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I am pleased to announce that Doug McKinney has accepted the position of Assistant to the Ruth Lilly University Dean of University Libraries. Doug has served the IUB Libraries in various roles since 1988 as a member of the Technical Services Department.
As assistant to the dean, Doug's duties will include preparing agendas and summaries for meetings of Bloomington management groups and the university-wide Council of Head Librarians, as well as managing special projects for the dean.
Doug will be starting his new assignment on Monday, September 18. Please join me in welcoming him to his new position.
--Suzanne Thorin
Data and Electronic Services Librarian in the Government Publications Department at IU-Bloomington. For more information and/or a complete copy of the posting, contact Betty Bell in Libraries Human Resources at IU-Bloomington. She may be reached at (812) 855-8196 or via e-mail at bettbell@indiana.edu. Review of applications will begin September 15, 2000 and will continue until the position is filled.
The search and screen committee has been appointed for this position. The members are: Joetta Black, Library Information Technology; Yolanda Cooper-Birdine, ex officio, Libraries Human Resources; Bob Goehlert, chair, SALC; Lois Heiser, Geology Library; Chuck Morrow, Library Information Technology; Pam Owens, Technical Services; James Russell, Political Science; and Andrea Singer, Government Publications.
Submitted by: Betty Bell, Libraries Human Resources
The Wells Archive Symposium, originally scheduled for mid-March of this year but postponed due to Chancellor Wells' death, will take place in September. Please note that the Main Library lobby will be unavailable that day, and access to the reference reading room will be limited in the afternoon and early evening.
THE WELLS ARCHIVE: EXPLORING THE WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Thursday, September 21, 2000
Main Library Lobby and Reference Reading Room
IU Bloomington
Featured Speakers:
Hugh Hawkins, Professor of History, Amherst College
Robert O'Neil, Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of
Free Expression, University of Virginia
Helen Horowitz, Professor of American Studies, Smith College
Roger Geiger, Professor of Education, Pennsylvania State University
John Thelin, Professor, College of Education, University of Kentucky
*Fall Events at Schurz Library, IUSB
Elizabeth Van Allen, author of "James Whitcomb Riley: A Life", published by the IU Press in 1999, will be present for a lecture and book-signing on Thursday, September 14, 2000, 7:30 p.m. in the Schurz Library 5th Floor atrium. Books will be available for purchase. This event is co-sponsored by the IU Press.
Few literary figures have achieved the fame of James Whitcomb Riley, the most popular poet in American at the end of the 19th century*the height of his career. Van Allen's book has been called "the first definitive biography of Hoosier poet Riley and a provocative study of how literary reputations are made and unmade.
Elizabeth J. Van Allen is an honors graduate of Indiana University who received her Ph.D. in history from Yale. She is a former historian of the James W. Riley Memorial Association and is now historian of the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
William Wresch, Assoc. Vice Chancellor at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, will present "Haves and Have-Nots in the Information Age" on Wednesday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Schurz Library 5th Floor atrium.
William Wresch received his BA and MA degrees from San Francisco State University. He also holds an MS and Ph.D. from UW-Madison. He has published nine books on computing issues. His best known book, "Disconnected: Haves and Have Nots in the Information Age," was published in 1996 by Rutgers University Press and chronicles his perceptions and experiences in1993-94 as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Namibia. With vivid anecdotes and data, William Wresch contrasts the opportunities of the information rich with the limited prospects of the information poor in an age when information is power.
More recently, Dr. Wresch was an invited participant in meetings in Washington, D.C. called by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (CBSSE). Both advise the National Academy of Sciences. The sessions explored the "digital divide" and how democratic processes are changing because of the Internet.
These events are sponsored by the Friends of the Schurz Library. Receptions follow. For more information, contact Rebecca Neiswender, 237-4404 or rneiswen@iusb.edu.
Submitted by: Nancy Wootton Colborn
Schurz Library
Indiana University South Bend
219.237.4321 (ph)
ncolborn@iusb.edu
http://www.iusb.edu/~ncolborn
*Book Talk at AACC Library, IUB
The African American Cultural Center Library presents,
A BOOK TALK on Thursday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the AACC Conference Room, Ashton/Coulter Room 104. The featured speaker and discussion leader is Dr. Phyllis Klotman. She will speak about and moderate the discussion concerning her new book, Struggles For Representation. Dr. Klotman is the founder and former Director of the Black Film Center/Archive. She is also the former Dean of Women's Affairs, and was the first Bloomington Campus Affirmative Action Director. Dr. Klotman is the author of five other books, Humanities Through The Black Experience, Another Man Gone: The Contemporary Runner In Afro-American Literature, Frame By Frame I: A Black Filmography, Screenplays of the African American Experience, and Frame By Frame II.
We hope you will join us, everyone is welcome !
Thank you,
Marianna Brough, Branch Coordinator
African American Cultural Center Library
(812) 856-5932 Office
(812) 855-3237 Circulation
SMG (Senior Management Group)
Tuesday, September 12
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Main E-174
IU Bloomington
PA Coucil
Wednesday, September 13
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ground Floor Conference Room
IU Bloomington
Athol Fugard Reception
Thursday, September 14
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Lilly Library
IU Bloomington
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