Thank you to B. J. Irvine for serving as Acting Head of the Black Culture Center Library while Grace Jackson-Brown was on sabbatical leave. B. J. and Brenda Walker, the Branch Coordinator, did an excellent job in Grace's absence. Kudos -- and welcome back Grace!

We would like to thank everyone who contributed all of the wonderful dishes to this year's February Fest. It was a great success and everyone who attended enjoyed the great food and music.

--Special Events Committee

Thanks to the Special Events Committee for all their work in planning and putting on the February Fest. Thanks also to everyone who attended and to those who contributed food. Special thanks to Rachel Stoeltje and Julie Pophal, who were the co-chairs for this event.

2. FACULTY/STAFF NEWS

Mechael Gago, Serials Department, has been appointed to the Standards Committee of the PCC, the national Program for Cooperative Cataloging and will serve as its first CONSER Representative. Mechael also chaired the CONSER Task Force on the Cataloging of Conference Publications. Under her leadership, significant progress wa s made on the treatment of this type of material and resulted in a significant revision to the conference portion of LCRI 12.0A (Library of Congress rule interpretation) which will appear in _LCRI Update_ 1997,no.1 (due spring 1997). For more information about the specific changes in the forthcoming RI, see Mechael's recent article "Conference Task Force Completes LCRI," _CONSERline_ 9 (Jan. 1997). (Available WWW: http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/co nsrln9.html)

Taemin Park, Serials Department, was recognized by OCLC in a recent bibliography prepared by the OCLC Information Center entitled "Survey of Electronic Journals in OCLC: The Extent and Quality of Cataloging" for her research and recent publication which appeared in "Global Complexity: Information, Chaos and Control. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, October 21-24, 1996, Baltimore, Maryland", 193-197. ASIS, Medford, NJ 1996.

Taemin's study results demonstrated a 46% success rate of locating bibliographic records for remote access electronic serials in OCLC. The majority of the bibliographic records (62%) originated through the National Serials Data Program. Further analysis of the bibliographic records showed that 61% were full-level, 73% were CONSER records, 44% had LC classification information, and 66% had LC subject headings.

Effective February 10, Sean Crittenden accepted the Senior Circulation Assistant (Library Services Associate I) position in the Business/SPEA Library. Sean was a student worker in the Business/SPEA Library prior accepting this support staff position. He is working on a degree in Environmental Science in SPEA.

3. SEARCH AND SCREEN COMMITTEE APPOINTED

The search and screen committee for the position of Director of Collection Development and University Bibliographer has now been appointed. The members are: Lisa Browar, Nancy Cridland (Chair), Michael Grossberg, Peter Lindenbaum, Lorraine Olley, James Russell, Duncan Stewart, and Gary Wiggins.

--Marilyn Shaver, Personnel Officer

4. LIVE TELECONFERENCE: MULTIMEDIA AND FAIR USE

On Thursday, February 20, 1997, Indiana University-Bloomington will be downlinking a live teleconference, "Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia," from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. It will be going out campuswide via the campus cable. However, Main Library 174 will be open and available as a reception site throughout the teleconference. The reception site is open to the public and all are invited to attend. The IU Libraries are sponsoring reception of the teleconference and licensing it for use, which includes a tape of the event. After the teleconference, the tape will be cataloged and shelved in Media/Reserve Services, Main Library W101A. For more information, contact Kris Brancolini at 5-1652 or via email (brancoli) or Colleen Talty at the same phone number or via email (ctalty).

The teleconference is a follow-up to last year's "Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines," which presented draft guidelines developed by the Consortium of College and University Media Centers, in cooperation with numerous educational associations, proprietary groups, and governmental agencies, including the U.S. Copyright Office. Now, the guidelines have been finalized and a panel that includes members of the negotiating team will review the endorsement process and discuss guideline implementation. The content of this program will be of interest to anyone within the university community who works with multimedia. This includes faculty users of locally-pr oduced multimedia, who may have questions about the use of copyright protected materials in their own productions and their students' productions.

