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Groups that Filed "Intent to Apply" Forms for FY09 CARLI Collections Enhancement Awards Program
The following groups filed "Intent to Apply" forms with CARLI.
If you have questions about any of these groups, please use the contact information given.
Analysis of Utilization Patterns of E-Resources in CARLI Academic Libraries
Contact: Sharon Hu – Chicago State University
chu@csu.edu
Assessment - Analysis of Electronic Journal Usage in the State
Contact: Jeffrey Matlak – Western Illinois University
JG-Matlak@wiu.edu
Black Studies Collection Enhancement
Contact: Li Fu – Chicago State University
lfu@csu.edu
CARLI Green Construction and Engineering Project
Contact: Todd Spires – Bradley University
tspires@bradley.edu
Counterculture and Earth Day: Historic Student Newspapers, 1969-1973 (Benedictine University, National-Louis University)
Contact: Benn Joseph – Benedictine University
bpjoseph@ben.edu
Digital Guide to the Randolph Street Gallery Archives
Contact: Kerri Willette – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
kwillette@saic.edu
Documenting Women's History in the Knox College Archives
Contact: Jeffrey A. Douglas – Knox College
jdouglas@knox.edu
Emerging Markets, Emerging Problems: Environmentalism and Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and the World
Contact: Gabrielle M. Toth – Chicago State University
gtoth@csu.edu
Energy Crisis: Declining Traditional Sources and Emerging Alternatives
Contact: Chris Sweet – Heartland Community College
chris.sweet@heartland.edu
Engineering and Technology of Designing Products and Processes with Minimum Impact
Contact: Nestor Osorio – Northern Illinois University
nosorio@niu.edu
Enhancing Access to Digitized Legislative Digest
Contact: Karen Hogenboom, Betsy Kruger, Joe Natale – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois State Library
hogenboo@uiuc.edu, jnatale@ilsos.net
Environmental Aspects of Business and Economics
Contact: Daniel K. Blewett – College of DuPage
blewett@cod.edu
Environmental History of South Side of Chicago: Chicago State University and the Calumet Heritage Partnership
Contact: E.J. Carter – Chicago State University
ecarte20@csu.edu
Environmental Racism
Contact: Fatemah Asadi – Chicago State University
fasadi@csu.edu
Evaluation of Collections at the Research Level. Determining the Level of Support Libraries are Providing to Research Programs in Institutions of Higher Learning in the State with an Emphasis on Mathematical Sciences and Physics, a Pilot Project.
Contact: Nestor Osorio – Northern Illinois University
nosorio@niu.edu
Exploring Environmental Impacts on Health & Wellness
Contact: Stephanie Davis-Kahl – Illinois Wesleyan University
sdaviska@iwu.edu
Global Warming and the Changing Environment
Contact: Carol DeBiak – Illinois Institute of Technology
debiak@iit.edu
Green and Sustainable: Education in the 21st Century
Contact: Pamela Salela – University of Illinois at Springfield
psale2@uis.edu
Green Responsibility: Personal and Professional
Contact: Frances Whaley – Illinois Valley Community College
frances_whaley@ivcc.edu
Greening and Browning - Urban, Suburban and Rural Issues
Contact: Frances Whaley – Illinois Valley Community College
frances_whaley@ivcc.edu
Greening the Humanities
Contact: Kim Hale – Columbia College Chicago
khale@colum.edu
Hymenoptera Digitization Project
Contact: Diane Schmidt – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
dcschmid@uiuc.edu
I-Share Monograph Collection Assessment: What Are We Buying and How Is It Used
Contact: Tina Chrzastowski and Lynn Wiley – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
chrz@uiuc.edu lnwiley@uiuc.edu
Illinois History and Lincoln Collection Copyright Status Determination Project
Contact: Betsy Kruger – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
betsyk@uiuc.edu
Improving Access to Special Collections in Illinois Libraries
Contact: Charlotte Johnson – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
cjohnso@siue.edu
Leadership Collection Enhancement
Contact: Li Fu – Chicago State University
lfu@csu.edu
Louis Sullivan Architectural Ornaments in Illinois
Contact: Therese Dickman – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
tdickma@siue.edu
Serials: An Online Faculty Survey
Contact: Sarah Miller – Illinois Wesleyan University
smiller2@iwu.edu
Sustaining a Green Future: Social and Political Issues Collection Partnership
Contact: Linda Carlisle – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
lcarlis@siue.edu
Analysis of Utilization Patterns of E-Resources in CARLI Academic Libraries
The utilization of E-Resources subscribed by the libraries, including those through CARLI, will be analyzed in a period of three years (2005-2007). The analysis aspects include: the collection budget of libraries (in percentage) spent for e-resources; the numbers of titles of e-resources subscribed, including analysis in subjects, duplicates, citation vs. full-text e-resources, interlibrary loan for e-resources (both borrow and loan), and cross comparisons among the project’s participants of CARLI academic libraries; plus, some random samplings of citations from graduate theses and faculty publications (books and journal articles) written over the past three or five years. The utilization analysis of e-resources will be based on various reports from e-resources’ vendors, Voyager reports, local web log file statistics, CARLI’s reports and other relevant statistics and utilization reports. This project will benefit CARLI libraries by evaluating the effectiveness of both individual libraries’ and state-wide e-resources and by setting the groundwork investigating more efficient ways to share e-resources among CARLI libraries. The initial participants are Chicago State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northern Illinois University and Illinois State University.
