A Room With a View:

Creating the Elizabeth City

State University Music Library

Stephanie Lewin-Lane

About Me• Music Librarian at Elizabeth City State University • Education- University of WI-Milwaukee

– BA in Music– MM in Music History & Literature– MLIS in Library & Information Science

• Research Interests– Women in rockabilly music– Popular music of the 1920s-40s– Marketing & development

• Social Media– Information literacy & gaming

• Background- Jack of All Trades– Professional Musician & Voice Teacher– Music retail & administrative assistant

• Located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina– Total enrollment 2,421

• Founded March 3, 1891 – Two-year Normal School teaching Elementary

Education• Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU)– 73% African-American, 16% White, 9% Asian, 2%

Other• Offers 37 baccalaureate degree programs and 4

master's degree programs– BA in Music w/ concentrations

About ECSU

• Satellite location of G.R. Little Library in Fine Arts Bldg– “Resource Room” originally designed to be a Music

Library• Process started to satisfy

NASM accreditation requirements

• 9/12 – 1/13: Interim Librarian– Worked with ECU staff– Organized stored items into

subject piles

Music Library Then

• Self-sufficient “one-stop shop”• Temporarily close library to process space• Remove 2 computer stations (of 6) and add group table for

more work space• Prioritize un-cataloged items and store to make space for

cataloged items• Pull and scan M-ML cataloged music items in main G.R.

Little Library• Physically move, process, and re-scan 1,600 cataloged

items and shelve

The Plan

Goals• Music Retail Business

Model• Sustainability/Go

Green• Learning Library for

future training

• Social Media & Marketing• ECSU Music Library Blog

• Approx. 2,500 items (and growing!)– 3,200 M class all together

• Music and Art Info Lit classes & library workshops

• Music item (M-MT) circulation up approx. 3%– 2012 (full year) vs. 2013 (8

months)• 1-2 student workers

Music Library

Now

Music Library

Now

• Title III Funding• Music Library creation opportunity to

leverage pre-library background• More diversity needed in graduate training– Practical librarianship classes in Academic/Public

areas?– Shadow librarians during their typical work day

(similar to student teaching in education)

Observations

Justin, Jimmie, Me, and Susan

Any Questions?

Thank You !