The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal Celebration
A reminder that tomorrow we will be celebrating the launch of the first online journal created in DigitalCommons@UConn. Please join us at 4:00 in the Scholars’ Collaborative for some refreshments and an opportunity to talk to the students behind the journal.

Staff Lounge Access for Students
The project to allow after-hours access to the staff lounge is nearly complete. I just wanted to once again remind folks that this space has been offered up to students as a compromise solution for their need to have Homer Babbidge open more hours. It will be opened when the library is closed as a quiet study only space, and they will not have access beyond the 24-hour quiet study room during the day. We will work with the Undergraduate Student Government to monitor the treatment of the space to ensure it is being used appropriately. Thank you for your patience throughout the construction.

Martha on the Move
This Friday I will be travelling with several other staff members to tour the new MakerSpace in the UMass Amherst Library. I hope to not only learn more about the space itself, but how it is being used, by whom, and how UMass was able to secure funding for the equipment and staffing.

Next week I will be heading out to the ARL Members Meeting in San Francisco. The theme of the meeting is “Global Connections of Research Libraries,” and program sessions will explore international copyright issues, shared print repositories, and tools and services for open science. I am also looking forward to a deeper discussion of the transition to ARL’s new Strategic Thinking and Design Framework. Many of our priorities were discussed with these national and international directions in mind so I expect those discussions will be helpful as we work on our own Purposeful Plan of Action. I will return in time for our donor event on Sunday, May 3, to which we have invited guests to join us for brunch and then a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre.

Thanks to all of you for your active participation and thoughtful comments this morning on our Mission, Vision, Values.