1999 LAUNC-CH CONFERENCE SPEAKERSNews from RBC and NCCLAUNC-CH ProgramLAUNC-CH Program Report: Academic Universe and
NCLive
LibraryNews/Member NewsJoin
NowExecutive Board and Committees
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
BARBARA MORAN isand a Ph.D. from the State University of New York
at Buffalo. Her interests include academic librarianship, management of
information agencies, human resources management, popular materials,
research methods.
Y2K
LYNN EADES is the Distributed Learning Librarian at the Health
Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. Among her many duties, she is Web
Manager for the library's Web site. She has written several articles on
the Internet and computer related problems. She has taught several
classes on searching the Internet.
FREE FOR THEE AND ME
MICHAEL VAN FOSSEN is the State/International Documents Librarian
in the Reference Department, Davis Library, UNC-CH. An Adjunct Instructor
in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC, he teaches the
course in government information. His publishing in the area of
government information includes contributing to the 11th edition of the
Guide to Reference Books, and co-editing a section in the annual Notable
Documents issue of the Journal of Government Information. He is a
Contributing Indexer to the Hispanic American Periodicals Index and is on
the Editorial Board of North Carolina Libraries. Mr. Van Fossen received
a B.A. in Political Science from UNC-G and an M.S.L.S from UNC-CH.
YOU TOO CAN CREATE A WEB PAGE
GREGORY B. NEWBY received his undergraduate degree with majors in
Communication and Psychology and his Master's degree in Communication from
the State University of New York at Albany. He originally studied mass
media and organizational communication but took a new focus after starting
to make regular use of BITNET and the Internet in the early 1980s. After
his PhD Newby took a position as Assistant Professor in the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois in
Urbana-Champaign from 1991-1997. During this time, he founded Prairienet,
a public-access community computing system. He was also given
responsibility to develop a new technology-based distance education option
for the MS degree at UIUC. He has written on information retrieval,
human-computer interaction, electronic publishing, uses and norms for the
Internet, and new technologies for business use. He is currently an
Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at
the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His research interests
are information retrieval, information space, human-computer interaction,
and new electronic media.
CLOSING SPEAKER
DIANE STRAUSS is Associate University Librarian for Public
Services, Academic Affairs Library and Adjunct Professor, School of
Information and Library Science. Ms. Strauss first came to the University
as Social Sciences Reference Librarian, and was subsequently was appointed
Head of the Business Administration/Social Sciences Reference Department.
She previously held positions at the U.S. Department of Labor, University
of Wisconsin-Madison and Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. She
received her BS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and her MSLS
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ms. Strauss, who was named the
first recipient of ALA's Gale Research Award for Excellence in Business
Librarianship, has served as president of the Epsilon Chapter of Beta Phi
Mu, the North Carolina Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, and
the North Carolina Online Users Group. Her book, Handbook of Business
Information, was named a best reference book by RASD and a best academic
book by Choice.
INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
HELEN TIBBO is Associate Professor /Associate Dean at the School of
Information & Library Science, UNC-CH. She has a B.A. degree from
Bridgewater State College, an M.L.S.from Indiana University, and a M.A.
and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Interests include archives and
records management, information services for the humanities, electronic
information retrieval, and reference service.
NCLIVE
TIM BUCKNALL is the Electronic Information Resources Librarian at
Jackson Library, UNCG. Before moving to UNCG, he worked in the Reference
Department of Davis Library, UNC-CH. Tim has an MLS and MA from Chapel
Hill. He chairs the NC LIVE Web Advisory Committee (WAC).
JACKIE CASE is the Director of the Learning Resources Center at Coastal Carolina Community College. Her previous positions were school media specialist and teacher in the Onslow County Schools. Jackie earned her BS from Western Carolina University and MLS from East Carolina University. She is currently attending NC Central University and chairs the NC LIVE Training Advisory Committee (TRAC).
JANET FREEMAN has been Dean of Library Information Services at Meredith College since 1984. Before going to Meredith, she was Director of Library Services at Wingate College. Janet has an MLS from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University and a BA from UNC-G. She chairs the NC LIVE Publicity Advisory Committee (PAC).
DAVID PAYNTER has been Director of the New Hanover County Public Library since 1982. Prior to this position he was Director of the Florence County Library in Florence, SC and the Assistant Director of the Fairfield Public Library in Fairfield, CT. David received both his BA and MLS from UNC-CH. Currently he serves as chair of the NC LIVE Resource Advisory Committee (RAC).
JOHN ULMSCHEIDER is Associate Director for Information Technology at NCSU libraries. Responsible for information systems development and management for the NCSU libraries, he also is active in development of advanced digital resources and services for research libraries at NCSU and in partnership with Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), comprising Duke, NCCU, NCSU, and UNC-CH. John received his BA from the University of Virginia and his MSLS from UNC-CH. The NCSU libraries is one of two server sites for NC LIVE, and John chairs the NC LIVE Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).
