overdue fines

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1 processing charge and

overdue fines

actual replacement cost) -

of the card.

Undergraduate

2 replacement charges

$193.00

Appeal denied and fine

2 processing charges

reduced to $140.78 (the

and overdue fines

books not found after

extensive searches &

borrower held responsible for

all use made of the card.

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1 overdue fine

$25.00

Appeal denied - books not

Undergraduate

3 replacement charges

$195.00

Appeal denied - book not

1 processing charge

The following Committee members were present at the March 29, 2000 meeting:

Lawrence Ho, Student Senator, Chair

Devon Larsen, Undergraduate Student Representative

Gary Mauser, Business Administration

Ed Mondor, Graduate Student Representative

Tom O"Shea, Faculty of Education

Richard Schwindt, Economics

Senate Library Committee Annual Report, 1999/2000

p.4

Also attending:

Gisele Pomerleau, Head, Loans Division

Anvar Rahemtula, Public Service Group Leader

The Library Penalty Appeals Committee heard the following seven appeal cases at its

March 29, 2000 Meeting as follows:

Category of

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$32.00

3 overdue Reserve fines

$395.00

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$143.00 ?

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$226.00

not found after extensive

$182.50 ?

Appeal denied and fine

reduced to $101.85- book

of the card.

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CONTENTS

Introduction ..............................................................................................................................................2

Collections................................................................................................................................................3

InterlibraryLoans...............................................................................................................................4

Telebook.............................................................................................................................................4

SpecialCollections.............................................................................................................................4

Reference and Information Services ........................................................................................................4

Instruction

...........................................................................................................................................

Other activities..........................................................................................................................................6

How are we doing? ..............................................................................................................................

.....7

Staff activities...........................................................................................................................................7

Donations ................................................................................................................................................... 8

Friendsof the Library.........................................................................................................................8

Gifts-in-Kind ......................................................................................................................................8

Notablecash donations ........................................................................................................................ 9

TABLE

Recorded Usage of Library Collections ..................................................................................

TABLE B:

Growth of Library Collections 1999/2000 ............................................................

..................

TABLE C:

Interlibrary Loans and Telebook Services...............................................................................

TABLE D:

Samuel and Frances Belzberg Library ....................................................................................

TABLE

W.A.C. Bennett Library Reference Service............................................................................

SFU Library Materials Budget - Expenditures for 1993/94 to 1999/2000..............................

TABLE G:

Expenditures for Monographs vs Serials 1998/99 to 1999/2000............................................

TABLE H:

Selected Library Benchmarks from the 1998/99 CARL Statistics..........................................

SFU Library Annual Report

1999/00

TABLE H: Selected Library Benchmarks from the 1998/99 Canadian Association of Research

Libraries (CARL) Statistics (cont'd)

F. Materials Loaned to Other Libraries, 1998/99

[Library ?

Books

Photocopies

TOTAL

: ?

9,695

G. Library

Service Hours, Library Instruction, Reference Service, 1998/99

Hours

staffed

week that

# Ref

service

library is

# Library Class

# of Class

Questions

Library

points

open

Rank

Presentations

Rank Participants

Rank

year

Rank

1 ?

. TABLE H: Selected Library Benchmarks from the 1998/99 Canadian Association of Research

Libraries (CARL) Statistics

Among the Top Five Comprehensive Universities from Macleans' November 1999 in ranked order

A. Net

Library Collections Additions and Size in Print Volumes, 1998/99:

Library

Net Volumes Added

Rank

Total Volumes Held

Library

Materials

Rank

Staff

Rank

Operating

TOTAL

Rank

C. Budget breakdown comparison, 1998/99

Library

Materials as % of

Rank Salaries as % of

Rank

D. Library Collections Usage, 1998/99

Library

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Total Loans

Journals Included?

Materials Borrowed from Other Libraries, 1998/99

Library ?

Books

Photocopies

TOTAL

A recent article' by John Lubans, senior manager at Duke University's Perkins Library, asked a question

1. ?

