September 1996 Issue: 142

--Brenda Ambrose-Fortune
LAUNC-CH President

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Looking for book reviews on the Web? A good place to start is :
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Books/Reviews/

Four sites you might want to visit are:

Booklist - The digital counterpart of ALA's Booklist magazine.
http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html

Bookpage - a monthly review with a mix of author interviews and reviews focusing on the month's noteworthy releases.
http://www.bookpage.com/

Book Review Quicklist - reviews by Paul Kiesewetter. Semi-interactive collection of brief book reviews. Voice your opinion! or disagree with a review already posted.
http://www2.gol.com/users/paulkies/QUICK.html

Book wire - Includes Computer Book Review, The Hungary Mind Review, and The Quarterly Black Review of Books.
http://www.bookwire.com/

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Barrett, Daniel. Bandits on the information highway. Bonn: O'Reilly & Associates, 1996 HV6773.B3774 1996

Garlock, Kristen L. Building the service-based library Web site: a step-by-step guide to design options. ALS, 1996 Z674.75.W67 G37 1996

O'Connor, Brian C. Explorations in indexing and abstracting: pointing, virtue and power. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1996. Z695.9 O26 1996

Saunders, Laverna M. (ed.) Evolving virtual library: visions and case studies. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996. Z678.A4 U633 1996

Wilson, Lucile. People skills for library managers: a common sense guide for beginners. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1996. Z682.2.U5 W55 1996

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

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Biology Library

Davis Library

Rodger Harris, Margaretta Yarborough and Helen Miller attended ALA in New York in July.

Larry Alford was elected to the OCLC Users Council as a member of the SOLINET Delegation at the SOLINET Annual Memberhip Meeting in Altanta, May 2nd and 3rd.

Institute for Academic Technology Library

Health Sciences Library

Christie Degener attended the 11th annual conference of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) in Albuquerque NM, June 20-23. The conference theme was "Pioneering New Serials Frontiers: From Petroglyphs to Cyberserials." She also attended a pre-conference on "EDI and Related Standards" and currently serves on NASIG's Nominations and Elections Committee for 1996/97.

Brynn Mays joined the staff of the Health Sciences Library as Systems Librarian in July. She recently graduated from UNC and was a graduate assistant at HSL in the Reference Department.

Lynn Eades and Bridget Loven have assumed the editorship of the Technology section of MLA News. Their first column will appear in the August 1996 issue.

Phyllis Ruscella attended the ALA Annual Conference in New York City the week of July 4th. As a member of the LAMA/LOMS Leadership Discussion Group Program Planning Committee, one of her responsibilities was to compile a biblliography in support of the conference program entitled "From Unit Manager to Team Captain: Leadership Skills in the Reengineered Library". Anyone wishing a copy of the bibliography may contact her at ruscella.hsl@mhs.unc.edu. She also attended the NCLA-sponsored workshop called "Book It! World Wide Web Sites for Librarians" held last month and taught by the Distance Learning Coordinator of Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem.

Law Library

Lolly Gasaway, Carol Nicholson, Marguerite Most, Tom French and Sandra Dyer attended the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Indianapolis.

Carol Nicholson attended the AALL Executive Board meetings in Indianapolis.

Sandra Dyer attended the 11 Annual Conference of the North American Serials Interest Group Meeting in Albuquerque.

School of Information and Library Science

Bert J. Dempsey, Assistant Professor, attended the 89th Annual Meeting of the AALL in July in Indianapolis. Professor Dempsey and Robert Vreeland (SILS master's student) were recognized at the ssociation luncheon by Neil Golden, Vice President, Little, Brown, and Co. for receiving the 1996 AALL/Little, Brown, and Co. Research Grant. Dempsey gave demonstrations of the LIBClient software prototype he and Vreeland have developed as a result of that grant.

Claudia Gollop, Assistant Professor, served as recorder and reporter for the Staff Development Committee's program on "Supervising Students Assistants," Recruiting and Hiring group, August 6, 1996.

Edward G. Holley, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor, Emeritus, attended the ALA Conference in NYC, and represented the school at the joint UNC-CH, UNC-G, NCCU, USC alumni reception.

