1. Thanks!!
3. National Library of Medicine
4. Reminder - Reception for New Dean
5. Conner Prairie Museum Web Site
1. THANKS!!!
Thanks to the Special Events Committee for another successful event--the last of the year. Last week's picnic was one of the most successful picnics we've had. Special thanks go to Jeanne Myers and Mark Feddersen, who co-chaired the event. The members of this year's Special Events Committee were Nancy Boerner, Jo Burgess, Ria Collee, Mark Feddersen, Cameron McGuire, Jeanne Myers, Harold Shaffer, Lynn Smith, Christia Thomason, and Jane Van Auken. Betty Andis, Library Personnel, and Midge Harris, Library Administration, provided assistance to the committee throughout the year.
AND THANKS AGAIN!!
I would like to send out special thanks to everyone who helped with optional tours for freshman advising & registration in June and July:
Randy Lent Cameron McGuire Mary Popp Nancy Schmidt Patricia Steele Lou Malcomb Margaret Parks Matthew Paris Cinda May Harold ShafferThe tours went smoothly, and were well received by the parents of our incoming freshman for 1996/97. This couldn't have been accomplished without you!
--Yolanda Cooper-Birdine
Congratulations go to James Castrataro, Serials, for 20 years of service to the University; to Michael Main, MPS, for 15 years of service; and to Jerilyn Anderson, Business/SPEA Library, Marcia Corner, MPS, Janice Clinch, Access Services, and Morteza Sorury, Microforms Services, for 10 years of service. We thank these staff members for their many contributions to the Libraries. We look forward to continuing to work with them in the future.
Elizabeth Hanson, Biology and Medical Sciences Libraries, has had an article entitled "Conference proceedings as disseminators of new knowledge: The Library Association and British public libraries, 1878-1882" published in Careering Along With Books: Studies in the History of British Public Libraries and Librarianship. A festschrift for Dr. William A. Munford, this was published as v. 12 of Library History.
Effective July 18, Margaret Baube resigned her position as Senior Manuscript Assistant in the Lilly Library.
Effective July 15, Natalya Borovikova resigned her position as Special Materials Coordinator in SALC.
Effective July 19, Sandra O'Neal resigned her position as Financial Records Assistant in Serials.
Effective July 13, Eric Petersen resigned his position as Catalog Revisor IOCM. Effective July 17, Bradley Warren accepted the position as Assistant Stacks Supervisor in Access Services. Bradley worked in the Stacks area of Access Services for five semesters. He has degrees in Comparative Literature and History.
3. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE PRIZE AWARDED
Tom Emmett, M.D., M.L.S. at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library won the National Library of Medicine's Gold Standard Search prize in the NLM Technical Bulletin. The feature offers searchers a chance to match wits with NLM staff on search strategy formulation. The November- December 1995 question was
Your patron wants articles on the effects of weightlessness on bone density. She has already searched MEDLINE and wants only non-MEDLINE derived citations on the subject.
The Technical Bulletin reports that "Dr. Emmett ran his search in SPACELINE using the ELHILL command language. Dr. Emmett's selection of MeSH headings revealed an in-depth knowledge of the subject resulting in exceptional retrieval in terms of both quantity and quality...Dr. Emmett used both OSTEOCLASTS and OSTEOBLASTS in his search...These were both excellent headings to include in the strategy and they resulted in the retrieval of one additional and highly relevant citation compared to the Gold Standard Search."
The May-June 1996 issue of NLM Technical Bulletin contains both the NLM Gold Standard Search and Tom's search.
4. REMINDER -- RECEPTION FOR THE NEW DEAN
Library staff and student employees are invited to join in welcoming Suzanne Thorin as the new Dean of Indiana University Libraries. The welcoming reception will be held Wednesday, July 31, 1996 in the Main Library lobby from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. There will be refreshments and entertainment. For more information please contact Library Administration at 5-3403.
5. CONNER PRAIRIE MUSEUM WEB SITE
The Conner Prairie Museum Web site (http://www.connerprairie.org) recently received a "City's Best" Award presented by US WebSites to outstanding "local" Web sites. It has also been selected as a top ten link by Indy Links. Robin Crumrin, IUPUI University Libraries, acts as a Web site development and design consultant to Conner Prairie Museum.
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