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NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE Central University Libraries PAID Southern Methodist University SOUTHERN METHODIST PO Box 750135 UNIVERSITY Dallas, Texas 75275-0135 Central University Libraries ANNUAL REPORT 2009-2010 CONTENTS YES, WE STILL HAVE BOOKS . But we might also have been occupied by the Lyle School of Clearly these cultural and technological 2 CUL 2.0: Resources for the digital age vooks and Nooks, keitai shousetsu and Engineering for so many years. Stay shifts come with some challenges. 3 Moving forward with generous support gigaku masks, sheriff’s badges and stereo- tuned for exciting developments on our New research suggests that the digital view photographs. From Skype to Swype, library renovation! environment may be fundamentally 4 Collection paints a complete portrait the Central University Libraries are a changing how the human mind acquires This is the brave new world of informa- SMU’s libraries have the best Friends far cry from our grandmothers’ libraries. and retains knowledge. Our librarians 5 tion access – our students want and Our grandmothers would probably be need to anticipate these changes and And the first Literati Award goes to … expect to have it all at the swipe of a mystified by students clustering around are working hard to retool their finger. If they can’t find it quickly on computers or displaying printed pages services. At any given moment, librarians 6 Patricia Van Zandt: Leading a revolution Google, it might just as well not exist. We on electronic readers. Our library is are responding to electronic reference have provided a new “discovery layer,” SMU’s ‘Best Place To Study’ abuzz, and if anyone is saying “shush,” it is questions from around the world, which sits on top of our online catalog the students and not the librarians. working with patrons in person for in- 7 Educator, traveler, library champion and allows the user to search across depth consultation, creating virtual Today, the library is just as central to our print and electronic resources with a Tom Greene: Passion and enthusiasm playlists of sound recordings for music SMU’s academic mission as when the first Google-like search box (see Discover classes (see Variations, p. 3) or instant 8 Picturing SMU’s first hundred years students set foot on campus in 1915. SMU Libraries, p. 2). messaging with an SMU student in France. But technology now allows the library and Mark Dimunation: Speaking volumes its vast contents to travel to where the Today the Central University Libraries are student is. Access to the world’s informa- so much more than books, bricks and 9 CUL Achievements “A library was formerly tion is at the fingertips of our students judged on the size of its mortar – more complex, more challeng- 10 Officers and Directors, Friends of the and faculty via their smartphones, iPads physical COLLECTIONS, ing and infinitely more exciting. Will SMU Libraries/Colophon or netbooks. Our library is open to its but today a library must be the library ever resemble the bookshelf users 24/7 wherever they are – in their measured in terms of the shown on the left? Probably not in my Library staff awards dorms, on study abroad, or at home access it provides to lifetime, or yours, but I have learned never 11 Selected statistics with their parents. materials located around to say never! It is a wild ride, and we are the world as well as its delighted to have so many of you along Amy Elizabeth Ward: 2010 Weil Award winner A library was formerly judged on the size 12 unique onsite collections.” with us. Thank you for your support. of its physical collections, but today a 12-15 Donors library must be measured in terms of the Gillian M. McCombs access it provides to materials located 16 Councils and policy group Dean and Director, Central University Libraries around the world as well as its unique Let us know what you think onsite collections. Digital initiatives are Glossary crucial to allowing offsite access to these Swype – virtual keyboard “glide” special materials, from 1940s movies on technology for mobile phones 16 mm film to stereoview photographs Skype – videophone service through from the Civil War. Several of CUL’s the Internet digital collections are so unique that we Vooks – video-enhanced e-books were allowed to join The Commons Nook – proprietary e-book reader on Flickr. In partnership with the Library Keitai shousetsu – Japanese cell of Congress and 44 other leading “Today the Central phone novels cultural heritage institutions, our images University Libraries are Gigaku masks – Japanese masks are available around the world (see The so much more than from the 7th to 10th centuries Commons, p. 2). However, the original Stereoviews – photography that books, bricks and mortar...” objects still need to reside somewhere, created a 3D effect when seen and we are grateful to reclaim the through a special viewer space on the third floor of the Science On the cover: Exterior details of Hamon Arts and Information Center, which has Library, Meadows School of the Arts Dean Gillian M. McCombs Inside cover: Students walk along the Laura Bush Promenade, Fondren Library Center. 