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When I read this comment from a student, I realize how incredibly proud I am to be such a meaningful part of a student’s success. If Lavery is the heart of the library, the Lavery
Library staff is the heart of the library.
As stated in our Mission
Statement, we are truly a
“collegial team committed to connecting people and ideas worldwide.” The new Library
Strategic Plan is based on our
Library Vision Statement and linked to the College
Strategic Plan.
We are focusing on four key areas: Learning, Resources, Expertise, and Space. We are continuously assessing our progress in these areas and making changes to promote learning and excellent service.
You can follow our progress via
Twitter @LaveryLibrary with the hashtags #laverylearn,
#laveryaccess, #laveryexperts, and #laveryspace.
Throughout these pages, you will see examples of what we are doing to provide excellent physical and virtual learning environments where the Fisher Family can find resources, expert help, a comfortable place to study, and an environment that fosters lifelong learning and success.
Melissa Jadlos
Lavery Library Director

Lavery Library, dedictated in 1975 after Rev. Charles
J. Lavery, C.S.B., former President and Chancellor, is centered at the St. John Fisher College campus.
Before the current structure was built, the College’s library was located on the upper floors of Kearney
Administration Building.
was introduced in 1989, the library now has over
200,000 electronic resources. Lavery Library actively participates in the research and teaching of the St.
John Fisher community by providing a responsive, collegial team committed to connecting people and ideas worldwide. In a welcoming environment, the library innovatively guides discovery for a lifetime of informed decision-making.
The Library’s collection has grown from the initial gift of 20,000 volumes by the Rev. Bernard J.
Gefell in the early 1950’s to its current size of over
160,000 volumes. Since the first CD-ROM database
Lavery’s mission is to give students the skills to keep learning, to help them think critically about information they find, and to use that information effectively. Lavery continuously collaborates with faculty to guide student’s to the best resources of their success.
Lavery Library inspires students to build on their knowledge with ever-expanding resources of to advance intellectual disovery, and creating a blend of academic and social spaces where people are empowered to connect with information and others.
information. Lavery teaches innovative research methods to allow students to transform rusty habits into powerful intellectual discovery and has a welcoming atmosphere to nuture curiosity.
Lavery Library continues to fulfill their Vision
Statement by promoting learning, scholarship, and innovation, providing the best contemporary and traditional resources, developing and sharing skills

It is the perfect environment to buckle down and focus on anything from homework to finals!
Alexis Verone, Sophomore
Lavery Library diligently seeks opportunities to improve and create comfortable accessible spaces for every learning style enabling ease of access to resources whether they are virtual or physical
Lavery Library teaches students the skills they need to be successful information consumers; how to locate and evaluate the best information for their current need.
Lavery Library staff is continually keeping up-tp-date with new trends and tools to share with others across campus and throughout the country in order to provide the best service to the college community.
Lavery Library’s goal is to provide the best and most appropriate resources for the college’s cirriculum and make them easily accessible.

