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Librarians and other library staff at UNC-Chapel Hillapel Hill are well represented on two of the three "Goverance Bodies" -- The Faculty Council and the Employee Fourm (the third "Goverance Body" is Student Government). Both the Council and the Forum are making decisions which affect you and your library. Stay in touch with the current issues the Council and the Forum are currently addressing by reading the Gazette or Daily Tar Heel, or visit their web sites. Contact your representative with comments and suggestions.
The Faculty Council at UNC-Chapel Hill comprises 70 members elected from 16 electoral divisions of the General Faculty plus 12 members of the Executive Committee of the Faculty Council. Each member serves a term of three years, with no more than two terms in a se ven year period. The Council also includes a number of ex officio members, such as the Chancellor, Provost, certain Deans, Chair and Secretary of the Faculty, etc. The Council meets monthly September through April.
On behalf of the General Faculty, the Faculty Council exercises legislative powers regarding educational policies, rules, and regulations; requirements for admissions, programs of study, and award of academic degrees; recommendations for honorary degrees and special awards; regulations governing student conduct that affect academic standards of performance; and establishment of committees of the Council. In an advisory capacity, the Council can make recommendations to academic units, offer advice to the chancellor, and discuss and resolve upon matters relating to the life of the University.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Employee Forum is a group of Staff and EPA Non Faculty Employees elected by their peers. Delegates' two-year terms are staggered so about half of the 45 delegate positions turn over each year. All 45 alterna te positions are elected each year. The Forum's electoral divisions are based on federal job classification definitions.
The Employee Forum serves in an advisory capacity to the chancellor on concerns of Carolina's SPA and EPA nonfaculty employees. It meets the first Wednesday of each month. The Employee Forum seeks to continually improve the quality of life at The Univers ity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Students, Faculty, and Employees through mutual understanding, recognition of Employee contributions, and respect for the worth of the individual.
The Forum's mission is to address constructively the concerns of UNC-Chapel Hill
Employees by:
Recently elected delegates and alternates to the Employee Form from the libraries begin their terms January 1, 1998 and include:
Delegates:
The Employee Forum website at http://forum.unc.edu// includes information on Forum committees, meeting agendas and minutes, the Forum's internal procedures, and much more. To subscribe to the list forum@listserv.oit.unc.edu, send e-mail to listserv@unc.edu, include subscribe forum your name in the body of the message, and leave the subject line blank Or to discuss an issue with over 250 fellow University Employees, e-mail the list at forum@listserv.oit.unc.edu. You can check out previous di scussion on the unc.forum newsgroup.
--Geneva Holliday
More and more journals are making their table of contents available via the web. Some even make selected full-text articles available. The following list of journals are useful in keeping up to date with what is happening in the onlineworld.
Online/Database/eMedia
http://www.onlineinc.com/index.html
Searcher: The magazine for database professionals
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/srchrtop.htm
Computers in Libraries
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/ciltop.htm
ZDNet (PC Magazine, Internet User, etc.)
http://www5.zdnet.com/
Internet World
http://www.internetworld.com/
NetGuide
http://www.netguide.com
Ariadne (UK)
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
NetscapeWorld
http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/index.html
--Lynn Eades
Available since 1996, the Web version of OCLC Participating Institutions is at http://www.oclc.org/oclc/forms/pisearch.htm. This version is updated weekly rather than every six months and can be searched by institution name, OCLC symbol, city, state, co untry, network, or supplier type.
--Lucinda Thompson
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Davis Library
Dr. Joe Hewitt attended ARL in Washington, D.C. October 14 through 17. He will attend a CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) and EDUCOM conference in Minneapolis from October 25 through 31.
Mike van Fossen attended the Readex International Documents Seminar in Chester, Vermont, from October 9 through 12.
NCLA attendees from the Catalog Department: Rodger Harris, Janet Flowers, Betty Mehan-Black, Frieda Rosenberg, Margaretta Yarborough, Anita Booth, Brenda Ambrose-Fortune, and Page Life.
As retiring Chair of the RTSWL of NCLA Betty Mehan-Black passed the gavel to Marilyn Miller. Betty will serve on the board of the RTSWL as past chair for l998-2000. At the NCLA conference her last duty as chair was to hold a business meeting and host the luncheon meeting with Margaret Maron as speaker.
Janet Flowers attended the NCLA preconference on Staffing Issues in the Year 2000. Janet was Chair of the Resources and Technical Services Section committee which presented one program on outsourcing and four table talks at the conference proper. For the upcoming biennium she will be resting on her laurels and serving as the committee's past chair.
One of the table talks was held by Margaretta Yarborough. Margaretta's talk, which drew a large audience, presented an overview and highlights of OCLC's PassPort for Windows product. After the formal presentation Margaretta answered questions about UNC's experience with PfW and led a discussion on the topic.
Health Sciences Library
Barbara Tysinger attended the SOLINET Class Fun with OML, September 19, 1997, in Blacksburg, VA.
Julia Shaw-Kokot, Lynn Eades, Bridget Loven,
and Kevin Morgan, SILS Graduate Student, presented
a poster session Information Skills for Distance Learning at the UNC Workshop
on the Use of Technology for Distance Education, September 25 at NC State
in Raleigh.
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The annual LAUNC-Chapel Hill Fall Social was held on September 25. It was well attended this year even though there were several other events also scheduled that afternoon. It was held in the Student Union this year because Toy Lounge is under renovation.
Most of the food was prepared by Tripodi's Catering. The desserts were particularly delicious this year. Brenda Ambrose-Fortune, Nancy Frazier and Frieda Rosenberg donated beautiful fall flowers from their gardens. Jeff Beam and Ruth Sills did a terrif ic job of designing several flower arrangements. The flowers were really wonderful this year. A larger than normal number of people paid their membership dues at the Social. If you haven't sent your dues in yet, please take the time to do it.
Please join me in thanking the LAUNC-Chapel Hill Program Committee who made the arrangements for the Social this year: Linda Brett, Linda Frank, Byrnn Mays, Harry McKown, Betty Meeham-Black, Ruth Sill and Mary Ellen Tucker.
--Sandra Dyer
November 25 there will be a LAUNC-Chapel Hill Program at 2:00 in the Pleasant's Family Assembly Room. Ridley Kessler, Barbara Levergood and Mike Van Fossen will speak on
November 20: A Feeling for Books: "The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Midle-Class Desire" Talk ~ 5:30 pm, Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library. Refreshments at 5 pm.
December 10: Allan Gurganus reading from his latest works Talk ~ 5:30 pm, Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library. Refreshments at 5 pm.
December 11: "Winter Stories" with Jeffery Beam and Maggie Hite 5:30 pm, Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library. Refreshments at 5 pm.
AUL Forum:A panel of the Academic Affairs Library associate university librarians will assemble to report on the state of things from 2:30 to 4:00 in Wilson Assembly Room on Wednesday, November 19. Mark your calendars. It promises to be a lively affair.