"The official electronic newsletter for NCLA"                                                   December 2002, volume 4, no. 6

          

COMING EVENTS

ACRL Conference - April 10-13, 2003 - Charlotte, NC

The 11th National ACRL Conference, "Learning to Make a Difference,"  will be held in Charlotte, NC, April 10-13, 2003.  

Online registration for the conference is now available.  Deadline for Early-bird registration is February 7, 2003, and the deadline for Advance registration is March 5, 2003.  The registration website is at: http://www.ala.org/acrl/charlotte/registration/registration.html. 

NEWS

News from Alamance Community College

Laura Gorham, the LRC Director at Alamance Community College, is retiring this month.  Sheila Street who has been the Head of Reference, has been selected as the new LRC Director.

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News from Central Carolina Community College  

Want to learn more about MARC records and practice, practice, practice what you're learning?  Central Carolina Community College may have just the course for you: LIB 192: Selected Topics in Basic Cataloging!

This course covers basic standards and procedures for copy cataloging and basic classification.  Emphasis is placed on the basics of selecting bibliographic records and maintaining records.  Upon completion, students will be prepared to complete basic cataloging processes and protocols.

The course is online, students never have to come on campus [registration (January 6th and 7th) and bookstore procedures have been established], and will run for 8 weeks: Saturday, January 11 - Tuesday, March 11, 2003.  

People interested in participating in this course may apply online (no application fee) at www.cccc.edu.  Two semester hours credit will be received upon completion.

The cost for taking the course is two semester hours credit x $34.25 per semester hour tuition = $68.50, plus a $20 per course Distance Education Fee, and a $9.00 Student Fee.  Total = $97.50 plus the cost of the course text ($30 - $40).  If you work fulltime in one of the North Carolina community colleges, you may take this course as your free course.  Your tuition is waived, and you would only pay the fees and the cost of the textbook.

Please contact Ellen Dickey at edickey@cccc.edu if further information is needed.

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News from Cumberland County Public Library

The library is proud to announce the acquisition of over 20,000 electronic books for our collection, including over 1,000 children's titles.  eBooks are electronic versions of printed books, and may be viewed in full text online from any PC connected to the Internet.

Through the online catalog, library cardholders can either browse or "checkout" these titles, once they have registered with netLibrary, the provider of this comprehensive collection of eBooks.  netLibrary is available to public libraries through NCLIVE, a collection of electronic resources provided by the State Library of North Carolina.

Current technology requires that registration take place at any Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center location.  Once the simple registration process is completed, customers can  access the eBooks from any computer with an Internet connection.

In these days of tight budgets, the library can add titles at no cost through eBooks.  These titles are available when the library is not open and when all paper copies are checked out.  For instance, a school assignment can be accessed by clicking on the full record icon.  For more information, call any library location.

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A sampling of January programs at the Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center:

Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 4:00 pm, East Regional - Teen Board Game Arcade - Teens come out to play board games like Balderdash, Clue and Scrabble with other teens.  Refreshments will be provided.

Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 7:00 pm, Headquarters - An Armchair Tour of the Natural Treasures of Cumberland County: Watershed Tour of Cumberland County - Cumberland County is known as a land rich in cultural and historical significance but there is yet another important dimension to Cumberland - its rich natural history.  In celebration of that heritage, the Sandhills Area Land Trust and CCPL&IC are co-hosting the 2nd Annual Winter Lecture Series.  The first of these, featuring authorities on aspects of the natural history, will be Sidney Post, Watershed Resource Specialist for Fayetteville Public Works Commission Watershed Program.

Saturday, January 18, 2003, 11:05 am, East Regional, and 3:00 pm, Hope Mills - Happy Chinese New Year! - Children 5-12 years old are invited to learn about this holiday, and make a paper lantern.  Registration is required.

Tuesday, January 21, 2003, 7:00 pm, Headquarters - Guest Author: Carole Boston Weatherford, Poet and Children's Author Featured at the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Library - Ms. Weatherford, a visiting Distinguished Professor at Fayetteville State University and author of sixteen books, is an NAACP Image Award finalist and winner of the Carter G. Woodson Prize from National Council for the Social Studies.  She mines the past for family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles.  Her performances weave poetry, history, chants, and percussion into her program for all ages.  Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Tuesday, January 21, 2003, 2:00 pm, Spring Lake and Wednesday, January 22, 2003, North Regional - Adventures with Tall Tales - Tall Talk, or Exaggerated Storytelling, has been around a very long time!  Children 5-12 years old are invited to experience the thrill of stories about such American folk heroes as Paul Bunyan, John  Henry, and Pecos Bill.

