Office of the University Librarian
Monthly Report--November 2007
Public
Jacob Thornton taught an Introduction to Data Ferret to 4 Library Staff members (Sue was one of the attendees). He participated in the VUMC LifeFlight Ride-Along program.
Public Relations/Communication
Celia Walker and Beth Boord met with Teri Hughes, development officer for Nashville Public Library, to discuss potential collaborative projects.
Electronic
Resources and Collection Development
Jody Combs worked with Anne Womack to complete the Divinity Lectionary RSS feed project.
Jody began planning of Robert Penn Warren, "Who Speaks for the Negro," project.
Jody attended a demonstration of the James Madison Digital Image Database software with Art and Art History department. He also had aseparate interview with the system engineer/designer.
Annex
Interlibrary Loan and Faculty Delivery Services
Borrowing for Vanderbilt users remained brisk as the semester progressed, with over 1,283 requests filled (754 loans and 529 copies) in November. Lending to other libraries also stayed high, with over 1,649 requests filled (1,033 loans and 616 copies).
Business continues to accelerate, as Faculty Delivery Service delivered approximately 431 items from the Vanderbilt collections in November (205 loans and 226 scanned copies), in addition to 116 interlibrary loans that were delivered to faculty offices. Several faculty surrogate user accounts have been configured to take advantage of the service, and we are working to make it possible beginning Spring Semester for users to directly register or modify their surrogate accounts online.
Copyright Clearing Service
Spring semester ClassPak orders
took the fore as they began to arrive in larger numbers. With most clearance
requests for Fall Semester electronic reserves already handled, the focus
for them shifted to processing invoices and follow-ups for permissions.
Meetings,
Activities and Professional Development
Paul and Bill Hook spoke at a CLIR/Emory symposium on ETANA on November 2. Holling Smith-Borne, Steve Nordstrom and Paul met with the Barbershop Quartet Society about their sheet music collection on the 9th. Paul also attended a NALA board meeting that day.