DATE: January 26, 2009
TO: Paula Kaufman
FROM: Sue Searing
RE: Final report from the CPLA Library-ACES Library Implementation Team
Starting in summer 2007, University Librarian Paula Kaufman and Associate University
Librarian Scott Walter held discussions with affected colleges and departments, as well as Library
stakeholders, about the future of the City Planning & Landscape Architecture Library.
Consensus emerged on the concept of consolidating the CPLA Library with the Funk Family ACES
Library. In summer 2007, the planning effort was folded into the University Library's New Service
Models initiative, and in late fall, a team was appointed to plan and implement the
transition. The team included faculty members from the departments of Landscape Architecture
and Urban & Regional Planning and administrators from the Colleges of Fine & Applied Arts
and Agriculture, Consumer & Environmental Sciences, as well as Library faculty and staff. The
full charge and membership are attached (Appendix A). The team met from January to May 2008
and communicated between meetings and over the summer by means of an email listserve.
This final report includes:
1) Prepare a rough estimate of costs associated with this consolidation of services in order to
inform budgetary requests and planning.
The budget was submitted to the University Librarian on April 28, 2008 -- three months later
than anticipated. The delay was largely due to difficulties in obtaining accurate dollar
figures for several specific objectives. In the end, we had to settle for ball-park estimates
for a few items. (The original charge asked for "rough" estimates, but it became clear that,
as the fiscal year progressed, fairly firm numbers were needed.) See Appendix B for the
budget document, which doubles as a program statement.
2) Identify how to most effectively integrate CPLA Library collections into the ACES Library,
including plans for shelving and display of circulating, serial, and reference materials.
We reached consensus on how to handle the range of material types in the CPLA collection:
The goal was to create a space within the Funk Library that would be clearly identifiable as a
home for CPLA-related specialist reference tools and would echo the environment of a professional
design library, while facilitating interdisciplinary browsing by integrating other materials.
3) Collaborate with faculty and staff in the Special Collections Division to identify a plan
for bringing rare and special collections materials currently housed in the CPLA Library under
appropriate intellectual and curatorial control in order to facilitate access and long-term
preservation of materials.
Initial contacts have been made with the Special Collections faculty and with faculty in the
departments of Landscape Architecture (Dianne Harris) and Urban & Regional Planning (Rob
Olshansky) concerning the location of semi-rare works on the history of gardens and landscape
design from the CPLA collection. Currently, these materials reside in the secure closed
stacks of the Funk Library.
4) Consult with faculty, staff, and/or students in the College of Fine and Applied Arts to
identify a public service program appropriate to the design disciplines and articulate how that
program may be delivered, both within the ACES Library and through digital means.
Consultation with stakeholders in the College of Fine and Applied Arts was handled by the
team members from the departments of Urban & Regional Planning (Betsy Sweet) and Landscape
Architecture (Laura Lawson). From this input, a vision emerged of library services that would
provide a bridge for students from the familiar academic library to the type of professional design
library they will encounter in the workplace. It will remain to the yet-to-be-hired Planning
and Landscape Design Librarian to fully flesh out this vision in the context of both in-person and
digital services.
5) Consult with faculty, staff, and/or students in the College of ACES to identify the
opportunities for the identification of Library public space appropriate to the needs of FAA
faculty and students, but consistent with the needs of an ACES named facility.
Assistant Dean Charles Olson articulated the needs of ACES to maintain a strong identity
while welcoming the CPLA collections and users. The name of the Funk Library cannot be
changed to incorporate CPLA, but other compromises on space usage and signage were achieved by
consensus.
6) Create a plan for the transfer of materials and services from the CPLA Library that will
allow the Library to vacate the CPLA Library space in Mumford Hall no later than June 30,
2008.
