Katie Harris
Chris Hayes
Melinda Hill
Jarell Hunt
Lela Iosava
Ereni Kouladis
Grace Lillenthal
Regan Phillips
Natasha Rumyantseva
Kendra Warden
Christine Williams
Julia Woodward
Following are the library's strategic goals and progress made on each in the last year.
We will actively reach out to our students, faculty and staff. |
198,646 patrons entered the library
16,553 average number of patrons who entered the library each month
Peabody Library's gate count has increased from 2003/2004, when our records were first maintained. The statistics for the 2007/2008 year are similar to those of the previous three years, with peak usage occurring in September, October, February and April.
128,831 Web site hits
A review of the online statistics over the last three years suggests that our tutorials are not getting the attention and traffic that we would like for them to be receiving, so we need to make sure that they are visible and get better promotion in the future. One way we plan to make them more visible is through our "What's News" monthly podcast, a new service started in 2008. Our new course-based research guides have attracted more people to the research section of our site, and are obviously filling a need for students.
New departmental resource guide pages were created this year and we restructured the Finding Articles and other Resources link off the homepage.
New online guides:
Peabody Graduate Teaching Assistants
PSY 1630: Developmental Psychology
New online tutorials:
HOD 1000 research papers
HOD 1000 Applied Human Development
InfoTrack Expanded Academic ASAP database
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4,492 questions answered
968 reference questions answered
Between 2003 and 2008 totals by month for all questions and for reference questions have followed assignment-driven patterns. After two peak years in 2004/2005 and 2005/2006, numbers were lower in 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. At the same time counts for research consultations rose, suggesting that patrons are coming to the library for more difficult questions and finding tools for answering basic questions through another venue.
This spring, we added an instant message option to our homepage for our patrons to contact us through IM. The testbed program is called "Ask George". Patrons can ask questions or reserve a room using the resource.
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134 funding announcements distributed
"This is excellent. Thanks so much for passing it along!"--Faculty member response to grant announcement, Leadership, Policy, and Organizations
13 tours given to 60 people
Orientation and Research Clinics Conducted:
LPO Graduate Student Orientation (Foutch)
HOD Graduate Student Orientation (Foutch)
Teaching & Learning Graduate Student Orientation (Lannom)
Peabody Graduate Student Orientation (Dumouchel, Foutch, Lannom, Walker)
Peabody Graduate Student Research Clinic (Foutch)
Leslie served as a mock interviewer for an HOD 1410 class. She conducted a presentation about the HOD department for the staff of the Writing Studio in January. She conducted a library orientation to Peabody College athletes. Additional workshops are planned for the athletes later in the summer.
Celebration:
* The library provided desserts for the Picnic with the Profs event.
* We honored our graduating student assistants with a party in April during the week of National Student Workers Week. A book was added to the collection for each senior in his or her area of study with a nameplate in his or her honor.
Committee Membership:
Heard Library Communications Committee (Walker)
Heard Library Marketing Subcommittee (Walker)
Heard Library Commons Service Evaluation Project Team (Walker)
We will collaborate with Peabody departments and committees to integrate information literacy into the curriculum. |
90 research consultations
41 library instruction sessions for 1,182 people
The Peabody Library Instruction Team conducted 41 course-related sessions and 14 subject-specific workshops, which brought an attendance total of 1,182 participants for the school year. The Instruction Team also conducted a five-year effectiveness study to see if the Team’s efforts were meeting the needs of the Library’s constituents. From reviewing the 2003-2008 statistics, the numbers showed that the Team had conducted 182 course-related sessions and 112 subject-specific workshops to 5,617 participants. This is a distinguished effort since the Team has only consisted of two full-time librarians and a library associate since its conception in 2003. The review of the statistics and grand total prove that the Library is serving as both a teaching library and resource center to not only Peabody College but the Vanderbilt community as well.
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118 assessment sessions offered for 466 students
Library staff proctored 60 iSkills assessments for 253 first year students (100%) and 58 assessments to a total of 213 seniors (69%). Evening and Saturday classes were offered to allow student teachers and practicum students the opportunity to take the test.
