LIBRARY NEWS
AWARDS
*Effective February 6, Elizabeth Sullivan accepted the position of Stacks Maintenance and Public Services Assistant in the Bus/SPEA Library at IU-Bloomington. Prior to accepting this position, Elizabeth worked as a Project Leader and Government Reporter at SIRS Mandarin in Boca Raton, Florida. She has a B.S. in Journalism from Indiana State University in Terre Haute.
*Moira Smith, IU-Bloomington, has been appointed book review editor for the Journal of American Folklore for a five-year term beginning November 2000. Now in its 114th year of publication, the Journal of American Folklore is published by the American Folklore Society and is the leading journal for folklore study in the United States. Congratulations, Moira!
Submitted by Martha Brogan, Associate Dean & Director of Collection Development
Many staff members have asked about training on the use of the staff WorkFlows client for collection management activities and to answer reference questions. A read-only tool bar for WorkFlows is being set up to allow public services staff to view acquisitions, serials and cataloging records. This tool bar will be able to be loaded on machines at any reference desk and will include a generic signon that can be shared with all staff. Before it is distributed, however, users must have training on how to use it.
Representatives from the Communications and Training Working Group and the Acquisitions Working Group have developed a workshop outline for collection managers. A second workshop outline will be developed for reference staff. These workshops will include information on how to download the WorkFlows client to the user's computer and how to find and interpret the WorkFlows information. These outlines will be tested in Bloomington beginning this week. In the next week or so they will be made available to technical services staff on all campuses so that they can design workshops for their own collection management and reference staff members, using the policies and procedures unique to their own libraries.
The WorkFlows workshop previously scheduled for February 9 in South Bend will not be held.
Nonie Watt, Rosanne Cordell, and Mary Pagliero Popp
*New Award Competition for Librarians
The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, is pleased to announce a new award competition for librarians in all areas of the profession. The 21st-Century Librarian Award will recognize a librarian who has been a leader in the evolution of librarianship in our increasingly global and digital information environment. The award is a project of students in Syracuse's MLS program, who have developed the criteria for the award and will judge the applications and make the final decisions. This is the first annual competition for what we hope will become a major award in our field. This year's award carries a cash prize of $5,000.
Candidates for the award may be nominated by others or may submit applications on their own behalf. The deadline for applications is March 30, 2001; third-party nominations must be submitted by February 28, 2001. Details about the 21st-Century Librarian Award are available at http://istweb.syr.edu/librarianaward/.
*Victorian Valentine cards online
Please visit the Lilly Library's latest online exhibition: A Flowering of Affection: Victorian Valentine Cards at the Lilly Library (http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/valentines/valentine.html). View a selection of nineteenth century Valentine cards, from the sentimental to the comic, and send your own e-Valentine greetings featuring cards from the exhibition. Many thanks to Jian Liu for help with scanning, but especially for the inspiration and technical know-how that made the e-Valentines portion of the exhibition possible.
Submitted by Erika Dowell, Lilly Library
*Herbert S. And Virginia White Professional Development Award
The 2000-2001 White Award Committee is pleased to announce that Jian Liu, Associate Librarian in the Reference Department of the Main Library, IUB, has been selected as the recipient of the Herbert S. And Virginia White Professional Development Award. This is the seventh year of the award established by the Whites to support individually motivated professional growth. The award certificate will be presented to Jian on Librarians' Day, April 23rd.
Jian's project is to develop a web-based, biographical database of Chinese students who came to the U.S. between 1909 and 1929 via Boxer Indemnity Fund scholarships established by the U.S. government. The award provides $2500 in support of travel expenses to conduct archival research at the four universities where most of the Boxer scholars studied: Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Columbia.
The committee wishes to thank and recognize all applicants for their interesting and well-prepared proposals.
--Cindy Lee Stokes
Chair, White Award Committee
SMG Meeting
Tuesday, February 13
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Main Library E-174
IU Bloomington
PA Council
Wednesday, February 14
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ground Floor Conference Room
IU Bloomington
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