Walker Library serves 25,000 students on a rapidly-growing campus. Its funding and staff levels are significantly lower than most comparable institutions within Tennessee and nationally – approximately 60% of the average of our designated peer institutions on a per-student basis in 2005-2006 (W. Black, unpublished data). Digital work has been accomplished by reassigning small portions of time for several librarians and one staff member, making extensive use of graduate students and purchasing equipment and software on an as-needed basis, usually at the end of the fiscal year when other
needs have been satisfied. Digital projects management has been added to the load of our small staff. We have no programming support for customizing CONTENTdm or working with open source programs. This has hindered our ability to implement advanced features such as embedded audio and video players.
Walker Library serves 25,000 students on a rapidly-growing campus