The InULA board reminds all eligible library faculty, staff and friends, to complete the membership and committee form and send with the appropriate dues payment to: Wen-Ling Liu (wliu@indiana.edu), Cataloging Department, Main Library E350, IU Bloomington 47405.
2. FACULTY/STAFF NEWS
Effective October 15 Cinda May accepted the position of Assistant
Librarian in the Public Services Department of the Lilly Library.
Cinda previously held the position of Catalog/Instruction
Librarian at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. She has an
MLS and B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature.
Effective June 30 Terence Rose resigned his position at the Law Library in Indianapolis.
Effective October 1 Paul Yachnes accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Librarian, Acting Middle Eastern Studies Specialist. Prior to accepting this position Paul was a Retrospective Conversion Cataloger in IOCM. He has an MLS degree and a B.A. degree in English and Creative Writing.
Effective October 2 Susan Kelly accepted the position of Procurement Coordinator in MPS. Susan has worked in Government Publications for the past year and received her MLS and a M.A. degree in History from I.U.
Effective September 25 Janet Seymour accepted the position of Financial Records Assistant in MPS. Janet previously worked for GTE Telephone Operations in Noblesville. She holds a B.S. degree.
3. DIVERSITY SURVEY COMING
Employees of the IUB Libraries will participate this fall in a
diversity survey. The instrument is being developed with plans
to send it to all employees in November. Aside from serving as
an educational and awareness-raising tool, this survey also will
help us target issues and groups for further educational efforts.
--Patricia Steele, Acting Dean
4. VICTORIAN WOMEN WRITERS PROJECT
The Victorian Women Writers Project is a collection of electronic
texts by British women writers of the late Victorian period, and
is now available over the World Wide Web at <URL http://www.
indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>. An IU undergraduate student, Felix
Jung, has created 9 electronic editions that currently comprise
the collection. The project has expanded, with the support of
LETRS, to include 5 more graduate students, with plans to create
many more etexts in the future. Perry Willett is the general
editor of the collection, with Donald Gray of the English
department as the editorial advisor and Dick Ellis of LETRS as
the technical advisor. Many thanks to Gail LaMoreaux-McElhany
for her graphic designs, to Dick Ellis of LETRS and Pete Percival
of UCS for their technical assistance, and to Kenny Crews of
IUPUI for assistance in drafting the copyright statement.
5. JEROME J. MCGANN NAMED IU PATTEN LECTURER
IUB Libraries welcomes IU Patten Foundation Lecturer Jerome J.
McGann, the John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the
University of Virginia. A leading scholar-critic of English
Romanticism and a renowned researcher in humanities computing,
McGann will give a public lecture on electronic texts titled:
"Radiant Textuality. Humanities Scholarship in the
Digital Dawn," on Monday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Whittenberger
Auditorium, IMU.
McGann will give a second lecture on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m., in Rawles Hall 100, titled: "Sentimental Poetics. The Forgotten Revolution." Both lectures are free and open to the public.
Since 1937, the IU Patten Foundation has sponsored more than 130 internationally acclaimed scholars to enrich the university's intellectual life. Selected by a campus-wide faculty committee, Patten Lecturers are chosen, in part, for their ability to convey the significance of their work to a general audience. McGann's nomination was co-sponsored by the IU Library and the English department.
Kenneth Johnston, Chair of the IU Department of English, notes that McGann's remarkable academic career spans a number of intellectual interests. In addition to being a leading authority on Romantic literature, he is a textual editor and scholar, a Victorianist, scholar and composer of post-modernist poetry, and, most recently, a pioneer in the uses of computer technologies in the study of the humanities.
In his letter nominating McGann for Patten Lecturer, IUB Librarian Perry Willett, Subject Specialist for English and American Literature, states that McGann has become a leader in the field of electronic texts and publishing, notably for his World Wide Web-based critical edition of the works of Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). The hypermedia research archive, featuring reproductions of Rossetti's paintings and writings, is available on the World Wide Web at: http://jefferson.village.virginia. edu/rossetti/rossetti.html.
Another of McGann's projects, British Poetry, 1780-1910: An Archive of Scholarly Editions, is also available on the Word Wide Web at: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/britpo/britpo.html.
Willett notes that McGann "has advanced the scholarly utility of the Internet greatly with these projects, and has put forward a vision of electronic communication and publishing that is at once commendable in its scholarly rigor, and breathtaking in its use of new technologies for humanities research. His work is not only an innovation in textual theory and text management, but an innovation in how literature is studied."
As an expert producer and user of electronic texts, McGann will meet with the directors of IU's Library Electronic Texts Resource Services center and other Big 10 administrators of academic electronic services on Tuesday, Oct. 10, to discuss what specialized researchers and educators like himself want to do with electronic texts, and how electronic text centers and networks can provide support.
--Lisa Champelli (lchampel@indiana.edu) 812-855-9294
6. NORTH AMERICAN CATALAN SOCIETY ESTABLISHES ARCHIVE AT IU
In honor of Josep Roca-Pons, IU Professor Emeritus of Spanish,
the North American Catalan Society (NACS) has established a
national archive for Catalan materials at IUB Libraries. Named
the "Arxiu Josep Roca-Pons," the archive was formally dedicated
on Tuesday, Oct. 3rd, during the annual meeting of the Society,
held on the IU Bloomington campus.
A group of scholars from the United States and Canada, NACS members are interested in all aspects of Catalan culture, says IU Professor Josep Miquel Sobrer, Chair of the Spanish and Portuguese department and vice president of NACS. Catalan culture embodies any manifestation of work in areas where Catalan is spoken, he explains. These areas include autonomous communities in Spain, such as Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands.
The archive will serve as a central collection point for a variety of materials pertaining to Catalan culture, including books, journals, manuscripts and correspondence. Contributions to the archive will come from Spain, Canada, Mexico, and possibly South American exile communities, as well as from sources in the United States, according to Patricia J. Boehne, a professor at Eastern College in Pennsylvania and president of NACS. Boehne expects the Generalitat, the autonomous government of Catalonia, may also provide special materials and support.
"With the help of donations to the archive," says IUB Librarian Nancy Boerner, Subject Specialist for Modern European Languages, "we anticipate that, in time, IU will become a -- if not the -- preeminent location for research in this area."
An IU alumna and student of Roca-Pons, Boehne initiated the idea for creating the Catalan archive at IU in honor of her former professor. "My colleagues and I, many of whom studied at IU under Prof. Roca-Pons, find the prospect of making Indiana the American center for Catalan research very exciting," wrote Boehne in a letter to Boerner.
Regarded by many as the "Dean of Catalan studies in the United States," Josep Roca-Pons taught Spanish language and linguistics, and Catalan language, linguistics, and literature at IU until he retired in 1981. He is the author of "Introduccion a la gramatica" and of "Introduction to Catalan Literature" among other publications. After his retirement from IU he was honored by the Generalitat with the "Creu de Sant Jordi" (St. Georges' Cross), the highest recognition of merit given in the country. He was also elected as a regular member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, or Catalan Academy.
"In recognition of Prof. Roca-Pons academic and civic stature, and in appreciation of the fact that he was one of the founding members of NACS as well as one of its early Presidents (and now President emeritus), the Archives of the NACS gratefully acknowledges him," says Sobrer.
--Lisa Champelli (lchampel@indiana.edu) 812-855-9294
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