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"The official electronic newsletter for NCLA" |
December 2000, volume 2, no. 6 |
A WORD FROM NCLA
PRESIDENT AL JONES
Future of North Carolina Libraries
NCLA Members have voiced their opinions and the Editorial Board of North
Carolina Libraries is taking them into account as we move into a new
publication year. The overwhelming
consensus of opinion expressed in the survey I sent to all NCLA members in
October is that North Carolina Libraries is a valuable part of
membership in NCLA. The majority of
members also responded that, while it is appropriate to begin to investigate
the possibility of an online journal in the future, the preference is to keep
receiving the journal in the print version.
The Editorial Board met in late November to discuss the results of the survey. To save money, the Board unanimously decided to cut back from four to three issues per year. To ensure that the content of the journal meets the needs of the various Sections and Round Tables of NCLA, the Board decided to ask the Chair of each Section and Round Table to be responsible on a rotational basis for submitting an article for the journal. The journal will continue to have about four major articles along with features such as the book reviews, the Lagniappe column, the NCLA President’s column, and the minutes of the NCLA Executive Board meetings. We will continue to have one issue devoted to the Biennial Conference during the year in which it occurs.
Since there are seventeen Sections and Round Tables in NCLA, each Section and Round Table will be responsible for submitting to North Carolina Libraries one article each biennium on a rotational basis.
Future of North Carolina Association of
School Librarians Section
A majority of those voicing their opinions to the survey question about the
future of NCASL in light of the formation of the North Carolina School Library
Media Association, a new organization for school librarians not affiliated with
NCLA, was that NCASL should continue within NCLA. I have sent a letter to NCASL members asking for two volunteers
to contact me to express interest in serving as Chair and Vice Chair until a
new slate of officers can be nominated for elections in the spring.
Please do not hesitate to seize this opportunity to serve the public schools and students of North Carolina. Continue within NCLA the excellent service that we have all grown to expect from NCASL!
New Initiative of the Development Committee
NCLA will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2004. In recognition of this momentous event in
NCLA’s history, the members of the Endowment Committee have accepted the
challenge of building the NCLA Endowment to $100,000 by 2004. You will be receiving letters soon from
colleagues representing the various types of libraries where you serve, from me
as your President 1999-2001, and from Elizabeth J. Laney as Chair of the
Development Committee 1999-2001.
Floyd Relief Continues
Since October 1999 gifts have continued to come into the NCLA office. Please
continue to send your contributions to NCLA and note "Floyd Relief
Fund" in the lower left-hand corner of your check. Send your checks to
Maureen Costello, NCLA, 4646 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4646. NCLA now has a FAX number (919-839-6253) in
addition to the regular line (919-839-6252).
Thankfully Eastern North Carolina survived a hurricane season without wind and water damage this year! The aftermath of Floyd is still very evident, however. While traveling through the area during the Thanksgiving holidays, I noticed several neighborhoods in Greenville near the Tar River that remain ghost towns even now! Please be generous!
Your Opinions Needed
If you have comments or suggestions dealing with any of the above or just
opinions on NCLA-related matters in general, please do not hesitate to e-mail
me: pajones@catawba.edu.
--Plummer Alston "Al" Jones, Jr., President, NCLA
Disaster 101
MACREN (Mountain Area Cultural Resources Emergency Network) invites you to attend the first in a series of disaster preparedness and response workshops for museums, historic sites, archives, and libraries. This one-day workshop will address the following topics: understanding the type and nature of disasters that can impact cultural institutions, planning and preparing for potential collections-related disasters, responding to actual disasters and recovering collections, and preventing disasters and lessening their impact on collections.
The Disaster 101 workshop is intended as a general introduction to disaster preparedness and response issues. Future workshops in this series will offer more detailed training in disaster- and collections-related topics.
Advance registration is required for this workshop. Registration will not be allowed at the door. Please mail your registration form and payment before January 17th. Questions about the workshop can be addressed to Kim Hewitt at 828-253-8304 or Lynn Savage at 828-693-4178.
The workshop will be held in the auditorium at the NC Arboretum, located at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way in Asheville. For directions, please call the NC Arboretum at 828-665-2492.
--Eileen Heeran, The Biltmore Company
New NCLA Listserv address
The new address for the NCLA listserv is ncla-l@soe.ecu.edu. The NCLA listserv has been hosted since its beginning, by the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-CH. The System Administrator, Scott Adams, wrote me earlier this week that they were shutting down their list server permanently. We had some options – and some would involve either cost or advertising with messages. So, knowing that the System Administrator for the School of Education at ECU is on my faculty, I asked him if we could host this listserv. Scott sent him the data from the UNC-CH (ruby) server and Gregg loaded it into the new listserv. This way we have control and the Administrative Office will be able to add members directly from a web page.
I’ve changed
the web page about joining – http://www.nclaonline.org/join.htm so that
should help. For those of you familiar
with listserv software, you usually have two addresses, one for administration
and one for posting messages. This
software is really a mail distribution, so there is no administrative address –
just email me – for now – if you have problems. By the first week in January we should have Maureen also able to
work with the program.
