All meetings will be bilingual in English and Spanish

Sabbath Afternoon Tour, June 19

Bioparque Estrella. About 15 minutes from the University, Bioparque Estrella is an animal park where visitors can admire many species of animals roaming free in their natural environment. The park also features games, a lake with pedal boats, and a rodeo with miniature horses. Supper at the snack bar of Montemorelos University. The cost of this tour is U.S. $10.00

Sunday, June 20

Adventist Resources Section Pre-conference

8:00 Registration

8:30 Devotional

9:00 International Cooperation in Adventist Resources
Panel Discussion

10:15 Hands on Workshop in Proper Materials Preservation
Randy Butler, Library Director, Southwestern Adventist University, USA

12:00 Lunch

1:30 Business Session I

2:00 Adventist Historical Resources Available on the Internet

2:30 CD-ROM of Ellen G. White's Published Writings in Spanish

2:45 Tour of Ellen G. White Estate Research Center at Montemorelos

3:00 New Adventist Historical Resources Available

3:30 Update on Seventh-day Adventist Materials Location Project

3:45 Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index and Obituary Reports

4:00 Discussion on Seventh-day Adventist Bibliography and Other Items

4:30 Business Session II (including Recommendations to ASDAL)

5:30 Supper

ALICE Council

7:00 ALICE Council Business Meeting

Monday, June 21

Theme: "Working Together: Cooperation Among Seventh-day Adventist Libraries."

This theme will be addressed along at least three strands: cooperation through electronic means such as e-mail, the Internet, and the ALICE consortium; cooperation between all educational levels, K-16; and geographic cooperation, both regionally and internationally.

8:00 Worship

8:30 Welcome to Montemorelos University

Welcome to the 1999 ASDAL Conference

9:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
"Cooperation Beyond National Borders"
Dr. Jesús Lau, Dean of Academic Affairs, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Dr. Lau holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Sheffield, England; a master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver, Colorado; and a B.S. in Law from the University of Sinaloa, Mexico. He has been a library director, senior researcher, and university librarian. Dr. Lau has received the national award "National Researcher" from the National System of Researchers (Mexico), which has been renewed three times. In 1997, he was named Librarian of the Year by the Border Regional Library Association from El Paso, TX / Las Cruces, NM / Juárez, MX.

11:00 "Latin America, The Internet, And The SDA College Library Of The Future"
Gilbert Abella, Director of Public Services, La Sierra University Library, USA

The challenge of many academic libraries in Latin America and the world is to keep up with the latest technologies and the Internet without having adequate budgets or proper technical support. This paper focuses on four major areas: the goal of using the best technologies to serve the users, some of the difficulties of pursuing that objective, the suggested strategies to create the virtual library of the 21st century, and resources available for this enterprise.

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Group Photograph

1:15 Business Session I

2:30 Library Automation Software for K-12 School Libraries
Coordinator: Nancy Kim, Librarian, Redlands Junior Academy, USA

Hands-on Demonstration of Spanish-language Indexes and Library Automation Software
Coordinators: Hernán Hammerly, Library Director, River Plate Adventist University, Argentina, and Bruce McClay, Reference Librarian, University of Texas Pan American, USA

4:00 Cooperation Among School and Academic Libraries
Taskforce 2000 Report

5:30 Supper

Committee meetings as announced

SDA Periodical Index Board

7:00 SDA Periodical Index Board Meeting

Tuesday Tour, June 22

Libraries of the Technological Institute of Monterrey and Raul Rangel Frias.

Grutas de Garcia (Garcia Caves), Northwest of downtown Monterrey. From the parking area, a cable car transports visitors past rugged scenery to the cavern entrance, tucked high on a cliff. Discovered about 1843 by parish priest Juan Antonio Sobrevilla, the caves are among the largest and most beautiful in Mexico. Ten "rooms" contain stalagmite and stalactite formations with such names as "The Eagle's Nest," "The Hall of Clouds" and "The Chapel."

Tour of the macroplaza in downtown Monterrey after dark. Lunch and Supper in Monterrey.

Total cost of this tour is U.S. $35.00

Wednesday, June 23

8:00 Worship

8:30 Business Session II

10:00 "A University/College Wide Approach To Promote Occupational Information Literacy"
Hernán Hammerly, Library Director, River Plate Adventist University, Argentina

Practitioners of the various occupations/professions utilize different sets of information skills, attitudes, and practices. Academic libraries have the responsibility of helping students to develop some of those skills. Libraries may also coordinate with other academic departments to produce graduates initiated in the appropriate information-related practices for their future occupation. Before graduating, the students should have achieved the art and skills of learning as well as the ability to: a) initiate their own occupational library, databases, and files; b) evaluate and select information resources; c) establish connections with future colleagues and professional associations; d) organize information resources; e) produce new information and communicate that information by appropriate means; and f) recognize the principles of information practices and systems that will enable them to adapt to changing technologies and resources.

Bilingual Spanish/English Children's Literature
Coordinator: Nancy Kim, Librarian, Redlands Junior Academy, USA

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Breakout Sessions
Directors, Seminary Librarians, Technical Services, Public Services, School Librarians

3:00 Resource Sharing Among Seventh-day Adventist Libraries
Aixa Vega, Library Director, Antillian Adventist University, Puerto Rico

The Internet in K-12 Schools: Pros and Cons
Nancy Kim, Librarian, Redlands Junior Academy, USA

4:00 Business Session III

6:00 Banquet

Housing

Hotel in Montemorelos (off University property) $15.00 per room (sleeps 2)

On-campus at University "Hilton" $20.00 per room (sleeps 1 or 2)

Only six rooms are available in the "Hilton," and must be reserved for the duration of the conference, beginning Friday, June 18. These rooms will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. Once these rooms are filled, all other requests will automatically be switched to the hotel in Montemorelos. The Montemorelos University Library will provide transportation between the hotel and the campus. Linens are provided in all locations, as are air conditioning and private baths.

Food

Regular meals will be served in the Hospital cafeteria. Guests pay each meal in cash; prices vary. Plan on spending approx. $10-12 U.S. for 3 meals daily. The cafeteria can accept U.S. dollars.

Transportation

Conference attendees can fly to either Monterrey, Mexico, or McAllen, Texas. Montemorelos University will provide transportation from both airports, although the airport in Monterrey is most convenient for them. The University charges $50.00 U.S for a 4-person vehicle from Monterrey; $70.00 U.S. for an 8-person vehicle. For transportation from McAllen, Texas, the charge is $100.00 for a four-person vehicle; $140.00 for an 8-person vehicle. All prices are one way.

Regular bus service runs out of McAllen to Montemorelos. Typically the first bus leaves McAllen at 6 a.m., and the last one at 6:45 p.m. A bus leaves every hour or every two hours depending on the time of day. The cost is $9.50 U.S. one way. Contact Bruce McClay for further information on buses from McAllen. Bruce is also willing to arrange car pools if anyone plans on driving his/her own car into Mexico.

For Further Information:

http://www.asdal.org (in English)
http://www.umontemorelos.edu.mx (in Spanish)

or contact: Christina Cicchetti
La Sierra University Library
Riverside, CA 92515-8247, USA

Christina Cicchetti, ASDAL President-elect and Program Chair, is Curriculum/Reference Librarian at La Sierra University, Riverside, California.