Sydney J. Pierce, Associate Professor, attended the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association in New York City, August 16-18.

Jerry D. Saye, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, stepped down as Associate Dean of SILS on June 30th to return to full-time involvement in teaching and research. Dr. Saye had served in that position since July of 1990.

Diane Sonnenwald, Assistant Professor, received the following grants: "Developing a collaborative model for corporate and university partnerships" (Hoescht-Celanese Corporation Seed Grant), "Strategies and tools to support collaboration across boundaries "(UNC University Center for International Studies and USDE Course Development Grant), and "Optimizing collaboration in battalion staff elements" (U.S. Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program). She also received a certificate/accommodation acknowledging her scientific contributions to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Human Research and Engineering Directorate.

Helen R. Tibbo, Associate Professor, attended the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in College Park, MD on May 3rd, the American Library Association Conference in NYC on July 5-8th, and the SAA conference in San Diego on 8/26-9/1. While at ALA, Professor Tibbo worked on the Library Research Round Table's Steering Committee and chaired the Publications Board meeting, a forum on the Future of the American Archivist, and moderated a session on the use of subject headings in providing access to archival materials at the SAA conference. Professor Tibbo also chaired a meeting of the SAA Task Force on the Future of the American Archivist in Washington, DC, July 26-28.

Undergraduate Library

David Taylor and Gary Momenee attended ALA in July.

Wilson Library

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John Rutledge and Joe Collins' article: "Kottelwesch on the Cutting Board: Analyzing the Literature of Germanistik" has been published in Collection Management 20:3/4 (1996): 73-84.

Jean Blackwell did a presentation entitled "Medical Research Tips" for the Legal Assistants Summer Conference '96, sponsored by the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers. It was held on August 3 at the Hilton in Wilmington, NC.

Barrie Hayes presented the paper "Moving toward a Distributed Education Model: Electronic Database Offerings to a Diverse and Remote User Audience," co-written with Diane McKenzie, at the Special Library Association annual meeting in Boston, June 8-13th.

Julia Shaw-Kokot had a review "EndNote Plus and EndLink 2.0" published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 84 (April 1996): 279.

Bridget Loven had an article "Netscape Quick Tips" published in SEA Currents 14 (July/August 1996): 4.

Lolly Gasaway and Michael G. Chiorazzi edited a new AALL publication: Law Librarianship: Historical Perspectives published by F. B. Rothman, 1996. She also wrote two of the chapters for this publication.

Claudia Gollop, Assistant Professor , presented "Preparing tomorrow's health sciences librarians: feasibility and marketing studies" with Carolyn Lipscomb at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Kansas City, MO, June 3, 1996.

Jerry D. Saye, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, submitted "Catalogs, cataloging, classification, subject indexing, filing," co-authored with Terri O.Saye (Law Library), to the Library Organization for the Libraries entry in the new editon of Collier's Encyclopedia. Dr Saye also submitted "The political commercial archive bibliographical control project: a report." This report was a product of his work as the evaluator of progress made on a four-year U.S. Department of Education grant to the Political Commercial Archive at the University of Oklahoma. This evaluation continued Dr. Saye's eight-year relationship with the Political Commercial Archive as a consultant.

Diane Sonnenwald, Assistant Professor, presented the paper "Communication and knowledge in the design process: A case study oforganizational roles." (refereed) with Leah A. Lievrouw, at the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, in Chicago, Il on May 1996. She also presented the paper, with Leah A. Lievrouw, "Collaboration during the design process: A case study f communication roles and project performance," at the International Conference on Information Seeking in Context (ISIC '96) in Tampere, Finland. She also had published the article "Communication roles that support collaboration during the design process," Design Studies, 17 (1996), 277-301.

H.G. Jones lectured on Inuit art aboard the Russian ship, Akademik Ioffe, along the coast of Greenland in July, and in August he presented a paper "Christian Klengenberg and the Opening of Trade with the Copper Eskimos," at the Inuit Studies Conference held at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's.

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--Robert Dalton

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