vol. l no. 19 may 8, 2001

Ohio State University Libraries: News Notes Online

The Ohio State University LibrariesNEWS NOTES Online

Vol. L No. 19 May 8, 2001

Kleinmaier Perennial Garden, Chadwick Arboretum, Ohio State University

Complete Archive

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered they cease to please. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Charlotte Bronte

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Contents

Calendar of Events Announcements Features Meeting Notes Human Resources

See also: What's New on the Libraries' Homepage.

Send items to Patricia Greene by Friday noon for publication the following week.

Calendar of Events

Meetings

Annual Mtg. & Lunch of COASIS, May 15, 2001, 11:30am-1:30pm; Aspen Inn (See below)

Chadwick Arboretum's Spring Plant Sale - May 11 & 12, 2001 (See below)

Collection Managers' Forum, 122 Main Library, May 16, 2001, 10:30 am (See below) Questions can be sent to Carol Pitts Diedrichs, [email protected]

Faculty Meeting, 122 Main Library, June 7, 2001, 3:00pm

Suggested agenda items may be submitted to Betty Sawyers [email protected], faculty secretary, no later than noon, June 1, 2001.

Heritage Festival - May 18-20 (See below)

Luncheon Lecture Series - May 14, 2001, 11:30am -1:00pm (See below)

Exhibits

Prince Valiant An exhibition of original Prince Valiant comic strips by Hal Foster (1892-1982) dating from 1938 to 1969, is featured in The Ohio State University's Cartoon Research Library's reading room gallery from February 22, 2001 through June 8, 2001.

Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 From September 10, 2001 to January 15, 2002, as part of the 2001 Festival of Cartoon Art. The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library

The Festival of Cartoon Art Forum from September 28-29, 2001.

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Announcements

Upcoming ALAO Workshop

Mark your calendars for the upcoming ALAO Instruction Interest Group / Ohio Immersion spring workshop. The workshop will be offered in two regions of the state this year. Attend the workshop on Thursday, May 17th at Lorain County Community College or Friday, May 18th at Raymond Walters College (University of Cincinnati). The schedule for both days will be as follows:

9:30-10:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 10:00-12:00 Program 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:30 Program 2:30-2:45 break 2:45-4:00 Program

The title of the workshop is "Librarian-Faculty Collaborations: The Foundation of Information Literacy". Our presenter will be Dane Ward, co-editor of "The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe (ACRL, 2000)". Mr. Ward is coordinator of instruction services in the university library at Central Michigan University. A perfect addition to our Immersion experience, this promises to be a hands-on, interactive workshop.

Registration for either workshop will be $15.00 for ALAO, OCLIS or ACRL members. The registration for non-members will be $35.00 which will include a one year membership to ALAO. A continental breakfast and lunch is included in the cost of the workshop. Registration forms have been mailed or you may download a pdf/word form which is available from the following website: http://www.alaoweb.org/comsigs/iig/

Workshop Planning Committee The IIG planning committee merged with the Ohio Immersion planning committee, the group responsible for bringing the ACRL Institute on Information Literacy to Kent State University last June. With the remaining revenue from last years' Institute, the goal is to provide more programming on Information Literacy for Ohio librarians. Since these two groups share a similar mission, it made sense to work together. The


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members of the planning committee are:

Judy Albert (Ashland University) Chris Sheetz (LCCC) Lisa Barnett (Raymond Walters College - UC) Carolyn Radcliff (KSU) Catherine Cardwell (BGSU) Linda Rich (BGSU) Deb Carter Peoples (Ohio Wesleyan) Alison Ricker (Oberlin Mandy Hackley (BGSU) Kristan Runyan (OhioLINK) Lisa Santucci (Miami University) Michael Kobulnicky (KSU, Tuscarawas) Susan Scott (Denison) Betsy Blankenship (OSU/Marion) Don Wicks (KSU) Colleen Boff (BGSU)

Annual Plant Sale at Chadwick

The Chadwick Arboretum's Spring Plant Sale is fast approaching! In fact it's this next weekend, May 11 and 12! Hours for the sale are: Friday, May 11: 7:00am through 7:00pm, and Saturday, May 12: 9:00am until 5:00pm. As always, we're having our usual selection of perennials, herbs, vines, shrubs and trees, many of which are not commonly stocked by local nurseries. In addition, this year we're also carrying selections of dwarf conifers (perfect for you back yard railroad enthusiasts), alpine plants (perfect for use in trough gardens), and azaleas and rhododendrons.

This year we've created a garden store, stocked with a wonderful selection of gardening related books, circle hoes, herb wheels, gardening gloves, soil scoops, trellises, and plant penguins. And, since this next weekend is Mother's Day weekend, we're also offering gift wrapping for your



Mother's Day gifts!

As in years past, this sale is the major fundraising effort for the Arboretum, which covers over 35 acres throughout the University. The Arboretum is not a "line item" on the University's budget, so funds raised through this sale (and the Fall Plant Sale) are critically needed to purchase supplies, equipment, and provide some supplemental student staff. For more information about the sale (or the Arboretum in general, please see:

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Thanks! and I hope to see you at the sale!