COMMITTEE UPDATES

Statistics Committee

Peg Bennett (1998-2001), Chair
Carolyn Gaskell (1996-1999)
Violet Maynard-Reid [ASDAL Secretary (ex officio)]
Jamie Walker [Past ASDAL Secretary (ex officio)]

SDA Periodical Index Board

Keith Clouten [Library Director of Host Institution (ex officio)], Chair
Jim Ford [Managing Editor (ex officio)]
Marilyn Crane (1998-2003) [Loma Linda University representative]
Chloe Foutz (1993-1999)
Carolyn Gaskell (1997-2002)
Maynard Lowry (1994-2000)
Bert Haloviak [General Conference archivist (ex officio)]
Dallas Kindopp [North American Division delegate (ex officio)]

Adventist Librarians Envision the Challenges of the Future

By Maynard Lowry

Librarianship is a practice-oriented profession and librarians are practical people. When one asks questions about the future, the responses are naturally practical visions of what is needed now and in the future. What follows is an attempt to gather and categorize the responses of a group of librarians who attended the 1998 ASDAL annual conference, and to paint a picture of their vision of the near and perhaps more distant future. The responses sometimes reflected a frustration with the present and prescriptions for the future based on those frustrations. Mainly, the responses mirrored comments one would expect from any audience of librarians trying to cope with dramatic change and an uncertain stream of resources.

Three target areas were the focus of the more than 650 responses collected from the approximately 50 individuals in attendance at the summer meeting. Each responded to a set of target issues by first stating the challenges they foresaw and possible responses to these. Target areas included personnel, information access, and resources. The groups responses have been assembled qualitatively into categories and major themes in an attempt to reflect the emphases and consensus of the participants in this exercise. Those issues that were noted by ten or more note cards have been included in this attempt to create a collective vision scenario of what is uppermost in the mind and vision of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) librarians.

Personnel

It is clear that the changes brought on by an exploding information economy have swept libraries along and have had a profound effect on personnel. While many of the fundamentals in the practice of librarianship have remained the same, the methods for delivering service have changed dramatically. As one respondent put it: there is a need for personnel with "training and vision." Flexibility, receptivity to the new, and the ability to tackle and implement the technology are essential. However, technological literacy, while desirable, is not sufficient to navigate in this fast flowing stream of change. Broad education is needed now more than ever. Bringing staff along and keeping up to date with change is also perceived as a significant problem. This is a major challenge because while service is the core of what librarians do, finding the time to learn all that is new and necessary places a lot of strain on resources of time and money.

Some see the problem of recruiting professionals to replace a graying population of librarians as another outstanding challenge. This is particularly true for personnel slots that demand a high level of technical knowledge. The pool of SDA librarians is relatively small. The next five years will bring the retirement of several librarians without the assurance of being able to find people who can replace them. Lost, too, will be their historical perspective and the collective memory that has helped to guide their respective institutions and to provide a sense of vision.

The solutions that are envisioned include resource enhancement, intensive investment in staff development and training, and encouragement of a managerial climate that maximizes and integrates these into an effective and efficient whole. Throughout all the responses across each of the target areas was a theme underscoring the inadequacy of the resources that are required to do the job ahead.

Respondents saw two solutions to this problem. The first was to increase resources in a variety of creative but unspecified ways. The second was to maximize the use of resources through administrative and managerial efficiency. Some of the proposals addressing the latter included improving staff communication, increasing goal setting and accountability, establishing productivity benchmarks, and giving better guidance to new employees. Admonishments emerged to concentrate on more efficient administration and organization in order to stem slumps in morale brought on by the strains and pressures of rapid change and limited resources. Following this theme were several suggestions for more research or data-based decision making in libraries.

Other suggestions for addressing the current and future challenges included enhancing the skills of para-professionals and staff cross-training. There was a small but significant reference to compensation or other incentives for greater personnel effectiveness and job satisfaction.

Information Access

The issues and challenges of providing access to the information we manage constituted the second targeted theme. Despite the predictions of the demise of the book and paper resources, these traditional resources are unlikely to fade away but the means to accessing these and other resources have, and are, becoming predominately electronic. Not only does the shift toward electronic media place challenges on personnel but it also places pressure on issues of access. A cursory look at the statistics of SDA libraries over the last ten years shows that funding for equipment has not increased appreciably, and yet the shift to electronic resources and access has placed very serious pressures on budgets. At the same time most libraries have somehow managed to acquire online public access catalogs and other related technology.

The proliferation of electronic resources has also created opportunities to serve existing and new users in new ways. As student demographics have changed to include more non-resident and remote students, electronic access has made it possible to serve these students on their own territory and terms.

The allure of technology and the Internet has its down side as well. The remoteness of these students has also created problems. When they do not come into the library, the teaching-learning role of librarians is changed. Students will not receive the same kind of guidance that on-site users receive. If the library is an extension of the classroom and if librarians have something to teach students about using information effectively, the separation brought on by technology has to be addressed. Though some may think that computer literacy equates to information literacy, librarians know this is not so. 1 While the Internet brings the world to the desktop, the traditional gatekeepers and arbitrators of merit have been left out of the loop. Bibliographic instruction for a self-assured group of computer literate students who now come to our campuses requires new strategies. When librarians do not see all those who are using the information services and resources they manage, their message is often lost.

If technology is seen as the problem, it is also seen as the solution. New services are possible that extend the reach of the library and customize access to the needs of users. Most libraries now have online public access catalogs that connect to the Internet. Through associations like the Adventist Library Information Cooperative (ALICE) and increasingly the extension of state-wide database contracts to SDA and other private libraries, equity of access has improved.

Perhaps the most insightful proposal for dealing with the challenges of access was proposed by the large number of respondents who suggested that listening to users and involving them in the solution might be productive. By setting standards for service, getting out among the users, being sensitive to individual differences and tailoring work schedules to needs of users, many felt that libraries could be more effective.

Resources

The introduction of the third target addressing the issue of resources was a kind of lightning rod for the group. There was a general perception that the resources are inadequate to do the job as it is envisioned and required to be done. It was frequently pointed out that hard choices are often the norm as electronic media have expanded. With no corresponding increase in budgets to maintain the traditional print sources, budgets are stretched to and beyond the limits. While in some cases the electronic resources have rendered print resources obsolete, there are still significant issues of preservation, archival access, and comparability that must be considered.

Because adequate funding is seen as being among the most significant problems, it is also predictable that the solution of choice is to somehow increase the pool of resources available to libraries. The suggestions for increasing the pool fall into two categories. The first is to increase the libraries' share of existing resources at the primary allocation point (i.e. through the budget priority and allocation process). The second suggestion is to seek ways to increase the size of the pie that is to be divided. To address the first it has been suggested that libraries become more effective advocates for obtaining the necessary resources. To address the second, it has been suggested that more students are needed to expand our enrollment dependent campus budgets while at the same time looking for new sources of external funding are necessary to expand the size of the pie.

Solutions that focus on resource expansion are not directly within the scope of library influence but solutions that address greater efficiency in the use of resources are. These include greater resource sharing and cooperation among institutions to reduce or, at least, slow down the rising costs of library resources. Collection management and planned allocation and development were also seen as a key means of extending the impact of resources. There were also suggestions that the investment that libraries have made can be better exploited and maximized through user education. It was pointed out that electronic resources have inherent quantitative means for assessing the extent of use, and by extension, the effectiveness of user education.

Exercises such as the one that is reported here seldom bring startling new revelations or insights. Rather, they tend to aggregate and concentrate the thinking of the group. What vision or wisdom that might be available to SDA librarians lies within the group and in the profession that we serve. As someone has said "we only see what we look for; and we only look for what we know." Although there is strength and vision in listening and talking within our professional community, we must also be receptive to users and to the communities outside our profession if we are to hear the whole message. By definition librarians are problem solvers. The first step in solving problems is to state a clear definition of the problems and then design solutions that address these. It is a process of vision and application that is most successful when all participate.

Notes

1. Charles Smith and Chris Phillips. "Are our Academic Libraries Ready for the Internet Generation?" Cause/Effect Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1999.

Maynard Lowry is Library Director at La Sierra University, Riverside, California.

