| Volume 14, No. 3 | Spring 1995 |
ASDAL FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
JUNE 19-27, 1995
Newbold College, England
It is the wish of the Conference planning committee that this will be the best ASDAL Conference since the inception of the association. The committee has worked hard at making it all come together.
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Conference theme: The Global Electronic Village: Sharing Human and Information Resources
Monday, June 19
Arrival & Registration
6:30 pm Walking tour of Binfield and/or get-acquainted time
Tuesday, June 20
Cotswolds-Stratford Tour. The day begins with a scenic drive through the Cotswolds, with a stop at the town of Bourton-on-the-Water. Places of interest to visit in this town include the Bourton Model Railway, the Cotswold Motor Museum, the Perfumery Exhibition, or the Model Village. The tour will continue through the Cotswold towns of Broadway (a pretty village of honey-colored houses, gardens and more than a dozen antique shops) and Evesham (an elegant town on the River Avon with beautiful public gardens, Georgian buildings, & the ruins of the medieval abbey). Then its on to Stratford, the birthplace of Shakespeare. Many sites associated with him remain. Most belong to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust which has restored the buildings to their original appearance. We will attend a performance of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Royal Shakespeare Theater. The cost of the tour (coach fare, packed lunch & play) is £25.
Wednesday, June 21
8:30-9:00am Worship
9:00-9:40am Presentation: "An American in England: British Academic Libraries from an American Perspective" by Taylor Ruhl
9:40-9:55am Response and question time
9:55-10:35am Presentation: "Sharing Expertise and Resources in the Electronic Age: European Perspectives" by Andrew Dawson
10:35-10:55am Response and question time
10:55-11:10am Break
11:10-12:00n Newbold Library Tour
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Breakout sessions
3:00-3:15pm Break
3:15-4:00pm Report on breakout sessions
4:00-5:30pm Newbold Campus Tour
7:00pm Committee meetings
Thursday, June 22
8:30-9:00am Worship
9:00-9:40am Presentation: "Sharing Expertise and Resources: A North American Perspective" by Keith Clouten
9:40-9:55am Response and question time
9:55-10:35am Presentation: "Sharing Expertise and Resources: An Australian Perspective" by Arthur Winzenried
10:35-10:55am Response and question time
10:55-11:10am Break
11:10-12:00n Business session
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:10pm Presentation: "The Great Equalizer: Information Transfer Without Borders" by Gilberto Abella
2:10-2:25pm Response and question time
2:25-3:25pm Business session
3:25-3:40pm Break
3:40-5:00pm School Reports
5:30pm Windsor, Eton, Runnymede Tour. A short coach ride will take us to Windsor area. Windsor owes its fame to the great royal castle.
Linked to Windsor by a bridge across the Thames is the town of Eton, site of the prestigious public school founded in 1440 by Henry VI. It remains the largest and most revered school in Britain's private educational system. At Runnymede we can visit the Kennedy and Magna Carta memorials. Cost of coach fare is £3.00 (supper is not provided).
Friday, June 23
Oxford all day tour. This tour will include a visit to the Bodleian Library. This library is housed in four buildings on Parks Road and Broad Street, and was founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley, who contributed his own invaluable collection. The library is entitled to a copy of every book printed in England, and is one of the largest in the world with over 3 million volumes. None of the books are allowed to leave the library. Among the many rare manuscripts is the 7th-century Codex Laudianus used by Venerable Bede. Another place of interest included on this tour is the Blenheim Palace, ancestral home of the dukes of Marlborough and birthplace of Churchill. Cost of tour (includes coach fare, packed lunch, entrance fee to Blenheim) is £18.00.
Sabbath, June 24
Most of Sabbath will be spent at Newbold with an afternoon tour of Virginia Water garden. This garden is dear to the heart of Newboldians. Cost of coach fare is £3.00.
Sunday, June 25
8:30-9:00am Worship
9:00-10:00am Business session
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:30am Panel discussion: "Where do we go from here?"
