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*Effective September 11, Pamela Lightcap-Jones accepted the position of IU Libraries Development Assistant in the Library Development Office at IU-Bloomington. Prior to accepting this position, Pamela was Business Manager and Co-Owner of Zenergy Massage Therapy Center in Chicago, Illinois
*Effective September 11, Janet Seymour accepted the position of Libraries Budget and Supply Office Coordinator in the Budget/Supply Office in the Main Library at IU-Bloomington. Prior to accepting this position, Janet worked as Accounting Representative at UITS. She has a B.S. in Business Administration from the Indiana Institute of Technology in Fort Wayne.
*"Indiana Cares For Her Troops in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1861-1862" Nancy Eckerman, Special Collection Librarian at the School of Medicine, will present "Indiana Cares For Her Troops in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1861-1862" at the Howard County Historical Museum on 16 September. She just returned from Galveston, Tx where she presented a paper on her database of 19th century Indiana physicians at the 37th International Congress on the History of Medicine.
Reference Services and Media Librarian, Undergraduate Library Services/Information Commons. For more information and/or a complete copy of the posting, contact Betty Bell at 855-8196 or e-mail her at bettbell@indiana.edu. Review of applications begins October 20, 2000 and will continue until the position is filled.
The search committee has been appointed for this position. The members
are:
Anne Bock (chair), UGLS; Kris Brancolini, Digital Library Program; Yolanda
Cooper-Birdine (ex officio), Libraries Human Resources; Susan Johnson-Roehr,
UGLS; Gwen Pershing, Education Library; and Colleen Talty, Media/Reserves.
Submitted by: Betty Bell, Libraries Human Resources
Unicorn Update:
http://www.indiana.edu/~sirsi/update
September 15, 2000 Issue #3
In this issue:
* Training plans gain momentum
* "Preparing for a web-based catalog" : the inside story
The Unicorn Update is a bi-weekly news update created by the Sirsi Communications and Training Working Group to inform staff about our new Unicorn (Sirsi) System. The first issue is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~sirsi/update . Past issues are archived at this site.
Submitted by: Diane Dallis, UGLS
*Serials Cancellation Requests
The following serials cancellation requests have been received.
Collection Managers who wish to assume any of the titles should contact Judy Grannan, Technical Services/Acquisitions (email:jgrannan@indiana.edu) within two weeks following date of this newsletter.
1. LAST COPY HELD IN IUB
Fund 13 (Biology)
- JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Fund 19 (Chemistry)
- JOURNAL OF AEROSOL SCIENCE
- JOURNAL OF HIGH RESOLUTION CHROMATOGRAPHY
- JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
Fund 22 (Computer Science
- JOURNAL OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING
Fund 39 (General)
- ATLANTA JOURNAL
- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
- CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
- THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
- DETROIT FREE PRESS
- THE GLOBE AND MAIL
- OREGONIAN (Portland, OR)
- THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
- SUN (Baltimore, MD)
- WALL STREET JOURNAL (Eastern ed.)
- WELT (Hamburg, Germany)
Fund 55 (HPER)
- CONTACT QUARTERLY
Fund 64 (Latin American Studies)
- LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
- WASHINGTON REPORT ON THE HEMISPHERE
Fund 69 (Microform)
- NEUE ZURCHER ZAITUNG UND SCHWEIZERISCHES HANDELSBLATT (microfilm)
Fund 72 (Nursing)
- BIOETHICS
- COMPUTERS IN NURSING
- THE NURSE PRACTIONER
Fund 89 (Science Reference)
- AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE (SUBSCRIPTION
PLAN.
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS)
Fund 94 (Spanish & Portugese)
- Avui (newspaper)
2. MULTI-COPY HELD IN IUB
Fund 19 (Chemistry)
- ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED SUBJECTS
- ESSAYS IN BIOCHEMISTRY
Fund 27 (Education)
- COBBLESTONE
Submitted by: Judy Grannan
Serials Procurement Specialist
Technical Services/Acquisitions
*Upcoming Remnant Trust Exhibit
The Main Library will be hosting an exhibit of about 45 rare works, on the theme of Liberty, from October 2 through the end of the semester. These works are from a traveling collection of the Remnant Trust, a private organization, and include such works as a copy of the Magna Carta from 1542, a 1610 English edition of Augustine's City of God, and a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbe's Leviathan, as well as first editions of works by Frederick Douglas, Ayn Rand, and George Orwell. The exhibit is designed for books to be handled by faculty and students--instructors can bring their classes to the library, or check out the books for use in their classes. Please contact Perry Willett or Celestina Wroth for more information.
Special thanks to Joel Silver, Jim Canary, Melissa McAfee, and Randy Lent for their hard work in preparing this exhibit.
Submitted by:
Martha L. Brogan
Associate Dean of Libraries &
Director of Collection Development
Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington
On Thursday, September 21 the IUB Libraries will host an invitation-only event to commemorate the opening of Chancellor Herman B Wells papers in the IU Archives. Featuring five national speakers, the event will include a public lecture in the lobby of the Main Library beginning at 4 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner in the Reference Reading Room for invited guests.
