WML Monthly Report

February 2005

Statistics

Information Services

Questions

Question total - 433 (416 in 2004)
Directional - 118 (92 in 2004)
Reference - 307 (311 in 2004)
Email Questions - 64 (36 in 2004)
Faculty Research Questions - 8 (13 in 2004)

Individual & Group Consultations

Feb 2 - Eight undergraduate students for business plan project - Deb
Feb 2 - Seven undergraduate students for business plan project - Rahn
Feb 4 - Five undergraduate students for business plan project - Amia
Feb 4 - Six OGSM students for market research project - Rahn

Instruction

Instruction sessions - 9 sessions (4 unique topics)
Attendees at Instruction sessions - 294

Course Number Description Instructor Requestor Student Attendance Date Number of Sessions
MGT 432a Corporate Value Management Deb Sommer Amar Gande 40 2-4-05 2
HOD 1700 Rahn Huber & Leslie Boyd Craig Anne Heflinger & Robert Saunders (TA) 45 2-7-05 2
Bloomberg Certification Training Corporate Trainer Arranged by Deb Sommer, and Bradford, Scudder, and Cohen 87 2-9-05 1
HOD 1410 Amia Baker & Rahn Huber Susan Friedman 122 2-14-05 4

Staffing

Hilary Rudenske, term librarian, agreed to increase her hours and extend her term. We also said farewell and thank you, again, to Rita Hall for helping us through a busy time.

Business Information Services (BIS)

BIS Requests - 4
BIS Document Delivery - 51

Access Services

TOC Requests - 69 (1024 pages) (TOC and regular faculty requests together)
Faculty Book Delivery - 1 from ILL to Management
Books Charged out - 356
Book Renewals - 19
Reserves Charged out - 225
Reserve Renewals - 1

Acquisitions & Technical Processing

Serial & Periodical Processing

301 issues including 7 daily newspapers
29 titles sent to bindery
29 volumes of reference serials processed
15 pages of loose-leaf materials filed
11 titles withdrawn
108 volumes sent to Annex
31 new books

Acquisitions

2 invoices for electronic databases funded and paid
1 faculty request for new titles ordered
3 renewal invoices funded and paid
18 claims for undelivered periodicals/serials searched & processed
Maintenance on 121 volumes (Creating and removing items: shadowing; updating volume holdings)
7 requests for new books processed

Committees, Meetings, Projects, & Professional Development

Amia Baker
  • Attended ISAG meeting
  • Attended vendor presentation for Mergent Online for Information Services staff
  • Attended Deb's Corporate Valuation class
  • Attended Owen Distinguished Speaker Series session by HealthSouth Chairman Emeritus Attended Bloomberg Certification Information session
  • Taught two instruction sessions of HOD 1410 and co-taught another session
  • Attended Owen Distinguished Speaker Series session by Leo Burnett Chairwoman and CEO
  • WML Strategic planning subcommittee meetings for outreach and collection development planning
  • Attended Brown Bag: "Library Marketing: Tips & Techniques" webcast
  • Attended Brown Bag: "Google/Open World Cat as Our Catalog"
  • Met with Deb and Deborah about summer projects involving collections
  • Attended weekly staff meetings and information services meetings
Deborah Brooks
  • Attended weekly scheduled staff meetings
  • Attended weekly scheduled Information Services meetings
  • Attended vendor presentation for Mergent Online for Information Services staff
  • Championed and prepared documentation with Brent Tenpenny and Sylvia Grant for the
  • Walker strategic plan subcommittee on Outreach: User survey group
  • Attended regular Area manager's meeting with Deb and Marie
  • Met with Deb and Amia regarding summer projects for Collections
Sylvia Grant
  • Attended weekly scheduled staff meetings
  • Attended weekly scheduled Technical processing area meeting
  • Met with the Journal study committee
  • Met with User survey committee
  • Attended Netfix overview in staff workroom presented by Rachel Vacek
Rahn Huber
  • Attended weekly scheduled staff meetings
  • Attended weekly scheduled Information Services meetings
  • Attended GIS Task Force Meeting on Comparable Institutional Assessments
  • Attended vendor presentation for Mergent Online for Information Services staff
  • Attended Brown Bag: "Google/Open World Cat as Our Catalog"
  • Attended presentation of Mergent database for Information staff
  • Taught four HOD classes for HOD 1410 and HOD 1700
  • Began individual weekly meeting with Director
  • Completed QuickBooks training for BIS accounting systems support
Deborah Sommer
  • Met with Flo Wilson and Pam Brown of HR to discuss training opportunities for Walker Staff
  • Attended Mergent Training provided by vendor
  • Offered two Corporate Valuation Workshops
  • Held periodic individual meetings with all direct reports as well as attended or held unit meetings
  • Coordinated and attended Bloomberg Certification Training
  • Met with Dean and presented Walker Library budget proposal (was requested to make cuts - proposed $35,000 in cuts which were accepted)
  • Met with Roberta Winjum then John Haar concerning converting print journal subscriptions to electronic
  • Met with the Merging Desk Group as part of the Walker Strategic Plan
  • Held weekly Staff meetings
  • Attended the Law and Business Program overview presented by Karl Hackenbrack, Owen's co-director of the Law and Business Program
  • Met with Professor Paul Chaney about databases and datasets being purchased within the school with Research funds with a plan to coordinate and not duplicate purchases
  • Attended Brown Bag: "Library Marketing: Tips & Techniques" Web cast
  • Attended Owen Distinguished Speaker Series session by Leo Burnett Chairwoman and CEO
  • Met with Martie Nord, consultant, to plan a Myers-Briggs Inventory Type workshop for staff
  • Attended Supervisor Training for the new performance evaluation form
Marie Swearingen
  • Attended weekly scheduled staff meetings
  • CAG meeting became member of CAG Training subgroup
  • Attended ILLiad demonstration at Science & Engineering Library
  • Championed and met with Desk Merging task group
  • Met with Technology subgroup of strategic plan meeting
  • Began individual weekly meeting with Director
  • Began "operations" meeting with Director and Deborah Brooks
  • Held Ad-hoc meetings with Evening Circ Supervisor
Rachel Vacek
  • Attended weekly scheduled staff meetings
  • Attended weekly scheduled Information Services meetings
  • Attended vendor presentation for Mergent Online
  • Attended Bloomberg Certification Information session
  • Participated in WML Strategic planning subcommittee meetings for Journal User Survey Group, Technology Group, and Internal Communication Group
  • Attended Brown Bag: "Library Marketing: Tips & Techniques" webcast
  • Attended Brown Bag: "Google/Open World Cat as Our Catalog"
  • Attended the Software Inventory Task Force meeting
  • Attended the weekly MetaLib Task Force meetings
  • Gave a LITS's NetFix Demo for WML staff
  • Participated in monthly Journal Club discussion
  • Provided website consultation to students
  • Attended the Web Developer's Group (Spiders) discussion
  • Attended the Technology Support Coordinators meeting
  • Attended the Technology Training Coordinators meeting