U.S. Navy Report

							U.S. Navy Report

  December 6, 2007
          Council of the CNL
• Created by the CNL Charter as specified in
 the 2005 SecNav Instruction
• Composed of:
  – Six standing members (Academic,
    Historical, Medical, SciTech, Research, and
    General Library representatives)
  – Four ‘at large’ members
           Top Navy Issues
• Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) effect
  – ILS client software deemed „legacy‟
  – Can‟t access IP-based licensed content

• National Security Personnel System
 (NSPS) transition
• Advanced Payments/FEDLINK problems
Academic Libraries
              Nimitz Library @
             U.S. Naval Academy
•   Library Expansion & Modernization Scheduled
•   Short-Term Renovation Project
•   Regional Studies/Critical Languages Buildup
•   New International Studies Librarian Position
•   Long-time Associate Director John Cummings
    Retired – succeeded by Patti Patterson
•   Added 600,000th Volume in October 2007
                Naval War College
•   Launched Information Literacy Awareness
•   Reader Services Staff Honored
•   John N. Brown Counterterrorism Collection
•   Planning to Reconfigure Space in Foyer
•   Writing NSPS Objectives
•   Nine Displays Created
•   Struggling with Cyber Security Mandates
•   PBS program “WAVES in World War II”
•       Fully Staffed
            Dudley Knox Library @
           Naval Postgraduate School
•   MLW 2008: Military Library 2.0 @ Monterey
•   10% Budget Cut
•   Remodeling Contract
•   Searchable Database of NPS Classified Theses
•   Embedded a Reference Librarian in Graduate
    School of Business & Public Policy
•   NPS Alumni Portal
Historical Libraries
    Navy Department Library

• Active web site expansion & development
• Absorbed JAG Library collection
• Expansion of ancient naval history
• Migrating to compact shelving
• Collaborating with Ancestry.com
Medical Libraries
          National Naval Medical Center

• Library icon installed on every desktop
• Library‟s intranet web page improved
• Desktop access to 1,500 online journals
• Added e-PDR
• WR-NNMC Integration stalled
• New compact shelving (Journals 1941-64)
        Naval Medical Center Portsmouth


• Migrated to QuestionPoint-based DDLRS
• Collections expanded (Web of Science back
  to 1985, e-Books & audiobooks)
• Collaborated widely
• Celebrated 5 years
  and Safety award!
        Naval Medical Center San Diego

• Implemented Athens for remote
  authentication
• Redesigned Library Portal for General &
  Medical Library
• Migrated ILS from EOS to Voyager
• Added e-Books, PlayAways, and DVDs
• Added Library „marketing‟ materials to
     Patient Packets & throughout hospital
SciTech Libraries
        Naval Air Warfare Center
    Aircraft Division, Patuxent River
• Completed MEO
• Integrating Human Systems Resource Center
    materials
•   Working towards NAVAIR Scientific and
    Technical Library
•   Received approval for Classified net access
•   Working to have ILS approved for legacy net
     Naval Air Warfare Center
    Weapons Division, China Lake
• Purchased extensive WoS back files for all
  CNL participants
• New Classified catalog and scanning
  reports
• Popular Storytelling Programs
• Staff built up to 13 members again
• Proxy server is working well
• NMCI has still not approved our ILS
     Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal
     Technology Division, Indian Head

• Command realignment & GS employees converted
    to Lab Demo project
•   100% turnover of contractor/GS staff this year –
    overall staff reduced 20%
•   10% budget cut – reduced book/periodicals
    subscription budget
•   Collection digitization project receiving serious
    consideration
             Naval Health Research Center
                        (NHRC)

• Wilkins Biomedical Library at NHRC is now the
    main library for the Naval Submarine Medical
    Research Laboratory (NSMRL)
•   Expanded Library Catalog to include both sites
•   Migrated computer services from SPAWAR to
    NMC-SD
•   New mailing address
   Naval Surface Warfare Center
         Dahlgren Division
• Increasing library marketing
• Included in Tours/Tech Briefs
• Hiring in 2008
• NMCI & Proxy Servers
 Naval Surface Warfare Center
• Indian Head
  – 84% usage increase from last year‟s flood &
    mold
  – Struggling with access to content
  – Migrating ILS to EOS.Web
  – Becky Jenkins new Director
• Panama City
  – Working on ILS migration under NMCI
        SPAWAR Systems Center,
             San Diego
• Lean Six Sigma on Classified inventory –
  possibly expanding to all library services
• MEO completed in 2007
• Migrated ILS from Horizon to Sirsi
• SPAWAR targeting library space
• Carving out space for classroom in
  library for SAP training
        U.S. Naval Observatory

• Hosted a number of rare book events
• ALA MAGERT tour during Conference
• Washington Science Librarians meeting
• Continue to excel with obscure ILL
• FY08 budget cut 20%
Research Lab Libraries
            Ruth Hooker Library @
           Naval Research Laboratory
•   Celebrated 80th anniversary of library
•   Hiring to fill 6 staff vacancies
•   NRL Online Bibliography – 60k records
•   Configuring MetaLib federated search
•   TORPEDO Ultra – 8.5M articles
•   Digitized NSMRL, MRS, and Navy Forecaster
    Handbooks
•      Compact shelving of reports
General Libraries
            Navy General Libraries
•   Received GWOT funding
•   General libraries continue to close
•   AF-Navy Joint Workshop (6/11-14)
•   Navy Professional Reading Program
•   Provided over 170k paperbacks to fleet
•   NKO resources doubled in two years
Marine Corps Libraries
  Library of the Marine Corps

       General Libraries