Dana Library continued to benefit from the presence of the student assistants in the Reference Area. During the school year, the students provided approximately 70 hours a week of coverage; student assistants were also on duty during the Summer months, for about 45 hours a week. New hires this year were Vincent Kong, Brian Tan, Simon Tsang, and Avi Wadhwa. They joined Jose Oriundo, Shirley Ortiz, Krupa Patel, George Repich, and Alex Volkov. from last year, and answered well over 4,000 queries.
In the Summer of 1996, six new computers (3 Pentiums, 3 PowerMacs) were installed in the Reference Area. As a result, library users have access to the networked CD-ROM databases from twenty four workstations. Three of these were replacement machines and the others were new computers, including one for the student assistant.
Additional titles continued to stream in from the Government Printing Office, including more detailed reports from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing Subject Summary Tape Files, data sets from the 1992 Economic Censuses, and data sets from the Center for Disease Control.
I also wrote one book review:
I also conducted the following workshops:
I also maintain several Webpages that serve as an introduction the Business resources on the Internet; these pages are part of the Rutgers-Newark section of INFO. The URL of the Table of Contents is http://newark.rutgers.edu/~au/bustoc.html. The Dana Library webpage is still under development.
I completed my term of office as an elected member of the Standing Advisory Committee for Technical and Automated Services, as the Newark representative to the Coordinating Committee, and as an appointed member of the Appointments and Promotions Committee. I also stepped down as the Chair of the PC Working Group of the University Libraries, after holding that position for five years.
FY90/91 FY91/92 FY92/93 FY93/94 FY94/95 FY95/96
Microcomputers
Lower Level:
Technical Services Dept 3 2 2 2 2 4
Serials Department 1 3 3 3 4 4
Copy Services 1 1 2 2 3 1
Bibliographic Instruction 2 2 2 1 1 2
First Floor:
Reference Office 5 5 5 6 10 11
Reference Department 29 30 23 25 31 36
ILL Office 1 1 2 2 3 3
Circulation Department 2 2 2 2 5 5
Administrative Office 1 3 3 3 3 3
Second Floor:
Stacks 0 0 2 2 0 0
Fourth Floor:
Institute of Jazz Studies 3 3 3 3 4 5
Media Services 0 0 0 0 0 15
15 Washington St:
Criminal Justice Collection 7 9 9 9 9 9
Totals 55 61 58 60 75 98
Networked_(LAN)_Microcomputers
Dana Library:
Public machines 14 14 11 16 21 40
Staff machines 0 0 0 4 11 15
Institute of Jazz Studies:
Staff machines 0 0 0 0 0 2
Criminal Justice Library:
Public machines 0 6 8 8 8 8
Staff machines 1 1 1 1 1 1
Total Networked Microcomputers 15 21 20 29 41 66
Public CD-ROM Workstations 18 20 18 24 24 21
CD-ROM Titles 46 91 103 125 212 270
KNA: 960625