Library Office Notes |
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign |
No. 11, March 26, 1999 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 |
| Congratulations The UIUC Campus Research Board has approved Jane Block's request for support of a project entitled, Art Nouveau in Belgium: A Re-evaluation.
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Death Former cataloguer, Charles Burdick, 79, died March 18, 1999, in Harlingen, Texas. (Bill Maher) |
MARCH LIBRARY EXHIBITS
Cupid's Corner
Undergraduate Library Media Center
Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros
Latin American Library Services
New Years Around the World
Newspaper Library Exhibit Case
Women's History Month and the UIUC Women's Studies
Program's 20th Anniversary
Women's Studies and Women in International Development Library
Voyage of the Beagle
Natural History Survey Library, 196 Natural Resources Building
Barbie ... 40 Years and Still a Doll
Communications Library
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Visits of University Librarian Candidates In the next few weeks, the Search Committee will be bringing four candidates for the position of University Librarian to the campus for two and one-half day interviews. Each of the candidates will be making a presentation to the campus community entitled: "Leadership Challenges in Research Libraries Today: Issues and Strategies." EVERYONE is invited to attend these presentations and the receptions that will follow for the candidates. Please notify everyone in your unit of these events and try to make arrangements so that as many library faculty and staff can attend as possible.Joseph L. Branin
Dean of Libraries
SUNY at Stony Brook
Presentation -- March 25, 1999, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 180 Bevier Hall
Reception -- March 25, 1999, 5:00-6:15 p.m., Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion, Law Building
Suzanne Thorin
University Dean of Libraries
Indiana University-Bloomington
Presentation -- April 7,1999, 4:30-5:30 p.m., 180 Bevier Hall
Reception -- April 7, 1999, 5:30-6:45 p.m., Colonial Room, Illini Union
Barbara Dewey
Assistant Director
University of Iowa Libraries
Presentation -- April 15, 1999, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 180 Bevier Hall
Reception -- April 15, 1999, 5:00-6:15 p.m., Colonial Room, Illini Union
Paula Kaufman
Dean of Libraries
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Presentation -- April 22, 1999, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 180 Bevier Hall
Reception -- April 22, 1999, 5:00-6:15 p.m., Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion, Law Building
The Search Committee would appreciate receiving comments on the candidates from those attending the presentations or meeting with the candidates. Such comments should be sent to Richard Herman, 217 Swanlund Administration Building, or they can be sent to the following email address remartin@uiuc.edu. Library members of the search committee would appreciate receiving copies of comments.
The following are on reserve in the Library Science Library
1. Interview schedule for Joe Branin. He arrives on campus for his first activity at 3:00 (Library and Grainger Tour) and does not finish up until 3:00 p.m., Friday, meeting formally morning, noon, and night during that time with well over 50 people from inside and outside the library. Library meetings include Admin. C., Exec. C., LSSC, Administrative Group, plus a variety of individuals. Campus officials he will meet with either individually or in groups include Provost Herman, Chancellor Aikin, Associate Provost Roger Martin, Associate Chancellor Steve Schomberg, Associate Chancellor Richard Wilson, Deans, Chair of the Senate Council, Associate Provost Walter Tousey, Associate Chancellor Judith Rowan, Associate VP for Planning and Budgeting Stephen Rugg, heads of academic departments.
2. Branin's Vita
3. One article by each of the candidates chosen by them as representative.
Vitae and schedules for the other candidates will be added as they are available.
Library Members, Search Committee
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Minutes of the Library Staff Steering Committee MeetingMarch 10, 1999
Present: A. Bendell, A. Conrad, J. Gammon, P. Lindell,
B. Trumpinski-Roberts, E. Wade (floating Admin Serv. Rep.), D. Walter,
G. Witte
1. Minutes of the February 24 meeting were approved as revised.
2. Reports
Library Reconfiguration report was given by Alan Conrad and Gil Witte. The tentative plan for each floor was presented for discussion.
3. Updates
A. LSSC members are on the group to meet with University Librarian candidates.
B. G. Witte is working on the revision of directories in the Library and recommends that the brown directories be removed. He will talk to Bart Clark about this matter.
C. Tonia Roundtree of the Map & Geography Library is the 1999 ALA Scholarship recipient.
4. Discussion
A. A staff listserv was considered but will not be pursued at this time.
B. Members discussed staff participation on committees/task forces.
LSSC would like to encourage staff to attend the 'Soaring to Excellence' teleconferences.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Gammon
Transcriber
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