Annualreport 2015

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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

93% of

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

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES FLOOR 25

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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