11:30-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-5:00pm Joint session with E.G.W. Estate
6:30pm Banquet: Keynote speaker Dennis Porter
Monday, June 26
All day tour of London. Coach tour includes a visit to the British Library and major sights of London. Some of the many places to visit include Buckingham Palace, Chiswick House, Dickens' House, Freud Museum, Hampton Court Palace, Museum of London, National Gallery, Planetarium, Tower of London, Westminster Cathedral, and many, many more sites. Cost of tour (includes packed lunch and coach fare) is £9.00.
By Harvey Brenneise
This will be my last message to the membership before many of us meet at Newbold College in June. I believe it's an exciting time for SDA librarians, while at the same time a sobering one. Latest reports show an attendance approaching 50 at this conference, with excellent international representation. I am really looking forward to seeing many "old" faces as well as meeting many "new" ones. I am especially excited about the potential for finding ways to better deliver information to our diverse groups of users.
During the last several months, I have traveled to Tennessee, Pennsylvania and California to library meetings and have conversed with some of you personally, by phone, or electronically. The common thread in all of this is the need for cooperation among our libraries in meeting common goals.
A meeting with great potential for our common future was one held over lunch at a restaurant in Berkeley during the recent Innovative Users' Group meeting, with representatives from Innovative Interfaces, Inc., and librarians from Pacific Union College, La Sierra University and Andrews University. We discussed the possibility of developing a consortium or consortia to actually share library online catalogs over long distances. We are currently investigating the technical feasibility of such a move.
There have been other discussions regarding the sharing of commercial electronic databases among SDA libraries over the Internet. In fact, the first of these to be made available will be the American Theological Library Association (ATLA Religion Indexes One and Two) database, currently being loaded at Andrews. Arrangements have been made with the vendor to make this possible, and further negotiations will be held in the future so that the smaller and/or international institutions can also take advantage of this. At present, time seems to be the biggest limiting factor--staff time in working out the many details to make this possible.
At a recent conference of the Association of SDA Historians (held in Collegedale in April), I gave a presentation on the present situation and future prospects of libraries generally and SDA libraries in particular. I'm afraid I may have left them in shock. One of the things I pointed out is that compared to many other academic libraries, our level of funding (and often staffing) is deplorable. We must continue to work to improve our ability to deliver the right information at the right time to our users. For small institutions like ours, this will require that we work closely together.
I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible next month in England and working with you toward our common goals.
Harvey Brenneise is head of the Office of Resources Development and is also responsible for electronic systems at the James White Library, Andrews University
Marilyn Crane, Coordinator
NEW SOURCES
Recent Books, Theses, & Periodical Articles
Allen, Malcolm J. Divine guidance or worldly pressure?: youth ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Silver Spring, MD: General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Dept. Of Church Ministries, 1995. 158p. The author deals with questions about youth ministry that confront the church.
Berry, Marian. Getting it all together in Daniel and Revelation. Brushton, NY: TEACH Services, 1994. 298 p. $20.00. ISBN 0945383428. This is not a verse-by-verse commentary, but is intended as a study of the "end time" significance of Daniel and Revelation. Index included.
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Dept. Of Health and Temperance. Health 2000 and beyond: a study conference of Adventist theology, philosophy, and practice of health and healing. Silver Spring, MD: Home Study International Press, 1994. 264 p. Twenty-four papers from the June, 1993 conference are presented.
The Home school manual: plans, pointers, reasons and resources. Theodore E. Wade, Jr., editor. 6th edition. Niles, MI: Gazelle Publications, 1995. 526 p. ISBN 093019232X. Some chapters are authored by Seventh-day Adventists. Index included.
Plantak, Zdravko. Seventh-day Adventism, human rights and modern Adventist social ethics. University of London, King's College, 1994. 411 p. A Ph.D. dissertation from the Faculty of Theology. The author is a faculty member at Newbold College.
