COMMLISS:COMMLISS:Communications / Communications /

Library & Information Science Services TeamLibrary & Information Science Services Team

COMMLISS: COMMLISS: What we’re doingWhat we’re doing

Identify how and where to most effectively provide Library services to all disciplines and communities engaged in the fields of Library & Information Science and Communications Studies

Develop a service profile (or profiles) attuned to the evolving research and teaching needs in each of these fields

COMMLISS:COMMLISS:MembersMembers

Team Leader Katie Newman Communications Library, Head Lisa RomeroLIS Library, Head Sue SearingLIS & Comm Library, Staff Lori CarrollGSLIS Faculty Linda Smith

(Chair of the LIS Library Advisory Committee)

College of Media Faculty Brant Houston (Chair of the College of Media Library Committee)

Administrative Liaison JoAnn Jacoby

COMMLISS: COMMLISS: ConsiderationsConsiderations

Shifting demographics of the academic programs

The interdisciplinary nature of the fields The limitations of the available library

spaces Available assessment data Present and future needs, based on

surveys, focus groups

COMMLISS: COMMLISS: Assessment data for LISAssessment data for LIS

Room Count, Social Science Division Libraries – FY07

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COMMLISS: COMMLISS: Assessment data for LISAssessment data for LIS

Average people / hour, Social Science Division Libraries – FY07

COMMLISS: COMMLISS: Assessment data for LISAssessment data for LIS

2006 Faculty Survey: “My primary libraries are Library Science AND…”

All: STX15: Ref, UGX10: ESSL, Engineer’g5: Bio, ACES, RBR, Engl, AHS, Com, BEL

COMMLISS: COMMLISS: Assessment data for LISAssessment data for LIS

Relationship Between Circulation & Web Transactions

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COMMLISS: COMMLISS: Assessment data for LISAssessment data for LIS

LIS COMM

Relationship Between Circulation & Web Transactions: LIS is proportionately more virtual than Comm, RBR, Hist, Engl, etc.

COMMLISS:COMMLISS:LIS realitiesLIS realities

Highly interdisciplinary user base LEEP contributes to

Low onsite usage High virtual usage, including emails Need to purchase more virtual materials

Money for staffing has been curtailed Success of librarian’s office hours in GSLIS

COMMLISS:COMMLISS:Conclusions so farConclusions so far

A simple merger of the print collections of two units does little to further the browsing or service needs of either constituency

We have set the idea of a merger aside to consider other models better attuned to the evolving needs of students and researchers