IUL News for June 23, 1997 Volume 24, Number 24

1. Faculty/Staff News

2. French Contemporary Authors Approval Plan Web Pages

3. NOTIS 6.3

4. LAMA Pre-Conferences in San Francisco

1. FACULTY/STAFF NEWS

Effective June 13, Hilary Jolly resigned her position as Head of the SLIS Library.

Mechael Gago, Assistant Head, Serials Department and Head, Serials Cataloging Unit, has just been elected Member-at-Large of the American Library Association's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Serials Section. She will serve in that capacity as a member of the Executive Committee.

Gary Wiggins, Roger Beckman, and Keith Schreiber are co-authors of the "Chemistry" chapter in the 2nd edition of _Internet Tools of the Profession; A Guide for Information Professionals_. The guide was published by the Special Libraries Association and appeared just before the recent SLA National Meeting. Roger Beckman attended a reception for authors while at the SLA meeting in Seattle.

Cathy Gilbert-Jones (Chemistry Library) and Charla Westbrook (Customer & Facilities Services) received ETC Certificates of Completion at an annual awards ceremony on June 6. The ETC (Excellence in Training for Clericals) Program is a year long training and development program which provides both professional and personal development in four major areas: communication skills, business English and writing skills, computer and technology skills, and personal and career growth.

--Suzanne Hall Trisler, Customer and Facilities Services

Effective May 9, Carol LeBras resigned her position in the Fine Arts Library.

Effective June 23 Julia Simic accepted the position of Public Services Assistant at the Lilly Library. Julia has worked in an hourly position in the Lilly Library for the past three years.

2. FRENCH CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS APPROVAL PLAN WEB PAGES

The Approval Plans staff of Monographic Processing Services are pleased to announce the addition of French Contemporary Authors to the Approval Plans Web Site. Parallel to the pages for the University Press, Science, and Social Sciences & Humanities Approval Plans, it features the lists of French Authors covered on the Plan, excluded series, and non-subject parameters. The site also provides general information on the Plan by way of a narrative description of the profiles.

This marks the beginning of the second development stage of the Approval Plans Web Site, which now consists of 48 files and 551KB of data. Forthcoming features will include additional publisher links, the background of each plan, help screens, and completion of the pages for the Spanish & Catalan Contemporary Authors and German Approval Plans.

The Approval Plans web site is 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. The French Contemporary Author Lists will be quite useful as a reference tool for students of French literature, since the Author Lists include names and dates for 678 prominent French authors of the last two centuries.

To visit the French Contemporary Authors Approval Plans web site, go to:

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

The Approval Plans Web Site can be found at:

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 E-mail (daksmith), or phone 855-1667.

3. NOTIS 6.3 -- CHANGES TO THE CATALOG AND HANDOUT PLANS

NOTIS version 6.3 will not bring a large number of changes to the online public catalog (OPAC). There are only a few changes that are significant:

	1.  The guide screens will now show EVERY heading. 
	    This is a great improvement over IUCAT today, where guide 
	    screens are one-screen summaries of the results of an 
	    author, title or subject search which finds 50 or more 
	    items and often "hide" headings.  
	2.  Guide screens and index screens now show more of the title, 
	    even extending down to a second line.
	3.  There is a new way to exclude superfields (.au., .ti., .su.)
	    from a keyword search.  To exclude a superfield, simply 
	    type TWO periods before the superfield name.  For example, 
	    to exclude books written by Freud in a keyword search, type:
	    freud..au. 
	4.  The choose command (CHO) will now appear on the lists of 
	    commands at the bottom of all screens.  The choose command 
	    is used to save searches and re-try them in another catalog 
	    on the IUCAT menu.  We have been using it in NOTIS for 
	    several years, but it has never before appeared on the 
	    command list.

These changes will necessitate few revisions in the IUCAT handouts. Bigger changes will occur when the Columbus and IUPUI University Libraries implement the Horizon catalog later this summer. All IUCAT handouts will be revised and distributed by mid-August to incorporate the changes resulting from both NOTIS 6.3 and Horizon.

Anyone who has questions should feel free to contact Mary Popp (812-855-8170 or popp@indiana.edu).

4. REMINDER: LAMA PRECONFERENCES--SAN FRANCISCO

The following preconferences will be presented on Friday, June 27, at ALA in San Francisco:

	PLANNING FOR SYSTEMS AND SERVICES: STRATEGIES FOR BUDGET,
	HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, AND STAFF ORGANIZATION IN A RAPIDLY
	CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT--Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m.

	NUTS, BOLTS, AND BYTES: PLANNING LIBRARY BUILDINGS TO 
	ACCOMMODATE TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGIES--Time: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

	WRITE ON! A HALF-DAY WORKSHOP FOR ASPIRING WRITERS--Time: 12:30-5 	p.m.

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