Community College News
Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids)
The Kirkwood Community College library faculty and staff in Cedar Rapids, are in the midst of preparing for a complete remodel of the library. The remodeling will begin on the first floor June 1, which means everything must be moved to the second floor. Extensive weeding is being done to accommodate the reference and circulating collections. Of course, some items will be put into storage. In December, the collection will move to the completed first floor in order that the second floor can be remodeled. Submitted by Genny Yarne.
Scott Community College
Scott Community College Library will be one of ten libraries across the United States hosting a free writer’s workshop on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in the Student Life Center. The workshops are given by libraries in partnership with Woman’s Day Magazine and The American Library Association. The campaign, titled “Put It In Writing@Your Library” is designed to increase public awareness of the opportunities and resources for writers in America’s libraries. This fifth annual writer’s workshop will be led by Iowa author, Lori Erickson. Participants will learn the skill of writing a query letter, how to develop story ideas and how to do research. Submitted by Linda Nelson.
Iowa Private Academic News
Conference for Private Academic Libraries
The Iowa Private Academic Libraries 2006 Annual Meeting will be held March 10th at Morningside College in Sioux City from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Scott Bennett who will speak on “The Choice for Learning.” He will also facilitate group work on “First Questions for Designing Learning Space.” Conference registration, which includes refreshments and lunch, is $20. There is also a pre-conference dinner Thursday, March 9th, evening that is not included in the registration fee. Further information and the registration form can be found at http://www.ipalgroup.org/2006ipal.html.
Coe College
Linda Bloedel, Coe’s Interlibrary Loan Assistant died Friday January 20th 2006 of complications from breast cancer. She had been employed at Stewart Memorial Library for 35 years. Submitted by Betty Rogers.
Grinnell College
Katie Dunn, a recent graduate of the University of Indiana School of Library and Information Science recently joined the Grinnell College Libraries library faculty. She will be the Science Librarian during the 2006 spring semester and will continue during the following academic year as a reference and instruction librarian and a specialist and contact person for the college’s GIS activities.
Grinnell College Librarian Christopher McKee, after serving a distinguished term as Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Librarian of the College since 1972, will be moving to Senior Faculty Status at Grinnell College during the 2006-07 academic year to pursue scholarly research in naval history. The college recently completed its search for a new director and has appointed Richard Fyffe as Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Librarian of the College, beginning around August 1, 2006. Mr. Fyffe holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut with a major in Philosophy; the M.S. from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston; and the M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut. Since 2000, he has served as Assistant Dean of Libraries for Scholarly Communication at the University of Kansas, administering the collection development and preservation programs and sharing collaborative leadership for digital library initiatives. He played a leadership role at KU in several programs which received national recognition for their success and innovation, including planning, policy development, and implementation of the KU ScholarWorks digital repository
Loras College
Loras College received an ICF grant along with the campus matching funds for purchasing equipment and/or personnel to help scan and digitize materials from the Library’s Special Collections. We haven’t selected the collection yet that will be digitized first but are looking forward to the process and the possibilities. We have selected a Konica Minolta PS5000C color scanner and will purchase a computer and large screen monitor to use with the scanner.
Last September we hired Michelle Bailey as our Cataloging Services Librarian and Suzanne Ward as our half-time Library Assistant. Michelle is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa Library and Information Science program. Suzanne graduated from Loras College and had previously worked for Dubuque Bank & Trust.
We have been trying to garner some attention for the Library during this past year.
We participated in Homecoming’s Tail Gate and gave away Koozies with the Library logo printed on them.
We gave treats away and also showed a couple of movies as study breaks during Finals Week.
On February 21st, we revealed our first annual group of READ Posters to students and faculty in the Alumni Campus Center – before and after a Presidential Brown Bag luncheon. They were well received and we are encouraged to continue the tradition.
Every two weeks since last fall we’ve posted table tents and bathroom ads in the Library which promoted different services and resources available in the Library.
We purchased about 1000 titles from NetLibrary’s downloadable audiobooks and have recently made them available to our patrons. We also purchased 2 MP3 players and attachments to encourage listening to books on tape while driving. We’re also encouraging the Loras community to download books to their laptops which are provided to each student, staff member, and faculty member on campus by the College.
This year we’ve undertaken the project of cataloging the Curriculum Library on campus and adding the holdings to the Library catalog. It will be a long-term project since the majority of the items have not been cataloged. Submitted by Joyce A. Meldrem
St. Ambrose University
This year in March marks the 10th anniversary of the O'Keefe Library's new library building. To celebrate, the Library plans a series of events in March, including an art contest using old card catalog cards, a photo contest and exhibit, a special treat day (cookies and chocolate!), and other fun activities.
O'Keefe Library is participating in an ACRL Sister Libraries pilot project. We are developing a sister library relationship with the library at Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, Mexico. In addition to exchanging information on policies and procedures, we have exchanged copies of books written by faculty, and are working on setting up a staff exchange between the two libraries.
O'Keefe Library recently received some large donations of book collections. Timothy Walch, director of the Hoover Museum in West Branch, Iowa, donated approximately 1,800 volumes of Irish American works, including biographies, literature, history, and reference works. Rev. John Wright has donated a large collection of Catholic liturgical materials, including books and periodicals. These are being added to our collection and will be available for circulation.
The Iowa OCLC Users Group annual spring conference will be held at O'Keefe Library on May 25-26, 2006. Jennifer Davis, Head of Technical Services, is in charge of local arrangements. For more information, contact Jennifer at DavisJenniferJ@sau.edu. Submitted by Mary Heinzman
University of Dubuque
Anne Marie Gruber has been appointed Reference and Instruction Librarian. Gruber will focus on the information literacy and the first-year experience. She is a recent graduate from the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science.
