250 -13450 102nd Avenue ?

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

SURREY CAMPUS LIBRARY ?

SFU SURREY ?

Surrey B.C. V3T 0A3

Phone: 778-782-7411 ?

Fax: 778-782-7420 ?

website: www.lib.sfu.ca/about/surrey/

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•.

Introduction

What is an academic library in 2006? The activity encompassed is breathtaking. This year's Annual Report

particularly makes the point. As I write this, one library staff member is in Pretoria, South Africa; this year

library staff have reported on our activities in India, Norway, Denmark, England, and all over North America;

. • upcoming are trips to Brazil, Vietnam and South Korea. Herein are described book collections, electronic

resources, academic support for students, software development, reference support, a wide range of equipment

support and distribution, and publishing support. All this in addition to the continually morphing traditional

reference, loans and processing services. And these activities take place in an environment of continually

evolving collaboration, partnership and sharing with faculty, librarian colleagues, and students. Library space is

being repurposed to meet these new requirements with a variety of active learning spaces and contemplative

study areas being configured throughout the three SFU libraries. Still, research libraries continue as the world

described most evocatively in Robert Bringhurst's poetic essay on the cover of this annual report.

Collections

In this 40

year of collection building at SFU Library, our activities were buoyed by the strength of the

Canadian dollar and by continued University support. In forty years the SFU Library collections have grown to

well over two million volumes - a significant achievement, and a valuable legacy for the next forty years, and

beyond. In addition to continuing to support established teaching and research at SFU, we developed

• collections in new growth areas for the university, including Health Sciences, Interactive Arts & Technology,

and French language programming. Following the same pattern of spending in recent years, two thirds of the

Library's materials budget was spent on serials, and one third on monographs and other one-time acquisitions.

The growth of our electronic collections continued apace, with some notable acquisitions. As part of SFU's

participation in a new round of national licensing through the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, we

significantly deepened our online resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Generous donations by SFU

Alumni funded the purchase of the digitized 19 th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers of the UK,

an invaluable source of primary documents covering this significant period in British, Canadian and colonial

history.

Electronic journal usage showed an increase of twenty-five per cent over the previous year, with the most

highly used journals,

Nature

(23,706 articles downloaded) and

Science

(17,965 articles downloaded) showing

usage increases of more than twenty per cent. The top twenty most used electronic journals came from

chemistry, physics, biology, health sciences, and psychology. During 2005 we also saw more than 800,000

accesses to the Library's licensed databases and well over three million unique searches made of these

databases. This level of usage clearly illustrates the value of our investment in these online products.

This year we updated the Library's overall collection development policy to complement the subject-specific

policies that direct our collection building. The policy now includes guidelines for formats such as electronic

books, DVDs and electronic data sets.

W.A.C. BENNETT LIBRARY

•

SFU BURNABY

8888 University Drive,

Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6

Phone: 604-291-4084

Fax: 604-291-3023

website: www.lib.sfu.ca

SAMUEL & FRANCES BELZBERG LIBRARY ?

SFU VANCOUVER ?

515 West Hastings Street ?

Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5K3 ?

Phone: 604-291-5050

Fax: 604-291-5052 ?

website: www.harbour.sfu.ca/belzberg/

Significant new resources

• 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers online (UK)

• Alexander Street Press -11 new collections of primary sources online

• ARTStor

• Blackwell's Online Journals

• Chronicle of Higher Education online

• Classical Music Library

• ebrary Academic Complete Collection

• EJU Country Reports

• EIU Viewswire

• Encyclopaedia Britannica online

• Guide to Social Science and Religion online

• IPSOS Reid News Centre

• IPSOS Reid Trend Report

• JSTOR Arts & Sciences

• JSTOR Arts & Sciences Complement

• Lippincott Williams Wilkins Total Access journal collection

• London Times archive 1785 -

• Making of the Modern Economy

• New York Times archive 1851 -

• Oxford University Press online journal archive

• Paperslnvited

• Play Index online

• Sage Online Journals

• Smithsonian Global Sound collection

• Springer online journal archive

Special Collections

This was a bellwether year, with gifts exceeding $800,000, far surpassing any previous total. Significant

acquisitions included:

• The poetry collection of bp Nichol (over 3000 v.)

• The Charles Hou editorial cartoons collection (over 70 v. each vol. has 250 to 300 cartoons)

• Jim Rimmer/Pie Tree Press printing & graphic art collection

• Talonbooks accrual, Caitlin Press, Polestar & Tanks publishing archives

• Editorial cartoons of Bierman, Harrop, Rice, Uluschak, Krieger, Peterson and Rimmer as well as cartoons

featuring the Canada/U.S. lumber wars from Mike Apsey

• Barry McKinnon collection of Canadian Literature (2200+ v.)

• The BC Civil Liberties Association archive

• Incline Press

• Gerard Brender

Brandis collection

• George Fetherling collection

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APPENDIX I -Activities

Table A -Collections

March 2006

Micromaterial volumes

Audiovisual & other formats

Electronic Subscriptions

Table B

Bennett

Belzberg

Surrey

Total

05/06

Total 04/05

%Change

General Collection Loaned

04/05

Sent To Other Libraries

N/A

19,633

19,685

Distance Ed. Deliveries

Items Received From Other

Table C- Services

Reference Questions

Instruction-number of students

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Presentation:

"Open Source Software at SFU"; Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, December

2005.

