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INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NEWS*****February 1, 2002, Vol. 29, Number 5 |
| *STAFF NEWS |
*LIBRARY NEWS |
*LIBRARY EVENTS |
*BLOOMINGTON MASTER CALENDAR |
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*Staff Updates, IUB
Effective February 6, Erin Adams accepted the position of Document Delivery Services Assistant, Customer and Access Services, Bloomington. Prior to accepting this position, Erin worked at Borders Books and Music.
*IUPUI University Library Sponsors Community School Student Program
IUPUI University Library has announced a sponsorship project, "Basketball & Books," in support of the IUPUI men's basketball team and the George Washington Community School. The University Library has offered free tickets for the February 9 Jaguars game to Washington School students and their parents. In addition, the University Library and the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) will host a four-day campus Scholastic Book Fair at which patrons can buy books for the George Washington Community School Library, as well as titles for their own children and friends.
The book fair is to be held in the Level 2 Lobby of the IUPUI University Library, 755 West Michigan Street, Monday - Thursday, February 4 - 8, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Staff and faculty of the University Library and students and faculty of the SLIS program will staff the book fair booth, which will be supplied with a range of reading and educational materials targeted to elementary and middle school students. Popular titles will include, Harry Potter, Esperanza Rising, Joey Pigza Loses Control, and the Newberry Medal winner, A Year Down Under, by Richard Peck.
With the "Basketball & Books" program, the University Library intends to support the IUPUI Department of Athletics, while also encouraging George Washington Community School students with the importance of reading. Head women's basketball coach, Kris Simpson, student players Tiffany Kyser, Jessica James, Amy Muehlhausen, and Jinx the Jaguar mascot visited Washington School for a student convocation on January 25 to talk about the importance of academics and character to a good athlete's chances of getting into college. "It comes down to reading," said Coach Simpson. "You have to be able to read well in every subject."
Eileen Champagne, the Washington school principal stated, "This opportunity for partnership with IUPUI will not only give the students a chance to visit the university campus and see the IUPUI student athletes play, it will also provide valuable resources for the school library which serves our continuing efforts to enhance student reading skills."
The IUPUI University Library "Basketball & Books" program is being provided with the support of the IUPUI Department of Athletics, School of Library and Information Science, the Offices for Neighborhood Resources and Middle School Outreach, as well as the Hawthorne and Mary Riggs Community Centers. For more information, please call (317) 278-0232.
Submitted by: Norman Brandenstein, External Relations Team, IUPUI University Library
*Virus Worries?
Recent increases in virus attacks have stirred interest in the Libraries concerning exactly how protected we are against such activity. Here are some ways in which UITS, LIT, and you team up and defeat any attempted virus attack:
- UITS: Campus Exchange email servers have their own antiviral programs, and are configured to intercept all known viruses or
virus-like files. The servers block attachments containing known file types that might execute a program (suffixes like *.exe and
*.vba), & blocked attachments are substituted with a simple text file (*.txt) at the server. Note that the Shakespeare mail servers
do not have anti-viral programs running on them, so someone who read mail in pine and downloads attachment there depend only on the
local machine antiviral protection without an advance layer of protection at the server as in Exchange mail. Finally, the campus IT
Security Office advises local support like LIT upon 1st detection of new viruses so we can keep you informed, and forms appropriate
system policy for us all.
- LIT: We have configured both staff and public workstations with local antiviral programs which perform automatic scanning and
program upgrades. These programs run in the background to detect, quarantine or cleanse files suspected to be infected before they
can do harm. When you receive an alert that a virus is found, so do we at our administrative console, and we can examine quarantined
files or even delete them for you remotely when necessary. We also perform regular virus scanning of our network file stores like
the Marengo server to additionally guard against any central storage of an infected file. One consideration in each new build is to
include the latest programs and techniques to prevent compromise or infection. When we learn of a new virus danger, we send out the
messages you have been observing periodically. LIT offers specific instructions for setting up filters to avoid or route specific
mail in Outlook at http://lit.indiana.edu/kb/mail-organize.html.
Note: If you have a Library issued laptop, you will have been told if it is part of this LIT managed program. If not or if unsure, then you should run the "Live Update" feature in your antiviral
program regularly yourself while online.