Assessment - Analysis of Electronic Journal Usage in the State
In the past decade, university and college libraries across Illinois have rapidly changed their print only serial subscriptions to either online only or print plus online access Most libraries have not had the time to analyze this process. Even the very basic question of whether or not new titles are being used enough to justify the expense of purchasing have not been addressed. This proposal would seek to answer some of these questions. Among the issues to be explored would be: the impact on usage of the SFX link resolver; a cost analysis of the change to electronic; how the decision to change over was reached; what has happened to the print back file of titles that have been acquired in a digital archive such as JSTOR; the impact of CARLI's consortial purchasing of publisher package deals; and how individual institutions have provided access to the new electronic titles.
Black Studies Collection Enhancement
Chicago State University (CSU), founded in 1867, has a unique collection of Black Studies that has supported its black studies course offerings as well as its predominant African Americans population. The Black Studies collection covers, in all formats, social, political, and economic experiences and phenomena of people of African descent. Over the years, the collection has served not only the CSU community but beyond. To further develop the resource and improve access, we propose for funding to assess the collection, identify gaps, expand the scope, and more importantly, seek better access solutions. Through Interlibrary Loans and Circulation, we hope to analyze and evaluate our current holdings, investigate on the demand, repair the gaps, enhance the collection, and make it available to all I-Share users, particularly students, professors and researchers. Our goal is to benefit library users throughout the state with this valuable asset.
CARLI Green Construction and Engineering Project
Social and political pressure in the United States has influenced the building industry to seek out new, environmentally friendly construction techniques, materials and equipment. The field is growing rapidly. To support these advances, universities around the country have incorporated these ideas into their curricula. Illinois universities are doing the same. However, since it is a new field, few materials have been purchased at academic libraries within the state. If funded, this grant will provided monies for several CARLI libraries to purchase materials to support these educational initiatives for this growing and potentially important area of study.
Counterculture and Earth Day: Historic Student Newspapers, 1969-1973 (Benedictine University, National-Louis University)
Historic collegiate newspapers from Illinois institutions of higher education are a valuable source of cultural and historical information for researchers, historians, students, and community members throughout Illinois. This initiative proposes to digitize the student newspapers of two suburban Chicago institutions between 1969 and 1973. These dates were chosen because they would include the events and counterculture reactions leading up to the first Earth Day in 1970, and would follow the progress made by this fledgling celebration, keeping with the “Green, Global, and Sustainable” initiative proposed by CARLI. The first Earth Days were recognized enthusiastically on the campuses of Benedictine University and National-Louis University, and for good reason. These institutions are located in Lisle, Illinois, which is known as “The Arboretum Village” because it is in this town that the Morton Arboretum resides, and Earth Day (April 22) was established on Julius Sterling Morton’s birthday.
Digital Guide to the Randolph Street Gallery Archives
SAIC will create an electronic guide to a very important collection of primary documents from late twentieth century local history. Eighty event calendars, published by Chicago’s Randolph Street Gallery (RSG) during its nineteen years of operation, provide an index to the Gallery’s historic activities and serve as the chief finding aid to its extensive Archives. Our RSG Archives are a multi-faceted collection comprising paper, photographic, audiovisual, and digital objects; original art; posters, banners, backdrops, and artifacts. The calendars are the key to accessing these Archives. Digitization of the calendars will facilitate research, writing, and teaching about the cultural and social history of an institution that helped bring Illinois to the forefront of contemporary art. Kerri Willette, Digital Resources Librarian, will supervise and coordinate all aspects of the proposed project. Archival materials will be evaluated and selected for inclusion by Doro Boehme, Special Collections Librarian and curator for the RSG Archives.
