Butler Library's Library Leadership Team presented library 2012-13 activities and statistics PechaKucha style! Each slide was shown for 20 seconds for a speed-through concerning the year's accomplishments and benchmarks!

1. Butler University Libraries
Staff Retreat
August 13, 2013

2. -
500,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,500,000.00
2,000,000.00
2,500,000.00
3,000,000.00
3,500,000.00
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
Butler Libraries Operational Expenditures
FY09-FY13
Computers &
Equipment
Operations
Professional Dev &
Travel
Building &
Furnishings
Wages PT
Staff/Temp/Studen
t
Collections
Salaries/Benefits

3. Building Improvement Funds
Source Project Amount
Capital Budget
Process
Irwin Front Steps $50,000
Capital Budget
Process
Science Lib Study
Space
$11,200
End-of-Year Funds Irwin Painting $10,000
End-of-Year Funds Science Lib Skylight
UV
$10,000
Total $81,200

4. People & Events
Planning
Retreat
Phi Beta Kappa Michele Woods Founder’s Day Celebration of Scholarship
Susan D. Gubar
Welcome Week

5. 5
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000 Irwin Main Entry Traffic
2011-2012
2012-2013
11-12 Total: 158,259
12-13 Total: 164,772

6. 6
Power to the Core! We provided instruction for 51 out of 66
FYS classes, reaching 77% of the sections, our best yet!
We conducted a total
of 194sessions for
‘12-’13
35
Repeat
Visits!
Who are we reaching?
(Descending order)
LAS
Core
COB
JCA
CCOM
COE
COPHS

7. 7
2013
Circulation
Irwin
15,845
Science
1,733
Physical Items Being Checked out by:
Butler students, faculty, & staff
above numbers do not include ALI, PALNI, IUPUI, Special
Borrower, or ILL transactions
Irwin heavy hitters: CRC, Scores, CDs Science heavy hitters:
Reserves, Reserves, AV
IRWIN
Reserve loan
% of whole
23%
SCIENCE
Reserve loan
% of whole
76%

8. 8
C.
TOTAL REQUESTS
PROCESSED C.
TOTAL REQUESTS
PROCESSED
Borrowing 2738 35% Borrowing 1195 45%
Lending 5056 65% Lending 1467 55%
D.
GRAND
TOTAL 7794 100% D.
GRAND
TOTAL 2662 100%
Most Requested Journals: Science
Methods in enzymology (12)
Analytical biochemistry
International Journal of Health
Services
International journal of
pharmaceutics
Most requested Journals: Irwin
Journal of World Business (7)
Thirteenth Century England
Topics in Language Disorders
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Turnaround Time
Irwin Articles – 24 hours
Books - 1.15 days
Science Articles – 1.79 days
Books – 1.96 days

9. 9
Catalog
Help
9%
Computer
3%
Computer
Programs
2%
Directions &
Gen. Lib.
8%
General Butler
2%
General
Primo
1%Log-in
17%
Office Supplies
6%
Other Equipment
14%
Printer/Printing
29%
Research
Help
9%
Training
0%
Information Commons, Type of Question, 2012-2013
Catalog Help
Computer
Computer Programs
Directions & Gen. Lib.
General Butler
General Primo
Log-in
Office Supplies
Other Equipment
Printer/Printing
Research Help
Training
2011-2012 2012-2013 Percentage Change
Circulation 7531 9296 23%
InfoCommons 3223 2811 -13%
24%
Public/Alumni
Research
Questions
decreased
from 26%
(‘11-’12)
to18%

15. Special Collections is Now
Exhibits Central!
 Founder’s Day
 Irwin Library 50th Anniversary
 Clowes Hall 50th Anniversary

16. Collection
Development, Digitization, an
d Processing  Collection Development
 Received the last of the
Four Freshmen collection
 Digitization
 Digitized images of Irwin
Library and Clowes Hall
 Goal: add to digital
assets; beginnings of
online university history
 Processing
 Experimenting with MPLP
(More Product, Less
Process) to get more
materials ready for use
sooner

17. Classroom Outreach
 Classes used the Charters
Collection as course texts
 Civil War class using the
university archives to
research Butler
students, faculty, and
staff who served during
the war; did biographies
and submitted them to the
archives
 Did “How to do Archival
Research 101” with classes
above, plus graduate and
undergraduate music
classes, an honors
class, and a journalism
class

18. We Love Reference!

20. Circulation, Interlibrary loan, Reserves,
Instruction, & Research assistance
remain relatively consistent.
My Prof sent me in
My Prof sent me in
to get the tall blue book
for him. He said the
librarian would know
which one it is.

21. Patron counts continue to