University Library Information Bulletin

May Anniversaries

Congratulations to those employees hired in the month of May:

Helen Badawi - 29
Veronica De Kowperlandth - 27
Robert Gogo - 25
Priscilla McGlaun - 25
H. Robert Malinowsky - 21
Jay Lambrecht - 20
Emama Mulhim - 18
Gerald Lawrence - 17
Pia Hunter - 10
Rosalva Diaz - 9
Constance Camp - 8
Timothy Bogue - 6
Chieko Maene - 1
Joan Schuitema - 1

Committee Election
Lynn C. Westney, Assistant Reference Librarian, has been elected to the Executive Council of AAHC: The American Association for History and Computing, for a three year term, 2006-2009, effective immediately.

Advisory Board
Lynn C. Westney, Assistant Reference Librarian, has accepted an invitation to join the new advisory board of H-INFO, a revival of H-LIS (which ran from Sept. 24, 1997 to April 4, 2000). H-INFO is an interdisciplinary network for the intersecting interests of librarians, library historians, book historians, archivists, information scientists, and cultural historians.

Top 20 Publication
The article "Testing the Effectiveness of Interactive Multimedia for Library-User Education," by Anne Armstrong, Assistant Reference Librarian, Sandra De Groote, Assistant Health Sciences Librarian (Peoria) and Helen Georgas, Coordinator of Bibliographic Instruction has been chosen as one of the Top 20 Library Instruction articles of 2005 by the ALA Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). An annotated citation to the article will be published in the Top 20 List, which will be included in the June 2005 issue of LIRT News.

Periodicals Project is Completed After 24 Years
In 1981, Nancy John led an examination of the policy for treating periodical collections at the Chicago Circle campus. Public services and technical services departments agreed that periodicals should be fully cataloged, classified, and shelved together beginning in 1982. The policy was followed for new titles, but all other titles remained uncataloged, unclassified, and shelved in several sequences on two floors. Access was through the printed Serials Holdings List, or browsing by title.

In the 1990s, the Catalog Department created brief records in LUIS (the online catalog) for uncataloged periodicals. Sharon Hogan led a massive shifting project that closed the library for several days and brought all Main periodicals together in two sequences on 2 South. Selected cataloged and classified volumes were sent to the Warehouse, but well over 4,000 titles -- about 100,000 volumes -- remained shelved by title.

In 2001, a project was launched to complete the cataloging and classification of all Daley Library periodicals. Staff who participated included Bob Malinowsky and other bibliographers; Asha Limaye, Tom Ward, and other catalogers; Donald Mankin, Genelle Meland, Luz Vazquez, and other Circulation staff; and Regina Thompson, Yvette Smith, and others from Acquisitions. Tens of thousands of volumes, now duplicated by our electronic holdings, were transferred to the Warehouse at the time of cataloging.

On May 1, 2006, the last shelved-by-title volumes were pulled from the stacks and delivered to Cataloging. When work on these few trucks is completed, the 24-year periodicals cataloging project will have been brought to a successful conclusion. All Daley periodicals holdings will be in UICCAT and OCLC, all volumes will have barcodes and item records to allow easy circulation, browsing by subject will be universal, transfer to the Warehouse will be relatively simple, and Math periodicals will be integrated with Daley periodicals.

Thanks and congratulations to all, past and especially present, who worked on this project.

 

HR Corner

Graduating Students Students graduating in May CANNOT work beyond the beginning of Summer Session - May 29, 2006. Last day of work should be May 27. Reminder Summer school schedules should be sent to Library HR for review and approval from Administration. Supervisory Training Sessions Priority will be given to support staff supervisors required to attend in the probationary period. Each session will be offered twice during the calendar year. A current schedule of sessions is available on the Library Human Resources Web site.

 

Community as Intellectual Space Symposium
Registration opens May 10 for the second annual Community as Intellectual Space Symposium in Chicago, June 16-18, sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.