Library Office Notes

MARCH LIBRARY EXHIBITS

Look How Far We've Come:  200 Years of Census Data
Government Documents Library, Main Corridor, South End, Wall Display

Contemporary Mexican Music Groups
Latin American Library Display

Women's History Month
Main Corridor

Detecting European Style ... Mystery Fiction from the Continent
Modern Languages and Linguistics Library

The Young and the Restless:  Scripts in the
Rare Book and Special Collections
Rare Book Room (through March 30, 2000)

The Advertising Council:  Six Decades of Public Service Advertising
University Archives, Outside Room 19

(University of Illinois Library Office of Development and Public Affairs)

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The Library Colloquium Committee Presents:

"In Words We Trust"
a talk by
ADAN GRIEGO
Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections
Green Library, Foreign Languages and Area Collections
Stanford University

"Sometimes words have a way of escaping from us and in that process they change meaning.  These new meanings express new and different realities of looking at identities, be they ethnic, sexual or personal.  How to capture these identities in our work, whether virtual or real, is one of our challenges as librarians."

Thursday, March 23, 2000
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Grainger Student Commons, Room 233
Grainger Engineering Library--UIUC Campus
1301 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL  61801

Sponsored by the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign

For more information, call:  333-7998
or e-mail:  bstaff@uiuc.edu
or http://www.library.uiuc.edu/colloquiun

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Electronic Information Resources Committee
Meeting Minutes
February 17, 2000

Present:  P. Watson (Chair), G. Youngen, L. Miller, D. Ward, M. Porta, E. Clarage, K. Schmidt, L. German, C. Penka, S. Randall

Absent:  B. Swann

I.  Announcements

A.  Watson announced that A. Trehub has resigned from the Committee.

B.  SilverPlatter and Wilson trials of Art Retrospective Index are on the Gateway.  Everyone is encouraged to test them and give the Committee feedback.

II.  EBSCO Online Implementation

A.  Configuration

EBSCO Online is now available through IDAL.  We will link to it once it has been configured for UIUC.  A task group consisting of S. Randall, P. Watson, D. Ward, L. DuBois, and W. Ma will meet on February 22 to determine appropriate settings in the database administrative module.

B.  Relationship to Existing Resources

Watson pointed out that, with addition of EBSCO Online, we will now have five general or multidisciplinary periodical indexes with some level of full text access:

        ArticleFirst (through ISL FirstSearch)
        Wilson Select Full Text (through ISL FirstSearch)
        Wilson Core (through ILSCO)
        IAC Searchbank (through ILSCO)

ArticleFirst and Wilson Select Full Text currently come to us free.   The State Library appears to be intending to maintain a long-term commitment to provision of FirstSearch databases.  If, and when, a charge-back is initiated, we can expect that it will be a modest fee.  On the other hand, we currently pay $22,000 for Wilson Core and $27,800 for IAC.  Since there may be significant overlap among the five databases, we should evaluate whether it is a good use of resources to continue subscribing to both Wilson Core and IAC.  D. Ward pointed out the UGL had invested considerable effort in adding holdings to IAC.  This and various other factors should be taken into consideration.

III.  Discussion of CD ROM Policy

The Committee discussed the draft CD ROM Policy & Procedures Statement.   P. Watson will revise the draft based on the discussion prior to the next meeting.  K. Schmidt suggested that CDC should also review the draft at their next meeting.

IV.  Prioritizing of E-resource Proposals

A.  MCB
The key requirement of the MCB proposal for e-access to their total journal package is that current subscriptions be maintained.  Relevant selectors will be polled to see if they can live with limitations on their ability to cancel these journals. 

B.  Political Science Abstracts
Funding this source should have a high priority as a basic index for a discipline and also because it would be moving from a CD ROM version to a web version.

C.  Oxford Analytica's Oxweek
The Committee agreed that Oxweek had not lived up to expectations either in terms of content or timeliness and that it should not be renewed.

(P. Watson/D. Keleher)

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Academic Search Position Update

Support Staff Positions Open

Library Clerk II, 50%, Central Circulation, $9.366 per hr
Library Clerk II, 50%, Central Circulation, $9.366 per hr
Library Clerk II, 50%, Central Circulation, $9.366 per hr
Library Clerk III, 100%, Technical Services, Serials Team, $9.824 per hr
Library Clerk III, 100%, Acquisitions Team, $9.824 per hr
Library Technical Assistant, Modern Languages & Linguistics, $13.21-$14.95 per hr
Library Technical Specialist, Music Library, $16.50 per hr
Security Guard Supervisor, 100%, $10.903 per hr

Support Staff Positions Filled

Jane Menkhaus, Library Technical Assistant, 100%, Music Library, 02-28-00

(J. Lowder)

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PROFESSIONAL VACANCY LIST

Copies of job announcement are available from the Library Personnel Office.

JOB TITLE, LOCATION, CLOSING DATE:

Director of Library Services for Distance Education, University of Houston, Houston, TX (applications will be accepted until the position is filled)

Librarian for the Integrated Library System, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC (Applications reviewed upon receipt and accepted until the position is filled)

Collections Librarian for Distance Learning Services, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC (Applications reviewed upon receipt and accepted until the position is filled)

Data Services Librarian, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC (Applications reviewed upon receipt and accepted until the position is filled)

Media Development Librarian, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (March 1, 2000)

Head of Cataloging, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA (March 10, 2000)

Coordinator of Library Instruction, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA (March 10, 2000)

Science Librarian, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA (March 15, 2000)

Preservation Assessment Librarian, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (March 13, 2000)

Health Sciences Librarian, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (March 15, 2000) website at: http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference Librarian, The University of Missouri – Rolla, MO Two positions open.
(March 15, 2000)

Tenure Track, Senior Assistant Librarians for Library User Services, California State University, Los Angeles, CA (April 15, 2000)

Head, Thomas E. Dewey Graduate Library, University Libraries, The University at Albany, State University of New York, (April 17, 2000)

Head, Monographic Acquisitions Section, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (April 21, 2000)

(Joyce Lowder)

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