Remembering Arthur E. Jones
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NEWSLETTER OF THE DREW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ISSUE NO. 22, FALL 2007 HTTP://WWW.DREW.EDU/DEPTS/LIBRARY.ASPXVisions SCHOLARSHIP ON VIEW reativity and scholarship are on Students are Cview in the fall Library exhibit, especially invited to Faculty Publications: 2005-2007. With browse the award- approximately seventy faculty members winning fiction and represented by publications of books, poetry from assis- journals, articles, essays, and multi- tant professors of media formats, titles range from English Tiphanie Professor Garyth Nair’s Craft of Singing Yanique and to Associate Dean Anne Yardley’s Patrick Phillips; Performing Piety: Musical Culture in tales of presidential Medieval English Nunneries; Associate duties from Faculty publications capture attention in the Library lobby. New cases Professor Andrea Talentino’s Military University were recently installed along the wall at the main entrance for a per- Intervention after the Cold War; Professor President Robert manent, rotating display of Faculty work. A retrospective display from Barry Burd’s Ruby on Rails for Dummies® Weisbuch; and art 2005-2007 is on view through the fall. and Professor Stephen Moore’s Empire historical analysis and Apocalypse. Professor Merrill from Associate Professor of Art History Professor of French Deborah Hess, Skaggs’s book, Axes: Willa Cather and Margaret Kunzt. Theological School Professor of Latin American and World William Faulkner and her co-edited Faculty have a strong presence in the Christianity Otto Maduro, and Professor Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather are also exhibit, and several faculty have written of English, Emerita, Janet Handler on view. in multiple languages, including continued on page 6 STUDENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE Dean’s Corner 2 By Deborah Strong, Library Administrator for Human Resources Recent Gifts 3 he University Library is not only a Electronic Resource Tpopular place for students to study, Management 3 it’s also a popular place for them to R.S. Thomas Collection 4 work—and the Library depends on their Inside contributions as staff. The Library is the Remembering largest employer of students on campus, Arthur E. Jones 5 with over fifty students from all three SciFinder Scholar 2007 7 schools working part-time in every department during the academic year, Professional News 7 and twenty of those staying through the January and summer breaks. Last year, Film Makers the student staff put in a total of 17,425 First-year student, Gino Sanchez is among Consult Library 7 hours, the equivalent of almost 10 full- several students whose work speeds the pro- cessing of the 5,000 or more items that are Exhibits 8 time employees. expected to be borrowed or loaned through What do all these students do? the Interlibrary Loan department this year. continued on page 6 Visions2 FALL 2007 THE DEAN’S CORNER PLANNING FOR THE LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE: Q AND A he last issue of the newsletter final determinations. But we are hopeful. We have a Tcarried an abridged copy of number of donors who want to have a role in making the the Library’s developing vision Shelley Kusnetz vision document a reality. document, “The Intellectual Q. What needs to be added to the plan? Crossroads of the University: The A. The Library needs an endowment to support resource Expanding Role of the Drew development. Building our book, journal, and database University Library.” Here are collections is costly. Simply maintaining our current levels some questions that have been of collecting requires an annual increase in the budget just asked about the document. to keep pace with inflation. University funds to fully cover Q. What is the status of the those inflation increases have not been possible in the past document? What are the next few years. It would be prudent to build an endowment steps? that would ensure the future growth of the collections. A. We are making some changes to the document in response Q. What else? to suggestions that we have received. It will then A. The Library has many specialized collections and archives. be on the agenda of the Provost’s Council, University We need an aggressive program of digitization to make Faculty, student government groups, and the Academic these resources widely available. It is an irony of our tech- Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. The AAC will nological times that it is no longer sufficient to house, likely discuss it at their February 2008 meeting. organize, and make accessible unique material. They must Q. Who was involved in creating the document? also be given larger, democratic life on the Internet. That A. The Library worked on this project for about eighteen will require an infusion of resources. The Dodge Poetry months and devoted two retreats to it. We visited new Archive Project will enable Drew to move into these digital and renovated libraries, attended conferences and work- waters in a major, innovative way. shops, and consulted with