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The Falcons of Du Bois Library
288,000 Falcon Cam views 1,894 views of banding video 40,000 reached on Facebook, twice as many as 2014.
library.umass.edu/falcons
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Truly Engaged Library Patrons
Dawn and Dan met at UMass and spent many hours studying in the Sci. and Eng. Library as friends. They are now engaged to be married.
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PAWS Therapy Dogs
Stress relief during finals week
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Gave away 500 copies of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
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508 books donated to low-income children in the Dominican Republic
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Learning Commons Survey
Students come for the work and stay for the community.
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Learning Commons Survey
“They created individualized microclimates, pods, which I think are beautiful, and there’s a sense of excitement when someone comes here.” -Student surveyed
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Learning Commons Survey
When you come to the Library you make it your own space.
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Human Library
Students, faculty, staff, and community members checked out “living books� to learn about people with diverse backgrounds.
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FINALS FUN WEEK Buttons Coloring Food Origami
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Birds of Prey
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Wildlife Rehabilitator Tom Ricardi
FALCON CAM
$1,700 Raised to offset the cost of the live broadcast, repairs, and maintenance.
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Director of Libraries
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Jay Schafer
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MakerBot Innovation Center for 3D Printing
First in a University Library Anywhere
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3,588 Laptops loaned to students
Laptop borrowing just got better! Loan period increased - 24 hrs New laptops available Unrestricted use – overnight or take to class
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335 Languages of books, audio and visual materials
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Languages
Part of the UMass Night Out event series
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Get Your Game On!
Check out Commonwealth Catalog. commonwealth.org
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Can’t find what you’re looking for in your home Library?
Digital Media Lab
12,147 Items loaned
7,596 People served
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Credo Digital Repository
150,000 Total items
506,036 image files 1,090 audio files 146 video files 100 archival collections
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120,744 Total number of first time visits to New York Times products
3,574 Total NYT activations
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Schrapnell shell and other WWI artifacts
“Exploring the Trenches” with researchers and authors Ed and Libby ’91 Klekowski.
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Archaeology of WWI
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Special Collections & University Archives
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Jose Soler Papers, 1972-2014
Open Access
Offered Open Education Initiative Grants Created Supporting Open Access Research (SOAR) Fund Hosted Open Access Publications
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IMAGE COLLECTION LIBRARY
5,000-6,000 Quality images produced per year to faculty members for use in their classes and accessible to students.
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has saved
8,700 Students
$1.3 Million in textbook costs
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Open Education Initiative
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Unabridged: A Defining Moment
Celebrated the 150th anniversary of Webster’s Dictionary at the 13th Annual Dinner with Friends
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Library Expenditures Operating 13%
Collections 41%
46%
Staffing
$7,981,613 Collections $2,640,171 Operating $8,966,602 Staffing $19,588,386 Total
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Collection Expenditures Support
Books 6% 7%
87%
Subscriptions
$541,932 Books $6,966,265 Subscriptions $473,415 Support $7,981,613 Total
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Poster Printing
923 Posters printed
24,371 Square feet of paper
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Upward Bound
Fifty Upward Bound students learned how to do library research, visited the book stacks and checked out the 3D printers.
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INFO LITERACY
9,684
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Students given information literacy instruction
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1,400 Windows Cleaned
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Lego Library at the UMass Amherst Homecoming Parade
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ScholarWorks
1,510,205 Downloads in 2015
32,729 Total papers
6,289,779 Total downloads UMass Amherst research and scholarly digital repository
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Gloria Xifaras Clark Papers 1943-2015
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Documenting the evolution of one activist’s role in the civil rights and antiwar movements. Special Collections & University Archives
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Special Collections acquired the Boston Jazz Society collection, 1973-2015.
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Thanks to your support, the Libraries deal every student a winning hand.
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Carol Connare Director of Development and Communication
$42,386,263
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GOAL TO DATE
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Library UMass Rising Campaign 2010-2016
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FIRST ANNUAL
Registered Student Organization Sponsored
TOWER RUN
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1.5 M VISITORS 1,257,598 Du Bois Library
263,339 Science and Engineering Library
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PROCRASTINATION STATION CAFE´
258,359 Customers
55,955 Cups of coffee sold
572,978 Total items sold
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First-ever Bianchi Community Scholarship award recipient
Thanks to Lorrey ’69 and Kathy Bianchi
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Stephen Taewoo Kang ’16
WorldCat
1,089,670 Searches WorldCat is the world’s largest library catalog. library.umass.edu
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Textbook Reserves
949 Courses served
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Pre-Freshman Poster Sessions
The demand for poster printing continues to grow
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YANKEE YA RNS TRUE TALES OF NEW ENGLAND CHARACTERS FROM THE 1920S & 1930S
FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALTON H. BLACKINGTON
PHOTO EXHIBIT BY DAVID BENDIKSEN, ETHIR FELLOW FEB 2 - AUG 31, 2015
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LEARNING COMMONS LOWER LEVEL W.E.B. DU BOIS LIBRARY
PHOTO EXHIBIT ALTON H. BLACKINGTON SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
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Cultivating Conversations
Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Crisis
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Du Bois Birthday Lecture
Two Time Pulitzer Prize Winner David Levering Lewis
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17th Annual Fall Reception: Celebrating jazz collections with UMass Amherst student musicians and Jefferey W. Holmes, conductor.
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Jazz with Friends
Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste Associate Professor of Anthropology
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New Director W.E.B. Du Bois Center
SUSTAINABILITY FUND
$224,000
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Raised to date for the to purchase resources, fund speakers, provide faculty grants to build sustainability curriculum, and create student scholarships.
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