Peabody Library staff were actively involved in preparations for the Vanderbilt Visions instruction program in 2007. Leslie Fouch and Lee Ann Lannom provided instruction sessions and Eli Moody worked with Melinda Brown to create four videos unsed in conjuntion with the 20 instructional sessions.
In 2008, Lee Ann teamed with Amy Stewart-Mailhiot (Cental) to create an instruction session for first-year students that utilizes Wikipedia searching to address the difference between scholarly and popular resources. Stacy Owens worked with Ramona Romero (Central) and Melinda Brown (Central) to create a session using documents from our Special Collections on the class of 1912.
"I write to let you know how helpful Lee Ann Lannom has been to me and the students in one of my classes, LPO 3460: Policy History of American Higher Education. I first met Lee Ann last semester when I had a few acquisition questions. She answered those questions so thoroughly and expertly that I asked if she might take the time out of her schedule to meet with the students in my class. This morning, Lee Ann provided my ten EdD students with a terrific overview of all the amazing research databases available to them at Peabody Library. Moreover, she helped them think about the best strategies to conduct research on their individual research topics for my class, which are due at the end of the semester. I greatly appreciated the time that Lee Ann took to meet with us this morning, and so did all the students. They all agreed that it was most helpful and instructive and that it would benefit them in my class and beyond.
I just wanted to take a minute to make sure you knew of all the good work your folks are doing. I’m sure you’re already well aware, but I know how nice it can be to hear it from others." --Faculty member, Leadership, Policy and Organizations
"THANK YOU! This is very helpful..."--Faculty member receiving emailed updates on APA style guides, Teaching & Learning
Committee Membership:
Peabody Curriculum Committee (Lannom)
Peabody Early Childhood Faculty, Department of Teaching & Learning (Lannom)
Peabody HOD Coordinating Committee (Foutch)
Heard Library Research Services Committee (Foutch)
Vanderbilt University's Committee for Undergraduate Information Literacy (CUIL) (Foutch)
Vanderbilt University's Vanderbilt Visions Planning Committee (Lannom)
We will ensure that our collection is accessible and relevant to the interests of Peabody faculty, students and staff. |
16,331 items charged out
"Oh lord, can I buy you a house?! THANK YOU SO MUCH. You have no idea how valuable this was to me."--Faculty member obtaining needed back theses, Leadership, Policy and Organizations
"I picked up my books on Sun.-- was worried that someone would check them out because I couldn't get there earlier. Again, the front desk folks handled my OCD very well by checking to see if they were TRULY on the shelves."-- PhD student
3,147 total interlibrary loans filled for Peabody
1,069 interlibrary loans were picked up at Peabody service desk
1,932 ILL articles (copies, non-returnable) filled for Peabody users
137 interlibrary loans were delivered to Peabody faculty
454 items from Vanderbilt collections were delivered to Peabody faculty
221 articles from Vanderbilt collections were delivered to Peabody faculty
In May, we began offering book and article delivery to EdD distance education students. Need for this service was first identified in a 2006 library survey of students. Steve Dunning and Karen Swoopes worked with library interlibrary loan staff to arrange a procedure that satisfied their concerns and met the needs of our students.
13, 990 electronic reserve pages scanned
270 requests for e-reserves
2,262 articles imported and 588 articles linked to OAK
Electronic reserve usage has steadily increased since the service was first offered. The number of pages we’re scanning is decreasing as professors increasingly use articles from our databases and reused articles from previous semesters. This allows us to process requests more quickly overall. In the coming years, it looks like we will be scanning between 10,000 and 13,000 pages each year, down from 20,000 that were scanned during the first year the service was offered. We believe that we will see more articles linked from our databases in the coming years as well as increasingly more articles reused from previous semesters.
"I am on the faculty of Teaching and Learning. I just wanted to compliment
two of your staff members. Lee Ann Lannom and Eli
Moody have been incredibly supportive in my efforts to build new courses.