Remnant and republic: Adventist themes for personal and social ethics. Edited by Charles W. Teel, Jr., with an introduction by Martin E. Marty. Loma Linda, CA: Loma Linda University, Center for Christian Bioethics, 1995. 197 p. $10.00 ISBN 1881127028. The traditional Adventist "landmarks" of remnant, creation, covenant, sanctuary, Sabbath, law, salvation, wholeness, millennium, and Second Coming are examined in this anthology by 10 Adventist ethicists. An index is included.
Whitehead, John W. And Alexis Irene Crow. Home education: rights and reasons. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1993. 557 p. ISBN 0891076557. Seventh-day Adventists are mentioned.
Yoshio, Murakami. Ellen G. White's view of the Sabbath in the historical, religious, and social context of nineteenth-century America. Drew University, 1994. 282 p. A Ph.D. dissertation. UMI order number: 9432955
1994 AGRICOLA DATABASE ARTICLES WITH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS AS SUBJECTS
Kuczmarski, R. J. Correlates of blood pressure in Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) and non-SDA adolescents. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 1994 Apr; 13(2): 165-173.
Melby, D. L. Blood pressure and blood lipids among vegetarian, semi-vegetarian, and non-vegetarian African Americans. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1994 Jan; 59(1): 103-109.
Reed, J. A. Comparative changes in redial-bone density of elderly female lactoovovegetarians and omnivores. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1994 May; 59(5S): 1197S-1202S.
Sorkin, J. D. Body mass and mortality in Seventh-day Adventist men. A critique and re-analysis. International Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders 1994 Nov; 18(11): 752-754.
By Harvey Brenneise
Messner, Michael A. and Donald F. Sabo. Sex, violence and power in sports. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1994.
This volume continues the discussion began by the same authors in Sport, Men and Gender Order (1990). Like it, the present volume is a collection of essays on a variety of topics related to sports and gender issues. Topics include the sexual athlete, women in the men's locker room, spouse abuse, sports and pain, patriarchy, AIDS, homophobia, minorities and other "marginal" men, feminism and gender equity in sports.
The authors draw from their own experience as former sportsmen, and spend considerable time on the costs of playing violent sports ("When bodies are weapons") in terms of present and future pain. They place this discussion within a context of gender roles, and the role of traditional violent sports (basketball, football, etc.) have in establishing and maintaining a traditional partriarchal gender order, which discriminates against both women and "lesser" men such as minorities and gays.
"Violence in sports may play another important social role--that of constructing differences among men. Whereas males from lower socioeconomic and ethnic minority backgrounds disproportionately pursue careers in violent sports, privileged men are likelier, as Woody Guthrie once suggested, to commit violence against others 'with fountain pens'." (p. 98)
"In a male-dominated social order, men generally monopolize power, status, and resources. Women, in contrast, have less access to power and social rewards. Within each institution in the male-dominated society, gender roles are defined in ways that tend to insure social and political dominance for men and secondary social status for women. By adhering to traditional gender roles, of sexual inequality. If many individuals or groups were to abandon traditional gender roles, patriarchal institutions would be forced to change, and the disparities of power and privilege between men and women might be lessened. This is precisely where homophobia enters the picture. Homophobia serves as a vehicle for social control by making conformity to traditional gender expectations desirable and nonconformity something to be feared and disdained." (p. 108)
The book concludes with chapters on ways to develop non-violent and healthy sports that includes all groups of people. A thoughtful book, especially for church institutions that are rapidly losing the tradition of pacifism, both in the military and in sports.
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Silverstein, Olga and Beth Rashbaum. The Courage to raise good men. New York: Viking, 1994.
Phillips, Angela. The Trouble with boys: a wise and sympathetic guide to the risky business of raising sons. New York: BasicBooks, 1994.
