IUL News for June 3, 1996, Volume 23, Number 22

1. Thanks!!!

2. Faculty/Staff News

3. Library Picnic

4. New Telephone Prefix for Columbus

5. Bob Knight Library Endowment

6. Lazerow Lecture

7. Occupational Safety and Health Fair

1. THANKS!!!

Thank you all for the surprise "appreciation" you gave to me at the Retirement and Recognition Reception. The kind words, flowers, and gift were lovely tributes which I much appreciated. Working with you in Bloomington and on the other campuses this year has been rewarding. The IU Libraries have great people!

--Pat Steele, Acting Dean of Libraries

Thanks to the Special Events Committee for a wonderful Retirement & Recognition Reception last week. It was truly a "special event." Nancy Boerner and Cameron McGuire were co-chairs of the event, and the result of their efforts was something all of the honorees will remember.

2. FACULTY/STAFF NEWS

A congratulations note in IUL News last week stated that Doug McKinney has been with Indiana University for 20 years. That was a goof. He has only been here 10.

Nancy Schmidt, Librarian for African Studies gave an invited paper on "The challenge of African film bibliography:content and audience" at the SCOLMA Conference(Standing Committee on Library Materials on Africa) in London on May 21st. The theme of the Conference was "Sight and sound:Africa on film and tape." The paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of African Research and Documentation.

On May 24, 1996, Joyce Saltsman, IPFW Service Desk Manager, was granted a 1996 YWCA Woman of Achievement Award. The award is granted to women in the Fort Wayne area who have demonstrated exceptional leadership or service achievements or who have overcome severe hardships. Each year IPFW selects one faculty member and one staff member to receive the award. Joyce was cited especially for the support and encouragement she gives to the student employees, many of whom are foreign students, and for the work she has done to help the library implement ADA regulations. She has also taken a sign language course so that our deaf students will have a special advocate in the library.

Kristine Brancolini will be teaching a training course for librarians in Barcelona, Spain, during the week of June 17-21. The course will cover collection management in academic libraries. The twenty participants will be librarians at four universities, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra; these university libraries have formed a cooperative committee that offers continuing education to its professional staff.

In July, James L. Mullins will leave the IU South Bend Library to become Director of Villanova's Falvey Memorial Library. Jim Mullins became Director of Library Services for the IUSB Library in August 1978. Prior to that time, he had been Associate Librarian, School of Law Library, Indiana University-Bloomington and before that Catalog Librarian, Georgia Southern University. He received a B.A. degree and an M.A. in Library Science from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from Indiana University.

Jim arrived in South Bend to take the helm of a library that was housed in "temporary" quarters with only 40,000 square feet of space. For seventeen years, the IUSB Library was located on the first floor of Northside Hall, a space so limited that some staff members had to work from book trucks because of lack of office space, and about 10% of the collection was kept in storage due to lack of space. Under Jim's leadership and direction, a new 86,000 square foot building was built and dedicated in 1989. Jim helped raise funds, participated in design decisions, and directed the move to the new building. The change for the campus and the library staff was dramatic. The new library provided tremendously improved working conditions and a much quieter area for the students to study. During its dedication, the beautiful new Franklin D. Schurz Library was praised by campus and community as "IUSB's New Heart."

In addition to the new building, Jim made many other contributions to IUSB, to his profession including instruction in the SLIS program, and to the community during his eighteen year tenure. At Indiana University, he served on numerous committees including the Campus Planning Committee, IUSB; the Sabbatical Leave (chair) and Promotion and Tenure Review Committees, IU Libraries; and the World Wide Web Implementation Task Force, IUSB; the Information Technologies Committee, IUSB; and numerous search and screen committees.

Jim has served his profession over the years through appointments to several important committees. These included membership on the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Association (InCOLSA) Executive Committee; the Governor's Conference on Libraries and Information Services Planning Committee (Chair of Finance Committee); and several committees within the American Library Association's Library Administration and Management Divisions, the Indiana Library Association, the Indiana Library Endowment Foundation Board, and the Board of Directors of the Area Library Services Authority, Region 2.

In the community, Jim was highly active in several organizations including the Board of Directors of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (acting as President for two years); the Design Review Committee, Redevelopment Commission, City of South Bend; the Board of Directors, South Bend Art Center, Inc.; and the Near Westside Neighborhood Organization (President).

