University of Central Florida STARS Libraries' Documents 9-1-2014 University of Central Florida Libraries, Annual Report 2013-2014 UCF Libraries Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/lib-docs University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Report is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Libraries' Documents by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation UCF Libraries, "University of Central Florida Libraries, Annual Report 2013-2014" (2014). Libraries' Documents. 2. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/lib-docs/2 Libraries Annual Report 2013-2014 Table of Contents Director’s Overview ............................................................................ 1 Administrative Services Administrative Services ........................................................ 8 Curriculum Materials Center ............................................... 11 Regional Campus Libraries .................................................. 14 Universal Orlando Foundation Library at Rosen................... 17 Collections & Technical Services ...................................................................... Acquisitions & Collection Services ...................................... 22 Cataloging Services............................................................. 31 Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Services .................... 36 Communication, Assessment, & Public Relations ........................... 39 Information Services & Scholarly Communication Summary ........... 42 Circulation Services ............................................................ 45 Information Literacy & Outreach ........................................ 49 Office of Scholarly Communication ..................................... 55 Research & Information Services ........................................ 59 Information Technology & Digital Initiatives .................................. 68 Special Collections & University Archives ...................................... 77 Statistical Summary 2013-2014 ..................................................... 92 Media Volumes ............................................................................... 93 Financial Profile (Expenditures)...................................................... 94 Sources & Uses of Materials Budget ................................................ 95 NOTES: Funds from Other Sources ................................................ 96 Staff Information ............................................................................... Faculty & Staff Accomplishments ....................................... 98 Other Staff Accomplishments ........................................... 125 Library Advisory Committee ......................................................... 127 Organizational Chart .................................................................... 128 UCF Libraries Staff ....................................................................... 130 UCF Libraries Annual Report 2013-2014 Page i Director’s Overview The 21st Century Library project got underway with a assignments. Subject librarians also assist faculty workshop held on March 3-5, 2014 with Holzman Moss members by providing instructional sessions for their Bottino Architecture, Turner Construction, Facilities courses, being available in Canvas, and by creating Planning, and the Libraries Planning Committee. course-specific resource Web pages. During the next few months several workshops were held as the advanced schematic design for the entire In addition, an outreach program was implemented that John C. Hitt Library building was developed. Although complements the subject librarian model. Groups lack of enough funding for the project is still a major identified for outreach included First Year Experience and challenge, the design of the building is underway. About transfer, undergraduate research, graduate students, $17M is available for the project, far short of the and international students and community users. estimated $70M needed for the complete project of construction and renovation. This phase will last well Student Technology Fee Awards into late 2014. During the next few months, the final The Libraries received six Technology Fee Awards determination will be made as to what will be for 2013/2014 in the amount of $759,046 which constructed and renovated with available funds. funded the following proposals: Another important project undertaken during the year was the FLARE (FLorida Academic REpository) project. ■ Rosen College Library Technology FLARE is a shared storage facility located in Gainesville, Enhancement. Provide 36 new desktop PCs to operated by the University of Florida for academic replace existing desktop PCs; 24 Dell Latitude libraries in Florida. Library faculty and staff throughout tablets; a desktop PC with wall mounted 32” the John C. Hitt Library were involved in the project to monitor and Blue-ray player for each of the prepare and process periodicals, monographs, and VHS three group study rooms; and improve and add tapes for transfer to FLARE. They also worked closely additional data drops and wireless access. Total with the University of Florida Libraries. Over 107,000 cost: $87,266 (Tech Fee funds $84,766, cost items were moved consisting of 77,139 periodicals, share $2,500) 16,694 monographs and 13,417 VHS tapes. Moving ■ Expanding Hands-on Library Instruction these materials to FLARE freed up some shelving space Using Laptops: Provide 50 Dell XPS Laptops within the John C. Hitt Library which can be used until for use in the John C. Hitt Library Instruction materials can be moved into the Automated Retrieval Classrooms. Total cost: $92,650 (Tech Fee Center (ARC) which will be built as part of the 21st funds $89,650, cost share $3,000) Century Library project. ■ Tablets, Scanners & Collaborative Technology: Purchase 50 Dell tablets, imaging carts, KIC Bookeye 4 scanners, upgrade of wall monitors and collaboration systems in Hitt Library. Total cost: $130,835 (Tech Fee funds $124,835, cost share $6,000) ■ Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) and National Geographic Archive. Total cost: $124,800 (Tech Fee funds $119,800, cost share $5,000) ■ SAGE Research Methods and SAGE Knowledge. Total cost: $208,185 (Tech Fee funds $203,185, cost share $5,000) ■ British Periodicals Collection I & II. Total cost: $141,810 (Tech Fee $136,810, cost share $5,000) To date, the Libraries received $3,537,315 in The last “selfie” project leader Joe Bizon and team Technology Fee Funds. workers Katie Kirwan and Susan MacDuffee took with the Library Designs moving team as the last The Ask A Librarian service activity decreased slightly truckload of FLARE materials takes off for as telephone calls, text messaging, and emails declined. Gainesville Instant Messaging chats, however, increased by 26%. Chats continued to be the most popular interaction. During the year the new Subject Librarian service model There were 413,331 hits on the Libraries over 600 was implemented. The goal for this new service model Campus Guides for a 21% increase over last year. is to increase positive impacts on student learning, Use of the LibAnswers Knowledge Base, which provides faculty teaching & research, and scholarly asynchronous access to answers from librarians communication outreach. Subject librarians provide increased by 9% as question/answer pairs were viewed research support to students and faculty to help them 27,561 times. After a couple of years of decline, achieve their educational and academic goals and assist questions at the Research and Information Desk students at all levels with curriculum and research increased 11%, with 28,056 interactions. UCF Libraries Annual Report 2013-2014 Page 1 Director’s Overview (cont’d) Over 500 in-depth, one-on-one research consultations The number of students completing assessments with were conducted during the year. Available to all the information literacy modules was 9,758, up 24%. students and faculty, they are most heavily used by And there were 52,759 assessments completions for an graduate students. increase of 25%. The average score was 82.64%. Circulation of the Libraries collections, not including Face-to-face library instruction classes were attended by reserves was 235,982, a decrease of 10% over last year. 10,541 students in 275 classes in the John C. Hitt Use of the John C. Hitt Library decreased by 4% to a Library. There were 5,507 students in 220 classes on total of 1,283,542 users. The number of patrons using the Regional Campuses. And there were 488 students the Curriculum Materials Center was 63,062, a slight in 21 classes in the Curriculum Materials Center. decrease of 2%. Use of the Universal Orlando Special Collections and University Archives taught 537 Foundation Library at the Rosen College of Hospitality students in 38 classes. Management declined by 20% to 110,989. There were 2,532 students in 69 face-to-face and online Circulation Services conducted a manual count of the instruction classes at the Universal Orlando Foundation linear footage of print materials in the John C. Hitt Library at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management. Library to provide information for the 21st Century Library project. The Library has 42,234 shelves in the Regional Campuses librarians served as embedded general collection with 8,053 completely full shelves, librarians in 91 classes reaching 2,502 students. 33,599 partially full