Both books share the viewpoint of raising son from a female (mother's) perspective. However, Silverstein views it as a Jewish mother who has difficulty "letting go" of her son (based on her personal experience of raising her own son and having to "give him up to male society"), and Phillips from a British perspective. Both share the conclusion that men learn to be non-expressive of emotion as children, and that to change this will take the active intervention of the mother. The father's role is largely ignored. A strength of Silverstein's book is its extensive case studies from her own counseling practice. Both refer to the nascent "men's movement," with Phillips approving of Bly, et al., as a positive way for men to begin to deal on an emotional level, and Silverstein decrying it.
Silverstein writes, "Some of these attempts to wrestle with issues of masculinity are all to the good, some silly, some downright harmful. But none of them goes to the heart of the problem, and nothing beyond change of a first-degree magnitude can come of them.
"The real pain in men's lives stems from their estrangement from women. They may be looking for their lost fathers in some ritual space, or bonding with their newfound brothers in the sweat lodge, but their feelings of loss are not going to be assuaged until that central fact of male experience is acknowledged. As anybody who works with the elderly will tell you, when octogenarians utter their dying words, it's 'Mama' the men call for, never 'Daddy.' All this Bly-inspired howling in the wilderness for the father who was not there is wasted breath.
"No adult male in our culture, however, can go off into the woods and cry for his mother. No way is that a permissible social construct. Yet that is whom many men long for. As a culture, we have to face up to that longing--its power, its persistence throughout a man's life, its potential for destruction when unacknowledged." (p. 225).
"If, as I believe, the mother-son relationship is the single most profound agent for the maintenance of the gender-divided and increasingly gender-antagonistic system we live in, then we cannot forfeit the opportunity to change the system.
"In our willingness to re-examine the premises of our parenting lies our hope for all future generations of mothers and fathers, sons and daughters." (p.227)
Both books are social critiques, and are not intended as handbooks for raising sons. The Trouble with boys is the more balanced book, and would be useful in a general gender collection, along with others that deal with this issue from a male perspective.
Bassoff, Evelyn Silten. Between mothers and sons: the making of vital and loving men. New York: Dutton, 1994.
Unlike the two books reviewed above, Bassoff's book is uniformly excellent. She is also a Jewish mother (but apparently without the stereotypical need to control) and a psychotherapist who gives illustrations based on her own clinical practice as well as her own personal experiences of being mother of a son (she also has a daughter, presumably discussed at greater length in her books Mothers and Daughters: Loving and Letting Go and Mothering Ourselves: Help and Healing for Adult Daughters).
What distinguished Bassoff is her ability to balance the unique role of being a mother with male needs. There is no male-bashing here, and in fact she frequently refers positively to the writings of Robert Bly. Unlike some feminist authors, she accepts that there are unique males needs that a mother cannot fulfill and that eventually a son must separate from his mother. She also affirms the need for older males, especially the father, in a son's life. This is not to say that Bassoff is not a feminist, but that she seems to have found a reasonable balance between feminism and the needs of men as expressed in the men's movement.
The first part, entitled "The pleasures and challenges of difference," includes chapters on male energy, male role models, male separation, and love and sex. Part two, entitled "Family portraits," includes chapters on shared parenting between husbands and wives, single mothers, step mothers, and mothers of gay sons. The latter chapter, a warmly affirming and positive one, could well be read with benefit by Christians dealing with this reality.
The final part, with two chapters, is on mother love, with an afterword to her son Jonathan. Bassoff has thoroughly reviewed the literature, and the book includes notes and bibliography. Overall, an excellent book that belongs in all libraries with an interest in this subject, and one that benefits men as well as women.
By Stephanie Carter
At one time or another, most of us have been called upon to present a booktalk. My turn came last year. Hoping to lower my anxiety level and to hold the audience's interest, I asked a friend who had worked as a children's librarian for many years to give me some tips. She recommended a series of books by Joni Richards Bodart, entitled Booktalk! 1-5. Brodart details the art and importance of booktalking, as well as providing sample booktalks for audiences of all ages. The following is a summary of her main points.