IN in·sight [in-sahyt] noun
1. an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding
When students are searching for insight, Lavery Library’s team of faculty specializes in all areas of research and study to cater to the needs of the students at Fisher. Librarian staff have individual areas of expertise based on major; there is a libraian available for every major. They are always sharing their knowledge with the Fisher community and allowing students to have a second valued opinion , when their gut feeling is not good enough.
=an ideal way to plan a research strategy for a term paper or other major project.
Appointment can also be made for oneon-one research training in the use of any of the library’s research databases.
For a full list of Lavery’s databases, please visit: http://libguides.sjfc.edu/ databaselist
Students can chat with a librarian. This online service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so you can get your questions answered even when the library is closed, right at your own computer.
Access Services Librarian, Kourtney
Blackburn, comments, “to help students,
I work with a powerhouse team to ensure that students have quick and easy access to the materials they need at the Checkout Desk and through
Interlibrary Loan (ILL), whether they are in need of whiteboard markers, an article, or even a book located in a different state or country.”
Lavery developed the Research Desk for any one on the college’s campus to ask questions during the library’s hours of operation. Whether it is help finding an article, locating a book or movie, or librarians’ expertise enables them to answer an array of questions.
Lavery also has opportunities for students who need extended help with research. They can schedule an appointmment with a librarian. This is
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dis·cov·er·y [dih-skuhv-uh-ree] noun
1. the action or process of discovering or being discovered. synonyms: finding, location, uncovering, unearthing
Lavery Library actively promotes learning, scholarship, and innovation.
Members of the St. John Fisher
College campus firmly believe that
EXHIBITS, PROGRAMS, AND
DISPLAYS intellectual curiosity and discovery begins at Laver Library where
Glass Case Display and Program:
In Honor of Thomas Urban Way (1944-1967)
Aug. 31, 2013 through Mar. 11, 2014
Library-wide Exhibits and Programs
Banned Books Week Displays and Programs
Sept. 22, 2013 through Sept. 28, 2013 students are engaged and passionate about their work. Library staff are encouraged to create innovative programs, such as creating a realworld application of research skills by partnering with the Fingers Lakes
Partnerships and Regional Invasic
Species Management (PRISM) via a
Plant Biology lab.
Lower Level Gallery Exhibit:
Two Sides of a Story
Illustrations by Shawnee Hill
Sept. 30, 2013 through Nov. 29, 2013
Lower Level Gallery Event:
Panel Discussion of Kate Racculia’s book This
Must be the Place, prior to the author’s lectur on campus
Nov. 30, 2013 The excitement and joy the Lavery staff feel when participating in innovative programs to help students learn is contagious. Students get excited about learning right along with them.
Lower Level Gallery Exhibit:
Student Art Exhibit
Dec. 9, 2013 through Jan. 3, 2013
Head of Reference and Serials
Lower Level Gallery Exhibit:
Remains to be Seen: Wood Engracings by librarian, Marianne Simmons, comments, “one of the most wonderful things about being a librarian here at
SJFC (St. John Fisher College) is the ordinary intellectual curiosity that I see everyday. I am sometimes present at somebody’s ‘lightbuld moment’- that point where they realize something they never thought about before, or look at a problem in a diffferent way or finally clearly understand a concept with which they have been grapping for some time.”
Lower Level Gallery Exhibit:
Student Art Exhibit
Apr. 18, 2014 through May 10, 2014
Glass Case Display:
The Basilian Fathers, St. John Fisher College, &
The Basilian Way of Life
Apr. 28, 2014 through Sept. 30, 2014

As a member of OCLC (Online Computer Library
Center) and RRLC (Rochester Regional Library
Council), Lavery Library is connected to a consortia of libraries which freely lend and borrow materials for their patrons. Daily delivery within the RRLC region and online delivery of articles expedites requests. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty may borrow materials from many other college and research libraries in the Rochester area by obtaining an RRLC Access Card.
Fisher Digital Publications promotes the discovery, sharing, and preservation of the intellectual and creative works of the faculty, students, and staff of
St. John Fisher College. Administered by the library,
Fisher Digital Publications was created to organize, preserve, and increase the impact of scholarly and creative works. There has been a total of 48,224 downloads from 123 states and countries.
150,790
2,629
55 using SmartBoard
I 6 6 , 3 6 3 VOLUMES
AVAILABLE IN LAVERY LIBRARY
97 instruction sessions for the First Year Program classes taught
Provided 5,706 articles from patrons
Borrowed 1,017 loans from patrons
1,178 articles and 1,474 books to other libraries

de·sign [dih-zahyn] verb (used with object)
1. to intend for a definite purpose
Lavery Library continually seeks to provide the best contemporary and traditional resources and an environment where students are not just siting at their computer or a desk, instead, students are interacting and learning new technologies while collaborating with team members.
Whether students are visual learners or hands-on learners, Lavery has resources for every learning style. Lavery Library has been structually planned with the students in mind: to provide accessible material and space for students to work to meet their semester and yearly goals. for the students.” Lavery is engaged with the Fisher community online via social media services including Facebook,
Twitter, and Pinterest. Lavery Library provides online databases so students can research online at their convenience.
Lavery designed the Learning Commons on the Main Level. With the transition from paper assignments to online assignments, computers and Internet access is a student need. The Learning
Commons consists of 54 computers and three groups work stations with a flat screen TV that students can hook their computer up to and work collaboratively with others students. With the increase
Outreach and Special Collections
Librarian, Michelle Price, comments,
“At the library all kinds of connections can be made in one space. A student can meet with a student group, then grab a book on a topic that interests them, work with a librarian to find more research, find friends before dinner, checkout a movie for the weekened, and then finish a paper. It is a building, but it also has the strongest sense of community on campus.” of computers and technology, the
Library designed to have the Office of
Information Technology Help Desk to assist with any needs students and faculty might have.
Lavery Library continually designs their model after what the needs of the students and faculy of the Fisher community are.
Lavery Library is not only concerned on the design of the building, but their outreach, programs, and materials offered are all designed to cater to the
Fisher community. Lavery Library is not a dusty book when it comes to being upto-date with the latest technologies and online services. They’ve added zebra stripped duck tap to hold the bindings together. Lavery keeps re-inventing their strategies based on new technologies.
Whiteboards that are touch screen? They say, “Cool, now how can we get that here
Parents always ask at Admissions events,
“Do you still have books?” Lavery Library does. For example, Lavery has collected works of Shakespeare in print, but also has videos of different interpretations of his plays, as well as eBooks with scholarly studies of his characters. Students may analyze diaries of Civil War soldiers and compare the events described to the digitized newspapers of Frederick
Douglass.

