Library Office Notes

University of Illinois Library
at Urbana-Champaign

No. 40, October 26, 2001
Edited by:  Dixie L. Trinkle
The deadline for submitting items for publication is
Wednesday at 5:00 p.m.
Send items to L.O.N., 230 Library, MC-522
E-mail:  trinkle@uiuc.edu
FAX: 217-244-4358

OCTOBER LIBRARY EXHIBITS

The Sun-Earth Connection
Government Documents Library, Main Hall Wall Cases

Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Latin American Library Display

The New ACES Library
Main Cases in the Main First Floor Hall

Illini Comeback Guests 2001 -- Celebrating their Student Days at Illinois
Mueller Case, East Foyer (October 14-31)

ACES Library
Rare Book Room

This was their Land:  Native American Indians in the U.S.
Hallway Outside Map and Geography Library

2001 Nobel Prize in Literature:  V. S. Naipaul ...
"a colonial without a past, without ancestors"
Modern Languages and Linguistics Library

Movie Quotes Contest
Undergraduate Library

University of Illinois Library Office of Development and Public Affairs

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Kenny Crews and Joanne Gard Marshall Present Workshops on Copyright and Benchmarking in Urbana on November 15

The Health Sciences Librarians of Illinois (HSLI) statewide annual conference will be held at the Carle Forum in Urbana on November 15 and 16.  Area librarians are invited to register for all of part of the Conference.  On Thursday morning, November 15, Kenny Crews, author of Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators (ALA 2001), will present "Copyright Updates and Issues for Librarians."  In the afternoon, Joanne Gard Marshall, chair of the 1996 SLA committee which developed the "Competencies for Special Libraries of the 21st Century," will conduct "Building Quality through Benchmarking."   Hands-on technology troubleshooting (Kay Cloyes, leader) and web page management (Karen Fletcher of Prairienet) workshops will also be presented.  Late afternoon roundtable discussion leader will include Lynn Wiley (IRRC) and Virgil Varvel (ION).   On Friday, Marshall will present the keynote address, "Libraries for the 21st Century," David Dorman (Lincoln Trail Libraries System) will present a technology forecast, and National Library of Medicine staff will provide an NLM update.

Conference registration fees include breakfast, lunch, and refreshments and are:  $60 ($70, non-members) for half-day Thursday; $85 ($95) for full-day Thursday; $100 ($110) full conference; $15 Friday morning.  Student conference registration rate is $50.

Conference registration and agenda details are available on the HSLI website (www.hsli.org).  For further information, University Library staff and students may contact Victoria Pifalo at Library of the Health Sciences (v-pifalo@uiuc.edu or 333-4893), Susan Barrick at GSLIS (sbarrick@uiuc.edu or 244-9577), Brenda Pacey at the Office of Continuing Education Division of Academic Outreach (bpacey@uiuc.edu or 244-2030), or Conference Chair Nina Pals at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center (Npals@sblhs.org or 217-258-2262).

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Academic Search Position Update

 

Title

Search

Opened

Search

Extended

Search

Closes

Search

Cancelled

Interviews

Scheduled

South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Librarian 01-09-01 03-16-01 03-01-01 Search Closed
Assistant Engineering Librarian 03-12-01 05-01-01 Appointment pending

 

Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning & Policy 06-20-01 08-31-01 Oct 31, Nov 8, 2001
Women & Gender Resources Librarian 06-20-01 08-02-01 Sept 7, & Oct 3, 12 & 17, 2001
Chinese Studies Librarian/Cataloging Coordinator 07-06-01 08-17-01 Oct 26, Nov 2, & 9, 2001
Slavic and East European Library Head 07-06-01 08-17-01 Oct 22, 25, & 30, 2001
Head, Library Systems Office 07-23-01 08-31-01 Interviews pending
Asst Undergraduate Librarian for Diversity Services 09-25-01 11-09-01
Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction 10-1-01 11-29-01
Head, Serials Cataloging 10-23-01 12-04-01
Vis Research Information Specialist Library Systems Office 10- -01 11-21-01

Support Staff Positions Open

Accountant II, 100%, Business Office
Library Clerk II, 50%, Circulation
Library Clerk II, 100%, Commerce Library
Library Clerk III, 50%, Asian Library
Library Technical Assistant, Circulation Library
Library Technical Assistant, Government Documents Library
Supervisor, Security Guard, 100%, Business Office
Security Guard, 100%, Business Office, 3 positions

(J. Lowder)

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