Documenting Women's History in the Knox College Archives
Our Access & Analysis project would catalog and create online finding guides for selected manuscript and archival collections held by our library on local and regional women's history in Knox County and western Illinois. These collections have been exhaustively reviewed to identify 35 collections on individual women or on women's organizations in the region in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Emerging Markets, Emerging Problems: Environmentalism and Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and the World
The peoples and communities of the so-called developed world are not the only ones wrestling with issues of environmentalism. Peoples of ""emerging market"" regions of the world, such as Latin America and Asia, have long borne witness to environmental degradation at the hands of others when their natural resources were harvested by others in the colonial and neo-colonial eras. Globalization and industrialization both demand more and more of these natural resources and supply their products and lifestyles to a broader segment of the world. How governmental policies, corporate policies and grassroots efforts in Latin American, Asia, border regions and other parts of the globe address the need to harvest and preserve natural resources, and the dual demands for raised standards of living and for better stewardship of the environment, are essential questions and will be the focus of this collection development project.
Energy Crisis: Declining Traditional Sources and Emerging Alternatives
The future stability of our society is dependent upon solving the energy crisis. Traditional fuel sources will run out. Will sustainable energy sources be ready to take their place?
Engineering and Technology of Designing Products and Processes with Minimum Impact
Scope of this award. Participating libraries will select and acquire library materials - not limited to paper - in the following areas: Energy efficiency and renewable energy resources (NIU) Sustainable building technologies Alternative fuels Hydrogen, fuel cells and their infrastructure technologies Wind and hydropower technologies Biomechanical aspects of industrial waste Management aspects of sustainable development in industry Prevention and control of industrial waste Vehicle technologies Mechanical engineering aspects of green design Electrical engineering aspects of green design Civil engineering and green design Industrial packaging and transportation Green engineering and technology educational materials Any other areas related to the engineering and technology of green design Need for this award. USA and the world major economies are embarking in the development of products and industrial processes design that are friendly to the environment and at the same time capable of maintaining their quality and their commercial viability. Departments of engineering, business, and several branches of the applied sciences at universities in the State of Illinois are working on the creation courses, lab experiences, and research projects in what could be one of the most significant engineering challenges of the century. This award will be utilized to strength the library collections of the participating institutions in the areas listed above.
Enhancing Access to Digitized Legislative Digest
The University of Illinois Library recently digitized the final version of the Illinois Legislative Synopsis and Digest for the last twenty years as part of its Illinois Harvest project. The Digest summarizes the history of every bill and resolution introduced in the Illinois General Assembly, and is extensively indexed. The University of Illinois Library and the Illinois State Library plan to apply for a Collections Enhancement Award in order to do text markup of the files and create an interface that would enable users to search for bills for a longer time period and in ways that are currently impossible online, such as finding all bills introduced about firearms during a ten year period or all bills that proposed amendments to an existing law.
Environmental Aspects of Business and Economics
Business and economics are thoroughly intertwined in today's world, both affecting the other, many times to the detriment of both. Libraries need more materials to support the study of environmental changes due to economics and business, and how those changes affect humans. The College of DuPage Library (COD), in partnership with the libraries at Benedictine University (BEN) and Chicago State University (CSU), intends to apply for an FY2009 CARLI Collections Enhancement Award. The three libraries are joining to acquire materials in the broad area of Business and Economics as it relates to environmental and sustainable development topics. Each library will request $2000 ($6000 total request), and COD will be the coordinating agency. BEN will concentrate on issues dealing with China specifically, and East Asia more broadly. CSU will concentrate on environmental racism and environmental justice. COD will concentrate on two areas, business/economic/manufacturing policies and procedures related to the environment, and business/economics/globalization related to the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean. All of these items will be cataloged and available to other libraries through standard interlibrary procedures.