Thursday, January 23, 2003, 9:30 am, Headquarters Training Lab - Surfing for North Carolina Vital Records - Interested in charting your family history?  Come join us as we surf the Internet in search of family roots.  This class will visit free sites such as The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, Rootsweb, and Cyndi's List... and fee-based sites such as Ancestry.com.  Participants must have a valid CCPL&IC library card and basic knowledge of a computer.  Space is limited; call to register.

Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 6:30 pm, Headquarters - Mental Health on Your Mind: Beating the Winter Blahs - Do you feel let down after the holiday season?  Join Mary Livingston, LPC, from the Cumberland County Mental Health Center for this informative program on coping with 'winter blahs' and more serious conditions such as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).  This program is co-sponsored by the Mental Health Association in Cumberland County, and the second in a series.  Refreshments provided beginning at 6:30 pm, with the speaker staring at 7:00 pm.
--Susan Parrish, Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center

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News from Durham County Library

Anne Berkley is retiring January 1st after 24+ years as a reference librarian at Durham County Library.  She has been in charge of the library's NC Collection, and more recently, Head of Reference.

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News from New Hanover County Public Library

The new Audiovisual Room on the second floor of the Main Library opened for business on December 4.  Renovation to the Main Library began in January, 2002.  Public meeting rooms and library staff offices and workrooms all moved from the first and second floors to the previously unfinished third floor late this summer.  The Audiovisual Room is moving into space formerly occupied by public meeting rooms on the second floor of the Main Library, next to the Children's Room.  The Children's Room and the Local History Room are expanding into former office space on the second floor, and are expected to be finished and opened to the public by the end of the year.  Work on the Reference and Circulation Departments on the first floor of the Main Library will begin early next year.
--Dorothy Hodder, New Hanover County Public Library

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News from the State Library of North Carolina

The State Library will once again offer the popular program called "Master Trainers" (to improve skills for effective internal training programs for library staff).  Full information and an application form is posted on the State Library's web site, http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/ce/ceopps.htm.  The applications will be due to the State Library on December 19, 2002.  The program is open to public and academic libraries.

In addition to answering questions about their experience, job duties and interests, each applicant will be required to submit letters of support from their Director and from their direct supervisor.

The 2003 program will consist of three sessions: February 3-7, 2003 at the State Library in Raleigh; April 8-9, also at the State Library; and a third session in June 2003.
--Jeanne Crisp, State Library of North Carolina.

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The State Library of North Carolina's Genealogical Services is now offering on Interlibrary Loan for North Carolina residents the 1930 North Carolina federal census population schedules and the 1930 census Soundex for North Carolina.  It will also be loading the microfilm publications Census Descriptions of Geographic Subdivisions and Enumerations Districts, 1930: North Carolina (describing the boundaries of a particular enumeration district but not indicating all of that district's streets) and -- making its first appearance in federal census records -- Enumeration District Maps for the Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930: North Carolina (contemporary maps on which the Bureau of the Census overlaid the boundaries and numbers of enumeration districts).  Genealogical Services looks forward to serving your library customers across the state with these 1930 census reels.

If you missed the news about the launching of the North Carolina Estates Records microfilm for loan to North Carolina residents, please contact Genealogical Services at 919-733-7222 or e-mail Pam Toms, Genealogical Services Librarian (pamtoms@library.dcr.state.nc.us), or watch SLNC's Interlibrary Loan Services web pages "Requesting Genealogical Materials from the State Library through the Interlibrary Loan" at http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/rsb/ILLGenealogy.htm for a list of the twenty-one counties currently available.

Librarians should request the 1930 census microfilm and the North Carolina Estates Records on OCLC forms using the OCLC record numbers to be sent soon on the ILL listserv.  These numbers may also be requested from Genealogical Services and will soon be listed on the web pages indicated above.  (Continue to request older North Carolina census microfilm, as well as other Core Collection county records, on a blank OCLC form.)

If you need assistance in preparing your genealogy interlibrary loan request or have questions regarding the status of your genealogy microfilm order, contact Resource Sharing Branch at 919-733-3683 or e-mail Joyce Throckmorton (jthrockmorton@library.dcr.state.nc.us).  To verify whether an item is available in the circulating microfilm collection, please contact Genealogical Services at 919-733-7222 or e-mail Pam Toms, Genealogical Services Librarian (pamtoms@library.dcr.state.nc.us).

Genealogical Services is pleased to be able to provide the convenience of interlibrary loan of both of these valuable resources for genealogists and historians "from Murphy to Manteo."
--Pam Toms, State Library of North Carolina.

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News from UNC School of Information and Library Science

Dr. Deborah Barreau, an assistant professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named Outstanding Information Science Teacher for 2002 by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).  She received her award Nov. 20 at the ASIST annual meeting in Philadelphia.  

