Business Library Is Going Digital

Business Library is Going Digital S As planning evolved for the library in the new Moore School of Business, it became clear that physical space for books would be limited. As librarians Emily Doyle and Kathy Snediker began talking about the parameters for the new library, the use of the term “paperless” raised more than a few eyebrows. Quiet carrels, group study spaces, live chats to help patrons – these terms got enthusiastic nods. But a paperless library? “Access is the only thing that is changing,” said Doyle, who has business degrees and years of real-world N corporate experience. “There will be no stacks, no computer workstations, and few reference books. But with the online technology and access to resources available today, the library exists anywhere and everywhere for people.” Using online research databases is a good model for what students will experience in the corporate world, Doyle believes. Plus, students already use electronic resources and are ready to make the shift to an all-digital library. O “And it will allow librarians to do what they do best: help patrons find information and learn to evaluate resources,” Snediker said. “We won’t have to spend time with administrative duties like collection upkeep and reshelving books. We will be more available to help faculty and students. We’ll be available to help via email, I live chat, or in person in the Moore School.” The librarians are searching for, subscribing to and creating more online resources. They are currently building a knowledge-bank of frequently asked questions and answers. “We often get the same questions from students, such as ‘How do I find SEC filings?’ Students will be able to go online and type that question, and the answer can direct them to our LibGuide (an online research guide T we’ve created on the subject) or to another online resource,” Doyle said. “For their own research, faculty often ask, ‘Where can I find data on this topic, and how can I extract that data?’ Librarians will have time to work with them on these more complex questions.” The print books and journals that won’t be in the new library will still be easily accessible by request or electronic delivery from the Annex. Visit the business library’s homepage at http://library.sc.edu/business. C E L F E R Emily Doyle helps a business major. University of South Carolina • University Libraries SPRING 2013 New Faces From the AMIE FREEMAN JEN WOCHNER Thomas Cooper Library Music Library Dean Of The Libraries: Interlibrary Loan Librarian Music Librarian for Audio and Digital Services Thanks to advancing technology, today’s academic library is undergoing enormous change. Gone are the days when a reference librarian stands at a reference desk and answers questions all day – and gone are the days when anyone needs a reference librarian to do that. YOUR USC LIBR ARIES Our library faculty and staff have taken on new roles, and we have shifted our practices and services to become a modern day academic Thomas Cooper Library library. Library faculty spend less time at a service desk and more Main library located at 1322 Greene Street time teaching Information Literacy courses, providing in-depth 777-4866, http://library.sc.edu research consultations, and building online tutorials and research Hollings Special Collections Library guides. Accessible through Thomas Cooper Library We are evolving in other ways, too. To better address the way Home to the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special students study and the way scholars conduct research now, we: Collections, and South Carolina Political Collections • Are moving from a “just in case” to a “just in time” model 777-3847, http://library.sc.edu/hollings for acquisitions. We used to build large, comprehensive print collections that were available “just in case” someone South Caroliniana Library needed them. With the Demand-Driven Acquisition Model, we Located on the Horseshoe purchase something as it is needed, or “just in time.” Repository of the Palmetto State’s documented history and literature • Provide more access to online books and journals. 777-3131, http://library.sc.edu/socar • Collaborate with other institutions to increase access to materials while conserving resources and space in the library. Moving Image Research Collections • Free up precious space in the library to accommodate demand Located at 707 Catawba Street for collaborative study space and computing space. The library Home to numerous film collections, including the Fox Movietone is truly a learning resource center. News Collection, Chinese Film Collection, and regional films With all this change, please know that our collections are just as 777-6841, library.sc.edu/mirc comprehensive, our services are more user-focused, our information is Music Library available at the point and place of need, and our spaces are dynamic Located in the USC School of Music, Second Level learning environments for the campus community. 777-5139, http://library.sc.edu/music In this issue of Reflections, we introduce you to some of our faculty and staff who are making it all happen. Springs Business Library Located in the Moore School of Business 777-6032, http://library.sc.edu/business Library Annex and Conservation Facility Located at 8500 Farrow Road Tom McNally 896-0780, http://library.sc.edu/annex 2 3 SOUTH CAROLINIANA LIBR ARY NAMES HENRY FULMER NEW DIRECTOR Henry G. Fulmer has been named Director of the South Caroliniana Library. A three-time USC graduate and thirty-year USC Libraries employee, Fulmer began his new duties January 2. “Henry is the perfect candidate to lead South Caroliniana Library,” said USC Libraries Dean Tom McNally. “He has thirty years of experience, combined with knowledge of not just the library’s collections but also the individuals “My abiding interest in and concern for who support the conservation treatment of archival and the library. special collections materials also began at Did you know... USC,” Fulmer said. “When I was a graduate He’s been …South Caroliniana Library, assistant my primary task was to carry instrumental in the repository of the Palmetto State’s out the hands-on preservation work then the success of documented history and literature, has done exclusively in-house on manuscript the library in five major research divisions: published collections. After becoming a permanent staff the past, and he materials, manuscripts, university member in 1981, I had the responsibility for can now take the archives, oral history and visual Henry Fulmer training student workers in those delicate library to the materials. next level.” tasks. And for years afterward, I participated in bench work conservation demonstrations.” South Caroliniana Library is the …the building was built in Since 1992, Fulmer has been the repository of the Palmetto State’s documented 1840 as the central library for South library’s Curator of Manuscripts. He has seen history and literature. USC students and Carolina College and is now the oldest the addition and acquisition of numerous faculty, as well as researchers from around continuously occupied academic library materials, including the papers of General the world, visit the library to study the books, in the United States. newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, maps, William C. Westmoreland and, most recently, Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War photograph audio recordings and visual images preserved ...the building was designed in 1838 albums. there. by South Carolina native Robert Mills, Fulmer has a bachelor’s degree in applied Fulmer might have stuck with his original a prominent 19th-century architect who music, a master’s degree in English, and a plan to pursue a doctorate in music – if he also designed the Washington Monument master’s degree in library and information hadn’t taken a part-time job as a graduate in Washington, D.C. student assistant in the library’s manuscripts science from the University of South Carolina. He is active in a number of professional division. …the building is equipped with large organizations, including the South Carolina “I felt at home the moment I walked into windows and skylights. Artificial lights Archival Association. He currently serves as the library,” said Fulmer, a native of Fountain were not allowed inside until the late treasurer on the Board of Governors of the Inn, S.C. “My paternal grandmother had 19th century because of the possibility South Carolina Academy of Authors. He also been the child of a Civil War veteran. As of fire. a young child, the tales I wanted to be told is the organist-choirmaster at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Columbia. were not the classic imaginary fairy tales but …the librarians’ living quarters were “I have appreciated the opportunity to stories about how things were done in the located on the ground floor. past. My grandmother also was the collector work with Henry, beginning when he first came to the library as a graduate student,” and preserver of family artifacts, so I grew up …the building served as USC’s main said Allen Stokes, who has served the South surrounded by historic items, just as I am here library until 1940, when McKissick Caroliniana Library as director for more at South Caroliniana Library. Feeling that Library (now McKissick Museum) was than a quarter of a century. “Henry’s been a connection to the past, to history, has always built. been a part of my life. At USC, I’m helping great colleague; he is wonderful with donors, to collect and preserve the state’s heritage for wonderful with the collections, and much future

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