Environmental History of South Side of Chicago: Chicago State University and the Calumet Heritage Partnership
Chicago State University's Archives and Special Collections department plans to collaborate with the Southeast Historical Society, the Pullman Historical Society, and other organizations involved in the Calumet Heritage Partnership, to acquire resources and process and manage existing materials dealing with the ecological legacy of the Calumet region. As a historical center of industrial development in the Chicago area, these organizations are deeply involved in caring for the environmental as well as historical legacy of Calumet. One early step in this project will be to accession, process, and catalog the records of the Calumet Environmental Research Center. Eventually we hope that CSU's department of Archives and Special Collections will provide a natural home and clearinghouse for similar materials throughout the area. By providing space, equipment, and information management expertise, Chicago State hopes to play a determinative role in shaping the environmental history of South Side Chicago.
Environmental Racism
Environmental racism is intentional or unintentional racial discrimination in the enforcement of environmental rules and regulations, the intentional or unintentional targeting of minority communities for the sitting of polluting industries such as toxic waste disposal, or the exclusion of people of color from public and private boards, commissions, and regulatory bodies, as defined and coined by Reverend Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Executive Director and CEO of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice in 1981. Within the broad topic of “Business/Economics and the Environment“ we at Chicago State University Library intend to collect materials that document and discuss the past practices, and materials that support current and the future of the environmental policies world wide. By collecting books in this topic, the students and faculy of our business colleges in the state of Illinois will be equipped with the knowledge of environmental racism and some of its policies.
Evaluation of Collections at the Research Level. Determining the Level of Support Libraries are Providing to Research Programs in Institutions of Higher Learning in the State with an Emphasis on Mathematical Sciences and Physics, a Pilot Project.
Using citation analysis of dissertations written by graduate students and papers published by research faculty and staff it is possible to determine the kind of documents currently being used, for example, articles in journals, articles in conference proceedings, reports, manuals, patents, textbooks, research compendiums, films, datasets, etc. The use of random samples of documents is a method accepted in the literature of bibliometric analysis and collection evaluation. Participating institutions in this project will contribute to this analysis by selecting random samples of dissertations and articles produced at their campuses in the last five to seven years. There are several proven methods for determining the strengths of collections in a selected field; we are considering using a modified user oriented version of the brief test method for the selection of citations from the references listed in the dissertations and papers and for their subsequent analysis. Benefits of this project: There are three major issues that can be explored in this project for the benefit of CARLI libraries: 1. What materials in the fields of mathematical sciences and physics are being used by our researchers and how they obtain them. 2. What is the level of support the libraries are providing to these graduate and research programs. 3. Based of the Conspectus theoretical framework what are the current levels (3, 4) of our collections. If there are deficiencies how can a consortium organization such CARLI be utilized to improve our collections. Finally, the methodology used in this pilot project could be utilized for the collection analysis of other fields. The libraries initially interested in this project are: IIT (Charles W. Uth), ISU ( Julie A. Murphy ), and NIU (Nestor Osorio).
Exploring Environmental Impacts on Health & Wellness
The focus of our proposal is to collect materials related to the impact of the environment on all aspects of physical and psychological health and wellness. This area is of deep concern globally, as evidenced by scholarly work from education institutions and studies and initiatives out of several government agencies in the United States and abroad focusing on assessing and resolving negative environmental health impacts. The possibilities for interdisciplinary study and scholarship are rich and our areas of interest include mental health implications, organic foods, and integrative and alternative medicine. Our focus on health will enhance and enrich dialogue on our respective campuses about the many facets of "going green" and sustainability movements, expanding the discussions to include matters of health and wellness.
Global Warming and the Changing Environment
Climate change may become one of the greatest threats facing our planet. There is now overwhelming scientific concensus that global warming is happening, and that it is human-induced. Human activity appears to have had a significant effect on global temperatures as well as on the numbers of species and their habitats. This has placed considerable strain on the earth's ecosystems ability to adapt and be sustaining. Although many libraries are already purchasing the more popular books on the subject, libraries also need to provide access to all the newly published material in the supporting fields of study in order to face this challenge. This could cover everything from the nature of biodiversity and the environment to the chemistry of greenhouse gases and their mitigation. This will depend on the collecting interests of the libraries involved. Galvin Library at IIT is interested in collecting in the areas involving the chemistry of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and their mitigation. We would also be interested in publications that cover and support climate modeling. We would also be interested in publications that cover and support climate modeling. Other libraries may wish to collect in areas such as the impacts on biodiversity and habitat, weather, or political issues.
