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Libraries play a central role in managing the data, information and knowledge assets of the University and community.
INNOVATION Determined to find a better way to locate his friends in McKeldin Library, Zack Fishbein created an app. By pinning his location on a floor plan and texting
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it to friends or sharing it with them through social media, he’s able to pinpoint his location in the sprawling seven-story building. Study partners know just where to find him. Zack, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering, has made the app freely available to anyone, but admits its creation was self-serving. “I use McKeldin all the time,” he says. “I’m here every day. I was scratching my own itch.” From our strategic plan:
We will create inspiring spaces to promote innovation and entrepreneurial activities.
ENTREPRENEUR Propelled by a new dean and his bold new plan, the University Libraries are reframing traditional
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services in ways that embrace technology and entrepreneurship. “It’s not that technology drives change,” says Babak Hamidzadeh, Interim Dean of University Libraries, “it’s that changing needs drive our use of technology to offer better solutions to the academic community.” Dean Hamidzadeh’s vision is succinct but powerful: To manage the data, information and knowledge assets of the University and community.
From our strategic plan:
We will embrace an entrepreneurial mindset.
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SOLUTIONS Uniquely positioned to offer technology-based
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solutions to faculty and researchers, the University Libraries are home to programmers, systems analysts and digitization authorities. Librarians, after all, are experts in organizing information and managing data. As a focus of our new strategic plan, we will strengthen partnerships on campus and beyond.
From our strategic plan:
We will provide tools to enable research and increase productivity.
ACCESS Charged with digitizing library and other collections, Robin Pike oversees a department that speeds up access to library research materials.
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Her operation digitizes text- and image-based formats as well as five types of audio, from cassettes to digital audio tape. Large projects and other materials, such as film and video, are shipped to external vendors. In addition to digitizing materials for quick turnaround (for example, some interlibrary loan requests), the unit also reformats rare materials too fragile to handle or too valuable to loan. “The overall goals,” says Robin, “are to make materials available more quickly and to preserve those in jeopardy.”
From our strategic plan:
We will optimize the way we deliver resources online.
WONDER Enchanted by the fictional girl who fell down a rabbit hole, Clare and August Imholtz have collected more than 4,700 books related to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its author Lewis Carroll.
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A selection from their collection, featured in a Hornbake Library exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the book’s publication, inspires students, faculty and visitors. “We’re very gratified that so many people have come to see it,” August says of the exhibit. “We couldn’t be happier.” Items on display include a rare copy of the first American edition and dozens of international editions featuring Alice as interpreted by publishers and illustrators in Japan, Russia, Australia, Germany and more. From our strategic plan:
We will proactively seek partnerships within and outside the university.
L I B R A R I E S O P E R AT I N G B U D G E T * Fiscal Year 2015
Collections
$ 12,157,586
Salaries & Wages* 13,241,628 Other Operating Costs 3,829,209 TOTAL
$ 29,228,423
* Totals reported to Association of Research Libraries. * Fringe benefits not included.
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BOOKS AND JOURNALS BUDGET Journals: Books:
$ 598,106 1,020,389
E-journals: $ 5,868,047 E-books:
395,784 $1M
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