Reinventing Ourselves: New Roles for Architecture Librarians

By Kathleen Demsky

My triple life as librarian/EDRA Book Display Coordinator/ Study Abroad Coordinator has come about in a rather eclectic and serendipitous manner. It seems that every where I go people ask me questions such as: Where is Andrews University? What kind of university is it? I will endeavor to answer some of those questions. This may also clarify how I have come about performing these different roles.

Andrews University

The University is located on a 1600-acre campus on the banks of the St. Joseph River, 12 miles from the Sunset Coast of Lake Michigan. It has a unique mission and is committed to the holistic development of the spiritual, mental, physical, and social life of the student. Students come from all cultures and walks of life. More than 25% of our students hold citizenship in other countries. The student body represents 104 nations throughout the globe. This diverse campus culture presents opportunities for experiencing the global village while attending college. The high quality of the educational experience offered is shown by the fact that the University is listed in U.S. News and World Report's Best Colleges and Peterson's Top Colleges in Science. Andrews University (AU) is financed primarily by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the majority of students come from this faith background. However, no particular religious commitment is required for admission. Andrews welcomes men and women from all nations and faiths who will be comfortable within its religious, social, and cultural atmosphere.

The Division of Architecture at AU is the only Protestant school of architecture in the United States. The mission of the Division of Architecture is to develop architects who have the ability to be "thinkers and not mere reflectors of other men's thoughts;" to encourage a sense of service on the stage of humanity. We seek to incorporate into our curriculum projects which take us into the world field. For instance we have taken on a design/build project in Bolivia. Students and faculty have traveled to Bolivia for summer studio for several years now. The Dean of Architecture receives calls from all over the world for projects which we may or may not become involved, with only time and budget constraints limiting our participation.

EDRA Book Display Coordinator

My primary role is that of librarian. My second role is book display coordinator for the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) which is an international, interdisciplinary organization founded in 1968 by design professionals, social and behavioral scientists, educators, and environmental managers. The purpose of EDRA is to advance the art and science of environmental design research; and to improve understanding of the inter-relationships between people, their built environment, and natural surroundings. EDRA also provides many opportunities for the exchange of ideas related to understanding and creating environments responsive to human needs. Currently there are 1,500 members world wide. About 500 attend the annual conference which is hosted by a different university in North America each year.

About 12 years ago EDRA was experiencing a paradigm shift and the EDRA board was looking for an entity to take responsibility for the "Book Display" held at the annual conferences. In addition to this, EDRA wanted to sell the books and materials collected and displayed over the previous 19 years. This collection was of great value. The goal was to keep this collection in one location for retrieval and research purposes. Due to the insight of Neville Clouten, who was then the Dean of Architecture at AU and also a member of EDRA, AU purchased the collection.

Shortly after this transaction, the dean approached me and requested that I take responsibility for coordinating and organizing the book display. I had just begun employment in the architecture library and was working on a bachelors degree with the goal of attaining an MLS. It was not clear to me what EDRA was...what the book display was...or how to organize this project. I was not able to contact anyone who had done this type of project before. There seemed to be no precedent. (The people who had responsibility for the display had gone to France and could not be contacted.) All there was to go by was a bibliography from the previous year's conference and a sense that publishers must be contacted requesting books and materials. The dean made it possible for me to attend an EDRA conference so that I could begin to "learn" about EDRA and how to coordinate a book display of this nature.

After returning from the EDRA conference held at California in 1987, I began to create lists upon lists of thoughts and ideas. I prepared a document entitled "Summary of the Duties and Responsibilities of EDRA Publication Display Coordinator" to guide us through the process from year to year. This has been updated as technology has advanced and we have become more experienced and knowledgeable in the procedures.

Currently, the tasks and responsibilities which culminate in each year's book display are integrated into the work of the students who assist me in the ARC. We have created a database of over 1,000 publishers from all over the world whom we contact each year requesting books and materials for display purposes. This involves a bulk mailing, 3 types of request letters, and flyers which spell out the theme of each year's conference. Publishers respond very favorably by sending their books, documents, technical papers, sample journals, and audiovisual materials. We receive over 500-600 books and other materials each year. As the materials arrive, students who have been trained to do the process help me in the whole organizational process. We utilize the software program ProCite to create a uniform bibliography which we always include in the conference registration packet.

The books are packed alphabetically by author so that when we arrive at the conference site the display is efficiently and quickly set up. The space required for the display is approximately 1,400 square feet, 40 tables, equipment for viewing the videos, and chairs for the comfort of the browsers. For the past 12 years we have coordinated the book display and have traveled from Oaxtepec, Mexico to Montreal, Canada.

While this role may seem related to librarianship and indeed it fits well in the academic library setting, the former book display coordinators were educators rather than librarians. They kept the entire collection in their home using a makeshift retrieval system to aid potential researchers/users.

Now that the EDRA books are in the ARC at AU, they are interlibrary loaned all over the world. Researchers travel long distances to come and research in our library, at times spending a whole day using the collection. We get calls from such auspicious places such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration which recently needed information on the people/plant symbiosis for space travel. Many of the books are one of a kind and therefore are not found in any other library in the United States. The ARC is recognized as housing the most comprehensive collection in the world of materials on environmental design/behavior.

I find it very stimulating to work with this cutting edge group. Given the opportunity, I would be interested in obtaining a second master's degree in the study of human behavior in the built and unbuilt environment. This role has also given me the opportunity to work with such people as Robert Bechtal, author of the new "Environment & Behavior"; Kathryn Anthony, author of "Design Juries on Trial: the Renaissance of the Design Studio"; Gary Moore; and David Seamons to name a few.

Study Abroad Coordinator

My third role is involvement with the intensive program abroad for the Division of Architecture. Allow me to relate how this activity developed. I have had the opportunity to travel to Europe on many occasions. Upon returning from my first trip I raised the question in faculty meetings and casual conversations: Why don't we have a study abroad program for our students? To me it seemed that an opportunity of this caliber was vital to our students' overall study/professional growth. Within our program, there have been opportunities for students to travel abroad. Several professors have organized tours. The Art Department has offered art and architecture students a tour every other year but with a limit of 20 students. One of our professors, who is from Europe and has great contacts there, has taken students to Germany for studio studies. He has also set up a summer program where five or six students go to Berlin to work in architectural firms. It seemed to me that we needed to set up a program requiring students to go abroad as part of their curricular requirements with the expenses being covered in their normal tuition for that quarter. Thus all students would have the opportunity to experience the European study program.

My role in this endeavor is two-fold. First, I have many contacts in Europe which offer a real enrichment for the program; and second, my knowledge of the program and the study of architecture augment the abroad experience. Two summers ago, the director of the Division of Architecture requested me along with another professor to go to Europe for the purpose of setting up a study program abroad. That first year would be an experiment.

We began by checking out the curriculum requirements for the quarter. The students needed 12 hours of studio and 4 hours of religion. From this beginning, we proceeded to formulate plans. I met with the art professor, who has conducted the art and architecture tours, for advice and information. We also contacted the necessary entities in administration regarding insurance, health and safety issues etc. I also arranged for a religion professor to fulfill the religion requirement for that quarter. It has come to be called Religion 360 which also includes the study of sacred architecture.

We arranged to make our base at the SDA Italian language school located in the Tuscan hills over looking Florence, Italy. The school has a modern administration building and classrooms yet the residence halls are housed in two villas which date back to the time of the Medici. For the students to stay in this place and mingle with other young people who attend this school from all over the world is another part of cultural experience.

Arriving in Florence we began negotiating with the administration at Villa Aurora. This in itself was a challenge with the language barrier and the cultural differences and expectations. I had taken on the study of the Italian language which was and still is helpful. The professor and I traveled in opposite directions to gather travel experience, hotel and various other information which would be necessary for this adventure.

