Hi all,
Memorial Library Committee had its first meeting yesterday (11/17/08) and below is a summary of the meeting. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you!
Memorial Lib Committee Meeting- 11/17/08
1) Appoint new faculty chair: Professor Richard Knowles, English Dept.
2) Review Committee Functions
a. Please see our website for a full description: http://memorial.library.wisc.edu/about/index.html
3) Updates
a. L&S to declare 2009-2010 the year of Humanities
b. Google digitization of documents
i. Print articles are now more widely available on MADCAT due to Google digitizing library print materials
ii. These digital articles will also be found at hathitrust.com
1. This is a University institution article-sharing database, more about preservation and academics than Google Books.
4) Faculty/Student Concerns
a. Food in the Library, causes too much garbage
b. Cell phones are disrupting, need more signs prohibiting these
c. Signage in general, need better signs to direct students as to where computers, printing labs, etc. are located
5) Greater access to print collections for faculty
a. Delivery of print materials to faculty offices
b. This is a pilot program with just Memorial Library and a few offices
c. If it goes well, may implement campus wide
6) Special Collections/Exhibits
a. Special Collections, 9th Floor, Campus Humor Exhibit until 12/26
i. Humor articles/journals from a number of campuses over the past 40 years
b. US National Holocaust Exhibit, First Floor
As always, please let me know if any of you have any concerns that you would like to see addressed at our next meeting. Thanks!
Jessica
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Jessica-
I have a few suggestions for dealing with cell phone problems.
If the library is serious about cell phones not being used (which they should be, because it keeps the library about studying), they should consider having small vauable lockers that you can put your phones into when you enter the library. This way, they create a division that they are serious about the policy and also give a way to safeguard valuables.
At this time, memorial only allows for cell phone use outside of the exit gates in the west corridor. For someone studying on the fourth floor who needs to make a one minute phone call, this is unrealistic and they will break the room. If there is a room in the library in a highly trafficked area (say somewhere on floor 2 or floor 4) where students could go to make calls, this would wend a better message-- a type of cell phone lounge/food lounge within the library that students who wanted to honor the restrictions could have an easier time doing so.
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