Presenter: "CUFTS:

Open Source Serials Management"; Netspeed Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton,

October 2005.

"Consortial Updates"; Access Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 2005.

"library2vendor: Open Source Development at SFU Library"; Access Conference, University of

Alberta, Edmonton, October 2005.

"Humanities and Social Science E-Journal Hosting at the SFU Library"; Canadian Association of

Learned Journals, University of Western Ontario, June 2005.

"Open Journal Systems Workshop"; Synergies: Canadian Network of Digital Publishing and

Dissemination Platforms Meeting, Université de Montréal, May 2005.

"Getting Better Results: Federated Searching in the Virtual Library"; Canadian Association for Distance

Education Conference, Simon Fraser University, May 2005.

"Transition from Print to e-Journals: Academic Library Perspectives"; British Columbia Library

Association Conference, Burnaby, BC, April 2005.

"dbWiz: Federated Searching in Academic Libraries"; BC Net Advanced Networks Conference,

Simon Fraser University, April 2005.

"Open Source Software at Simon Fraser University"; Beyond Hope Library Conference, Prince George,

BC, April 2005.

Eric Swanick

the Book in Canada, vol.

"Book Collectors." In

History

2, 1840-1918/ edited by Yvon Lamonde, Patricia

Lockhart Fleming and Fiona A. Black. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [2005].

246-249.

"William Godsoe MacFarlane: An Introduction".

Bulletin

(Canadiana.org ) 5, no.2 (April 2005):

pp.7-8.

"Crocket, James Harvie..."

Dictionary

Canadian Biography

v.15, 1921 to 1930. Toronto: University of

Toronto Press, 2005.

240-242. Issued also in French.

v.15,1921 to 1930. Toronto: University of

"Hawke, John Thomas..."

Dictionary

Canadian Biography

Toronto Press, 2005.

461-463. Issued also in French.

"Simon Fraser University's Special Collections: What's So Special"; Vancouver Public Library, February

13, 2006.

Executive Committee, Canadiana.org .

Board, Alcuin Society.

Wayzgoose Conference, October 2005.

Penny Swanson

the Spring BCCATS meeting.

Moderator:

Cataloguing Forum at the ifi User Group meeting.

Convenor:

BC Innovative User Group, Simon Fraser University.

Don Taylor

Publication: "Up

North--Comparison and Contrast of U.S. and Canadian Academic Libraries" in Gwen Meyer

Gregory

(Ed)

The Successful Academic Librarian: Winning Strategies from Library Leaders.

Medford, N.J.: Information

Today, 2005. pp.141-154.

"E-Journal MARC Records at the Simon Fraser University Library",

Charleston Conference Proceedings

2004, Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006,

• Doukhobor material (postcards, LPs, circular letters, books)

289-292.

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• The Body Politic

• Thoreau MacDonald (books, Christmas cards...)

• Collection of Wordsworth, especially Lake District books, postcards

• Paul St. Pierre papers

• Darren Werschler-Henry papers

• Jamie Reid papers

• A collection of Finnish material

• Small collections of leftist materials - Labour Progressive Party, Communist Party in BC, Workers Party of

Canada

Maps/Data/GIS

This year both our traditional paper and digital map collections were expanded, through donations of paper maps

and a complete set of DMTI's Satellite StreetView imagery data for all of Canada. The imagery dataset is stored on a

300GB HD for distribution to researchers and GIS labs.

Media Collection

The Media Collection was featured in SFU's student newspaper,

The Peak,

in an article by Sean Trembath about the

film collection, entitled,

Free films (use responsibly)

http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2005-3/issue7/ar-sfufyi.html. ?

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withdrawn from the collection, as BBC discontinued the

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licence for educational use in Canada. Improved access to

student)

films is now provided through a monthly list of new films,

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Games at Surrey

The important games collection at the Surrey library continued to be expanded to support programming at that site.

A new games system, Nintendo DS, was purchased for the Games Room and additional games were purchased

including some 'girl games' in support of the Women in Technology - Girl Garners Club. A Games Room advisory

group of students was established. Improvements to the catalogue records now enable searching by the game

system.

Sandra Wong

Member:

Research Ethics Board, Simon Fraser University.

Member:

Steering Committee, the SLA Northwest Regional Conference.

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BC Digital Archivists Association: Multicultural Canada.

"Software @ SFU Library"; Open Source Software Sustamability (Oxford, England).

BCLA Conference: Open Access Publishing: Three Perspectives.

Negotiations Resource Team for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

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Public Library Board Trustee for the West Vancouver Memorial Library.

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Board's Information Technology Committee.

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BC Public Libraries Services Branch (PLSB) Gateway Committee.

Statistic Canada DLI External Advisory Committee.

ICPSR Council (third year of a four-year term).

ICPSR data web data services workshop.

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and software. With the opening of the Student Learning Commons in September 2006, there is even greater

potential to provide more collaborative and integrated support to students with the addition of academic writing

programs and activities within WAC Bennett Library.

Ask Us Live

The Library's collaborative Ask Us Live service with the University of Victoria continued to thrive, with increased

hours and positive feedback from SFU users. Building on the success of the service, planning is underway to

participate in the BC-wide, post-secondary virtual reference service which will be administered through the BC

Electronic Library Network. Funding for software, training, and communications has been provided by the

Ministry of Advanced Education. SFU and UVic will play a key role in sharing our successful practices with the

wider post-secondary community. As a prototype for the anticipated wider service, SFU participated in the

BCcampus Chat Reference Pilot project, which extended chat reference service to users within the Library Services

Gateway of the BCcampus Portal. SFU, UVic, and UBC staffed the service, which

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was targeted to students at Camosun College, College of the Rockies, Kwantlen

University College, and University College of the Fraser Valley.

