IUL News for October 2, 1995, Volume 22, Number 39

Effective September 25 Frances Juergensmeyer accepted the position of Dissertation Conversion Specialist in IOCM. Before accepting this position, Fran worked as an hourly employee in MPS and IOCM. She received her MLS from I.U.

Effective September 23 Joy Riley resigned her position as Senior Circulation Assistant in the Business/SPEA Library.

2. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES AND SERVICES DEPT.

The Electronic Resources and Services Department welcomes Jian Liu, Reference Librarian at IUB Libraries, who has agreed to devote half his time to a special project to provide additional expertise and support for centralized IUB Libraries WWW resources and services. Jian will work with Gail LaMoreaux-McElhany in the Electronic Resources and Services Dept.. to provide the IUB Libraries WWW Design Committee, chaired by Gwen Pershing, with ongoing support for the design and further development of centralized Library WWW services. Jian will continue to report to and work in the Reference Department for the other half of his appointment until this special project assignment ends on June 30, 1996. We are very happy to welcome Jian's expertise and energy to this important library initiative.

--Julie Bobay, Head, Electronic Resources and Services Dept.

3. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

October Classes Offered by HRM:
Managing for Better Customer Service, October 4, 9:00-noon
Supervising Student Employees, October 10, 9:00-noon
Creating a Motivating Environment, October 16, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Handling Difficult Customers, October 16, 9:00-noon
Upward Communication, October 23, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
The Confidence Factor, October 31, 9:00-noon
Personal Empowerment, October 12, 9:00-noon
Stress Management, October 30, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Problem Solving, October 31, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

The above classes are a partial listing. For a complete list of classes offered this fall by HRM trainers and for more information about classes, consult the Training and Development Guide circulating in your department or contact Marilyn Shaver (SHAVER).

Special offerings from HRM:

Supervisors' Seminar--Designed to improve essential skills and to develop new competencies. Participants who complete this series of six core classes and four electives receive a Supervisory Development Certificate.

Professional Training Series--Designed to assist professional staff hone their skills and to network with other professional staff on campus. A certificate is awarded for completion of this program.

For more information about these programs, contact Marilyn Shaver (SHAVER).

4. ANNUAL REPORTS

The IUB Libraries Annual Reports for 1994/95 are now available on the Web. You can access the reports by pointing your browser to:

Library Behind the Scenes home page URL(http/www.indiana.edu/~libweb/behind.html)
Library Administration home page URL(http/www.indiana.edu/~libadmin)

If you have any questions or comments regarding the Annual Reports page, please contact me email(ycooperb) or call 855-3403.

--Yolanda Cooper-Birdine

5. NOTE FROM PRESERVATION

The following notice appeared in the Fall 1995 Heckman Bindery customer newsletter:

Detection Strips

"Security strips placed in periodical issues prior to binding could cause injury to our operators or damage to our equipment during processing. Double stick security strips may cause pages to stick together.

"If a security strip MUST be placed in an unbound issue prior to binding, it should be placed between the next-to-the-last and last pages of the issue. They should also be placed in from the binding edge as far as possible (at least 3/8").

"Another problem is that damage to pages often occurs when detection strips are removed. This requires repair....It is the responsibility of the library to remove the strips prior to binding. By doing so, extra-time charges [for repairs] can be eliminated."

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions concerning placing security strips in periodical issues or paperback books being sent to Heckman for binding.

--Lorraine Olley, Head, Preservation Department, olley@indiana.edu

6. NEW APPROVAL PLAN-SOCIAL SCIENCES/HUMANITIES PLAN

Over the summmer, 5 Bloomington Fund Managers have been completing the profiling to begin an approval plan to cover the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The Fund Managers engaged in this new plan are: Judy Dye, Bob Goehlert, Steven Sowell, Frances Wilhoit, and Perry Willett. This new plan covers major trade publishers in the subject areas of each Fund Manager. CIP data will be exported to IUCAT as soon as the vendor, Academic Book Center, notifies us to expect a specific book on the plan. The actual start up of the plan took place on September 15, 1995. If other fund managers are interested in participating in the new Social Sciences/Humanities plan, please contact Barbara Henn or David Smith, Monographic Processing Services.

--Barbara Henn, MPS

7. NEH HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT

The deadline for proposals for the NEH humanities endowment for the current fiscal year is Friday, October 27th, 1995. Each proposal should include full bibliographic information on the item requested, the price and the source of that price, and a brief description of the item and a justification of the request. The Committee has traditionally given priority to expensive items which are difficult to purchase with regular materials funds.

The Humanities as defined by the NEH endowment are: African Studies, Afro-American studies, Arts Administration, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, English, Fine Arts, Folklore, French and Italian, Germanic Studies, History, History and Philosophy of Science, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Music, Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Slavics, Spanish and Portuguese, Speech Communication, Theatre and Drama, Central Eurasian, West European Studies, Film Studies, and Women's Studies. Other areas may be considered if a persuasive justification can link the requested item to the Humanities.

Please send the proposal to Lynn Smith in Library Administration, Library C-2.