After this experimental tour, we have conducted several other tours. It is now possible for the students to have a special tour by the curator of the Leonardo de Vinci museum in Vinci. In Lugano, Switzerland the students stay with three of my friends in their homes. These gracious people give the students opportunity to experience first hand cultural home life in that region. From an evening visit in the garden with my friend Rico, who studied architecture years ago, the students learn that many famous architects have come from the Tichino region of Switzerland. For instance the architect Domenico Tressini was the dominant architect in the building of St. Petersburg. We have the opportunity to visit architectural sites of Botta including the church built high in the Alps overlooking Lugano which can only be accessed by cable car. Other examples of world famous Tichino architects include Aurelio Falfetti, Luigi Snozzi and Livio Vacchini. My friend who owns the winery in Vico Morcote allows us to spend an afternoon wandering through his 1250-year-old family castle over looking Lake Como. There is a small school of architecture located in this village. The students spend a day in the timeless villages clinging to the hillsides in the Val Verzasca. It is my privilege to be instrumental in adding these enriching experiences to the Intensive Program Abroad which is now its new title.

During one of our earlier trips, we visited four schools of architecture from Amsterdam to Bologna. I had the opportunity to visit at length with the librarians at each of these schools and tour their facilities. We have much in common with our contemporaries. This provided me with the opportunity to offer a lecture/slide presentation on behalf of AU Division of Architecture.

This Spring is my sixth time to travel Europe. On April 14, my husband and I departed for Frankfurt, Germany where we picked up the van which we would use for four weeks' travel with seven students. We spent the first four days visiting our friends in Lugano before picking up the students at Milan airport. We intend to spend a month fulfilling assignments and soaking in the cultures of Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. The second base for the students will be located at Marienhoehe, the SDA school near Darmstadt, Germany. It is there where I will leave the students with the studio professor who will continue the program. We will then return to the U.S. with barely two weeks to get the hundreds of books and materials to Orlando, Florida for this years EDRA/30 conference.

Opportunities and Challenges

As an architecture librarian, my enthusiasm and interest in my work are greatly enhanced because of these opportunities. I sit on three faculties and am actively involved with the architecture program along with membership on 15 committees which move me into the campus scene. Besides the architecture collection, I am also responsible for collection development in the areas of art, modern languages, and history. This allows me as a liaison to work with other faculty. The role of librarianship is timeless yet in this age of information we must rise above the roles of those librarians who have gone before us. The challenge before us is to transform ourselves into the essence of change for the next millennium.

Kathleen Demsky is Architecture Librarian at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. She gave this presentation at the Association of Architecture School Librarians conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 22, 1999. As the incumbent president of this organization, she presided over the business meeting and was instrumental in implementing changes to reflect current technology.

10 REASONS WHY THE WRITINGS OF E.G. WHITE ARE STILL RELEVANT TO ME TODAY, Part 2

(Worship devotional given at the ASDAL 18th Annual Conference, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Maryland, June 1998. Continued from last issue, Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1999.)

By James R. Nix

No. 6

Another reason I find Ellen White's counsels still relevant has to do with her impact on the church's institutions, both in establishing them and in administering them.

Not just a preaching ministry, the Adventist Church sponsors both a world-wide education system, as well as a world-wide publishing work. In addition, our medical program is internationally known, all largely the product of Ellen White's nurturing.

The fact is that these worldwide programs would never have reached their present achievements without the foresight and principles set forth by Ellen White. For example, Loma Linda University would not even exist without her vision and tenacity.

The distinctiveness of these institutions' programs lies not in the fact of their worldwide influence but in their unique objectives. Adventist schools, publishing houses, and medical facilities are distinctive because of carefully guided principles outlined by God through Ellen White, not because they imitate secular programs that happen to be run by religious people.

Some non-Adventists have conjectured that without Ellen White, Adventists would not have survived as they are known today. German sociologist Irmgard Simon concluded in her doctoral dissertation that "Seventh-day Adventists still live on the spirit of Ellen G. White, and only as far as this heritage lives on do the Adventists have a future." Kenneth L. Woodward, Newsweek magazine's religion editor, observed: "If it [the Seventh-day Adventist denomination] loses its founding mother, the church may find that it has also lost its distinctive visionary soul." 1

Relevant to me today? I should say so! If even non-Adventists recognize that Ellen White's vision (could I say "visions?") is what drives this church, then her vision regarding my own personal part in helping Adventism accomplish its goal of proclaiming to the world the everlasting gospel in the setting of the judgment hour message of Rev. 14 should be extremely relevant to me. The overall purpose of our institutions, as well as our part as individual members in helping the church, are both clearly delineated in what God showed Ellen White. As I said, therefore her writings continue to be extremely relevant to me personally.

No. 7

I could also mention some of her incredible predictions. Admittedly, Ellen White is not primarily known for her predictions. Contrary to all modern "prophets" who every December give their "best ten predictions" for the coming year, or psychics who state their predictions so vaguely that they can be reinterpreted and "made to fit" as time passes, Ellen White's preview of closing events has never been contradicted by events. Today's economic insecurity, political strife, social unrest, decline in moral values, New Age revival of spiritualism, and the worldwide interest in religious unity--all are an astonishing fulfillment of her predictions. For many years, some faulted Ellen White for overlooking Communism. They declared her eschatology outmoded. But now it is apparent that in following the Biblical outline, she was right on target.

We are so familiar with some of her predictions that they hardly seem startling to us today. However, when set against the backdrop of her time, they are nothing short of incredible. For instance, her claim that wars would continue until Christ comes sounded very strange in a pre-World War I era where the idea was that everything was getting better and better. Even after the horrors of the First World War, Ellen White's warnings about thousands of ships being hurled into the depths of the sea, and navies going down, 2 and economic upheavals to come, 3 etc., must have sounded very strange. But now that the world has gone through the worldwide depression of the late 1920's and 1930's, not to mention World War II, plus all the wars in various places since then, what she predicted reads like the daily newspaper.

As terrible as things have become--increase of crime, pollution in the cities, the breakdown of society--knowing that God has warned us ahead of time about all this through Ellen White gives a relevance to other things she has written that might not otherwise be the case.

And it wasn't just her eschatological or world-wide predictions, there also were some very specific predictions regarding certain Adventist institutions and individuals. But I won't take time now to review those.

No. 8

Another thing about Ellen White that gives her authority and relevance for me is the fruit of her life. I have already mentioned that she claimed to have written no new Bible. During her lifetime she held no church offices. Surprising as it may be for students of nineteenth-century religious movements, Ellen White left no monuments to herself. Rather, her life was driven by a sense of destiny wrapped up in her call to be God's messenger. She focused on making God better understood as she relayed to others His messages to her.

A. G. Daniells, General Conference president from 1901-1922 and long-time fellow worker with Ellen White, wrote:

I can say that it is my deep conviction that Mrs. White's life far transcends the life of anyone I have ever known or with whom I have been associated. . . . I never once heard her boast of the gracious gift God had bestowed upon her, or of the marvelous results of her endeavors. She did rejoice in the fruitage, but gave all the glory to Him who wrought through her. 4

No. 9

One reason for giving authority to Ellen White's writings that some might have expected me to mention early on was the physical phenomena that accompanied her visions. That she did not breathe, her eyes remained open, and that she was totally unconscious of her surroundings while in vision are all in accordance with the physical phenomena experienced by Biblical prophets. These facts add to the authority I give her writings, but I know that Satan can counterfeit the physical phenomena. So for me, as it was with our pioneers, the physical phenomena surrounding Ellen White's experience provide evidence of the divine origin of her visions. Of themselves, the physical phenomena do not provide absolute proof.

However, if God went to the supernatural lengths that He did to help me know He was speaking through Ellen White, then I better sit up and take notice. After all, in Bible times God did not take kindly to those who rejected His prophets. If today one is determined to throw Ellen White and her messages out, all I can say is that they better be absolutely positive in their own minds that she was not God's messenger. Because, if they are wrong. . . . Well, as I said, God never took too kindly to those who rejected the messengers He sent!

