President's MessageWorkshop LAUNC-CH SocialLiveFrom the Internet: Ready for the Millennum?LibraryNews/Member NewsRenew or Join NowAs this year's LAUNC-CH President, I look forward to an exciting and productive year. As we begin to plan upcoming events, keep in mind that our mission is to provide professional growth and development for our members, promote effective library service within the academic community and foster a spirit of cooperation among members of the library profession.
The officers for 1998-99 are President, Terri Saye (Law Library); Vice-President/President-Elect, Eileen McGrath (N.C. Collection, Wilson Library); Secretary, Brynn Mays (Health Sciences Library); Treasurer, Betty Waynick (Davis Library); and Past President, Jean Blackwell (Health Sciences Library).
Thanks to those who have agreed to serve as committee chairs: Conference, Carol Tobin and Rita Moss (Davis Library); Professional Development, Diane McKenzie (Health Sciences Library); Program, Betty Meehan-Black (Davis Library); and Publications, Geneva Holliday (UNC-CH Libraries). I am sure that these committee chairs would welcome suggestions for program topics and would like to have your help throughout the coming year. LAUNC-CH desperately needs volunteers for the Professional Welfare Committee, both a chair and committee members. If you would like to volunteer your services, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Don't forget our first program of the year is the Fall Social on Sept. 15th at the Student Union from 3-4:30. .
Terri Saye, LAUNC-CH President
The Resources and Technical Services Section (RTSS) & the Library and Administrative Management Section (LAMS) of the North Carolina Library Association are co-sponsoring a workshop.
Title: "Moving Ahead While Honoring the Past: Assessing Our
Operations"
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998
Location: Friday Center, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
This workshop promises to be a very valuable learning resource. The intent is to share tools and perspectives on the assessment process. As a member of both the LAMS and RTSS Boards, Janet Flowers recommends this event highly. The web site gives detailed information regarding the program and speakers. If you would like further details, please contact Janet at jflowers@email.unc.edu or Lisa Smith at lisa_smith@unc.edu.
Please visit the RTSS website for details about the planned program and registration for the workshop: http://www.unc.edu/~ldsmith/rtss/wksh98.htm (There is a link to the workshop information from the NCLA homepage via the Resources & Technical Services Section.)
The Librarians Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the LAUNC-CH Social. It will be held on Tues. Sept. 15 from 3-4:30 in Rm 211-12 of the Student Union.
Please come to meet with colleagues, enjoy fine food and conversation and renew your dues. We hope you will be able to attend.
Betty Meehan-Black
We are all aware of the problems which may abound when we reach the year 2000 and all those computers and software programs begin to believe we have traveled back to 1900. To help you cope with this Y2K problem, here are lots of sites concerning this issue.
Bill attended the 30th annual meeting ("Recall the Past, Capture the Present, Anticipate the Future") of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc. at Harvard University, 9-12 June 1998. In addition to a series of lectures the conference group made a tour of the magnificent Ware Glass Flower Collection at Harvard.
Frieda Rosenberg gave a workshop entitled "Do Holdings Have a Future?" at the NASIG Conference in Boulder, CO on June 20. With a partner, Mary Ann Van Cura, she gave a day-long introduction to the USMARC Format for Holdings [imagine holdings for 7 hours straight] under NASIG and SOLINET sponsorship in Atlanta, Aug. 7. On Aug. 12, she conducted a training session at the University of California at Davis in the use of the DRA MFHL program.
Andrew Hart, Preservation Librarian, has been elected to a three year term as Secretary for the Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) of ALCTS. He has also been appointed as chair for the PARS Policy, Planning and Research committee for the coming year. This semester Andy is teaching INLS 254, Preservation of Library and Archive Materials, for SILS.
Brenda Ambrose Fortune, Joe Collins, Carol Pekar, Jill Shires, Lisa Smith, and Patricia Vaught attended a SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative Program) workshop at the Library of Congress on June 25. The workshop was designed to instruct catalogers on the guidelines for submitting subject heading proposals for inclusion in the national subject authority database. Joe Collins, Carol Pekar and Lisa Smith also attended a special SACO workshop entitled "Proposing Geographic and Historic Event Subject Headings for LCSH" which was held at the Library of Congress on June 25.
Joe Collins and Jill Shires attended a workshop entitled "Hands-on Introduction to Cataloger's Desktop" at the Library of Congress on June 26. Cataloger's Desktop is an electronic database providing access to many of the Library of Congress' most important cataloging tools.
Joe Collins attended a workshop entitled "Using Subject Access Tools in Classification Plus" (the electronic version of the LC classification schedules) on June 26 at the Library of Congress.
Music catalogers Brenda Beasley and Jill Shires have come over to Davis Cataloging from the Music Library. They will continue to catalog print materials for the Music Library.
Natalia Smith, Digitization Librarian, participated in a meeting "TEI and XML in Digital Libraries", sponsored by the Digital Library Federation, and held at the Library of Congress on June 30-July 1, 1998. Participants of the meeting focused on exploring common problems and common solutions for applications of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in large-scale conversion and encoding efforts, primarily in libraries, as well as the impact of Extensible Markup Language (XML), and XML-conformant TEI, on digital library efforts.
Margaretta Yarborough attended an ALCTS Pre-Conference on International Authority Control in Washington, D.C. on June 26.
ALA attendees from Tech Services included: Brenda Ambrose Fortune, Anita Booth, Joe Collins, Rodger Harris, Helen Miller, Frieda Rosenberg, Tim Sherer and Margaretta Yarborough.
The entire Law Library staff has relocated to new office space following the renovations that occurred during the summer. The members of Public Services staff have moved into their new offices on the main floor of the Law Library. Technical Services is temporarily housed in the former Rare Book Room in the stacks on the third floor. Law Library administration is currently using what will be eventually be the Technical Services area.
Tim Pyatt, Curator of Manuscripts, delivered the paper "Southern Family Honor Tarnished? Uncensored Access to the Walker Percy and Shelby Foote Papers" on September 4 at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Orlando, Florida.
The new Rare Book Collection exhibit, coming in October, will be "Poets at Gehenna, 1959-1995."
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