February 1997 Issue: 146


Table of Contents

 Click on North Carolina: Connecting the State
 Librarian's Bookshelf
 Live from the Internet
 Member News/Library News


Click on North Carolina: Connecting the State

     The Librarians Association at the Unversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to sponsor the upcoming Spring Conference: Click on North Carolina: Connecting the State. You should have received registration information in the mail. If not, vis it the Conference web site at: http://www.lib.unc.edu/launcch/archives/conf97.htm for details and a registration form or contact Terri Saye. Be sure to register by March 4th to avoid a late registration fee.
     The LAUNC-CH Conference Committee has received approval from Human Resources for all UNC-CH attendees to be reimbursed for their registration fee through the Educational Assistance Program (lunch is not covered by this program). In order to take advantag e of this offer, please do the following:

  1. Register and pay for the conference.
  2. Complete two forms: Application for Educational Assistance and Request for Educational Assistance Reimbursement. These forms are available from David Romito (Zoology) or Patty Vaught (Davis) for Academic Affairs Library, Lynn Eades (HSL 223) for Healt h Sciences, or Janice Hammett (Law Reference) for Law. The forms are also available as Appendix C and C1 and 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 do not wish to draft your own statement, please feel free to use the following:

    This conference contributes to my professional development by providing an opportunity for me to participate in discussions of how libraries are involved in providing networked information resources to their users. In addition to the content of the prog ram, which includes sessions on development, cataloging, and training issues pertaining to electronic resources, the conference allows me to meet my colleagues from the Triangle area and engage in discussions of important issues in information provision.

  3. Have your supervisor sign both forms.
  4. Photocopy both for your files.
  5. Give both original forms to your Library's contact person (see #2 above) by March 14. The contact person will also get the signature of an appropriate administrator.

    After the conference:

  6. Save the receipt and the registration badge that you get at the conference.
  7. Complete Part III on the photocopied Application for Educational Assistance (from #4 above). Attach the receipt and the badge to the photocopied form and give it to your contact person by March 24.

*** If you have any questions, please contact David Romito at 962-2264 or romito@unc.edu.***

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Librarian's Bookshelf: selected new books

Breeding, Marshall. Integrated library systems for PCs and PC networks: descriptive and analytical reviews of the current products. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996. SILS Lib Z678.93.M53 B74 1996

Conference on Integrated Online Library Systems (11th: 1996: New York, N.Y.). Expanding access via the library: IOLS '96, integrated online library systems : proceedings-1996 : New York, May 15-16, 1996. Medford, NJ: Information Today, c1995. SILS Lib Z67 8.93.O64 C66 1996

The economics of information in the networked environment. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1996. SILS Lib Z675.U5 E26 1996

Electronic services in academic libraries. ALA survey report. Chicago: American Library Association, Office for Research and Statistics, 1996. SILS Lib Z675.U5 E43 1996

Ethics of computing: codes, spaces for discussion and law. London: Chapman & Hall on behalf of the International Federation for Information Processing, 1996. SILS Lib QA76.9.M65 E845 1996

The Evolving virtual library: visions and case studies. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996. SILS Lib Z678.A4 U633 1996 and Law Z678.A4 U633 1996

Guiding the reader to the next book. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, c1996. SILS Lib Z711.4 .G53 1996

Information outlook. [serial]. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association, c1997. SILS Library starting with v.1:no.1(1997:Jan.)

Information technology policies: a SPEC kit. SPEC kit, 218. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Services, c1996. SILS Lib HD30.2 .I536 1996

Internet dreams: archetypes, myths, and metaphors. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1996. Davis ZA3250.U6 I58 1996

Katz, William A., 1924. Introduction to reference work. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1997. SILS Lib Z711 .K32 1997 and Law Z711 .K32 1997

Maturi, Mary Buckingham. Cultural gems: an eclectic look at unique United States libraries. Cheyenne, Wyo.: 21st Century Publishers, c1996. SILS Lib Z731 .M343 1996

The National Electronic Library: a guide to the future for library managers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. SILS Lib Z674.8 .N43 1996 and Law Z674.8 .N43 1996

Thomsen, Elizabeth. Reference and collection development on the Internet: a how-to-do-it manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, c1996. SILS Lib Z711 .T487 1996

For a list of new titles at the SILS Library visit http://sils.unc.edu/itrc/library/newbooks.html

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Live from the Internet and beyond...

