June 1997 Number 150

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 President's Year-end Message
Undergraduate Library Transition
Member News/Library News
Marcia Tuttle Retires
Live From the Internet...Care for a Bite?

President's Year-end Message

       Another year has come and gone for the Librarians' Association at UNC-Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH). Seemingly, just a few months ago, I wrote a "president's message." It is time for another, only this time it is the final message. In reflecting on the year's events, wherever and whenever one sees the acronym, LAUNC-CH, it can be replaced with the word SUCCESS. That was the goal in June 1996, and by working cooperatively on all the committees, I can truly say that, together, we have accomplished our goal.
      The Fall Social was held a little later than usual, but that did not dampen the spirits of the more than fifty members who wended their way to Toy Lounge to enjoy delicious treats, renew acquaintances and pay their annual dues. The Program Committee pres ented well-attended and enjoyable programs throughout the year- Barbara DeLon, former Personnel Library Officer, encouraged us to become mentors; Michael Taft, Sound and Image Librarian, educated us on the holdings of the Southern Folklife Collection; and three professors from the School of Information and Library Science, Barbara Moran, Evelyn Daniel and Elfreda Chatman, fascinated us with a tour of the libraries they visited in Russia, Eastern Europe, China and Africa. Marcia Tuttle concluded the seri es of programs with a lecture on "Licensing Agreements on Electronic Products."
      The Spring Conference of 1997, "Click on North Carolina: Connecting the State", was a watershed in LAUNC-CH Conferences. It will long be remembered, by the 215 attendees, as one that was on the cutting edge of electronic revolution in library interconnec tions and accessibility. Attendance at the conference was at an all-time high. That could be attributed to the uniqueness and usefulness of the topic. Dr. Ralph Russell, a dynamic and entertaining speaker, charmed and educated the attentive audience in his presentation on the genesis and implementation of the GALILEO Project.
      The Professional Welfare Committee reported to Chancellor Hooker on the ARL Salary Survey. In the letter, charts were employed that graphically displayed UNC's poor salary ranking as compared with peer institutions. The Committee prepared and sent a let ter, under the signature of the LAUNC-CH President, to local legislators. This letter, along with 3 charts, conveyed the same ARL salary and cost of living information that was included in the Chancellor's letter. Two state legislators have since replie d positively The Professional Development Committee invited two speakers from Duke, Lee Sorensen and John Little, who, along with Libby Chenault and Tim Pyatt, presented the findings of their research at the Research Forum. Due to renovations in Toy Lounge, the Forum was convened in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room in Wilson Library. John Little shared with the audience the results of his team's project. They investigated patrons' use of Web browsers from clusters of computers at four geographic locations within the Duke Library system. Lee Sorensen presented a paper on the history and development of a bio-bibliography of art historians and its mounting on a Web site. Libby Chenault and Tim Pyatt gave a description of publishers' files held in Wilson Library and how these resources could be accessed. This year the Newsletter staff comprised three joint editors. Geneva Holliday and Lucinda Thompson were responsible for the editing, production, and design, and Lynn Eades was webmistress and did the Internet column.
      My sincere appreciation is extended to all committee chairs, the secretary, treasurer, newsletter editors and news coordinators, past president, and nominating committee members for their exemplary contribution to LAUNC-CH in 1996-97. Mention must be made of Terri Saye, chair, and the Conference Committee members, whose tireless effort and cooperation were the catalyst that masterminded the 1997 Spring Conference, one of the most successful in the organization's history. I express gratitude to Steven Sq uires, chair, and the members of the Program Committee, for the informative and interesting programs presented in 1996-97; to Eileen McGrath, chair, and members of the Professional Welfare Committee, who made Chancellor Hooker and the local legislators aw are of the inequities in salaries for librarians at UNC-Chapel Hill in comparison with their colleagues in other large research libraries; to John Rutledge, chair, and the members of the Professional Development Committee for their diligence in their sele ction of researchers with such appropriate topics for the Research Forum; to Bridget Loven, our secretary, who always provided corrected copies of the Executive Board's minutes; to Geneva Holliday, Lynn Eades and Lucinda Thompson for their dedication as a team in their production of the Newsletter and the Web; to Mary Jane Hill, chair, and the other members of the Nominating Committee, who overcame the difficulty in finding willing members to be nominated for next year's offices; to our treasurer, Anita B ooth, so organized, efficient, and attentive to every detail in the financial workings of LAUNC-CH; and to Linda Drake, past president, who was always available and willing to give sound advice.
      Finally, I am grateful to all our members and other staff who supported LAUNC-CH during my tenure as president for the past two years. I urge you to be as willing to work with our incoming president, Jean Blackwell. This is your organization and its success depends on teamwork and cooperation from all its members. Above all, I praise God for His answer to my prayers throughout my presidency. Have a great summer!