No. 10

Although I could keep on going, let me share one last reason why I find Ellen White's messages personally valuable. Admittedly, this is a very subjective reason, but that does not lessen its validity. When I read her writings, I hear the voice of God speaking to my soul--in other words, her writings are self-authenticating.

When I read a book like the Desire of Ages, I do not just read about Jesus, I actually meet Him in the pages of that book. In her chapter "Gethsemane," or her description of Christ's trial and crucifixion, I don't find myself just being a bystander. On the contrary, I am drawn into the story. I am there with the sleeping disciples in the Garden. Christ is asking me to watch and wait with Him. It's not just Peter who is standing by the fire, but I am there too. In the judgment hall, I become a participant with the shouting mob. And on the terrible mount of crucifixion, I am pounding the nails into the innocent hands of Christ; I am there railing on Him as He hangs broken, bloodied, and bruised on the cross. But as I read, somehow the light dawns in my sin-beclouded mind that it was for me that He died. And in my mind's ear I can hear Jesus praying, "Father, forgive Jim, for he knows not what he is doing."

Likewise, when studying the Testimonies, they drive me to my knees, just as they did the people to whom they were originally addressed one hundred or more years ago.

Tragically some people get all hung up on what they view as the "don'ts" in Ellen White's writings. Ellen White viewed those very same "don'ts" as opportunities to draw even closer to God as in love we do those things that He as our creator knows will bring us the greatest amount of happiness.

Conclusion

For me, my talk today has been very personal. But without the least hesitancy, I can tell you that I find power in the word--in God's Word, the Holy Scriptures, and in His word through the writings of Ellen White--the lesser light that leads me to the greater light. And that's as it should be since the same Holy Spirit inspired both.

Do you want a stronger Christian experience; a closer relationship with Christ; a longer, healthier life; and on the list could go? If so, I recommend to you anew the special gift God has given our church through the writings of Ellen White. For me, they are as up-to-date as next week's newspaper, and even more relevant than the latest published self-help book.

That's why I have come to the place where I readily acknowledge that the testimonies are for me. Not to use on someone else, but to help me in my daily Christian walk. The gift of the Spirit of prophecy was given for me. Not to use to judge or criticize you. But rather, God gave His church this precious gift to draw me to Jesus. He gave it to draw me to a deeper study of the Bible. And most of all, He gave the gift to help prepare me to be ready for Christ's soon return.

My friend, if you are not utilizing this precious gift right now--maybe you never have, or possibly you used to, but for some reason or other in recent years you have not, I want to invite you to do so once again. After all, King Jehoshaphat's admonition to ancient Israel, as found in 2 Chronicles 20:20, is as relevant today as when he first uttered it: "Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper."

Notes

1. Kenneth L. Woodward with Janet Huck. "A False Prophet?" Newsweek, 19 Jan. 1981, 72.

2. The Signs of the Times, 21 April 21, 1890.

3. Ellen G. White. Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9. (Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1948), 13.

4. Arthur Grosvenor Daniells. The Abiding Gift of Prophecy. (Mountain View, California: Pacific Press, 1936), 368.

James R. Nix is the Vice Director of the Ellen G. White Estate, Inc., General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Silver Spring, Maryland.

SCHOOL LIBRARIANS' COLUMN

Something Old and Something New

By Nancy Kim

Usually about this time of year I find that I am a little tired of reading the picture books in my library collection--even the new ones I have purchased this school year. I feel that I want something new to add sparkle to my story time with the younger students and even some of the older students as well. Maybe this feeling is just spring fever!

Unfortunately by this time of year, I have spent my budget and cannot go out and buy some new titles. So to solve this problem for the last several years I have taken books to school from my personal collection at home. Naturally the books I have at home are among my favorites and that makes them especially delightful to read as the school year winds down. I would like to share some of these titles with you. You will notice some old, tried and true titles that maybe you can rediscover. I also hope that you will find some new titles that you decide to purchase for either your school or personal collection or even both.

Burton, Virginia Lee. The Little House.

This classic book tells the story of a house that gets lost as the city grows around it until one day when it is recognized and rescued by the granddaughter of the man who built it.

Bjork, Christina. Linnea in Monet's Garden.

Linnea introduces the reader to Monet, his family, his paintings, his residences, his life in general, through her experience of reading a biography about Monet with her good friend Mr. Bloom. Actual photographs and pictures of some of Monet's paintings make this book a great way to introduce this artist to younger students.

de Paola, Tomie. The Popcorn Book.

The facts about popcorn presented in this book by de Paola don't even seem like facts because they are woven into a story about two brothers who themselves are discovering all about popcorn.

Fox, Mem. Koala Lou.

The little bear in this story feels that she has to earn her mother's love by winning the gum tree climbing event in the Bush Olympics. When she does not win, she is dreadfully disappointed until she finally returns home and discovers a greater prize.

Lester, Helen. Tacky the Penguin.

Tacky is a prime example of an oddball. He is different from all the other penguins in every way. You cannot help but fall in love with him and then also you cannot help but realize that you must love all the Tackys in your own life.

Gray, Libba Moore. Miss Tizzy.

Miss Tizzy, the neighborhood grandmother, has wonderful activities for all the neighborhood children--one special activity for each day of the week. But when she gets sick the children all work together to return her own brand of love to her--each day of the week.

Bunting, Eve. Dandelions.

Papa wants to move west but Mama does not, especially with a new baby on the way. But the family does move and it is almost Mama's birthday. Zoe and Rebecca cannot find a gift for Mama until Zoe spots some dandelions on a trip to town with Papa. She and Papa take them home to plant on the roof of their soddy. (If you can make it through this story without tears you're doing better than I.)

Wetterer, Margaret. Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express.

Kate risks her life in a terrible storm and flood to warn the midnight express of a broken bridge and train accident.

Yashima, Taro. Crow Boy.

Crow Boy is a human Tacky. He is an oddball and the other students make fun of him throughout six years of being classmates but at the graduation exercises Crow Boy surprises and even shames everyone when they realize how they have wronged him.

Wittman, Sally. A Special Trade.

Old Bartholomew's and Nelly's friendship grows and changes as their own needs change through the passing of time.

Mitchell, Margaree King. Uncle Jed's Barbershop.

Uncle Jed is so close to purchasing his own barbershop many times during his life but some urgent need always seems to demand his money including a very serious illness of his favorite niece. Will he ever see his dream come true? (This is another book that brings tears to my eyes every time I read it.)

Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us.

After World War II and release from an internment camp, a young Japanese-American boy finds a way of re-entering his community through the game of baseball.

Lowell, Susan. The Three Little Javelinas.

This retelling of the traditional Three Little Pigs story will delight you with its Southwest setting, a sister pig, and the big bad coyote.

Kasza, Keiko. The Wolf's Chicken Stew.

When Mr. Wolf sets out to fatten up Mrs. Chicken for a special chicken dinner, he has no idea he will become the favorite "Uncle Wolf" for Mrs. Chicken's one hundred chick children.

Stanley, Diane. The Gentleman and the Kitchen Maid.

This love story will surprise you--it takes place in an art museum and involves the people in some very famous paintings.

Stewart, Sarah. The Library.

Every librarian should have a copy of this book--it is a celebration of librarians and libraries that will delight all of your listeners.

Edwards, Pamela Duncan. Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke.

The name for every activity, every food and even every fox in this delightful tale starts with an f. Also every thing happens in, you guessed it, February between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.

Shaw, Nancy. Sheep Take a Hike and Sheep Out to Eat.

The five sheep in these two books have some very interesting, un-sheeplike adventures.

Degen, Bruce. Jamberry.

The rhyming, lilting words in this book will almost lift you off your seat as you romp through a fantastic berry world with a friendly bear and a young boy.

London, Jonathan. Froggy Gets Dressed.

