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Fy2000 National Center For Education Statistics (Nces) Academic Libraries Survey: University Of Rhode Island Data

University Libraries Reports & Statistics

The main document posted here is a report generated from the online subscription service ACRLMetrics. The report contains FY2000 data submitted by the University of Rhode Island Libraries to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) for their biennial Academic Libraries Survey. Two files are included as supplemental content: "NCES Academic Libraries Survey -- URI FY2000 data.xlsx," the report (above) in spreadsheet format, and "ACQuestionnaire_FY00.pdf," the Fiscal Year 2000 Questionnaire & Instructions from NCES.

Business Librarians' Interest Group Spring 2000 Program, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Publications

Short newsletter article advertising the spring 2000 program of the Business Librarians' Interest Group of ACRL/New England Chapter, "Starting a Business Information Needs and Sources."

Program Quality Review - Department Of Communicative Disorders (1999), William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

"Program Quality Review" measuring library support for the Department of Communicative Disorders. Tracks library expenditures on materials serving communicative disorders and related topics, books added and circulated by subject with peer comparisons, scholarly books published by subject, and URI Library holdings of top-ranked journals.

Program Quality Review - Graduate School Of Library And Information Services (1999), William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

"Program Quality Review" measuring library support for the Graduate School of Library and Information Services. Tracks library expenditures on materials serving library science and related topics, books added and circulated by subject with peer comparisons, scholarly books published by subject, and URI Library holdings of top-ranked journals.

Program Quality Review - College Of Nursing (1999), William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

"Program Quality Review" measuring library support for the College of Nursing. Tracks library expenditures on materials serving nursing and related topics, books added and circulated by subject with peer comparisons, scholarly books published by subject, and URI Library holdings of top-ranked journals.

Program Quality Review - Department Of Psychology (1999), William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

"Program Quality Review" measuring library support for the Department of Psychology. Tracks library expenditures on materials serving psychology and related topics, books added and circulated by subject with peer comparisons, scholarly books published by subject, and URI Library holdings of top-ranked journals.

Program Quality Review - Department Of Biological Sciences (1999), William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

"Program Quality Review" measuring library support for the Department of Biological Sciences. Tracks library expenditures on materials serving biological sciences and related topics, books added and circulated by subject with peer comparisons, scholarly books published by subject, and URI Library holdings of top-ranked journals.

New Learners, New Models: Cultivating An Information Literacy Program, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Mary C. Macdonald, Joanna M. Burkhardt

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Paper presented at the conference Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships: Educating the University Community in a Dynamic Information Environment, held at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa from November 11-12, 1999.

"In the following pages we discuss the origins of our plan for developing an information literacy program at the University of Rhode Island; review our current program of library instruction; provide a background of how we arrived at what we want to change and accomplish; outline the components of our Draft Plan for Information Literacy at the University of Rhode Island, and discuss the development and content of …

Web Based Business Information On A Budget, Andrée Rathemacher, Carol West, Alex Caracuzzo

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Notes for a presentation, "Web Based Business Information on a Budget," at the New England Library Association Annual Conference 1999, Traditions: Where We've Been... Where We're Going. The presentation took place in Manchester, New Hampshire on September 27, 1999.

Cataloging Unit Statistics 1998-1999, Amar K. Lahiri

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual productivity statistics from the Cataloging Unit of the University of Rhode Island Library for 1998-1999. Includes total number of copy-cataloged records and original catalog records created. Also includes bibliographic and item records created, modified, and deleted in the local Innovative Interfaces library system.

Department Of Technical Services, Annual Report 1998/1999

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual report for 1998-99 of the Department of Technical Services, University Library, University of Rhode Island. Author is uncertain but believed to be Associate Professor and Chair of Technical Services Martha Kellogg. Note: There was no formal Technical Services Annual Report for 1997-98. William T. O'Malley resigned as Chair in the Spring of 1998. Michael Vocino resigned as Director of Libraries effective July 1, 1998. Martha Kellogg was appointed Chair of the Technical Services Department in the late Spring of 1998. She continued as Acquisitions Librarian (both monographic and serial). Amar Lahiri continued as Head, Cataloging Dept.

Collection Development Update #62, William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

ProQuest Reference Library.

Acquisitions Department - Monograph Statistics 1998-1999

Monographic Acquisitions and Copy Cataloging Reports and Documents

Monthly statistics on monographs from the Acquisitions Department, University Library, University of Rhode Island. Data for fiscal year include requests searched, duplicates returned, titles ordered, titles claimed, volumes added by acquisition type, approvals returned, microforms added, media added, and invoices processed.

Library Web Server Statistics 1998-1999, Andree J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of requests to the University of Rhode Island Libraries Web site for 1998-1999. Includes top pages by requests.

