Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq a September 2008 report from the Department of Defense
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Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
150 Years of Federal Government Publications at Illinois State (Normal) University
Posted in Uncategorized on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
1. The Early Library¾A Rented Room with Donated Documents
When Illinois State Normal University opened for classes October 5th, 1857, its classroom and library were housed in downtown Bloomington, on the third floor of Major’s Hall above “Humphrey’s Cheap Store.” Students were encouraged to bring books with them for their studies.
2. Donations from Prominent Congressmen
Of [...]
FS and FTC progress
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Two students working in the larger “General Reference” unit of the library have been diligent at typing up lists. Student N. and C. have typed up the a good chunk of the Federal Security agency books and all of the the Federal Trade Commission books. I’ve discarded 177 of the FTC documents. That’s equivalent to [...]
More discard lists
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Volunteer Student M. finished discard list of Health Education and Welfare of 100 volumes. That list was posted today. She began working on a new list from Federal Trade Commission. A big, full chart.
I sent a query out to Admin asking about staging area for these discard books. No word on carts or empty shelving [...]
Map of Docs Shelves Finished!
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today Student Volunteer K. finished the excel map of the documents shelves on the main floor of the library. Each three-feet documents shelf is represented by an excel cell that has been labeled with the beginning of the SuDoc class stem. With this map complete I can now begin to compare the space of documents [...]
Big and Little Volumes
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorized on April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Volunteer Student M. continued to type discard lists for the WTIC Commerce publications from the 1950s through 1960s. This series is crazy because it has maybe 50-80 separate titles bound into a book about 2-inches thick. It’s a lot of work to discard these books.
I took an easier route. I began typing a list [...]
Hello world!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Every day in the library brings new and unexpected projects. Milner Library has been a federal depository library since 1857 and offers a great collection of government information to its ISU campus and community. Unfortunately, for as long as I’ve been at Milner, there have been special projects always requiring extra special work, usually involving [...]
