LAUNC-CH Newsletter Mar 1996 Issue: 138

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Ralph Ferragamo is currently Publisher and CEO of Softline, Inc. in Stamford, CT, which publishes, among other products, the Ethnic Newswatch CD-ROM, a popular full-text database of articles from small, ethnic presses across the country. Prior to Softline, he founded JA Micropublishing, Inc., producers of several microfiche, print and electronic databases. Ralph has also held executive positions at University Microfilms, Information Access, and R.R. Bowker. He o-authored The Microf orms Connection: A Basic Guide for Libraries, and has published articles in several professional journals. Ralph speaks frequently on Information Publishing at trade organizations and academic institutions. he holds a B.A. from Suffolk University, B oston, MA and has studied at Suffolk University Graduate Division, Queens College Graduate Division, and Long Island University Graduate Division.

Andrew Hart is Preservation Librarian from UNC-CH's Academic Affairs Libraries. His background in preservation includes coordinating an NEH-funded microfilming project for Columbia University; working as a Mellon Intern in Preservation Administ ration, also at Columbia; and coordinating the NEH-funded Preservation Intensive Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. Andy has his MLS and CAS in Preservation Management from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jacintha Kompella is Coordinator of Curriculum Support Services at the Health Sciences Library, UNC-CH. Her Master's degree in Educational Technology is from San Diego State University and her Ph.D. in Optical Fibers and Fiber Devices is from t he Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, India. She works with faculty to design, develop, and evaluate multimedia courseware. Jacintha has also worked with faculty to select and integrate CAI andmultimedia titles into the curriculum. In addition, she coordinates a unit responsible for reserves, audiovisuals, and software collection development in support of teaching and learning at HSL.

As an Associate Professor of History at UNC-CH, Jim Leloudis' work focuses on the modern South. He is co-author of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (UNC Press, 1987) and author of Schooling the New South: Pe dagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920(UNC Press, 1996). Jim's current research project is a study of the war on poverty in the South. He holds a Ph.D. from UNC-CH.

Connie McCarthy is Associate University Librarian at Perkins Library at Duke. Her career experience ranges from rare book cataloging at the Folger Shakespeare Library to broad responsibilities for collections and access both in a medium-sixed rese arch library and a large, complex research library. Toss in experience with applying continuous improvement in an organization and the prospect of a new University Librarian for Duke and an evolving vision for the 21st century begins to take shape!

Bob Nardini holds an MLS from the University of Toronto and an MA in History from the University of Virginia. He came to Yankee Book Peddler, Contocook, NH in 1985 after having worked in several libraries as a Reference Librarian. Since then, Bob has worked primarily with YBP approval plan program, inside as a bibliographer, and in the field working with librarians to write and maintain profiles.

Julie Blume Nye is Project Manager of a U.S. Department of Commerce-funded research project to develop a model automated, multi-platform, client/server document delivery system for the Triangle Research Libraries Network (Duke, NCSU, NCCU, and UNC-CH). She has been with the project since September 1993. Prior t o joining the TRLN project, she was Executive Assistant to the President of Durham Technical Community College, where she served as marketing and planning director and conducted several special research projects. Julie has a B.A. in Russian from Duke, an d M.A.from the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. from UNC-CH.

Tim Pyatt is Assistant Curator of Manuscripts & Collection Management Librarian at UNC-CH. He has a degree in History from Duke and an MLIS from UNC-CH. Tim previously was Curator of Marylandia & Rare Books at the University of Maryland, Colle ge Park.

Natalia Smith is the Digitization Project Librarian at Davis Library, working on 19th-century Southern Americana materials from the UNC-CH collections. She holds an M.A. in Linguistics from the Moscow State University and an MLS from UNC-CH. Na talia worked for many years as an editor in the largest publishing house in Moscow. In 1994, she went to the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) summer seminar, organized by Princeton and Rutgers University.

Carol Tobin has been Head of the Davis Reference Department at UNC-CH for two years. She worked previously at the University of South Carolina, Princeton University, and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Carol has degrees from the University of Chicago, Duke and Trinity College, Washington, D.C.

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1. First, register and pay for the conference.
2. Then get from your appropriate representative TWO FORMS: Application for Educational Assistance and Request for Educational Assistance Reimbursement.

AAL: Paula Hinton pphinton@email.unc.edu 2-1151
HSL: Peggy Morrison pmorriso.hsl@mhs.unc.edu 2-0703
LAW: Janice Hammett janice_hammett@unc.edu 2-1196

        These forms are also available as Appendix C and C1 in Chapter XII of the Human Resources Manual for SPA Employees.
        On the Application for Educational Assistance, there is a box asking for a description of why the conference contributes to your professional development. If you don't wish to draft your own statement, please feel free to use the following text:

This conference contributes to my professional development by providing an opportunity for me to participate in discussions of the collections and services that libraries will be offering their users in the near future. In addition to the content of the program, which includes sessions on technology, preservation and diversity, the conference allows me to meet my colleagues from the Triangle area and engage in discussions of important current issues in information provision.

