President's
Message
LAUNC-CH
Bylaws Revisions
Exhibits
at Wilson Library
Live
From the Internet and Beyond... The Internet, Libraries, and Censorship:
Where should we stand?
Member
News/Library News
President's
Message
LAUNC-CH
Bylaws Revisions
Exhibits
at Wilson Library
Live
From the Internet and Beyond... The Internet, Libraries, and Censorship:
Where should we stand?
Member
News/Library News
I look forward to working with all of you this year to advance the LAUNC-CH goals of providing for the professional growth and development of our members, promoting effective library service within the academic community, and fostering a spirit of coopera tion among members of the library profession. UNC-Chapel Hill is blessed with an abundance of superb librarians working in an array of excellent libraries, and one of the best ways to share our knowledge and experience is to become actively involved in the campus librarians' association.
The officers for 1997-98 are President, Jean Blackwell (Health Sciences Library); Vice-President/President-Elect, Terri Saye (Law Library); Secretary, Carol Pekar (Davis Library); Treasurer, Patricia Vaught (Davis Library); and Past President, Brenda Ambr ose-Fortune (Davis Library). Angie Patteson resigned as Secretary due to a family move to Florida, and Carol has been appointed to serve her term. Thanks to those who have generously agreed to serve as committee chairs: Conference, Lynn Eades and Jill Mayer (Health Sciences Library); Professional Development, John Rutledge (Davis Library); Professional Welfare, Tommy Nixon (Davis Library); Program, Sandra Dyer (Law Library); and Publications, Geneva Holliday (UNC-CH Libraries). They would like to hear your suggestions for program topics and, more important, they would like to have your help as we work together to meet the challenges of an exciting n ew academic year.
--Jean Blackwell
LAUNC-CH President
Ballots for the proposed revisions to the Association's Bylaws were mailed to all Full members in June. Linda Drake reports that 42 ballots were returend. Following are the results of the balloting on the changes to the LAUNC-CH bylaws:
Issue #1: Change in membership 38 for the
change, 4 against the change
Issue #2: Clarification of unexpired term of
Vice President 41 for the change, 1 against the change Issue
#3: Establish Publications standing committee 42 for the change,
0 against the change
Issue #4: Past-President responsible for bylaws
42 for the change, 0 against the change
Issue #5: Annual business meeting
41 for the change, 1 against the change.
The LAUNC-CH bylaws state that an assenting vote by two-thirds of the membership voting shall be required to amend the constitution and bylaws. We have more than a two-thirds assenting vote on all these proposed bylaws changes so they have all been appro ved. The most up-to-date version of
The North Carolina Collection Gallery will be opening a new exhibit in conjunction with The Southeast in Early Maps Conference co-sponsored by the North Carolina Collection and the North Carolinana Society on October 3-4, 1997. The exhibit will feature a pproximately 35 historically significant maps of North Carolina and the Southeast. Entitled "This lande...stretching it selfe to the West...," the exhibition will open during the conference on October 4, and will run until early February.
Libraries have long been advocates for free speech. We hold a banned books week to point out those items of literature that have come under fire. We are outspoken whenever free speech is threatened. Now a new threat has arisen--filtering Internet access in public areas. Cyberporn has been a hot potato since the Internet began. Libraries, especially public libraries, are being told to filter Internet content to protect minors from seeing pornography. The American Library Association has taken the stand that blocking or filtering software does not have a place in libraries. Communities, on the other hand, are writing laws requiring libraries to filter or making the library open to lawsuits if they do not filter. While much of the debate has been at the public library level, the academic library is also at risk. Below are some sites that discuss this issue and give information on what libraries can do to help stem the tide.
ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/oif.html
Internet Blocking and Filtering Software http://netwinds.com/library/filtering.htm
"The Case of the 'Radical' Librarian" http://www.msnbc.com/news/104439.asp
"Fahrenheit 451:2 Is Cyberspace burning?" http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/burning.html
The Internet Advocate http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/~lchampel/netadv.html
Internet Censorship FAQ http://www.spectacle.org/freespch/faq.html
Censorship and the Internet http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/people/paul/Control.Rimm.html
"Purchase of Blocking Software by Libraries" http://www.spectacle.org/cs/library.html
"A Reversal on Libraries and Filters" http://www.msnbc.com/news/105923.asp
Brauer (Math/Physics) Library
A special welcome is extended to Ruth Anne Sill, the new Brauer Librarian as of 4 August 1997. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree (1985) in Comparative Literature from the University of California-Irvine, Ruth completed graduate studies at the Uni versity of California-Berkeley where she earned Masters degrees in English Literature (1992) and Library and Information Studies (1993). Among her diverse library positions in California she worked at Hewlett-Packard Co. (Cupertino), DataCenter (Oakland) , Graduate Theological Union Library (Berkeley), and UC Irvine Biomedical Library (Irvine). More recently (October 1995 - May 1997), Ruth was Associate Librarian at the American University of Paris, France. Her travels also include Austria, England, Ger many, Greece, Mexico, Micronesia (where she resided for five years), Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. Outside of librarianship Ruth enjoys swimming, hiking, cooking, country dancing, and traveling. Ruth's email address is: ruth_sill@unc.edu
Davis Library
Marcia Tuttle attended and made several presentations at the FLICC (Federal Library and Information Center Committee) Acquisitions Institute for federal librarians at the Library of Congress in July.
Margaretta Yarborough, Frieda Rosenberg, Rodger Harris and Larry Alford attended ALA in June. Harris was a moderator for a program which consisted of a presentation and a reactor panel. Bob Almony, Assistant Director for Administrative Services, Univ. of Missouri Libraries, made a presentation entitled "Focus a Fuzzy Picture: Present Your Budget Needs to Those Who Hold the Purse Strings." The reactor panel included Beverly Papai, Director, The Farmington Community Library, Farmington Hills, Michigan and Larry Alford, Senior Assistant AUL, Davis Library, UNC. The entire program was very well received as measured by the need for a larger room and that not one person left the room until the program ended--almost unheard of at ALA.
Natalia Smith attended a workshop "Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives" at Cornell, July 12-18. This intensive one-week training program on the use of digital imaging technology in libraries and archives was organized by the Cornell University Library Department of Preservation and Conservation and intended for info rmation professionals who are responsible for collecting, preservng, and making accessible documentary materials.
Joe Hewitt attended ARL in Albuquerque, NM, May 14-16; and ALA in San Francisco, June 25-30; At an ALA preconference on June 26, he gave a presentation on practical statistics for decision making, sponsored by the Research & Statistics Committee. He also attended IFLA (International Federation of Libraries Association) in Copenhagen, August 30 - Sept. 6. Hewitt is one of ten representatives for the State's public colleges and universities working on the NCLIVE Project. He is one of two of those ten serving on the NCLIVE's Resource Advisory Committee.
Mike Van Fossen is the Guest Editor for the Fall 1997 issue of North Carolina Libraries.The theme of the issue is Government Information. The issue will be mailed out the first of October.
Ridley Kessler is the co-author of an article in the issue: "U. S. Government Electronic Information Service Guidelines."
Health Sciences Library
Barrie Hayes accepted the position of UNCLE Electronic Services Librarian effective September 1, 1997.
Susan Brumley accepted the position of Director of Development effectiveAugust 11, 1997.
Lynn Eades has been accepted as a Senior Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.
Julia Shaw-Kokot attended the Association of American Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, July 12-16.
Phyllis Ruscella accepted the position of Associate Director for Public Services at the Southeast Florida Library Network in July.
North Carolina Collection
Jerry Cotten gave a program on photograph preservation for the Friends of the Harnett County Public Library in Lillington on July 27. He attended the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Chicago, August 25-31, and completed a day-long workshop on digital imaging technology. Bob Anthony attended the Annaul North Carolina Writers Conference in Raleigh, July 25-26. He is currently serving as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect during the 1997/98 year. He has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Thomas Wolfe Society.
Law Library
Robert Vreeland has joined the Law Library staff as a reference librarian. He comes to the Law Library after working as a reference librarian at the University of South Carolina Law Library. He is a graduate of the UNC Law School and the UNC School of I nformation and Library Science.
Lolly Gasaway, Tom French, Marguerite Most, Carol Nicholson, Debbie Webster, and Terri Saye attend the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in Baltimore.
