McMaster University Library The Place to Learn

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McMaster University LibraryThe Place to Learn
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About Me

• 20 years experience
• Public and academic libraries
• Associate Dean, Wayne State University Library
  System
• 5 libraries (Law, Medicine, Undergraduate,
  Science/Engineering, Social Sciences/Arts/Humaniti
  es)
• Media Services (300 classrooms, 30 lecture halls)
• General purpose computing labs (1000 computers)
• Office for Teaching and Learning
• Library and Information Science Program
• Technology Resource Center
• MathLab

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Research

• Research
• 2m (US) federally funded research
• Digital library initiatives
• Community-based projects
• Library/Museum collaborations
• Curriculum redesign projects
• Librarian education and minority recruitment

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About Me

• PhD candidate, Instructional Technology, WSU
• Instructional design
• Interactive technologies
• Human Performance
• Adjunct Faculty, WSU

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Author and speaker

• Nationally and internationally recognized speaker
  on libraries and emerging technologies.
• Most recently games and virtual worlds library
  2.0

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Challenges

• We are the lowest funded medical-doctoral library
  in Canada. (3.91 of the university budget, down
  from 6.3)
• We have the fewest total FTE in North America
• We have the fewest professional librarians in
  North America
• We rank 110 out of 113 in North America. Will
  probably drop to 113 this year or next.

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Challenges

• We have the 2nd highest foot traffic in all of
  Ontario (14,000 a day in Mills)
• We have the 2nd highest e-resource use in all of
  Ontario.
• Circulation of print appears to be increasing
• Enrollment
• McMaster is 1 in research intensity

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Biggest Challenge Engaging students who are
engaged with

• Games/Virtual worlds (WoW, Second Life)
• Social spaces (Facebook, myspace)
• Web 2.0 spaces (Blogs, Wikis)
• Content (YouTube, Flickr, del.icio.us)
• Handhelds, cell phones, iPods

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Transformation Vision for a 21st Century
Research Library

• Changing Role for University Libraries
• Academic library as change agent, encouraging
  innovation
• Partners in the academic enterprise
• Actively engaged in teaching and learning
• Actively engaged in the community
  (Hamilton/broader library community)

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A library that.

• takes risks
• innovates
• defines a distinctive reputation
• is a recognized leader

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Phase I Our Transformation

• Focus on 4 pillars of transformation
• Ourselves
• Our resources
• Our services
• Our facilities

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CAW Voluntary Separation

• Eliminated cataloging department (14 staff)
• CAW agreement
• 10 voluntary separation packages
• 6 months pay
• Take up from 8
• 300,000 salary savings
• 8 new positions created

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Achievements New and INNOVATIVE positions

• Digital Strategies Librarian
• Digital Technologies Librarian
• Teaching and Learning Librarian
• E-Resources Librarian
• Marketing, Outreach, Communications Librarian
• Immersive Learning (Gaming) Librarian

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First in Canada Learning 2.0 _at_ Mac
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New Partnerships

• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
• International Federation of Libraries and
  Archives (IFLA)
• Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
• HPL and Mohawk

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Transforming Our Services
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First in Canada Second Life
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First in Canada Endeca interface
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Other successes

• Liaison program
• New opportunities Honours Research Science
• More than doubled research help desk staff
• Laptop loan program
• Expanding content in our catalogue (working with
  the Museum and Lyons)

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• Transforming our resources

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Significant New Content

• E-books
• EEBO (100,000 full-text early English monographs)
• Springer e-books
• The following complete journal suites
• Blackwell journals (750 peer-reviewed titles from
  1997 to present)
• Cambridge University Press journals (223
  peer-reviewed journals)
• Oxford University Press journals (180 journals
  from 1996 to the present)
• Taylor Francis journals, both the SSH STM
  packages (1100 titles from 1997 to the present)
• Several historical newspapers
• New York Times (1851 - 2003)
• Times of London (1785 - 1985)
• Wll Street Journal (1889 - 1989)
• Washington Post (1877 - 1990)
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - 19th,
  20th and 21st centuries

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Launched digitization efforts

• Digitized 400 WWI trench maps
• Digitized 400 WWI aerial photos
• Submitted two grant proposals
• 20th Century War and Peace
• Bertrand Russell AV project

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First in Canada Digital Commons
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Russell Journal
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• Transforming our facilities

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Achievements Learning Commons _at_ Mills
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Capital Campaign

• Learning Commons _at_ Thode
• 4m renovation
• 847,000 donation

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Acquisitions budget

• Budget submission
• Library acquisitions exempted from campus-wide
  budget cuts
• Allowed to submit deficit budget for 08/09 and
  09/10
• Increases 1,125,000 for 2007/2008 (balanced)
• 525,000 base budget increase in 2007/2008
• 600,000 one-time increase in 2007/2008
• Deficits 2008/2009 (400,000) 2009/2010 (2m)

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Coming this fall

• Six new librarians
• Liaison program

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Questions?