Marianne Reid

Faculty Association's Committee on Mandatory Retirement, Library Representative.

Sylvia Roberts ?

BCLA Information Policy Committee (2005-2006).

BCLA Copyright Committee (2005-2006). ?

Convener:

"Learning with the Brain in Mind"; pre-conference session at BCLA annual conference (April 2005).

Community Advisory Group to Communication faculty member Ellen Balka's major SSHRC funded

Action for Health Research Group; advised researchers about the dissemination of research results beyond

• academia; met with the SSHRC committee conducting the mid-term review (2005-2006).

Trish Rosseel ?

seconded part time as Library Services Consultant on the BCcampus Learner Services Committee and on

Public Library Services Branch Virtual Reference Committee.

"BCcampus Update"; Presentations at post-secondary libraries throughout BC, September/October 2005

and February 2006.

"The Future of Reference: Approaches to Service'; Academic Librarians in Public Service Meeting,

Vancouver, BC, December 2005.

"Post-Secondary Partnership: BCcampus Library Services, LearningObjects, and Virtual Reference";

British Columbia Library Association Conference, Burnaby, BC, April 2006.

Convenor:

"Multi-type Collaboration: Providing Library Services Across the Life Span"; British Columbia Library

Association Conference, Burnaby, BC, April 2006.

Nina Smart

Convenor:

"Academic Integrity: Emerging Partnerships for Librarians, Faculty and Students"; BCLA Annual

Conference, April 2006.

Ian Song

Multicultural Canada Conference, Vancouver, BC, May/June 2006.

Kevin Stranack

Mah, C. and Stranack, K. "dbWiz: Open Source Federated Searching';

"Libraries Sharing Technology for Sharing'; British Columbia Library Association Conference,

Burnaby, BC, April 2006.

"dbWiz: Open Source Federated Searching"; TAL Federated Search Symposium, University of Calgary,

brary

Christine Manzer

Library and Information Technology Program Advisory Committee for Langara College.

Ask Us Here

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I received in lu'rinl,

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and

contacted our liaison librarian Within I -()

Minutes he found, screened and c-ma i lad Olt-

relevant c:atiStice to me -- just in time tor the

interview. (Facu ltr member

Heather Morrison

"Beyond Peer Review: Collaboration"; Drexel CoAS E-Learning, Feb. 23, 2006.

Facilitator & Presenter:

"Open Access & Policy Issues"; Breakout session at the CERN Workshop on Scholarly

Innovations (0A14), Geneva, October 22, 2005.

http:/Ihdl.handle.net/1892/1843.

Co-Presenter:

"Open Access: an Introduction"; Alberta Library Conference, April 30, 2005.

http:I/ir.lib.sfu.ca/

handle118921261.

Co-Presenter:

"Open Access: Resources and Opportunities"; Beyond Hope Library Conference, Prince George, B.C.

April 25, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle118921260.

Co-Presenter:

"Opening Access to Scholarly Research"; British Columbia Library Association Conference, April 23,

2005.

http:I/ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/18921260.

Publication:

"The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Implications and Opportunities for Resource Sharing";

Journal

of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve,

16, 3 (2006).

http://hdl.handle.net/1892/510 .

Publication:

"The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics"; Scholarly Blog, July 2005 - present.

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com .

Publication:

"The Implications of Usage Statistics as an Economic Factor in Scholarly Communications"; In:

Usage Statistics of E-Serials,

ed. by David Fowler. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2005.

Publication:

"Haworth Series on Serials Librarianship and Continuing Resources";

http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/189211639 .

Co-Chair:

BCLA Information Policy Committee.

Chair-Elect:

BCLA Academic Librarians in Public Service (ALPS).

Member:

CLA Working Group on Information Policy.

Member:

Public Library E-Audio / E-Text Working Group.

First (and Chief) Editor:

E-LIS Canada.

Member:

OA Librarian Blog Team.

Editor:

The Partnership: Library and Information Science Practice and Research in Canada (forthcoming).

Todd Mundle

Presenter:

a paper— "Digital Retrospective Conversion of Theses and Dissertations: an In House Project" at the Electronic

Theses and Dissertations (ETD) 2006 Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Keynote address:

UBC SLAIS Job Fair.

Presenter:

Academic Libraries (LIBR 560), Foundations of Information-Based Organizations; UBC School of Library,

Archival and Information Studies.

Brian Owen

Presenter:

"Multicultural Canada Project"; Meeting of the Vancouver Region Digital Archivists Group. ICBC,

North Vancouver, B.C. March 2006.

Co-Presenter:

"Open or Closed: Software and Information"; Speak Up Series at Vancouver Public Library,

Vancouver, B.C. October 2005.

Co-Presenter:

"Library2Vendor: Open Source Development at SFU Library"; Access 05 Conference, Edmonton,

Alberta. October 2005.

Member:

Gateway Project, B.C. Public Libraries Services Branch, Sept. 2005—present.

Member:

Project Steering Committee and participating in the development of a vision and implementation plan for

province wide online public library services.

Member:

Synergies Project, Technical Working Group, Jan. 2005 — present.

