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Special Collections: Reader Services
Annual Report
July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2001

Jean Rainwater
Coordinator of Reader Services


  • Public Services

  • Classes, Tours and Special Events

  • Exhibits & Exhibit Loans

  • Collections

  • Building & Security

  • Library-Wide Activities

  • Staff

  • Appendix A: Acquisitions

      Appendix B: Statistics (in PDF format)
    1. Summary
    2. Readers
    3. Non-Manuscript Paging
    4. Manuscript Paging
    5. Saturday Hours
    6. Electronic Services
    7. Photo-Reproduction
    8. Interlibrary Loan
    9. Materials Processing
    10. Storage Retrieval

      1. Public Services

     2.  Classes, Tours, Exhibits, and Special Events:

    The following 6 classes met regularly in the Library:

    EL 6

    Fiction Writing II (M. Gaitskill)

    EL 100

    Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Steinbach)

    EL 101

    Advanced Poetry Writing (C. Wright)

    EL 124

    The Short Story (M. Steinbach)

    HI 105

    Renaissance Italy (A. Molho)

    HI 197

     Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Scotland and Ireland (Harris)

    The following 48 classes met to examine special collections material with the assistance of Reader Services or curatorial staff:

    Brown Summer High School Critical Reading and Writing (L. Stanley)
    College Focus Creative Writing (G. Nelson)
    College Focus Creative Writing (C. Imbroglio)
    College Focus Latin (J. Pucci)
    Brown Learning Community Summer Science Experience
    AC 125 Houses and their Furnishings in Early America (R. Emlen)
    AC 190 Literary Natural History (B. St. Armand)
    AE 3 Foundations of Western Art in Antiquity (R. Holloway)
    EL 7 Poetry Writing (E. Grinnell)
    EL 11 Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing (S. Maynard)
    EL 18 Creative Nonfiction (E. Taylor)
    EL 132 Seminar in Middle English Literature (J. Coleman)
    EL 136 Senior Seminar in Shakespeare (C. Kahn)
    EL 180 Gender and Subjectivity in Early Twentieth-Century England (E. Katz)
    EL 237 Studies in Middle English Literature (J. Coleman)
    EL 243 Introduction to Renaissance Studies (C. Kahn)
    EL 259 Liberty, Slavery, and American Culture (P. Gould)
    EL 269 Theoretical Approaches to the Victorian Novel (K. McLaughlin)
    EL 285 Modernist Fiction (E. Katz)
    EM 100 Renaissance France (V. Krause, P. Benedict)
    HA 275 Fashioning the Hero/Tyrant: Visual Culture in the Age of Napolean (D. Kriz)
    HI 92 Selected Topics in the Writing and Interpretation of History (K. Sacks)
    HI 118 The Rise of the Scientific Worldview (J. Richards)
    IT 102 Boccaccio's 'Decameron' (M. Riva)
    UC 62 Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Iberia (S. Bonde)
    VA 124 Art of the Book (W. Feldman)
    VA 125 Art of the Book (W. Feldman)
    VA 180 Honors Seminar (W. Edwards)
    Medical School Medical Students (H. Rakatansky)
    Medical School First Year Anatomy Students (A. Blitz)
    Providence College Literature and Landscape (B. Graver)
    RISD Print Making (S. Doyle)
    RISD Print Making (B. Shure)
    RISD Architecture in the Time of the Enlightenment (Grossman)
    RISD Typography (5 classes/5 instructors)
    RISD Blake & Hogarth (A. Gourlay)
    RISD [Book Arts] (Slick)
    RISD [Gorham Silver] (S. Hough)
    RISD Writing Historical Fiction (E. Schaffzin)
    Roger Williams History of Mathematics (B. Burdick)
    U Mass Dartmouth Book Arts (Wong)
    Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference (R. Flaxman) - 2 sessions

    In addition, tours and presentations were offered during Parents Weekend and Undergraduate and Graduate Student Orientation.

    The Library served as venue for the following groups and events:

     3.  Exhibits and Exhibit Loans:
    The following items were loaned for exhibit or digitization projects:

     

     4.  Collections:

     

     5. Building and Security:

    "Major humidity problems during the summer of 1999 caused a mold infestation on stack 1 south, condensation on the floors of stack 1 north and south, and doors (many in alarmed areas) which swelled so considerably that they could not be closed and locked. We met with Jim Coen who indicated that a multi-million dollar, multi-building solution to our inadequate chilling equipment was in the works. Negotiations are continuing with Narragansett Electric for rebates and engineering designs are still in process."

     

     6. Library-Wide Activities:

    • I chaired the search committee for a Digital Initiatives Librarian and served on an informal Digital Initiatives Group set up to lay the groundwork for the digital initiatives effort. I serve on the Professional Program Committee and the Storage Committee.
    • Both Patricia Sirois and I participated in the Library Contact Initiative program to link library staff with first-year students. Patricia Sirois serves as a mentor for new library employees.I volunteer at the Rockefeller Reference desk one hour a week.

     

     7. Staff :

    Alison Bundy’s hours were increased to 75% time in conjunction with a reduction of hours for another staff member and a new Reading Room staffing plan

    Volunteers: Ann Dodge and Ellen Moreau continue to volunteer at the Reader Services desk and Bill Monroe has joined Eric Shoaf in volunteering in the Reading Room.

    Courses and Workshops (JMR):

    Pat Sirois compiled most of the statistics for this report.

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