Tom French spoke at the AALL program "Covering the Waterfront"-Africa: a Role for Law librarians in Developing Library Services in Africa."
Carol Nicholson attended the AALL Executive Board Meeting in Baltimore and the National Conference of African-American Librarians as the AALL Representative in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Marguerite Most and Debbie Webster attended the annual conference for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction in Chicago.
School of Library and Information Science
On July 1, 1997, Melissa Cain became the Director of External Affairs for the School of Information and Library Science.
Diane Sonnenwald and Barbara Wildemuth are program co-chairs, with Kris Liberman of Ernst & Young, of the 1998 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting. The theme of the meeting is "Collaboration across Boundaries: Theories, Strategies, and Technology."
Evelyn Daniel and Jerry Saye edited the 1997 ALISE Statistical Report - to be out soon.
Evelyn Daniel attended IFLA in Copenhagen. She also met as part of IFLA 2001 Organizing Committee.
Diane H. Sonnenwald received a $25,000 Hoechst Celanese Corporation/UNC-CH Partnership Seed Grant for the research project: "Developing a collaborative model for corporate and university partnerships," and a $12,500 US Army Summer Faculty Research Award f or the research project: "Towards a taxonomy of fundamental human behavior that affects team performance." She was also recipient of a $7,600 US-DE and UNC-CH University Center for International Studies Workshop Grant to support the 1998 workshop: "Spanning international boundaries in information andc library science research and education." Sonnenwald has been invited by the Association of Commuting Machinery Committee on the Status of Women to be included in their list of "notable female computer scientists." This list is built and maintained by the TAP group (Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science) at MIT. Sonnenwald's publication, "Collaboration during the design process: A case study of communication roles and project performance" appeared in the book, Information Seeking in Context (pp. 179-204), edited by P. Vakkari, R. Savolainen, and B. Dervin. This chapter was co-authored by Leah Lievrouw. Her paper, "From translation to navigation of different discourses: A model of search term selection during the pre-online stage of the search process", was accepted by JASIS. The paper was co-authored by Mirja Iivonen. Mirja Iivonen and Sonnenwald also co-authored a paper, Navigointi hakutermeja valittaessa (Navigation in the selection of search terms), that was accepted by Informaatiotutkimus (Journal of Information Studies).
Barbara B. Moran, Dean of UNC-CH's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) since 1990, has announced that she will step down at the end of the 1997-98 academic year. After a leave, Moran will return to the school's faculty to continue teaching and research activities. "I became a faculty member so I could teach and write and work with students," said Moran. "I look forward to having more time available to pursue those activities." Upon returning to the classroom, Moran expects to teach managemen t of information agencies, human resources management, communication processes and a seminar in academic libraries. Provost Richard Richardson is presently forming a search committee, with the intention of having a new dean in place by July 1, 1998.
On April 28, 1997, Claudia Gollop presented, "Health Information Seeking by Older Urban Black Women," at the Library and Information Services for Seniors Institute, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. She also presented "Consumer Health Information and the Academic Library," at the Westchester Library Association, College Section meeting held in Tarrytown, NY on May 2, 1997. May 24 - 28, 1997, Gollop attended the Medical Library Association Annual Conference in Seattle, WA. and June 26 - July 2, 1997, she attended the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA. July 30 - August 3, 1997, she was moderator of "An Information Exchange: Connecting the African Diaspora," Preconference program of the International Relations Committee of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association at the Third National Conference of African American Librarians held in Winston-Salem, NC..
Bert Dempsey attended the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '97) in Montreal in June and presented the paper, "MESH: Distributed Error Recovery for Multimedia Streams in Wide-Area Multicast Networks." M. Lucas, B. Dempsey, A. Weaver, IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC '97), Montreal, CA, June 1997, pp. 1127-1133. Dempsey attended 1997 ACM Conference on Digital Libraries in Philadelphia in July and gave a poster session on his Internet tool for legal researchers: "LIBClient: An Internet Legal Research Tool," Bert J. Dempsey and Robert C. Vreeland, Proceedings of 2 nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, Philadelphia, July 1997, pgs. 258-259. (extended abstract)