Jonathan Helmke has been appointed Assistant Director for Library Systems and Technical Services. Helmke, formerly Access Services Librarian at Butler University, began February 27. Submitted by Mary Anne Knefel.
Iowa Public Academic News
Iowa State University
The following news items originally appeared in the InForm, a twice monthly publication for Parks Library employees.
In November, Gerry McKiernan, Science & Technology librarian, delivered an invited PowerPoint presentation titled “Wikis: Conversational Technologies for Community Collaboration,” at the Wikis for Collaboration, Sharing and Learning, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Teaching and Learning Workshop Series. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/CELT2005.ppt
Karen Lawson, Head of Digital Services, was an invited speaker at the 2005 Northeast Regional Digitization Seminar held at MIT, Cambridge, MA on November 9, 2005.
Kathy A. Parsons presented “Weeding on the Horizon” at the 2005 CODI Conference (Customers of Dynix, Inc.) in Minneapolis, MN in November.
Hilary Seo, Greg Wool, and Tanya Zanish-Belcher were awarded faculty research grants. Dean Olivia Madison in conjunction with the Travel and Research Committee established a formal competitive faculty research grant process in January 2006. The grant program is expected to be offered each calendar year.
Hilary received funding for her project, “Survey Locally -- Preserve Globally: Surveying International and Foreign Legal Information for Global Preservation.” She will be conducting a sample survey of the foreign and international collection at the University of California Berkeley’s, School of Law Library. The survey is intended to identify trends in the condition of twentieth-century materials based on country of printing or publication, with the hope that these trends are applicable to other law libraries with significant percentages of foreign publications in their collections. With this data, it is hoped that law libraries without formal preservation programs can more easily identify groups of materials at risk.
Greg will be using the funding for his project, “A Statistical Profile of Personal Names Associated Bibliographically with Monographs.” He will conduct a study that will examine the bibliographic association of personal names with monographs, drawing on a random sample from several large Iowa libraries. Questions to be addressed include: what different types of relationships between name and published work are there, and how prevalent is each type? How many names are excluded? How many works are affected by exclusions? Implications for cataloging code development (including the controversial “rule of three” limiting the indexing of co-authors) and online catalogs (including use of the blanket label “author” for all indexed names) will also be addressed.
Tanya will use her funding to travel to Iowa City, to work with co-author, Kären Mason, Iowa Women’s Archives ( University of Iowa). They are co-authoring a solicited article for Library Trends which will be published as part of a volume tentatively titled, “Gender Issues in Information Needs and Services,” volume 55, number 1, Summer 2007.
University of Iowa
Jean Sayre has been awarded on the IOWA Awards. As you can see from this link http://www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/IOWA/currentWinners.shtml, the award is given to individuals or teams because their work has improved the workplace for others. Mindy Egeland, the head of the Hospital Library and the current chair of the Hardin Library Advisory Committee, nominated Jean for this recognition.
Congratulations to Jim Duncan who, with Jerry Moon (Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology), has been awarded an Innovations in Instructional Computing Award. Jim and Jerry will be developing a program to “use web-based interactive virtual reality to teach human laryngeal anatomy.” This new project will build on The Bones of the Skull: A 3-D Learning Tool, work done several years ago by the Information Commons Production Services.
Congratulations to Edward Miner, who with Cliff Missen has an article in the latest issue of Africa Today, one of the major scholarly journals in African Studies. The article, titled Internet in a Box": Augmenting Bandwidth with the eGranary Digital Library can be read at the Project Muse web site, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/toc/at52.2.html
Staff Update
Jean Sayre (1951-2006)
Jean Sayre, Associate University Librarian and Director of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, died January 28 after a lengthy illness. Jean began her duties at Hardin in January, 2002 after serving in administrative positions in health science libraries around the country, most recently as Associate Director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region. During her tenure at Hardin, and as an adjunct faculty member of the Colleges of Medicine and Nursing, Jean reorganized the staff, administered a high-profile grant that resulted in the creation of the Iowa Public Health Information (IPHI) web site, spearheaded a major remodeling project, and raised the profile of the library throughout the health campus. All of these efforts have strengthened the library’s role as the primary health information resource in Iowa and as a nationally recognized leader in innovation and service. Jean was a respected and revered colleague who took a special interest in acting as a mentor to new librarians. She held numerous offices within the Medical Library Association and was recently honored with an “Improving Our Workplace” award from the University as well as a special citation from Governor Vilsack honoring her “work for the state of Iowa.” University of Iowa Libraries staff members will remember her as a good friend who drew out the best in those she worked with and whose pleasant demeanor created an atmosphere of cooperation and enthusiasm. (from the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences - http://128.255.94.135/announce/archives/23)
Appointments
Mark Anderson, Librarian I, Digital Initiatives Librarian, DLS, effective January 1, 2006
Change of Status
Ericka Raber, Librarian II, from 50% to 70%, RLI, effective January 3, 2006
Jennifer Wolfe, Librarian I, from 75% Complex Cataloging, CTS and 25% DLS to 50% Complex Cataloging, CTS and 50% DLS, effective January 1, 2006
Transfers
Jeff Dodd, Librarian III, moved from Head, Physics Library and Reference Librarian in the Engineering Library to Cataloging Librarian in Complex Cataloging, CTS, effective December 12, 2005.
Lisa McDaniels, Librarian I, moved from Cataloging Librarian in Complex Cataloging, CTS to Head, Math and Physics Libraries and Instruction Librarian, RLI, effective December 12, 2005
Phased Retirements
Becky Johnson, Librarian III, Head, RLI, Decreased to 60% Time, effective January 1, 2006
Retirements
Bill Sayre, Librarian III, Coordinator, Finance, effective November 27, 2005
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