- The User: Individual users have an important role in virus prevention. Here are things you can do to help diminish virus dangers at work or home: (1) Please never ignore a virus alert from LIT, as we only send them when immediate attention is warranted; (2) If messages as described in these alerts do arrive in your inbox, delete the message immediately without opening any attachments. If you get a note that a file is quarantined, you are still uninfected since the message means that the antiviral program intercepted the dangerous file. DO NOT send a suspected virus message on to others, even to ask if it was real! (3) Good IU Security Office tips for keeping your home systems safe may be found at http://www.itso.iu.edu/howto/firewall/steps/; (4) Don't be a "carrier" by spreading bogus hoaxes accidentally. Suspect any news about viruses not received from LIT or the IU ITSO, checking out such stories at expert sites like http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ and http://hoazbusters.ciac.org/ and (5) Protect yours and others' susceptibility to spam and virus senders by avoiding forwards to multiple addressees at all or at least putting all addresses as "bcc" (blind copy to) and erasing prevous email addresses in the text so the entire list doesn't get passed on and "snowball" into a huge unintentional email directory with repeated sending.
Submitted by: Ralph Quarles, Information Technology, IUB
*Sheet Music database now available on Lilly Library website
The Lilly Library is proud to announce a new searchable database of American sheet music. The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios. It is now possible to search descriptions of over 90% of the music in the collection on the Lilly Library's website.
Users can search a variety of fields, including title, composer, lyricist, arranger, publication information, performance medium, first line, first line of chorus or refrain, subject (a DeVincent category), title of larger work (i.e. title of movie, theater production, radio program), performer, and artist of illustrated cover.
Search the Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/devincent.shtml
Read more about the Lilly Library's sheet music collections: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/music.shtml
Submitted by: Erika Dowell, Lilly Library, IUB
*Training & Development Programs for February 2002
University Human Resource Services offers Training and Development Programs. You can access the February programs on-line and register electronically at: http://www.indiana/edu/~hrm/td
*Web News
Stay on top of the development of the New IUB Libraries Web Site.
Read WebNews at: http://yaz.lib.indiana.edu/webNews.
In this issue (2/01/02): Find out about screen & graphic design in the new site.
Past issues of Web News are available at: http://yaz.lib.indiana.edu/webNews.
Submitted by: Diane Dallis, Undergraduate Library, IUB
*IUPUI University Library Hosts Black History Program & Reception
As part of its 2002 celebration of Black History Month and the current cultural exhibit, Seeing Through Black American Eyes, IUPUI University Library is hosting a special program and reception featuring IUPUI Professor William E. and Dr. Joyce G. Taylor, on Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 6:00 p.m. The free faculty presentation will be held in the Lilly Auditorium, Lower Level, IUPUI University Library, 755 West Michigan Street, with guest parking available in the North Street Garage.
William and Joyce Taylor have been researching the history of African American visual artists for over twenty years, and the art, books, catalogs, posters and periodicals from their personal collection on display at the University Library will be the focus of the presentation. Professor William Taylor is a graduate of Indiana University and is currently an instructor with the Afro American Studies Program of the School of Liberal Arts and assistant director of the Credit Program for the IUPUI Department of Community Learning Network . Dr. Joyce Taylor is a lecturer in the School of Library and Information Science, and completed her PhD at Indiana University.
The Seeing Through Black American Eyes exhibit is located in the Level 1 Lobby of the IUPUI University Library, and will be available for public viewing through February 28. For further information about the exhibit and the program, call (317) 274-0462.
Submitted by: Norman Brandenstein, External Relations Team, IUPUI University Library
*Calendar Week 02/4/02-02/8/02, IU-Bloomington
| DATE | EVENT | TIME | PLACE |
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| February 6, 2002 | BLFC Mtg. | 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Administrative Conf. Rm. |
| February 7, 2002 | Resources Subcommittee Mtg. | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. | Administrative Conf. Rm. |
| February 7, 2002 | Executive Committee Mtg. | 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Administrative Conf. Rm. |
| February 8, 2002 | Virtual Reference Teleconference | 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
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