Julie Nilson has been elected Secretary of the Bloomington Faculty Council. She follows in the footsteps of Ann Bristow, who recently completed 10 years of service as BFC Secretary. Kudos to both Ann and Julie and to the following librarians who also will serve on the BFC: Elizabeth Johnson, Lou Malcomb, and Gary Wiggins. The Libraries are well represented.
Ann Gibbs, Preservation Project Assistant for the Somalia and CIC grants, has published "Indiana University Libraries' Somalia Poster Preservation Project" in Microform & Imaging Review, v. 26, no. 1. The article describes the process used to create and provide Web access to digital images of color posters printed in Somalia before the recent crisis. The posters may be viewed at http://www.indiana.edu/~libpres/Reformatting/posters.html.
Effective April 21, Steven Ingeman accepted the position of Document Delivery Services Retrieval Supervisor in Customer and Facilities Services. Steven worked as Assistant Stack Supervisor in Access Services from September 1993 to August 1995. He comes to the Libraries from the IU Credit Union. Steven has MA and BA degrees and is currently working on his PhD in Philosophy.
Rachael Stoeltje, image collections care coordinator in the Preservation Department, and Chris Anderson are very pleased to announce the birth of their son, Calvin Anderson, on Saturday, April 19. He weighed in at 7.5 lbs.
--Lorraine Olley, Head, Preservation Department
2. LIVE TELECONFERENCE MAY 15TH
The IU-Bloomington Libraries will be downlinking "Video, CD-ROM, and the Web: Motion Media and the Library of the Future," a PBS live satellite teleconference, from noon - 2:00, on Thursday, May 15, 1997. If you would like to watch the teleconference live, there will be an open reception site in Radio/TV Room 102. Handouts will be available there. If you would like the packet of handouts ahead of time, please contact Kris Brancolini (brancoli@indiana.edu or 855-1652). For more information about the teleconference, contact Kris or visit the teleconference website at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/NVR.html.
3. ARCHIVES OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC AWARDED GRANT
The Indiana Heritage Research Grant program has awarded the Archives of Traditional Music a grant of $2,500 for preservation and indexing of Hoagy Carmichael materials. Funds will be used to scan and encapsulate Carmichael's lyric sheets and autobiography typescript, and to box and interleave several scrapbooks. Project director is Mary Russell Bucknum. Lorraine Olley is technical consultant and Robert Stoll, historical consultant.
--Mary Russell Bucknum, Associate Director/Librarian
4. MUSIC LIBRARY'S VARIATIONS PROJECT
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Indiana Program Strives to Digitize Music Without Sacrificing the Quality of Sound" by Thomas Wanat (May 2, 1997, A29) highlights the VARIATIONS project at Indiana University. Based on interviews wit h David Fenske, Jon Dunn, and Connie Mayer, the author describes the technological challenges of the project, its positive impact on services in the Cook Music Library, and its potential as a research tool. He reports that more than 13,000 selections, cho sen from the over 1,300 titles available at the time, were played by library users in the month of March.
5. SUPPORT STAFF SPRING MASS MEETING
The Support Staff Spring Mass Meeting will be held on May 20, 1997 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm in the Staff Lounge on the third floor of the main library. The guest speaker for this meeting will be Harrison Ullman, editor of Nuvo. Please join your co-workers for an interesting meeting.
6. RETIREMENT AND RECOGNITION RECEPTION
You are cordially invited to attend the Indiana University Libraries Annual Retirement and Recognition Reception honoring:
Patricia Boyer Vivian Whaley Alice Wickizer upon the occasion of their retirement Frances Wilhoit 1997 William Evans Jenkins Award Indiana University Thursday, May 22, 1997 2:00-3:30 p.m. Third Floor Staff Lounge Main Library The following individuals are being honored for their years of service to Indiana University: 35 Years William Cagle, Lilly Library Michael Parrish, Business/SPEA Library 30 Years Nancy Cridland, Subject and Area Ruth Davison, Government Publications Ron Hafft, Customer and Facilities Services Nancy Leohr, Monographic Processing Lois Sewell, Monographic Processing 25 Years Rebecca Cape, Lilly Library Mark Day, Reference Harold Shaffer, Customer and Facilities Services Tamara Sharp, Monographic Processing 20 Years Thomas Bullard, Biology Library Maria Collee, IO Catalog Management Elizabeth Hanson, Biology Library Karen McCrosky, Monographic Processing Patricia Steele, Library Administration Helen Walsh, Lilly Library 15 Years Sherry Brookbank, IO Catalog Management Nels Gunderson, Business/SPEA Library Carl Horne, IO Catalog Management Marta Johnson, Serials Myrna Mishler, Education Library Andrea Morrison, Government Publications Emily Okada, Undergraduate Library Services Jo Ann Robison, Preservation Marilyn Shaver, Library Personnel Kathryn Sorury, IO Catalog Management Linda Stewart, Geology Library 10 Years Anne Foster, Optometry Library Jane Goldsmith, Customer and Facilities Services Linda Kelsey, Government Publications David Lasocki, Music Library Thomas Lee, Subject and Area Randy Lent, Customer and Facilities Services Lyle Neff, Serials Laila Salibi-Cripe, Monographic Processing Deborah Selk, Preservation Carolyn Walters, Undergraduate Library Services Jay Wilkerson, Media and Reserve Services The following volunteers are also being honored: Karen Evans, Government Publications Yuko Fudaba, Fine Arts Library Russell McCoy, Chemistry Library Ruth McCoy, Swain Hall Library Jean Smith, Lilly Library7. ERGONOMICS PROGRAM: EFFECTS OF COMPUTER USE ON VISION
Bill Rainey, Chief of Binocular Vision and Pediatric Service, School of Optometry, will present a program on computers and visual stress on Wednesday, May 28, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., in the Main Library Ground Floor Conference Room. He will talk about the effects of prolonged computer use on the eyes and will provide suggestions f or solving the problems computer users may experience. This program is sponsored by the Libraries' Ergonomics Team.
Seating is limited in the Ground Floor Conference Room, so reservations will be kept to 40 people. To register, contact Marilyn Shaver.
8. SAFETY FAIR
The 1997 Bloomington Campus Occupational Health and Safety Fair will be held on June 4, 1997 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at Alumni Hall and the Solarium in the IMU. There will be departmental and vendor booths as well as door prizes. The speakers will be on violence in the workplace, preventing back injuries, preventing eye injuries and relieving stress in the workplace (yoga).
9. DATE CHANGE FOR COMMUNICATION FORUMS
Communication forums have been scheduled through December of this year. The date of the first one has been changed from 6/26 to 6/25. The schedule now reads as follows:
Wednesday, June 25, 10:00-11:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 26, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 10:00-11:00 a.m. Thursday, December 18, 10:00-11:00 a.m.All forums will be held in the ground floor conference room of the Main Library. Reminders will be sent via e-mail before each forum.
10. SERIALS CANCELLATION REQUESTS
The following serials cancellation requests have been received.
The titles listed below are the last subscription/standing order copies in the IUB Libraries. Fund managers who wish to assume any of the orders should contact Laura Gabbard, Serials Department (email lscurtis or 855-4262), within two weeks following the date of this newsletter.
Fund 10 (Mid East) -MIDDLE EAST TIMES (NICOSIA, CYPRUS : EGYPT ED.) Fund 71 (Music) -MUSIC LIBRARY. MUSICAL SOUND RECORDINGSFund 80 (Library Tools) -INTERNATIONAL IMAGING SOURCE BOOK Fund 97 (UGL) -CORPORATE JOBS OUTLOOK
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