University Library Information Bulletin

LIB-March 08, 2006 - #E-10

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Research Development Services is offering a new workshop on Wednesday, April 12th at 10 a.m. This hands-on workshop will provide an overview of searching for funding opportunities using various online search tools including Community of Science (COS) and Grants.gov. This workshop is intended for new investigators or investigators new to UIC.

The workshop will be held in the Administrative Office Building (AOB)
1737 West Polk Street, Room B-11, training room 11A.
Space is limited to 18 workstations. Please R.S.V.P. Jennifer Czak, to reserve a seat.

NEW ONLINE MAGAZINE FOR TEACHERS OF INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS
S.O.S for Information Literacy announces the premier issue of Educators' Spotlight Digest, the first multimedia, online magazine dedicated to providing information and ideas to teachers of information literacy skills.

Contents of the inaugural issue include:

• a feature story on how kids are using the Web;
• news about relevant information literacy projects and activities;
• tips on how to address copyright issues;
• successful motivational teaching strategies submitted by library media specialists;
• valuable resources available through AASL;
• an article by a guest contributor on transforming research on student motivation into effective teaching strategies;
• amusing and poignant teaching anecdotes by a veteran classroom teacher; and
•archived issues of the publication in its previous format

Educators' Spotlight Digest is edited by Marilyn Arnone, research associate professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Ruth V. Small, professor and director of Syracuse University's Center for Digital Literacy, is associate editor. Educators' Spotlight Digest, published three times per year, is a free, online publication of S.O.S. for Information Literacy, a project of Syracuse University's Center for Digital Literacy, in collaboration with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators, currently in development, that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to children. At no time in history has the ability to locate, organize, evaluate, manage and use information been more critical for today's learners. These skills, collectively referred to as information literacy, lay the groundwork for success in every phase of a student's life both in and out of school.

The "SOS" in the title of the project means more than a call to action to enhance information literacy instruction. It stands for Situation (e.g., grade level, curricula area), Outcome (e.g., information skill(s) to be learned), and Strategies (e.g., teaching ideas or specific techniques and strategies to achieve a desired outcome). The educator can input the situation and desired outcomes, and the information system will suggest possible motivational teaching strategies when a strategy search is used.

On The ARL Server (March 6 , 2006)
News and Publications
• Online Music Services and Academic Libraries by Amanda Maple, The Pennsylvania State University
• The Grokster Decision: The Basics & Key Talking Points by Peggy Hoon, North Carolina State University and ARL
• SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2006

Meetings and Professional Development Opportunities
• Ray English Elected SPARC Steering Committee Chair
• Sunshine Week 2006: Are We Safer in the Dark? A National Dialogue on Open Government and Secrecy, a national teleconference on March 13, 2006
• Living the Future 6: WOW!—Where Next? cosponsored by the University of Arizona Libraries, ARL, and ACRL in Tucson, Arizona, April 5–8, 2006
• Library Assessment Conference Call for Papers—Due April 15, 2006
• Nominations for 2006 Service Quality Evaluation Academy—Due May , 2006
• Application Materials for Graduate School Stipend from ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce—Due June 21, 2006 [PDF]
• ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication, hosted by UCLA, July 12–14, 2006

• Job Posting: Communications and Administrative Coordinator for LibQUAL+™ and Statistics and Assessment Activities [PDF]

Frequently Used Web sites:

UIC Library:

UIC Library Home Page

About the Library
Note:  This site is updated regularly.

CITY2000
A collection of photographs from more than 200 photographers spending 365 days canvassing the city and chronicling its people, places and personality.

Special Collections and University Archives

Employee of the Month Award @ UIC Library

Library All-Staff Meetings

Library Faculty Committees

Library Hours

Library News:
The Library's Electronic Newsletter on Acquisitions and Initiatives

ULIB Search Engine

Others:

ACCC Servers
This page lists the availability of ACCC run servers like tigger, mailserv, icarus, calendar, etc.