Deb Cameron, [email protected]


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New Members of the Staff Advisory Council

The Libraries Staff Advisory Council is pleased to announce the election of two new members: Vickie Fitzgerald - Cataloging Department, 2001-2003 Mary Neno - Education, Human Ecology, Psychology, and Social Work Library, 2001-2003

The rest of the council members are: Akua Bandele (Chair ) - English, Theatre, and Communications Library, core member; Anutosh Datta - Science and Engineering Library, core member; Ryan Langhurst - Administrative Services, 2000-2002; Toni Morrison - Human Resources, ex officio; J. R. Murphy (Recorder) - Electronic Reserves, core member; Sally Muster - Collection Maintenance, 2000-2002; Cheryl Obong (Vice-Chair) - Serials/Electronic Resources, core member; John Shannon - East Asian Studies Library, 2000-2002

Please join us in congratulating our new members.

Federal Grant Supports OSU Library's Latin American Collection

The US Department of Education has designated the Ohio State University Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) as a Title VI national undergraduate research center. It is the first time it has received this designation. The award entitles CLAS to almost $200,000 for the next three years, renewable for another three-year period. Of that amount, $60,000 will benefit the Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese (LAT) Collection, housed in the Thompson (Main) Library. This additional support is enabling the LAT Collection to acquire hundreds of new monographs, microfilm, and electronic research resources.

Through Title VI, the federal government recognizes quality education in the study of foreign languages and area studies. The OSU Latin American program joins more than two dozen other major research universities in receiving such aid. The University of Texas at Austin, with 700,000 volumes, is the largest Latin American collection at an American university. The Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress, with over a million items, holds the largest Latin American collection in the US and probably the world.

OSU’s LAT Collection contains 200,000 volumes. Title VI funding increases its total annual budget to just over $100,000. The size of the collection and the increased budget now place the OSU LAT Collection at the threshold of the top tier of such libraries in the country. The collection is the largest in Ohio and a major resource on Latin America for the state.

OSU’s Title VI funds will assist both undergraduate and graduate students along with faculty and researchers in their study and publishing on Latin America. In addition the grant supports the Center’s efforts to increase activities for film programs, guest lecturers, and artistic performances. Currently the Latin American film study series presents five films per quarter.

Dr. Edward A. (Ted) Riedinger, Professor and Head of the LAT Collection, explains what benefits the grant has already meant: “We've just been able to support acquisition of a first edition (1725) of the complete works of the noted colonial Mexican writer, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz. The total cost was $6,000.00. Title VI funds covered $1,000.00. In addition, we have been able to order



almost all of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) microfilm collection of literature from modern popular movements. The collection reproduces thousands of pamphlets, manifestos, bulletins, newsletters, posters, chapbooks, etc. from a dozen countries in Central and South America. New CD-ROMs acquired, in the Digibis Tavares Collection from Spain, reproduce the texts of hundreds of classics of Latin American and Spanish literature and history.”

Prof. Riedinger is a specialist on Brazil who has written extensively on that country and been a Fulbright Scholar there. He was secretary to Pres. Juscelino Kubistchek, the builder of Brasília. According to Riedinger, these new acquisitions fill in many gaps in library holdings for modern and colonial Latin America.

The Title VI funding is “a key asset for strengthening Latin American research resources at OSU and in the state. Mexico is the second largest trade partner of Ohio. Brazil, Chile, and Argentina are rapidly growing partners. Brazil manufactured planes, from the Embraer Company, increasingly fly out of the Columbus airport. Last year OSU mounted the largest commemoration by an American university of the five hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Brazil, bringing the Brazilian Ambassador to the US to campus, conferring with the governor and mayor regarding trade matters.”

For more information, you can contact Prof. Riedinger at: [email protected].

Regarding the Sor Juana works, you may contact Dr. John Bennett, in the Rare Books Collection, at: E-mail:[email protected].

The web site for the LAT Collection is at: /latweb/LATHOME.HTML

Submitted by Chiquita Mullins Lee, Program Coordinator, Library Communications

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Student employee Leticia Escobar examining the views of Rio

Together with other parts of Main Library, the Latin American Library Collection has also been refurbished. To accent the collection's character, Prof. Ted Riedinger, the head of the collection, is mounting small exhibits that demonstrate aspects of the region's culture. One exhibit shows the work of noted Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi, who was of Inca descent. Another exhibit displays reproductions of prints of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ted plans additional exhibits, with small sculptures and craft works.

Photos by Martín Chambi



Direct Deposit Week is May 14-18

Direct deposit week is a nationally designated week set aside to increase awareness of and support for direct deposit. Direct deposit means that your pay is automatically deposited into the bank account of your choosing. All Ohio State faculty, staff, and student employees may enroll in direct deposit. Those who enroll May 14-18 will receive a free gift! You can find information on direct deposit as well a downloadable enrollment form on the Open Enrollment web site at www.ohr.ohio-state.edu. You may also request an enrollment form from the Libraries Human Resources Department. For questions about the direct deposit program, contact the Office of Human Resources Payroll Department at 614-292-2311.

