Effective August 1 Steven Sowell accepted the position of Head of the Education Library. Prior to accepting this position Steven was Head of the Biology Library.
Effective August 14 Hillary Byrn has accepted the position of Assistant Stacks Supervisor in Access Services. Currently Hillary is Assistant Circulation Supervisor in Access Services.
Effective August 14 Laura Gabbard has accepted the position of Serials Procurement Specialist in Serials. Laura is presently Branch Coordinator in the Medical Sciences Library.
Effective August 15 Peggy Houston returns from leave. Peggy was at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas in Austin where she took classes to obtain an Advanced Certificate in Preservation Administration.
Effective July 26 April Purcell resigned her position as Office Coordinator for SALC.
Effective July 28 Nancy Quirk resigned her position as Acquisitions Coordinator in MPS.
Effective August 4 Patrice Tiedemann accepted the position as Senior Collections Management Assistant in Serials. Patrice has been a student assistant in the Serials department since August of 1993. She has a Bachelor's degree in Music Education and is currently working on her Master's degree in Voice Performance.
Effective July 14 Randal Tucker accepted the position as Senior Circulation Assistant in the Music Library. Prior to accepting this position, Randal was an Associate Instructor in Music History in the Department of Musicology. He has a Master of Arts in Musicology and a Bachelor of Music in Applied Music.
2. STATISTICS
All forms sent out in the spring and summer to collect data for
the IU Libraries Annual Statistical Report should be sent to
Library Administration by August 15, 1995. Reports should be
mailed to C-2 Main Library, Bloomington. If you have any
questions regarding the statistics forms, please contact Yolanda
Cooper-Birdine, e-mail: ycooperb, or call: 855-3403. Thank you!
3. LEGISLATIVE LISTSERVES
Andrea Morrison, Government Publications, has agreed to monitor
legislative listserves for news with implications for libraries.
I am pleased that Andrea is willing to accept this responsibility
from Sally Rausch. Thanks to Andrea for this service.
--Pat Steele, Acting Dean
4. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES AND SERVICES DEPARTMENT
The Electronic Resources and Services Department is charged to
provide support for the development, service, access, and
training elements of the increasingly complex electronic
environment of digital and networked information. The work of
ERSD is meant to keep critical electronic initiatives from
"falling between the cracks" of traditional library departments
by fostering communication, providing training, creating and
maintaining central services, and sharing information and
knowledge with librarians and staff whose collective knowledge
and expertise about library collections, services and research
needs of the scholarly community is critical for success in
electronic initiatives.
The members of the department, (Julie Bobay (head,) Gail LaMoreaux-McElhany, Mary Popp, and Carolyn Sherayko,) will be working with appropriate groups in the IUB Libraries to design and implement central services related to networked information and to help integrate new technologies into existing services and procedures. The members of the new department, in consultation with Pat Steele, have been working to define responsibilities. We will plan open discussions to gather input and feedback on what IUB Libraries' faculty and staff who are affected by our activities feel would be useful in their daily operations.
Proposed areas of responsibility for ERSD:
Library Instruction
World Wide Web/Gopher
Electronic Database Subscriptions
Electronic Journals and Electronic Texts
Librarian/staff training
Distance Education
--Julie Bobay, Head, Electronic Resources and Services
5. STEVEN SOWELL APPOINTED PROJECT LEADER OF SCRIPT: SOCIAL
SCIENCES RESEARCH INFORMATION PATHWAY
We are pleased that Steven Sowell has agreed to be Project Leader
for the "SCRIPT" project during the next year. With funds from a
grant from RUGS (Research and University Graduate School,)
librarians and staff in the IUB Libraries will test and deliver
resources and support for social science scholars. SCRIPT is
envisioned as a virtual" library pathway, an access and
information point to help researchers deal with the multiplicity
of resources available. Rather than a physical center within the
Main Library such as LETRS, SCRIPT will be a virtual center, with
electronic, print and microform elements services through various
points around the Bloomington Libraries and beyond.
The IUB Libraries will use grant funds to purchase equipment and software to test and develop services deemed critical for social scientists. The grant proposal includes funding for equipment and software to test and develop products in a number of areas, including common user interfaces for social science data, World Wide Web applications and services designed for social sciences, and expanded access to and use of government information. The project will involve interested participants in departments and units throughout the IUB Libraries and beyond.
