Library Staff News

July 28 Next Ingram/Baker & Taylor Order Date

This Week’s Committee Meetings:

July 23 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Library Council, Burch Conference Room, Law School

As one of the largest employers in Middle Tennessee, Vanderbilt prides itself on being a leader in giving back to the community.  Our annual employee Community Giving Campaign, which will begin soon, gives us an opportunity each year to strive to set higher standards for ourselves in order to make a better life for those around us.

One of the most important ways you can help the campaign is by volunteering as a campaign coordinator for your area / department.

Our partners this year are Community Health Charities of Tennessee, Community Shares, Nashville Alliance for Public Education, and United Way of Metropolitan Nashville.  This campaign offers all of us at Vanderbilt the opportunity to make a difference to a local organization working to make a difference for others.

The Campaign kickoff is planned for September 26^th.  If you are interested in volunteering for this year’s campaign, please contact Celia Walker.

The Center for Teaching office and library (currently located in 116 Calhoun Hall) is moving to another location effective July 30, 2008. The new CFT address is:

Center For Teaching

1114 19th Avenue South

Peabody 0183

230 Appleton Place

Nashville, TN 37203-5721

Many in the Vanderbilt community may recognize this new site as the former Bill Wilkerson Center.

Patrons are being instructed to return checked out books to the new address effective Wednesday, July 30. If any CFT books are returned to any of the other VU Libraries, please return the books to the new address as of this date.

Please update your records.

Minutes from the July 17 Communications Committee meeting have been posted to the wiki. Highlights include:

• Discussion of changing name of VU e-Archive to DiscoverArchive.
• Discussion of committee members’ meeting with Flo regarding committee tasks, responsibilities and funding.
• Finalizing ordering details for marketing materials.

There is developing interest across the VU campus (University and Medical Center) in the possibility of a Farmers’ Market operating on campus. The VU Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital offers an electronic survey to gauge campus interest:

Please complete the survey if you’re interested in the concept of a Farmers’ Market on campus.

Click here for survey.

Karen Swoopes‘ Administrative Assistant I position in the Peabody Library has been reclassified to an Administrative Assistant II position effective July 14.

Benjamin Laird has accepted the Library Assistant IV position (Interlibrary Loan Assistant and Science & Engineering Library Evening Supervisor) for the Office of the University Librarian effective July 22.  Benjamin has a BA in Communicative Disorders from the University of Mississippi in Oxford.  Benjamin was recently employed as the Reserves Supervisor at the University of Mississippi Library.

Peabody Library’s monthly report for June 2008 and our 2007/2008 annual report are now available.

June 2008 Monthly Report http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/monthly/June2008.html

2007/2008 Annual Report: http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/annual/2007-2008.html

Jamen McGranahan will interview on Wednesday, July 16 for the position of Systems Librarian for LITS. Jamen is currently the Library Automation Specialist at the Nashville Public Library. Interested library staff are invited to attend his presentation beginning at 10:30 am on July 16 in the Central Library Classroom, GLB 612A. Jamen’s resume is available at http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/resumes/JamenMcGranahan_Resume.pdf.

Jeffrey Taylor, Library Assistant III in the Cataloging and Authorities area of Technical Services, has accepted the Library Assistant IV within the department effective July 14.