What is a booktalk? In its most essential form, a booktalk describes a good book--without revealing the ending. It may range from a 30 second impromptu reader's advisory to a formal 5 minute talk or even a recitation in which the presenter recites a section of the book word-for-word.
Booktalks may be divided into four major types, based on where the interest or excitement focuses:
Scene/Anecdote/Short Story
Choose a scene which may or may not be a major event in the book. It should be one you can enjoy and with which you can identify. Generally, look for a short scene with lots of action, perhaps something funny or suspenseful, that takes place early in the book so you don't give away too much of the plot. The scene should be complete in itself and should convey the feeling of the book. Find a scene that will show your listeners what to expect in the rest of the book. Lead up to the scene you choose by sketching the plot so far, if that's necessary, then concentrate on the episode or story itself. Try to capture the excitement, humor, or human interest of the scene, mentioning any odd or intriguing details. Stop at a crucial point or after the punch line. Episodic books are easy to talk about in this way. James Herriot's books are an excellent example. This technique of centering a talk around a particular scene or anecdote can also be used for short story collections.
Plot Summary
Summarize the plot up to a climactic moment, and then stop. This kind of talk is definitely a teaser, a cliffhanger, and so shouldn't reveal too much. Action, suspense, or adventure novels tend to lend themselves to this treatment. The point is to involve and to entice, not to reveal all. Tell enough about the book to interest and involve the audience, then make sure they know something else exciting is going to happen. It's better to tell too little than too much. You never want to give your listeners the feeling that they don't need to read the book because you've already told them all about it.
Character Description
There are several situations in which you might want to base a booktalk on character description. One is obvious--when a person (or an animal or an entity) is the main focus of the book itself, and events of the story are presented as they affect that character. This is almost always true of biographies and often of novels as well. You can also use character descriptions to introduce a survival story--any book in which a motley crew are brought together by a common emergency.
Creation of Mood
Best used in combination with one of the other methods, this technique identifies a particular mood or writing style in a book, and translates that mood or style into the talk. This may mean using some of the author's words or phrases, or tailoring your style of writing and delivery to the author's.
10 Hooks for booktalks:
Audience Participation: get the audience to repeat the title or a key phrase from the book like a refrain. Or copy dialogue from the book and read it with the audience.
Boring: start with dry facts, then jump to a shocking event. Lists of things are interesting: for example, the bits of food found in the plane after it crashed in the Andes with a soccer team on board (Alive!).
Headlines: refer to an article in the news, then link it to a book (good for contemporary biographies; also for crime or survival stories).
Jump-cut: jump quickly from one scene to another; let the audience deduce the connection.
O. Henry: one set of expectations, then pull the rug out with a trick ending; save a vital piece of information till the very end.
Questions: ask a series of these to set a mood or to pique curiosity. What would you do if?
Sounds and props: use sound effects (snap your fingers, clap your hands, stamp your foot, etc.) Use an object to lead into a scene, or to help to act it out.
Themes: talk about several books that share the same theme (one of the titles should be well-known).
What if? present the moral dilemma facing the central character.
You: relate events in the book to events in the listeners' lives.
Stephanie Carter is a librarian at Centralia College, WA
The Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians is pleased to announce that Sarah G. Endres is the 1994 recipient of the D. Glenn Hilts Scholarship. The purpose of this scholarship is to recognize excellence in scholarship and to encourage individuals with leadership potential to enter the field of Seventh-day Adventist librarianship.
The members of the Scholarship and Awards Committee believe that Ms. Endres meets the stated criteria in an outstanding way: excellence in scholarship, potential leadership, exemplary personal and character traits, and clear and persuasive written expression.
Ms. Endres graduated summa cum laude in July, 1994 from Columbia Union College with a B.S. in Mathematics, an AA in Engineering, and a minor in History. She has been listed in the National Dean's List for four years and is a member of the National Honor Societies Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Chi.
