To register, please contact Marilyn Shaver (SHAVER).
5. IU LIBRARIANS DAY APRIL 19, 1996
Please keep Friday, April 19th open on your calendar for IU Librarians Day. The meeting will be held at the IU Kokomo Library. The featured session of the program will be on the Horizon Project. This session will include updates on the project and discussion on such issues as preparing staff and users for the change in systems and generating an implementation plan. In addition, there are plans to have work stations available to enable participants to review various aspects of the test system. Other session topics include: issues involved in the Promotion and Tenure process, particularly in light of new developments; advantages and challenges in establishing Job Sharing/Exchange programs; discussion of the skills, behaviors and values which are most critical in today's libraries; and two sessions - one on Special Collections and another on Preservation Management - which are designed to bring together librarians with similar interests and skills to discuss the current status and future needs of these programs in the IU system. All of the sessions in this year's Librarians Day program are designed to promote discussion and interaction. Sessions will be lead by one or more facilitators whose responsibilities will be to frame the issues and to lead the discussion.
A complete program and registration form will be forwarded soon to all IU Librarians. If anyone has suggestions or ideas regarding the program, please contact: Philip Bantin, University Archives, 201 Bryan Hall, Bloomington; (812) 855-5897; BANTIN@hamlet.indiana.edu.
6. IU LIBRARIES RESOURCE CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES SERVES A RANGE OF STUDENT NEEDS
Tucked away in a corner of the IUB Undergraduate Library,the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities (RCPD) provides a welcoming environment for students with special research, study and communication needs. During March, the RCPD will help promote Disabilities Awareness Month in Indiana by distributing bookmarks produced by the Indiana Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities at the reference desk in the Undergraduate Library.
Established in the mid-1960s, the RCPD initially was designed to serve people with visual impairments, says Ann Minde, IUB Librarian and coordinator of the RCPD. "We started with a Braille bible and a few tape recorders." The center now owns two IBM computers with adaptive technology and software, including large screen monitors and text enlargers for easier reading of entries in IUCAT, the library's computerized catalog, and various other database programs. Laptop computers with text enlarging and other adaptive capabilities may be checked out to authorized users.
Other available equipment includes: a Braille printer and typewriter, a Visual-Tek text enlarger, a Kurzweil Reading Edge scanner which reads books and other materials in six different voices to help distinguish changes in text, variable speed tape players, text scanners, talking calculators and three sound-proof study booths. The Undergraduate Library also provides access to a TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) telephone.
"The booths get real heavy use by people who need to listen to tape recorded material, and by people who are tape recording reading materials for students," Minde says. Although people with visual impairments are still the center's main users, the booths also serve people with attention deficit disorder and other learning disabilities who need a quiet, isolated place to study.
Users of the RCPD are requested to have registered with the Dean of Student's Office of Disabled Student Services, in Franklin Hall 096, (812) 855-7578. Minde notes that the center currently serves about 8-10 regular users, out of about 230 students who are registered with the ODSS. The center also assists faculty members and has helped produce Braille programs for the IU Auditorium and Brown County Theater. But, Minde says, "Students with disabilities always come first."
A year ago, the RCPD developed its own Web site http://www.indiana.edu/~libugls/rcpd_home.html listing general information about the Center, including available equipment, Braille services, and other IUB Library services for people with disabilities. The Web site also lists local community and Internet resources for persons with disabilities.
"Surfing the Web has helped people with disabilities become less afraid to use our resources," observes Minde. She explains that the Web provides a means for people to review information at their own pace and become familiar with available resources before coming into the center. "The Web promotes independence by helping you find information without having to ask someone questions."
Minde encourages anyone who would like personal assistance in using RCPD resources, or to request special materials, to make an appointment with her by calling (812)855-9857 (TDD:(812)855-9850) or e-mail: LIBUGLS@indiana.edu. Otherwise, the RCPD is open the same hours as the Main Library: 8-Midnight, Monday through Thursday, 8-9 on Friday, 10-9 on Saturday and 11-Midnight on Sunday.
--Lisa Champelli, Library Administration PR assistant
7. CRL HOMEPAGE ACCESS TO FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
CRL announced a significant development in the September 1995-February 1996 issue of FOCUS:
"The Center's Foreign Newspaper Project is a bibliographic access project funded by the U.S. Department of Education Higher education Act Title II-C through March 1996. In addition to cataloging over 5,800 newspaper titles, the project has established a web page to increase title and geographic access to the Center's foreign newspaper holdings. The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the project is:
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/~paper/Foreign_newspapers.html
From this homepage (which is under construction), it is possible to access lists of foreign newspapers held by the Center; newspapers currently received; currently filmed; and newspapers held by the five Center-administered area studies microform projects: the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP), the Latin American Microform Project (LAMP), the Middle east Microform Project (MEMP), the South Asia Microform Project (AMSP), and the Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM)."
