Library Office Notes |
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign |
No. 23, June 18, 1999 Edited by: Dixie L. Trinkle |
| The deadline for submitting items for publication is Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. Send items to L.O.N., 230 Library, MC-522 E-mail: trinkle@uiuc.edu FAX: 217-244-4358 |
| Rekeying Main Library Outside Doors During the summer, the outside locks of the Main Library Building will be rekeyed. In addition, a card access mechanism will be placed on the West Basement Door. It is intended that this will become the primary access point into the building. As more information is available, including the change-over date, it will be posted on Libnews and LON. (Bart Clark) Smoking Policy It has been reported that there has been smoking in the fourth floor lounge that was previously designed as a smoking lounge. Please remind night and weekend employees that the lounge is no longer a smoking lounge and that all libraries are in smoke-free buildings. Thank you. (Bart Clark) |
Digital Exhibit Features Pop-Up Books A recent joint exhibit, "Spring Surprises: Popular, Literary and Scientific Pop-up Books," featuring selections from the School Collection of Children's and Young Adult Literature that are housed in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library, has been mounted on the Web. The exhibit can be found at: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/rbx/popup.html A selection of pop-up books from the April-May 1999 exhibit were made available in digital images and mounted on the Library's Web pages courtesy of Kelly Ewalt, graduate assistant in the Education and Social Science Library: Todd Fell, Visiting Librarian in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library; and Ann Hanlon, graduate assistant from the Digital Imaging Initiative. (Nancy O'Brien) |
JUNE LIBRARY EXHIBITS
Commencement: 1874, 1899, 1924, 1949, 1974
Archives
Travel Books
Rare Book and Special Collections Library
1999 LSA Linguistic Institute UIUC
(21 June-31 July)
All Cases (North, South, and Mueller Cases)
Machu Picchu City in the Sky
Latin American Library Services
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Welcome to New Project Staff, IMLS Digital Cultural Heritage Community ProjectI would like to welcome two new colleagues who will join the IMLS grant project for its duration.
Nuala Bennett will assume the responsibility of Project Coordinator on June 21. She received her Master’s degree in Library and Information Science in 1996 from the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science and holds an undergraduate degree in Linguistics from Trinity University in Dublin, Ireland. Ms. Bennett has held the positions of Research Programmer and Project Coordinator at the CANIS (Community Architecture for Network Information Systems) Laboratory, which has been a partner with the Library in the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative grant. She has had responsibility for coordinating and developing major components of the DLI2 proposal in the area of medical informatics, and has also designed and developed software that enables the analysis of natural language in conjunction with the current DLI research program. She will be the primary navigator for the grant project and is responsible for all planning and implementation activities, as well as the technical design of the project’s underlying system.
Amanda Grunden has been appointed as a Research Information Specialist beginning June 17. Dr. Grunden holds a PhD (1999) in Anthropology from the University of Illinois. She has held several positions as a consultant and project leader for the Web Technologies Group in the UIUC Academic Outreach Program and worked closely with the Spurlock Museum’s outreach program in the Museums in the Classroom grant project. Her educational background and professional experience enable her to take innovative approaches to the integration of culture into the digital media environment. She will be responsible for the project Web site, as well as enabling project partners to digitize and gain access to materials for teaching and research.
Both Nuala and Amanda will have offices in the Grainger Engineering Library and can be contacted at 244-9021. The project’s web site will be operational shortly, and we will publicize that information so that all interested parties can track our progress and participate in upcoming events.
(Beth Sandore)
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Main Library Reconfiguration Update
The architects now project that construction of Phase I of the Main Library Reconfiguration will begin in January 2000. They also confirmed that the floor loading level of the 1964 Addition (Applied Life Studies, Acquisitions, Rare Book and Special Collections, and Faculty Studies) is 100 lbs./sq. ft. This is a bit better than office space (75 lbs./sq. ft.) but much less than library space capable of holding bookstacks (150 lbs./sq. ft.). Given these limitations, slight modifications have been made in the Phase I plan.
In discussion with the architects and campus Program Planning, the following plan will be followed. It is also the most cost effective plan. The plan has been reviewed by the Main Library Reconfiguration Committee.
1. Room 26, 44, and 50 (currently Graphics Services and NEH Newspaper) be the surge space. Fourth floor would not be part of this phase.
2. When completed Preservation, Conservation, and Binding move into the remodeled spaces.
3. Basement Stacks Alcove be remodeled for Acquisitions, Shipping and Receiving.
4. Room 12 remodeled.
5. Acquisitions moves into Room 12.
6. 246 remodeled except Administrative Complex (246A).
7. Newspaper moves into Room 246. Consider Microforms shift in stacks serviced by Newspaper. This will liberate part of the old Rare Book Stacks for Rare Books.
8. Remodel remainder of North basement.
9. Original Cataloging, Rapid Cataloging, and Serials move into remodeled space. Phase I completed.
At the completion of Phase I, Room 220 will be vacant and will be used as the Phase II surge space.
Though Faculty Studies is unaffected by the revised Phase I, the space it occupies will be incorporated into the Reconfiguration Plan in a future phase.
The Reconfiguration Committee is spending the summer re-evaluating the Cohen plan in relation to the modified Phase I.
(Bart Clark)
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