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CALENDAR

6/15-6/17 American Bookbinding Conference & Exhibit, Bridwell Library
6/19-6/24  CUL Web Workshops in FLE 323, 9 am-12 noon M-F. More information below.
 

OPPORTUNITIES

CUL Web Workshops
The CUL Web Team is offering a web workshop the week of June 19-23 in rm. 323 of Fondren Library East.  The 5 day workshop (9-12 am only) will focus on html, web editors, scanning, image editing, document conversion, templates, WS-FTP,  submitting your site to search engines, and troubleshooting. (You will notice some subjects are missing (forms, pdf, image and audio, etc).  These subjects will be covered in separate ADVANCED sessions later in the summer and fall.) If you are interested in participating, please contact Beth Walker (ewalker@mail.smu.edu).  If you have any question, please call me at x83656. Beth will notify the lists when the workshop is full.

Bridwell Library Bookbinding Exhibition & Conference
Bridwell Library announces The Second Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Exhibition & Award for American Bookbinding to take place in conjunction with a national conference at Bridwell Library, June 15-17, 2000. The exhibition is a juried show drawn from a competition to design a binding for an important book in Bridwell's collections. The book for the second Triennial competition is the first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses--a seminal work, recently named the most significant book of the twentieth century. Each participating binder has submitted one binding as a sample of his/her work, as well as an original design for Joyce's Ulysses. The First Prize, which will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on June 16, 2000, is a $5,000.00 commission to bind the book for Bridwell Library. Other prizes will also be awarded on that evening. The exhibition consists of both the sample bindings and the Ulysses designs from all the binders chosen for inclusion. For more information on the conference go to http://www.smu.edu/~bridwell/Degolyer.html.

Summer Reference Training Workshops
In preparation for the FLC Reference Merger this summer, we are hosting a series of reference training workshops. These workshops were designed with FLC Public Services staff in mind, but anyone may attend.

Giving Good Directions -- Friday June 2, 10:00 - 11:30 AM, FLE 323
     Sandra Setnick and Marcella Stark will present a seminar on reading complicated PONI holdings and directing patrons to special collections and remote locations in Fondren Library Center.

Special Sci-Tech Materials (and How to Find Them!) -- Thursday June 15, 9:00 - 11:00 AM, FLE 323
     Michelle Gonzales will share tips and tricks for locating special science and technology materials, such as conference proceedings, technical reports, bulletins, circulars, patents and standards.

Business Resources and FAQs -- Wednesday June 28, 9:00 - 11:00 AM, FLE 323
     Beth Walker will introduce some of the more commonly used business resources and share strategies for answering frequently asked questions.

Government Information Resources
     Steve Short will cover print and online resources for government information in three short sessions:
    Print Resources & Tour -  Wednesday, July 12, 9:00 - 10:30 AM,  Fondren Gov Docs
    Online Resources - Thursday, July 13, 9:00 - 10:00 AM, FLE Bruton Lab
    Statistical Sources - Friday, July 14, 9:00 - 10:00 AM, FLE Bruton Lab

Science Citation Index Online -- Tuesday, July 18, 3:00 - 4:00 PM, SEL ERC
     Hank Young will introduce techniques for citation searching in SCI on CD-ROM.

Science & Engineering Databases & Indexes -- Monday, July 24, 9:00 - 11:00 AM, FLE 323
     Michelle Gonzales will discuss periodical indexes and databases, including Ei CPX Web, IEEE Xplore, IDEAL, the print alternatives to GEOREF and INSPEC, and more.

Health & Medical Information Sources -- Monday, July 31, 9:00 - 11:00 AM, FLE 323
     Michelle Gonzales will share strategies for finding health & medical information in the reference collection, in databases, and on the Internet.

Additional workshops may be scheduled as needed. Watch for announcements!

Summer Bowling League
Get a group of friends together from your department or if you just like to bowl, you can sign up as an individual.  The dates for the league are Wednesdays from 6-9 PM, starting June 7th and running through August 9th. The league will bowl  at  AMF Richardson (Central Expressway and Campbell). Each player pays $10 per week to bowl plus shoe rental. There will be a Captain’s Meeting and Preseason Bowling Party for all on Wednesday, May 31st from 6:00pm-8:30pm. Please RSVP via e-mail or phone with Armando Wood by May 29th. (Armando Wood, Assistant Director of Recreational Sports, Phone(214)768-3367, Fax(214)768-1422, e-mail -armandow@mail.smu.edu)

Summer Golf Tournaments
If you’re more of an outdoor enthusiast, there are four golf tournaments scheduled.  The format for the tournaments will be a 4-man scramble.  The dates for the tournaments are all played on Fridays at different courses in the Metroplex. The dates and sites are as follows:
 

To sign up, visit the intramural department at  http://smu.leaguelink.com
 

DIVISION NEWS

At the end of each semester, in June, September, and January, the CUL Staff Newsletter will include "Division Reports" which summarize news and events in each area for the entire semester. Here are the Division Reports for Spring 2000.