Barb Trumpinski-Roberts, staff member in Funk Library, worked with Emily Jedlick, staff
member in the CPLA Library, to create a detailed plan for the transfer of materials and
services. Phase 1 (May-June 2008) focused on the physical transfer of the collection and the
corresponding changes in catalog records. Phase 2 (July-August) focused on post-move tasks
such as signage, record clean-up, and the integration of CPLA student workers into Funk.
On May 5, staff in the two libraries began changing Voyager location codes for books and
staff in Contact Access & Management began changing location codes for serials. The
physical transfer of materials, totaling 18,008 items, commenced on May 17 and was completed on
June 26. Matt Emmert, Library Facilities, coordinated the moving of the materials.
A few unique aspects of the process should be noted, as they contributed to its success:
-- Because neither Landscape Architecture nor Urban & Regional Planning held summer
classes on campus, we were able to shut down the CPLA Library at the close of spring
semester. The library's final day of operation was Friday May 9. Staff could then concentrate
on pre-move processing, packing, etc.
-- Because May and June are times when experienced student staff leave town, an extra help
employee was hired to assist with the transition.
-- The Funk Library had space available in its compact shelving, as well as on its open
shelves, making the integration of the CPLA collection possible without reducing the existing ACES
collection. However, shifting was necessary.
Inevitably, there were aspects of this transition that presented unique challenges as well:
-- In order to free up space for the designated CPLA reference area, several cabinets of
microfiche had to be removed. This required that the fiche be cataloged. This project
has taken many hours and is still underway.
-- Because there is hope that a fine and applied arts library will one day be funded and
built, and that it will house CPLA books, it was necessary to retain a historical record of the
titles that were once housed in the CPLA Library.
-- In order to maintain a segregated CPLA new books shelf, it was necessary to work with
Acquisitions on a method for tracking incoming books that are purchased on the CPLA budget.
The CPLA Library - ACES Library Implementation Team will coordinate the consolidation of
Library services and collections currently provided in the CPLA Library into the ACES Library. In
order to facilitate this consolidation of Library programs, the committee will:
Item (1) should be completed as soon as possible, and no later than January 31, 2008, in order
to facilitate discussions about project funding;
Items (2) and (3) should be completed by March 30, 2008, in order to allow sufficient time to
plan for transfer of materials during May - June 2008. If feasible, selective transfer of materials
may begin prior to May 2008.
Items (4) and (5) should be completed in time for the delivery of a plan for any proposed
changes to the ACES Library facility to Library Administration by May 15, 2008.
NOTE: Other Library employees not on the original team who contributed to the project
include: Emily Jedlick, Gennye Varvel, Josh Becker, Lee Galloway, Jeff Schrader, Peggy
Glaathaar, Peggy Steele, Bill Maher, Chris Prom, and Betsy Kruger.
DATE: April 28, 2008
TO: Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries
FROM: Sue Searing, chair, CPLA Library - ACES Library Implementation Team
RE: Rough budget for library consolidation
The CPLA Library -ACES Library Implementation Team -- consisting of Library faculty and staff, faculty from the departments of Landscape Architecture and Urban & Regional Planning, and administrators from the College of Fine & Applied Arts and the College of Agriculture, Consumer & Environmental Sciences - is developing a new approach to delivering collections and services to the students, faculty and other researchers who now utilize the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library in Mumford Hall. Our charge is not merely to transfer the holdings of the CPLA Library to the Funk Library, but to create a vibrant new service profile that meets the information needs of scholars of urban and landscape design in the 21st century.
The implementation team, drawing on input from faculty in the affected departments, envisions a
designated area within the Funk Library that helps students bridge from the information environment
of the traditional academic library to the information environment of a professional design
firm. To be successful, the new service model will require an infusion of funds, mostly
one-time but some recurring. What follows is a rough estimate of costs. The AUL for
Collections has assured us that new library service models will not reduce collection allocations
by discipline, so we have not included the CPLA base collection budget.
