IRIS Management Group Quarterly Reports
June 2006
Collections
Annex: Book Moving Project continues. Staff accessioning
and shelving roughly 2,000 items per day.
Catherwood Library: One of America's most distinguished
law professors, Clyde W. Summers, and the author of 125 law review
articles, has pledged his professional papers to the Kheel Center.
The main focus of Summers’ research has been on the rights of
individual workers in relation to employers and to their unions. He
was instrumental in helping to draft language of the Landrum-Griffin
Act of 1947, also known as the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure
Act. His scholarly work was the basis for the Commission of State
Laws' Model Employment Termination Act. Eleven journal titles were
selected for conversion over to “e-only”. We recently
purchased a major collection that is based primarily on the personal
archive of Robert J. Alexander. A pioneering Latin Americanist, Alexander
was a central player in U.S./Latin American labor, political, and
scholarly affairs after World War II. The pamphlets, grey literature,
and ephemera that make up this collection are an invaluable resource
for the study of the political, economic, and social conditions of
the Southern Cone countries during the greater part of the twentieth
century. This collection will be particularly valuable for the rapidly
growing field of Latin American labor studies.
Fine Arts Library: Sold roughly 35 duplicate “gift”
books to local book dealer to raise funds to put back into collection
income fund. Shifted an additional 148 shelves of regular size volumes,
and 20 shelves of folio-sized materials to the Annex in preparation
for construction project outlined under Facilities.
Hotel/Management Library: Hotel began receiving
the "Pipeline Report" (hotel construction pipeline information)
from Smith Travel Research. This is a useful resource for hotel finance
faculty. After a few months of negotiation, we arranged to obtain
this resource as a gift (over $3,000/yr value). The Management Library
added Innovest I-Ratings to the Library Gateway. Innovest is an investment
research and advisory firm specializing in analyzing companies' performance
on intangible value factors such as environmental, social, and strategic
governance management, and how such factors impact competitiveness,
profitability, and share price performance. This resource is a gift
to Cornell from Innovest arranged by Prof. Stuart Hart. The Management
Library withdrew its backfile of the Wall Street Journal on microfilm
and shipped it to Tulane to replace film they had lost.
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library: In the process
of having 26 DVDs of campus lectures cataloged for Africana’s
collection. These lectures are from the last three years, and are
mainly from the Africana Center’s Colloquium Series.
Maps and Geospatial Information: China data. National
Atlas of India. Inventory of material held in the Vertical files.
Ongoing project to absorb the geology collection
Music Library: Cox collection: Several boxes of
sounds recordings and Mr. Cox’s research files were delivered
in late April. Several title pages of scores from the collection were
used for flyers and programs for the symposium held in honor of David
Rosen’s retirement.
Facilities
Catherwood Library: Until 2009, most ILR faculty
will have temporary offices on the third floor of the library. When
the library is open, access to this area will be provided from the
second floor of the reference reading room. This will involve installation
of a security gate at the foot of the library staircase leading to
the third floor. When the library is closed, access to the third floor
will be via the south staircase off of the ILR parking lot and outside
the security envelope of the library.
Collections, Reference, Instruction, & Outreach (CRIO):CUL
Intellectual Property Officer: Peter Hirtle has relocated to his new
office in 215 Olin. Ira Revels should be moved to Olin by the end
of June
Fine Arts Library: Started preparing for the move/construction of
AAP’s Career Services Office (CSO) to the Fine Arts Library.
The CSO will occupy approximately 600 sq. ft. in the first room to
the east of the Dome area on the second floor. Construction is expected
to begin in mid-July. Inlet Glass is designing the CSO. I checked
on work they have done elsewhere in the building and am happy to report
that AAP staff is pleased with their resulting spaces. Worked with
SteelCase representative Gail Philips, John Hoffmann and AAP facilities
staff to design additional office space for FAL staff on the mezzanine
(220 sf). Some staff will be displaced by the move of the CSO. We
are planning to add one private office and a larger office for 3 part-time
staff to share on the mezzanine. Experienced an additional structural
problem, causing the emergency removal of 148 shelves of materials.
This structural problem happens to be in the same location as the
proposed new Career Services Office.
Hotel/Management Library: In April, the Management
Library converted the 2nd Floor Marin Reading room to a 24-hour study
room for Johnson School Students. The Hotel Library removed its fax
machine
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library: Added one lateral
file storage cabinet for videos/DVDs. Looking into adding an additional
reading table and two stools for two computer workstations. This would
give Africana Library six additional seats.
Maps and Geospatial Information: Long term project
to send the material in the vertical file to the annex in preparation
for additional scanning and printing capabilities. Addition of several
map cases.
Preservation and Collection Maintenance: Work is
beginning on the front door. This impacts the conservation unit as
far as noise and the potential for leaks.
Research and Assessment Services: Linda Miller and
Rich Entlich were relocated in 215 to prepare for the arrival of Peter
Hirtle. Peter’s office was installed (walls requiring asbestos
treatment where the walls meet the ceiling) and we welcomed Peter
at the beginning of May.
Services
Annex: Testing an overhead BookEye Scanner with
B-scan ILL software.
