persian monographs as gifts
Cataloging continued enhancing Online Research Resources
(ORR), Discover Service (SFX) and federated searching (first,
Webfeat, then UIUC Search Assistant).
During a 6 month period, there were 2.78 million clicks for the
ORR & 200,000 clicks via Discover/SFX