Steven's background in using computer systems to develop library services, his new position as Head of the Education Library, and his experience in providing leadership to a wide range of individuals prepare him to begin and lead this project. He will be naming a project team to get started shortly.
--Julie Bobay, Electronic Resources and Services
6. LIBRARY INSTRUCTION CHANGES
The Library Instruction Review, completed in April 1995,
recommended several changes in the way the IUB Libraries organize
library instruction programs. The Review Committee recommended
decentralizing responsibility and authority for Main Library
instruction programs similar to the way in which branch libraries
have planning and implementation responsibility for instruction.
This "branch model" will allow Main Library departments to define
and control their activities to a much greater extent than was
possible with a centralized office, and will also encourage each
department to investigate alternative ways to deliver instruction
within their existing resources.
Primary responsibility for group instruction in the Main Library that was previously coordinated by the Library Instruction Office is being distributed as follows:
Undergraduate Library Services: undergraduate instruction, (100-300 level classes)
Research Collections and Services Dept.: seniors, graduate students and faculty in subject areas not covered by branches
Electronic Resources and Services Dept.: non-IU groups who use the library for research
Library Administration: groups who want to tour the facility. (Groups below the high school level who have toured the IUB Main Library in the past are being asked not to come.)
Credit courses (Q/L161, etc.,): The IUB Libraries are investigating partnerships with the School of Library and Information Science.
Because the majority of requests handled by the Instruction Office are for undergraduates, the library instruction telephone number will be answered by UGLS who will respond and/or forward calls to appropriate library departments. (In Spring 1994 through Spring 95, 74% of all sessions scheduled by the Instruction Office were for 100-300 level courses, 6% were 400 level and above, 5% faculty workshops, and 15% outside groups.)
The Instruction Office will cease to exist as a separate unit, and the members of the present Instruction Office, Gail LaMoreaux-McElhany and Mary Popp, are being reassigned, along with CBRST members Julie Bobay and Carolyn Sherayko, to a new department called the Electronic Resources and Services Department. ERSD will provide support for the development, service, access, and training elements of the increasingly complex electronic environment of digital and networked information.
Under guidance from the newly-appointed Library Instruction Advisory Committee (with members from Main Library Departments involved in instruction and branches), ERSD will retain responsibility for centralized support for instruction in new technologies, instruction for remote users, and instruction for users across disciplines, subjects and levels.
--Julie Bobay, Electronic Resources and Services Department
7. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
After a summer hiatus, we're gearing up our training and
development activities. On August 16, UCS trainers will present
another workshop for library employees on the basics of Windows
(Introduction to Windows). This class is now full, and there is
a waiting list. We've scheduled another class on supervising
student employees, and that session will be held in late
September. We'll announce the class in the next issue of IUL
News and will begin to accept registrations after that. This
workshop, with presenters from HRM and the Student Employment
Office, was offered last February and received really good
evaluations from those who attended. During the coming year, we
plan to offer more one-hour information sessions on such topics
as interviewing, evaluating job performance, improving work
performance, progressive/corrective discipline, preparing for
promotion, writing job descriptions, hiring the right person, and
other topics of general interest. We hope to bring more HRM
presenters to the library this year. Please check this column
every week to see what programs are being provided to support the
training and development needs of library employees. We
encourage all of you--librarians and staff, supervisors and
employees, current and future managers--to take advantage of
these opportunities.
OMS Fall/Winter Training Schedule
September 11-13: Facilitating Change
October 4-6: Human Resources Institute
October 11-13: Training Skills Institute
November 6-9: Continuous Improvement Programs
November 13-17: Management Skills Institute II
For more information about these institutes, contact Marilyn
Shaver.
8. "THE STAR OF WOMAN IS RISING": THE STORY OF THE
EDGEWORTHALEAN SOCIETY
In January, 1841, eleven progressive Monroe County women met
to form Indiana's first female literary and debating club. Every
week for the next three-and-a-half years, the Edgeworthalean
Society convened to formally debate the social, moral, and
political questions of their day, including such topics as:
Should capital punishment be inflicted or not? Is it right to
hold slaves? Should there be imprisonment for debt? Should
women be allowed to vote? The addresses by the various
presidents of the club are ringing calls for women to come into a
new role in society. Hear the voices of these inspired and
inspiring early leaders of women in our own community through
dramatic readings from the Edgeworthalean Society papers at Wylie
House Museum on Sunday, August 13, at 2 PM. The program will be
followed by refreshments on the lawn: cakes mades from
19th-century Wylie family recipes. Call 855-6224 for more
information. (Note: the original Edgeworthalean Society minutes
are in the collection of University Archives.)