Even if your students know this story by heart they will love flop, flop, flopping with Froggy as he keeps going back into the house to put on some item of clothing (even his underwear) that he has forgotten to put on before going out to play in the snow.

Nancy Kim is Librarian at Redlands Junior Academy, Redlands, California.

REVIEWS

Christian Library Journal, Vol. 1- , 1995 - . Quarterly.

One of the problems facing teacher-librarians in Adventist schools has always been the choice of appropriate material for general reading. The lack of trustworthy reviewing tools, particularly at the elementary level, is at the heart of the problem. With little time to read and review titles, teachers fall back on their conference Adventist Book Center as a "safe" source for their library's reading selections. These intrepid souls tread a thin and sometimes wobbly gray line between the contemporary and the conservative forces of their congregations and constituencies.

Enter the Christian Library Journal, which made its debut in 1995 as a quarterly guide to book selection for school and church librarians. Its stated purpose is "to provide readers with reviews of both Christian and secular library materials from a Christian point of view." Nancy Hesch, the editor and publisher, has drawn together a team of contributors who write brief reviews of about 300 new books, cassette tapes, and videos each month. For a while the journal teetered on the brink of financial collapse, but the most recent (Fall 1998) issue claims that "we are breaking even financially at last" with an increase in subscriptions.

Coming from an unashamedly conservative perspective, the magazine organizes reviews under seven headings: Picture Books, Children's Fiction, Children's Nonfiction, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Nonfiction, Adult Fiction, and Adult Nonfiction. The emphasis is on the first five categories. Each review is given a summary rating based on quality and acceptability. The first is supposed to measure literary quality, and the second judges moral or scriptural acceptability. In my judgement Adventist librarians would have little trouble with the acceptability quotient - on a scale of 1 to 5, most books get a 5 or occasionally a 4. The measurement of literary excellence is less reliable, in my opinion, with ninety percent of the books earning a top rating of 5.

The editors include some short articles and columns which help to give the journal a friendly face. Selling for $45 per year ($55 in Canada), the periodical is probably affordable for most schools, and gives teacher-librarians an opportunity to survey and choose from a much wider spectrum of "good" books than they would normally encounter.

Address correspondence and/or send subscription check to Christian Library Journal, 801 S. Osage Avenue, Bartlesville, OK 74003-4946.

By Keith Clouten, Library Director at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.

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Webber, Robert E., editor. The Complete Library of Christian Worship. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993-95.

It is courageous to call anything complete, even more to call it a library. This monumental set of worship resources does succeed in being comprehensive in scope, as well as comprehensible for its readers-pastors, music ministers, worship committees, and individual worshipers-anyone interested in worship renewal.

Dr. Webber, a professor of theology at Wheaton College, Illinois since 1968, led the more than ten-year project to bring together and organize materials from thousands of books and other resources on worship, as well as original articles. More than 600 scholars and worship leaders, representing a diverse group of Christian denominations as well as seminaries and other institutions of higher learning, participated in this project. The purpose of The Complete Library of Christian Worship is to make available biblical, historical, and contemporary resources on worship practices organized by theme and the actual sequence of worship. Each volume provides the introduction to the entire set, as well as an index and bibliographies for that particular volume.

This set is useful in a number of ways. Each volume, full of biblical, historical, and theological information, may be read profitably in its entirety. Indexes and detailed tables of contents make each volume useful as a reference work. Worship leaders will find a wealth of materials that they may adapt for their own local use. These volumes also provide valuable information for educators of future pastors, church musicians, and other worship leaders.

Volume 1, The Biblical Foundations of Christian Worship [ISBN 1-56563-185-4] explores worship as presented in the Bible. Chapters contain explanations of vocabulary of worship, the history of worship, festivals in biblical worship, music and the arts, specific services such as The Lord's Supper, and other sacred actions recorded in the Bible. The editor works from the philosophy that worship renewal must not be approached in a superficial way, but must be based on a solid grounding in what the Bible has to say about worship.

Volume 2, Twenty Centuries of Christian Worship [ISBN 1-56563-186-2] is a historical look at past worship practices, current thinking on worship, and a look to the future. A wide variety of worship perspectives are included: traditional, liturgical, restoration movements, evangelicals, Holiness, Pentecostal and charismatic groups. This volume calls on all Christian denominations to respect and learn from other traditions.

Leaving the historical approach of the first two volumes, Volume 3, The Renewal of Sunday Worship [ISBN 1-56563-187-0] moves to the practical world. The first section describes current trends in worship renewal among fifty-two different church groups. Other sections include models of renewing worship from twenty-one groups and 200 pages of resources for services, preaching, planning and leading worship.

Volume 4, Music and the Arts in Christian Worship [ISBN 1-56563-190-0] has been issued in two parts since it is too large for one volume. The place of arts-music, visual arts, drama, literature-in worship is explored comprehensively-historical background, theological understanding, and guidance for use of the arts in worship renewal. This volume begins with a survey of the current use of music in worship in over sixty worship communities. A number of philosophical statements from various churches are given followed by historical essays. The same basic plan is followed for visual arts, drama, and literature. This volume contains a wealth of worship planning aids and bibliographies on all included topics.

The rich possibilities of centering worship around the liturgical year are the focus of Volume 5, The Services of the Christian Year [ISBN 1-56563-191-9]. Section 1 is a survey of current practices of more than forty major denominations in North America, from Eastern Orthodox to charismatic groups. Section 2 covers the history of how the liturgical year developed and the theological basis for it. Detailed information on each season follows, including resources for planning seasonal celebrations.

Volume 6, The Sacred Actions of Christian Worship [ISBN 1-56563-192-7] examines the role of the special ceremonies or sacraments that have been a part of worship from first-century Christianity. They are presented in terms of biblical roots, historical development, and current practice in all major denominations. Topics include: baptism, Lord's supper, marriage, funerals, ordination, and foot washing. As with the other volumes, this one also provides planning materials and bibliographies.

Volume 7, The Ministries of Christian Worship [ISBN 1-56563-193-5] addresses the issue that true worship renewal views the act of worship impacting everything that the church and individual sees and does. Topics addressed in this volume include: children in worship, cultural diversity, pastoral care, hospitality, evangelism, and social justice.

Throughout the series, Seventh-day Adventists have been included in surveys of major denominations. Because the term "Adventists" is used, these articles appear first in the alphabetically arranged sections of historical and contemporary practice surveys. Two articles on the SDA historical background of worship by Ronald Graybill are included in Volume 2. Other SDA articles cover worship renewal, music and the arts, the Christian year, sacred actions among the contemporary churches, and worship-related ministries among the churches. In addition to Graybill, other Adventists listed as editorial consultants/contributors include: Melvin Campbell, Pedrito Maynard-Reid, Richard Rice, Merle Whitney, and Edwin Zackrison.

This meticulously researched, beautifully presented series, devoted to such a timely topic in Adventism, is highly recommended for SDA libraries.

The seven-volume set (issued in eight parts) is available through conventional vendors or through the Institute for Worship Studies which offers the discounted price of $244 for the set; $35 for individual volumes. Contact information: phone- (630) 510-8905; postal mail- P.O. Box 894, Wheaton IL 60189-0894; Web- http://members.aol.com/worshipweb/

By Linda Mack, Director of the Music Materials Center at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.

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Edwards, Robert E. H.M.S. Richards. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1998. 0-8280-1332. 329 pp.

H.M.S. Richards is one of the most significant Seventh-day Adventist leaders of the 20th century -- a dynamic evangelist, dynamic preacher, and founder and speaker of the Voice of Prophecy (VOP) radio broadcast. Edwards has done a masterful job of capturing the spirit of his life. Yet this book, in spite of its 300+ pages, only begins to tell the story. It is the first biography to be written since his daughter, Virginia Cason, wrote H. M. S. Richards, Man Alive, in 1974. And there will be room for more.

