Co-Hosts Charles Davis and Nancy Lair

Monina's association with IU began with her master's degree in 1958. She returned for doctoral studies, then, after teaching at the University of Hawaii, realized the importance of basketball in her life and returned to IU as an associate professor in 1976.

Dr. Abrera has been a leader in the School in her area of expertise, the organization of knowledge: indexing, cataloging, and classification. Generations of SLIS students have appreciated her energy and innovation in teaching and her dedication to students.

--Debora Shaw, SLIS Associate Dean

5. TOUR THE FACILITIES OF THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

The IUL Faculty/Staff Development Committee is pleased to announce the next in its continuing series of library tours. Did we say LIBRARY tour? Well not really . . .

On Tuesday, April 30th, at 4:00, we will meet at the offices of the Indiana University Press (601 N. Morton - the northwest corner of 10th & Morton) to tour the facilities of the IU Press. Founded in 1950, the IU Press is the 6th largest University Press in the nation (1st in the Big 10). Publishing in such diverse topics as African Studies to Science & Technology, the IU Press is recognized worldwide as a premier publisher of scholarly monographs and journals. As library employees we often forget that books and journals have a life of their own prior to their arrival in the library. Here is your chance to learn a little about that other life.

We've scheduled the tour for late in the afternoon so you can simply drive over to the Press and then leave for home after the tour (IU sticker parking is available the east side of Morton, between 9th & 10th St.) Of course, feel free to set up car pooling with your colleagues or to walk over.

If you're interested in the tour, please complete the form below and return it to Dick Vaughan (RVAUGHAN) at the IU Law Library.

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IU Press Tour
April 30th, 4:00 PM

NAME:
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LIBRARY/DEPT.:
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Return (by April 29th) to:

6. JENKINS AWARD WINNERS FOR 1996...

Nancy C. Cridland and Barbara B. Fischler have been chosen as the 1996 recipients of the William Evans Jenkins Award which recognizes outstanding contributions to the Indiana University Libraries and the library profession. Both of these librarians have had long and distinguished careers at Indiana University.

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Nancy C. Cridland began working in the Indiana University Libraries in 1967 as the History/American Studies Subject Specialist. Her nomination noted that in the ensuing years, she "has made more contributions, of a more lasting nature to the IU Libraries than any other librarian with whom we have had the pleasure of working." These contributions include sustained work in building major collections, several stints as Collection Development Officer in both official and informal service roles, local and national service in history and librarianship, and major contributions to library and campus governance.

Nancy's contributions are best characterized by those who attempted to define and describe her work, her special role within the libraries, and her importance to teaching and research at Indiana University.

"By her creative use of resources, her attentiveness to the role she can play for historians (from undergraduate majors to the most senior member of the faculty), and her constant thoughtfulness and care for a very large group of undergraduates, Nancy Cridland has made Indiana University Bloomington Libraries a rich resource for every historian and budding historian on this campus."

"...we always have every candidate for a faculty position visit with Nancy Cridland. They all come away from that meeting with appreciation not only for the Library itself, but with a very good sense of how important [she] can be to their research and teaching. She is, in this way, one of our best faculty recruiters."

"Nancy's resume, which in a page and a half lists the major activities on the local and national level, gives just a glimpse of the challenges that many of these assignments posed -- nothing of what they required in the way of tact, diplomacy, perseverance; nothing of their importance in shaping the direction of the library. If a committee looked to be a political minefield that needed particular good sense, integrity, and diplomatic skills, Nancy was inevitably asked to serve ... We, her colleagues, trusted her sense of fair play and knew that somehow she could work with others to arrive at reasonable solutions..."

"Perhaps ... it shouldn't matter that Nancy Cridland is such a wonderful person, but I hope it will. That she combines such human qualities with such professional excellence represents the very best of traditions at Indiana University."

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Barbara B. Fischler began working in the Indiana University Libraries in 1958 as an Assistant Reference Librarian. Between 1961 and the end of her Bloomington "career" in 1963 she was instrumental in establishing the new Undergraduate Library. After several years abroad, she returned in 1970 to the Indiana University Libraries as Circulation Librarian at IUPUI. In 1976, she became the Public Services Librarian for the Library-Science, Engineering and Technology Unit at IUPUI. She became Acting Director of the IUPUI University Libraries in 1981 and Director in 1982. In 1995 she was named the Director of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

Barbara's contributions are characterized by the foresight she demonstrated throughout her career, the energies she brought to the introduction and development of new concepts in library services, and her passion for library education. She had a central role in the establishment of the original Undergraduate Library on the Bloomington campus at a time when undergraduate libraries were not the norm. Her collection development instincts in the early 1960s focused on the significance that Africa, Eastern Europe, and the USSR would have for scholars in international studies programs. The extraordinary collections in these areas that surfaced in the Undergraduate Library were often noted by the Area Studies Librarians who joined the libraries after Barbara left. She was an early advocate of providing interlibrary loan services to undergraduates. At IUPUI, she promoted the formal extension of library science education to the Indianapolis campus and was instrumental in developing permanent facilities and programs. Finally, she designed and built one of the most technologically advanced academic libraries in the country.

Some small sense of her many achievements can be gained from the words of her colleagues as they wrote in support of her nomination.

