Thinking about archival items...

I met with Linda Stewart today and we discussed the need to prioritize what needs to be digitized.  I started listing items:

Alex Marositz in DSPS is reviewing accessibility on the PDHC website.  10/19/2011

Campus newspaper -- Linda to look at vendors at CLA
Ask Roger for description of number of reels...

Sherine...Prioritize B roll for editing and conversion

Stan Grey Collection (finding list on Shatford Library wiki under Archives)  Contact Foundation contact for funding for digitization

PCC Courier index (Mark Dodge's tab delimited files) On W drive under Library Archives and on wiki

John Barney, retiree, writing his biographical novel.  We have the PJC years but no rights.  Wrote letter to him in Oregon to check on him.  10/19/11

Mabel Pierson letters.  James Douglas/Memories Remembered [thememorycollector@yahoo.com] purchased these letters at the PCC Flea Market.  Mabel was the founder of our Life Sciences or Nursing Department.  James has transcribed them into digital files.  He lives in the Bay Area.

Accreditation portal--> move it into Contentdm.  Many historical documents that are digitized into pdf files (primarily)

Club History and Pins

Who we serve, who we don't serve....

When I served at the Eureka Institute as a mentor for leaders in public libraries, I was inspired.  They each come to the Institute with a proposed project to enhance their communities through library services.  One was to capture Veteran's oral histories as they returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  One was to serve the children of immigrants who stand near the Home Depot waiting for painting jobs; another was to reach out to single dads with storytimes.

At the end of the Institute, it struck me.  We know who are library users are... We can look at their data by extracting our "active users" from Voyager, our lab logins (although we have not done it before), and through our remote authentications.  We know our face to face users...but what about those who never use the library? Who are they...where are they?

My strategy for next year would be an outreach program to just these people.  What are we doing to target services to Veterans, to Ujima, the Athletic Zone, EOPS students, to African American and Latino students who are non-users?  How can we turn that around using data about these students before our contact and after our outreach?

It is late on a Fall 2011afternoon ...

It is late on a Fall afternoon and I decided that there are so many things to pass on to the next Library leader that I had better get started...

• things only I know
• things Jennifer and I know
• my strategy for budget...
• projects I have not completed
• projects I wish I had completed
• documentation on procedures to help the one who comes behind me
• and much more...