many librarians and technology Q. Are our peer schools investing in their library buildings? specialists. Various editions of the document were A. Many of the leading liberal arts colleges and universities reviewed by the Library faculty and staff, Library Dean’s have built new libraries, remodeled their buildings, or Council, University Library Committee, Computer added major additions in recent years. They include: Network Services, a number of regional and national Colgate University, Dickinson College, Franklin and library leaders, and Library donors. The document has Marshall College, Lafayette College, Middlebury College, gone through eight drafts. And still counting. Reed College, Skidmore College, Trinity College (Ct.), Q. How has the document been received? Vassar College, Wheaton College (Mass.), Whitman A. So far it has met with strong affirmations. Most readers College, Willamette University, and Williams College. have found it balanced. Some would like technology to Others are in the planning stages. have an even larger presence; others find it just right. Strategic planning for the Library is a dynamic process that Some urge a shorter document, while others would wel- will continue to be in flux. After all, “the ink should never be come a longer text complete with appendices. Our sense is dry on a vision document.” that because we have consulted widely, we have avoided the trap of being obsessed with the new and trendy to the An unabridged and updated copy of the document is avail- detriment of familiar services and the real needs of the stu- able on the Library’s Web site: http://depts.drew.edu/lib/vision/. dents and faculty we know well. Q. Will Library projects be in the University’s coming campaign? A. Those decisions have not been made. We have made our recommendations as requested by the president, but the cabinet, president, and trustees have not yet made those 3 RECENT GIFTS The Library gratefully acknowledges the following gifts. FINANCIAL SUPPORT General Board of Global Ministries, Cynthia A. Cavenaugh, CSGS ‘03 UMC P. B. Irwin General Commission on the Status Professor Emeritus Edward L. Long, and Role of Women, UMC Jr. Indiana United Methodism Special The Rev. John McEllhenney, T’59 Collections of Depauw University ormer Drew President Paul Karen Hintz FHardin returned to campus on October Thomas J. Piskula 2, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Professor Emeritus Donald Jones BOOKS AND GIFTS IN KIND the United Methodist Archives and Dr. Charles E. Jones History Center, which opened in the Dr. Barbara Morris Caspersen, CSGS Dolores Myers new Archives building on the Drew ‘83, ’86, ‘90 campus in 1982. Dr. Ethel Diamond, CSGS ‘06 North Central College, Illinois Professor Andrew Elliott Dr. Michael G. Nickerson ELECTRONIC RESOURCE John Hinchcliff Dr. C. Evans Olmstead MANAGEMENT Professor Emeritus Donald Jones Professor Emeritus Kenneth Rowe By James Farrugia, Ph.D. North Jersey Civil War Round Table William Scales Systems and Electronic Resources Librarian John Tonkin The United Library, Garrett- Evangelical Theological Seminary IN HONOR OF... ver the past few years Drew Library United Methodist Church, Czech Ousers have had access to an ever- Dr. James Pain and Dr. Virginia Republic increasing number of electronic journals. Phelan, from Dr. Jennifer Rains United Methodist Church, Slovak Beginning with a few thousand, the num- Proper, CSGS ‘06, who made it District ber now exceeds 24,000. Recently, the possible for the Library to pur- Library acquired an Electronic Resource Universidade Metodista de São chase the three-volume Collected Management System (ERMS) to help Letters of C.S. Lewis. Paulo manage the acquisition, maintenance, and GIFTS IN KIND TO THE Bernard S. Via, Jr. accessibility of these journals and other METHODIST LIBRARY Mary Jo Walters electronic resources. When it is fully implemented, the ERMS will allow us to Arkansas District United Methodist World Methodist Council Museum, create and maintain flexible control over a Archives, Hendrix College North Carolina central repository of e-resource-related James Bishop Yvonne H. Yare data, like contact information, usage sta- tistics, and licensing information. This repository can then be exploited by Library staff and patrons. Consider licensing information. The Visions ERMS can send automated alerts to staff in advance of each license renewal date. Andrew D. Scrimgeour, Ph.D. Editor: Anna S. Magnell In addition, it can display pertinent license Dean of Libraries On-Line Edition: Jennifer Heise restrictions to patrons at point of use. All Drew University Library Designer: Jama L. Bowman the information in the ERMS is integrated Madison, NJ 07940 with the knowledge base that supports A complete online archive of past 973/408-3322 access to e-journals and staff access to issues of Visions can be viewed on [email protected] vendor information. With the Library’s the library website at at: commitment to acquiring and making http://www.drew.edu/depts/library/visions.aspx available a growing number of e-resources, the ERMS is a valuable tool that will help us serve patrons better.