Presenter:

Access 05 (Edmonton): Software @ SFU Library.

Presenter:

"Open Access & Open Source Software"; Vancouver Public Library Speak Up Series.

The Ask Us Here team test drove a new cart beginning Spring

2006 to provide better support for this expanding service which

continues to answer students' questions at their point of need,

provide opportunities for faculty liaison, and raise awareness of

Library services. To provide support at the Segal School of

Business, Belzberg librarians extended the 'Ask Us Here' service

downtown to the Segal Centre lobby.

Other Contacts

In addition to providing reference services to SFU students, faculty, staff, and the community at the Information

Commons desk, liaison librarians in the Reference Division also met with users upon request.

Instruction

Course-integrated

Demand for course-integrated instruction rose significantly in 2005/06 as liaison librarians developed new - and

fostered existing - relationships with faculty across disciplines. Librarians deliver instruction in a variety of

locations using many different methods. They teach in labs and lecture halls in the Library and on-campus, meet

users online via detailed web pages and off campus upon request.

hatting up the coure web Site as

More than 18,000 students attended course-integrated instruction classes

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2005/06, compared with 15,297 in 2004/05. Business, Psychology, and

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Education, English, and Biology. The Library's

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coiutident make a major contribution ?

Plagiarism

tutorial was installed in over thirty courses in 2005/06.

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While the majority of our instruction is course-related, there is a

continuing need to provide general drop-in classes. We continue to

receive positive feedback from students with regard to the Essay Architecture Fair, offered in collaboration with

the Health and Counselling Centre (HCC). The Student Learning Commons will offer further opportunities for

joint programs for students in 2006/07.

Journals and Microform Assistance Desk

Although it is located by the print journals and microformats, many of the

"Had I asked for help from you,

questions at the JAMA Desk are about e-journals. Researchers who are

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inexperienced at retrieving online articles sometimes arrive at the sixth floor

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e-journal publisher sites. There is always a need for ongoing training on the

-- quirks of newer e-journal publisher sites and aggregator databases.

Thesis Support

The Thesis office has increased its support for students over the past few years, with classes available early in the

process; online documentation; and increased contact with students. In addition, an online thesis information

submission form was developed. The result has been a significant reduction in late submissions from nine per

cent to below one per cent.

As well the turnaround time for processing items has been greatly

reduced. In previous years it was not until late in the following

semester that the final approval was given to the majority of

submissions. This has now been cut in half and most of the

submissions are approved by the middle of the next semester. This

reduction means that the items are then digitized and made

available in a much shorter period of time.

Loans Services

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defence and want to thank theTelht ok staff

of for the excellent service provided to me

throughout therpast tBree years. M''text'

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number- of hooks. Reueeftd hooks al's aye

arrived prompt1Y These cervices

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dissertation. (Graduate student)

4,445 times. The number of laptops will be doubled to fifty for the Fall 2006 semester and the loan period

extended from two to four hours. The SFU Surrey library also loans laptops and a variety of other equipment to

support its unique programmes. In addition, thanks to staff and others' donations during the 2006 Campus

Campaign, presentation equipment for use in the group study rooms will soon be available for checkout at the

WAC Bennett Library.

The "Food for Fines" drives in Summer and Fall 2005 were once again very successful. The Library received

2,350 food items from 514 patrons and waived $4,676 in fines.

Thirty pedometers were offered for lending in support of HCC's 'Walk this Way' program from September 19th

to October 20th.

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"Academic Integrity: Emerging Partnerships for Librarians, Faculty, and Students"; BCLA

Elaine Fairey

Co-presenter:

Conference, Burnaby, BC, April 2006.

Conference planning committee member and convenor:

"Learning Virtually Anywhere"; Canadian Association of

Distance Education (CADE) Conference 2005, Vancouver, BC, May 2005.

Member (ex officio):

Senate Committee on Academic Integrity and Student Learning Environment (SCAISLE).

SFU Human Rights Policy Board.

Nicole Gjertsen

Moderator:

"New Art Roundtable" in Banff, AB (May 5 - 9) at the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS)

Conference.

Carole Goldsmith

"SFU Library Digital Image Project"; ARLIS NW Chapter Annual Meeting, Fall 2005.

Executive Member:

Advisory Planning Committee, "Fast Forward Media Trade Show", April 2005.

Carla Graebner

Co-chair:

BCLA Information Policy Committee. ?

Co-convener:

"Government and Legal Information Librarians Annual Gathering"; BCLA Information Policy

Committee event, March 2006.

Reviewer:

Michael Wallace and Lawrence Webber's "The Disaster Recovery Handbook: a Step-by-Step Plan to

.Ensure Business Continuity and Protect Vital Operations, Facilities, and Assets";

Business Information Alert,

November/December 2005.

Percilla Groves

Co-convener:

"Government and Legal Information Librarians Annual Gathering"; BCLA Information Policy

Committee event, March 2006.

a poster session with George Adler, Psychology Lecturer, at the International Society for the

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Mark Jordan

Multicultural Canada Conference, May/June 2006.

Instructor:

"Introduction to Data Manipulation with Pen"; 1-credit course, UBC School of Library, Archival and

Information Studies, March 2006 (with John Durno).

Guest speaker:

UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, on SFU's database of databases, EJDB,

and dbWiz, February 2006.

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Instructor:

"Developing Digital Collections"; 3-credit course, UBC School of Library, Archival and Information

Studies, September - December 2005.