col·lab·o·ra·tion [kuh-lab-uh-rey-shuhn] noun (often foll by on, with, etc )
1. the act of working with another or others on a joint project
Lavery Library strives to create a blend of academic and social spaces where people are empowered to connect with information and each other. The way students are learning continues to evolve, and has become more collaborative than ever. Student’s learn differently today than they did 40 years ago. Lavery provides students an environment that aligns with these new learning styles is constantly challenging. and furniture to create space for tables where students can work together. Lavery has moveable whiteboards for brainstorming and an accessible SMART Board for students to practice presentations and try out new technologies. Lavery even designed the Keating Group
Study Room to provide more space for students to work together. This room provides a projection screen, tables and chairs, accessible computer, and a SMART
Board.
Lavery has moved books and furniture to create space that supports collaboration. Lavery has moved books Assessment and Online Program librarian, Christina
55% USAGE OF MAIN LEVEL
12% USAGE OF LOWER LEVEL
33% USAGE OF UPPER LEVEL
14,340 STUDENTS USED
UPPER LEVEL STUDY ROOMS
4,904 STUDENTS USED
KEATING GROUP STUDY ROOM
520 TOTAL SEATS IN THE
BUILDING:
96 ON LOWER LEVEL
235 ON MAIN LEVEL
189 ON UPPER LEVEL
Hillman, comments, “The main level of the library is rarely, if ever, silent! Fisher students are encouraged to work collaboratively in the library. There are whiteboards, group workstations, and seating areas designed for collaborative learning. Given this departure from the sterotype, Lavery offers a welcoming atmosphere away from dorm rooms and classrooms to study and meet up with friends.”

staff [staf, stahf] noun
1. a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
A group of innovators, inspirers, and initiators, who come together to make an everyday experience at Lavery
Library happen. Lavery librarians have presented, acted as an organizer and led over 12 conference presentations in the last year. As well as, presented at and attended over 23 workshops and conferences. become more than a building for study and books, but for collaboration with a sense of community: the Fisher Family.
Lavery culture allows students to navigate through college by providing guidance and support.
Lavery Library creates a culture of assessment and continuous improvement. A location of critical thinkers with destination. Lavery has
Instruction and Archives Librarian,
Nancy Greco, comments, “To be successful, students need to navigate the academic, the social, the personal and the professional. Lavery Library functions as a conduit for all of these things.”
(Starting from the bottom row, going left to right)
First Row: Melissa Jadlos, Library Director; Linda Seavy, Office Manager.
Second Row: Kathleen Sigler, Education Librarian; Kate Ross, Head of
Technical Services/Acquisitions Librarian. Third Row: Kourtney Blackburn,
Access Service Librarian; Nancy Greco, Instruction and Archives Librarian.
Fourth Row: Michelle Price, Outreach and Speical Collections Librarian;
Stacy Celata, Circulation Coordinator. Fifth Row: Kevin Roza, Circulation
Supervisor; Marianne Simmons, Head of Reference and Serials. Sixth Row:
Ben Hockenberry, System Librarians; Alicia Marese, Interlibrary Loan
Coordinator; Christina Hillman, Assessment and Online Program Librarian.
Staff not shown:
Brian Lynch, Circulation Supervisor; Tina Broomfield, Circulation Supervisor;
Rick McAllister, Circulation Supervisor; Britta Stackwick, Acquisitions
Assistant; Cathy Bennett, Systems Technicians; Jenny Bigenwald, Serials
Assistant; Anna Elsloo, Technical Services Assistant.

YOU
“St. John Fisher College’s administation has been supportive throughout all of the change we have been made to create the welcoming space Lavery Library is today.
Board of Trustee member Mr. Martin Keating provided generous support to create the new Keating
Study room for tutoring and group study.
Larry Jacobson and Campus Facilities staff are always willing to take on new construction projects as we try to make the best use of the space we have.
Mike Allington and the staff of the Office of
Information Technology providing technology support and train of new students who staff the
Technology Help Desk.
Maya Temperley was the driving force behind the application for the Booth Ferris Foundation grant we recieved and used to create the Learning Commons at Lavery Library.
We are thrilled to have been able to work with
The PRIMA Group to create this annual report.
Their knowledge and expertise has enabled us to communicate the joy and excitement we feel every day as we interact with the Fisher community and excitement we feel every day as we interact with the
Fisher community and encourage and support student learning.”
Melissa Jadlos
Lavery

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