Seton Hall University Dean of Libraries Annual Report FY: 2015-2016 Seton Hall University Libraries
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Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall Library Publications University Libraries 2016 Seton Hall University Dean of Libraries Annual Report FY: 2015-2016 Seton Hall University Libraries Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/lib_pub Recommended Citation Seton Hall University Libraries, "Seton Hall University Dean of Libraries Annual Report FY: 2015-2016" (2016). Library Publications. 158. https://scholarship.shu.edu/lib_pub/158 Seton Hall University Dean of Libraries Annual Report FY: 2015-2016 Table of Contents 1) Dean of University Libraries – Annual Report - Executive Summary 3 - Dean’s Activities 5 - Library Faculty: Scholarship and Service (non-Libraries) 7 - Progress on Library Strategic Plan Objectives to October 2014 14 2) Library Faculty and Library Functional Area Reports - Bao – includes Library Systems 19 - Bloom – includes Instruction 34 - Brasile – includes Walsh Gallery Report 49 - Delozier 82 - DeLuca 97 - Derry 101 - Deyrup – included in Technical Services Report 106 - Dodds – Archives & Special Collections Department Report 116 - Ince 148 - Irwin – includes Access Services Report 156 - Kalyan 171 - Lee 194 - Leonard 197 - Loesch – included in Technical Services Report 211 - Mita – included in Archives and Special Collections Dept. Report 212 - Rose-Wiles 213 - Stevens – included in Walsh Gallery Report 222 - Wissel 223 2 | P a g e Dean of University Libraries Annual Report FY: 2015 - 2016 Executive Summary The Libraries … instantiate the University’s academic ambitions and this [Strategic] Plan articulates the role we … play in the … social, moral-ethical, and democratic goods that are embodied in Seton Hall’s Mission and Strategic Plan (Preamble) Goal 4) Create and maintain a physical environment that fosters learning and research and encourages use and interaction. This has been another year of significant progress: The Libraries are in the midst of a full inventory and de-duplication of the Circulating collection and a full shift of the Circulating collection into that space to allow for necessary growth (currently at 90+% capacity) - to be completed early fall. Print periodicals have been fully de-duplicated (relying on stable publishers e.g. JSTOR, Oxford, etc.), reorganized and compacted, creating 1.5+ mi. of crucial collections space. Significant database cleanup is being accomplished in the process, making resources findable and usable for students and researchers both in the physical arrangement of our collections and in the records tracking our digital materials. We make this contribution to a collective effort also for our partner universities nationally and internationally so that Seton Hall users get high-quality service in return. We are relied upon for unique items that are our most valuable contributions: this is how research is supported now, and it is why we’ve been working systematically on the quality of our spaces, the organization of our collections, and the quality of our bibliographic information. They are all tied together in supporting Seton Hall’s academic ambitions. Library faculty members received a Fulbright award and the NJLA/ACRL College and Research Libraries annual research award. The Libraries’ Technology Strategic Plan was initiated and completed this year in consultation with IT. Full implementation is underway including approval for hiring a professional technologist position. In conjunction, the Digitization of Collections Policy was developed and a digitization grant to New Jersey Council on the 3 | P a g e Humanities on Vatican II-era Social Justice Materials in the Archdiocese of Newark archives will be submitted this summer. The Libraries’ first programmatic set of Student Learning Outcomes for Instruction, along with a rubric was developed. It is being implemented this summer and fall. The Libraries have transferred the Seton Hall University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology into our Special Collections. The processes to clean, preserve, catalog and make it available to researchers on the web and for study, teaching, and scholarship is well underway. The Library Strategic Plan Objectives Round 3: to May 2017 has seen significant progress (see Status of Goals and Objectives section). Working with the University registrar, the Libraries enforced department/college standards for format, copyright, approval documentation and timelines for doctoral dissertations for the first time. The Libraries and its services are used: Library faculty taught 6,588 students in 323 Instruction sessions; Seton Hall University Libraries borrowed (for SHU users) and loaned (for the scholarly community) about 18,000 items through Interlibrary loan services combined; gate count