Green and Sustainable: Education in the 21st Century
A crucial means for developing an awareness of the value of “green, global and sustainable” is environmental education, for teachers as well as students. Our efforts will focus on collections that provide pedagogical support for secondary school teachers in the form of pupil’s editions of secondary textbooks related to the environment, as well as curriculum materials for primary school students. In addition, we will collect materials that provide information about the theory as well as the practice of teaching about the environment to support all teachers and their curriculums. Literature is a vital way of educating the spirit of future generations to “think green” and so youth literature with a focus on environmentalism will be included. Finally, what better way to encourage an environmental conscience than through modeling. Our collection activities will include materials about Green campus buildings and environmental activism and initiatives. Libraries: Parkland College, Chicago State, Greenville College & UIS.
Green Responsibility: Personal and Professional
As the world grows increasingly anxious about environmental issues, it is not enough to voice one’s concerns in a purely theoretical manner. It is time for people to accept responsibility and take action. Individuals make a difference at home with simple decisions in home design and decoration, in the workplace with leadership by example, and in politics with advocacy of policies and organizations. Closely tied with responsibility, environmental ethics touches all levels of our political and economical structures. DePaul will build a collection on environmental ethics as related to inequality domestically and internationally, as well as corporate governance. SIUE will emphasize political decision-making and policies of activist organizations as connected with environmental ethics. IVCC’s resources will depict actions each one of us can take to personally improve the environment. The responsibility for creating a green and sustainable world lies with us all, and this collection will provide the crucial resources.
Greening and Browning - Urban, Suburban and Rural Issues
As people are becoming more environmentally aware, we also recognize that the areas in which we live and work play a major role in how we impact the environment. Greening and Browning project partners propose to build collections specializing in environmental issues that arise in urban, suburban and rural settings. City residents must consider topics such as urban planning, urban renewal, and urban ecology. Urban minority populations in particular feel the unhealthy effects of the historically poor choices society has made regarding the environment. In suburbia people contend with urban sprawl and management of natural resources. Rural residents struggle with dilemmas such as agriculture production that is environmentally friendly yet cost effective and fuel conservation without public transportation systems. People in urban, suburban and rural areas face challenges suited to the particular type of environment they inhabit. We will provide resources to understand and surmount those green challenges.
Greening the Humanities
Scientists now agree that we are facing a level of environmental change that will impact every facet of human life, from the way we work, to where we live and how we relate to the rest of the world. Artists, musicians, designers and writers are messengers who call attention to the environment through the creative process. Those who teach the humanities realize that a response to global warming requires a new level of collaboration across disciplines.
Hymenoptera Digitization Project
Many of the important early works on the taxonomy, biology, and management of the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps) are available at only a few libraries. This proposal requests funding to digitize about 100 of these early works from the Field Museum, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and other CARLI libraries. The grant will build on other hymenoptera digitization projects, but those projects focused on beekeeping manuals while this project will emphasize taxonomy. This request fits within the “Green, Global, and Sustainable” Collection Partnerships umbrella because of the importance of these insects to the environment and the problems facing them. Bees are suffering from Colony Collapse Disease, which has decimated commercial and wild hives and could cause ecological devastation if bees can’t pollinate crops and other plants. Many scientists, students, and members of the general public in Illinois are interested in the Hymenoptera and would benefit from this digitization project.
I-Share Monograph Collection Assessment: What Are We Buying and How Is It Used
Illinois libraries face a monograph collection crisis. Our budgets cannot always meet demands. And while the 65-library I-Share program for collectively sharing monographs is providing an excellent way to meet the increasing needs of our users, no one has ever assessed this collection to determine what is being purchased and shared. An assessment of the past five years (2003-2007) of I-Share lending and borrowing data, along with an analysis of top monograph publishers, title duplicates and overlap, is proposed to discover how this critical collection is meeting the needs of Illinois’ CARLI population. Significant areas for investigation include the use of monographs by subject, collection overlap, publisher market share, what books are circulating where, and what type of books are being purchased, but never used. A critical outcome could be consortial monograph purchasing agreements and a sense of which monograph subjects are good candidates for state-wide e-book purchasing.