--Kris Brancolini

5. NEWS FROM THE LAW LIBRARY OF THE I U SCHOOL OF LAW -- INDIANAPOLIS

The Law Library of the Indiana University School of Law--Indianapolis is pleased to announce that it has been accepted into OCLC's Regular Enhance program with responsibility for records in the Books format. The Enhance program is a cooperative cataloging program that is designed to improve the quality of OCLC's Online Union Catalog by allowing participants to add and correct data in master records. The Law Library of the Indiana University School of Law--Indianapolis is one of only seven law libraries in the nation to be accepted into this program.

--Chris Long, Catalog Librarian

6. APPROVAL PLANS WEB SITE

The Approval Plans staff of Monographic Processing Services are pleased to announce the launching of the Approval Plans Web Site. It features the complete profiles for the University Press Approval Plan, the Science Approval Plan, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Approval Plan. The profiles include up-to-date publisher lists, subject profiles, non-subject parameters, excluded series, and lis ts of the standing orders provided on the plans.

The site is currently in its first phase, which consists of 41 files and 495KB of data. Forthcoming features will include additional publisher links, the background of each plan, help screens, and completion of the pages for the African, French Contempor ary Authors, Spanish and Catalan Contemporary Authors, and German Approval Plans.

The Approval Plans web site will be of primary interest to bibliographers who already participate, others who are curious how they may be served by the plans, as well as students, faculty, and other library patrons.

To visit the Approval Plans web site, go to:

http://www.indiana.edu/~libmps/ap/appls.html

Or click on the Approval Plans link on the Monographic Processing Services web page: http://www.indiana.edu/~libmps/index.html

For more information please contact David K. Smith at email: daksmith, or phone 855-1667.

7. WYLIE HOUSE REOPENS WITH SEED SALE

Wylie House Museum opens the 1997 season on Saturday, March 1, with its annual Seed Sale from 10 am to 4 pm. Choose from twenty-seven historic varieties of flower and vegetable seeds -- all organically grown in the Wylie House garden and germination-test ed to insure viability.

A seed swap table will give local seed-savers an opportunity to exchange free seeds from their own gardens. (Seed-swappers: please bring seeds that have been properly stored, labelled, and preferably not more than two years old.) And a reading room with information on seed-saving and heirloom gardening will prove helpful to beginning gardeners and veterans alike.

Wylie House is located at 307 E. 2nd Street and is handicap accessible from the drive just east of the house. Regular tour hours are Tuesday through Saturday 1-4 pm, March through November. For more information, call (812) 855-6224 or e-mail BVWILLIA.

--Bonnie Williams, Curator

8. REQUEST FOR INULA BOOK SALE DONATIONS

The 1997 Indiana University Librarians' Association (InULA) Book Sale will be held April 20th & 21st. The InULA Book Sale Committee is requesting donations for this annual fund-raising event for scholarships, continuing education, and research. InULA will accept book sale donations until Saturday, April 19th.

All kinds of book donations are welcome, as well as posters, audio cassettes, videos, cards and more. InULA will provide a letter of receipt to donors for tax purposes. Books that are not purchased by the end of the sale are either taken to recycling agencies, or saved for the following year.

Donations may be dropped off or mailed via campus mail to the following address:

		c/o Maryann Hight
		InULA BOOK SALE
		Main Library
		UGL - rm W121
		IUB

--Grace Jackson-Brown, InULA Book Sale Co-Chairperson, 1997

9. SUMMARY OF GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

U.S. Department of Commerce
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Telecommunications and Information Assistance Program (TIIAP)

NTIA announces the fourth annual round of a competitive matching grant program, created to promote the development, widespread availability, and use of advanced telecommunications and information technologies to serve the public interest.

TIIAP will support projects which improve the quality of, and and the public's access to, education and lifelong learning; reduce the cost, improve the quality, and/or increase the accessibility of health care and public health services; promote responsiv e public safety services; and foster communication, resource-sharing, and economic development within communities, both urban and rural.

DEADLINE: March 27, 1997
AMOUNT: Based on past years' awards $300,000; applicants may request up to 
$750,000 in federal support.
CONTACT: Stephen J. Downs, Acting Director of the Telecommunications and 
Information Infrastructure Assistance Program, (202) 482-2048; FAX (202) 
501-5136; e-mail tiiap@ntia.doc.gov

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