"I have not only had the pleasure of knowing and working with Barbara as a colleague, but as an undergraduate student library assistant working first in the main library and then in the undergraduate library. ... Barbara was most influential in my decision to become a librarian ..."

"I can think of no librarian with whom I worked at Indiana University who has contributed as much to the Indiana University Libraries over so long a period of time as Barbara Fischler."

"... I am certain that much of its [the new library's] success is due to Barbara's continuing commitment to quality service and her willingness to nurture and encourage innovation."

"This program [SLIS] has served well the Indianapolis community and made it possible for many students to continue library courses."

"Barbara is the only librarian I have known who has provided leadership and innovation on more than one Indiana University campus ..."

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--Julie Nilson, Chair, Jenkins Award Committee

7. IOLUG/IASIS SPRING MEETING

Speakers:
Lori Fena, Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation Jill Lesser, Director of the Civic Media Project, People for the American Way, Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science

Schedule of events:
8:30 am - 09:30 am      Registration
9:45 am - 10:45 am      Lori Fena, Electronic Frontier Foundation
                        	The impact of Communications Decency Act,
 			internet censorship and community standards.
11:00 am - Noon         Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University SLIS
Noon -    1:00 pm           Buffet-style Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm       IASIS Business Meeting
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm       Jill Lesser, People for the American Way.
                        	The history of the 1996 Telecommunications
                                Act and the general impact of the law upon 
				libraries, educational institutions, and the
				American public.				 
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm       Speakers Panel

Cost:
        IASIS and IOLUG Members:        $20.00
        Nonmembers:                     $25.00

Registration:
Mail the completed form and a check made out to IOLUG for the appropriate 
amount by May 1st to: Julie Fore
			IOLUG/IASIS Spring Meeting
			5264 E. 10th Street
			Indianapolis, IN 46219

Electronic Frontier Foundation
(URL http://www.eff.org)

People For the American Way
(URL http://gemini.exmachina.com/pfaw.html)

Indiana University School of Library and Information Science

(URL http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu)

IASIS
(URL http://www.hanover.edu/Library/IOLUG)

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IOLUG/IASIS Spring Program Registration Form:

Name:
E-mail Address
Organization/Address:
Phone Number:
Amount Enclosed: $20 IOLUG Member, $20 IASIS Member, $25 Nonmember.
Receipt: Yes No

--Julie A. Fore, Assistant Automation Librarian, President-elect, IASIS

8. 1996 LAZEROW LECTURE ANNOUNCED

Indiana University School of Library and Information Science announces the 1996 Samuel Lazerow Lecture "What Kind of Digital Shift?: Theorizing the Transitions from Paper Media to Electronic Publishing and Digital Libraries," presented by Rob Kling, Professor, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Rob Kling, an internationally recognized scholar in information systems and information technology and social change, will join the SLIS faculty as professor of information science and information systems in August, 1996. "Digital Shift" will report findings from a study of digital library use in support of scholarly communication in eight U.S. research universities. These results suggest that in spite of rapid growth of electronic information exchange, the prevailing perception among scholars and administrators is that transition to digital media has been incremental rather than revolutionary. Kling will explore both the theoretical bases and implications of this perception.

Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information established the Samuel Lazerow Lecture Series in 1983 to honor the memory of Lazerow, a librarian, administrator, and pioneer in library automation.

--Susan Schlag

9. SUMMER INTERNET WORKSHOP

Limited space is still available in the second of two Internet workshops being offered by Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and School of Continuing Studies. Section II of "Implementing and Managing the Internet in Organizations" is scheduled to be offered via interactive distance technology on June 3, 10, and July 1, 1996, from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m. This workshop provides information professionals and others with an overview of the key management issues associated with the Internet at the organizational level.

The course will originate in Bloomington and be available via interactive video at all IU campuses and additional locations around the state. The workshop cost is $95.

For information, contact Carol Kegeris, School of Continuing Studies, at (317) 274-4178 (ckegeris@indycms.iupui.edu)

Information is also available on the World Wide Web: http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/News/CE-imp.html

--Susan Schlag

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 10 (Mid East Studies)
-JOURNAL (JAMI'AT AL-MALIK 'ABD AL-'AZIZ. MA'HAD SHU'UN AL-AQALLIYAT
   AL-MUSLIMAH)
-JUSUR (LOS ANGELES, CALIF.)
-PERIODICA ISLAMICA

Fund 22 (Computer Science)
-ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. SUPPLEMENT

Fund 61 (Journalism)
-I-WAYS
-ZONE VI NEWSLETTER

Fund 63 (Library Science)
-BRITISH LIBRARY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT REPORTS 
-MONOGRAPHIC SUPPLEMENT ... TO THE SERIALS LIBRARIAN
-NFAIS YEARBOOK OF THE INFORMATION INDUSTRY
-PUBLIC-ACCESS COMPUTER SYSTEMS REVIEW (PRINT ED.)
-SUBJECT GUIDE TO BOOKS IN PRINT

Fund 64 (Latin American Studies)
-REVISTA PERUANA DE ANDINISMO Y GLACIOLOGIA

Fund 95 (Speech Communication)
-PENNSYLVANIA SPEECH COMMUNICATION ANNUAL

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