University Library Information Bulletin

LIB-March 16, 2005 - #E-11

UIC Ambassadors Program
Nominations for UIC Ambassadors are now being accepted by Student Leadership Development and Volunteer Services, which is a program of Student Development Services. Please make this announcement available to all faculty, staff and students in your unit.

The UIC Ambassadors Program is currently seeking students who maintain academic excellence and display the characteristics of a student leader. The UIC Ambassadors are the official envoys of the University and represent UIC in a public relations capacity both on and off campus.

UIC Ambassadors are selected based on academic excellence, achievement, character, and motivation. Nominees must possess a 3.0 grade point average, good communication skills, sincerity, integrity, poise, and a commitment to fulfilling all responsibilities. A selection committee consisting of UIC Ambassadors and administrators will select the nominees that best reflect the student population of UIC.

In addition, students selected as UIC Ambassadors will not only participate in public relations opportunities, they will also be involved in bi-monthly training sessions, annual retreats, and community service activities designed to enhance their leadership skills.

The UIC Ambassadors Program is a great opportunity for students to interact with their peers, learn more about UIC, and enhance their leadership skills through service to the University community.

All nominations are due by Friday, March 18, 2005, and should be forwarded to Student Leadership Development and Volunteer Services, 390 UIC Student Center East (formally known as Chicago Circle Center), 750 S. Halsted, MC 330, Chicago, IL 60607. Nominations may be submitted by fax to 312-413-9365 or via our Web site (Click on Student Development Services and then Student Leadership Development and Volunteer Services).

If you have any questions or need additional information, please do not hesitate to contact Elizabeth Dooley at ext. 6-4500.

ALA President's Program Webstream
Captioned text and streaming video of the 2005 Midwinter Meeting ALA President's Program are now available via the ALA Web site for the benefit of ALA members who were unable to attend the Boston conference or those in attendance whose conference schedules did not permit them to attend the program.

The President's Program, entitled "Creating an Advocacy Epidemic," featured keynote speaker Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference," and a panel of speakers who discussed how to enhance the image of and increase support for libraries, librarians and library workers. Those participating in the panel discussion were moderator Patricia Glass Schuman, past president of ALA and founder of ALA's Library Advocacy Now (LAN) initiative; Margaret Blood, founder and president of Strategies for Children, a Boston-area non-profit organization devoted to improving the well-being of children and families by moving their issues to the top of the agendas of communities, states and the nation; Nancy Talanian, director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, an organization that encourages communities to take an active role in guarding their civil liberties against the USA PATRIOT Act and other laws and policies that threaten them; and Sergio Troncoso, award-winning author and library advocate from New York, who has never forgotten his hometown library in El Paso, Texas. Troncoso's work includes "The Last Tortilla and Other Stories," which won the Premio Aztlán and the Southwest Book Award, and "The Nature of Truth," a novel about righteousness and evil, Yale and the Holocaust.

On the ARL Server (Mar. 14, 2005)

NEW ITEMS ON THE ARL SERVER:

January/February 2005 E-News for ARL Directors

ARL Membership Meeting, May 2005 - Preliminary Information

Guide to the NIH Public Access Policy Information and recommendations for researchers and librarians to support the new NIH policy - including the release of a finalized Author's Addendum

2005 Service Quality Evaluation Academy Accepting Nominations - Deadline is April 1, 2005

MEETINGS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

See the full ARL/OLMS 2005 calendar

Online Lyceum Course: Designing for the Web, March 28 - April 22, 2005

Online Lyceum Course: Licensing Review and Negotiation, April 4 - May 6, 2005

ACRL preconference workshop, Outcome Assessment Tools for the Library of the Future: Measuring Service Quality (LibQUAL+TM) and the Impact of Networked Electronic Services (MINES), April 7, 2005, Minneapolis, Minn.

SPARC-ACRL IR Workshop: Building a Successful Institutional Repository: An Introduction for Smaller Libraries Workshop, ACRL 12th Annual Conference, April 8, 2005, Minneapolis, Minn.

Online Lyceum Course: Measuring Library Service Quality, April 25 - June 3, 2005

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.

Daley Library Special Collections

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 availabilty of ACCC run servers like tigger, mailserv, icarus, calendar, etc.

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

CMLS Workshops (including online registration)
UIC staff interested in attending any workshop must first secure permission from their supervisor to attend and justify why the library should pay for their participation. The request requires review by the University Librarian, who will make the final decision.

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.

Web sites You Should Know About

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 Area Librarians' Calendar (published by the Chicago Library System):

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, archaeology, 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.

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

2005

• Steering Committee Minutes, 02/16/05

Steering Committee
Minutes - Feb. 16, 2005

Attending: M. Berta, A. Bloss, M. Case, R. Daugherty, J. Dorsch (phone), E. Guss, A. Ford, S. Jacobson, W. Jones, J. Lambrecht (Chair), H. Malinowksy, V. Pifalo (phone, recorder) C. Scherrer, E. Schellhause, J. Shuler, E. Starkman, A. Weller

1. Approval of minutes of the meeting of Feb. 9, 2005 - approved as written.

2. As an addition to the agenda, Case made the following report.

Update on the three searches
Offers have been made on two positions (Cataloging, Maps).

A decision was made not to fill the Manager of Systems position at this time.

The speaker for the Nakata Lecture will be Provost Tanner. The topic is scholarly publishing. The Lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2005, from 3 - 6 p.m.

3. A reminder was given to use the listserv, lib-steering, when directing email for the Steering Committee.

4. Reorganization

Members of the committee received background information about technical services prior to the meeting from two groups, PDQ and an ad hoc group. Daugherty and Shuler provided brief remarks to lead off the discussion. Points raised during the discussion included:

Technical services functions are spread throughout the library
Balance between standardization (control) and decentralization (efficiency)
Users are indifferent to our organization structure
Technology has altered relationships
Budgetary and cultural obstacles to an AUL model
The structure between department heads and Steering should address coordination, training, and planning for the future
Balance between department head and staff involvement
Need for concise charges for new groups and accountability for chairs
Need to restore sense of empowerment
No decision was reached. Discussion will continue at a future meeting.

5. Institutional Repository

Members of the committee received a recommendation for the Institutional Repository Task Force prior to the meeting. Weller reviewed the document and its recommendations which are intended to lay the groundwork for a university-wide initiative. Components of the plan include:

Allocation of staff
Pilot projects at library and university levels
Development of standards
Establishment of oversight committee at campus level
Funding for server
Library roles

After discussion, the recommendations were approved and the task force was advised to report back to Steering, if obstacles arise. It was also agreed that Daniel Enoch should be invited to task force meetings. Starkman and Weller will coordinate on Systems issues.

6. Future of the Arcade(s)

Starkman led this discussion which was brought on by the need for significant funds for the Arcade. Handouts were distributed which highlighted the history of the Arcade concept since 1991 and summarized the use made of it recently. It was noted that the number of visitors is not big, attributed to alternative services elsewhere on campus now. It was stressed that the current value of the Arcade is in providing a centralized resource for equipment for library staff and as an additional resource for digitization projects. It was noted that the Arcade at LHS is tied into the future development of Room 109. The discussion appeared to end with a consensus that the mission of the Arcades and its existence as a distinct place with designated staff should be revisited. The potential for integrating it and blending it into other operations was noted.