"The CARL Repositories Metadata Application Profile"; Library and Archives Canada Metadata

Forum, September 2005.

"SFU's Institutional Repository Service"; BCcampus Webcast, May 2005.

"Introduction to Open Journal Systems"; Synergies Meeting, University of Montreal, May 2005.

Calvin Mah

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"Searching and Retrieving"; BCNET Conference, Vancouver, BC, April 26, 2005.

Co-Publication:

"dbWiz: Open Source Federated Searching for Academic Libraries";

Library Hi Tech,

23, no. 4(2005):

490-503.

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Heather Morrison

"Beyond Peer Review: Collaboration"; Drexel CoAS E-Learning, Feb. 23, 2006.

Facilitator & Presenter:

"Open Access & Policy Issues"; Breakout session at the CERN Workshop on Scholarly

Innovations (0A14), Geneva, October 22, 2005.

http://hdl.handle.net/1892/1843.

Co-Presenter:

"Open Access: an Introduction"; Alberta Library Conference, April 30, 2005.

http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/

handle118921261.

Co-Presenter:

"Open Access: Resources and Opportunities"; Beyond Hope Library Conference, Prince George, B.C.

April 25, 2005.

http:/Iir.lib.sfr.calhandle118921260.

Co-Presenter:

"Opening Access to Scholarly Research"; British Columbia Library Association Conference, April 23,

2005.

http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle118921260.

Publication:

"The Dramatic Growth of Open Access: Implications and Opportunities for Resource Sharing";

Journal

of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve,

16, 3 (2006).

http://hdl.handle.net/1892/510 .

Publication:

"The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics"; Scholarly Blog, July 2005 - present.

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com .

Publication:

"The Implications of Usage Statistics as an Economic Factor in Scholarly Communications"; In:

Usage Statistics of E-Serials,

ed. by David Fowler. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2005.

Publication:

"Haworth Series on Serials Librarianship and Continuing Resources";

http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/189211639 .

Co-Chair:

BCLA Information Policy Committee.

Chair-Elect:

BCLA Academic Librarians in Public Service (ALPS).

Member:

CLA Working Group on Information Policy.

Member:

Public Library E-Audio / E-Text Working Group.

First (and Chief) Editor:

E-LIS Canada.

Member:

OA Librarian Blog Team.

Editor:

The Partnership: Library and Information Science Practice and Research in Canada (forthcoming).

Todd Mundle

Presenter:

presented a paper— "Digital Retrospective Conversion of Theses and Dissertations: an In House Project" at the

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) 2006 Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Keynote address:

TJBC SLATS Job Fair.

Presenter:

Academic Libraries (LIBR 560), Foundations of Information-Based Organizations; UBC School of Library,

Archival and Information Studies.

Brian Owen

Presenter:

"Multicultural Canada Project"; Meeting of the Vancouver Region Digital Archivists Group. ICBC,

North Vancouver, B.C. March 2006.

Co-Presenter:

"Open or Closed: Software and Information"; Speak Up Series at Vancouver Public Library,

Vancouver, B.C. October 2005.

Co-Presenter:

"Library2Vendor: Open Source Development at SFU Library"; Access 05 Conference, Edmonton,

Alberta. October 2005.

Member:

Gateway Project, B.C. Public Libraries Services Branch, Sept. 2005—present.

Member:

Project Steering Committee and participating in the development of a vision and implementation plan for

province wide online public library services.

Member:

Synergies Project, Technical Working Group, Jan. 2005 —present.

Presenter:

Access 05 (Edmonton): Software @ SFU Library.

Presenter:

"Open Access & Open Source Software"; Vancouver Public Library Speak Up Series.

A number of new reserve services have been introduced. Print articles requested for Reserve are now also

searched online; for nine per cent of a total of 3,521 articles, a link was provided to the online version as well.

Online Reserve Request forms, made available July 2005, are being very well received. An Exam Bank Repository

will be available June 2006 for interested faculty. Courseware Packages will be placed on Reserve effective

Summer 2006 at the request of the course instructor. Finally, as of Summer 2006, a new Business Competition

collection, consisting of approximately 100 case studies referenced by students in the annual Business

Competitions, will be added to the Reserve collection on a permanent basis.

University Outreach

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been quite succec-kil m developing an

outreach program to the entire Un1verit\'

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the acceptance letter from the AAtJB

accreditation team.)

Student Learning Commons

In May 2005 Vice-President Academic John Waterhouse announced that "SFU will establish an academic learning

centre, connected to, and in support of, the ongoing curriculum project. The Learning Commons has a mandate to

assist and support students in their academic pursuits and to provide learning support services across the 3 SFU

campuses. The SFU Learning Commons will open officially in September 2006 in theWAC Bennett Library, and

eventually in other SFU Library sites." One year later, with much behind-the-scenes work, we are on track for the

September 2006 opening.

Building on the existing services of the Alumni Information Commons and the HCC Learning Skills program, the

Student Learning Commons (SLC) will offer a wide range of academic assistance to undergraduate and graduate

students, including academic writing, learning strategies, library research, computer technology, English language

skills, theses formatting advice and more. Over fifteen peer educators will receive specialized writing and learning

support training for Fall 2006.

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Public services staff on all three campuses continue to contribute

to a wide range of outreach activities on and off campus to inform

the wider community about the services, resources and programs

accessible through the Library. In 2005/06 these included:

• Benefits and Services Fair for new faculty.

