Congratulations To: Development who won a CHAAMPS Award from the C-U Ad Club for the 2002-2003 Library Annual Report.

The Research and Publications Committee is pleased to announce the funding of an RPC grant to KC Elhard (Cataloging) for further funding on the project on Arcimboldo's Librarian.

To read a list of other recent awards, please go to:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/committee/rpc/awards03.htm

Communications from Library Committees:

Minutes:

Administrative Council

Cataloging Policy Committee

Collection Development Committee

Electronic Resource Work Group
Executive Committee
Integrated System Coordinating Committee
Library Faculty Meetings

Sine nomine, a publication of the Office of Services

Staff Development and Training Committee

Staff Development & Training Calendar

Strategic Planning Committee
User Ed Committee

News & Announcements from Units:

The BEL welcomes Carissa Holler, half-time academic professional and GA supervisor. Carissa is a recent GSLIS grad, with an MBA in Finance from the University of Iowa.  She has worked in the consulting and accounting fields, as well as possessing supervisory experience. Carissa also works half-time in the Academy of Entrepreneurship at the College of Business.  She works in BEL in the afternoons.

Assistant Professor Yoo-Seong (BEL) works half-time as the ILIR and Economics Librarian.  You can find Yoo-Seong at M-Thur at BEL in the mornings and pm at the Labor Library.

FALL 2004 PARTICIPANTS
 

News & Announcements from Library Administration:

CAMEL          Squad

No organization can afford to provide staff year-long for tasks whose workloads require only occasional extra effort.  By providing help when help is needed, Library resources can be allocated to support core services throughout the year.  We will start out this pilot as a part-time team.

The CAMEL Squad is designed to provide assistance for tasks that require occasional, but predictable, additional staff as well as to provide coverage in emergency situations when Divisional backup is unavailable.

CAMELS Members:

Sandy Wolf, Team Leader, LSX

Anna Gerard, BEL

Betty Smith, STX

Kathy Wright, UGX

CAMELS’ members will be assigned to provide assistance to these operations:

• Reserves (Assigned Readings) - Aug/early Sept; mid-Dec/Jan
• IRRC - late Oct/Nov and late March/April
• Main Circulation/Bookstacks - after finals Fall and Spring semesters
• Marking/labeling/bar-coding  - during breaks

CAMELS will also be available to provide emergency coverage in public service units when Divisional backup coverage is unavailable.  Tasks will include

• Opening/closing units (not for a full day or all week)
• Circulation/call slips
• Directional information provision (in-person and phone)
• Reshelving materials as time allows

All unit heads must provide a manual of basic operational procedures, including your unit’s Voyager generic login name and passwords, for CAMEL team members.   Reference help is not included; it is suggested that unit heads should notify their departments or colleges of their absence.  CAMELS is not designed for short project work in individual units such as moving materials, etc. Weekends are not included either.

Division Coordinators need to contact Sandy Wolf via on-campus hotline at 5-9891; From off-campus 265-9891; she can check messages from 9-4 pm as it has voice mail.  It is also listed in the Library Electronic Directory.  For more efficient service, we suggest you fill out a request form camels@library.uiuc.edu.  However, you cannot contact Sandy at the last minute; she needs overnight notice in order to coordinate and contact the members, as well as the units that anticipated help from CAMELS.  Thus, you must contact Sandy by no later than 4pm M-F.  

If Sandy is unavailable, contact Becky Smith, liaison to CAMELS via e-mail camels@library.uiuc.edu

Academic Search Position Update

News from the Field:

June/July 2004 E-News for ARL Directors

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

1.  ARL Board Actions: Includes highlights of decisions made during the July 26-27 Board meeting in Washington DC.

2. Positioning ARL for the Future: A strategic planning retreat held July 27-28 was positive and constructive.

3.  ARL Membership Meeting October 13-14: A significant portion of the
meeting will be devoted to discussion of governance and strategic planning.

4. ARL/CNI Forum on Cyberinfrastructure Set for October 15: Dan Atkins (Michigan) will be the keynote speaker at this non-technical forum.

5.  U.S. House of Representatives Supports NIH Taxpayer Access Measure: Calls on NIH to place authors' final manuscripts in PubMed Central six months after publication.

6.  New Brochure Introduces Open Access: SPARC, ARL, and ACRL help librarians reach out to faculty and academic researchers.

