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Department Reports
- Accounting & Receiving---Busy with ordering for the new semester.
- Acquisitions---Processing Rush orders. There is an upgrade of Collection Manager next week. Access to everything should be in place by Sept 3rd.
- Bibliographic & Metadata Services---Losing a Cataloging Student of long standing. Chrissy Abbott has been with us for 3 years. Heather Moss has hired a new Cataloging Student who will start soon. Some of the Media cataloging is going more slowly than in the past due to Linda Seguin having left. Thank you for your patience.
- Circulation---Genie Vitak is busy filling student vacancies. Should be fully staffed by the second week in Sept. Beginning a web service for ILL check out. Previously this has been a paper based procedure. Billing continues to be on hold due to Peoplesoft implementation hold ups. Applications for study rooms and lockers can now be done on the web. Acknowledge Pat Garnett and Michael Dick for getting the Reserves work done. Particularly thank Pat for good work on handling some faculty challenges in the past week.
- Collection Management---Large gift from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab contained some unexpected journal additions. The Book Sale will probably be earlier this year, perhaps late Sept or early Oct.
- ILL---Beta testing of ILLIAD 8 shortly. This is all web based ILLIAD. Borrowing requests have begun to pick up.
- Library Information Technology Services---Kenny Huether is leaving. His last full time day is August 28th. He will then work part time evenings with his last evening being October 2nd. Thank you very much for all your hard work. We have received the new lab image for the public use computers and the BI room, and will be reimaging them very soon. Will try to accomplish this while the Library is closed.
- Media---New online fine appeals form. Training new students.
- Reference---Rearranging tables and workstations on the first floor. New graduate services page is up and available. Scheduling instruction sessions for beginning of semester. All of the Reference students are returning. There is a graduate student slot open.
- Serials---Kelly Shipp is hard at work on e-journals and SFX updates. Working on cleaning up holdings information. Lower level shelving is up and being filled. Marcus Dagold is shifting journals A-J. Joyce Tenney is meeting with departments on serial cuts. Some departments All departments are cutting up to 10% of serials. Many departments are going to online only.
- Special Collections & Gallery---Graduate Assistants Colleen Walter and Homira Pashai have started. Starting to get requests for classes to some in to use Special Collections. The History of Photography class will be meeting in Special Collections every Tuesday and Thursday morning (as in the past). Processing of materials that are of particular interest for the UMBC 50th Anniversary observance has begun. They have completed about 40 boxes of the President's Office papers. Special Collections is in need of several more student workers for the Fall semester. If you know of a likely candidate or have someone who could work more hours, please contact Special Collections. Lindsey Loeper and Susan Graham attended a Preservation Institute held by the Library of Congress. They will probably do a brown bag on it in the near future.
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