---Diane Kester, East Carolina University
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The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, NC is pleased to announce the newest member to their family of web sites, brarydog: Your Personal Library & Web Companion, http://www.brarydog.net.
This site is
designed to provide students and Internet users alike with easy access to the
library’s premium electronic resources and the best sites found on the
net. The brarydog site allows you to
create a customized web page with access to dozens of homework help and
research resources (encyclopedias, newspaper and magazine databases, etc.) as
well as add links to your favorite Internet sites and search tools. With brarydog, all your favorite Internet
resources and sites come together to create your personal library on the
web. Brarydog’s so cool he even has his
own song, the “brarydog Rap”. Brarydog
it! Today at http://www.brarydog.net.
--John Zika, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
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The Library and Information Technology curriculum at Central Carolina Community College in Sanford is wrapping up a very successful first semester! Thirty-nine students are completing LIB 110: Introduction to Libraries. Students in the curriculum are from as far east as Elizabeth City, as far north as Norlina, as far west as Kings Mountain, and as far south as Carolina Beach. We are expecting that the Spring 2001 semester will bring us students from other states and Japan! Also, we have found that all of the students share a common bond: love for libraries, technology and learning!
The idea for the curriculum was sparked when members of the library staff at Central Carolina Community College recognized that the challenges they were facing in hiring staff able to meet the needs of today’s modern library were also being experienced by all types of libraries. The Library and Information Technology curriculum is the only curriculum in North Carolina for library paraprofessionals. Students may pursue a two-year Associate in Applied Science Degree in Library and Information Technology (73-74 semester credit hours) or a Diploma in Library and Information Technology (37 semester hours).
All library-related courses in the curriculum are available online through Central Carolina Community College and other courses in the curriculum (general education, computer information systems, hardware, software, office systems technology, internet, web design, network classes) may be taken online or in a traditional classroom setting at a community college of the student’s choice.
Registration for the Spring 2001 semester begins January 3, 2001. Library-related courses to be offered are Introduction to Libraries, Information Resources and Services, Acquisitions/Collection Management, Cataloging & Classifying, and Public Service Operations.
The staff at Central Carolina Community College appreciate the help, encouragement, and support they’ve received from around the state in establishing this curriculum, including the libraries who will be hosting students in the Co-op Experience component of the curriculum.
Please contact
Ellen Dickey, Lead Instructor for the curriculum at (919) 718-7439 or email her
at edickey@gw.ccarolina.cc.nc.us for further
information.
--Ellen Dickey, Central Carolina Community College
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Jim Graham Exhibit and Endowment at NCSU Libraries
From January 4 through April 4, 2001, the NCSU Libraries will celebrate the career of Jim Graham, the state’s commissioner of agriculture for more than thirty years, with an exhibit entitled, “The Sodfather: A Friend of Agriculture in North Carolina”. Additionally, a virtual exhibit, http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/archives/exhibits/sodfather/, will enable off-site perusal of materials displayed in the exhibit, as well as the opportunity to read The Sodfather, Graham’s recollections of his career as “a friend of agriculture”.
The personal papers of Commissioner Graham will be received by the NCSU Libraries after the State Archives has reviewed his office files for the extraction of official state records. In addition, friends and family of Commissioner Graham have created the Jim and Helen Ida Kirk Graham Agricultural Heritage Endowment to acquire books, journals, and electronic media relating to agriculture for the NCSU Libraries collections.
Library
contacts: Caroline Weaver or Bernard McTigue, NCSU Libraries, Special
Collections, 515-2273.
--Jinnie Y. Davis, North Carolina State University
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Don't forget! A new type of area code is coming!
The new area code 980 will be a "10-digit dialing overlay" covering the same geographic area that the existing 704 area code covers. Customers residing within the 704/980 area code will need to dial 10 digits to anyone else within that 704/980 area code whenever they make a local or expanded local call, even if it is to someone with the same 704 or 980 area code in their own neighborhood. Callers can begin using the new 10-digit dialing immediately. However, after January 10, 2001, all local calls and expanded local calls within the area code will have to be placed using the new method of 10-digit dialing.
Spread the
word with all friends and family to make sure they are aware of the change
which will be taking place. Make sure that any equipment which requires
programming is updated to show the new area code: telephones with automatic
dialers, Private Branch Exchange (PBX) Systems, modems, Internet connections,
fax machines "smart phones", and so on.
--Maureen Costello, Administrative Assistant, NCLA
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IFLA Conference Coming to Boston in August 2001!
For the first time in 15 years the United States has the honor of hosting the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Council and General Conference. IFLA’s 67th meeting will be held next year in Boston, August 16-25, 2001. IFLA 2001 provides a chance for librarians in the United States to meet, interact, and learn from librarians from around the world, as well as an opportunity to showcase your library and library services to the global library community.