CUL Office
Since August, 1999 CUL has been developing a new strategic plan to chart our course for the next 5 years.  In January 2000,  staff, students, and faculty were invited to participate in focus groups.  The focus groups' charge was to reflect and comment on the work drafted by the Strategic Planning Committee.  The focus groups' comments  were forwarded to the Strategic Planning Committee and, where there was consensus, the Strategic PlanningCommittee synthesized those comments and changes into the strategic planning documents. We are now in the process of finalizing the strategic plan, with additional focus groups coming up in June.

Fondren Library

• Fondren Reference is preparing for the merger with SEL Reference. The Merger Public Relations Committee has posted a web page for information on the progress of the merger and the activities of the various merger committees, viewable at http://www.smu.edu/cul/merge/pr/index.html.
• Periodicals:  A new microfilm storage system has been ordered and will be delivered in June.  We are anticipating changes as a result of the reference merge.
• Documents:  George Cearley, a familiar face in CUL, has begun work to annotate aerial photographs of the Dallas area.  The aerial photographs date from 1929 through the 1940's.  Mr. Cearley is volunteering his time and has already spent several afternoons on the project.  When completed, users of the aerial photographs will be able to use index sheets to identify key buildings and streets.
• Interlibrary Loan:  The merge of Science and Fondren interlibrary loan took place after the completion of the renovated circulation space.  The staff is working to unify policies.  Work will begin in the summer to implement a new magagement system software program.

• In coordination with Fondren Library Reference, the Science/Engineering Library has been preparing to move its reference collection into the Fondren  Reference Room. The physical move of the SEL Reference Collection will begin in July. Beginning with Summer Session I on May 31, SEL Librarians will be doing night and weekend duty in Fondren Reference.
• The SEL Interlibrary Loan Department was merged into the Fondren Library Center ILL service as part of the reorganization made possible by the building of the Fondren Library Center.
• SEL accepted a donation of 500 volumes from Mobil Research & Development, Inc. representing oil & gas, geology, and related areas.  Many have already been added to our collections.
• SEL added 103 IEEE journals and transactions in fulltext electronic format back to 1998 as part of the IEEE All Society Periodicals Package. (ASPP)
• Faculty, students, and SMU's extended family continue to benefit from the funds made possible by the Arthur A.Collins Fund. There has been much activity related to both the fund and the collection this year. Since June 1999, we have ordered 49 new titles at a cost of $4,000.  Most of these titles have been selected for their importance to the fields of telecommunications, computers, or electronic engineering.  We continue to add publications to the collection, and it continues to be one of the most heavily used in SEL.

• We had two major exhibits in the Hawn Gallery.  The first was called Selections from Pueblo Indian Pottery.  This show displayed 25 lithographs from PUEBLO INDIAN POTTERY, a two-volume, limited-edition portfolio, each volume containing fifty color plates, with an introduction and notes by Kenneth M. Chapman (1875-1968). Dr. Susan Bakewell curated the exhibition in collaboration with Ellen Niewyk and Sam Ratcliffe, staff of the Hamon's Bywaters Special Collections. The other major show is still running.  It is called "Charles DeBus: New Work."  Professor DeBus, who has taught in the Division of Art since 1975, has created these twenty-two photographs which are on display in the Hawn Gallery for the rest of the summer.
• Hamon Arts Library now has their Quarter Notes publication online at http://www.smu.edu/~hamon/qn.html. Quarter Notes is a quarterly publication detailing news about staff, circulation, special events and recent acquisitions of the various collections housed in the Hamon Arts Library. It has been a paper publication until now. Chris Brown is in charge of the new online version. Inquiries can be made at 84437. Additionally, the Hamon webpage is in the process of being completely redesigned.  Chris Brown hopes to be able to post it in the coming months.
• In other news, the Hamon, in conduction with CIP, has started to add the materials in the Tufts collection to its catalog.  These works will be added approximately 50 items at a time to the circulating collection as The Eleanor Tufts Collection.
• Finally, this year at the Meadows graduation, Nancy Hamon, for whom the Hamon Arts Library is named, was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Arts.