CARLI
On July 1, 2005, ICCMP, IDAL, and ILCSO merged to become the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). 2005-2006 will be a transition year for the new organization during which an integrated CARLI website will be developed. Until the transition is complete, please continue to consult this website and those of CARLI, IDAL, and ILCSO.

CIC
An academic consortium of twelve major teaching and research universities in the Midwest.

CRL
A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries acquiring and preserving traditional and digital resources for research and teaching, making them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

ICCMP
Works to meet the diverse information needs of faculty, students, and other library users in Illinois by encouraging cooperative library activity in order to make the best use of resources.

IDAL
Building a collection of full-text and full-image electronic resources that support instruction, study, and research by students, faculty and staff in all eligible Illinois institutions of higher education.

ILA Reporter
(a bimonthly newsletter of the Illinois Library Association)

ILCSO
Enhances and expands access to and effectively utilize information resources through collaborative partnerships among ILCSO members and with the Illinois Library community.

Important Web sites

Caxton Club
Includes information of current area exhibits, special library programs and events of bibliographic interest and speaker schedules for members luncheons/dinners.

Chicago Area Archivists
Includes information on programs and events taking place at archives and manuscript repositories in the greater Chicagoland area.

Chicago Botanic Garden
Promotes gardens and gardening since 1890.

Field Museum
An accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archeology, science and history.

HistoryMakers
Committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories.

ASSOCIATES (ISSN 1077-6613) (OCLC#30846821) The Electronic Library Support Staff Journal
ASSOCIATES was established in 1994. It is intended as a journal written for and about library support staff. Articles may be about any theme, fiction, fact or poetry (or anything else), as long as libraries form the central thesis or background.

Newberry Library
Includes information on programs for the public and a calendar of weekly events.

• ILL Works Meeting, Jan. 04, 2006

ILLWrks Meeting
Jan. 04, 2006, 11:00 a.m.
Daley 1-360

Participating: John Matthews (Daley); Kevin O'Brien (LHS Chicago); Barb Reding (LHS Rockford); Chris Wadle (LHS Peoria)

Agenda

1) Approval of minutes from last meeting: Barb will get minutes of November 02 meeting out by the end of the week.

2) Minolta scanners/LHSC and Daley: LHS Chicago has stopped using its Minolta PS3000 scanner due to poor quality of images. Articles are currently being scanned and sent via Ariel using a flat bed scanner shared with circulation staff.

3) SharpDesk software/potential for use in Daley/LHS C ILL: SharpDesk will be installed on several PCs at LHS Chicago on Jan. 10. This will permit staff to create TIFF or PDF files directly from the Sharp photocopiers/scanners and send them to a PC for delivery via Ariel. SharpDesk has been in use at Daley Reserves for some time now. Kevin will ask for feedback on the quality of the images from the sites after the software is installed.

3) Revising ILL request forms: I-Share/Title/Auth field length in MyILL@UIC forms/Requiring UIC addresses: John reports that some patrons have complained about the limited number of characters permitted in the fields of the MyILL request forms. ILL Wrks will ask that the character limit for the fields be increased. Also, the ILL web pages will need to be updated to reflect the new names I-Share and CARLI. John will communicate with Ellen and Systems to request the changes.

4) Review of pricing categories for Document Delivery services: the Access Services Council has requested that ILL Wrks make a review of the pricing categories for UIC's document delivery services. Kevin is working on this and will request the pertinent information from the sites.

6) Other issues: John has reported the Clio script error message appearing in Clio and ClioRequest since the recent Voyager upgrade. Ling Wang has responded and will report back. John is experimenting with Judd Knight's Clio utility software and will report back. The LHS sites have all upgraded to Clio 5.2.1 and have not experienced any problems with the new version.

Next meeting was provisionally set for 11:00 a.m. on Wed, March 1, 2006 following the Steering Committee meeting.

Minutes by Kevin O'Brien

Kevin O'Brien, UIC Library of the Health Sciences Interlibrary Loan