Ms. Endres is currently enrolled at the University of Maryland at College Park in the Master of Library Science program in Library and information Services. Ms. Endres expects to graduate in May, 1996.
The Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians extends its congratulations and good wishes to Ms. Endres as she continues her education toward the masters degree in librarianship.
For information on the D. Glenn Hilts Scholarship, write ASDAL Scholarship and Awards Committee, c/o Library, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA 92525-8247
Andrews University
"Beyond Walls" is the theme and title of James White Library's just-published strategic plan, intended as its launching pad for the 21st century. The 77-page document is the fruit of a year-long project of the JWL Strategic Planning Committee chaired by library director, Keith Clouten.
The publication's title, "Beyond Walls" is meant to convey the reality that our campus library will continue to be dependent on walls and space to house its growing collections and services. Yet at the same time it is called upon to break away from the "walls" mentality and forge a variety of powerful links to the electronic superhighway. The library's JeWeL system and its Internet connection is a major advance in this direction.
Central to the strategic plan are seven goal statements, providing direction for James White Library in the years ahead. The seven goals appear under these headings:
The concluding section of the plan shows a time-line for library development between 1995 and 2000. It requires an enlarged library facility by 2000, incorporating a different mix of spaces and services from those in the existing configuration.
Other News
The library now accepts orders from faculty via JeWeL, as well as the traditional book order cards or marked catalogs. Orders are sent to Harvey Brenneise who processes them and sends them on to the Technical Services Department where all requests are immediately placed in JeWeL.
Release 9.0 of the JeWeL software should be loaded in the next months with a number of anticipated enhancements for staff and public. Future possibilities in JeWeL enhancements include use of e-mail for patron notices, a Windows client/server, a World Wide Web server (allowing integration of JeWeL into the Web), interlibrary loan enhancements, and access to external databases using the software with the ANSI Z39.50 protocol.
During the next few months, the library plans to finish implementation of the complete American Theological Library Association (Religion Indexes One and Two) database. Loading of the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index database is nearly complete.
JWL is one of nearly 300 host sites across the US for the ten-part "Soaring to Excellence" teleconference series for training library assistants and para-professionals. The series is broadcast in five three-hour sessions, presented one day in each month from February through June 1995. Topics covered include attitudes toward service, use of technology, reference assistance, effective communication techniques, and the various roles of library paraprofessionals.
(Taken from the May 1995 issue of Unclassified--Newsletter of James White Library)
Atlantic Union College
April 17, 1995 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the dedication of the G. Eric Jones Library. During this our twenty-fifth year of service to the AUC community, the Jones Library staff is working diligently to improve our resources and services -- in spite of financial constraints.
Among the special events planned for Fine Arts Week and Alumni Weekend April 9-16, 1995 were these three held by the Library:
Thursday, April 13 - Fifth Stafford Poetry Collection Lecture and Afternoon Tea - The Wordcraft of Dylan Thomas, with guest lecturer, Dr. James Ayer, Professor English, Worcester State College.
Sabbath, April 15 - unveiling of a special calligraphy clock in the O.R. Schmidt Heritage Room. A brief program highlighted developments in the Heritage Room and its collections. At one time the Ellen G. White Estate published a list of print and non-print resources recommended for the establishment of an Ellen G. White/S.D.A. Study Center. All recommended resources are now owned by the library.
Monday, April 17 - Open House featuring the Career Reference Center, enhanced with additional books and computerized career development software. The Center is meant to serve a variety of client needs:
As a part of the college restructuring, three full-time positions were cut from the library staff, effective May 31, 1995:
This leaves five full-time personnel (3 librarians, 2 paraprofessionals) to share the work with the help of student assistants.
Canadian Union College
New to the library this year is the GPO (General Periodicals Ondisc). The GPO provides cover-to-cover reproduction on CD-ROM of over 400 periodicals from 1988 to present. Indexing and abstracting to an additional 1600 titles are also included. Monthly updates keep the GPO current.
