{"id":1061,"date":"2011-08-01T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2016-09-13T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:47:11","slug":"a-few-minutes-with-tom-bremer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/2011\/08\/01\/a-few-minutes-with-tom-bremer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Minutes With&#8230; Tom Bremer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/tom1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1062 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/tom1-300x167.png\" alt=\"Tom Bremer\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/tom1-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/tom1.png 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAugust 1, 2011<\/p>\n<p><em>For the past three years, Tom Bremer has been dean of Darrell W. Krueger Library, the \u201chome\u201d for academic life at Winona State. Bremer was formerly associate director of the North Dakota State University Libraries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s library has changed, but it many ways it hasn\u2019t.<\/strong> It serves the information needs of campus and the community, but the delivery method is different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our collection has shifted to electronic from print.<\/strong> With electronic journals and increasingly e-books, users can access our collection without entering the building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s still a need for the physical structure of the library.<\/strong> Students and scholars need instruction on navigating the vast and complex digital information environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Libraries provide places to interact.<\/strong> They\u2019re places where we can gather, ask questions, work together on problems facing our community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Krueger Library was built with a lot of foresight.<\/strong> It anticipated the library of the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not many libraries encourage interaction like ours does.<\/strong> There are more than 2,200 network access points; two dozen rooms for group work; bean bags and tables that encourage working together; 20 lectures, readings, and discussions every year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I used to think the library of the future might resemble a phone booth.<\/strong> That hasn\u2019t happened. Krueger Library has gained more importance a place for human interaction in our disconnected, digital world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Krueger Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>469,462\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Total volumes<\/p>\n<p><strong>120,000\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Microform units [26%]<\/p>\n<p><strong>54,819\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Electronic books [12%]<\/p>\n<p><strong>34,791<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Electronic journals [7%]<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Place to Connect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>512,005\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 People visiting 2010-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>1,500\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Approximate visits per day<\/p>\n<p><strong>38,201<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Items checked out 2010-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>50,124\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Articles uploaded per year<\/p>\n<p><strong>3,478\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Average reference questions answered per year<\/p>\n<p><strong>13,175<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Average interlibrary loans per year<\/p>\n<p><strong>105.5\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hours open per week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temporary Excerpt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[640,641,639,7,8],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wsu-magazine","tag-darrell-krueger-library","tag-dean-tom-bremer","tag-library","tag-winona-state-university","tag-wsu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/tom1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PQMT-h7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}