Edwards tells much of the story from personal experience. He sang in the King's Heralds Quartet for most of the 44 years of his career with the VOP. Right from the beginning he confesses: "When I began to write this story of the life of H.M.S. Richards, I determined that it would be objective - that it wouldn't be just another book of hero worship. ... I can see that I failed. Why? Because as I look back on it, I can see that he was a hero to me." p. 7-8. Even so, the book was a joy to read.

While the organization of the book is chronological, no effort is made to fill in all the significant details. Instead, drawing from family sources, Richards' diary, and his own personal experience, Edwards compiles a collection of anecdotes and characteristic moments that illumine Richards' personality and character. The portrait that emerges describes a committed, dedicated, and hard-working man who loved his God, his work, his church, and his family.

If objectivity means that flaws and shortcomings in a man's character are magnified and exploited, then Edwards failed miserably. Yet Richards' experience is portrayed with balance. He faced disappointments and frustrations, struggled with church leadership, hated attending committee meetings, and may not have spent as much time with his family as he would have liked. Yet even in these times, Richards' faith shows through. The depth of his feelings on many frustrating occasions did not erupt so as to be evident to others, but found expression in his diary, which Edwards often cites. Overall though, the anecdotal approach is biased towards portraying Richards as a man with a lively sense of humor and a deep sense of the joy of living. Richards loved reading and splurged on his personal library. He loved writing poetry and a number are included. A deep love and appreciation for his family provides a constant theme that runs through the entire book, from his grandparents and parents through to his own grandchildren.

The book also provides a good snapshot at his life as an evangelist during the first half of the 20th century -- the hardships associated with moving from place to place; tents and tabernacles; breaking the ice for a baptism. Typical meetings ran six nights a week and lasted from four to six months. We catch a glimpse at the financial struggles of the evangelist who must rely on others for transportation. We are also let into some of the politics of the Adventist church at the time. We share in the birth pangs of the Voice of Prophecy as we know it today as it changed from Richards' personal ministry to a denominational ministry run by committee. What our forefathers endured in the name of spreading the gospel challenges us today.

As a child, my first record was "Only a Boy Named David" featuring the King's Heralds Quartet. I attended camp meeting in Alberta and Ohio and often enjoyed the preaching and music of the VOP. group. I studied the VOP correspondence course for children, and later the adult course, even though I wasn't grown up yet. Many times our family listened to the VOP program on the radio. Reading this book has helped me to appreciate the impact of H.M.S. Richards on my own spiritual journey.

By Terry Robertson, Acting Seminary Librarian at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.

ADVENTIST RESOURCES COLUMN

By Marilyn Crane

Bacchiocchi, Samuele. The Sabbath under crossfire: a Biblical analysis of recent Sabbath/Sunday developments. Berrien Springs, MI: Biblical Perspectives, 1998. 303 p. $15.00. "Recent attacks against the Sabbath" are examined "within the larger historical context of the origin and development of the anti-Sabbath theology." (Available from Biblical Perspectives, 4990 Appian Way, Berrien Springs, MI 49103; (616) 471-2915; www.andrews.edu/~samuele).

Nedley, Neil. Proff positive: how to reliably combat disease and achieve optimal health through nutrition and lifestyle. Ardmore, OK: The Author, 1998. 560 p. ISBN: 0966197933. $49.00. The author is a graduate of Loma Linda University School of Medicine and has an internal medicine practice. The book has over 500 color illustrations and 2000 scientific references. (Available from the author at 1010 14th Street NW, Ardmore, OK 73401, 1-888-778-4445).

Marilyn Crane is Special Collections Cataloger at Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California.

PRESERVATION CORNER

By Randy Butler

The last two issues of American Libraries have horror stories of recent mold outbreaks at Arkansas State University and California State University-Northridge. Similar stories appeared this past summer and fall after hurricanes in the Southeast and storms in the Southwest. The three most common circumstances for a mold attack are the breakdown of air handling systems, especially air conditioning; construction projects that expose collections to the outside environment; and water damage from leaks or storms. The first line of defense against mold is a clean, well ventilated, bright sun or artificial light, and cool environment.

There are four essential elements of defense against a mold attack. The first step in preventing mold outbreaks is to clean and replace air filters periodically. Mold often travels by "hitching" a ride on the uneven surface of dust particles. Second, avoid stagnant air, or pockets of dead air in your library. Keep the air conditioners on over the weekends. Third, provide natural or artificial light throughout your library. Light "kills" mold spores. Mold loves dark warm corners of the library. While you may not be able to change the lighting in such areas, you can at least provide air circulation by adding a fan. Finally, provide cool air to promote inactivity in mold growth. Of course there are exceptions, such as molds and mildews inside your refrigerator. This is because your refrigerator is dark and there is no circulation of air until you open the door, plus there is moisture present.

There are as many as 100,000 or more types of mold or mildew, which are essentially the same thing, in the environment. Mold spores are in the air everywhere and at all times, but fortunately they are most often in a dormant stage until activated by a combination of temperature and humidity or moisture.

While the right combination of temperature and humidity varies for different strains of mold, the 70 - 70 rule generally applies. Inactive or dormant spores can be activated in less than 12 hours in an environment where the temperature is over 70 degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity is 70%. A good example of this is the wrapped bread sitting on your kitchen counter. You will notice mold over time which is due to the micro-environment that the plastic wrap provides: heat combined with humidity and stagnant air. Bread, like many glues and binding materials, contain starch which mold loves as a nutrient. Mold also loves to "eat" cellulose which is the basic ingredient of paper and leather bindings. If not isolated and cleaned quickly, an "infected" book will serve as a host for attack on the whole range, all within 24 hours!

A mold attack is disgusting, repulsive, and nasty. Sometimes it is almost invisible, but the smell is always repugnant. You may see "foxing" (blue - to - gray - to - red) dots or feathering growths on the edges of the text block and fungus on the spine or cover. Imagine what may be lurking down the inside of the spine! Mold fuzz may appear over more than one place on a book cover. Sometimes mold fungus will cast a silvery incandescent reflective glow in the light. Basically, if you have a mold attack you will know it. What is now most important is to immediately counterattack!

Recovery solutions involve hard work and diligence. Steps to recovery include:

1. Restore circulation and air conditioning to the infected area.

2. Remove the infected materials. If only part of a shelf or range is openly infected, assume that the entire area is infected and remove everything in that area.

3. Place the infected books (do not bother to try to save periodicals) in a well ventilated work area.

4. Provide cleaning staff with gloves. Also provide particle masks to prevent inhalation of mold spores.

5. Vacuum the books first with a hepa filtered vacuum to remove "free" spores from the environment and be sure to change hepa filters regularly.

6. Spray Lysol or other types of wet solution over the entire book surface.

7. Gently wipe or dab the surface dry with a cotton cloth or paper towel until all evidence of the mold is removed. Be sure to use a new cloth for each book. During this process, book cover dyes may be inadvertently removed.

8. Place the cleaned book in a new well ventilated storage area with lots of fans for thirty days on open shelving or a plastic-tarp-covered floor area before returning it to the shelf. Never put a newly cleaned book in a sealed box.

9. Monitor the recently cleaned books daily for any recurrence. Repeat the process if necessary.

10. In another area away from the disaster and using Lysol or a similar fungicide and towels, thoroughly clean the shelves making sure that all sides, corners, folds, bottom shelves or kick plate, posts, and brackets are included. Do not forget to do the same process for the walls and ceilings. Replace towels regularly. This cleaning process must also include a thorough vacuuming of the carpet or mopping of the tile floor. You may steam clean the carpet but be sure to ventilate the area and allow it to dry for five to seven days. It is important to clean under the bottom shelves or kick plates because they provide a micro-environment for mold growth.

