NPR Report: Libraries Top Netflix In DVD Rentals

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Many people who watch a movie this weekend, will simply open a Netflix evenvelope, but even more of you will head to the public library! A new survey shows that libraries are lending out 2.1 million DVDs a DAY--compared to 2 million on Netfix and and 1.2 million at Blockbuster.

2010 Faculty and Staff Award Winners

Dana Medical Library Annual Report for 2009

The Dana Medical Library 2009 Annual Report highlights the goals and accomplishments of the Library in the areas of Collection Resources and Access, Patron Services, and the Physical Library. The Director's Summary report and a list of presentations and posters by Dana faculty and staff are also included. See the full Report.

New Exibits in B/H

We have three new exhibits in the B/H Library. In the first floor lobby, one exhibit features early images of the Long Trail (and repurposes the large reproductions we displayed at the Vermont History Expo). Sharon Thayer selected some beautiful literary broadsides from the fine press broadsides collection to fill the cases in the lobby near the stairs. (My favorite is "Brockport Sunflowers.") She selected broadsides that celebrate or meditate on the natural world and our place in it to complement the Long Trail photos. For the Special Collections cases, Sharon selected posters that the Acorn Press produced for events and businesses in Chelsea, VT during the 1970s and 1980s.

Read more about the exhibits in the Events and Exhibits section of the Libraries' web page.

Early Images of the Long Trail
http://library.uvm.edu/news/?p=2233

Literary Broadsides from Fine Presses
http://library.uvm.edu/news/?p=2222

Spreading the Word: Posters from the Acorn Press
http://library.uvm.edu/news/?p=2205

ASU Library: Ideas in Action

Check this out! Should we do something like this, too? Post your reactions in the comment section.

The Library Minute: The Amazing Getting It @ASU Button

The Library Minute: Listening to the Collection During Finals

Vermont Digital Newspaper Project receives NEH grant

Everywhere you look, UVM Libraries and Birdie MacLennan are in the news for receiving a nearly $400K NEH grant in support of the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project!

Check out the coverage by the Free Press

And on WCAX

Welcome Back, Dean Saule

In honor of Dean Saule's return to the UVM Libraries, she will host a coffee hour in the Dean's Conference Room at 9 a.m. on Monday, August 2. Please come down (or up) and enjoy a cup of Joe and a pastry.

Webcast this Thursday (7/8) at 2 PM, Dean's Conference Room

Please join the I&IS Department for the ACRL e-Learning webcast series, "Exploring the Mystery of Library Instruction: New Thinking for Your Information Literacy Initiative."

There will be three webcasts, all from 2:00 to 3:30 PM in the Dean's Conference Room:

1. Design Thinking Your Way to Information Literacy Innovation (May 25, 2010)
2. Promoting Information Literacy through a Better Designed Learning User Experience (June 10, 2010)
3. The Blended Librarian’s Approach to Rethinking Instruction and Redesigning the Information Literacy Initiative (July 8, 2010)

For full details, see:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/courses/infolitseries.cfm.
The sessions will be archived for later viewing.

Please feel free to join any or all sessions.

Just see for yourself

http://ondemand.duke.edu/video/21966/the-law-library-and-you

Medieval Manuscripts Online, thanks to the CDI

Based on the successful 2009 exhibit, "Witnesses from Our Written Past," the CDI worked with Travis Puller to create a new digital collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. In addition to me finally (maybe - check for typos) learning how to spell "medieval," this collection has been a great opportunity for the CDI because:

1. we dealt with multiple hierarchies of MODS metadata for the first time (The Cicero has 3 books bound into 1!)
2. we got to play around with color targets when scanning for the first time
3. we plan to include the Fleming's manuscripts later this year
4. we plan to contribute to the union digital library of manuscripts, the Digital Scriptorium, once they've moved from Columbia to Berkeley

Check it out:
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/news.xql?pid=entryID2010-06-30