C HEM I S TRY LIB R A R Y
ANNUAL REPORT
JULY 1, 1994 - JUNE 30, 1995
Prepared by Tina E. Chrzastowski
1. The Year in Perspective
Major Events and Activities: Two major events took place this year in the Chemistry Library. First, stacks were added, seats were removed, and every book and journal in the library was shifted to allow for approximately 2.5 years' growth, as the countdown to library remodeling in FY97 grew closer yet collection size outpaced present space. Second, another serial cancellation project
(mandated by library administration due to rising serial costs) again forced a ten percent reduction in the serial budget, resulting in 21 cancelled serial titles valued at $24,844.75.
Notable Acquisitions: The Chemistry Library Endowment Fund continues to "keep on giving," having provided approximately 60 new titles to the Chemistry Library in FY95. Notable among new titles are a number of reference series such as volumes for the Kirk­ othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, the Encyclopedia of
Analytical Science, and Comprehensive organometallic Chemistry II.
Because these multi-volume sets are often high-priced, their purchase would not have been possible without the Endowment Fund.
New Services Offered: Interest in the Chemistry Library's electronic services continues to grow. This year a new 6-stack co­
RaM drive allowed all 4 disks of Chemical Abstracts' 12th
Collective Index to be simultaneously accessible along with the CDs for the CRC Collective Index and the TaSCA Inventory; this availability has greatly increased use of the 12th Collective.
Requests for weekly SOl searches on the Current Contents database via IBIS have also increased; these searches run subject profiles against the weekly Current Contents database and allow us to email search results to the patron. In addition, we also use this file to email journal Table of Contents to faculty or graduate students.
These Tables of Contents are often for journals that have been previously cancelled at UIUC.
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2. outlook for Next Year and Beyond
Forecast: The Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times," aptly describes the future of the Chemistry Library. The next few years promise to be very interesting as the library expands anc~. remodels in FY97. "New" libraries typically result in increased demand for services such as reference, photocopying, and reserves as well as increased demands on materials and equipment.
The library needs to prepare for an even busier future with more clientele needing more services. In fact, with the completion of the new Chemistry/Life Sciences building in Spring 1996, more chemistry faculty, post-doctoral, and graduate students will have off ices outside of Noyes Laboratory than ever before. These patrons will expect to find adequate seating, photocopiers, services, and other amenities available to them in the expanded
Chemistry Library.
New projects and Services: The most anticipated new service in the Chemistry Library is the networked, online Beilstein which we will receive through CIC cooperative purchase. Due to severe budget shortfalls and rising serial prices, the print Beilstein was cancelled in 1991. This service will provide critical access to this important organic chemistry series. It will also provide a test case to determine the chemists' interest in having Beilstein available in their offices on their own computers. Logistics such as training, data retrieval, and network connections will engage
Chemistry Library staff for most of the coming year.
The remodeled Chemistry Library is the most critical new proj ect facing the staff and our clientele. The SCS Library
Committee will become involved in helping to determine what chemistry faculty and students require and desire in the remodeled library and in planning to achieve those goals. Pr i vate fund raising will also be an important part of achieving a successful remodeling project. This project will escalate in importance as we draw nearer to the completion of the Chemistry/Life Sciences
Building, now scheduled for Spring 1996.
Resources Required: Three critical areas require support for the coming year. First, library administration support for the chemistry library remodeling is welcome in the form of securing already promised dollars from the campus for the actual remodeling.
A second form of support would be moral support and encouragement for the development work undertaken by the School of Chemical
Sciences on behalf of "their" library. Working together in the pursuit of donors is essential to our success. In the near future, increased personnel resources will most likely be required in order to meet service levels set by the library.
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The second area requiring resources is computer equipment for staff. At present, staff do word processing and statistical data tabulation on an AT machine with one 5.25 drive. We have a 1989 version of Lotus 1-2-3 and an even older version of WordPerfect
(5.0). Statistical collection is a very important part of managing this library; staff simply require updated equipment in order to do their jobs: In fact, training through campus courses is no longer available for the versions of these software; the equipment we own is not able to run the newer versions of either Lotus 1-2-3 or
WordPerfect.
The third area of resources required is increased personnel funding for upgrades. While it is possible to "raid" the student wage budget due to temporarily-available funds (.25 GA line for
Division Coordinator), this is not an acceptable permanent solution.
3. Technology and the Unit
New Implementations: Bringing up Beilstein in the Chemistry
Library and in the offices of interested faculty will take time and effort in the coming year. Installation and training will begin this process. Making net and web connections through the Chemistry
Library's homepage to full-text journals and other sites of interest to chemists, and then advertising and promoting these sites will also be an important task for the coming year. The
Chemistry Library has two networked workstations capable of access to the World Wide Web. continuing Activities: User education continues to be an important activity linked to technological advances. The array of choices for a chemist approaching our workstations leads one from
IBIS databases or the Online Catalog to CD-ROM, to local files, to networked Beilstein. It is very easy to get confused, or to find that something new has been added since your last visit. Education in the form of handouts and a trained, friendly staff is a continuing activity.
Planning and Priorities: Planning for technology will again involve our move and remodeling in FY97. In addition to adding more networked workstations, plans must be made for access to a networked Science Citation Index or Chemical Abstracts. Both of these indexes are available on CD-ROM. A first priority would be to invest in equipment to network these two important indexes.
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4. space and Facilities
Work Done During the Year: As mentioned in Number 1, one of the major .events of this year involved new stacks, moving out desks, and shifting our entire collection. Space is extremely tight; careful planning is needed just to allow present space to hold all materials until the FY97 remodeling. At present, a small monograph weeding project is removing about 5% of the monograph collection from our stacks. Remote storage would be the best place for the weeded materials i we have not approached Stacks about taking these pieces.
Planning and Priori ties: Also mentioned earlier is the planning that is taking place for the expansion and remodeling of the Chemistry Library. Negotiations with School of Chemical sciences administration have begun concerning the location and amount of space which will be given to the Chemistry Library. It is critical that planning for this space moves quickly as it is now less than one year until the space becomes available.
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RErERENCE STATITICS: CHEMISTRY rail 1994, Oct. 30 Nov. 5,1994
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