Faculty librarian - $ 45,341 - $91,371 (new, recurring)
Since the retirement of Professor Priscilla Yu, the position of CPLA Librarian has been
filled on an interim basis by Joseph Zumalt. We recommend filling the position permanently
with a tenure-track or tenured librarian. We submitted a position request with justification
to the Executive Committee on February 15. This estimate is based on hiring at the assistant
or associate professor rank.
Graduate assistant (.25 FTE) - $ 8,700 (new, one-time, to be reviewed
annually after FY09)
The CPLA Library currently employs one quarter-time Graduate Assistant who creates and
updates content on the website, provides assistance to library users, and completes special
projects; recently the GA has been gathering data for the consolidation planning. This
position has been eliminated as of August 2008. However, a GA's skills will still be needed
in the new service model to help develop a web-based subject portal for the disciplines of
landscape architecture and urban planning, share in reference and instructional duties in the ACES
Library, and work with the librarian to fine-tune the new service model.
Staff support - $ 41,067 (reallocation from CPLA, recurring)
The CPLA Library has been well served for many years by Emily Jedlick, Senior Library
Specialist. After the collections move to the Funk Library, we recommend that Emily continue
with such duties as materials processing and supervision of student employees in Funk Library,
where her subject knowledge in landscape architecture and urban planning will continue to benefit
library users in the new space.
Student hourly support - $10,486 (reallocation from CPLA, recurring)
Increased usage of Funk Library will create more books to be charged, discharged and
shelved. We request that the CPLA Library's student wage budget be reallocated to the
Funk Library to maintain its current hours and to maintain its current level of basic services to
an expanded clientele.
Re-shelving and record processing - $ 10,000 (new and reallocated, one-time)
A number of processes must occur to transfer a physical volume from one library location to
another and update the corresponding records. To accomplish these in the desired timeframe
with the least disruption of access to materials requires hiring temporary employees. Because
the CPLA consolidation is taking place at a time of year when student employees are least available
and least reliable, an Extra Help employee has been hired. A candidate with the necessary
skills was identified, and she began work the work of April 21. The Funk Library is
reallocating unspent portions of its FY08 student wage budget, with the understanding that the
employee will also process Funk materials. In addition, Pat Allen has sought permission to
reallocate FY08 salary lapse money that had been set aside for a different project. Further,
any unspent portion of the CPLA student budget will be applied toward processing costs; a final
figure is not available, but it has been estimated at $4,000..
Even with this funding from Funk and CPLA, we anticipate a need for additional student hourly
labor for shifting the Funk Library collection to make room for the CPLA collection, unpacking and
re-shelving books, and basic pick-and-scan location transfer processing in Voyager. We also
anticipate the Content Access Management department's need for temporary graduate student hourly
labor to deal with cataloging problems discovered during the consolidation. We are guided in
this by the recent closing of the Labor and Industrial Relations Library.
Moving of materials - $ 2,900 (already budgeted, one-time)
This estimate covers purchase of packing supplies and labor to move the books. Because
pallets will not fit in either the Mumford or ACES elevators, it will take 2 people 6 days to load,
move, and unload the boxes. This estimate assumes a simple mass transfer of the collection
from one site to the other, although some materials may be selected for transfer to the Oak Street
Storage Facility if appropriate. These costs have been covered by the Library Facilities
budget.
Removal of furniture in CPLA Library - $ 855 (already budgeted, one-time)
This estimate covers four days of labor and a tank of gas. PACA will remove the cast
iron shelving and antique circulation desk for re-use, at no cost to the Library. These costs
will be covered by the Library Facilities budget.
