Congratulations To:

The 2002-2003 Library Retirees: Shymala Balgopal, Marianna Choldin, Lloyd Duitsman, Deloris Holiman, Karen Kaiser, Carol Penka, Jim Remington, Lucille Roberts, Nancy Romero, John Shumard, James Williams, and Lynda Wirth.  Please join the Social Committee for a Retirees Party on June 4 from 2:00-4:00pm in Illini Union Room A.

Margaret Chaplan is being awarded the Distinguished Member Award by the Business & Finance Division of the Special Library Association. This award will be presented to her on June 10, 2003 at the SLA meeting in New York.

Yoo-Seong Song and his wife are the proud parents of a baby girl, Grace, born May 21 at 5pm.  She weighed 6lbs, 15oz.  Mother and daughter are doing fine.

Kim Reynolds is one of the recipients of the Civil Service Employees and Dependents Scholarship for the 2003-2004 academic year.

Gregg Homerding, President of AFSCME Local 698, recently notified Library Administration that Kate Swan has been appointed as a member of that Local's Health & Safety Committee. Kate's role will include gathering information about health and safety issues and concerns. Contact her at kswan@uiuc.edu or 333-0827 - Map & Geography Library.

Priscilla Yu has been re-elected as Vice-Chair of the Senate Executive Committee for 2003-2004.

Communications from Library Committees:

Minutes:

Cataloging Policy Committee
Executive Committee
Integrated System Coordinating Committee
Library Faculty Meetings

Sine nomine, a publication of the Office of Services
User Ed Committee

News & Announcements from Units:

A new web site for the South Asian Collections at the Asian Library has been developed. It includes information and links to several topics in South Asian studies such as: online books, serials, newspapers, languages resources, country studies, UIUC dissertations and program in South Asia.

The Illinois Natural History Survey library has a new web page. It was designed by Jan Phillips, a library graduate student, for an independent studies course. Jan also works for the INHS library part-time. This project was particularly challenging since she had to incorporate the UIUC Library's logo with the design of the new INHS web page. Please take time to check out the new site.

The Undergraduate Library recently received four thousand dollars from the Atius-Sachem Mom's Day Sing 2003 Program. The funds will be used to purchase a new Reference Desk in the Undergraduate Library.

News & Announcements from Library Administration:

Paula Watson has returned from her recent sabbatical and will be taking up a new and important role for the Library as Director for Scholarly Communication and Special Projects. You'll be hearing more about her work as she settles back into her office.

I am very grateful for the strong contributions Paula made as Director of Electronic Information Services. She began and nurtured our electronic resources programs to the point at which they could be integrated into other routine work flow processes. Her knowledge of this field remains very high and I expect that we will be calling on her expertise as it's needed.

Paula Kaufman

Academic Search Position Update

The Office of Collections and the Library Friends are co-sponsoring a booth at the Printers Row Book Fair on South Dearborn Street in Chicago on Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th. The Fair runs each day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is no admission for the event which includes exhibits by over 190 booksellers and library programs on seven stages for children and adults.

The Library's table will be located at booth FF just two doors north of the Culinary Tent. Anyone form the University Library who is planning to attend the Fair is invited to stop by and sign up for the raffle for a free Library sweatshirt. If you want to spend some time as a volunteer helping with the sale of books, stationery, art prints, and bookbags, contact Roxanne Frey to sign up for a time to work. 

Roxanne Frey can be reached by email at frey@uiuc.edu or by phone at 3-5685.

News from the Field:

THIS WEEK AT THE ILLINOIS STATE LIBRARY

Congratulations to Illinois State Library Advisory Committee Member Carol Little on being selected as one of ten Spotlight on Service award winners during ceremonies held this week in Springfield.

WGN-TV Chicago anchor/reporter Allison Payne agreed this week to serve as Master of Ceremonies of the dedication ceremony for the Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois State Library June 6th.

The Illinois Center for the Book and Red Baron Pizza are co-sponsoring a booth at the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago June 7-8.

ISL Collection division staff member Earl Huston attended a preservation workshop at Illinois State University.

A number of State Library staff participated in conference calls regarding the ILLINET Online Acquisition Subsystem and the OCLC group catalog pilot project.

ISL Technical Services staff obtained additional OCLC Connexion training.

Former ISL staffer JoAnn Passarelli, now pursuing a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, is back at the ISL doing a practicum.

Upcoming Events

Comings & Goings:

JUNE 2003 LIBRARY EXHIBITS

Brazil Ethnic Relations - Latin American and Caribbean Library Display

Bookbinding: Bringing Together Form and Function - Main Hall Display Cases

Training the Best to Lead the Rest and Fire Safety on Campus - Mueller Display Case – East Foyer

Excilia Saldana (1946-1999) Poeta Afro-Cubana, "Two homelands contained in me" -Modern Languages and Linguistics Library

Florentine Printing of the Fifteenth Century by Christopher Cook -Rare Book Room

Miscellaneous:

The Library Bikers will be hosting their first bike ride and picnic on June 8 at 11:00am. Anyone interested in participating should meet at the Library north entrance near the bike rack. If you have questions contact Peggy Glatthaar in the Phonecenter, 3-8400.