• Week of Welcome orientation in September 2005.

• Alumni Day Open House in October 2005.

• Burnaby Public Library visit in November 2005.

• Learning and Instructional Development Centre's Symposium on

Innovative Teaching.

• Teaching Assistant/Tutor Marker Day.

• Tutor Marker Orientations.

• Student Services Fair for new and transfer students at the

beginning of each semester.

• Tours for Library visitors.

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The SLC is working to create and maintain effective relationships with many campus groups. In particular, the

SLC has strong ties to the Yosef Wosk Student Learning Commons at SFU Surrey, and will be working through

the Belzberg Library at Harbour Centre to deliver services at SFU Vancouver. The Writing-intensive Learning

Office (WILO) is another important partner, especially given the "W" requirements of SFU's new undergraduate

curriculum, while traditional links with many Student Services units will be maintained and strengthened. The

SLC's goal is to provide students with "one stop" for

academic support services, and "one step" referrals to other

campus services.

The SLC will be located in the NW corner of the Bennett Library's main floor. Its virtual location will be at

htt-p://learningcommons.sfu.ca .

Elaine Fairey was appointed SLC Director in December 2005, in addition to her responsibilities as Associate

University Librarian for Bennett Public Services. Learning Services Coordinator Donna McGee Thompson and

the HCC Learning Skills programme transferred to the SLC in April 2006, and Dr. Amanda Goldrick-Jones was

appointed Writing Services Coordinator in May 2006. Thesis Support will move to the SLC to provide more

seamless referral to SLC services of interest to graduate students.

Processing

Items catalogued increased by 20%, a testament to the hard

I luet wanted to eav:\ hat wonderful staff

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work and dedication of everyone in the Processing Division ?

I phor d up looking fora new book

and to workflow improvements. With an increase in

I-Ii had gor- M1ifter being catalogued. Two

monograph receipts of fifteen percent and a doubling of new

our staff, hunted the beast and delivered it to

serials subscriptions over the previous year, meeting fiscal

me in about 20 minutes. I

\erv impressed at

year end was a challenge which staff met through initiative

the wonderful servird' Li )iCOfl librarian)

and flexibility in assigning tasks to make sure orders were

placed, materials received and invoices paid by March 31. In order to improve workflow and public access,

renovations were undertaken in the processing area and should be completed in Summer 2006.

Library Technology/Special Projects

Last spring a newly designed Online Public Access Catalogue was introduced. It looks more contemporary and

takes advantage of some recent improvements in functionality in the Innovative Interfaces software. User

feedback has been very positive.

"Software @ SFU Library"

(http://software.lib.sfu.ca/)

outlines the extensive range of open source software

developed and/or hosted at the SFU Library. The software includes SFU Library's

reSearcher

suite - Citation

Manager, CUFTS, dbWiz, GODOT - and the PKP suite, a very productive and positive partnership with the

Public Knowledge Project and SFU's Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing. These products benefit the

Library and users from two perspectives: we are able to avoid the costs of commercial equivalents. The cost of

development and support costs are shared among a number of partner institutions. There has been significant

uptake of both software suites during the past year. Our OJS hosting services now provide support to fifteen

journals at various stages of implementation and the OJS software is now in use by over 700 journals worldwide.

• He

eather

De Forest joined the Belzberg Library as liaison for Urban Studies and Public Policy and has also

assumed responsibility for Geography in Burnaby.

• Frances Dodd (formerly with Innovative Interfaces Inc. [ifi] and Online Computer Library Centre [OCLC]

Canada) was hired as Technical Services librarian.

• Liza Eurich, Surrey Library Assistant has replaced Cecilia Roberts who has left to pursue other goals.

• Patty Gallilee agreed to take on the position of Acquisitions/Serials Division Head in what is now a continuing

role.

• Amanda Goidrick-Jones was hired as the SLC Writing Services Coordinator.

• Donna McGee Thompson, Learning Services Coordinator was transferred to the SLC from the HCCC Learning

Skills programme in April 2006.

• Cynthia Wright was hired as Surrey Student Learning Commons coordinator.

Retirements

• Jack Corse, Reference Librarian.

• Cindy Swoveland, Reference Librarian, Belzberg.

• Claude LeFrancois, Library Assistant, Sorting Room.

Professional Activities, Committees, Presentations and Publications

Staff Development Day

Many staff volunteered or participated in the second successful staff development day on May 4, 2006.

Gwen Bird

Co-Presenter:

"From Bindings to Bytes: The Evolution of Paper to Digital and What it Means for Bookstores';

Annual Symposium of Campus Stores Canada, Vancouver, November 5, 2005.

Presenter:

"Collection Management in a University Library"; LIER 520 Presentation, School of Library, Archival &

Information Studies (SLAIS), UBC, October 2005 & March 2006.

Chair:

COPPUL Collections Group.

Member:

CRKN Negotiations Resource Team.

Member:

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies (SCUS).

Member:

Senate Graduate Studies Committee (SGSC).

Mark Bodnar

Presenter:

"Learning Support for Undergraduates: Tips and Tools for Helping Your Students Succeed"; Reaching

New Heights in Learning at SFU: 7th Annual Symposium on Innovative Teaching, SFU, May 18-20,2005.

Instructor:

"Business Reference"; One-credit course (LIBR 539G) at the School of Library, Archival & Information

Studies (SLAIS), UBC, July, 2005.