• CIP spent the year implementing Voyager, which involved redesigning all processes and procedures for technical services functions. We have nearly completed creating all of the patterns for our periodicals and some serials now and are now working on EDI (electronic data interface), and claiming functionality.  May 2000 brought our first Fiscal Year Close in Voyager with accompanying challenges.
• CIP staff worked with Public Services staff on the OCLC CORC Project. By  contributing records to the Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC), CUL  staff created records for the project and contributed to OCLC's  research.
• CIP catalogers worked with the ERAcc (Electronic Resource Access) committee to develop access to PONI titles through the CUL Online Resource Locator. CIP has provided access to CUL's electronic resources, adding URL links and  bibliographic records for 130 databases and 502 electronic journals in PONI.
• During the spring semester, the PIT responded to more than 2100 requests.
• The CIP WebPages are exciting works-in-progress!  TAKE A LOOK: http://www.smu.edu/cul/cip/

• The Stanley Marcus Collection of manuscripts has been processed and the guide is viewable online in the DeGolyer Reading Room. The processing of the Erik Jonsson Collection of manuscripts is nearing completion.
• DeGolyer Library accepted a generous gift of 19th & 20th c. stereopticons from Mr. McLaurin. These are antique viewers that allow the user to see two identical photographs as a 3-D image.

Grants 2000
The Friends of the SMU grants committee met on May 12, 2000 to review grant proposals submitted by the libraries.  The committee, chaired by Foxie Mason, included Jim Stockert and Frances Ware.  Ex-officio were Judy Searles and Linda Wolf. The following committee recommendations were approved by the Friends board on May 18, 2000:

• $3,000 to Central University Libraries (CUL) to assist in funding the production of the CUL annual report publication.
• $2,500 to the CUL User Education program to help purchase a new projector for the User Education's primary teaching classroom.  Approximately 2,500 students, faculty, staff and friends receive library instruction via this classroom and its technology every year.
• $2,000 to Central University Libraries Collection Development for acquisitions in Asian studies.  There is a great appetitie for literature regarding this area in the campus community.  This grant will enhance donations received earlier this year from East Asian and Asian-American donors as well as from the Sun and Star Japanese Studies Endowment Fund.
• $1,860 to the Science and Engineering Library to purchase reference materials to support academic research and study in the areas of environmental science and engineering, natural resources and techniques and applications of knowledge-based systems.
• $1,500 to Central University Libraries Collection Development to help purchase the Oxford English Dictionary Online, an essential tool for scholars and students.
• $1,500 to the Norwick Center for Media and Instructional Technology (CMIT) to purchase video tapes and to support printing, set design and production costs of a video archives series on the history of Southern Methodist University.
• $1,500 to Central University Libraries to purchase library software to provide the capability to deliver enhanced interactive service to remote users via the Internet.  Macromedia Shockwave and Authorware will allow User Education staff, CUL web developers and staff involved in digitization projects to create engaging online and web presentations.
• $1,250 to Fondren Library Center Reference Services to acquire the landmark publication, Encyclopedia of Psychology, and the Encyclopedia of Stress, the first comprehensive resource on this physical and psychological subject.  Both sources are expected to be valuable reference tools for undergraduate and graduate students.
• $1,164 to Central University Libraries Collection Development to purchase two important works, The Vietnam War: A Collection of Scholarly Articles and Shakespeare: The Critical Complex.  Both works are in areas of great interest to students and scholars.
• $299 to Hamon Arts Library to purchase the Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae CD-ROM and a ten-user site license for its increased access.  This series represents a complete collection of polyphonic vocal music from the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
• TOTAL amount of grants:  $16,573

Staff Awards
The 2000 Library Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony took place on May 8.  The following people were honored:
    Employee of the Year - Sandra Hearne – Underwood Law Library
    Outstanding Achievement - Ellen Ko – BIC
    Continuing Excellence - Margaret Dew – CMIT
    Outstanding Student Assistant - Lisa Unterseher – Bridwell Library

New Staff Members
Fondren Library Center has a new, FT stack supervisor, Christopher Allen Leamy. Chris, a Dallas native, received his B.A. in Germanic Languages and Literature from UT-Austin. He is currently enrolled in SMU's Dispute Resolution MLA program. Chris plays rugby, travels abroad, and speaks several languages. Most recently, he spent 13 months living and working in Cairo, Egypt, for a US NGO, Amideast. Welcome back to Dallas, Chris!

On June 5, SEL will welcome a new Science Periodicals Librarian, Erika Ripley. Erika comes to us from Oklahoma, where she just received her MLS. She has been working as a technology trainer for the Gates Foundation.

New CUL Staff Directory Online
The new Staff Directory is available online at http://www.smu.edu/cul/staff/.  The design is still being fine-tuned. Joe Milazzo will be spearheading the Staff Directory effort so if you have ideas, please contact him at x83701. Tammy Sherwood will be maintaining the staff database once it is completed, so if you would like to make corrections or additions to your listing, please contact her at x82401.