Brenda Ambrose-Fortune

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To: All interested parties
 From: Communications Team, Linda Drake, chair
Re: Who's who in the Undergraduate Library transition

      Many members of the Academic Affairs Library staff are involved in planning for the renovation of the Undergraduate Library. With the temporary closing of the library during the 18 to 24 months for the renovation, UL collections, services, and staff will be relocated. Planning for this relocation is beginning now. The organizational structure for the transition involves a committee, three teams, and six working groups. The UL Transition Committee reports to the Library Administration where final decisions will be made. The staff members on each committee, team, or working group are:

UL Transition Committee

Facilities Team

Communications Team

Services Team

Circulation Working Group

Collections Working Group

Davis Building Working Group

Nonprint Working Group

Reference Working Group

Reserves Working Group

If you have questions and concerns, please contact the members of the Transition Committee or the chairs of the Teams and Working Groups.

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Member News/Library News

Davis Library

Andrew Hart attended a seminar titled "Preservation and Access in a Digital World" in Berkeley, CA, May 12-14, organized by the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the National Park Service.

John Rutledge attended the Symposium on Access to and Preservation of Global Newspapers, sponsored by the Center for Research Libraries, CLR and the CPI. Held at the Library of Congress May 27 and 28, the symposium brought together vendors, area specialis ts, and administrators to plan for better methods of collecting materials from areas of the world that are less well represented in American collections.

Joe A.. Hewitt attended the meeting of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) in Charleston, SC, Feb. 22--24, and the OCLC Director's Conference in Dublin, OH, March 10-11.

Cynthia Adams, Bernice Bergup, Donna Cornick, Robert Dalton, and Tommy Nixon, attended the eighth national conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in Nashville, Tennessee, April 11-14. The theme was "Choosing our Futures."

On June 7th , Donna Cornick, Pam Sessoms, Michele Parrish, and Gary Pattillo of Davis Reference Department, assisted by Jason Vaughan, SILS student, gave a two-hour, hands-on training presentation to the Chancellor's Club entitled "Surfing the Web."

Frieda Rosenberg, Larry Alford, Nadia Zilper, and Marcia Tuttle attended the 12th Annual North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference, May 29-June 1 in Ann Arbor, MI. Marcia led a session on serials records, "Back to Basics," at the pre-confe rence session.

Institute for Academic Technology

The May 23, 1997, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education (page A24) included an article about IAT Infobits, the electronic newsletter edited by IAT librarian Carolyn Kotlas.

Law Library

Janice Hammett will be leaving her position at the Law Library effective the end of June. She will spend next year in New Zealand while her husband is working there.

Health Sciences Library

Carol Jenkins presented a paper on "Responding to the Challenge: Professional Development for Directors and Would-Be Library Administrators" at MLA. Carol will be spending four weeks in late June and July attending the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, sponsored by UNC. It is held at Bryn Mawr College.

Jim Curtis, Fran Allegri, Steve Squires, and Lynn Eades collaborated with Dr.John Loonsk, Tim Cline, and Ben Aycock on an electronic poster session "UNCLE: A System for Using the WWW and Relational Database Technology to Present HealthInformation Resources."

Julia Shaw-Kokot and Jacintha Kompella taught a workshop on "Multimedia Basics" at MLA.

Attendees to MLA "97 in Seattle: Fran Allegri, Martha Bedard, Jean Blackwell, Jim Curtis, Mona Counts, Carol Jenkins, Jacintha Kompella, Jill Mayer, Diana McDuffee, Diane McKenzie, Margaret Moore, Julia Shaw-Kokot, Steve Squires, and Marjory Waite.

Barrie Hayes and Lynn Eades were part of the Tar Heel Bus Tour which crossed the state May 12-16th. Barrie was responsible for the Tar Heel Bus Tour web page located at http://www.unc.edu/campus/sigs/bustour/index.html

Christie Degner attended the 12th annual conference of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), held in Ann Arbor May 29-June 1. She will serve as chair of NASIG's Nominations and Elections Committee during 1997/98.

Diane Mckenzie is the 1997-98 chair of the MLA Ida and George Eliot Award jury. She also has accepted the position as Project Director of the MLA Oral History Committee.

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Marcia Tuttle Retires or A Serials Story Continues

