Eugene McDermott Library 2002 Annual Report The University of Texas at Dallas The State of the Library In academe the library holds a special place as the heart University's mission, we constantly monitor our book of the campus. If McDermott Library is not located in the selections and seek input from the faculty. middle of the University of Texas at Dallas, it nevertheless We have started a leisure reading program with books wishes to be at its heart. Toward that end McDermott ranging from fiction to self-help. This program has proved Library supported a host of activities in the past year that very popular. engaged our faculty members, authors, historians, our Our Special Collections Department is well known for champion chess team, our baseball team, and our softball bringing new people to campus, and last year was no team. These collaborations enlivened our campus and put exception. Its unique resources attracted scholars, docu- the Library in the university spotlight. We worked with the mentary producers, writers, and the curious from across the Center for U.S. - Mexico Studies, Multicultural Center, country and from abroad. The collections continue to grow and the UTD Mercury. in size and significance. As significant as the McDermott Library’s programs were, Participation in conferences, professional meetings, they were peripheral to our central mission. That mission is training programs, on-line courses, and library science spelled out further in this annual report. classes have been important for keeping our staff current In the past year we built on previous accomplishments to with new developments. Our staff learns from and con- expand access to electronic resources provided by the tributes to professional programs. University of Texas System, the Texas State Library, and For much of the past year the Library staff has had to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund. This mission work in the midst of a renovation project. Although the top applies to both the McDermott and Callier Center libraries. floor of the McDermott Library was the principal con- This year we added 4,000 journals on-line. We implement- struction zone, the work impacted other floors as well. ed programs that, in most cases, allow us to deliver articles Wanting to see the project completed in a timely manner, requested on interlibrary loan by email. On-line reference the Library staff has tolerated the disruptions with good service is now available to distance education students and humor. Close working relationships with the architect, our on-campus patrons. We are committed to bringing the Booziotis & Company, and the prime contractor, Turner Library and its resources to our patrons wherever they may Construction, have smoothed out many potential problems. be. In addition the staff's inventiveness has kept the project With these innovations teaching our patrons to use tech- from impacting our users more than absolutely necessary. nology is vital to our mission, and our Bibliographic Next year's annual report will feature the fine new facil- Instruction program is meeting that need. Our reference ities currently under construction. Mrs. Margaret staff worked with our technical services staff to plan a new McDermott, widow of our namesake Eugene McDermott, facility during the year. made this needed renovation possible. The extra quality Books are and will remain central to the Library's mis- built into the project is a result of her direct support, sion. To be sure that we add books significant to the involvement and concern. Larry D. Sall, Ph.D. Director of Libraries Contents The State of the Library by Larry D. Sall, Ph.D . 2 McDermott’s Curiosity by Tom Koch . 4-5 Library Instruction by Loreen Phillips . 6 Library Technical Services by Faizur Rahman . 7 Interlibrary Loan by Vickie Bullock . 8 Special Collections by Erik D. Carlson, Ph.D. 9 Leisure Reading by Matt Makowka . 10 The Year. 11-13 Looking at Numbers. 14 Library Leaders and Managers. 15 The McDermott Library Annual Report is a publication of the University of Texas at Dallas Libraries, PO Box 830643, MC 33, On the cover Richardson, Texas 75083-0643 Phone 972-883-2960 The 2002 Annual Report is dedicated to the Fax 972-883-2473 library’s namesake - the late Eugene C. McDermott. The cover features a bronze bust of Mr. McDermott Larry D. Sall, Director of Libraries that is on display in the lobby of the McDermott Tom Koch, Editor Library. All photos by Rick Biddenstadt, At left, Eugene McDermott as he appeared on Photographer, unless otherwise noted Oct. 29, 1964 during the dedication of the Founder’s Building at the Graduate Research © 2002, UTD Libraries Center of the Southwest, the forerunner of UTD. 3 File Photo Curiosity, just curiosity His name is on the main library at The University of gious energy to foster it. After the TI trio created the Texas at Dallas. Graduate Research Center of the Southwest (that evolved But who was Eugene C. McDermott beyond one of the into UTD in 1969), McDermott lamented that Dallas lacked three Texas Instruments Inc. leaders who created the pre- public kindergartens and had failed to