Spring Semester Ends...

We’ve come to the end of another school year and another marker for me. When I arrived here last October, classes had already been in session for several weeks, but it did not take me long to adjust to the rhythm of the ECU campus. What I can not believe is how quickly these last seven months have sped by.

Just a few of the things which we have accomplished in that time include:
· Third Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming
· Successful completion of the third year of the NC Echo grant & the rollout of the Eastern North Carolina Digital Library—the CDP & TRC staff have done soooo much to make this a success and to share the information with our community
· Review of almost all SPA position descriptions, resulting in many upgrades—thanks CJ & supervisors!
· Record # of library instruction classes by the Reference Department & Special Collections, NC Collection, & TRC
· Transfer of most of our servers to Cotanche; roll out of many new staff workstations & distribution of new PDAs
· Installation of plasma screens in some group studies
· Renovation projects in the building including shipping & receiving and a new Building Ops Office
· New life for the Friends of the Joyner Library
· Gift of the De Bry volume to the University
· Columns won two CASE awards
· Started working on the IR initiative
· Hired a new Major Gifts Officer
· Access Services initiated Pull & Hold service—Great PR for the Library

I am sure you can think of others! Please share them!

We have launched into an examination of our services and the allocation and distribution of our resources. I appreciate the enthusiasm with which the Library has embraced Revisionining Task Force. I think that we will all of us will benefit from this exercise and process—but more importantly, I believe that the students, faculty and all of our users will benefit to a greater extent. You are all sick and tired of hearing me talk about change and having to adjust to that change, but the simple fact is that is what it is all about.

Personally, I can not keep up with all of the changes taking place in the library world and the delivery of information, but fortunately, I don’t have to do it alone. Joyner really is the Information Place!