Furnishings - $ 15,000 (new, one-time)
This rough estimate includes one or more large work tables and suitable chairs, four file
cabinets to hold Illinois planning documents, and a bulletin board for CPLA related information,
such as new book covers. Brands and models have yet to be chosen, and in order to match the
existing architect-designed furniture in the Funk Library, tables and bulletin boards must be
constructed by the campus Wood Shop; therefore this figure is quite rough. Among the
furnishings needed are:
Presentation practice room - $ 20,000 (new, one-time)
Students in design fields must make presentations as part of their curriculum, and our
libraries offer no spaces for them to be videotaped as they practice. From the department of
Urban & Regional Planning alone, at least 300 students per year would use such a facility in
Funk Library. We propose converting an existing seminar room by adding equipment that can be
secured so that the room can remain open as a group study spot when videotaping is not
occurring.
Simmons College Library recently equipped a similar room at a cost of $14,000, including an
LCD display, speakers, ceiling microphone, wall-mounted camera, crestron control panel in the
table, VGA/ethernet/audio capture cables at the table, DVD/VHS player, DVD recorder, and cable TV
connection. It is assumed that existing power and network connections will be adequate.
A possible additional cost is window covering to control glare during taping. Lee Galaway
believes it will cost much more than $14,000; CITES will need to provide a realistic
estimate. In the meantime, the figure of $20,000 has been listed as a placeholder.
Signage - $ 7,500 (new, one-time)
The need for signs to demarcate the area set aside for reference and other specialized CPLA
materials brings to the foreground the pre-existing unmet signage needs in Funk Library. To
reduce confusion and anxiety among ALL users of the library, we request that the signage program
outlined in 2006 be implemented. This rough estimate is based on a figure obtained from the
F&S sign shop by Jeff Schrader, Library Facilities, with a 50% add-on for the new CPLA
signs.
Information technology - $ 6,530 (already purchased); $ 2,900 (new,
one-time)
To accommodate more users, ten additional public workstations equivalent to those already in the Funk Library were installed in March. These machines were already owned by the Library, having been purchased on FY07 funds. Maintenance and future upgrading of equipment will be supported by the Library's IT budget. Workstation costs were provided by Lee Galloway, Library IT.
New funding is needed for two public workstations with capacity to handle visual design
applications, which will be accessed from servers on the Landscape Architecture and Urban &
Regional Planning networks. Also needed are two scanners equivalent to that in the Ricker
Library. Workstation costs were estimated by Lee Galloway, Library IT.
Collection enhancement - online journal back files - $ 4,000 (reallocated,
one-time)
Although the full digital back file of the most-requested title, Journal of the American
Planning Association, is not currently available for ordering (having been sold to a different
publisher, Routledge, in 2008), several other journal back files have been identified which, if
purchased, will enhance access to collections in urban and regional planning and landscape
architecture. Some of these titles, published by Springer and Sage, are already priorities
for acquisition as part of large publisher-based packages, when funds become available.
$4,000 has been set aside in FY08 collection funds for the remaining individual titles.
Collection enhancement - other - $ 10,000 (new, recurring)
The new service model depends in part on extending the collection beyond traditional printed
monographs and serials. In particular, we seek two kinds of new content:
In addition, ongoing funding is needed to support annual licenses and/or access fees for
multidisciplinary journal packages that include relevant titles, as well as to acquire print
materials reflecting new emphases in the design disciplines.
Processing of vertical file materials - $ 945 (new, one-time)
The CPLA Library currently provides on-site access to a unique collection of materials housed
in filing cabinets (53 drawers), including planning documents for Illinois communities which are
not gathered together anywhere else in the state. The Department of Urban & Regional
Planning asserts the value of these materials for research and teaching. Chris Prom
(University Archives) made an informal appraisal of the files and suggested that, while some may be
suitable for archival treatment and storage at the Oak Street Facility, it would be wisest in the
short term to move them to the Funk Library and assess their use there. The four separate
collections of planning documents (totaling approximately 27 cubic feet) will be housed in new
matching file cabinets (included in the cost estimate for furniture, above) and located in the
designated CPLA area. The remaining materials (approximately 58 cubic feet) will be placed in
archival boxes and stored in the compact shelving on the fourth floor, where similar materials are
already housed. One-time labor will be required to organize, box, and label the material.