      In the winter of 1968, after 107 hours of temperatures below zero degrees, Marcia Tuttle launched a job search that would eventually bring her to UNC. Even lunch at the old Zoom-Zoom on Franklin Street during her day-long interview did not deter her fro m accepting employment in the sunny South. Marcia interviewed at Duke, her undergraduate alma mater, as well. But, she cheerfully accepted the best job offer, and thus began her career at UNC as one of several unabashed Blue Devil fans who chose to live and work in a Tar Heel town. (Only once, and many years ago at that, did Marcia show any signs of switching from her deep, dark, Duke-Blue roots. She came to work wearing Carolina-Blue clothing-on April Fools Day.)
      Marcia resigned her post as Head of Reference at the University of Vermont (read Ice Station Zebra) and assumed her post on July 15, 1968, in Wilson Library as head of the Interlibrary Service Center, which then included ILL Borrowing and Lending and the National Union Catalog. This was a particularly memorable day for her, since the staff she was to supervise had not been informed of her arrival. Needless to say, the days that followed were interesting indeed, but Marcia soon established successful working relationships with her staff.
      After ten months on the job, Marcia was asked to head a new department called Periodicals, which would manage the check-in, binding, and reference duties for the main collection of periodicals, much as it does now, but without automation. Time passes ... and in the early 1980s plans were made to move the main library collection from Wilson to the newly constructed Davis Library. This was exciting news to departments like Periodicals whose materials were shelved in multiple, non-contiguous spaces. When Davis opened, the Serials Department, as it was now called, had rows and rows of new shelving; a spacious, sunny reading room; sufficient space for staff; and an office with a door for Marcia. With the advent of online database access to FAXON and the implementation of a cave-man version of email, the department had its first taste of what an automated serials operation might be like. Staff were quite eager to abandon the labor-intensive processes of manual serials management and embrace automation. Marcia published a book in 1983 entitled Introduction to Serials Management, and an important professional honor came Marcia's way. James Govan and Joe Hewitt nominated Marcia for the Bowker Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award in recognition of her outst anding professional contribution. The nomination itself was an honor, and being the first person to receive the award was an even greater honor.
      But ... dark clouds were gathering in Serials World. The price of serials was escalating to red-line levels. This trend had been a growing concern for librarians nationally and globally, as the next nine years of Marcia's career demonstrate. On the national level, the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association Publisher/Vendor Library Relations Committee established the Subcommittee on Serials Pricing Issues, which Marcia was asked to chair. The group acted as a clearinghouse for information about trends in serials pricing. >From the work of this group, Marcia began publishing the Newsletter on Pricing Issues. Within two years after the Newsletter began, Marcia and the Newsletter Board decided to officially split the Newsletter from ALA and produce it independently. This arrangement allowed for greater editorial freedom.
      The evolution of the Newsletter reflects the impact of changing technologies. The first issues were available in print and electronically via email on Bitnet. A print form was necessary because few people had easy access to a PC with a modem. The p rint form was abandoned as soon as possible because it was expensive and time-consuming to produce. Electronic distribution was much easier. The Newsletter grew from 50 subscribers to its current level of 2,200. The advent of the Internet opened up a ne w way to get out the word about serials pricing issues. Many thousands more access the Newsletter by visiting the web site at http://www.lib.unc.edu/prices/. Even though serials prices have stabilized somewhat over the past few year s, the communications links forged during the times of serials pricing crisis have remained in place as demonstrated by the fact that the Newsletter is as active as ever. Sunsite statistics show that the Newsletter gets an average of 200 hits per day.
      Marcia's direct involvement in this publication has remained constant. Through her efforts she has won international recognition for the breadth and scope of her knowledge as a serials librarian. Marcia has received countless invitations to speak on serials issues nationally and internationally. On one of her early international speaking engagements in 1989, Marcia traveled to Australia and gave presentations on serials in five cities during the three weeks of her stay. Most recently, in 1994 , she spent three weeks in South Africa touring and speaking at libraries throughout the country. Australia, England, France, the Netherlands, Canada, and Mexico-Marcia has visited them all in her role as serials librarian plenipotentiary. She is well-known and respected in her field, and her many accomplishments have been a credit to UNC.
      As Periodicals/Serials came together under her leadership, Serials will disband upon her retirement. The Serials Acquisition Section headed by Cyndie Cowan is assigned to the Acquisitions Department, and the Public Service Section headed by Peter Caggia is assigned to Preservation Services. Marcia will remain of staff to assist in the reassignment of the Serials Department sections through June 1997.It is the passing of a important era in the history of the Library, but Marcia is already looking for ward to the next phase of her career: she plans to assume responsibility for many domestic duties that she had previously delegated to others, e.g., the lawn and housekeeping; she wants to clean out the closets; and she wants to really learn to cook. That all sounds very cozy and warm, but please don't think that Marcia has checked out of Serials World altogether. She is absolutely available for consulting work and any other kind of professional activity that strikes her fancy.

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Live from the Internet and beyond...Care for a bite?

      This year marks the 100th anniversary of the writing of the most famous vampire novel of all time, Bram Stoker's Dracula. In honor of this occasion, the following web sites offer some vampire lore, movies, and information you can really sink your teeth in to!

Lynn Eades

Dracula
http://www.emerald-empire.com/holidays/hallowee/dracula/draculachapter1.html
http://www.literature.org/Works/Bram-Stoker/dracula/

Dracula's Guest (Originally part of Dracula, but taken out by the publisher. It was published after Bram Stoker's death as a short story)
http://doncaster.on.ca/~vampyre/electext/dracsgst.html

A Bibliography of Seondary Sources for Students Studying Dracula
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/drac.bks

Vampire Movie List
http://www.netaxs.com/~elmo/vamp-mov.html

Dracula's Homepage (even the undead have web pages!)
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/

Transylvanian Society of Dracula
http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/Recreation/TSD/tsdhompg.html

Banu Bogdan - The Real Story of Dracula
http://www.byu.edu/~banub/text/dracula.htm

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