There's a renewed sense of excitement and energy in the Krueger Library!A range of well-attended and engaging events welcomed new and returning students, faculty, staff, and community members. Student use of research support services, article and book requests, and news database access has all seen a noticeable uptick as well.
Fall 2025 Events
Welcome week:
Library Open House
Game & Craft Night
President Janz, the Dungeon Master
Embroidery table, with librarian Amanda Pruka
Great North Star Read Together
Over 70 people engaged with our booth, and with informational materials from our library, the Winona Public Library, and the Winona Historical Society.
Button Making Pop-Ups
We have finally been able to repair our button-maker. It was very popular among students and young family members during the Great North Star Read Together. For our Halloween Pop-Up, we had 18 interactions. Students enjoyed the process, so we hope to offer more button-making pop-ups in the future.
Open Access Week Information Sessions
Open Access (OA) week was a good time to trial-run having more “open” sessions that anyone on campus can attend. Faculty from across Colleges signed up and joined us to learn about open access publishing models, curating scholarly profiles and IDs, and how to get started with Pressbooks. These events were offered hybrid, and this is the first time they are offered. With faculty interest, it will be worth running them (or similar) scholarly communications open sessions in the future.
Library Services and Usage
Reference Services (Research Help)
Overall reference questions rose by 6.5% so far this fall. Most of this was driven by an increase in walk-in, face-to-face reference support, which rose by 35%.
Access of Subscription News Websites
While we do not have data specifically for Fall 2025, data from AY 2025 shows a significant increase from the previous year in access to institutional subscriptions to major news outlets. Most notably, the New York Times increased by 108% and the Wall Street Journal by 56.4%. These surges may be attributable to several factors, such as faculty assignments and recommendations.
Resource Sharing (Interlibrary Loan) Requests
The number of Resource Sharing (Interlibrary Loan) requests from July to October of 2025 was up 66.5% over the same period the year before. We are still reviewing data to better understand this trend. It may be attributable, at least in part, to the loss of some database subscriptions. It may also be related to increased awareness of interlibrary loans.
Coming Soon: Annual Report for AY 2025
The library’s annual report for AY 2025 will be completed by semester’s end and published in Open River.
There's a renewed sense of excitement and energy in the Krueger Library! A range of well-attended and engaging events welcomed new and returning students, faculty, staff, and community members. Student use of research support services, article and book requests, and news database access has all seen a noticeable uptick as well.
Fall 2025 Events
Welcome week:
Great North Star Read Together
Over 70 people engaged with our booth, and with informational materials from our library, the Winona Public Library, and the Winona Historical Society.
Button Making Pop-Ups
We have finally been able to repair our button-maker. It was very popular among students and young family members during the Great North Star Read Together. For our Halloween Pop-Up, we had 18 interactions. Students enjoyed the process, so we hope to offer more button-making pop-ups in the future.
Open Access Week Information Sessions
Open Access (OA) week was a good time to trial-run having more “open” sessions that anyone on campus can attend. Faculty from across Colleges signed up and joined us to learn about open access publishing models, curating scholarly profiles and IDs, and how to get started with Pressbooks. These events were offered hybrid, and this is the first time they are offered. With faculty interest, it will be worth running them (or similar) scholarly communications open sessions in the future.
Library Services and Usage
Reference Services (Research Help)
Overall reference questions rose by 6.5% so far this fall. Most of this was driven by an increase in walk-in, face-to-face reference support, which rose by 35%.
Access of Subscription News Websites
While we do not have data specifically for Fall 2025, data from AY 2025 shows a significant increase from the previous year in access to institutional subscriptions to major news outlets. Most notably, the New York Times increased by 108% and the Wall Street Journal by 56.4%. These surges may be attributable to several factors, such as faculty assignments and recommendations.
Resource Sharing (Interlibrary Loan) Requests
The number of Resource Sharing (Interlibrary Loan) requests from July to October of 2025 was up 66.5% over the same period the year before. We are still reviewing data to better understand this trend. It may be attributable, at least in part, to the loss of some database subscriptions. It may also be related to increased awareness of interlibrary loans.
Coming Soon: Annual Report for AY 2025
The library’s annual report for AY 2025 will be completed by semester’s end and published in Open River.