Crossroads, Connections, and Creativity: Musselman Library Strategic Plan

The Musselman Library Strategic Plan grew out of two all-staff meetings held in January 2007. During the first, library staff identified areas of strength and weakness, as well as opportunities for improvement and growth. Maureen Sullivan, an organization development consultant for libraries, led the next meeting. Ms. Sullivan helped to deepen the analysis begun during the previous meeting and encouraged the staff to begin envisioning the future of the Library. In late January, Robin Wagner, Director of Library Services, formed the Strategic Planning Committee (see list of participants below). The committee’s initial tasks were to complete an environmental scan and to identify upcoming trends and best practices in library services, while formulating mission and vision statements for Musselman Library. These were presented to the rest of the staff for feedback during meetings in March and April. Also in April, the Strategic Planning Committee invited other library staff to serve on task forces charged with creating goals and action items for the plan’s four core issues (see Appendix C). Maureen Sullivan facilitated the launching of these task forces, and each group, led by a member of the Strategic Planning Committee, then met independently numerous times during the next few weeks. The final task force reports were completed in early May and shared with the entire library staff. On May 21, Maureen Sullivan led an all-staff meeting to discuss the task force recommendations. Ms. Sullivan then met with the Strategic Planning Committee and Robin Wagner to begin the process of revising, prioritizing, and incorporating the goals and action items into one cohesive strategic plan. Crossroads, Connections, and Creativity: Musselman Library Strategic Plan was submitted to Robin Wagner, on June 12, 2007. [excerpt

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2005

Table of Contents: From the Director: “Forever Free” Abraham Lincoln Exhibit (Robin Wagner, Christina Ericson Hansen ’92, Gabor Boritt); Fortenbaugh Internship Expands (Julia Grover ’06, Anne Kennedy ’05); Bontanicals Brighten Browsing Room (Jim Ramos); Asian Art Award Announced (Karen Drickamer); Apache Visions: Exhibit Features Skateboard Art; Barbara Holley Establishes Preservation Fund for Library (Barbara Holley ’54); Library News: Athletic Windfall, Reading Al Fresco, Library Tunes, Newspaper and Magazine Browsing, Majestic Theatre Exhibit, Civil War Manuscripts, Oral History, FoML Helps New Voters (Henry T. Bream ’24, Jack Bream ’57, Robert C. ’62, Marsha Parker ’62, Dr. William Sunderman Senior ’19, Jake Yingling ’52 and Genevieve Yingling); Student Projects Featured in Music Exhibition (Dr. William Sunderman Senior ’19, Tim Sestrick, Marta Robertson); In Her Own Words; Spring Lecture on Citron (Molly Hutton, Thomas Citron ’47, Virginia Eshbach Citron ’47); Second Spring Friends Lecture: “The Cyclorama Building and the Loss of Cultural Landscape at Gettysburg”; Focus on Philanthropy: Gift Supports Purchases of Nineteenth Century Documents (Dr. Bradley Hoch); Giving Students a Break (Meggan Emler Smith \u2704, Anne Kennedy, Sujita Kong); Spotlight on Collecting: Captivity Narritives (Edward Maharay, Janet Hancock Maharay ’39, Tim Shannon); Weird and Gross in the Librar

You\u27ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library (2004)

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun! The spring 2004 issue of You’ve Gotta Read This! expanded to include recommendations from Gettysburg College staff and administrators in addition to faculty. Popular titles for this year were A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/summerreads/1009/thumbnail.jp

You\u27ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library (2007)

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/summerreads/1006/thumbnail.jp

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2006

Table of Contents: From the Director: 25th Anniversary (Matt Harris ’83, Jenniger Pollock ’06); Unveiling the Past: Hidden Treasures of the Gettysburg College Asian Art Collection (Molly Hutton, Dr. Frank H. Kramer ’14); Music at Musselman: Smithsonian Global Sound; Just What is a Music Librarian? (Tim Sestrick); Spotlight on Collecting: Lincoln Sermons (Karen Drickamer, John Barnett); Focus on Philanthropy; Spring Blooms at Musselman Library (Pat Henry ’71); Library news: BoNanas, Muscle Man, Hoch’s Book, Mashiko Potters, One Book, Summer Reads (Gabor Borrit, Dr. Bradley Hoch); GettDigital: Gettysburgian; Library acquires Early American Newspapers; Coming This Fall: Jewish Literature (Stephen Stern, Janelle Wertzberger); Hidden Talents (Kay Etheridge); Clowning Around with Jeffrey Gabel; Where Are They Now? Holley Interns (Molly Thomas Larkin ’98, Kelly Kemp Spies ’99, Jennifer Chesnet Harp ’03, Meggan Emler Smith ’04, Jason Kowell ’05); Intern Delves Into College History (Nicole Lenart ’06); Replicas of Remington’s Bronzes on Display (Molly Hutton