The Main Library lobby will be unavailable for use the entire day.The Reference Reading Room will close at 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 21 and will reopen at 8 a.m. on Friday, September 22. During these hours, patrons may ask at the Reference Desk for any reference materials they may need, and the materials will be retrieved for them.
The speakers, listed below, will address topics in higher education. By holding the event in the lobby, we hope to attract passers-by and casual attendees, and hope that you, as IU Libraries employees, will be able to hear some, or all, of the speakers' remarks. You are welcome to attend the symposium with your supervisor's approval.
We also need volunteers to assist with elevators, offer directions, and greet guests. If you are able to volunteer for a half-hour (or longer) shift, and have the permission of your supervisor, please contact the Development Office assistant, Pam Lightcap-Jones at 855-1628 or email palightc@indiana.edu
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
Thank you for your assistance with this event.
*IUPUI University Library To Host National Jazz Exhibition
IUPUI University Library will host a traveling national exhibition titled "The Jazz Age in Paris, 1914-1940," with the Opening Celebration scheduled for Friday, September 22, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. The exhibition was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the American Library Association Public Programs with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will be available, along with other special collection displays, during regular Library hours through November 2.
A series of lectures and performances, featuring IUPUI School of Liberal Arts and Music Department Faculty and reflecting this creative period will accompany the free exhibition throughout its six-week stay. The programs will be presented in the Lilly Auditorium, located on the Lower Level, and will include:
Thursday, September 28, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Dr. Monroe Little, "Africans in Pre-Jazz France 1860 - 1914"
Thursday, October 5, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Dr. Tom Marvin, "Jazz Troubadours:
African American Musicians in Paris Between the World Wars"
Thursday, October 12, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Dean Alvin S. Bynum, " Langston Hughes: Jazz Poet"
Sunday, October 15, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
"The Music of the Jazz Age in Paris"
Professor Jack Gilfoy and his
Naptown Jazz Quintet In Concert
Thursday, October 19, 3pm - 5 p.m.
Dr. Karen Johnson, "American Tales of the Jazz Age."
Thursday, October 26, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Professor William Taylor, "Artists of the Harlem Renaissance"
Sunday, October 29, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Professors Elizabeth Nash & Patricia Turner (Emeritus)
"From Low D to High E: African American Singers in Paris"
In support of this IUPUI University Library program, other community organization presentations will include:
Thursday, September 28 and Thursday & Friday, October 5-6 & 12
Dr. Lawrence E. McCullough,
"That Band From Indiana: The Charlie Davis Orchestra"
Indiana Historical Society
Tuesday, October 10 & Wednesday, October 11, 10:30 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.
Deborah Asante, "Rollin' Down the Avenue"
Indiana Historical Society
Friday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.
Vickie Daniel's Ensemble
"Harlem to Paris: A Concert of Poetry and Jazz"
Indianapolis Marion County Public Library - Central Library
For additional exhibition information, visit
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/jazzage/html/main.html, or call (317) 278-0232.
Submitted by: Norman Brandenstein
External Relations Team
IUPUI University Library - UL 1112D
Phone: (317) 278-0232
*EDUCAUSE President To Speak During IU "MAKING IT HAPPEN!"
Hawkins to address distributed learning and digital resources as part of IU's information technology awareness program
Indianapolis, INDIANA - Brian Hawkins, a distinguished leader in higher education and president of EDUCAUSE, is the featured speaker during Indiana University's "Making IT Happen!" awareness event planned for September 18-21. Hawkins will discuss "Distributed Learning," at 3:30 p.m. (EST), September 18, in the Lilly Auditorium in IUPUI's University Library. On Tuesday, September 19, he will speak on "Information Resources in the Future: The Challenges of the Digital Era," at 11:00 a.m. (EST) in the Indiana Memorial Union, State Room East at IU Bloomington. Both presentations are open to the IU community and will be available as live Webcasts at http://it.iu.edu.
Hawkins is a national leader in the areas of information resources, academic planning, and the use of technology in higher education. Prior to his appointment as EDUCAUSE president, he was senior vice president for academic planning and administrative affairs at Brown University. He also served as an associate vice president at Drexel University, where he was responsible for the academic program that was the first in the nation to require access to a microcomputer and to integrate the use of technology throughout the curriculum. A management professor by training, Hawkins serves on numerous boards and committees and has served as a consultant to more than 350 organizations. His most recent book, co-authored with Patricia Battin, is titled The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century (1998, Council on Library and Information Resources).
EDUCAUSE is an international, nonprofit association whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management. Current membership includes more than 1,700 colleges, universities, and education organizations and more than 150 corporations. For more information, see http://www.educause.edu/.
"Making IT Happen!" is a four-day program sponsored by the Indiana University Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and University Information Technology Services (UITS). The event is designed to increase awareness of the information technology resources, services, and initiatives that benefit nearly 100,000 students on IU's campuses. More information is available at http://it.iu.edu.
Submitted by: Kris Brancolini, Director, Digital Library Program
Making IT Happen Awareness Event
September 18-21
Indiana University
AIS/RCSD Joint Meeting
Tuesday, September 19
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Ground Floor Conference Room
IU Bloomington
PA Council
Wednesday, September 20
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Ground Floor Conference Room
IU Bloomington
Herman B. Wells Event
Thursday, September 21
Main Library Lobby & Reference Reading Room
IU Bloomington
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