| It's with great anticipation for the future that I begin my tenure as Director of the Albert Gore Research Center. Dr. Jim Neal, the Center's founding director, has laid a solid foundation upon which to expand and build programs and services in the future. My first priority is to address the challenge of space. Anyone who has visited us knows that we are bursting at the seams! We will be unable to expand our collections and our services to students, scholars, and the community without room to grow, so we are tackling this issue head-on. My second priority involves intellectual control--knowing what we have in our collections and making that information accessible through guides, catalogs, and databases. An important issue related to intellectual control is physical control. This means "having a place for everything and everything in its place," but also entails physical preservation of materials by transferring items into archival boxes and folders. Finally, I want to find new means of outreach and education--to find new ways that the Gore Center can serve MTSU students, faculty, and administrators as well as citizens in the local community. Look for updates on our progress in all of these areas in the next issue of Document, which will appear in October! |
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