University of Washington, 4 April

(On the top - the Allen Library ... in the rain. The Allen Library is the new section of the Library and is attached to the Suzzallo Library. Below- the UW mascot is the husky.This a photo of the statue outside the student union building.)

My good intentions of posting reports daily, went out down the drain very quickly. Things suddenly got very busy.

On Friday, 4 April, I met with a variety of people - the heads of special collections, interlibrary loans, and preservation, and the Dean of Libraries.

Take a look at some of the work that is being done in Special Collections by accessing their web site: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/. They use InMagic to create the Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index. CONTENTdm is used to manage digital collections. The finding aids are created using EAD (encoded archival description).

The implementation of WorldCat local has resulted in a substantial increase in ILL requests; over 100%. The thinking is that this is due to UW users now being able to see the holdings of other libraries more easily.