Since September approximately 1000 articles have been printed each month by Canadian Union College students doing research. Because of these usage statistics and almost constant demand on the system, the library has subscribed to SSO (Social Sciences Ondisc) which will add another 200 journals to the system. Plans are to have the new work-station up and running by July.
We attended the Library Association of Alberta Conference in Jasper on April 27-28. The Thursday afternoon hands-on Internet workshop was beneficial as were the information sessions the next day.
Library staff now have access to Internet.
Joyce Van Scheik: jvanschk@hp9000.eita8net.com
Carol Nicks: Cnicks@hp9000.eita8net.com
Florida Hospital College
After five months of delay for various reasons, Florida Hospital College has now opened its new computer lab of nine 486 hp's with Windows. The official lab has now moved out of the library to the new Student Services Center. The library will keep four of the old 286's for student use when the lab is closed. Those computers will be moved into carrels and the vacated space used for much needed additional shelving. After ASDAL this summer, the new compact shelving will be delivered for installation on the main floor.
Librarians at Andrews University and at Southern College may remember our newest employee, Betty Jean Mader. She will be the new supervisor of media services. She replaces Donna Brown who will supervise the new computer lab.
Pacific Union College
The PUC Library now has a World-Wide-Web service up and running, and librarians and students are learning to use it together.
The library also has several CD-ROM resources in a networked environment. Previously, service was often disrupted by system crashing. We have now resolved the problem by moving the CD-ROMS to hard disk. This move has also decreased search time considerably. What took minutes before, now takes only seconds.
Southern College
McKee Library is trying to fill the position of day supervisor of circulation, a library tech position. Administration still has not opened the door for any professional positions; however, the graduate programs are back on track and should add motivation.
We are in the process of installing beta Windows 95 on office computers preparatory to offering WWW access next school year.
Betty Collins, acquisitions, is retiring this month, and Ron Miller, who graduated from SC a couple years ago in Computer Science, is replacing her as Supervisor of Acquisitions. Ron will also be wearing a second hat, that of Systems Manager.
As usual, summer brings four academic sessions and numerous projects the regular school year leaves no time to confront. Never a dull moment!
Walla Walla College
Carolyn Gaskell attended the 7th ACRL National Conference in Pittsburgh, March 29-April 1, 1995.
She was one of the designated reporters for C&RL News. Her summaries of the sessions on "Multimedia in the Research Library/Text, Images, Sounds, and Movies" and "The Integrated Library: Designing Learning Spaces to Utilize Advanced Technology" will appear in an up-coming issue of C&RL News.
During National Library Week (April 9-14), for the fifth consecutive year since 1990, the library hosted a luncheon for faculty who have published, made presentations at professional conventions, had art work accepted into major collections, participated in major research with another college, university or research lab, etc. This gesture of recognition has been well received by the faculty.
Several of our library personnel have been attending the "Soaring to Excellence" teleconference series down linked to the Community College Library in Walla Walla.
We are currently running a pilot test, on one of the patron terminals, using windows to access WWW (World Wide Web). The WWW has been available to students on the campus network, but not too many terminals in the labs have the ability to run windows. With the new Pentium computers, it is now possible to access the WWW and be prepared for FirstSearchs' upcoming plans to go windows and well as other CD-ROM products we already have and plan to purchase which require windows.
Indexes
James White Library is giving away the following. Anyone who needs them will need to pay for postage.
All of the above indexes are in paper format. Please contact Harvey Brenneise for more information.
ASDAL Action
Many thanks to all of you who have sent, phoned, emailed, or faxed material to me for our newsletter. With this issue we have changed the format of the cover page. I will take a few copies of the current issue with me to Newbold. If anyone needs copies of back issues please contact Violet Maynard-Reid.
Condolences
ASDAL wishes to express our sympathy to Bessie Lobsien whose husband passed away recently.
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