provide a public jun- dessor of UTD? ior college. That is not easy to answer because McDermott was a He helped found St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas multi-faceted dynamic individual. Years ago he told a and served nine years as its president. He served as trustee Dallas Morning News reporter, “Scientists have looked at the Hockaday School for Girls, and was a member of the from the planets all the way to the microscopic and submi- visiting committees at Harvard University and the croscopic. This is fine. But it’s time we got back to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in areas spanning macroscopic, the big instead of the little, the obvious, liv- psychology, population studies and physics. ing organism. We need to investigate at the level of gross His philanthropy touched education far and wide. morphology.” He gave Stevens Institute more than $1 million to build Brooklyn born, McDermott earned an ME degree from a 15-story building in Hoboken, NJ. Stevens made him an Stevens Institute of Technology and an MA from Columbia honorary doctor of science. University. He and Dr. J.C. Karcher created Geophysical He helped dedicate a new building at MIT and provided File Photo Serivce Inc. (GSI) to pursue geophysical exploration for oil 55 students with full and partial scholarships. Eugene C. McDermott companies. He supported a visiting professorship in anesthesiology He had some 10 inventions in various areas from geo- at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. chemistry to antisubmarine warfare. During World War II He served on the Board of Governors and Board of he was a civilian consultant to the government’s Office of Trustees at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and con- Scientific Research and Development. tributed money to establish a theater in SMU’s Owen’s McDermott and Karcher developed the reflection seis- Fine Arts Center. mograph to explore geological formations by measuring At Western Reserve University in Cleveland shock waves coming from underground explosions. It was McDermott was associated with studies in clinical anthro- GSI that developed into TI, a diversified engineering and pology. He wrote a paper titled “The Varieties of Human manufacturing company known for Jack Kilby and the cre- Physique.” ation of the integrated circuit. “The aim of education at all levels must be to maximize Most credit McDermott for forming the TI team of everyone’s capacities for thinking and doing,” he said. McDermott, Erik Jonsson and Cecil Green. At TI Asked what drove him to be a scholar, scientist, engi- McDermott was president, board chairman and executive neer, industrialist, philanthropist, inventor, education leader, committee chairman. weekend rancher and author, McDermott replied: 4 He had a particular interest in education and a prodi- “Curiosity, just curiosity.” Eugene C. McDermott Born: Brooklyn, New York, February 12, 1899 Died: Dallas, TX, August 24, 1973 Earned Degrees 1919 - M.E., Stevens Institute of Technology 1925 - M.A., Columbia University Honorary Degrees: 1960 - Doctor of Science, Stevens Institute of Technology 1972 - Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Dallas Professional Experience: 1930-41 - Geophysical Service (Predecessor company of Texas Instruments Inc.) File Photo Cofounder, Vice President, President, Chairman 1941-51 - Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI), Dallas, TX 1951-73 - Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (Chairman, 1951-57; Chairman Mrs. Margaret McDermott, shown here with her late hus- of the Executive Committee, Board of Directors, 1958-64; Director, 1965-73) band, Eugene McDermott, continues to generously sup- port the McDermott Library and programs of excellence at Educational Affiliations: UTD. Southwestern Medical School Foundation, Dallas, TX - Member, Executive Committee and Vice President Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX - Member, Board of Governors & Board of Trustees St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, TX - Member, Board of Trustees Graduate Center of the Southwest, Richardson, TX (Predecessor of The University of Texas at Dallas - Co-Founder Professional Affiliations: Children's Medical Center - Member, Board of Trustees Presbyterian Hospital - Member, Board of Trustees Texas Research Foundation - Trustee Honors and Awards: 1966 - Bene Merenti Medal File Photo 1969 - University of Texas Santa Rita Award 1972 - Service Award of the Dallas Hospital Council 1972 - Linz Award 5 Library Instruction @ McDermott Reference librarian Hillary Campbell begins a Bibliographic Instruction session. By Loreen Phillips In 1980, the first BI Librarian, Margaret "Peggy" one computer, but the Library's electronic resources Bibliographic Instruction Librarian Olsson, gave instruction classes with a borrowed chalk could be demonstrated, the students could be shown log- board and an overhead projector. The Library Instruction in procedures, and research techniques could be demon- The newly renovated Bibliographic Instruction (BI) program at McDermott did not have its first computer strated.