Introduction

that has occupied SFU librarians: what role should academic libraries and librarians play in a rapidly

changing scholarly world? Some core library functions, such as book circulation and basic in-person

reference transactions, are declining in number while the demand for other services, such as interlibrary

loan, instruction, departmental liaison, services to students not on campus, electronic reference, and the

provision of access to online academic materials, is growing. The complexity of the scholarly publishing

world has intensified, in the variety of publications and formats and the array of tools used to access these

works. The Library's role in organizing, evaluating, and providing coherent access to scholarly

information is increasingly important. On the other hand, we are now able to provide enriched services to

students who do not come to campus. For our Internet resources, these services are the same as we now

provide for on-campus students.

B. Budget Expenditures Comparison, 1998/99

That academic libraries continue to play a central if changing role in university life, is demonstrated by

the findings in Luban's study 2

. Survey results showed library-based guides and databases were the third

most frequently used Internet sites by students, following email and favourite Web sites. Most students

expect to continue to use print resources, although many expect that use to decline relative to the use of

Internet information.

During the year. 1999/2000, we reallocated responsibilities to begin to meet these changing service

requirements and to allow us to provide top-quality service with staffing levels that are lower than our

peer libraries. For the same reason, we have also made changes to the building, most notably in the

Information Desk area. As in other academic libraries 3

, traditional departmental lines are increasingly

blurred as many librarians and staff assume a wider spectrum of responsibilities. This is particularly true

for liaison librarians, who provide collections support, undertake reference and instruction duties, and

produce Web .guides, and for public service desk operations, which now include formerly behind-the-

scenes staff from processing, interlibrary loans, and systems. Librarians from areas of the library other

than reference also provide introductory instruction.

Consortial arrangements between libraries have expanded, driven by the cost of online library resources

and the increased reliance on interlibrary loans as collection purchasing power shrinks. Some of the

results of this collaboration are not electronic in nature. For example, reciprocal borrowing for

undergraduates is now possible for the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL)4

and Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), in addition to graduate students and faculty.

We expect Library services to continue this dramatic evolution for at least the next five to ten years, along

with other changes throughout Simon Fraser University.

'Lubans, John Jr. "I can't find you anywhere but gone: avoiding marginalization." Library Administration and

Management, 14:2 (Spring 2000).

Ibid,

68-69.

Thompson, Christine, ed. 'Integration in the library organization." Special issue of the Journal of Library

Administration 29:2 (2000).

With the exception of UBC.

2 ?

TABLE G: Expenditures for Monographs vs Serials 1998/99 to 1999/2000 (cont'd)

55%

International Business

252,943

44%

56%

237,617

43%

57%

94,924

57%

43%

73,780

50%

50%

Collections

A $400,000 lift to the Library collections budget allowed us to maintain our current serial subscriptions in

1999/2000 and to gain access to more general resources. Income from our endowment funds, which are

generously supported by Alumni and others, enabled us to purchase the pre-1900 monograph set of the

Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproduction (CIHM). CIHM gives researchers quick and easy

access to a major collection of primary materials on Early Canadiana. CIHM is an essential resource for

scholarly research in many different disciplines, including North American native peoples studies,

religion and philosophy, genealogy and local history, and French Canadian language and literature.

Collection policies were written for all academic departments (31 in total). These collection policies will

be available via the Library's Web site shortly. A committee was struck to examine department-based

budget allocations. Committee members were representatives from each faculty, a graduate student, the

University Librarian, and the Head, Collections Management. Using library and university data from

5% ?

92/93 and 98/99, the committee examined, by academic department, the relationships between changes in

faculty, graduate, and undergraduate FTE's compared to changes in library budgets and purchases over

the same period. The Review examined the frequency with which each department fell in the top or

bottom quartile when compared to other departments. Recommendations were made regarding

2,122,764 ?

10% ?

90% ?

2,044,047

91%

compensation for departments that fell frequently into the bottom quartile and procedures to support new

programmes and faculty research interests, among other matters. The report of the Task Group is

available at http://www.lib.sfu.calkiosk/collections/allocations/repnotice.htm

. An action plan is being

•

• developed.

The year 1999/2000 saw a continued shift toward more online scholarly resources. The Canadian National

Site License Project (CNSLP) was approved in June 1999. Sixty-four universities joined together to

provide $30 million of their own funding and receive $20 million funding from the Canada Foundation

for Innovation (CFI) to purchase online resources in the scientific, technical, and medical fields. British

Columbia libraries participating in the project have had the CFI funding matched by the provincial

government through a Knowledge Development Fund grant. Access to the selected online journals is

expected beginning early in 2001.

