IT'S A BOY! IT'S A BOY!
Lesley Marshall delivered a healthy baby boy on November the 16th. In
true IOCM Dept. tradition, she was hard at work that morning but at 11:00
a.m decided to go home. At 3:00 we were notified about the baby's birth. His
name is Logan John, he weighed 7lbs and was 20 1/2 inches long. His father Dex
Medlock and his brother Connor are very happy with him.
IT'S ANOTHER BOY!
April Easter and husband Dan are GRANDPARENTS for the first time. Daniel
Taylor Keola (New Life) Anders was born in Knoxville, TN on November 17th
to their daughter Elaine and her husband Michael.
2. THANKS!!!
Thanks from Library Personnel to everyone who helped make Lina Duncan's
tree dedication so special. Thanks to Beverly Thacker and Marjorie
Jeffers for the idea. Thanks to Cameron McGuire, Harold Shaffer, and
Midge Harris for their efforts to make sure the tree and placque were in
place. Thanks to all the donors who made the project possible. And
thanks to all of Lina's friends who attended the dedication.
--Marilyn Shaver, Personnel Department
3. HOLIDAY PARTY THIS THURSDAY!
The Holiday Party Committee is delighted to remind everyone about the
impending Indiana University Libraries Annual Holiday Celebration. The
festivities will be on Thursday, December 7 from 3-4:30 p.m. The party
takes place in the Staff Lounge located on the 3rd floor of the Main
Library. The treats will be bountiful (to add to the bounty--contact
Jane Van Auken at 5-6924). Santa's time of arrival will be around 4
p.m. Door prizes will be awarded (if you have a prize to donate, please
contact Harold Shaffer at 5-3403). All in all it promises to be a holiday
spectacular.
--Cameron McGuire, Holiday Party Committee
4. CHEMISTRY INTERNET EFFORTS RECEIVE RECOGNITION
Two major Internet projects that Chemistry Library personnel are involved
with have received favorable publicity recently. "Chemical Information
Sources from Indiana University: CIS-IU" (http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/)
was one of two Internet gateways featured in an article in Chemical &
Engineering News on November 13. C&EN is the weekly news journal of the
American Chemical Society and is received by over 160,000 members of the
society. "BioTech: the Internet Directory of Biotechnology Resources"
(http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu/) was the subject of an article in the
Fall 1995 issue of INDnet Intersections, a newsletter of the Indiana
Higher Education Telecommunications Network (IHETS).
--Gary Wiggins, Head, Chemistry Library
5. RESEARCH FORUM ON DECEMBER 7TH
The next Research Forum will be held from 12-1 on December 7 in the Ground
Floor Conference Room. Elizabeth Hanson will give a presentation on "The
Library Association," which will focus on the early years of British libraries
as seen through the organization's published proceedings. Please bring your
lunch and join us in an informative look at library development in the UK.
--Charles Hixson, Acting HPER Librarian
6. SEARCH AND SCREEN COMMITTEE APPOINTED
The following individuals have agreed to serve on the Search and Screen
Committee for the position Associate Librarian or Librarian, Head, Lilly
Library: Nancy Cridland (chair), Elizabeth Johnson, Cheryl Baumgart,
Saundra Taylor, Phil Bantin, Patrick O'Meara, Rosemary Lloyd, and Breon
Mitchell.
7. GRANT AWARDED TO LILLY LIBRARY
The IU Office of International Programs has awarded an "International
Opportunities for Libraries and Librarians" Grant to the Lilly Library.
The grant provides funds to catalog a collection of some 300 Spanish and
Portuguese documents recently acquired from former Indiana University
Professor Charles R. Boxer. The documents are mostly in Spanish or
Portuguese, date from the late 16th through the 18th centuries, and
concern Portuguese affairs in Brazil, Africa, India, Macau, and the Far
East. They consist of letters, reports, certificates of service and a
variety of other types of papers from some of the most important figures
from this period of Portuguese colonial history. These materials are of
importance to scholars working in a broad range of fields: history of
European expansion, history of science, African studies, Latin American
studies, Ibero studies, Indian and Asian studies. The final products
from the project will include entries in the Manuscripts Index in the
Lilly Library, a detailed description of the collection available on the
Lilly Library Web page, and records for the materials in OCLC.
8. WILLIAM EVANS JENKINS LIBRARIAN AWARD
The Jenkins Award Committee is asking for nominations for the 1996
Jenkins Award for outstanding librarianship. Current and former
Bloomington librarians are eligible to receive this award. The nomination
form follows this article.