The libraries' statistics on direct deposit:

● 40% of the libraries total employees are enrolled in direct deposit● 30% of employees paid bi-weekly (student and civil service) are enrolled in direct deposit● 87% of employees paid monthly (faculty and A&P) are enrolled in direct deposit

Collection Managers' Forum

The next Collection Managers' Forum will be held: May 16, 2001


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122 Main Library 10:30-12:00

The agenda can be found at: /tsweb/cmf516ag.htm

We look forward to seeing you.

Carol Pitts Diedrichs, [email protected]

Annual Heritage Festival

May 18...Friday Night After Party (11pm-2am or 2am-4am at French Field House) May 19...Saturday Night After Party (8pm-11pm, 11pm-2am, or 2am-4am at French Field House) May 19...Saturday Town Square (9am-12pm, 12pm-4pm, or 4pm-7pm on the Oval) May 20...Sunday Cookout (10am-1:30pm or 1:30pm-5pm on the Oval) May 20...Sunday Neighborhood Clean-Up (12pm-3pm)

As far as additional info about the Festival itself, please take a look at this website if you need more info: www.osuheritagefestival.com. If you check that out and still have questions or if you have specific questions about some of the events now, please let me know. Thanks again!

Leta Hendricks, [email protected]

Stuff (And Everybody Has to Have Their Stuff!) You Can Have Just By Visiting

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Free Tickets

The annual Ohio State University Night with the Columbus Clippers will be held Friday, May 18, 2001. The game begins at 7:05 p.m. in Cooper Stadium, 1155 West Mound Street. Gates open at 6:00 p.m. OSU fans are welcome to come early and enjoy refreshments at reduced prices before the game in the stadium's picnic area. FREE TICKETS are available in the Human Resources


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Department for all interested faculty, staff, and students.

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Annual Meeting & Luncheon of Central Ohio Chapter, American Society for Information Science & Technology

Tuesday, May 15th 2001 11:30 am-1:30 pm

Martin Jamison, head, Information Services at the Education, Human Ecology, Psychology and Social Work Library (EHS), The Ohio State University " The Handheld Electronic Book in Historical Perspective" The handheld electronic book may represent the latest successful stage in the historical process of text form evolution. A review of that process demonstrates how today's e-book takes its place in the ancient pattern of text form development.

Aspen Inn 1200 Chambers Road Columbus, Ohio (map at http://www.asis.org/Chapters/coasis/ASPENINN.jpg)

Pay at the door: $10 $8 students Please make reservations by May 8th: Judy Wagner 614-292-8625 or [email protected] (Cancellations after May 10th will be billed.)

Luncheon Lecture Series

As part of the Luncheon Lecture Series with the general theme of Agriculture, Health and Community Development in Africa, the following are the remaining presentations.

Monday May 14, 2001 Speaker: Dr. Mark Headings, Associate Professor ATI, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University. Title: “Rural Enterprise Development in Southern Africa.” Place: Faculty Club, Junior Colleagues Room (Ground floor), 181 South Oval Drive. Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm.


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Check Out the Library Staff Advisory Council's Web Page

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Features

Luminous Lucubrations

Last week's entry, "recalcitrant" means "marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance." This week's entry is "consanguine."

Online resources for this question are available:

● WWWebster Dictionary - brief definitions● The Oxford English Dictionary - lengthy, historical entries

Laughs

● Dilbert's Daily Mental Workout● Cartoon of the Day

Meeting Notes

Human Resources

Appointments

===Staff=== University Archives: Jana Drvota, Library Associate 2 (Photo Archives Reference), has announced her retirement effective July 31, 2001

Vacancies


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===Faculty=== Education, Human Ecology, Psychology and Social Work Library: Information Services Librarian/ Collections Manager -(replacing Walter) Information Technology Department: Web Librarian - New Position

===Administrative & Professional=== Health Sciences Library: Program Coordinator - New Position Law Library: Electronic Services/Reference Librarian (replacing Davidson)

===Staff=== Circulation Department: Library Associate 1 (replacing Charles Brown) OSU Newark: Library Media Technical Assistant 1 (38%) – New Position Information Services Department: Library Associate 2 - 50% - (replacing Lynch) Serials and Electronics Resources: Library Media technical Assistant 2 (replacing Dunham) Science and Engineering Library: Library Media Technical Assistant 2 (Morning Circulation Supervisor) - 50% - (replacing Stojak) Technical Services Accounting Administration: Library Media Technical Assistant 2 (50%) - (replacing Stiffler)

In order to comply with University procedures, employees who are applying for listed vacancies must complete a Promotion/Transfer Request (form 8931, Rev 9/97) during the week of the first listing of the vacancy in the University Personnel Posting (green sheet). To ensure awareness of all vacancies which have been posted, applicants should consult the weekly green sheet rather than relying on the listing in NEWS NOTES Online and are encouraged to attach a resume and/or other supporting documents to the form. Prospective faculty and staff applicants who are absent during the five-day posting period and wish to apply should see Toni Morrison.

Library personnel may also review University employment opportunities at: http//www.ohr.ohio-state.edu/index.htm

Library personnel may also view University employment opportunities at OSU Jobs

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