--Odette Shepherd, Head, Serials Department
8. INULA NOTES GOES ELECTRONIC
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the first electronic issue of InULA Notes is published on the WWW. The url is: http://www.indiana.edu/~inula/notes
This issue concentrates on Government Information in IU Libraries. Thanks go to Lou Malcomb for her coordination. You are welcome to participate the online discussion forum related to the issue. Our next issue will be on professional development. Please read the call for papers and consider contributing your ideas and papers.
There is also a little online survey, just for fun. :-)
Please send your comments/suggestions/questions to inula@www.indiana.edu
--Jian Liu, Chair, InULA Communications Committee
The "Behind the Scenes" home page at http://www.indiana.edu/~libweb/behind.html is undergoing some revisions and will soon be linked to the IUB Libraries home page.
I would like to remind new information providers to review the "Standards and Guidelines for Information Providers" as they develop home pages for their units and departments. That address is: http://www.indiana.edu/~libcbrst/standard.html.
--Gwen Pershing, Chair, WWW Design Committee
10. SERIALS CANCELLATION REQUESTS
The following serials cancellation requests have been received.
The titles below are the last copies in the IUB Libraries. Fund managers who wish to assume any of the titles should contact Laura Gabbard, Serials Department (855-4262 or lscurtis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu), within 2 weeks following the date of this newsletter.
Fund 13 (Biology) -ADVANCES IN ANATOMY, EMBRYOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY -ARCHIV FUR HYDROBIOLOGIE. SUPPLEMENT-BAND -BIOMATHEMATICS -BOLLETTINO DI ZOOLOGIA -B.S.B.I. CONFERENCE REPORTS -CANADIAN FEDERATION OF BIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. MEETING. PROGRAMME, PROCEEDINGS -CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH -CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH -DEUTSCHE ZOOLOGISCHE GESELLSCHAFT. VERHANDLUNGEN DER DEUTSCHEN ZOOLOGISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT -DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION -EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY -FLORA DE VERACRUZ -FLORA NEOTROPICA -FLORA OF ECUADOR -FORTSCHRITTE DER PFLANZENZUCHTUNG -GREAT BASIN NATURALIST MEMOIRS -HANDBUCH DER PFLANZENANATOMIE (1956) -INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LIMNOLOGY. MITTEILUNGEN -INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LIMNOLOGY. VERHANDLUNGEN DER INTERNATIONALEN VEREINIGUNG FUR THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE LIMNOLOGIE -JAPANESE JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE & BIOLOGY -NATO ASI SERIES. SERIES A, LIFE SCIENCES -NODA SANGYO KAGAKU KENKYUJO. REPORT OF THE NODA INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH -RECENT PROGRESS IN HORMONE RESEARCH -SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. SYMPOSIUM.-SVENSK BOTANISK TIDSKRIFT -SYMBOLAE BOTANICAE UPSALIENSES Fund 65 (Linguistics) -AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE (which includes SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS. PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS) -APPROACHES TO SEMIOTICS (which includes SEMIOTIC WEB) -CARTE SEMIOTICHE -ETC. -KODIKAS -LEXICA SOCIETATIS FENNO-UGRICAE -MUNCHENER STUDIEN ZUR SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT -S (VIENNA, AUSTRIA) -SEMIOSIS -TRAVAUX DE L'INSTITUT DE LINGUISTIQUE DE LUND -TRAVAUX DU CERCLE LINGUISTIQUE DE COPENHAGUE -VERSUS (MILAN, ITALY) Fund 74 (Medical Sciences) -RECENT PROGRESS IN HORMONE RESEARCH Fund 75 (Philosophy) -CORPUS (PARIS, FRANCE) -FREIBURGER ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHILOSOPHIE UND THEOLOGIE -GREGORIANUM -HERMATHENA -JOURNAL DES SAVANTS -NEW VICO STUDIES -NOUVELLES DE LA REPUBLIQUE DES LETTRES (NAPLES, ITALY) -PHAENOMENOLOGICA -PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA -QUELLEN UND STUDIEN ZUR PHILOSOPHIE -REVIEW OF EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY -RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA -STUDIA LULLIANA -THEOLOGIE UND PHILOSOPHIE Fund 80 (Library Tools) -AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH ACADEMIC BOOKS -AVERAGE PRICES OF USA ACADEMIC BOOKS -CANADIANA AUTHORITIES MICROFORM -COLE'S REGISTER OF BRITISH ANTIQUARIAN & SECONDHAND BOOKDEALERS -GUIDE TO MICROFORMS IN PRINT. SUPPLEMENT -NATIONAL INFORMATION STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (U.S.) (which includes INFORMATION STANDARDS QUARTERLY)
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