FLETCHER L. BYROM EARTH AND MINERAL SCIENCES LIBRARY Annual Report

Mission To support the research and teaching endeavors of current and future scholars of the University and the Commonwealth.

Faculty and Staff  Linda Musser – Distinguished Librarian and Head  Elizabeth Long – Information Resources and Services Supervisor-Manager  Lee Ann Nolan – Information Resources and Services Support Specialist  Joshua Wilkins – Information Resources and Services Support Specialist  Aaron Procious – Research Assistant III (part-time)  Twelve – Desk Assistant II (part-time)|FTE 2.70

 Maintained excellent services during the renovation of EMSL  Collaboration with OPP, MatSE, and others in space planning of the library  Annexed and shifted a large portion of the collection. Removed shelving in order to rearrange and make room for users following the move in of MatSE  Reduced and reorganized our work areas to create a more efficient space  Developed an economical solution (1/3 the cost of Media Scape) for patrons to display a wider range of devices in our group study rooms  Continued efforts to enhance discoverability by adding the table of contents for books to CAT records  Hosted study break event during finals week (Spring)  Instituted a recognition program for part-time staff Achievements Highlights of the great things that the EMSL team have accomplished this past year

Programs/Activities  Film Series  Fall – 14 films | 30 total attendants (average 2 per film)  Spring – 15 films | 68 total attendants (average 5 per film)  Displays  Bulletin – 5 new presentations out of 24 displayed every two weeks  Digital – 52 new slides researched, designed, and installed | 15 presented on a weekly rotation  Continue sharing slides with EMS college  Began sharing slides Libraries-wide  Geocache – 302 logged visits online | 37 in the log book  Puzzles – provide 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle every two weeks as a study break  Social Media  Facebook – Over 14,000 views of our posts | more than 400 posts | 209 likes  Twitter –341 followers | over 1,500 tweets  Communication with American Ceramic Society, National Geographic, sustainability groups, film publishers, library faculty, staff and students!  Instruction – 24 classes | 443 students  Other programs – 6 | 144 students  Open House – 369 total visitors | 267 participants of the activity | 33 began tour at EMS  New Student Orientation participation – 15 hours  Moving/Settling into our new work space

Statistics  Hours of Operation/week  Fall/Spring – | Summer –  Total Seats – 123  comfy seating/couch – 13| group study rooms – 18| rolling chairs – 77| wood chairs – 11| wood stools - 4  Gate Counts – over 205,000 visitors  Busiest times – between 1-5 pm |Busiest day – Wednesdays  Reference – responded to over 2,300 questions  Majority took < 5 minutes | Ask Chat over 400 responses (devoted 3 hours/week)  Circulation – over 18,500 checkouts  In-house Material – over 1,700 mark item used  Course Reserves – over 5,100 checkouts  ILL – over 1,500 filled  Document Delivery – over 200 filled  Rapid ILL – almost 300 filled

Statistics  Website – 17,103 pages views  Compared to other STEM Libraries  Engineering 13,585 | Life Sciences 13,343 | PAMS 11,089  PA resources highest viewed at 3,340  13 Research Guides – 22,804 page views  #1 Pennsylvania Mines and Mining – 9,224|#2 Water Hardness – 4,493 | #3 Geography – 3,252  Added 2400 new items to our collection  World Cat (New book list) – 685 new physical items added & 15 watchers of our lists  Added Equipment for 3 group study rooms – (2) 47” LED screens, (1) switchbox, (1) 1080p webcam, wireless keyboard/mouse, various adapters for connecting personal mobile devices (i.e. Apple devices, Android devices, Mac, PC)

 Annex – sent over 15,000 inches to make room for MatSE  Collection Shift - most of the collection in order to remove stacks prior to construction

 C-14 – completed scanning cards 3,550 – 34,000  TOC – 224 titles processed (reduction due to personnel & procedure changes)  Collection Accessibility Project (inventory)  Stacks – went through 6,809 titles  Maps – went through 968 maps  Thesis – listing of theses, dissertations, and papers published by EMS graduates (completed all disciplines and have minor searching to finish up before posting online)  Alloy Digest - placed pages in protective sheeting and replaced missing copies  Annual Report of Mining – increased discoverability by creating table of holdings for various series with extended contents for each volume describing unique reports in each.  ScholarSphere – moved scans of various EMS publicat publications to institutional repository

Committees/Teams/Other  Author Expert Team  Branch Library Continuity Plan  Branch Supervisor Action Team  Blue Cloud Analytics Expert Team  College of EMS Undergraduate Poster Exhibition judge  Digital Signage Group  Diversity Committee (Programming)  Earth and Mineral Sciences Interest House Alumni Affiliate Program Group  Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum Board of Directors  Green Committee  Faculty Affairs Committee  Open House (internal planning)  Social Media Group  Supervisor Action Team Steering Committee  Undergraduate Research Exhibition judge Networking