11. Finally, after restoring the books to the shelves be sure to monitor the area carefully for a minimum of six months. Take daily and then weekly thermohydrograph readings and keep the air circulating in the area.

The cleaning of shelves, posts, floor, ceiling, and walls should also be done after a water disaster as a precaution. The cheapest and easiest solution to the problem of mold is prevention! Check your stacks periodically, make sure that Plant Services Department changes the air filters regularly and properly maintains your system, circulate clean air throughout the entire building, and thoroughly check books as they are returned. Patrons sometimes have their own flood and fail to tell you that the returned item was involved. Remember your own health and that of your staff may depend on being pro-active.

Randy Butler is Library Director at Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, Texas and is also current President of ASDAL.

BYTES AND BITS

Andrews University

Periodicals

The periodicals crisis has exercised librarians at James White Library for the past several months. We have tackled the triple-headed dragon of access, budget, and space. The first issue, access to periodical literature, was addressed by a special cross-functional Dragon Team last summer and resulted in a new "Available Full-Text Journals" link on our library home page.

The next problem, budget, is common to almost every academic library at this time. The crisis at Andrews has reached the point where we must act - we cannot continue the almost annual round of journal cancellations. Our Resources Development Committee is developing a new periodicals strategy which will be based on a "just-in-time" scenario instead of the traditional "just-in-case." The new strategy is being developed through meetings with teaching faculty at many levels. Our objective is to have a plan in place before the end of 1999.

Physical space to house journals is the third head of our dragon. Last November, the Library Faculty Council established a space team to study the problem and to come up with solutions. The team reported in March, and the library's Strategic Planning Committee is now preparing a carefully planned proposal to present to the university-wide Facilities Management Committee in May. The plan involves a combination of space-saving strategies - a weeding process (we're calling it a "retention" process), the installation of high-density mobile shelving to house older journals, purchase of the JSTOR electronic archive, and reduction of seating in the periodicals area. The end result will be interior renovation to provide 5,000 square feet of new space to the overcrowded Adventist Heritage Center.

Library Workstation for Vision Impaired

Thanks to a generous donation from Ellsworth McKee of Collegedale, Tennessee. The James White Library now has a state-of-the-art workstation for individuals with sight and reading disabilities. Located in the Multimedia Center on the top floor of the library, the special workstation comprises a computer with 21-inch monitor, a Kurzweil combination reader/scanner, a CCTV camera, and several software packages. Other hardware and software will be added later as needed.

Keith Clouten

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Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences

Plans are being made to divide the responsibilities of the Library at FHCHS. At the present time the library is in charge of the computer laboratory and the Learning Resource Center, both of which are in another building near the library. At the present time discussion includes a new computer and distance learning person to help head a department known as the Information Center or possibly the Technical Center or a combination of both names. The primary reason for the change is to provide additional help in distance education and to provide teacher training in the use of technical equipment.

FHCHS library hosted the Learning and Information Resources Network (LIRN) on April 30. LIRN discussed the addition of CINAHL and SIRS to the databases already offered to participating colleges and universities. Florida used to be the main focus of LIRN but more and more colleges from other states are joining the consortium because of its good reputation for providing databases at a reduced cost.

Marley Soper

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Oakwood College

The College is the grateful recipient of the voluntary services of an alumna, Lona Nell Lea. She spent two weeks working and observing in the Archives upon the invitation of Minneola Dixon, Archives Director. As a consistent contributor and supporter of the Archives for years, Lea's her contribution of "on site" service to the Archives is highly commendable. Her service fulfills a great need in the official preservation of historical and important records on Black Seventh-day Adventists.

Lea has served in various conferences (Southwest Region Conference, Allegheny West Conference, Allegheny East Conference) for 41 years, including 28 years at the SDA headquarters. Commenting on the Archives and its services, Lea said, "The Oakwood College Archives represents a tremendous amount of structured labor and organization by truly dedicated staff members. As I continue my work in this Archives, I am greatly impressed by the wide range of materials as well as the large quantity and high quality of the materials and information which it contains."

Oakwood College Archives invites other interested persons to visit and/or give service to this very unique denominational facility for the processing and housing of Black SDA resource materials.

Minneola Dixon

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Pacific Union College

The Pacific Union College (PUC) Library is now home to Walter Rea's research collection which consists of books, notebooks, and correspondence files regarding Ellen G. White's literary borrowings. Walter Rae is a PUC graduate.

The Charles Weniger collection has also been received by the PUC Library. Dr. Charles Weniger spent 25 years at Pacific Union College as teacher, head of English-Speech-Journalism Department, and dean.

Frank Riggs, member of the last Congress representing District One which includes Napa County, has chosen the PUC Library to be the home of his congressional papers. The Riggs Collection will be available to researchers in Napa Valley and beyond.

Adu Worku

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Southern Adventist University

Pat Morrison is retiring as Director of Public Services after 18 years of service to Southern. Shouldering that responsibility beginning June 1 will be Marge Seifert, who comes to Southern from Collegedale Academy. Pat Beaman will be the new Periodicals Librarian. She is a former Librarian at the Texas Center for Infectious Disease and is also serving a stint as editor of CINAHL. Brian Jackson has decided on a career change and will be leaving SAU in May.

Loranne Grace and Peg Bennett are trying to remain calm while beta testing new versions of OPAC, Cataloging, Serials and Acquisitions modules. Why don't they involve librarians more in their program design??!!!

Peg Bennett

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Condolences

Our sympathies go to Chloe Foutz, Library Director at Union College, at the loss of her brother, Rex. He passed away in Holdenville, Oklahoma on Feb. 1, 1999 after a lingering illness.

Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians
Nineteenth Annual Conference, June 20-23, 1999
Montemorelos University, Montemorelos
Nuevo León, Mexico
REGISTRATION FORM

Name __________________________________________   Institution__________________________________

Address _______________________________________________________________________________________

Telephone (      ) _____________________ E-mail ________________________ Fax___________________

Registration Fees (until May 31)

    Member or First-time Attendee               $40.00 U.S.                 $__________________
    Non-Member                                  $50.00 U.S.                 $__________________
    Student                                     $15.00 U.S.                 $__________________
    Adventist Resources Pre-conference          $10.00 U.S.                 $__________________
    Additional Banquet Ticket                   $20.00 U.S.                 $__________________
       (One banquet ticket is included in registration fee.)
    Late Registration Fee (after May 31)        $10.00 U.S.                 $__________________

Tours
    Sabbath, June 19, tour to
        Bioparque Estrella, supper at
        University snack bar                    $10.00 U.S.                 $__________________

    Tuesday, June 22, tour to
        Technological Institute of Monterrey
        and Raul Rangel Frias Libraries, Garcia
        Caves, including lunch and supper in
        Monterrey                               $35.00 U.S.                 $__________________

Transportation (each way) Arrival Date ________________    Time ______________
    Monterrey airport to the University
        Vehicle for 4 persons                   $50.00 U.S./vehicle
        Vehicle for 8 persons                   $70.00 U.S./vehicle         $__________________
    Airport in McAllen, Texas to the University
        Vehicle for 4 persons                  $100.00 U.S./vehicle
        Vehicle for 8 persons                  $140.00 U.S./vehicle         $__________________
    Number in party _____ Name of person(s) sharing vehicle:___________________________________
                                                            ___________________________________
    __ I will arrange my own transportation.

Housing       June 18 19 20 21 22 23 24   (Circle nights to reserve)

    Hotel off university property (sleeps 2)$15.00 U.S./room/night
    "Hilton" on the campus (sleeps 1 or 2)  $20.00 U.S./room/night  $20.00 deposit $___________
	
    Number in party ____ Name of person(s) sharing room:_______________________________________

                                                             TOTAL:         $__________________

Make check payable to Columbia Union College and mail to:   Lee Marie Wisel
                                                            Weis Library
                                                            Columbia Union College
                                                            Takoma Park, MD   20912