The purchase of 1078 e-book titles from netLibrary, with other COPPUL libraries, represents our first

joint purchase of monograph materials. They were purchased outright by COPPUL with perpetual access

guaranteed. Several subject areas are represented in this purchase.

Links to fulltext journal articles are provided from many of our online article indexes through the

jake

Open Source software developed at Yale, with SFU Library systems staff contributing significant

enhancements.

- - The Data Liberation Initiative (DLI), in which we participated, completed its evaluation of the five-year

pilot project phase and is expected to continue to allow researchers access to Statistics Canada Survey

data as well as other data-sets. Simon Fraser University is also a partner with UBC in participating in the

Regional Research Data Centers, which will allow researchers access to rich STC longitudinal data-sets

• - ?

that would not otherwise be possible. The SFU Research Data Library was among the first libraries in

Canada to make the complete 1996 Canadian Census tables available via the Web. Access is now

SCIENCE

Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Earth Sciences

Mathematics & Statistics

Physics

SUBTOTAL:

18 ?

available to two additional financial databases via the university of Toronto CHASS services: CRSP

(Chicago Research in Stock Prices) and DRI Basic Economics (C1TIBASE).

The Library's Electronic Document Centre continues to expand. Projects involve images of selected Len

Norris cartoons;

Novels Written in English about Cuba/Cubans/Cuban Americans, 1851-1999, an

Annotated Bibliography

by Gene Bridwell; British Columbia Doukhobor letters, printed material, and

photographs donated to the Library by John Keenlyside, Chair of the Friends of the Library (Young

Canada Works grant contributed to the development of this online collection); The Victorian Women

Writers' Letters Project; and electronic reserves.

Interlibrary Loans

Interlibrary Loans provide access to materials not in the SFU Library. Faculty and students may now

check their ILL records from the library's Web site and request renewals and cancellations online. The

3,600,000 volumes of the University of Alberta may now be searched and requested online. If a book is

on the shelf at the U of A library, the SFU requestor can now expect to receive it within three to five days.

This is in addition to similar services from UBC and, for serials, from 40 sites including Western

Canadian universities and CISTI. SFU faculty and students can now place requests directly from over

thirty electronic periodical indexes, including the newly-enabled EBSCO Academic Search Elite,

Canadian MAS Fulltext Elite, Philosopher's Index, and Contemporary Women's Issues, using the

GODOT software developed at SFU on behalf of western Canadian university libraries.

Telebook

Telebook

services provide distance students with requested material not in course packs. Telebook

•

Services continued to provide delivery of library material to Distance Education students. The Library's

enhancements to fulltext access in several areas - electronic reserves, e-journals, and fulltext links from

index databases -- and the provision of online and phone-in reference support mean that library services to

distance students are increasingly comparable to those for onsite students.

Special Collections

A major purchase, the papers of Roy Kiyooka, a multi-disciplinary artist who was a painter, sculptor,

teacher, poet, musician, film-maker, and photographer, was made possible through the sale of duplicate

items. A number of other gifts-in-kind have enriched the collection.

Authors researched at Special Collections included Betty Lambert, bpNichol, William Wordsworth,

Warren Tallman, Fred Wah and Michael McClure.

3. ?

Reference and Information Services

Two major changes improved the level of in-library help available. The Microforms and Periodical

Reading Room desks were replaced in May 2000 by a single service point. Staff at the new Information

Desk provide support for the use of the microform and periodicals collections, but also help with

searching the catalogue and other online resources. In-depth questions are referred to the Reference Desk

on Floor 3. Information Desk associates are drawn from a wide number of areas in the Library.

TABLE G: Expenditures for Monographs vs Serials 1998/99 to 1999/2000

1999/2000 ?

I ?

1998/99

Resource and Environmental

PCT SER

59%

56%

551,761

32%

68%

516,760

32%

68%

ARTS

TOTAL

PCT SER

TOTAL

Literature (Misc. foreign)

PCT SER

55%

Latin American Studies-

45%

MA Latin American Studies

55%

53%

53%

47%

4 ?

TABLE F: SFU Library Materials Budget - Expenditures for 1993/94 to 1999/2000 (cont'd)

SCIENCES

I ?