Never have I heard, 'It will take a little longer,'or 'I
can fit you in next week' or 'Let me see if someone else can help.'These two
folks have been terrific to work with. They are
kind, sincere, and solve problems with a healthy curiosity. Just thought you
might like to know." -- Faculty member, Teaching and Learning Fall Orientations
"Thanks so much! I really appreciate the service that Peabody Library provides in allowing me to provide this reserve collection for ED3500 through the library services."--Faculty member, Teaching & Learning
We updated our microfilm collection, withdrawing microfilm duplicated in databases or other Vanderbilt library collections. We also weeded the Curriculum Materials Collection. Lara Beth Lehman completed the reclassification of older reading materials in the Curriculum Materials Center from Dewey to Library of Congress classification. She also reclassed the Science, Math, Early Childhood, Language Arts, Music and Arts sections. Lara Beth and Joell Smith-Borne edited and posted new pages for the CMC/Youth Collections on our Web pages.
Lee Ann Lannom worked with Library ITS staff to create an online survey for faculty to allow us to evaluate some low-use online journals. Because of the response, we were able to cancel 10 journals for a collections saving of $4,844.15.
Committee Memberships:
Heard Library Circulation and Access Committee (Owens)
Heard Library Collections Committee (Lannom)
We will be a resource for alumni and the greater educational community. |
In the spring semester, we sponsored a practicum student from the University of Tennessee School of Information Science, Robbi de Peri. Robbi provided service desk support, proctored iSkills assessment tests, supported EndNote instruction, and created a bibliography for a library system-wide team working on services for first year students. The Library held an open house for UT Information Science distance students residing in the middle Tennessee area in January. We hope to use the event to recruit future librarians and draw UT practicum students.
Other Activities Included:
* We participated in the Association of Research Libraries' Study of Emerging New Models of Publication by surveying faculty to determine what Web 2.0 online resources he or she uses to obtain and/or share research information.
* In October, Lee Ann Lannom (PB '85) attended the Peabody Pioneers alumni luncheon.
* Celia sat on a panel for Art 152 students to review art installations proposed for Central and Divinity Libraries.
* Stacy Owens updated and distributed the Peabody Walking Tour.
* We created a page for sharing top ideas that we learned at conferences and staff development programs.
Presentations Given:
* Joell Smith-Borne offered a brown bag on migrating to Outlook for Heard Library Staff.
* Eli Moody conducted a Camtasia Studio workshop for Heard Library staff.
* Joell and Karen Swoopes offered the Heard staff a brown bag on using Outlook for time management that drew a near-capacity crowd.
* Lara Beth Lehman did a presentation on using children's literature to teach character education at an in-service meeting of Wilson County school librarians in Mt. Juliet.
* Amy Dumouchel gave a presentation to Regan Phillips' elementary French class on attending school in Quebec.
* Leslie Foutch conducted a library instruction session for a University School of Nashville psychology class. She also served on a search committee for an Outreach Coordinator for the Science & Engineering Library. Leslie served as a library liaison to the Owen Management School's Accelerator program.
Book Donations Received:
Marie Hardenbrook
Doug Fuchs
Leonard Bickman
Teris Schery
Ms. Cherrie Farnette donated 402 books to the Curriculum Materials Center in honor of her mother Imogene Forte. Mrs. Forte was a Peabody alumna and professor.
Joell Smith-Borne arranged for the library to donate weeded items from the Curriculum Materials Center and discarded journals to Abintra Montessori School in Nashville. The school agreed to send any materials that they did not use to New Orleans or to their sister school in Costa Rica. We donated weeded textbooks to the state's Corrections Facility.
Committee Membership:
Heard Library Directors' Council (Walker)
Primo Beta Test Group (Smith-Borne)
We will explore emerging technologies and support staff development so that we can competently meet the needs of our patrons and maintain our excellence. |
1,004 laptops charged out
"Thank you very much for your working again with our students. Your participation has been a tremendous help to us in getting the students onboard with their additions to the Folio. The one-on-one support and the assistance with the various technological elements have been instrumental. Thanks again from all of the HOD 1410 team! "--Faculty Member, Human and Organizational Development
A number of our staff helped plan and organize the Heard Library's Spring Staff Picnic.
