VC/UHV Library Annual Report FY08

Calvin is right, nothing does seem to change - but one day you look around...and everything's different.

It's been a year of change here at the VC/UHV Library. As you check out the annual reports of our individual departments (use the links over on the left), you will see that this has been a busy and exciting time. Here are some of the highlights:

• Construction on the second floor, which began in December, finished out the move of the Media Center back to the Library.
• A new design for the Media Center's webpage showcases and highlights the video, audiobook, and music collections.
• Upgrades to our media broadcast system now give us the ability to stream media across the Internet to our off-campus teaching locations and to our users in their homes.
• Negotiation of streaming media rights has increased student access to video and DVD-based instruction materials.
• Use of session and time limit control software has returned the use of our public access computers to our students
• New microfilm readers and scanners have added new abilities to our newspaper researchers.
• Processing of the Jack O. and Ellen Brahmann Miller Texana Collection continues. This significant collection will provide great resources to researchers.
• Interlibrary Loan users now can check the status of their requests online.
• RSS (Real Simple Syndication) has been implemented on some Library webpages. RSS notifies interested users when a webpage is updated or changed.
• New campus ID card design caused the Library's Circulation Department to process more than 8,200 new campus ID cards, including the season passes for the UHV Jaguars.
• Reclassification of the Curriculum (textbook) collection makes the collection more usable.
• Our new parking lot was finished, which doubled the number of available spaces to our users.