--Bonnie Williams, Curator
9. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge is offering a 12-month
institute designed to train librarians in the area of science
reference, especially in the use of contemporary technology for
reference services. The Institute will run from January 1,
1996-December 31, 1996. Participants will receive a stipend of
$25,500 plus a tuition waiver for three courses. An MLS is
required, and previous professional experience is expected but
not required. A science background is not expected. Preference
will be given to minority applicants. The deadline for
applications is September 15, 1995. For a copy of the
advertisement, contact Marilyn Shaver.
10. SCANNER WORKSTATION
With funding provided by the Bob Knight Library Endowment, the
Electronic Resources and Services Department has purchased a
scanner workstation to be used for creating digitized images for
the World Wide Web. The workstation is composed of a PowerMac
7100/80 computer and a Hewlett Packard ScanJet IIIc scanner. It
is also equipped with Adobe Photoshop and OmniPage OCR software.
The scanner workstation is located in the LETRS facility in the
carrel facing the east wall of the building, nearest the
Reference Department. Library WWW Information Providers, who
have attended the initial training session for the scanner
workstation, may use the workstation during the hours LETRS is
open:
Mon-Thus. 9am - 8pm
Fri. 9am - 5pm
Sat and Sun. 1pm - 5pm
or at other times by asking at the Reference Desk for the door to
be opened.
Training sessions for library WWW Information Providers in the
basics of operations and file management for a PowerMac and in
simple scanning of images will be available in August. It will
be necessary for anyone who wishes to use the workstation to
attend one of these training sessions first.
For more information, please contact Carolyn Sherayko, Electronic
Resources and Services Department, E172 Main Library, phone:
855-7699 or e-mail: csherayk@indiana.edu.
-Carolyn Sherayko
11. RUSH CATALOGING REQUESTS AND IUCAT PROBLEM REPORTS ON THE WEB!!!
The IOCM Department Web Page has forms for both IUCAT problem
reporting and rush cataloging requests. You can report call
number, title, and location problems and name and subject
conflicts through the problem report form. The rush catalog
request form can be used for all books located in the IOCM
Original Cataloging Unit (the location in the OPAC reads "Blgtn
Cataloging Dept.").
We intended the forms to be used by both library staff and patrons. We encourage you to use the forms, and if you are in public services, to let patrons know about them as well. The forms can be accessed from our homepage: http://www.indiana. edu/~libiocm and also on the Library homepage under Cataloging Services: http://www.indiana.edu/~libweb.
Our Web site also has RetroCon reports, the weekly Global Heading changes, lots of Cataloging tools, and links to other Technical Services web sites. We welcome any comments or suggestions you have.
--Joetta Black and Jennifer Radtke, IOCM Department
12. DIRECTORY UPDATES
Change Hillary Byrn's title from Assistant Circulation Supervisor
in Access Services to Assistant Stacks Supervisor in Access
Services.
Remove April Purcell's name from the general and alphabetical listings for the Subject and Area Librarians.
Remove Nancy Quirk's name from the general and alphabetical listings for MPS.
Add Patrice Tiedemann's name to the general and alphabetical listings for Serials. Patrice's title is Senior Collections Management Assistant, her phone number is 855-5672, and her e-mail address is PTIEDEMA.
Add Randal Tucker's name to the general and alphabetical listings for the Music Library. Randal's title is Senior Circulation Assistant, his phone number is 855-2970, and his e-mail address is RAVTUCKE.
13. SERIALS CANCELLATION REQUESTS
The titles below are the last copies in the IUB Libraries. Fund
managers who wish to assume any of the titles should contact Lisa
Lent, Serials Dept. (5-5636) within 2 weeks following the date of
this newsletter.
Fund 18 (IUCF) -PARTICLE ACCELERATORS Fund 19 (Chemistry) -SULFUR REPORTS Fund 27 (Education) -EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CARE Fund 71 (Music) -MUSIC CATALOG ON CD-ROM -NETWORK COMPUTING -OS/2 DEVELOPER Fund 84 (Reference) -HUMANITIES INDEX -SOCIAL SCIENCES INDEX**** END OF ISSUE ****
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