Birthdays
Robert Graff -- June 5
Billie Stovall -- June 13
Sonia Graff -- June 14
Ellen Buie Niewyk -- June 21
Lisa Wall -- June 22
Melanie Golder -- June 23

Other News

Michael Garrett, Library Specialist III in CUL's Interlibrary Loan Office, was the recipient of the Friends Library School Scholarship.  This is the second year for the award which we plan to present annually. Congratulations, Michael!

Curt Holleman's son, Josh, married Tammy Pruitt in Austin on May 28.  Josh graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin the week before the wedding.  His degree was with special honors in UT's  Plan II honors program.  The couple will move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fall, where Josh will attend Harvard Law School.

Chris Brown (Hamon) has just completed his first semester of Library School. Congratulations!!! He is going to take a digitization course at UNT so he may be getting many calls for assistance.

Barbara Stockton (CIP) was inducted into Beta Phi Mu library science honorary society in April.

Bruce Evans, Kelly Sanderson & Barbara Stockton went to Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop in Houston.

Angela Kull (CIP) presented a technical session on Macro Express at the Chicago Voyager User's Group Meeting in April.  Also attending the VUGM Meeting were Eva Cernosek, Kris Murphy, Chris Milazzo, Mary Queyrouze, Toni Nolen, Steve Short, George Cruz, Lisa Jue, Clyde Putman and Michelle Gonzales.

Michelle Gonzales (SEL) and Elizabeth Walker (Fondren) attended the 28th Annual LOEX Conference in Ypsilanti, MI (near Detroit) on May 19 & 20. The theme of the conference was "First Impressions, Lasting Impact: Introducing First Year Students to the Academic Library."

Bruce Evans (CIP) has been appointed to the Program Committee for the 2001 MOUG (Music OCLC Users Group) convention in New York City. Bruce and his wife are also expecting their second child in January 2001.

Maria Bellavance (CIP) will spend the month of June in her birthplace, Portugal.

Janet Allmon (CIP) and her husband will be touring the Bavarian, Austrian and Swiss Alps accompanied by Ruthann Swanson (SEL) in June.

The Fondren tug-of-war team handily beat the opposition at the staff  picnic on May 24.  Way to go team!

High school graduations:
Nancy Rubenstein's daughter, Kate
Margie Steele-Fuller's son, Brian
Cindy Ruppi's son, Brent
 

EXHIBITS

Disneyland: 45 Years of Magic. Fondren Library Center is proud to announce its latest exhibit, "Disneyland: 45 Years of Magic."  The exhibit is an amazing collection of Disneyland memorabilia belonging to Dave Schmidt, member of the Science Periodicals staff. We are taking advantage of the relaxed pace of summer to better acquaint you with some of the library staff.  The exhibit will run through July 15th so stop by and take a walk down memory lane.  Starting July 17th, Troy Sherrod, member of the Fondren Periodicals staff, will have an exhibit on the "History of the Dallas Theaters."

DeGolyer Library Manuscripts. DeGolyer Library is still exhibiting a selection of manuscripts from its permanent collection.  This exhibit draws from the papers of Everette L. DeGolyer, J. Frank Dobie, Elizabeth Ann McMurray, the Vulclain papers, the Stanley Marcus Collection, the Erik Jonsson Collection, and the Horton Foote Archive, among many others.  This exhibition was mounted to welcome the American Manuscript Society to Texas in May. WHEN: through June.

Charles DeBus: New Work. Through September 4, the Mildred Hawn Gallery in SMU's Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library will be the venue for "Charles DeBus: New Work." Professor DeBus, who has taught in the Division of Art since 1975, describes these twenty-two photographs as follows: "These prints are made with alternative photographic processes using found objects and photographic negatives with the addition of drawing and color. Technically, I am attempting to create new realities.  Sometimes there is an ambiguity of space or perspective but I am always trying to make feathers float or sway, the moon to shine and plants to glow with life.  It is my hope that these images bring to the viewer the myths and folk tales asleep in the hearts of all."
 

HUMOR

Calvin and Hobbes, on Librarians:

This strip was originally published on December 9, 1987.

Answers to Previous Guessing Games:

From the April 2000 newsletter -- the babies are as follows:
A. Skyler Adelaide Newman
B. James Dean Philip Parnau
C. Benjamin Garrett
D. Cooper Jay Shapiro

Ellen Buie Niewyk was the first to guess the identities correctly.

From the May 2000 newsletter -- the mystery man is none other than Sam Ratcliffe of the Bywaters Special Collection, Hamon Library.

Page author:  Michelle Gonzales
Last updated: 2-28-2001
Page URL: http://www.smu.edu/cul/news/june2000.html