Six faculty members are participating in a pilot project that enables materials formerly held in the library as print copies to be digitized and made available to enrolled students via the internet. Considering that 4,896 reserve items were checked out during the 1999-2000 school year, we are seeing a boom in use of reserve materials. This pilot will continue through the spring semester and is expected to increase in use. Please contact James McCloskey if you would like to participate in a spring semester pilot. For materials owned by the Library, we have seen a 3 percent increase in checked-out items.
Users continue to make their way into the Library for our collection.
Public Services staff continue to look for ways to make your use of the Library more productive and efficient. We welcome your comments and suggestions in this process. User demands and need for services over the network will continue to increase as more digital resources become available in libraries. More and more of the information retrieval process is done outside the walls of the library. A complete list of resources from multiple vendors, including digitized primary source materials, and a wide variety of full text and reference sources can be readily accessed by users from home, office, and residence hall.