Committee Memberships:
Peabody Library Tech Team (Foutch, Moody, Swoopes, Smith-Borne)
Heard Library Staff Development Committee (Smith-Borne, Swoopes, Walker)
Heard Library Tech Advisory Group (Smith-Borne)
Heard Library Training and Tech Support (Smith-Borne)
Vanderbilt University Web Spiders (Smith-Borne)
Staff Development:
ALA Midwinter Conference, Philadelphia (Lannom)
ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim (Lannom, Lehman, Walker)
Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference, Kingsport (Walker)
We will achieve recognition in the library profession for our efforts. |
In August, the Information Literacy Coordinator at the University of Manitoba in Winniepeg saw our online tutorial on Scholarly vs Popular Periodicals on YouTube and requested permission to post the resource on their homepage. Paul Gherman sent the tutorial to all of the Association of Research Libraries directors and received the following responses:
"Thanks for sharing this tutorial with us. It is a good one."
"Paul, this is a very helpful tutorial and I am sharing it with all my library faculty."
"This is exactly the type of product that we should be developing and sharing."
To date, we have given permission to librarians at the following libraries to post the tutorial: University of Manitoba, Brown University, University of California at Berkeley, Florida International University, Brigham Young University, and Louisiana State University. The American Library Association has posted it to their information literacy wiki.
Leslie Foutch and Eli Moody received Innovation & Creativity Awards at the Heard Library's Staff Service Awards celebration in October. Leslie won for her work as an embedded librarian in HOD 1000 during fall 2006. Eli won for his work with online tutorials and his editing of four short films for Vanderbilt Visions.
Presentations/Publications:
* In July, Eli Moody presented a lecture on the topic of creating online tutorials and working with live action video at the SEFLIN Energize 2.0 conference at Florida International University.
* Lara Beth Lehman wrote two book reviews for the Tennessee Library Association's Tennessee Libraries online journal. In April, she was elected co-chair of the Tennessee Library Association Reference Roundtable.
* Lee Ann Lannon, along with two librarians from the Central Library, spoke to a group at the LOEX Conference in Oak Brook, Illinois. Her topic was Vanderbilt Visions: An Exercise in Collaboration.
* Celia Walker serves on the content committee for the IMLS-funded statewide digitization project, Volunteer Voices. She gave a presentation on the project to attendees at the Tennessee Association of Museums Annual Conference in Jackson, Tennessee.
We will promote cultural activities. |
In January, Lara Beth Lehman worked with Ann Neely to offer our second annual children's literature event, Mystique of the Seal: Unlocking the Mysteries behind the Geisel and Newbery Awards, which drew 80 attendees. The event featured Robin Smith, member of the Geisel Award Panel, and Newbery Committee member Dean Schneider, who told the crowd about how books are selected for these prestigious national American Library Association awards. The event was podcast on the university's news homepage.
Karen Swoopes organized 2 book displays in the Grand Reading Room: she worked with Kathy Smith of Special Collections to create an exhibit about Booker T. Washington and Bruce Ryburn Payne. She also worked with Andy Van Schaack, who graciously loaned illustrations from his personal collection of The Mad Scientists Club to use in an exhibit.
We will maintain the attractiveness and usability of the library. |
2,220 hours of room reservations made:
Room 108 booked 375.3 hours (9% of total available hours)
Room 114 booked 380.4 hours (9%)
Room 303 booked 566.1 hours (14%)
Room 304 (Learning Commons) booked 406.9 hours (10%) [Compare with Hobbs 107, booked 583.6 hours in 20082/008]
In October, the Peabody Library Youth Collection Reading Room was named in honor of Henry S. and Imogene Forte.
In November, a bench in front of the library was dedicated to the memory of Allison Rose.
New furniture was installed in the library's Grand Reading Room. Two rows of tables holding single-user computers were removed and replaced with four tables designed to encourage small group study. Four additional computers were added to bring out total in that room from 12 to 16. Club chairs and occasional tables were placed in the room. The old tables were reused, placing a large table in the Learning Commons to facilitate overflow in classes; in Peabody 305 to replace two old desks; and in the foyer to give users additional group workspace.
In January, we began planning for a renovation of the ground floor area, vacated by Environmental Health & Safety. The area is being converted into a study hall, research consultation room, meeting room and office area and is scheduled to be completed by fall 2008/2009 semester.
We offered extended hours (24 hour facilities) for our patrons during the two week period of exams in the fall and spring semesters.
Committee Membership:
Heard Library Seating Sweep Project Team (Owens)
For more detailed information, see the Library's monthly reports.