SUBTOTAL: $2,181,644 $2,044,047 $2,013,331 $1,882,778 $1,729,366 $1,509,912 $1,292,498

1996/971

19951961

1994/951

1993/94

Mathematics & Statistics

MISCELLANEOUS

I ?

1996/971

1995/961

Belzberg Library - General

Belzberg - DatablTapes/CDROMs

Belzberg - Newspapers

Databases /Tapes/CDROM5*

Databases - Research Data Library

General - Social Sciences

GST-US Serials (Blaine)

Replacements/Added Copies

Shuswap/Cariboo Access

Special Collections-B P Nichol

$25,000

$40,000

SUBTOTAL: $1,115,557 $1,128,421 $1,112,663 $1,032,562

$766,619 ?

$913,336

$722,199

TOTAL: UNIVERSITY FUNDS $5,953,295 $5,632,905

$5,279,756

$5,018,712 $4,423,608 $4,187,320 $3,576,356

% NOTE: From 98/99 Resource and-Environmental Management contains expds for Tourism

@ NOTE: Prior to 97/98 expds. for Latin American .Studies General included with Spanish./Latin American Studies and expds. for Earth

Sciences included with Geography.

* NOTE: In 99/00 expds related to subject specific databases were shifted to the appropriate disciplines; this line now has only consortium &

general database expds.

* NOTE: In 95/96 an additional $100,000 was spent on databases from the Lohn grant; In 94/95 - $70,000; In 93/94 - $70,000.

# NOTE: 99/00 contains expds. for a special project - the purchase of CIHM pre-1900 monographs collection for $172,270- using

endowment funds

GENERAL NOTE: Figures are based on expenditures recorded in Library's III system before final reconciliation with SFU Dept. of

Financial Services. Minor discrepancies may occur. In addition, these figures reflect expenditures against the University allocation and

miscellaneous revenues.

Reference service has evolved significantly in the last two years, in part because we have dramatically

increased remote access to fulltext online sources and have made a concerted effort to provide consistent,

simplified interfaces and clear online help, with a totally redesigned and tested Web site. Users have

access to information from home, lab, or office where previously they had to visit the library.

Overall the number of in-person reference requests at the Reference Desks decreased by 20% in 1999-

2000, with the exception that Belzberg reference questions have risen by 12% since the April opening of

the TIME Centre at Harbour Centre. However, complex reference questions increased by almost 10%.

Students and faculty are consulting librarians about substantial research questions or assistance in

evaluating information rather than the mechanics of searching a particular database. Now Reference Desk

staff are able to provide in-depth help without disadvantaging other users waiting in line. This has led to

increased user satisfaction, with "helpful reference desk staff" mentioned as one of the

100 Best Things

about SFU

in a PEAK opinion piece. We appreciated one student's perception that "there seems to be a

whole new vibe at this Desk." Liaison librarians also have more time to devote to their intensified

collections and instruction responsibilities.

• Telephone reference service continues to be provided from the Reference Desk. As well, Reference

Division librarians responded to over

175

individual telephone queries from their offices during

1999/2000. Email reference is no longer a new service at the SPU Library, yet general "Ask A Librarian"

questions (answered by the Belzberg librarians) more than doubled in 1999/2000. As well, individual

Reference librarians responded to over 800 email questions. Librarians also use email to inform students

• and faculty about library products and services, Web sites, and other resources of interest.

Instruction

Library instruction ranges from the general Library Research Skills drop-in classes to specialized course-

specific instruction. Bennett Library offered course-integrated instruction in 241 classes to 4703 students

in 1999/2000, an 18% increase in the number of classes from the year before, with Belzberg Library•

We are developing online tutorials and testing learning outcomes (for example, the 'Using the SFU

Library catalogue' module), for those unable to attend the drop-in classes or-who prefer online instruction.

The online courses use the MOSST 5

software developed at

T U

Library. We also provide classes for

special groups, such as the English Bridge Program, General Studies 101, Object Technology Program,

Continuing Education instructors, teaching assistants during TA/TM Day, orientation for new students,

student athletes, and for faculty. In-depth instruction is available for faculty and graduate students by

appointment with a liaison librarian. A Web-based virtual tour of Belzberg Library has enhanced online

orientation, particularly for busy part-time students.

