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COMMLISS:. Communications / Library & Information Science Services Team. COMMLISS: What we’re doing. Identify how and where to most effectively provide Library services to all disciplines and communities engaged in the fields of Library & Information Science and Communications Studies

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  1. COMMLISS: Communications / Library & Information Science Services Team

  2. COMMLISS: What we’re doing • Identify how and where to most effectively provide Library services to all disciplines and communities engaged in the fields of Library & Information Science and Communications Studies • Develop a service profile (or profiles) attuned to the evolving research and teaching needs in each of these fields

  3. COMMLISS:Members Team Leader Katie Newman Communications Library, Head Lisa Romero LIS Library, Head Sue Searing LIS & Comm Library, Staff Lori Carroll GSLIS Faculty Linda Smith (Chair of the LIS Library Advisory Committee) College of Media Faculty Brant Houston (Chair of the College of Media Library Committee) Administrative Liaison JoAnn Jacoby

  4. COMMLISS: Considerations • Shifting demographics of the academic programs • The interdisciplinary nature of the fields • The limitations of the available library spaces • Available assessment data • Present and future needs, based on surveys, focus groups

  5. COMMLISS: Assessment data for LIS Room Count, Social Science Division Libraries – FY07

  6. COMMLISS: Assessment data for LIS Average people / hour, Social Science Division Libraries – FY07

  7. COMMLISS: Assessment data for LIS 2006 Faculty Survey: “My primary libraries are Library Science AND…” All: STX15: Ref, UGX10: ESSL, Engineer’g5: Bio, ACES, RBR, Engl, AHS, Com, BEL

  8. COMMLISS: Assessment data for LIS Relationship Between Circulation & Web Transactions More virtual More physical (2006 data)

  9. COMMLISS: Assessment data for LIS Relationship Between Circulation & Web Transactions: LIS is proportionately more virtual than Comm, RBR, Hist, Engl, etc. COMM LIS

  10. COMMLISS:LIS realities • Highly interdisciplinary user base • LEEP contributes to • Low onsite usage • High virtual usage, including emails • Need to purchase more virtual materials • Money for staffing has been curtailed • Success of librarian’s office hours in GSLIS

  11. COMMLISS:Conclusions so far • A simple merger of the print collections of two units does little to further the browsing or service needs of either constituency • We have set the idea of a merger aside to consider other models better attuned to the evolving needs of students and researchers

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