Jim enjoys gardening and has a passion for history and genealogy. By the age of twenty, he had published two books about his family's genealogy: "Descendants of Gordon Lambert Mullins and Nancy Jane Courson" and "Genealogical History and Statistical Data of the Kleckner and Gift Families." He enjoys recording personal histories, and has spent many hours recording the neighborhood history of South Bend's west and southwest sides as a part of a project funded by a grant from the Indiana Humanities Council.

The Libraries and his colleagues will miss the energy, commitment and thoughtful participation of Jim Mullins in our common endeavors. Villanova has recruited well!

3. LIBRARY PICNIC

Mark your calendars for the last special event of the year. The Library Picnic will be held on July 18. There will be more information closer to the date of the picnic.

4. NEW TELEPHONE PREFIX FOR COLUMBUS

IUPU Columbus has installed a new telephone system which includes a change in prefix. The old 372 prefix has been changed to 348; all of our extensions, however, have remained the same. Thus the main library number still retains the same area code (812) and extension (7222) but is now 812-348-7222. We apologize for any problems this causes, and hope you'll be patient as we learn to use our new system.

--Janet Feldmann, Director, Library and Media Services, IUPUC

*completion of the project to microfilm the Indiana Daily Student, which will permanently preserve this important IU resource for scholars.

In addition to these large projects, Bob Knight Endowment funds were used throughout the Libraries to improve collections and services. Some examples include: replacing the Libraries' heavily used and mutilated copies of National geographic magazine with microfilm editions; supporting the Undergraduate Library's service to the visually impaired; providing access to visual images via CD-ROM on art and architecture for the Fine Arts Library; enabling the science libraries to complete their project to improve reserve services to students; adding to the Music Library's growing collection of film and stage musical soundtracks.

"Clearly the work which Coach Knight invested in building this wonderful endowment is paying rich dividends in enhanced collections and services for students and faculty," says Acting Dean if Libraries Pat Steele. "The Bob Knight Endowment Fund is helping to make the quality difference at IU Libraries."

The Bob Knight Endowment Fund was established during the 1989-90 school year to support and expand library services by providing the means to purchase requested materials and finance various special projects. In 1995, the Endowment reached its $1,000,000 goal, assuring continued opportunities to fund a wide range of valuable library projects. Contributions to the fund, which now exceeds $1,400,000 come from IU alumni, and numerous other generous donors.

For further information about the Bob Knight Library Endowment Fund, contact Development Director Cameron McGuire, at (812) 855-3403, or by email: mcguire@indiana.edu.

6. 1996 LAZEROW LECTURE

	Indiana University School of Library and Information Science
 		announces the 1996 Samuel Lazerow Lecture
 			
			"What Kind of Digital Shift?:
 		Theorizing the Transitions from Paper Media to
 		Electronic Publishing and Digital Libraries,"
 				presented by
		Rob Kling, Professor, Information and Computer Science,
 			University of California, Irvine (UCI)

			Monday, June 3, 1996, 4:30 p.m.
		Main Library 033 on the Bloomington campus

Rob Kling, an internationally recognized scholar in information systems and information technology and social change, will join the SLIS faculty as professor of information science and information systems in August, 1996.

"Digital Shift" will report findings from a study of digital library use in support of scholarly communication in eight U.S. research universities. These results suggest that in spite of rapid growth of electronic information exchange, the prevailing perception among scholars and administrators is that transition to digital media has been incremental rather than revolutionary. Kling will explore both the theoretical bases and implications of this perception.

--Susan Schlag

7. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH FAIR

ALL IU STUDENTS, STAFF, AND FACULTY ARE INVITED TO THE:

Bloomington Campus Occupational Safety and Health Fair

                   FEATURING INFORMATION AND
                  DEMONSTRATIONS OF PRODUCTS
                   AND SERVICES RELATED TO:

            TYPING INJURIES AND REPETITIVE STRAIN

                         JOB STRESS

                   SICK BUILDING SYNDROME

                       NOISE POLLUTION

                  SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE

                        HEAVY LIFTING

                        TOXIC CHEMICALS

                 EARTHQUAKES, FIRE, AND TORNADOES

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Hear Judy Kiel of IUPUI's School of Allied Health Sciences speak on:

"Is Your Job a Pain in the Neck?

- or -

Ergonomic Considerations for the Sedentary Worker"

10am to noon; repeated 2-4pm, IMU Solarium

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                      WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1996
                          10am to 5:30pm
                     ALUMNI HALL AND SOLARIUM
                      INDIANA MEMORIAL UNION

Co-sponsored by:
IU/CWA Joint Safety Committee
IU/AFSCME Joint Safety Committee
IU Bloomington Professional Council

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