Digitized Humanities Collections
TOM NIXON graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1972 with an A.B. in
English. After a number of years and a variety of jobs ranging from
Social Services eligibility worker to deck hand on a fishing trawler, he
returned to UNC-CH, receiving an M.S. in L.S. in 1990. He has worked as a
reference librarian, first at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library (1990-92),
and since 1992 at Davis Library at UNC-CH. He, along with two of his
Davis Reference colleagues, was responsible for the literature section of
the 11th edition of the Guide to Reference Books. His interests lie in the
Humanities.
GARY PATTILLO is an Electronic Services/Reference Librarian at UNC's Davis Library. He received his MLIS from The University of Texas in Austin and his BS in Education from Texas A&M University. He likes spicy foods.
The history and legacy of French emperor and military strategist Napoleon Bonaparte has come to life for visitors to Wilson Library. Personal letters, graphic images, and even a rare copy of Napoleon's death mask are all part of a free public exhibit January 12 - March 31 in the Rare Book Collection's exhibit area. The exhibit displays some 60 engravings, texts, letters, and documents, all with explanations of their significance. It lead visitors chronologically through the story of Napoleon (1769-1821) from his obscure beginnings to the return of his body to Paris from his last days of exile on the Atlantic island of St. Helena. Highlighting the exhibit was a free, public talk in January by Dr. Lloyd Kramer, UNC-CH history professor and author of the recent book Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 on "Napoleon and the Emergence of Modern European Culture."
North Carolina Collection Gallery staff have been working on several projects since the exhibit "Hard Cash & Hard Times: A History of North Carolina Currency" opened in November. The most recent exhibit is located in the North Carolina Collection Reading Room and features acquisitions from the Reading Room, Photographic Archives, and the Gallery from 1998.
The NCC Gallery now offers a standard guided tour every Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. The tour lasts about 30 minutes and provides an introduction to all Gallery historic rooms and exhibitions. The tour is free and open to the public. Groups are limited to 25 participants. Other tours are still available by appointment. For more information please call Gallery staff at 962-1172.
In two programs held in Davis Library on November 19 and December 8, Gary Patillo, Electronic Services Librarian at Davis, and Paula Hinton, Social Science Reference Librarian at Davis, presented resources available through the Electronic Indexes and Databases section of the Libraries Online Catalogs and Electronic Resources Web site.
Gary focused on Academic Universe, the new version of Lexis-Nexis. While it is less powerful than its predecessor, Academic Universe is substantially easier to use. It is particularly important as a source for news, business information and legal information.
Paula filled us in on the background of NCLive an attempt to level the playing field in terms of information for the people of North Carolina by providing widespread access to many sources of electronic data. She showed us five service providers available through NCLive, including EBSCOHost, CARL NoveList, OCLC FirstSearch, PsycInfo in SilverPlatter, and UMI ProQuest.
In November, Paula Hinton facilitated sessions at NCLA's College and University Section Fall workshop. Cindy Adams attended the workshop.
From Davis Library Technical Services Rodger Harris, Andy Hart, Frieda Rosenberg, and Margaretta Yarborough attended the January ALA mid-winter meeting in Philadelphia. Others from Davis include Diane Strauss, Pat Mullin, Ridley Kessler, and Larry Alford.
Andy Ingham joined the Academic Afffairs Library staff in the position of Systems Librarian, Assistant head of Systems effective February 1.
Marguerite Most has left her position as Assistant Director for Research, Instruction, and Access Services to become Director of the Law Library at the Southern New England School of Law. Martha Barefoot is serving as Acting Assistant Director for Research, Instruction, and Access Services.
Lynn Holdzkom will be co-lead the Society of American Archivists archival cataloging workshop in New Orleans, March 1-2.
Tim Pyatt will assume office as President of the Society of North Carolina Archivists at their April 16th meeting.
H.G. Jones presented a paper on Russia's Wrangel Island at a meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries in Vancouver, British Colombia, on November 6. He attended the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington January 7-10.
Leah McGinnis has been reappointed for another one year term, effective April 1, 1999, as Electronic Reserves Librarian. She was hired in April 1998 to implement the new service of electronic reserves at UNC-CH. She will continue to manage and improve the electronic reserves system with her primary focus being on implementing web access to the e-reserves system and investigating copyright management issues. In addition to her position as Electronic Reserves Librarian, she has also accepted the role as the Undergraduate Library's liaison in the Renovation project. She will work closely with the project managers, architects, contractors and AULs in coordinating the large renovation project.