Library Office Notes

APRIL LIBRARY EXHIBITS

Career Opportunities with the Federal Government
Government Documents Library, Main Corridor, South End, Wall Display

Between Folk and Country:  Contemporary Border Latina/o Sounds
Latin American Library Display

Histories, Cultures and Communities:  Selected Library Resources for LGBT Studies
Main Corridor

Proust in Translation
Modern Languages and Linguistics Library

The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs.   A Unique Professional Development Program for the World's Librarians
Mueller Display Case (East Foyer) (April 10-30, 2000)

I Have a Song to Sing, O":  Arthur Sullivan, 1842-1900
Music Library (April, May and June, 2000)

From Alchemy to Chemistry - Five Hundred Years of Rare and Interesting Books
Rare Boom Room (March 24-April 28, 2000)

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

American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award ... and the Winner is ...
Undergraduate Library Media Center (March 1-May 30)

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

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Wednesday, April 26, 2000
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Grainger Student Commons, Room 233
Grainger Engineering Library--UIUC Campus
1301 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, Illinois  61801

"What Keeps me up at Night:  The Future of Academic Librarianship"

Paula Kaufman
University Librarian at the University of Illinois

"In decades past, academic librarianship was an attractive profession, of interest to both persons with academic training who learned from observation or a student job opportunity that librarianship was a wonderfully rewarding career and to persons training to be librarians whose first choice among all job opportunities was to work in an academic library.  From the end of World War II until about 15 years ago, academic libraries had budgets sufficient to purchase not just those materials needed by today's scholars but materials future scholars were anticipated to need as well...."

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Collection Development Committee
Meeting Minutes
March 28, 2000
Grainger Commons

Present:  S. Clark, D. Burgard, G. Youngen, L. Rudasill, Jane Williams, L. German, N. Romero, D. Holiman, M. Stuart, N. Davis, L. Wiley, L. Miller, M. B. Allen, K. Schmidt

Guests:  B. Sandore, D. Griffiths

1. Digital Media Resource Center:  Beth Sandore discussed the work of her digital imaging office and the way in which we might consider using the services of this office to support our library collections.  Issues of public access, preservation and entrepreneurial ideas are all areas in which the office can offer guidance and expertise.   The committee discussed how scanning can be used for difficult ILL situations (tight binding, rare items) and the procedures for bringing collection ideas forward for possible digitizing.
2. Tangible Digital Products:  David Griffiths presented his revised draft of the TDP guidelines, which addresses how the Library handles CD-ROMs and other data disks. The revisions include recommendations for labeling, preservation copying, and holdings lines.   Committee members are to review the revision with their divisions and report back to the CDC in April.  The final document will be sent on to the Administrative Council for discussion and endorsement.  The committee thanked David Griffiths for his work on this policy and procedure document.
3. Budget Discussion:  K. Schmidt reviewed the work of the CDC Budget Subcommittee. The 60% allocation formula is under development and will be made available to the Library after a few more changes are made in the table and the Library has a better sense of how much money we might be receiving from the state.  We expect to have about $71,000 in one-time money this fiscal year to spend.  The Library Business Office created a spreadsheet showing distribution by subject fund as one alternative.  The general consensus was that such a distribution was not helpful to the funds that might need the extra money and that it generated a large number of orders that are difficult for Acquisitions to handle in the time remaining in this fiscal year.  Other alternatives discussed included having a competition for multi-disciplinary, expensive items, and identifying titles that our users have borrowed repeatedly on ILL and purchasing them. Committee members will ask divisions for any further feedback and report to Karen by Friday, April 7.
4. ILL data:  Karen shared preliminary charts of ILL data that are available from the spreadsheets that her GA is building based on ILL data that Lynn Wiley is sending on. Reports include status of borrower, article versus monograph, and call number.  There will be continued work on these reports for general distribution.
5. LAS report:  Karen distributed the notes from Paula Kaufman’s meeting with LAS regarding library collections and services.  These are thumbnail reports that are useful in highlighting areas of interest and concern.
6. Cancellation web page:  It was suggested that the web page of proposed serial cancellations is being revised to make it clear that these are proposals only, not final decisions.

Next meeting:  April 25, 2000, 2:00-3:30, 428 Library

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Academic Search Position Update

Support Staff Positions Open

Library Clerk III, 50%, Central Circulation, $9.824 per hr
Library Clerk III, 100%, Technical Services, $9.824 per hr

Support Staff Positions Filled

Desiree Yomtoob, Library Clerk II, 50%, Central Circulation,
Carol Nelson, Library Clerk II, 100%, Undergraduate Library
Betsy Karlberg, Library Technical Assistant, Communications Library
Tony Hynes, Library Technical Assistant, Modern Languages & Linguistics

(J. Lowder)

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