1. LIBRARY COMMITTEE
MEETING
April 8, 2009

2. Agenda
Book checkout system

Book Ordering

Digitization

Digital Library

Library Arrangement


3. Little Things
The water library no longer carries Lake Line

as of mid-2007. Do we want to begin to hold
that periodical?

4. Book Checkout System
There are 3273 books in the checkout system.

About 330 have been checked out in the last 3

years.
No weeding decisions will need to be made for

several years
The highest value of the system is for locating

books once they are checked out. So we are
barcoding theses to help locate them when
necessary.

5. Book Checkout System
Most items have been checked out only 1

time.
The most popular items are (exploded pieces in the graph):

Limnology: inland water ecosystems

Fishes of Wisconsin

Stream ecology: structure and function of running waters

Limnology: lake and river ecosystems

Louis Agassiz: a life in science

Number of Times
Ecology and classification of North American freshwater invertebrates Checked out

An introduction to the aquatic insects of North America 10

8
Through the looking glass: a field guide to aquatic plants

7
Fisheries techniques
 5
4
3
2
1

6. Center usage of checkout
system
There has been a drop off in the system

usage. This is likely due to the fact that some
CFL members are not added to the system.
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

7. Checkout System: Thoughts?
Anything that can be improved. Is there any

other information you’d like.

8. Book Purchasing
Current proposed books add up to $757

We have been allotted $1000

We have an extra $243. Plus we should have

a back up or two in case one cannot ship in
time.

9. Digitization
We’ve finished digitizing the first round of

archives A-L
Currently 25% of our reprint collection is

digitized.
75% of our faculty-authored reprints are

digitized
Aim is for 100% of CFL related publications to

be digitized.
 Problem: No comprehensive list of all individuals
(including LTER and students) who might have
published.

10. Digital Library: Why
Our digitized collection is difficult to access

and pretty confusing
Our collection does not allow us to share

publications with those outside the CFL, or
even those associated with the CFL, but off
the network
We lack the ability to share with other people

and institutions CFL publications and research

11. Digital Library: Why
Freely available

science correlates to
higher citation
impact (and hence
more readers) in Increase in citation of free
journals
poorer countries
From Science 2/20/09 “Open Access

and Global Participation in Science”
James A. Evans1* and Jacob
Reimer2”

12. Digital Library: Key components
Access: CFL members should be able to

access everything
Authentication: Those outside CFL should be

able to access some items, but only what we
allow them to access
Usability: Navigation and search should be

powerful and intuitive or else it will not be used
Adaptability: Should be able to be updated and

modified easily

13. Digital Library
Two test libraries have been set up using

content management systems
These systems, Drupal and Joomla, are both

free and open source and supported by a
broad community of users

14. Digital Library: Joomla
http://joomlalib.uwcfl

.org/ (then click
library)
Nice looking, easy

to maintain
This would best be

served by
categorizing by
author

15. Digital Library: Joomla
Weak search

interface
Best for browsing or

searching for
specific title

16. Digital Library: Joomla
Metadata is

weak, just pasted in
Items such as date

are altered

17. Digital Library: Drupal
http://uwcfl.org/libdr

up/
Bibliographic

software like we
have now
This is a much

stronger but much
more complex
system
Interface not as nice

Much more

extensible (to a

18. Digital Library: Drupal
Search interface is

more powerful
Still not as good as

Endnote
Biblio has “filters”

but these can be
overwhelmed by
number of authors

19. Digital Library: Drupal
The display page

contains much more
information
Transferring

information is easy

20. Digital Library: Drupal
Drupal lists all

publications
Other users can see

a hyperlink (if
allowed) or can
request a copy of
the article
Authenticated users

are given a
download link

21. Digital Library: Thoughts
What’s necessary, what’s not, what would we

like in the future (photos, gov. docs, etc.)

22. Library Floor Plan
At last year’s library seminar there was an

interest in adding furniture to the library
A grant for furniture will be submitted to UW

friends of the library if we decide to go this
route.

23. Library Floor Plan: Proposed Revisions