was about 600,00 visits while use of print materials was about 45,000 items (in-house was 13% of the total); the Library again remained open during serious winter weather; and group study room use again rose to just below 14,000 uses, with the program of 8 hour access to them during the 24/7 Finals made permanent. There were a number of personnel developments this year: Professor R. Stern retired in May 2016 after 33 years of service to Seton Hall University Libraries; Mr. Len Iannaccone resigned his position as Records Management Clerk in March 2016, and Ms. Marilyn Shemaly-Turner resigned her Weekend Circulation Clerk position in September of 2015. Ms. Brianna LoSardo transferred to the redesigned Archives and Records Assistant position, Ms. Tiffany Burns was hired for the Weekend Circulation position, Mr. Joe Riccardelli was hired as Stacks Supervisor, and Kathryn Wissel will continue to serve as a Term Librarian – this time as Business Librarian for the year. 4 | P a g e Dean’s Activities (selected, 2015-2016) University Service Academic Affairs University Budget Committee Communication and the Arts Dean Search (Provost appointment) Provost’s Merit Committee Salary Equity - ad hoc for Provost Copyright Committee (TLTR), co-chair TLTR Executive Committee VALENJ (Virtual Academic Library Environment – NJ) Executive Committee VALENJ Outreach Committee, co-Chair CRRA (Catholic Research Resources Alliance) Board Member CRRA Governance Committee Publications and Scholarship John Buschman, “Different, but More Similar Now: Faculty Status,” Journal of Academic Librarianship, 42 (4), 2016: pp. 476-477. ___, “On the Political Nature of Library Leadership,” Political Librarian, 2 (1), 2016, pp. 28-40 (http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/pollib/vol2/iss1/9). ___, “On the Structural Irrelevance of Privacy: A Provocation,” Library Quarterly forthcoming October 2016. ___, “The Library in the Life of the Public: Implications of a Neoliberal Age,” Library Quarterly forthcoming Review of Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library, in Library Quarterly forthcoming October 2016. Review of The First Amendment Bubble, in Journal of Information Ethics forthcoming October 2016. (invited) Speaker at the Author Workshop, ACRL NJ Research Success Seminar, Rutgers– Newark University Library, November 17, 2015. (invited) Paper presented at Seventh Annual Society for US Intellectual History Conference, “The Library and its Public: Enlightened, Class-Conflicted, Massified, Fractured” panel, Washington, DC, October 15–18, 2015 (co-panelists Joyce Latham and Wayne Bivens). 5 | P a g e Professional Meetings Inaugural EBSCO User Group Meeting, Boston, May 10 – 11, 2016 American Library Association, Midwinter meeting/OCLC meeting, Boston, Jan. 8 – 10, 2016 Seventh Annual Society for US Intellectual History Conference, Washington, DC, October 15 – 18, 2015 6 | P a g e Library Faculty: Scholarship and Service (non-Libraries) Bao: Served as a Master’s Thesis Advisor for Malissa Eaddy, a dual M.A Candidate in East Asian Studies and International Relations and Diplomacy (Class of 2016); “Chinese Corner: From Library to Classroom” poster presented at VALE/NJ ACRL/NJLA CUS 17th Annual Users' Conference on January 15, 2016, Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University; presented "Find Scholarly Works of John C.H. Wu through Library Databases: A Digital Humanities Approach" at the Symposium in Honor of John C. H. Wu, Seton Hall University in April 21, 2016; received Digital Humanities (DH) Grant funded by the Provost Office and sponsored by Center for Faculty Development Center and TLTC during Fall Semester 2015; served on the CALA JLIS Editorial Board, 2008 – present for the Journal of Library and Information Science (JLIS). http://www.cala-web.org/publications/jlis-editor, peer reviewer for JLIS manuscript in 2015; Co-Chair of Faculty Senate IT Committee; member of the University Research Council; Faculty Senate Faculty Development Committee. Bloom: ___, and Marta Deyrup (2015). “The SHU Research Logs: Student Online Search Behaviors Trans-scripted.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41 (5): 593-601 (NJLA/ACRL College and Research Libraries annual research award May, 2016); ___, (2015). “Musical Meaning and the High Mass,” essay written for the Seton Hall University summer faculty retreat; reviewed two book proposals for Rowman & Littlefield; peer reviewer for Journal of Web Librarianship; presentations: Bloom, BS, (July 2015) “Library as Learning Space. The Changing American Library”; invited presentation at symposium for Israeli library directors at Ruhr University at Bochum, Bochum, Germany; ___, (July, 2015) “Student Research at Seton Hall: Is EDS a Solution?”; ___, and Marta Deyrup, “The SHU Tapes: Student Research at Seton Hall: Second Iteration,” Charleston Annual Conference,