- -

Typical comments from faculty and students regarding the value of these classes were: "All reports were

that your sessions were extremely helpful. The assignments also turned out to be right on topic and well-

researched - much more, I'm sure, than if they'd been on their own", and "The Web page is wonderful.

Thank you so much for doing it and for all your help with the course."

MOSST is software specifically designed for the creation of library or other self-contained, self-paced instruction

modules; it is characterized as 'WebCT lite'.

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ARTS

1999/20001 ?

1998/991 ?

1997/981 ?

1996/971 ?

1995/961 ?

Latin Americ.Studies-General @

1993/94]

Linguistics

Literature (Misc. foreign)

MA Latin American Studies

Spanish/Latin American Studies@

SUBTOTAL:

$1,729,168 $1,632,279 $1,476,181 $1,420,785 $1,300,810 $1,226,408 $1,099,175

The seventh annual Friends of the Library lecture was generously sponsored by the Wosk Family. It was a

Other activities ?

fascinating talk by Leslie A. Morris, Curator of Manuscripts, Harvard College Library, "Tall tales and

true of bookselling in the early twentieth century: the career of legendary bookseller, A.S.W. Rosenbach".

This past year, we also held a "Library Lecture Series on Information, Technology, and Scholarship" for

the SFU academic and B .C. library communities. The three speakers were:

. TABLE F: SFU Library Materials Budget - Expenditures for 1993/94 to 1999/2000: University

Funds

APPLIED SCIENCES ?

1996/971

19951961

19941951

Resource and Envir Management%

SUBTOTAL:

$570,523

$516,760

$419,587

$415,825

$378,885

$305,034

$242,994

• Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia, on "Electronic

Scholarship and Its Discontents. Comp[u/e]ting Editorial F[u/ea]tures" (in co-operation with the

Print Culture Programme).

• Frank Winter, University Librarian, University of Saskatchewan, "Scholarly publishing and the

Library: An Update to the 1997 Policy Conference"

• Wanda Noel, intellectual property lawyer and consultant, "Learning Technology and Copyright:

Implications for Educators"

The Interlibrary Loan / Telebook department spearheaded a series of Brown Bag lunches at which SFU

faculty talked to Library staff about their research and related use of the Library. Speakers included Philip

Stigger, Paul Dutton Ellen Balka, and Ralph Stanton. Joanne Nakonechny, SFU Learning Skills

Educator, also gave a presentation to library staff.

Recently appointed National Librarian, Roch Carrier, visited Simon Fraser University Library during his

trip to British Columbia.

The Library signed a two-year ESRI Arclnfo Site License, paid for by the VP Academic, the Library, and

the participating departments. Basic support is provided by Library Systems and the appropriately

renamed Maps/Data/GIS department. A Web-based method of software distribution to campus

researchers and departments is used.

In co-operation with Operations and Technical Support, BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) carrels were

installed in the Library on the second and sixth floors.

The new electronic reserve service was implemented in September 1999 with great success. 100 on-line

files were added in the first month. Currently it is limited to material where permission to publish is

easily obtained, mostly professors' lecture notes. Links to particular Web documents may be added to a

course reserve list. The service has operated for two semesters, with the following activity:

E-reserve Activity ?

I ?

Fall 1999 ?

Spring 2000

No. hits from within Library

5,650 ?

4,296

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

1996/971

1995/961

Business Administration ?

$168,552

International Business ?

SUBTOTAL:

$261,480

$237,617

$186,925

$188,248

$175,428

$165,831

$147,928

EDUCATION

j 1999/20001

1998/991 ?

1997/981 ?

1996/971 ?

1995/961 ?

Education ?

$94,924 ?

$73,780 ?

$71,070

$78,513

$72,500 ?

$66,799 ?

$719'563

6 ?

Service

Location

Directional

Queries

Reference

Questions

Research

Advice

TOTAL

% Change from

Previous Year

-20.0%

-34.6%

+20.4%

-20.8%

TABLE E: W.A.C. Bennett Library Reference Service

Library Research Instruction:

Course Integrated Instruction

1998/99

Instruction Category

I ?

ClassWF

Students

I ?

Classes

I ?