1 CUL 2.0: INNOVATION IN THE DIGITAL agE CONTRIBUTIONS CONTINUE TO ENRICH SMU LIBrarIES doing research or working on presenta- Variations digital music tions, keep the Hamon Arts Library’s platform A User Group of students, faculty and library staff was selected to study and new scanner, known as the Knowledge refine the plan for proposed Fondren Library Complex renovation. Variations added a digital dimension to Imaging Center (KIC), in constant use. standard assignments in two sections of “The CUL Capital Campaign Committee, chaired by Ann Brookshire and Tav Lupton, has already designated this renovation as one of its major goals,” Technological sophistication and user- Music Theory 6330 during a spring pilot says Paulette Mulry, director of development for Central University friendly function merge in the self-service project conducted at Hamon Arts Library. Libraries. “We are confident that we will be successful.” scanner. The KIC (pronounced “kick”) The newly released software is an “all- Other 2009-10 accomplishments included: is “insanely easy” to operate, says Alisa encompassing” study aid, says Jon Haupt, Rata Stutzbach, Hamon director. Library • The G. William Jones Film and Video Collection. Housed in Hamon music and media librarian, who spear- patrons can scan books, illustrations Arts Library, the collection was awarded a $28,000 grant from the National headed the pilot program. Variations’ many Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) for the preservation of Carib Gold and other documents, crop the resulting functions allow users to sit at a com- (1956), an African-American crime drama set in Key West and featuring images and e-mail files in a seamless puter and listen to streaming audio while Ethel Waters, Cicely Tyson and Geoffrey Holder. The film is notable process. The KIC offers the option of Photographs from the CUL viewing the music score online, to for its documentation of the Key West waterfront and shrimping fleet as Digital Collections – including (from left) saving scans in multiple formats, including they existed in the mid-20th century. The NFPF funds will allow the Jones bookmark and replay any track, to make Calamity Jane, General Pancho Villa and text files and searchable PDFs. Collection to use its print to create a new negative, prints and videos. The and save annotations on the scores, and slave children from New Orleans – can be new materials will be available for teaching, research and public viewing. viewed on The Commons on Flickr. In addition the device’s large scanning to test listening skills by completing drills. A $10,000 contribution bed accommodates oversized materials • A self-serve scanner in the Fondren Library. A virtual “commons” presents the Central and images related to the Mexican Students in MUTH 6330 Analytical from the Smallwood Foundation allowed the CUL to purchase the scanner, – up to 17-by-24 inches. University Libraries’ digital collections Revolution are just a few of the Techniques found the audio timeline tool, which makes it easy for patrons to transfer books and other “hard format” to the world. A scanner brings state-of- categories covered by the collections. also known as the Timeliner, particularly materials into digital files. Discover SMU Libraries the-art imaging to the production of useful, says Robert Frank, associate • The Archives of Women of the Southwest. This endowment has grown Not only is The Commons a resource In April the introduction of the Discover student and faculty presentations. A new professor of theory and composition in to nearly $675,000, moving closer to its $1 million goal. The library will use for faculty, students and other members SMU Libraries service launched an service applies the ease of open Web Meadows School of the Arts, who taught the money to endow an archivist position for DeGolyer’s Archives of of the SMU community, it also introduces information revolution. Women of the Southwest. searches to SMU’s libraries. Recently the graduate course. CUL’s rich and valuable photography released software creates a new way The online tool allows students, faculty • The Faculty/Staff Division of the Unbridled Campaign. Amy Carver collections to users who are not acquainted “The Timeliner feature alone makes for music students to approach tradi- and other users to search all electronic and Bill Dworaczyk are CUL’s co-chairs for the division. Overall, 58 percent with the University, Boeke says. Variations a valuable teaching tool,” Frank of SMU’s staff and faculty have contributed to the University campaign, tional assignments. resources – books, journals, newspapers, says. “We used it in class to demonstrate which includes CUL’s 56 percent level of participation.