The challenges of acquiring and organizing electronic information requires every member of today's library staff to develop new skills and constantly upgrade them. Although they still have a library's responsibility for acquiring, organizing, archiving and ensuring access to information, technology continues to change not only the way they do these jobs, but the jobs themselves. Librarians are actively involved with faculty in a program to investigate electronic submission of theses and dissertations and provide access to them on the Web. Electronic resources are constantly being added to the online catalog. To a large extent, our patrons still need and use books.
People still come here to read and study and work in project groups.
It is projected that the library shelves, as well as the auxiliary storage areas in Founders Hall, will be filled to capacity by 2001. At PIC's request, Shuster drafted a library initiative that calls for an endowment that will help offset the increasing costs of print and electronic resources and enable the University to redesign the buildings.