Chair:

SFUFA Maternity/Parental Leave Advisory Group. November 2005 to February 2006.

Chair:

Librarians' Economic Benefits Committee. August 2005 to February 2006.

Member:

Executive Committee, Simon Fraser University Faculty Association, Library Representative.

Member:

Economic Benefits Negotiating Committee of the Simon Fraser University Faculty Association.

Moninder Bubber

Presenter:

"Building the Shastri Librarians' Network Project"; Presentation at Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New

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Delhi, November 29, 2005, and at Panjab University Library, Chandigarh, December 6, 2005 (pdf of document:

http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/retrievell885/ShastriLibariansNetworkProjectNov2005EditedDec2O2005.ppt)

Participant:

The Institute of the Humanities' Universities as Sites of Citizenship Forum.

Chair of Session:

"Academic Activism" at the conference, "Transformations: The Politics of Women's Studies, 30th

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Acknowledgements:

Writing in Our Times...

(Waterloo, 2005).

• The Halcyon

(June 2005) of the Pauline Johnson Collection.

• Globe and Mail

25 June 2005 for Peter Trower Collection.

• October 20, 2005 Mirhady lecture.

• the use of several cartoons including P. Roy and J.H. Thompson,

British Columbia: Land of Promises

(Toronto:

Oxford University Press, 2005).

• Cynthia Zimmerman, "Auto/biography and re/vision!: Betty Lambert's

Under the skin,"

Theatre and

autobiography..

./ed. Sherrill Grace & Jerry Wasserman (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2006): 152-66.

Visitors to SFU Library

• Lynn Copeland met with eighteen publishers from Shanghai hosted by the Canadian Centre for Studies in

Publishing.

• Professor Uma Coomaraswamy, Vice Chancellor, Open University of Sri Lanka, came to Simon Fraser University

for a study visit and toured

the WAC Bennett Library.

• Peter Trower, poet-writer.

• Ellie Nichol, wife of author bp Nichol.

• Lisa Robertson, writer.

• Dr. Barbara Godard (York University—work on

Open Letter).

• Michael Bough (work on Charles Olson).

• Linda Quick (work on Pauline Johnson).

• Cindy Zimmerman (work on Betty Lambert).

• Roy Peterson (editorial cartoonist).

• Mike Apsey (donor of cartoons).

Judy Wu (work on Gary Snyder).

• Mary hines, a librarian on exchange from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

• North Korean Delegation visited the SFU Surrey Library.

• Eleven librarians from Scandinavia came to visit SFU and toured WAC Bennett Library.

• Ruth Ivey, Information Services,Team Leader, University of Waikato Library Hamilton, New Zealand. Visited

Information Commons, Reference and Document Delivery. Provided information about the University of Waikato

Library and a demonstration of its web site to liaison librarians.

• Dale Lackeyram, Learning Specialist, Learning Commons, University of Guelph. Toured the evolving Student

Learning Commons spaces with Elaine Fairey and Donna McGee Thompson.

Staff

Notable Staff Changes

Two SFU Library technology accomplishments deserve special mention. First, the dbWiz metasearch application,

developed at SFU Library with the support of nine partner libraries in Western Canada, was launched and has

received attention in the library technology literature and worldwide. This service allows users to search more

than one of our licensed databases at once, and also has the ability to search library catalogues and free content

on the Web. One of the developers, Calvin Mah, was asked to address a major library technology conference in

South Africa.

reSearcher

As in past years, development of the

reSearcher

applications (GODOT, CUFTS, Citation Manager, and dbWiz)

continues, resulting in economical, functional, and flexible services for SFU Library users and staff. This year, all

of the applications became available to the world under an Open Source license, and interest in

reSearcher

from

around the world is increasing rapidly.

In December and January, Systems staff assisted Roskilde University in Denmark

(http://www.ruc.dk/ruc_en/)

set up and use GODOT, CUFTS, and dbWiz. Roskilde reimbursed SFU for this work and Kevin Stranack visited

their campus to assist with local configuration and to make a presentation to librarians from 26 Danish libraries.

PKP

In May 2005, the University of British Columbia's PKP (Public Knowledge Project) software -- which includes

open source journal publishing system, a conference management system, and a metadata harvester - moved to

SFU Library as its permanent home. Since the move, SFU has coordinated the development and release of two

minor upgrades to Open Journal Systems, and an entire rewrite of the PKP Metadata Harvester.

The SFU Library is a leading participant in the Synergies initiative, which is intended to build a sustainable

ejournal publishing platform for Canadian journals. SFU Library is a key participant in the Synergies CFI

submission, with OJS software being used at four of the five partner sites; SFU Library demonstrated 'proof of

concept' export of OJS journal metadata to the Synergies prototype site.

Digitization

Activity in this area continues to grow. This year, the Digitization Center scanned 2633 retrospective and 588 new

theses, which will shortly be available in the SFU Institutional Repository. We also scan an average of 30

textbooks per semester for students with visual or learning disabilities. This year we also digitized the compete

run of

Archivaria

(50 volumes), 240 items from a personal collection of memorabilia from the May 1968 Paris

Labour Riots, 171 items from the Library's Harrison Brown Collection, and over 100 items from the Library's

Doukhobor Collection. Work continues on the Editorial Cartoons Collection, with an additional 150 cartoons

added this year and the development of a series of teachers' guides for the Cartoons.

