Borrowing Books Over the Break

Just a reminder about how to answer students how want to borrow or renew books over the break:

• Students enrolled for Spring can bring their ID and books to the Circ desk. Circ will verify registration and extend their borrowing privileges.
• Students not enrolled for Spring can bring their ID or DL, have their account converted to a community borrower, and borrow or renew 2 books over the break.

All of this needs to be done in person.

Proquest platform migration

Does anyone have an objection to me migrating the Proquest, CSA, and Chadwyck-Healey databases to the new Proquest platform next week?

Market Research Academic

There is a trial to Market Research Academic on the trials page. The navigation is a bit tricky. Look for the 'Download Report button above the purple 'Abstract' tab.
Let me know if you have any feedback.

Status report on reference move

I just wanted to update the reference staff on where we are with the reference move. We're under such time pressure at this point that it's getting a little scattered. If any of you have time in our remaining days before break your help will be appreciated.

1. Zinia has her students pulling books that you've marked to be moved to the stacks. She started with the 3rd floor call numbers.
2. I've been going through the 000-300 ranges and moving those books to the empty range at the start of reference so her students won't have to hunt for them.
3. I hope to start the same process today with the 800-900s -- i.e. move them to the very end of the reference ranges to separate them from the retained reference books.
4. I also have been identifying additional books for withdrawal and am putting them on the back of range 104. You are welcome to do the same should you feel the urge. These will be processed after everything else has been finished.
5. Our next project will be to start compressing the reference books that we will keep onto the shelves that will remain. Whatever can't fit on those will get moved to the back end of periodicals to be held until sections are added to the back ranges.
6. Once we have compressed the retained books onto shelves we can get an exact count and decide how many sections need to be added to the back ranges. We may not need all that we have planned for.
7. As soon as Gale's students are completely done with pulling indexes for withdrawal they will start working on shifting in periodicals to get ready for sections to be added back there. They have to clear the books from the first section of every range that gets an addition, so that will be quite time consuming.
8. I will notify everyone today that if they have students who want to work up to break we can use them. Budgets will be reimbursed from the Commons fund.
9. Kristen Keene plans to put up some "Excuse our Mess" posters and to put information on blog, etc. to explain what is going on once the shelves have been torn out.
10. An interesting number for your consideration: 1.2 miles of shelves are being moved from the front ranges to accomodate our new commons.
11. Almost 100% of the shelving will be kept in the building. On the upper floors several 10-section ranges will be added to each floor in the southeast corner. This will result in surplusing 6 quad carrels on each floor but there will be room left for some double carrels or casual seating. Collection Management is also getting a few ranges for more storage.

Pipeline Login for Retirees

Retirees who don't already have one can apply for an email address and Pipeline account by completing this form and returning it to Cope Room 003, Fax (615)898-5720. The retiree must have an M number, so he or she may need to make a trip to the ID office first.

Presumably, this will allow the retiree to login to library computers without obtaining a guest password each time.

You can determine whether or not a retiree has a Pipeline login by calling the ITD help desk at 5345.

-Amy