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* The Alcuin Project or Cataloging Electronic Serials and Internet Resources, describing the genesis and components of the Alcuin Project:
     http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alcuin/alcuin-visits-nasig.html
* Alcuin - A Database of Internet Resources, a WWW-searchable database:
     http://library.ncsu.edu/drabin/alcuin/
* Online Catalogs and Citation Indexes, a WWW-searchable OPAC:
     http://ncsulib4.lib.ncsu.edu/drabin/niso_forms.pp
     Search for: alawon; Database to search: North Carolina State University
            OR
     Search for: public access computer systems;
     Database to search: North Carolina State University

        Barbara Levergood and the Program Committee, chaired by Frieda Rosenberg, planned the program and, along with Megan Dreger, assisted in preparing the Davis Conference Rooms for the event. The equipment, generously on loan from Gary Momenee, provided high-resolution projected images of the WWW resources thanks to Pam Dutcher's technical support.

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Andrew Hart has been hired as the Preservation Librarian for UNC-Chapel Hill's Academic Affairs Library.

Health Sciences Library

Francesca Allegri has become a member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

Diane McKenzie and Brynn Leise attended the North Carolina Bilingual Task Force group in Raleigh on February 8 and presented a demonstration of ProCite. They have been consulting with this group and the Farmworker Alliance on creating a d atabase of health resources.

Jim Curtis, Diana McDuffie, Jill Mayer, Diane McKenzie, Julia Shaw-Kokot, Barbara Tysinger and Denise Woetzel attended the AHEC LIS Conference in Wilmington, February 22-23.

Gary D. Byrd, Proceedings editor and Steven J. Squires edited the Association Record of the Proceedings of the Ninety-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association held May 7-10, 1995 published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 84 (1): 133-161, January 1996.

Jean Blackwell conducted a workshop on "Medical Reference for Non-Medical Librarians" for public librarians in Georgia at SOLINET on February 23.

On March 5th Carol Jenkins will be testifying in Washington before the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services in support of the FY97 National Library of Medicine budget.

Law Library

The Law School sponsored the Sixth Annual Festival of Legal Learning at the Friday Center. Martha Barefoot gave a presentation "An Introduction to and Demonstration of Using the Internet." Tom French and Marguerite Most taught four workshops on using legal resources on the Internet. Lolly Gasaway presented a program on Law Practice and Copyright Compliance. Some of the proceeds from the Festival will go to support the Law Library.

School of Information and Library Science Elfreda Chatman, Professor, will present the paper, "Social aspects of digital libraries," at the invitation-only UCLA NSF Digital Libraries Workshop. Thirty-two scholars representing several disciplines from across the nation will convene at UC LA on March 15-18 for this conference.

Gillian Debreczney, SILS Librarian, Diane Sonnenwald, Assistant Professor, and Barbara Wildemuth, Associate Professor received a UNC Center for Teaching and Learning Instructional Grant. The grant is to purchase videos that can be used as case studies "to introduce our students to a wider variety of information needs and use situations and information systems that emerge in different socio-economical, cultural and technical contexts." The videos will be catalogued and kept in the S ILS Library.

Diane H. Sonnenwald, Assistant Professor, presented "Contested collaboration and network structure in the design process," at the XVI International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. Co-presenter/author is Leah A. Lievrouw, UCLA. Her article, " Communication roles that support collaboration during the design process," was accepted for publication in the international journal, Design Studies.

Undergraduate Library

David Taylor and Gary Momenee attended ALA Mid-winter in San Antonio, TX, Jan. 20-23.

Renovation planning for the R.B. House Undergraduate Library is entering an exciting phase. Architects are beginning to work on possibilities for a basic design. The current planned program's space demands are expected to be designed within the exist ing physical building. Location of the various services within the building will be part of future design planning stages.

Wilson Library

Jan Paris travelled to Austin, TX February 22-24 to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Conservation and Preservation Studies program at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin.

The North Carolina Collection recently discovered in its photographic archives a negative of pioneer aviatrix Amelia Earhart and aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky. The photograph was made at Kitty Hawk, NC on December 17, 1928. Earhart and Sikorsky were among those attending the dedication of a monument honoring the Wright brothers.

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Alfred T. Brauer Library (Math/Physics Library)
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mplib/brauer.html
      Information about the Brauer Library and the electronic services it provides. Provides access to homepages of departments it supports: Astronomy, Physics, Compute Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Operations Research. Also provides access to Web sites in those areas of interest.

Davis Library Reference Dept. Electronic Services
http://sunsite.unc.edu/reference/
      Information about services offered by Reference Department including Electronic Information Services. Includes the "Virtual Reference Desk."

Health Sciences Library
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/
      Information about HSL and the services it provides, including classes and workshops. Provides access to selected internet resources, including consumer resources, electronic journals/newsletters, general reference resources, se arch tools, and grants and funding information.

School of Information and Library Science Library
http://sils.unc.edu/itrc/library/
      Information about the library and the computer lab. Provides access to SILS master papers, and includes a new book list and a map of the UNC campus.

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Last Updated: March 8, 1996

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