Please take the time to consider the professional contributions and achievements of your colleagues and to make nominations. The award consists of a certificate and $500. If more than one individual is given the award, the $500 will be shared equally by the recipients. The winner will be announced during National Library Week in April, and the award will be presented at the Retirement and Recognition Reception in May. The recipient's name will be added to the plaque in the Main Library lobby.
Nominations should be submitted by February 1, 1996, to Marilyn Shaver, Personnel Officer. Librarians nominated in the previous year will remain nominees for the current year. The chair of the Jenkins Award Committee will contact nominators for updated information.
The criteria for selection are one or more of the following:
*has made a professional contribution which has had significant
influence on the operations of the IU Libraries;
*has made a significant professional contribution which earns
the recognition of the University community;
*has made a significant contribution to the library profession
which reflects achievement in librarianship at IU;
*has shown excellence in service to the IU Libraries as
evidenced by continuous leadership and innovation.
A history and description of the Jenkins Award and the complete guidelines are
in the Bloomington Library Faculty Handbook. You can also receive a copy of
that document by contacting Marilyn Shaver or Betty Andis. If you have
any questions, please feel free to contact any of the members of the
committee: Betty Jo Irvine (chair), Becky Cape, Ruth Davison, Wen-ling Liu,
and Julie Nilson.
Nomination forms and supporting documents are due by March 1. The supporting documentation should include a current curriculum vita (compiled by the nominee) and three letters of support (requested by the nominator).
_______________________________________________________________
THE WILLIAM EVANS JENKINS LIBRARIAN AWARD
Nomination Form
This form should be returned to the Personnel Officer, Library
Administration, Main Library C201, by February 1, 1996.
I wish to nominate _______________________; ___________________
(name) (campus address)
for the William Evans Jenkins Librarian Award.
Submitted by _____________________; _______________________
(name) (campus address)
REASONS FOR NOMINATING THIS PERSON RELATIVE TO THE CRITERIA
STATED IN THE AWARD GUIDELINES:
A number of the CIC-member universities -- including Indiana -- have been deeply involved with electronic texts, observe LETRS co-directors Richard Ellis and Mark Day. "This meeting provided the opportunity to discuss how we can move forward as partners in these efforts, thereby providing access to far more materials than could be made available through individual effort," says Day.
At the two-day meeting, faculty and library, computing, and university press staff from the CIC universities concerned with the production, support and use of electronic texts identified their common interests and potential collaborative projects. Participants examined current institutional options for building local support structures during discussion sessions on electronic text centers, facilitated by Anita Lowry, head of Information, Research, and Instructional Services at the University of Iowa Libraries, and on wide-area textual analysis systems, facilitated by John Price-Wilkin, Senior Associate Librarian for the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan.
Participants also considered what users of electronic texts really want. Jerome McGann, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, led a discussion about the production and use of electronic texts for instruction and research in the humanities. The meeting concluded with the working groups presenting draft proposals for collaborative projects.
While the CIC expects more proposals will be forthcoming, the first set of proposals "support CIC-wide development of digital collections for use by our scholars and students," says Roger Clark, director of the CIC, noting that the initiative will ultimately enable participating universities to demonstrate the feasibility of seamless access to institutional and consortia resources, and make it easier for all CIC member institutions to acquire and deliver electronic text resources.
Elements of the initiative will include: providing networked access to existing electronic text resources within the CIC; defining procedures and policies for adding new resources; identifying and employing text markup conventions and standards; sharing expertise across the CIC; and collaboration in developing an abstract model and communications protocols for text searching and retrieval.
"There are limitless possibilities for sharing the creation and distribution of electronic texts across the CIC," says Ken Frazier, Director of the General Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Chair, CIC Library Directors. "This is an area where we can provide value-added service to our university faculty, staff, and students, as well as lead the nation in the collaborative design of such information systems."
The CIC institutions participating in the initiative include the
universities of Chicago, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin-Madison; and Indiana, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State,
Pennsylvania State and Purdue universities. Established in 1958, the CIC has a
long history of cooperation in academic initiatives. In 1994, the CIC created
the CIC Center for Library Initiatives expressly for the purpose of leading
and coordinating library resource sharing efforts among the member
universities. The CIC homepage is available at: http://www.cic.net/cic/cic.html
For further information contact: Barbara Allen, Director, CIC Center for
Library Initiatives (bmallen@iuc.edu) 217-333-8475.
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