7.  ARL Publishes Results of E-Journal Surveys:  Findings confirm libraries should be tough when negotiating uses of e-resources.

8.  Serials Trends Reflected in the ARL Statistics 2002-03: Libraries appear to be getting more for their serials money.

9. Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Program--Applications Due Sept 1: Five ARL libraries designed and are sponsoring this pilot to prepare the next generation of directors.

10.  IMLS Grant Funds ARL Academy: Careers in Academic and Research Libraries: ARL is partnering with three library schools to recruit, educate, and train graduate students with advanced degrees.

11.  Allied Organizations Endorse Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Strategy: ARL released a paper to facilitate development of policies, standards, guidelines, and best practices.

12.  Educating Campus Policymakers on Copyright: ARL is participating in this effort led by AAU.

OTHER PROGRAM UPDATES

13.  Portal Applications Working Group Issues Final Report: The report summarizes how ARL libraries have implemented such services as cross-resource searching, customized data mining, and Web page personalization.

14.  Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) Transition: Scott Van Jacob (Notre Dame) is now chair of the Advisory Committee.

15.  AAU/ARL Global Resources Network 2005 Financial Strategy: To date, 43 ARL libraries have contributed.

16.  LibQUAL+ Update: Includes notes on spring 2004 survey results, project evaluation, and two R&D projects.

17.  Libraries Register to Participate in Project SAILS Phase III: This phase runs from August 2004 through July 2005.

18.  New Partnership between ARL/OLMS and MLA Announced: The two associations are pleased to offer reciprocal membership benefits for Web-based continuing education courses.

19.  ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce to Hold Leadership Symposium in January in Boston: The symposium will be open to 100 MLIS students funded through the IMLS 21st Century program.

20.  ARL Diversity Program's Graduate Student Database Grows to 180 Candidates: Library administrators and human resource specialists are encouraged to view resumes for openings.

21. ARL Statistics and Measurement Program: Status of Annual Surveys

22. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Update: Includes notes on conference held with JISC in the U.K. and Lippincott award presented to Clifford Lynch.

ARL PUBLICATIONS RECENTLY RELEASED

23.   SPEC Kit 280, Library User Surveys.  Tom Diamond.  June 2004.

24.  ARL Statistics 2002-2003.  Martha Kyrillidou and Mark Young. 2004.

25.   ARL Bimonthly Report 234 (June 2004).

26.  ARL Bimonthly Report 235 (August 2004).

OTHER MEETING & WORKSHOP NOTES

27.  SPARC and SPARC Europe to Host "Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage," November 18-19, in Washington DC: Participants will gain a practical, non-technical understanding of strategies critical to the success of institutional repositories.

28.  ARL/OLMS Associate University Librarian Institute to Be Held October 27-29 in Boston: This institute has been redesigned to focus on the most current leadership issues and provide participants with an opportunity to assess their leadership competencies.

29.  ARL/OLMS Library Leadership for New Managers Program to Be Held September 28-October 1 in Washington DC: This cohort learning program is designed for people with less than three years of management experience.

30.  Upcoming Online Lyceum Courses: Professional Writing Skills, Effective Decision Making, Library Conflict Management, Measuring Library Service Quality, Accessible Web Design, Licensing Review & Negotiation, Power Dynamics & Influencing Skills

OTHER NEWS OF NOTE

31.  U.K. House of Commons Committee Releases Report on Journal Prices and Open Access: Summary provided by Peter Suber, editor of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter.

32.  Information Commons--A Report on Online Communities: This report by the Free Expression Policy Project links the vitality of 21st-century democracy to online information communities.

TRANSITIONS

33. ARL Transitions:  Chicago, Library and Archives Canada, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Penn, Utah

HONORS

34.  ARL Statistics 2002-03 Published in Recognition of Kendon Stubbs
 

Comings & Goings:

SEPTEMBER 2004 LIBRARY EXHIBITS

Speak Your Mind:  Go Vote!-Government Documents – Main Hall Wall Display 

Cases

 Mexican Independence, 1810-1821-Latín American and Caribbean Library

Display

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Higher Education: Scholarship 

and Activism-Main Hall Display Cases

Paris et la Litterature: une promenade sous la pluie-Modern Languages and 

Linguistics Library

The Media and The Politics of Modern Warfare: William Forrest in Spain 1936-38-

Rare Book and Special Collections Library