Maureen Pastine, Ivy Bayard and Carol Lang
With the financial support of a donor gift and a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Temple University Libraries embarked on a major digital imaging…
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With the financial support of a donor gift and a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Temple University Libraries embarked on a major digital imaging enterprise. The first year’s pilot projects, their costs, and lessons learned are discussed. Plans are outlined for continued expansion of their image database and related programs, which will be funded by a second IMLS grant and other sources.
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Maureen Pastine and Judy Searles
In an attempt to recognize staff excellence and retain staff during a pay equity phase‐in period, Southern Methodist University Libraries has created five “Library Staff…
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In an attempt to recognize staff excellence and retain staff during a pay equity phase‐in period, Southern Methodist University Libraries has created five “Library Staff Recognition Awards:” Continuing Excellence, Outstanding Achievement, Employee of the Year, Student Assistant of the Year, and one unnamed award that can be for any of the previous four categories.
Maureen Pastine and Shirley McLean
Adapted from a 1992 ALA Pay Equity Committee's program on “Are You Underpaid? The Pay Equity Struggle in Libraries,” this article demonstrates that an employee turnover study can…
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Adapted from a 1992 ALA Pay Equity Committee's program on “Are You Underpaid? The Pay Equity Struggle in Libraries,” this article demonstrates that an employee turnover study can be effective in addressing problems of understaffing and salary deficiencies in a large academic library. Inadequate salaries makes retention of quality employees difficult and replacement costly, in addition to having detrimental impacts on services and morale. Administrators should use every opportunity to obtain pay equity funds to resolve these problems.
Suggests that many universities and their libraries are not prepared to meet the expanding costs for computing and networking required in today’s technologically‐oriented…
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Suggests that many universities and their libraries are not prepared to meet the expanding costs for computing and networking required in today’s technologically‐oriented environment. Southern Methodist University is attempting to do something about this problem. It began with hiring of consultants to help the campus plan for upgrading both administrative and academic computing and equipping the campus for improved electronic communications and networking within and outside the campus. This “re‐engineering” process included development of the mission and principles of computing, compiled with the help of the campus community. Focus groups set priorities and a structure has been put in place to address some of the priority administrative needs of the campus for the immediate future. Part of the process was to identify computing expenditures across the campus over a three year period so that future funding needs could be anticipated. Discusses the campus planning process and places some emphasis on how the process related to central university libraries, its planning process, expenditures, problems to address, and future needs.
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From time to time library budgets do not grow at a rate sufficient to sustain current library operations. In such circumstances, library managers must retrench. Although strategic…
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From time to time library budgets do not grow at a rate sufficient to sustain current library operations. In such circumstances, library managers must retrench. Although strategic planning is often associated with new resources, it may be equally important for successful retrenchment. When is retrenchment likely to be necessary in academic libraries? How might management approach retrenchment?
In November 1998, the new Fondren Library Center (FLC) was dedicated at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. This building, connecting the main Fondren Library…
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In November 1998, the new Fondren Library Center (FLC) was dedicated at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. This building, connecting the main Fondren Library with the Science and Engineering Library (SEL), was the first building to be completed in SMU’s five year capital campaign “The campaign for SMU: a time to lead”, 1997‐2002. Was this seminal event a reflection of the university’s commitment to its library system; a tribute to donor generosity; the result of intense lobbying on the part of faculty and library staff; a happy accident; or some combination of all of the above? The article hopes to show that, like much fund‐raising, the latter was the case.
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The following is an annotated list of materials dealing with orientation to library facilities and services, instruction in the use of information resources, and research and…
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The following is an annotated list of materials dealing with orientation to library facilities and services, instruction in the use of information resources, and research and computer skills that are related to retrieving and using information. This is the fourteenth review to be published in Reference Services Review and lists items in English published in 1987. A few items are not annotated because the compiler could not obtain copies of them for this review.