Asia Collections: Display in Severinghaus RR: “Techniques
and Patterns in Asian Textiles” On display from February 17,
2006-June 2006 CJK script searching on Voyager/catalog with Unicode
CUL Intellectual Property Officer: In response to
a request from the Counsel’s Office, Hirtle worked with members
of the Access Services committee to develop new forms and instructions
for the e-reserve system. The new forms and a letter for faculty describing
their use are awaiting approval from the Counsel’s Office, at
which point they will be distributed to faculty and staff. Hirtle
also undertook several actions in support of scholarly communications.
At the request of the Dean of Faculty, he drafted instructions on
how faculty could construct permanent links to articles in licensed
electronic resources; this documentation is currently under review
and revision by the Documentation Committee. In addition, Hirtle advised
the Library’s Faculty Advisory Board on a new resolution being
submitted to the Faculty Senate encouraging all tenured faculty to
submit the SPARC Author’s Addendum in conjunction with any transfer
of copyright.
Fine Arts Library: Began discussions with Margherita
Fabrizio, AAP Coordinator for their Rome Program and their new NYC
program. AAP has a new facility in NYC. 15 fourth year architecture
students will spend the fall semester there, taking five courses.
Margherita and I have begun discussions on how to support student
and faculty research at the new facility.
Hotel/Management Library: The Hotel Library began
a Quiet Campaign during the study and exam period. We also instituted
a ‘No cell phones in library’ policy.
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library: On May 17th
the Africana Librarian did program for about 100 students from Boyton
Middle School. The librarian did a screening of the documentary The
Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry, and lectured about the history
of the Africana Center. The Africana Librarian lectured about the
meaning of Juneteenth at the Lifelong Living Center in Ithaca on June
6th.
Maps and Geospatial Information: Reunion workshop
and tours. GIS workshop for Teachers (Teacher Development Event)
Research and Assessment Services: Assessment Services
continued to prepare for the June 15-16 visit by the ARL Making Library
Assessment Work research team. The File Format Media Migration Service
continued to process requests for format and media conversion.
Staff
Asia Collections: New staff members in Asia:
Bronwen Bledsoe (South Asia Curator) as of April 2006
Gregory Green (Southeast Asia Curator) as of June 2006
Carrie Wonsoon Yang (Wason, Admin. Asst) as of June 2006
2 staff members left:
Katie Williams (Echols), Nanci Trapani (Wason)
Fine Arts Library: Sarah How has eliminated her
reference desk hours at Fine Arts as she temporarily takes on increased
responsibility for the social sciences collection in Olin. Lance Heidig
is filling in during this stage of Sarah’s assignment. Lance
will be working at the FAL reference desk approximately 4 hours per
week. Carla Bahn has been identified as the FAL representative for
the disaster response training initiative. Matt Klein has returned
to library school at SU, and is well on his way to earning a Masters
degree at the School of Information Studies. Music Library evening
supervisor, Andrew Justice, is doing a summer internship at the Fine
Arts Library, in order to earn credit towards his SU degree from the
same program.
Hotel/Management Library: Derrick Brown, Information
Assistant, started reporting to Mihoko Hosoi,
April
Maps and Geospatial Information: Temp Map Assistant
for the summer to help with the VF project: Ellen Guidero, a Fuerst
award winner at Mann.
Preservation and Collection Maintenance: We are
gathering applications to hire an assistant conservator who will work
primarily on the Native American Collection. This is part of a three
grant funded by the Save America’s Treasures program.
Research and Assessment Services: I announced my
acceptance of a position as Digital Preservation Officer for ICPSR
at the University of Michigan starting Sept 1. We have been discussing
the implications of my departure.
Other
Annex: Wonderful Library Annex Celebration on May
15 at the Annex to thank all involved in the project.
Catherwood Library: The Operations Group (unit heads)
at Catherwood is following up on outcomes from our January scenario
planning effort and will make recommendations for implementation by
late summer.
CUL Intellectual Property Officer: A preprint version
of Peter Hirtle’s paper, “Research, Libraries, and Fair
Use: The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1935,” which is to be published
this spring in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, is
available in Dspace at http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2719.
Fine Arts Library: We’ve had two very hot
days here this summer already. We are preparing for additional days
of discomfort. If it becomes unbearable for staff on particular days
I may ask if they can work at other IRIS units, while maintaining
minimal coverage here at the FAL.
Hotel/Management Library: The business librarian
from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, visited in January.
Don attended the Academic Business Library Directors meeting at U.
of Iowa in April.
IRIS Account and Administrative Support:
· John Henrik Clarke Africana Library: Developing a brown
bag lunch series for fall 2006 semester. The purpose of the series
is to inform the Africana community about Africana related things
that are taking place within the CUL.
· Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 12:00 noon - 1:30, Nicole Joos,
Mary Ochs, and Olivia Vent ,TEEAL, http://www.teeal.org/
· Tuesday, October17, 2006, 12:00 noon - 1:30, Petrina Jackson,
"Black" Resources at RMC.
· Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 12:00 noon-1:30 pm, Thomas Mills,
Liberian Law at Cornell, http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/liberia/
Maps and Geospatial Information: Very successful
exhibit “What is a Map” will be coming down next week.
Next an exhibit of railway maps by Howard Brentlinger, and then an
exhibit of cartography associated with The Great Gatsby.
Music Library: Technical Services Integration discussions
and planning are underway.
Research and Assessment Services: We worked with
Anne to prepare the interim CLIR/ARL report on e-journal archiving.
We published the April issue of RLG DigiNews. We presented the May
Digital Preservation Management workshop. We continued to work on
the KMODDL white paper on 3D objects.