8. ILF DISTRICT FIVE MEETING

You are cordially invited to attend Changing Libraries in a Changing World, the 1995 Annual Conference sponsored by District 5 of the Indiana Library Federation. This one day event will take place on Thursday, October 19, 1995 at the Fourwinds Resort, Lake Monroe. The program consists of registration and coffee followed by a keynote address by Frank McCloskey, former Indiana Representative, 8th Congressional District, and three segments of concurrent sessions. Topics include Subject Cataloging and the Internet, Nontraditional Career Options for Librarians, Creating New Positions in Times of Budget Reductions, Conducting More Effective Meetings, The Continuing Saga of SLIS, and Support Staff in the Current and Future Climate. Registration is $25 for ILF members and $32 for nonmembers and includes lunch by Lake Monroe (weather permitting). The deadline for pre-registration is October 13th. Onsite registration will be available, but will not include lunch. For a complete program schedule and registration information please contact: Andrea Singer, Chair, ILF District 5, e-mail: singer@indiana.edu, or call 855-3725.

9. IUL RESEARCH LEAVES AND GRANTS COMMITTEE REPORT

August 16, 1994 - August 15, 1995

The committee used e-mail to discuss and comment upon each proposal and request. This eliminated the need to schedule meetings and allowed us to work around our separate schedules. We recommend that this methodology for considering proposals be continued. Meetings should be scheduled when there are requests which require extensive discussion, but those seem to be the exception rather than the norm.

The committee recommended awarding four research leaves and fifteen support grant requests for a total of $9,213.00. A brief list of the successful proposals and requests appear below. We were impressed with the broad range of interests of the library faculty and strongly recommend the continuance of this program.

One area of this program needs attention. The stipulation that the librarian provide a brief report is mentioned in each award letter. However, few reports are received by the committee and there is no mechanism for the committee to be informed if a report was filed with the Dean's Office, the Budget Officer, or the Personnel Officer. We recommend that the Personnel Officer should receive and maintain the files of these reports and make the information available to future committee members.

This year's committee discovered that it received files of requests dating to 1991. It was not clear if these files were the official archive or merely committee working copies. We recommend that the Personnel Officer should keep the official archival file of the Research Leave Proposals, the Support Grant Requests, and the award decisions. Each future committee Chair should turn over the year's official documents to the Personnel Officer.

Research Leaves and Support Grants, 8/16/94 - 8/15/95

Roger Beckman - Grant to partially fund housing while visiting the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center to study the Cambridge Structural Database.

Julie Bobay - Support grant to cover travel expenses to EDUCOM to lead a session on "Women's Ways of Knowing and Information Technology on Campus: Feminist Perspectives on Communication and Relationships in Higher Education Organizations."

Bill Cagle - Research leave to complete work on the manuscript of a bibliographic catalog of gastronomic literature published in the United States from the 18th century to 1950.

Judy Dye - Grant to partially fund the costs for a workshop on "Imaging in Libraries."

Elizabeth Hanson - Leave to continue her research on the Carnegie Libraries of Scotland.

Elizabeth Hanson - Support grant to partially fund travel to the Scottish Records Office in Edinburgh and to other archival collections throughout Scotland.

Betty Jo Irvine - Research leave to participate in a team effort to compile and annotate bibliographic information for a supplementary volume to the Guide to the Literature of Art History by E. Arntzen and R. Rainwater.

Elizabeth Johnson - Grant to support travel to the "Childhood Re-Collected" conference sponsored by the Provincial Bookseller Fairs Association in Oxford, England.

Lou Malcomb - Research grant to support scanning the volumes Indiana University Graduates and Degrees from 1830 through 1930 and Indiana University Graduates and Degrees from 1931 through 1935 in order to create a searchable list.

Anne McGreer - Grant to support attendance at a workshop, "Technical Services Workstations 1995: The State of the Art of Cataloging."

Julie Nilson - Support grant to partially fund attendance at the Feather River Institute, "Controversies and Debates in Acquisitions."

Taemin Park - Support grant to partially fund the costs of presenting the paper, "Comparing Exchange Value with Value-In-Use in Academic and Public Libraries," at the American Society for Information Science meeting in Alexandria, Virginia.

Jean Poland - Support grant to cover registration and housing for the continuing education course, "CD-ROM Local and Wide-Area Networking" in Montreal.

Mary Popp - Research leave to complete work on the editing and preparation for publication by the American Library Association of a handbook for the working librarian about printed library instructional materials.

Mary Strow - Support grant for travel to Mexico City to participate as a discussion leader and committee co-chair in the 2nd General Assembly of the Americas of the World Dance Alliance.

Sylvia Turchyn - Research grant to continue work on the development of "CatMASTER: An Interactive Training Program for Descriptive Cataloging."

Gary Wiggins - Grant to partially support the costs of presenting a paper, "Internet Resource Discovery Tools and Services for Chemistry," at the International Online Information Meeting in London.

Gary Wiggins - Grant to partially fund costs of presenting "An Overview of Chemistry Resources on the Internet," "Chemical Information Careers: Qualifications and Compensation," and "Caught in a Crossfire: Academic Libraries and Beilstein" at the Fall meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Perry Willett - Support grant to partially cover expenses for participation in ghe Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) "Metaworkshop" for potential TEI consultants and trainers.

--Julie Nilson (Chair), Nels Gunderson, Ralph Gaebler

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 01 (African Studies)
-AFRICA CALLS WORLDWIDE
-AFRICA INSIDER
-AFRICAN PROFILES INTERNATIONAL
-ETHIOPIAN HERALD
-FACTS AND REPORTS
-MAGHREB REVIEW
-POST (LUSAKA, ZAMBIA)
 
Fund 09 (East Asian Studies)
-ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERIES (HITOTSUBASHI DAIGAKU. KEIZAI KENKYUJO)
 
Fund 79 (Criminal Justice)
-AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE
-CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
-FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

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