“Libraries and Librarians”: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age” is the theme for IFLA 2001, and programs and workshops will explore how libraries and librarians become effective players in the Knowledge age of the 21st Century.
For more
information on IFLA 2001 (including registration, housing, and volunteering)
please visit the IFLA 2001 website at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla67/index.htm. If you have other questions about IFLA
2001, please contact the ALA International Relations Office at intl@ala.org, or
800-545-2433, ext. 3201.
--Lovenia Summerville, UNC Charlotte
The CSS
sponsored its retreat “Storytelling and Beyond” on October 30th and
31st. This year our focus
was incorporating the arts into storytelling.
The retreat was very well received and we had over 80 people attend.
We have a
new Director on the CSS Board, Loree Pennock.
Loree is the Youth Services Coordinator for the Cumberland County
Library System.
Our
representative to NC Libraries, Pam Standhart, has resigned to accept a
position as a media specialist. We will
miss her and wish her well in her future endeavors.
Finally,
our Winter Board Meeting was December 13th and at this meeting we
began to plan for the Biennial Conference next Fall.
--Ann Burlingame, President, Children’s
Services Section
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College and University Section
See Resources and Technical Services Section
for information from the October RTSS/CUS program.
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The Documents Section held their Fall
Workshop on November 17th at McKimmon Center on the campus of North
Carolina State University in Raleigh.
The workshop which emphasized local documents information, was well
attended. A brief business meeting
followed the workshop.
There is a slate of officers for the new year
and the election will be held in January
--Marilyn Schuster, Documents Section
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North Carolina Public Library Trustees
Association
I would like to encourage all local libraries
to send their most current list of trustees to Maureen Costello, Administrative
Assistant, NCLA. From this list we hope
to better inform trustees of how they can participate in support of public
libraries.
Secondly, as a trustee and a dedicated patron
of our local public library, I join with all trustees who are excited about the
Gates Grants. This gift of computers to
public libraries is essential in linking us all together and strengthening our
resolve to make libraries THE VERY BEST PLACE TO START!
--Theron Bell, Chair, Public Library Trustees Association
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Resources and Technical Services Section
Resources relevant to the October RTSS/CUS
program on licensing issues have been posted to the web. Thank you to Selden Durgom Lamoureux of UNC-CH
for developing the resources for the breakout session entitled “Routes Through
the Maze: Dealing With Overlapping Access to Electronic Information,” and to
Byrna Coonin of ECU for developing the bibliography for the breakout session
entitled “Running the Rapids: After the License is Signed.” You are invited to view these materials at: http://www.unc.edu/~ldsmith/rtss/rtsshome.htm#past.
Nominations
for officers, and ideas for programs are welcomed. Officers of the RTSS Executive Board encourage you to let them
know of your interest in being involved in committees and planning
activities. Contact information can be
found at http://www.unc.edu/~ldsmith/rtss/rtsshome.htm.
--Teresa L. McManus, Chair, Resources and
Technical Services Section
Intellectual Freedom Committee
The Office for Intellectual Freedom is
working with ALA Editions toward publication of the sixth edition of the
Intellectual Freedom Manual. As part of
the standard operating procedure for preparing to publish each new edition, the
ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee reviewed all ALA policies in the Manual and
those that were developed since the fifth edition was published. The following documents have been updated:
The Freedom to Read Statement http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/freeread.html;
Access to
Library Resources and Services Regardless of Gender or Sexual Orientation http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/acc_gend.html;
Library-Initiated
Programs as a Resource http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/lib_res.html;
Restricted
Access to Library Materials http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/rest_mat.html;
Guidelines
and Considerations for Developing a Public Library Internet Use Policy http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/internet.html;
Guidelines
for the Development of Policies and Procedures Regarding User Behavior and
Library Usage http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/usage.html;
Dealing
with Concerns about Library Resources http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/dealingwithconcerns.html;
Statement on
Library Use of Filtering Software http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/filt_stm.html; and
Questions
and Answers: Access to Electronic Information, Services, and Networks: An
Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/oif_q&a.html.
ALA
Council adopted a new Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights:
Intellectual Freedom Principles for Academic Libraries: An Interpretation of
the Library Bill of Rights http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/ifprinciplesacademiclibraries.html.
The ALA
Intellectual Freedom Committee rescinded Frequently Asked Internet Questions,
since this document is superceded by the Libraries & the Internet Toolkit http://www.ala.org/pio/internettoolkit/index.html and other documents.
--Don Wood, ALA Office for Intellectual
Freedom
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NCLA E-News is a publication of the North Carolina Library Association,
published six times a year. Please submit news,
conference or workshop information, and other items of interest to the Editor
or Assistant Editor below.
EDITOR:
Marilyn
Schuster
Local
Documents/Special Collections
UNC
Charlotte
mbschust@email.uncc.edu
ASSISTANT
EDITOR:
Margaret
Foote
Head,
Cataloging Department
East
Carolina University
footem@mail.ecu.edu