Processing of "rare" books - $ 0
We assume that costs of transferring the small collection of valuable books to a more secure
site (Ricker Library, the Rare Books & Manuscript Library, and/or the Oak Street Storage
Facility, will be minimal and can be absorbed by the affected units. Knowledgeable faculty in
Landscape Architecture (Dianne Harris) and Urban & Regional Planning (Rob Olshansky) have
offered to consult on the disposition of these books.
Digitization - $ 21,000 (new, one-time)
The CPLA Library houses a significant amount of "grey literature" which is listed on its
website but not fully cataloged. Faculty in the Department of Urban & Regional Planning
have identified the American Planning Association Illinois Chapter Awards, 2001-2006, as most
deserving of wider access through digitization. Betsy Kruger, head of the University Library's
Digital Content Creation unit, has estimated the cost of digitizing these materials at
$21,000. Although these are municipal documents, permission from the copyright owners will be
required to make them accessible in digital format. The estimated cost includes the labor of
seeking permissions as well as the outsourcing of the digitization work.
Archival processing of ESLARP materials - $ 20,000 (new, one-time)
The extensive records of the East St. Louis Action Research project need to be preserved as
part of UIUC's institutional history. Archivists Bill Maher and Chris Prom have examined the
materials housed in the ESLARP offices in Noble Hall and are preparing an estimate of the cost of
processing and moving them. Collections transferred to University Archives are processed
physically to ensure their preservation, and online finding aids are created to increase access to
them. The staff of ESLARP are eager to collaborate on the transfer of the materials, which
include paper files, maps, drawings, photographs, slides, and more. (The figure of
$20,000 is a placeholder until Bill and Chris provide a realistic estimate.)
Possible future budget needs:
Total request = $ 227,224 - $ 273,254
| FY08 ONE-TIME | FY09 ONE-TIME | FY09 RECURRING | COVERED BY OTHER LINES | TOTAL BY CATEGORY | NOTES | |
| RECORDS MAINTENANCE AND COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT | $27,312 | |||||
| Extra Help | 4,984 | 5,980 | spearhead materials processing for the transfer of 18,008 items from CPLA to ACES & processing of 61,680 microforms relocated from ACES to Oak Street | |||
| Student Hourly | 15,348 | assist Extra Help employee with re-shelving, records processing and related activities | ||||
| DIGITIZATION AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS PROCESSING | $1,000 | |||||
| Vertical file processing; materials (boxes, folders) & student wages | 1,000 | 53 drawers of Illinois planning documents | ||||
| ESLARP project | Awaiting cost estimates from University Archives (Chris Prom); Paula may pursue Provost funding | |||||
| COLLECTIONS ENHANCEMENT | $ - | |||||
| Proposed: journal backfiles ($4,000 one-time), Building Green Suite ($995 recurring), U.S. Green Building Council membership ($750 recurring) | Referred to AUL for Collections; decision awaiting further justification | |||||
| FACILITIES | $26,400 | |||||
| Sinage | 7,500 | |||||
| Furnishings (work tables, display case, shelving, file cabinets) | 15,000 | |||||
| Removal of CPLA furniture & shelving | 1,000 | |||||
| Moving materials from CPLA to ACES | 2,900 | |||||
| Furniture & renovations for technology enhanced presentation space | IT and Facilities to pursue quote for FY09 | |||||
| IT EQUIPMENT AND SUPPORT | $10,199 | |||||
| 10 workstations | 9,430 | |||||
| 1 scanner | 769 | |||||
| Equipment for technology enhances presentation space | IT and Facilities to pursue quote for FY09 | |||||
| SERVICES | $8,000 | |||||
| Faculty position (PLAD position) | 45,341-91,371 | search canceled | ||||
| Grad hourly | 8,000 | support for the development of Web-based resources and other projects | ||||
| TOTAL | $72,911 |
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