The Library has now scanned 27,000 pages of the Chinese Times, as part of the Multicultural Canada initiative,

and is making these available on the web. Also as part of Multicultural Canada, the Library has made the

Encyclopedia

of Canada's Peoples

available as a searchable database.

Appointments

• Warren Bandzmer was hired as Continuing Surrey Campus Media Technician.

• Gwen Bird was appointed Associate University Librarian, Collection Services, in addition to her responsibilities as

Head of Collections Management Division.

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• Elaine

Gordon

Fairey

Coleman

was

has

appointed

accepted

SLC

a position

Director

with

in December

ELN role,

2005,

replacing

in addition

John Durno.to

her responsibilities

as Associate

University Librarian for Bennett Public Services.

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environment.

Services for the Student Learning Commons will be located on the entry level in the northwest corner adjacent to

the Alumni Information Commons to bring those services together physically as well as operationally. After

suffering in an increasingly inadequate space, the Media Resource Centre will be located on the entry level in the

southeast corner, with the collections brought together in one space and new services such as a viewing room

available. Document Delivery Services, which works closely with the Media Resource Centre, will be located

adjacent to it in the northeast corner. Thanks to generous donations by Library staff and others during two

Campus Campaigns, the casual reading area on floor three received a significant facelift including the addition of

counters and stools by the Mall window and electrical and wireless support for laptop use. In order to improve

public access to the Processing area and workflows, renovations were undertaken in that part of the building as

well.

• SFU Library Special collections commissioned, and had published

The Library Opens Its Eyes,

by Robert

Bringhurst in celebration of the SFU 40

1h Anniversary (reproduced on cover).

• The Multicultural Canada Conference (May 31— June 2) brought together community, scholars, librarians, and

archivists. Speakers talked about a wide variety of projects which together form a knowledge base of

online resources which help us represent Canada's multicultural diversity and history to ourselves and to the

world. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the conference was the engagement of community, librarians,

government and academics which took place during the sessions and especially during the breaks. The papers

from the conference are available in the SFU Library institutional repository at

http://ir.lib.sfr.ca/handle/18921251

• SFU Library hosted the BC Academic Librarians in Public Services Meeting in December 2005 focussed on "The

Future of Reference."

SFU Library promoted its services with a booth at Word on the Street, September 2005.

• Share the Enthusiasm Lecture Series:

> October 19, 2005 Wally Chung, "Collecting History".

> March 22, 2006 Andrew Feenberg, "Collecting on in the Barricades during Paris May Events of 1968."

•

Talks:

April 21, 2005 "The Origin and Evolution of the Shanty Bay Press" by Walter Bachinsky & Jams Butler in

cooperation with the Alcuin Society.

September 26, 2005 - launch of

Companions and Horizons: An Anthology

Simon Fraser University Poetry

ed. by

S. Collis. (Burnaby, BC: West Coast Line, 2005).

> October 29, 2005 Sue Allen, "The Brilliance of Cloth Book Covers: Decorated Publishers' Bindings in America,

1830-1910" - The Annual Yosef Wosk - Friends of SFU Library Special Collections & Alcuin Society Lecture.

•

Special Collections readings:

• September 22, 2005 Lynn Coady.

• October 27, 2005 Eden Robinson.

• November 24, 2005 Evelyn Lau.

• March 2, 2006 Larissa Lai.

• March 16, 2006 Nancy Richler.

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Exhibitions:

• September 22-24, 2005 'J.S. Woodsworth: an exhibition at the Woodsworth Conference.

• October 20, 2005 Mirhady lecture—exhibition of recently acquired Persian material.

>40 years of collecting in Special Collections & Rare Books.

• An Exhibit Acknowledging Gifts from 2005.

• Political Ephemera from the Last Provincial Election.

• First 40. Selections from an exhibition of early SFU graduate theses and projects, at WAC Bennett Library and

Belzberg Library.

is> SFU Archives 40

11,

Anniversary display, at WAC Bennett Library and Belzberg Library.

> The Library Diversity Working Group (LDWG) continued its series of displays this year including Sustainable

Technologies (work from students in First Nations Studies), Children from Around the World, Robbie Burns

Day/Chinese New Year Celebration, Freedom to Read Week, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Human Rights, and

Convocation 2006: A Taste of Graduate Scholarship.

Samuel and Frances Belzberg Library

The Belzberg Library undertook a pilot project to test the viability of Sunday Hours, opening the library on

Sundays from 10 am to 5 pm during Spring 2006. Most visitors were undergraduate students who used the

library to study, work on assignments and do research for their papers. Based on its success, it is expected that

this service will continue in Fall 2006.

Cross-library co-ordination of library services is becoming increasingly important with departments offering

courses on all three campuses. The business liaison librarian and Belzberg librarians coordinated enhanced

library instruction at the Segal Centre for Business and collaborated with faculty and administrators to develop

the right mix of library support for the new building.

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With the expansion of programming at SFU Surrey, the Library continues to grow and enhance its services. By

the second week of classes in Fall 2005, students were complaining that the Library was full and there was

nowhere to sit; additional seats were added but the move to the new library space in summer 2006 is eagerly

awaited.

The SFU Surrey Student Learning Commons was created by expanding the mandate of the Tech One Success

Centre to serve all Surrey students and to articulate with the Burnaby Student Learning Commons, under the

direction of Coordinator Cynthia Wright. In honour of a generous gift, the new SLC space will be named the

Yosef Wosk Student Learning Commons.

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