The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University Library

ALCTS CMDS Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research
Libraries

and

ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries

ALA Annual Conference -- June 2007

Materials Budget

Our materials budget is inadequate to reduce the gap between continuing
funding allocations and ongoing subscriptions, cover purchase of and/or
subscription to new formats and the burgeoning array of electronic
products, support new curricula and research interests, and continue
traditional modes of collecting. In FY2007/08, the Collection
Development Council and others will seek to identify and consider new
models for both allocating the materials budget and for collecting.

Noteworthy Acquisitions/Access

Approved by faculty for purchase on our Research Fund this year were the
*Codex* *Biblicus Legionensis* facsimile; *Early American Newspapers,
Series II, 1758-1900; Diario de la Marina, 1909-1930; Moskovskii
Komsomolets, 1950-1969; Los Libros de Rocinante* and *Guias de Lectura
Caballeresca; USDA Aerial Photos of Orange, Wake, and Durham Counties;*
and Migne's *Patrologiae Graecae.* The library has also purchased four
of the Springer ebook packages and has committed to Ebrary for at least
two years.

In cooperation with the Renaissance Computing Institute (a collaborative
venture of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke, and
North Carolina State University), the UNC Library is providing on-campus
access to the Shoah Foundation's Visual History archive, which contains
over 50,000 videotaped interviews of Holocaust survivors and witnesses.

Technical Services Operations Study

The University Library has contracted with R2 Consulting Services for a
study to document the current range of practices and procedures in our
technical services operations and to make recommendations regarding
efficiency, process redesign, etc. The study will include both central
and Special Collections' Technical Services departments as well as
representatives from reference, collection development and the branch
libraries. The study will be conducted this fall, with a final report
due in November.

Planning for Reorganization of Special Collections

With the leadership of recently appointed Associate University Librarian
for Special Collections and Director of the Wilson Library, Rich Szary,
staff in the Manuscripts Department/Southern Historical Collection,
North Carolina Collection, and Rare Books Collection have begun to
develop plans for the possible consolidation of the departments'
technical services staff into a single unit and to do the same with
their respective public services staff. Other organizational changes are
also being contemplated.

Remote Storage

In December, UNC signed a contract with Duke, sharing construction and
operating costs for the second module of its Library Service Center
(LSC), which will give UNC a storage capacity of over one million
volumes. The transfer of materials to the LSC will begin this fall.
Staff currently are re-labeling and, when necessary, creating item
records in Millennium for materials to be transferred at a rate of
4,000-6,000 items per week. The Dewey-classified collection will be the
first collection to be transferred.

Facilities

Work has begun on the preparation of the Davis Library basement (home of
federal, international, and state government documents collections and a
variety of backlog and gift collections) for the installation of compact
shelving. Installation is expected to be completed by September, after
which the Maps Collection will finish its move from Wilson Library to
Davis, freeing space in Wilson for the expansion of the newly formed
Carolina Digital Library.

As campus space becomes increasingly scarce, some of our branch
libraries have moved to other quarters. The Zoology Library moved from
the Biology Department to the Wilson Library Annex, followed by the
Chemistry Library, vacating a building that has been decommissioned and
will be razed. It is likely that the Botany Library will join Zoology
and Chemistry in the Annex in the coming year. Our goal is to build a
consolidated science library but is likely to be years before that
actually happens.

Millennium Electronic Resource Management Module

Staff have been planning for the implementation of Innovative
Interface's ERM this past year and work has begun to input records into
the production system. Resource records from the QuickStart program
should help us move more quickly. Interviews for a new position,
Electronic Resources Access Librarian, were conducted in June.

Retrospective Conversion

Several retrospective conversion projects are in various stages of
completion: music materials (approximately 26,000 titles); non-Roman
language materials, especially CJK (approximately 14,500 titles); and
serials (approximately 3,500 titles).

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Graduate School began accepting electronic submissions for
graduation in May 2006 and will require electronic submission for the
May 2008 graduation. Over 90 percent of the theses and dissertations
submitted through the Graduate School have been submitted electronically
during this period of transition. Within a few weeks, the Library will
be making the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection available
using CONTENTdm.

Institutional Repository

University Library staff led a campus-wide Digital
Curation/Institutional Repository Committee appointed by the Provost.
The committee has made a number of initial recommendations which are now
being implemented by the University Library and a pilot operation is
underway.

Carolina Digital Library

Krill Fesenko, who began work in February, is the Head of the new
Carolina Digital Library. The CDL incorporates *Documenting the American
South*, institutional repository efforts, and new digital initiatives.
Two LSTA grant proposals are currently pending and an announcement is
expected shortly regarding these. The first core module of *Russia
Beyond Russia*, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and digitizing Andre Savine's bibliographic records of materials in the
Library's Savine Collection of post-1917 Russian Diaspora materials,
will be completed by September. Work on two multi-year projects
continues: the LSTA-funded digitization of the 30-volume *Colonial
Records of North Carolina* and the IMLS-funded *Oral Histories of the
American South. Extending the Reach of Southern Sources*, a project
funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will provide a model for
"scholar-driven digitization" of manuscript and archival collections.
Finally, the Watson-Brown Foundation is underwriting the cost of
digitizing an estimated 21,600 pages of correspondence of Thomas E.
Watson, leader of the Southern Populists in the late 19^th^ century.

Triangle Research Libraries Network

In February, TRLN announced the appointment of Mona Couts as Director.
Mona joined the TRLN staff in 1998 and had previously worked at the UNC
Health Sciences Library and Blackwell Library Information Systems.

In March, TRLN announced that it will use the Endeca platform to create
a single interface that will search across the online catalogs of all
four member institutions: Duke, North Carolina Central, North Carolina
State, and UNC-Chapel Hill. (The four university libraries use systems
from three different ILS vendors.) The "Search TRLN" functionality is
expected to be available in 2008. The libraries will also use the Endeca
platform to research and develop additional services in support of
consortial activities. An option to provide a "skin" (an Endeca term)
for each of the four separate library catalogs is also available.

Work of TRLN's Last Copy Task Group, appointed in Fall 2006, continues.
The group has drafted principles for the operation of a program in which
participating TRLN libraries would be responsible for archiving and
providing access to specific print titles so that the other libraries
could withdraw them. The group has created a concept statement for the
operation of the program, and has identified a pilot project of 45
duplicated chemistry journal titles, approved by selectors at Duke and
UNC. Reference titles may come next.

The recently restructured TRLN Collections Council is considering
creation of two new task groups: digital media and mass digitization.
TRLN and its member libraries renewed their subscriptions to the
WorldCat Collection Analysis Service in FY2006/07 and have used it to
identify and analyze shared and individual collections of strength and
depth.

*Patrick Mullin, Associate University Librarian for Technical Services
and Systems*

*Diane Strauss, Associate University Librarian for Collections and
Services*