2. Agenda
Book checkout system
Book Ordering
Digitization
Digital Library
Library Arrangement
3. Little Things
The water library no longer carries Lake Line
as of mid-2007. Do we want to begin to hold
that periodical?
4. Book Checkout System
There are 3273 books in the checkout system.
About 330 have been checked out in the last 3
years.
No weeding decisions will need to be made for
several years
The highest value of the system is for locating
books once they are checked out. So we are
barcoding theses to help locate them when
necessary.
5. Book Checkout System
Most items have been checked out only 1
time.
The most popular items are (exploded pieces in the graph):
Limnology: inland water ecosystems
Fishes of Wisconsin
Stream ecology: structure and function of running waters
Limnology: lake and river ecosystems
Louis Agassiz: a life in science
Number of Times
Ecology and classification of North American freshwater invertebrates Checked out
An introduction to the aquatic insects of North America 10
8
Through the looking glass: a field guide to aquatic plants
7
Fisheries techniques
5
4
3
2
1
6. Center usage of checkout
system
There has been a drop off in the system
usage. This is likely due to the fact that some
CFL members are not added to the system.
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40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
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8. Book Purchasing
Current proposed books add up to $757
We have been allotted $1000
We have an extra $243. Plus we should have
a back up or two in case one cannot ship in
time.
9. Digitization
We’ve finished digitizing the first round of
archives A-L
Currently 25% of our reprint collection is
digitized.
75% of our faculty-authored reprints are
digitized
Aim is for 100% of CFL related publications to
be digitized.
Problem: No comprehensive list of all individuals
(including LTER and students) who might have
published.
10. Digital Library: Why
Our digitized collection is difficult to access
and pretty confusing
Our collection does not allow us to share
publications with those outside the CFL, or
even those associated with the CFL, but off
the network
We lack the ability to share with other people
and institutions CFL publications and research
11. Digital Library: Why
Freely available
science correlates to
higher citation
impact (and hence
more readers) in Increase in citation of free
journals
poorer countries
From Science 2/20/09 “Open Access
and Global Participation in Science”
James A. Evans1* and Jacob
Reimer2”
12. Digital Library: Key components
Access: CFL members should be able to
access everything
Authentication: Those outside CFL should be
able to access some items, but only what we
allow them to access
Usability: Navigation and search should be
powerful and intuitive or else it will not be used
Adaptability: Should be able to be updated and
modified easily
13. Digital Library
Two test libraries have been set up using
content management systems
These systems, Drupal and Joomla, are both
free and open source and supported by a
broad community of users
14. Digital Library: Joomla
http://joomlalib.uwcfl
.org/ (then click
library)
Nice looking, easy
to maintain
This would best be
served by
categorizing by
author
15. Digital Library: Joomla
Weak search
interface
Best for browsing or
searching for
specific title
17. Digital Library: Drupal
http://uwcfl.org/libdr
up/
Bibliographic
software like we
have now
This is a much
stronger but much
more complex
system
Interface not as nice
Much more
extensible (to a
18. Digital Library: Drupal
Search interface is
more powerful
Still not as good as
Endnote
Biblio has “filters”
but these can be
overwhelmed by
number of authors
19. Digital Library: Drupal
The display page
contains much more
information
Transferring
information is easy
20. Digital Library: Drupal
Drupal lists all
publications
Other users can see
a hyperlink (if
allowed) or can
request a copy of
the article
Authenticated users
are given a
download link
21. Digital Library: Thoughts
What’s necessary, what’s not, what would we
like in the future (photos, gov. docs, etc.)
22. Library Floor Plan
At last year’s library seminar there was an
interest in adding furniture to the library
A grant for furniture will be submitted to UW
friends of the library if we decide to go this
route.
