| IS Group |
Brief Description |
| Access Services |
The activities of the Access Services group include Library Circulation and Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery. The staff at the Circulation desks interacts with patrons to locate library materials, and to check them in and out of the circulating collection or course reserves. They also direct patrons to other library departments or services as needed. If a patron needs materials that are not held within the library, the Interlibrary Loan staff mediates requests to have them sent from another library |
| Archives |
The Wellesley College Archives is responsible for managing, maintaining, and making accessible those records of the College that have long-term historical value. These records include administrative records, manuscripts, photographs, maps, architectural plans, honors theses, and audio/video materials.The Archives also collects materials from alumnae and others that help document and illustrate the history of Wellesley College. Among other things, these materials include scrapbooks, photographs, letters, and assorted realia and ephemera. |
| Digital Media and Instructions (DMI) |
The Digital Media and Instructions (DMI) Group provides instruction and support for student computers, lab computers, course reserves, a number of software applications and projects requiring technology.
Along with our service desk support we work directly with academic courses and other groups on project planning, tool selection and instruction, and project support. Our service points include the Knapp Media and Technology Center, the Computing Labs, Clapp Reserves located on the first floor of Clapp Library, Computing First Aid in Clapp and the SCI MiniFocus, and the residence halls.
In addition to our user support we support the KeyServer and License Manager. We also work with members of other groups to build and maintain the classroom/lab and faculty/staff computer images (standard suite of software). |
| Digital Technologies (DigiTech) |
The Digital Technologies Group (Digitech) coordinates support for the College web site and the Library web site, shares in work on the portal, maintains and extends the integrated library system and other library hardware and software, and collaborates with others in the area of digital collections. |
| Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) |
The EAI group supports and develops the enterprise or college-wide applications such as Banner, the Portal, the Datamart, R25, etcs. They create interfaces between these software packages and other software used on campus. |
| Information Resources (IR) |
The IR group selects materials for the Library, in all formats (print and online books, DVDs, videos, CDs, scores, maps, magazines/periodicals, etc.) They also, with RIG, select fee-based online resources, such as LexisNexis, Britannica Online, the Shakespeare Collection Online, and the like. They order and catalog all of these materials, so users can find them and use them. Furthermore, they track subscriptions, and oversees links between bibliographic and full-text online resources. The IR group also maintains and preserves the collection through repair, rebinding, digital preservation, and other treatments; manages the library's offsite storage collection. Finally, the IR group coordinates collection development with other libraries, so users have a larger pool of materials to borrow from. |
Instructional Technology (IT)
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Instructional Technology supports desktop computer installation and repair; the use of FirstClass email and conferencing (particularly its curricular uses); the summer instructional technology internship program; desktop databases and integration of small databases with the web; and videoconferencing and Media Services (the audiovisual equipment installed in various spaces around campus). |
| Research and Instruction Group (RIG) and Access |
The Research and Instruction Group (RIG) consists of staff working in the Clapp and Science Libraries, Special Collections, the Book Arts Lab, and the Faculty-Staff Computing Helpdesk. We help students and faculty with research questions by staffing reference desks and meeting one-on-one with individual students or faculty. We also teach library instruction sessions, courses in the history of the book, and book arts workshops. We create and maintain subject and course-specific web research guides. We purchase library materials for the reference collection, either in print or online, and collaborate with Information Resources to purchase online databases. |
Systems and Networks (S&N)
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The Systems and Networks department of Information Services supports over 70 central servers, about 50 buildings on a fiber-optic local area network, the campus Internet connection, and over 20 Oracle instances. |
Telecommunication (Telecom) |
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