Serials Unit Statistics 1998-1999

Serials Unit Statistics

No abstract provided.

Collection Development Update #61, William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

Distribution of URI Library total collections by call number.

Collection Development Update #59, William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

Analysis of URI Library holdings of title indexed in Applied Science and Technology Index/Abstracts.

Information Literacy At The University Of Rhode Island Libraries, Mary Macdonald, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Publications

Article about the University of Rhode Island Libraries' information literacy program, with a focus on the credit-bearing course LIB 140.

Blig Fall Program On Business Web Page Design, Andrée Rathemacher, Colleen Anderson

Technical Services Faculty Publications

Brief newsletter article summarizing a program on business web page design offered by the Business Librarians' Interest Group of ACRL/New England Chapter on November 12, 1998.

Business Web Page Design, Andrée Rathemacher, Kelli Belmonti

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Flier for ACRL New England Chapter Business Librarians' Interest Group (BLIG) Fall Program, "Business Web Page Design." The program was held on November 12, 1998 at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Finding Information To Help Plan A Small Business, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Thank you note for a presentation offered to South County Community Action's Business Ownership Opportunities Services and Training Program (BOOST) on September 22, 1998.

Introduced participants of the BOOST. Program to library resources that could assist them in starting a small business. BOOST aims to assist low-income people set up micro-businesses based on their particular skills and interests.

Offered a total of seven presentations between 1996 and 2000 [6/11/1996, 3/20/1997, 1/26/1998, 9/22/1998, 4/28/1999, 2/10/2000, 6/27/2000].

Library Web Server Statistics 1997-1998, Andree J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of requests and visits to the University of Rhode Island Libraries Web site for 1997-1998, including most popular pages. Statistics for this year are incomplete.

Cataloging Unit Statistics 1997-1998, Amar K. Lahiri

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual productivity statistics from the Cataloging Unit of the University of Rhode Island Library for 1997-1998. Includes total number of copy-cataloged records and original catalog records created. Also includes bibliographic and item records created, modified, and deleted in the local Innovative Interfaces library system.

Acquisitions Unit Annual Report 1997-1998, Martha Kellogg

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual report of the Acquisitions Unit, University Library, University of Rhode Island. Covers staffing, technology, acquisitions of monographs and serials, binding and processing.

For monographs, includes monthly statistics on requests searched, duplicates returned, titles ordered, titles claimed, volumes added by acquisition type, approvals returned, microforms added, media added, and invoices processed.

For serials and processing, includes monthly statistics on volumes withdrawn, titles added, volumes added, volumes bound, volumes processed, volumes mended, microforms added, dead serials added, and union list updates.

Business Databases On The Web: Report On Business Librarians' Spring Meeting, Andrée Rathemacher, Carol West

Technical Services Faculty Publications

Report on a program of the Business Librarians' Interest Group of ACRL/New England Chapter about Web-based business databases, held on May 21, 1998.

Core Journal Review, William T. O'Malley

Collection Development Reports and Documents

A summary of a review that determined the approximate cost to acquire a selection of core journals in support of undergraduate programs at the University of Rhode Island. The list was compiled by reviewing the appropriate standard indexes which college libraries use to gain access to the periodical literature. This review does not survey the journals required for our graduate programs [Oceanography, CPAD, GSLIS, Audiology, etc], newspapers, reference / electronic serials,etc.

Finding Business Information On The Internet, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Thank you letter from Carol Surprenant, Director of the University of Rhode Island Research Center in Business and Economics, for presenting a workshop, "Finding Business Information on the Internet," offered as part of the Business Intelligence Expo. The Business Intelligence Expo was held in Providence, Rhode Island, on October 21, 1997.

The one-hour workshop was offered twice during the Expo and covered business information available on the Internet. With a total of 25 attendees, this workshop was the most heavily attended of all workshops at the Expo.

Acquisitions Unit Annual Report 1996-1997, Martha Kellogg

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual report of the Acquisitions Unit, University Library, University of Rhode Island for fiscal year 1996-1997. Covers staffing, technology, acquisitions of monographs and serials, binding and processing.

For monographs, includes monthly statistics on requests searched, duplicates returned, titles ordered, titles claimed, volumes added by acquisition type, approvals returned, microforms added, media added, and invoices processed.

For serials and processing, includes monthly statistics on volumes withdrawn, titles added, volumes added, volumes bound, volumes processed, volumes mended, microforms added, and dead serials added.

Library Web Server Statistics 1996-1997, Andree J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of requests to the University of Rhode Island Libraries Web site for 1996-1997. Includes breakdown by Web page. Statistics for this year are incomplete.

Annual Report, Department Of Technical Services, 1996/97, William T. O'Malley

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

No abstract provided.