Students

General Research Instruction

229

5,854

Per Cent Change from previous year

The Belzberg Library has begun providing support for the new TIME Centre on the 7

floor of Harbour

Centre. Specific acquisitions were made to support new courses, library orientation programmes were

initiated, and a library workstation for use by researchers, faculty, and clients of the TIME Centre was

installed.

5. ?

How are we doing?

Our current collection budget is healthy but, overall, the collection does not have the depth and quality we

need. SFU Library's percentage of total budget spent on collections is third highest among 27 CARL

university libraries and SFU Library's collection budget per student is fourth highest; however, SFU

Library's total collection per student is fourth lowest. SFU Library's interlibrary borrowing per student is

second highest in Canada. In part, this is because of the ease and accessibility of this service, but also

reflects SFU users' need for material beyond the current collection.

Among our five peer libraries (see Appendix H), SFU Library is second highest in:

• number of reference questions answered,

• number of opening hours (ninth among Canadian Association of Research (CARL) libraries)

• number of library instruction classes and number of students receiving library instruction

On the other hand, the number of staff FTE is second lowest among peer libraries and only one more than

the lowest. SFU Library's percentage of total budget spent on salaries is lowest among CARL libraries.

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We can be proud of the level of efficiency and effectiveness achieved but, at the same time, concerned

about the impact that heavy workloads have on our ability to respond to change.

6. ?

Staff activities

1998/99

Service

Location

Directional

Queries

Reference

Questions

Research

Advice

TOTAL

% Change from

Previous Year

-11.6%

Librarian Jack Corse was awarded the Simon Fraser University Staff Achievement Award in recognition

nil ?

1,330

728.7 °"

of over 20 years of stellar service to the faculty and students of the University. At the same time as this

2,696 53,024 -10.7%

award profiled Jack's talents and successes, it also served to highlight the excellent liaison service

provided by all librarians. Mark Jordan won the OCLC/CLA Library Technology Award for a librarian

within five years of graduation. Congratulations to both.

TOTAL

7,486

42,842

Carole Goldsmith began serving a two-year term as the Canadian Representative on the Executive Board

of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). Other library staff members are frequent

speakers, board members, and organizers in associations and at conferences such as the Canadian Library

Association (CLA), British Columbia Library Association (BCLA), Workshop on Instruction in Library

Use (WILU), ACCESS, and the BCLA Information Policy Conference. Staff members are also called

upon to provide a professional viewpoint to the UBC School of Library, Archival, and Information

Studies graduate students. Participants have included Lynn Copeland, Elaine Fairey, Natalie Gick,

- - ?

Percilla Groves, Mark Jordan, Kristina Long, Karen Marotz, Todd Mundle, Sylvia Roberts, and Christine

Stojakovic.

Long-serving librarians Marilynne Finlayson, Gene Bridwell, and Aleksandra Zielinski retired, and new

. ?

librarians Gwen Bird (Interlibrary Loan/Telebook), Mark Bodnar (Business & Economics) and Natalie

Gick (Science) joined the Library.

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TABLE D: Samuel and Frances Belzberg Library

Service Category

Use of Library (Headcount)

1998/99

Difference

Total User Inquiries

41,397

40,340

+2.6%

Use of Collection

In-Library Use of Materials

Items delivered to Bennett

590

724

-18.5%

Total Collections Use

24,649

27,014

.8.8%

Library Research Instruction

Instructional Sessions

-14.9%

Number of Participants

435

761

-42.8%%

TABLE C: Interlibrary Loans and Telebook Services

7. ?

Donations

Friends of the Library

Anyone may become a Friend of the SFU Library through a donation. The Friends of the Library Board

meets bi-monthly. Its major activities are liaison with potential donors, particularly of gifts-in-kind, the

Alumni Board, Retirees Association, and Advancement Office, and the sponsorship of the annual lecture.

Gifts-in-Kind

The variety and quality of gifts in 1999/2000 was excellent, with a total value of about $425,000. There

were 112 gifts-in-kind with 14 gifts over $10,000. A sampling:

Interlibrary

Loans Service

Total Items Loaned by SFU

1998/99

Change

SFU Loans to Other Libraries

ELN-OJAC Doc Deliveries

16,586

16,465

Items Borrowed from Other Libraries

Total Items Supplied to

SFU

31,611

21,195

49%

Telebook

Service

Distance Ed Student Requests

1998/99

Change

751

551

36%

Items Requested by Students

2,765

2,391

16%

Items Sent to Students

27%

• We acquired the Douglas & McIntyre Archive, a significant asset for the study of publishing in

Western Canada.