If you are like most Americans, one of your New Year's Resolutions is to lose weight. In all fairness, since we covered cooking and eating in December, we will turn our attention to losing those holiday pounds. These sites offer help in dieting, low fat cooking, and eating healthy.

Low fat cooking:

Super Low-Fat Pasta Recipes
http://www.ilovepasta.org/recipes/superlowfat.html

Low Fat Living
http://www.lowfatliving.com/index1.html

Low-Fat Lifestyle Forum
http://www.wctravel.com/lowfat/

Low Fat Cooking
http://users.vnet.net/shae/food/lowfat.html

Olivia's Cooking Page
http://www.cyberrealm.net/ocasas/

Weight Loss and Nutrition:

"Ten Commandments of Weight Loss" http://infinity.dorsai.org/Naturopathic.Physician/articles.lay/ART.TenCom.EK.html

Weight Loss Control Center
http://www.arbon.com/weight/home.htm

Weight Watchers
http://www.weight-watchers.com/

Nutri/System Online
http://www.nutrisystem.com/

Shape Up America!
http://www.shapeup.org/sua/

Nutrition Guide
http://www.diabetes.org/ada/c40b.html

Nourish Net Weight Management Support
http://rogue.northwest.com/~sbly/

Arbor Nutrition Guide
http://www.arborcom.com/

Clinical Nutrition Online
http://www.dietitian-online.screen.ie/

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MEMBER NEWS/LIBRARY NEWS

Davis Library

Natalia Smith's article, "Libraries and the Creation of Electronic Texts for the Humanities", was published in the November 1996 issue of the C&RL (College and Research Libraries). The article, co-authored with Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Associate Professor, SIL S, focuses on the main issues and challenges the libraries face as they consider implementing e-text projects.

Marcia Tuttle is teaching a spring semester course on serials at SILS. (INLS 226: Serials).

Marcia Tuttle spoke at the College of Charleston Conference on Acquisitions and Collection Development on Nov. 8. The title of her talk was: "Well, I Guess You'll be going to Law School Next!"

Geology Library

Miriam Sheaves attended the Geoscience Information Society annual meeting, held concurrently with the Geological Society of America annual meeting, in Denver, CO, October 26 - 31.

Institute for Academic Technology Library

Carolyn Kotlas, the IAT Librarian, has written a paper describing the creation of the IAT's intranet. A copy is available on the IAT's Web site at http://www.iat.unc.edu/guides/veratalk.html.

Health Sciences Library

Lynn Eades co-authored an article with Benjamin Aycock and Kenneth Langley of the Office of Information Systems in the School of Medicine. The article "A Database Approach to Health Info Resources on the Web" appears in the January 1997 issue of MLA News .

Law Library

Lolly Gasaway, Tom French and Marguerite Most attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in Washington, D.C.

Wilson Library

On January 14, Alice Cotten presented an illustrated talk on "Thomas Wolfe at Chapel Hill-Then and Now" at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching on Cullowhee, using slides of letters, postcards, and photographs from the North Carolin a Collection's Thomas Wolfe Collection. NCCAT was established in 1985 as part of the University of North Carolina and provides residential seminars on various topics for career teachers in North Carolina schools. Eighteen teachers from all parts of the state attended this seminar and read some of Wolfe's work, heard presentations on his life and writings, and visited the Thomas Wolfe home in Asheville, now a state historic site.

H.G. Jones attended the convention of the American Historical Association in New York January 2-6. Alaska History, in its fall issue, published his review of Inuit: Glimpses of an Arctic Past , and he furnished photographs for the fall issue of Inuit Art Quarterly.

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