SUL News Notes

Volume 5, Number 34
October 15, 1996


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Because of the power outage last week, we were not able to compile and send out last Friday's (Oct. 11) News Notes on time. The following News Notes contains items which have been submitted up through this morning.


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Women in Library Leadership Institute

The Association of Research Libraries Office of Management Services invites staff in management and leadership roles in libraries of all types to register for our very special institute:

"Women in Library Leadership"
Nov. 18-22, 1996, Safety Harbor, FL

The Women in Library Leadership Institute was especially designed to establish a learning experience and forum for gender issues in leadership and management.

Questions such as:

These are just a few of the questions this Institute is designed to explore.

Join us in identifying key skills for effective leadership in the diverse workplace; exploring personal values and how they fit into the workplace; assessing developmental needs; and exploring and developing strategies for enhancing personal and professional lives through understanding life/work balance behaviors.

Where: Safety Harbor, FL
A block of rooms at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa is being held under the name of the Association or Research Libraries. Single rooms are $95.00.

Facilitators: Maureen Sullivan, ARL/OMS Organizational Development Consultant, and Kathryn Deiss, ARL/OMS Training Program Officer

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Fee: $490 ARL member library staff; $550 non-ARL member library staff

To register: Call Christine Seebold, Training Program Assistant at (202) 296-8656, ext. 141

Registration is also available at our web site: http://arl.cni.org/training/basicOMS.html

-- submitted by Lisa Krauss

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Clarence Maybee Joins Engineering Library

The Engineering Library is pleased to welcome Clarence Maybee as our new Evening/Weekend Circulation Assistant. Once trained Clarence's regular schedule will be Tuesday-Thursday 3-10pm, Friday 11am-6pm, and Saturday 10am-5pm. We are fortunate that Clarence is already familiar with the Stanford Libraries due to his temporary position in the Stanford Auxiliary Library for the past 8 months, assisting in a major shift of collections at SAL. Prior to working in SAL Clarence worked in a number of different library positions, working through library placement services first in the Chicago area and more recently in San Francisco. Clarence is a graduate of Antioch College in Ohio where he majored in Literature and Creative Writing.

-- submitted by Steve Gass

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Tours of Earth Sciences Library Map Collection

Staff of the Branner Earth Sciences Library will offer 50-minute tours of its Map Collection (particularly aimed at non-Earth Science students) at the following times:

Various types of maps (historical, city plans, demographic, etc.) and other materials in the Collection will be shown, along with tips on how to find maps in the online catalogs and other tools. To sign up e-mail Marina at mwolf@sulmail.stanford.edu (phone 725-2746)

-- submitted by Phil Hoehn

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Campus Wide Agreements (CWA)

Recently many of you received a package containing the new Campus Wide Agreements (CWA) orientation materials and vendor catalogs. Some people have indicated they would like more packages, while others received more than they can use. Please contact Cindy Skalski at 3-3221 or cindy.skalski@forsythe to request additional materials. If you have extras please forward them to me at Sweet Hall, M/C 3090.

Campus Wide Agreements are an additional purchasing tool aimed at providing you with convenience (including next day, desktop delivery), ease of use, outstanding customer service, and overall savings to your department and the University. I encourage you to use the CWA process and please continue to contact me with your comments and suggestions so we can ensure that this program meets your needs.

Thank you.

-- submitted by Cindy Skalski

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State Library Catalog Now Available Through Melvyl

The California State Library's online catalog system is now available with the USE CSL command.

The CSL system covers the collections of the state library's locations in Sacramento and San Francisco.

Among the subjects represented in the system are California history, California state documents, U.S. documents, California newspapers and early census data, and genealogy.

The state library is a service of the government of the State of California. It does not include collections of the California State Universities.

For more information, type EXPLAIN CSL SYSTEM when in the Melvyl system.

-- submitted by Steve Gass

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Two New Staff at the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Library

The Mathematical and Computer Sciences Library staff are pleased to introduce our two newest members to the Stanford Community.

John David Juarez, our new Saturday Supervisor, Acquisitions, Reserves, and Technical Reports Specialist, joins our staff after working at Printer's Ink and the Falconer Biology Library. His schedule will be 9am-6pm Tuesdays-Thursdays, and 8:30am-5:00pm Fridays and Saturdays.

Everardo Rodriguez, our new Sunday and Evening Supervisor and Circulation Specialist, comes to us from the Physics Library where he worked mornings, and the Lane Medical Library where he worked afternoons. Ever will be working Sundays 1-10pm, and Mondays-Thursdays 4:30-10:00pm.

-- submitted by Penny Martell

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Interactive Teleconference

The Library staff at California State University, Hayward invites you to attend and participate in the teleconference described below. All who are interested should plan to come to the Biella Room in the Library at CSU Hayward by 9:45 a.m. The teleconference begins at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time Thursday, November 7, 1996.

A staff-development teleconferences, on information literacy, produced by D & F Associates, Inc. is coming up soon.

EXPLORING INTERNET 7: INFORMATION LITERACY: RESTRUCTURING LEARNING IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT will be telecast on Thursday, November 7, 1996 from1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. Eastern Time (10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m PST.).

This interactive teleconference, featuring Hannelor Rader, will look at information literacy in the context of restructuring learning in an electronic environment. Ms. Rader will examine new models for developing information skills in the electronic age, integrating those skills into classroom curricula; teacher-librarian partnerships, and methods and techniques for teaching information skills. She will trace the evolution of information literacy outcomes, explain the requirements for training teachers of information literacy, and explore national and international trends in the field.

The host for both programs will be William Erbes, assistant director of the Bensenville (IL) Community Library and former automation consultant/INTERNET coordinator for the Alliance Library System. Ms. Rader will entertain questions from the audience at the studio and downlink sites.

-- submitted by Lisa Krauss

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Prepared by Brian Kunde and Geoffrey Skinner

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