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*Sarah Wyatt Resigns Position
Effective June 22, Sara Wyatt resigned from her position as Office Services Assistant in Library Administration.
*Taemin Park Attends Conference
Taemin K. Park, Associate Librarian, Technical Services attended the 12th International Conference on New Information Technology: Global Digital Library Development in the New Millennium, May 28-31, Beijing, China. Taemin presented a paper entitled Library Education in Information Organization and Access of Networked Resources at the poster session of the conference. The conference was held at and sponsored by the world- renowned Tsinghua University, Beijing as one of the celebration events for its 90th anniversary. Marcia Tuttle International Grant, IUL's Research Leave/Support Grants, and IU Office of International Programs helped the partial cost of her trip to China. A full paper based on the presentation will appear in the Serials Librarian.
Taemin was a moderator for the program "Reform Initiatives in Scholarly Communication" sponsored by ALCTS/Scholoarly Communication Discus- sion Group at the 2001 ALA Annual Conference, San Francisco.
Join us at Wylie House on Saturday, July 7 between 10am and 2pm.
Second Street is closed, but Wylie House Museum is still open and we're having a Garden Social on Saturday, July 7 between the hours of 10am and 2pm. We will have period plants for sale as well as bouquets. Costumed interpreters will provide free tours of the Museum on the hour, and the garden will be open for your pleasure. Bring the family and enjoy a bit of old time entertainment.
Jo Burgess
Director, Wylie House Museum
Indiana University Libraries
317 E. Second St.
Bloomington, IN 47401
812-855-6224
jburges@indiana.edu
It is summer and Walden is coming! This year the Walden University session will be from July 8 - July 28. Plans are being made for 400 doctoral students and 50 faculty to enjoy the campus and library facilities during that period. Since some groups will leave before the last week, numbers will be smaller toward the end of the month. I know that library staff is prepared to give the excellent and welcoming service that makes the IUB Libraries popular and useful to these summer scholars. Contact Rita Barsun or Jay Wilkerson in the WU Library Liaison Office with any questions you may have about this year's visit.
--Submitted by: Pat Steele
Head, Geology Library - For more information and/or a complete copy of the posting, please contact Betty Davis, Libraries Human Resources, Main Library 201A, (812) 855-8196 or betdavis@indiana.edu. Review of applications will begin August 10, 2001. The position will remain open until filled. To apply, send a letter of application, professional vita, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of four references to:
Yolanda Cooper-Birdine
Libraries Human Resources Officer
Indiana University Libraries
Main Library 201A
Bloomington, IN 47405
or e-mail her at: ycooperb@indiana.edu.
I am pleased to announce that the IUB Technical Services staff have completed the conversion of the manual card catalogs for the Main and campus libraries on the Bloomington campus to online records in IUCAT. June 30, 2001 marks the official completion date of a seven-year-long effort to convert more than 800,000 manually cataloged monographic records to online records.
Even though June 30 is the official completion date, Tim Larson will continue his assignment as Retrospective Conversion Project Manager until the end of August, 2001 in order to provide important clean up and follow up work related to retrocon. During this time, several cataloging staff will also be finishing the last small pockets of non-Roman retrocon.
Over the past three months catalogers joined efforts with Tim and a large group of student assistants to convert the last 55,000 Roman alphabet cards, most of which were from shelf list series cards, and a variety of non-Roman alphabet cards. These cards represent some of the most difficult items to convert. Our staff once again demonstrated their exceptional expertise and dedication by completing the last stage of this project in record time and with remarkable precision, given the nature of the task.
By joining efforts to complete retrocon, catalogers temporarily reduced the amount of time they spent on cataloging newly received materials. Now that the project is finished, staff of the Cataloging Division are resuming their full efforts to catalog new materials.
While backlogs of uncataloged materials have accumulated, staff will be working through these materials as well as those newly received. If library users require immediate access to any of uncataloged items, please feel free to submit a rush cataloging request form. Rush cataloging is usually supplied within 24 hours.
I know that you join me in extending a special thank you and congratulations to the Technical Services Division for their excellent work and outstanding accomplishment in completing retrospective conversion.
--Submitted by: Harriette Hemmasi
*Workshop in Music Cataloging Concludes
The week-long Workshop in Music Cataloging, directed by Ralph Papakhian and Sue Stancu (Cook Music Library), concluded June 29. Participants came from the Univ. of San Diego, Univ. of Rhode Island, Arkansas Tech Univ., Jacksonville Public Library, Library of Congress, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Curtis Institute of Music, Northwestern Univ., and the Univ. of North Florida.
The Workshop included presentations on archival sound recordings (Archives of Traditional Music--Suzanne Mudge), rare music materials (Lilly Library--Stephen Cape), and the Variations Project (Music Library--Emma Dederick-Colon). It concluded with a tour of the Musical Arts Center (Tom Wieligman)
--Submitted by: Ralph Papakhian
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