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2016

From the Dean (Robin Wagner) Library Exhibits GettDigital: Sports Reels Research Reflections: The Gettysburg Superstar (Devin McKinney) Remembering 9/12 Will Power: 400 Years After the Bard Treasure Island (Robin Wagner) Margin of Error A Call to Activism in the Summer of \u2765 (Richard Hutch \u2767) Digital Scholarship: The New Frontier (Julia Wall \u2719, Lauren White \u2718, Keira Koch \u2719) Scrapbooks and Photo Albums: Snapshots of History (Clara A. Baker \u2730) Soldiers\u27 Scrapbooks (Laura Bergin \u2717) A Book of Dreams (Alexa Schreier) Who Do You Think You Are? (Timothy Shannon) From Professor-Student to Collaborators (Jesse Siegel \u2716) The Mysterious Easel Monument (William Tuceling \u2770) Gifts to Special Collections and College Archive

Musselman Library Updated Strategic Priorities 2016-2018

This document updates Musselman Library’s 2013 Strategic Plan, retaining the strategic directions that still require attention and adding new priority areas. This update grew out of an all-staff discussion on November 3, 2016, in which library employees identified areas of success/completion and pinpointed unfinished business from the 2013-2016 plan. The staff also suggested other areas to develop. In response to these suggestions, department heads updated the 2013-2016 plan. In this update we have: Retained three strategic directions from the original plan with some changes and additions: Lifelong Learning, Sustainability, and Assessment. Reframed the Leadership plank in the context of Scholarly Communications priorities. Added a fifth strategic priority: Diversity and Inclusion

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2019

From the Dean (Robin Wagner) Library News Cite and Bite Workshops Open Access Week (Janelle Wertzberger, Alecea Standlee, Hana Huskic) Notes at Noon Friends Sponsor Guild Participation (Mary Wootton) Stop the Bleed The Wall Must Go Story Time Table to Farm Pop-up Library Take the Reading Challenge 1,000,000 Grant to Digitize Asian Art Vietnam Oral Histories (Ron Bailey \u2767, Sue Hill \u2767, Michael Birkner, Devin McKinney) Alexander von Humboldt\u27s Secretary (William Bowman) Focus on Philanthropy: Walter Miller Trust A Gift in 3 Dimensions (Richard C. Ryder \u2770) Remembering Richard Ryder \u2770 (Michael Birkner) New Externship - Careers in Library and Information Science (Camille Minns \u2720, Jivan Kharel \u2720) Textbook Affordability is a Workshop Topic (Janelle Wertzberger) Candid Camera (Dwight Eisenhower, Willard Paul, William C. Darrah) GettDigital: Rooted in Memory Uncovering Shakespeare\u27s Sisters (Suzanne Flynn) Touchdown: First Year Athletes Trade Field for Library (Betsy Bein, John Dettinger) Recent Additions: World War II - Photographs and Memorabilia (William Millar \u2754, Walter Lane, Gerald Royals \u2752, Donald Gallion \u2748, Ralph Edgar Peters, Burdette J. Marker) Alumnus Donates Trade Cards (Gary Thompson \u2769

Discussion of Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi

In preparation for our book discussion on Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi for our Iran: Beyond the Headlines series, we created some of our own discussion questions about the book. Please feel free to use for your own book discussion

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2019

From the Dean (Robin Wagner) Library News Don\u27t Judge a book by its Cover: The Human Library You Can Come Home Again! Exhibits Recalling WWII at Home (Devin McKinney and Micheal Birkner) Library Works to Alleviate Textbook Misery (Janelle Wertzberger) Books Sent to African Library (Piper O\u27Keefe \u2717) Musselman Makeover Paying it Forward (Sierra Green \u2711 and Olivia Simmet \u2718) Student Paper Tops 1800 Downloads (Dayna Seeger \u2715) Buy the Book What\u27s so Funny (Sunni DeNicola) Book Displays Offer Outreach Opportunities (Sunni DeNicola) Honor With Books Data Drives Collecting Decisions Rare Discovery: Signed 1st Edition by Adam Smith Pressed Within - Discovering Unusual Bookmarks Unusual Book Formats Alumna Funds Novels with Diversity Themes (Sarah Blumig \u2710) I Couldn\u27t Let Them Go (Robin Wagner) Aldus Printing Device (Mary Wootton) $25,000 Book Conservation Gift (Rev. Vic Myers) Focus on Philanthropy: Elizabeth Headley Paul Special Additions (John Kuhs, Jr.) The Artistry of Endpapers (Michael Hobor \u2769