Visual Resources Center Activities FY 2006-07

Demands for the use of digital images have grown sharply on our campus. These demands come with advances in digital technologies and our transitioning away from collecting and presenting images on 35mm film.

To this day, we still maintain a large collection of 35mm slides of art for presentations in the classroom. As digital images are becoming more readily available for use the 35mm film is becoming a less needed collection. On our campus, the overall use of the 35mm slide collection has been on a steady decline and we believe the collection will eventually fall into disuse.

Several times throughout the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 terms our Access Services Coordinator, Stephanie Johnson reported that, "…faculty members who wanted to learn how to create digital slide shows in lieu of using [35mm] slides & projectors,” were approaching her to learn the basics of using digital images on the computer and in the classroom.

At the Krieble Library, we have been taking strides towards making digital image resources available for teaching and learning on our campus for several years. Part of these efforts includes providing basic advisement and instruction on creating, selecting and using images. Each who endeavors to make use of these image resources needs to learn how to use digital cameras, computers, scanners and a number of different software programs. The past two semesters we have experienced a heavy increase in the demand for our related instructional services most pointedly from our teaching faculty.

On an individual appointment basis, several faculty members came into the Visual Resource Center at the Krieble Library for a series of lessons. We are set-up in the Visual Resources Center with digital cameras, scanners, and both PC & Macintosh computers for our faculty and students to utilize. They come in to learn the basics of uploading digital images from their cameras or scanner, saving the images to file, and cropping, rotating and enhancing their images in Photoshop. They also learn to use presentation software MS PowerPoint and about burning their finalized presentations to disc.

As an example, David Dewey signed up for instructional time with our Access Service Coordinator, Stephanie Johnson, in the VR Room for basic Photoshop & Powerpoint lessons. She reports that:

He wanted to use his camera to take digital images. Stephanie demonstrated to David how to create a folder on the PC desktop and save his images to that file from the flash card & instructed him in cropping, rotating and enhancing his photos in Photoshop. In Powerpoint, she showed David how to insert images, resize images to fit the slides, change backgrounds and rearrange the slide order. She demonstrated burning the Powerpoint presentation to CD. They did a test run of the presentation on a laptop hooked up to the LCD projector. Over the next several weeks, they would meet and go over the previous instruction – the presentations became more refined as David became more comfortable with the technology. David experimented on his own with his own PC using the Powerpoint tutorial she created to aid him in his self-learning."

You will find additional annual reviews in the July 2007 blog archive…

Respectfully posted,
By Loree Bourgoin
Director of the Krieble Library

Acquisitions and Cataloging Operations: Brief FY 2006-07

For budgetary reasons, we continue to keep our collection growth and cataloging operations at very modest levels.

238 records were added to our library catalog between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. Clickable connection to our full catalog is available online at: http://www.lymeacademy.edu/The_Library/libwebpac.htm

FY06-07 Paid Acquisitions include: 32 books, 25 visual resources, 75 periodical subscriptions, & 6 database subscriptions. Additionally, we added Donations: 428 titles (catalogues or books) 4 visual resources (DVDs) and we created 49 DVDs.

Loan Services & Circulations for FY 2006-07

Between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, the library circulated 8,401 items from our circulating collection. This is slight decrease from the circulation statistics of the previous year which reported 8,885 circulated

Overall 86% of the total annual circulations were items from our titles classed under the subject of art. The Top 3 circulation FY07 areas were in the following classifications:

• Sculpture, class range 730-739 820 (9.7%)
• Drawing, class range 740-749 1608 (19.1%)
• Painting, class range 750-759 3511 (41.7%)

During FY 07

• 69% of the total circulations were to BFA students,
• 14% to Continuing Education Students and
• 12% to Studio & Liberal Arts Faculty

· Our Interlibrary lending, college staff and post-baccalaureate and trustee community made much less of a demand on circulation. Together they made up the remaining 5%.

• On a related note, Interlibrary borrowing has continued with a healthy 89% fill rate. Interlibrary lending had a lower fill rate of 33.3%. Requests for materials from other libraries were very high this year. The students who were/are enrolled in the Art History minor were very much responsible for the increase in usage. The trend for materials requested was for in-depth academic materials regarding art subjects assigned in the art history classes. Items that were unfilled were generally hard-to-find titles that were not circulated by the lending libraries. In the case of article requests, some of the items were not to be loaned for free and the patron cancelled the request.

Donations Report FY 2006-07

The Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 acquisition cycle was a notable year due to the Gifts & Donations that we received to support the collections of the Krieble Library.

The Krieble Library accepts books and other materials as donations from individuals and organizations. When these materials match areas of research and instruction within the College, they are considered for cataloging into our collection. After donations are accepted, they are reviewed and the librarian makes the final decision on which materials are added to the collections. Those donations that are not added are still put to support the library by becoming part of our library surplus which is offered for sale at the annual Midsummer Festival Booksale. The revenue of the sales are then converted to funds to support the library's development.

During the Fall and Spring there were numerous donors that supported our library with donations of books and other resources. Alumni, faculty members and members of the general public donated many useful titles.

I am pleased to report Donations added include: 428 titles (catalogues or books) and 4 visual resources (DVDs). Also, several other donations remain in backlog and are still under consideration but have not formally been added to our collection.

We accepted several large book & material donations from:

The estate of Elisabeth Gordon Chandler, founder of Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts

Mr. Richard Y. Ballard, long time supporter of the college library.

John Morgan, scholarship contributor and family of alumn artist Corey Getchell.

Michael Sturges, supporting the library in the name of his late wife, Betsey Sturges, artist.

We appreciate each of our donors and thank all the donors that supported us in this past fiscal year.

• Ann Louise Bach
• Annenberg Public Policy Center
• Artsball Supporter
• Richard Y. Ballard
  
• Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art
• Paula Billups
• Cleveland Public Library
• Colby College Museum of Art
• David Dewey
• Eugene Fairbanks
• Elisabeth Gordon Chandler
  
• Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art & Design
• Dan Gheno
• Nancy P. Gladwell
• John Morgan
• Suzanne Joffray
• Korean Cultural Center
• Pamela Lefever
• Cynthia McFadden
• Richard McDermott Miller
• Susan Nichols
• Frederick Osborne
• George A. Roberts
• Beth Rumery
• Jeane Schmidt
• Spanierman Gallery, LLC
• Brian Keith Stephens
• Michael Sturges
• The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
• Jerry Weiss
• Adela & Lucius Wilmerding

We also want to thank all many friends and family of Michael & Betsey Sturges that made contributions to the Betsey Sturges Memorial Gift. The gift supported our acquisitions efforts and was used to purchase many artistic anatomy DVDs from the Glenn V. Vilppu studios and the Robert Beverley Hale Lectures.

Respectfully posted, Loree Bourgoin, Director of the Krieble Library, LACFA

Collections Reviewed for FY 2006-07

Collections Growth & Access Chart As of June 30, 2007	Items in the public stacks	Items to be Cataloged (Backlog)	Current Collection Size (Total)
Book Titles	11,745	1,660	13,405
Slides	22,412	1,300	25,486
Film Titles	391	N/A	391
Periodical Subscriptions	75	N/A	75
Electronic Resources (online / hard disc storage)	19/24	N/A	43

Compared to Total for: FY05-06	Compared to total For: FY00-01	Historical Chart for Collections & Access in past Fiscal Years
13,004	10,299	Book Titles
25,486	17,989	Slides
313	139	Film Titles
75	52	Periodical Subscriptions
42	9	Electronic Resources (online / hard disc storage)

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