Illinois History and Lincoln Collection Copyright Status Determination Project
UIUC Library has been digitizing extensively in its Illinois History and Lincoln Collection. To date, our efforts have focused on books known to be in the public domain (U.S. imprints published prior to 1923. Many more volumes in this collection could be digitized if their copyright status was clarified, specifically books published between 1923 and 1963 whose copyright was never renewed. UIUC's Illinois History and Lincoln Collection holds over 6,500 monographs and over 3,600 serials that fall into this category. The objective of this project will be to search the Stanford University Copyright Renewal Database (http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home) to determine the copyright status of these books. This database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1992 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. Various national studies have estimated that less than 10% of books published in the US during this time period had their copyright renewed. UIUC will digitize through its Open Content Alliance project those books for which evidence of copyright renewal was not found in the Stanford database. A copyright status statement will be included in the metadata for each digitized book as will an email address for follow-up contact should the books copyright status ever be contested. This approach has been approved by the UIUC's Office of University Counsel. Like the public domain content in this important collection, the digitized copies of books identified in the project will be made accessible to all CARLI libraries and the rest of the world through the OPAC, Illinois Harvest web portal, and Worldcat.
Improving Access to Special Collections in Illinois Libraries
Unique special collections are held by most libraries, yet these materials have often had the least attention in making the public (and other libraries) aware of their existence. This project would look at the current situation in CARLI libraries, what resources are currently included in ArchivesUSA and WorldCat, and determine what would be needed to improve access and expand awareness.
Leadership Collection Enhancement
Chicago State University started as a teacher training school in 1867. Over the years, it has evolved into a multipurpose university committed to meeting diverse needs. With a strong curriculum in education and large African American’s population, the university has more than 26 master degree programs and five certification programs. In addition, there is a Doctoral Program of Educational Leadership and Administration (Ed.D), Library Science School, and Business College. Recently, a Leadership Institute has been planned and will be launched in January 2008. The ever-growing needs have been overwhelming for the educational leadership, business leadership, black and minority leadership, library and information professional leadership, as well as emerging and next generation leadership. To help fill those needs and support the university's curricula, we propose for funding to enhance the leadership collection. The resources will benefit all library users throughout the state.
Louis Sullivan Architectural Ornaments in Illinois
This collaborative photograph digitization project between the SIUE and Roosevelt University libraries, will make accessible selected architectural ornaments of Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), from both university campuses. Sullivan and his partner, Dankmar Adler, were leaders in architectural and skyscraper design.They helped rebuild Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871. Sullivan was known for his "lush," elegant ornamentation. By the 1960s, however, many Sullivan buildings were slated for demolition for urban renewal. In 1965, SIUE acquired about 500 Sullivan ornaments salvaged from demolition sites by architectural Chicago photographer, Richard Nickel. Roosevelt University in Chicago resides within the former Auditorium Building (1886-89)designed by Sullivan. This culturally historic project can be expanded in subsequent years to feature Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van Der Rohe architecture within the state.
Serials: An Online Faculty Survey
Small, academic institutions will benefit from the creation of a dynamic serials review process. The serials collection at Illinois Wesleyan University is centered on the highly specific needs of a small number of faculty members. Faculty members retire and new ones are hired regularly. This, coupled with limited resources, creates the need for an agile serials collection. The intent of this project is to establish a mechanism for a university wide serials review at regular intervals. Librarians at the Ames Library and the Grainger Engineering Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will create an online survey to assess the needs of the faculty of Illinois Wesleyan University. Data will be collected using holdings information from the Illinois Wesleyan University SFX Knowledge Base. Faculty preferences will be analyzed in the context of the journal packages and databases to assist with the serials selection process. The incorporation of COUNTER statistics will also be explored.
Sustaining a Green Future: Social and Political Issues Collection Partnership
What decisions and actions are necessary to promote a world of green, global, and sustainable societies? The complexity of the answer to this question is reflected in the many social and political issues related to the environment – and the multitude of published material related to environmental concerns. This partnership seeks to enhance the state-wide collection of materials that explore selected social and political issues related to the environment. Specific areas include ecofeminism; environmental impacts of tourism; environmental politics and policy (U.S. and international); green space in the urban environment/public transportation; health, indigenous people and the environment; minority populations, minority communities, and the environment; and materials related to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Our focus will be on quality books and DVDs that are not available in I-Share or for which I-Share holdings are not adequate. Partners are from diverse types of libraries located in northern, central, and southern Illinois.
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