Vol. XVII, no. 6 THE LIBRARY AT TUSCULUM COLLEGE May Extra 2007

This May extra edition offers our summer hours and a recap of our school year statistics.
 

 Summer Hours: 
 

New book/DVD acquisitions: 

Since July 2006, 2,102 books/DVDs new to our Greeneville collection have been cataloged for the shelves. Another 872 were added in Knoxville giving us a year-to-date total of 2,974. The latter figure represents an increase of 376 titles over 0506.

 New Shared Catalog:

 The Library@TC has moved to a second generation automation system. Innovative Interfaces’ “Millenium,” the Shared Catalog of the Appalachian College Association’s Bowen Central Library, replaces our previous system from The Library Corporation (TLC), “Library.Solutions” introduced in 2005.

 Your library staff is currently undergoing training on the new system and hopes to have it fully operational this summer. Certain features, including several on the public catalog (WEBPAC) interface, will be phased in during the coming months. Others, such as a serials tracking module, will also be activated. These will aid us in better providing services from “behind the scenes.”

  Holdings records for all TC materials from both Greeneville and Knoxville have been entered into the new system and you may search the WEBPAC by visiting http://library.acaweb.org/search~S24. The catalog defaults to Tusculum, but by changing the links you may also visit  the catalogs of other ACA schools.  In excess of a million titles are represented in the shared catalog.

  Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to “test drive” the new system using the link provided above and let us know opinions. Instructional sessions are already being planned.
 

Statistics:

March-April and Summary School Year statistics:  

Use Statistics (March 2007): 

 Website (library only) Visits: 5,388; Subscription database searches (total): 46,471; Total electronic visits to  The Library at Tusculum College: 51,859.

 Interlibrary Loans:

Greeneville to Knoxville, 2 Knoxville to Greeneville, 2;Greeneville to Gray, 0; Greeneville to Morristown, 0;  via OCLC from other libraries for both campuses, 17; Books by Mail: 3.

Use Statistics (April 2007): 

 Website (library only) Visits: 7,090; Subscription database searches (total): 20,842; Total electronic visits to  The Library at Tusculum College: 27,932.

 Interlibrary Loans:

Greeneville to Knoxville, 1 Knoxville to Greeneville, 0;Greeneville to Gray, 0; Greeneville to Morristown, 0;  via OCLC from other libraries for both campuses, 3; Books by Mail: 0.

Use Statistics (YTD Summer 2006-April 2007): 

 Website (library only) Visits: 59,567; Subscription database searches (total): 363,596; Total electronic visits to  The Library at Tusculum College: 423,163.

Interlibrary Loans:

Greeneville to Knoxville, 12 Knoxville to Greeneville, 7;Greeneville to Gray, 0; Greeneville to Morristown, 0;  via OCLC from other libraries for both campuses, 176; Books by Mail: 11.

Comments: 

Circulation: 4,415 print books were circulated by the two libraries, 1,423 more than last year..  Electronic book circulations jumped up  3,421 last year to 5,506. These are impressive gains over previous years.

Interlibrary loans: In 0506, 206 items were traded between campuses or obtained from other libraries. Though a small number, this represents an increase of 64 items from a year ago, another sure sign of a blossoming in library use and scholarship.

Reference: 5,053 reference transactions (in person, phone, e-mail) occurred this school year, 142 less than a year earlier.

Information literacy/library use sessions: These continue to demonstrate healthy growth from 152 in 0405 to 207 in 0506 to 277 in 0607.

Website visits: Website visits have mushroomed and partially explain the decline in physical use noted below.  Website (library only) visits were up just 2,708, but subscription database skyrocketed  144,127 this year (363,596), pushing overall visits to the library website by 146,835 to 423,163. At this rate, we could top half a million visits in 0708.

Physical use: A total of 52,057 people physically employed the two non-museum libraries of Tusculum College this school year, with 741 fewer visiting the main Greeneville facility  than the branch library in Knoxville. The Greeneville decline is attributed to the growth in GPS enrollment at Gray and Morristown, ease of electronic database usage, and many fewer community tours.

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