• Mary Miller donated the collection of her late husband Professor Craig Miller (UBC English), on

S.T. Coleridge and the Romantic poets. It included a 3 volume work from 1803 in beautiful

original condition with William Blake engravings and the unusual title "The Life, and Posthumous

Writings, of William Cowper."

• John Keenlyside, Chair of the Friends of the Library Board, donated a collection on the

Doukhobors. The collection will be the first component in a larger set of materials.

• We added another element to our Frank Davey manuscript collection.

• Della and Martin McClaren donated first editions of Ezra Pound's Personae (1909) and Lustra

(1916) in memory of Charles Watts.

• The archive of Press Gang Publishers has been installed in the University Archives where it co-

resides with the manuscript collections on the B.C. Women's movement.

• Tusi Calvert, Zdenek Calvert, and Eliska Rasmussen together donated the second part of the W.

Lyon Blease collection of expensive and beautiful English Private Press books.

• Retiring Professor Manfred MacKauer donated a collection of material on biology.

• The Estate of W. Kaye Lamb and Lamb's daughter Elizabeth Hawkins donated the Canadian

history, bibliography and exploration collection of Canada's first National Librarian.

• SFU Librarian Carole Goldsmith donated a collection of children's books.

• A small but choice collection on French Surrealism was added to our art and literature collection.

• Retired Professor Alberto Ceria donated a collection on Argentine politics and cinema, some of

which is unlikely to be found in most North American libraries.

• Glennis Zilm donated material on the history of Canadian publishing. She is among a group of

donors who has repeatedly given to the Library.

• Professor Carl

Schwarz donated his Professional Development Reimbursement toward a five year

subscription to 'Journal of agricultural, biological, and environmental statistics'

We are grateful for the generosity of our donors, whose contributions continue to enrich our collection.

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TABLE B: Growth of Library Collections 1999/2000

COLLECTION CATEGORY

Unclassed Volumes (Journals)

229,373

8,436

237,809

Subtotal Letterpress Volumes

1,389,252

42,430

1,431,682

Microfilm (# of reels)

45,518

687

46,205

Microfiche (# of sheets)

Equivalencies (i.e., 1/1.4)

Subtotal Net Micromaterial Volumes

738,483

8,482

746,965

TOTAL Print Volume Holdings

2,127,735

50,912

2,178,647

Other Collections Formats::

Manuscripts (in linear meters)

Electronic journals & RDL Files

Current Serial Subscriptions

7,695

7,773

Notable gift-in-kind donations

Frances Margaret Fournier

M.T. Morgan

Thomas G. Atkinson ?

John K. Friesen

Christine Roma Mullins

Carole Anne Goldsmith

Press Gang Publishers

Heritage Resources Centre

Athol Sutherland-Brown

Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.

University of British Columbia

Margo Isabel Dunn

Neville Lincoln

Nico Verbeek

Estate of Angela Thacker

Rowland Lorimer

John M. Webster

Estate of Eileen Sufrin

Manfred MacKauer

Florence Wilton

Estate of Frances Eileen Rogers

May Street Group

Aleksandra Zielinski

Estate of W. Kaye Lamb

Faculty of Business Administration

Margaret L. McTaggart-Cowan

Notable cash donations

With the income from our endowment funds we are able to make important additions to our collections

which would not otherwise be obtainable. This year, our purchase was the Canadian Institute for

Historical Microreproduction collection of pre-1900 monographs (see 2. Collections). Thanks to SFU

Alumni and others for their contributions to these endowment funds.

Douglas Christopher Andrews

Chris Arnet

Maureen Levina Arvanitidis

James Edward Clarke Jr.

James Findlay Boothroyd

Murray Alpin Cockle

D. Gary Brooks

Theodore H. Cohn

Richard George Carabetta

Joan Collinge

Nancy Adnana Castelluccio

Lynn Margaret Copeland

Joseph Atkinson Catalano

Jay Robert Arthur Corbeil

Lisbeth Rosten Davidson

Tige S.T. Chiu

Russell William C. Day

TABLE

A: Recorded Usage of Library Collections