Barreau is the third faculty member at SILS to receive the ASIST teaching award.  Associate Professor Stephanie Haas won in 1996 and Professor Barbara M. Wildemuth received the honor in 2000.

Barreau specializes in the areas of information systems and technology, organizational behavior and digital libraries.

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UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has received a project support grant in the amount of $6,024 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  The grant will provide one-time funding for two full-time students working toward their master's degrees in information and library science.  First priority will be given to those committed to serving a North Carolina public library for at least one year after graduation.

To apply for the funding, applicants must write an essay expressing their interest in public library service, views on the role of technology in public libraries and special characteristics that will enable them to help people in North Carolina utilize public libraries and information resources.  Candidates will also be interviewed.  The award covers the student's tuition expenses for one academic year.

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Dr. Claudia Gollop, an associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), recently received a grant supplement for $110,523 to continue a research project titled "Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis."  The award is from the National Institute of Nursing Research/National Institutes of Health and will support this project through February 2005.

The project combines efforts between SILS and UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Nursing, where Professor Margarete Sandelowski is principal investigator and Assistant Professor Julie Barroso is co-principal investigator.  Gollop joined the research team in the spring as a co-investigator.  She will work on the project until the fifth year of the grant.  The grant also allowed the team to hire SILS student Ok Nam Park, who serves as research assistant.

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Participants are being sought for a seminar offering a chance to study the history of librarianship at England's world-renowned Bodleian Library, one of the greatest research centers in the world.  The program is sponsored by the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library and its Department for Continuing Education.

"Libraries and librarianship: Past, Present and Future" is a two-week seminar that will trace the Bodleian Library's past and chart the future of information and library services.  Participants may earn three hours of graduate credit from SILS for attending the May 18-31, 2003 seminar.

Registrations must be postmarked by March 31, 2003.  Registration is limited and early registration is encouraged.  For more information, call 919-962-8366 or send e-mail to oxford@ils.unc.edu.  Information and an online registration form can be found at www.ils.unc.edu/ils/continuing_ed/oxford. 

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Building on the success of its inaugural Prague Seminar earlier this year, the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC-Chapel Hill is now taking registrations for a return visit to the Czech Republic in June 2003.  The two-week program for library science students and professionals will begin June 1, and run through June 15.  The Prague program features lectures and tours relating to librarianship in the former communist nation.

Co-sponsored by Charles University, the seminar is available for academic credit through UNC-Chapel Hill.  A SILS faculty member will serve as the seminar's academic advisor.

Those interested in registering for this inaugural seminar should visit SILS on the web at http://ils.unc.edu/ils/continuing_ed/prague.  The web site features detailed pricing information as well as a list of planned excursions and activities.  Space is limited; early registration is encouraged.

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Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named the school's new associate dean for undergraduate studies.  Her appointment follows the introduction this fall of the school's new major in information science.  

Wildemuth is also an adjunct associate professor in the department of biomedical engineering at UNC's School of Medicine.

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Dr. David Carr, an associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS), recently spoke at the 2002 National Awards for Museum and Library Services held at the White House.  First Lady Laura Bush presented the awards before an audience of 150 people.  Carr was invited to speak at the ceremony by Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Director Dr. Robert Martin, a 1988 Ph.D. graduate of SILS.  

Carr was the 2001 recipient of SILS' Outstanding Teacher award.

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North Carolina Libraries

The three electronic issues of North Carolina Libraries for 2002 (Spring/Summer, nos. 1/2; Fall, no. 3; Winter, no. 4) are available on the Web at http://www.nclaonline.org/NCL. 

We are planning on publishing a print 2002 annual to be ready for shipment to your physical mailboxes in February 2003.

If you are a photographer and would like to submit digital photos in jpeg format for consideration for publication in the print issue or for the cover, please send them to me at jonesp@mail.ecu.edu.  Please include a title or caption for the photo and how you would like the credit line to read.

North Carolina Libraries is a quarterly publication appearing in March (Spring), June (Summer), September (Fall), and December (Winter).  Deadlines for submission for material for consideration in each quarterly issue are January 1 (Spring), April 1 (Summer), July 1 (Fall), October 1 (Winter).

Articles on any topic of interest to librarians are welcomed.  The articles for any given issue will no longer have to reflect a common topic or theme.  Articles to be considered for publication on the North Carolina Libraries Web site should be sent via email attachment (Word format) to:  

Al Jones, Editor
North Carolina Libraries
LTDI, School of Education
East Carolina University
122 Joyner East
Greenville, NC  27858
252-328-6803
jonesp@mail.ecu.edu
--Al Jones, Editor, North Carolina Libraries

SECTION NEWS

Children's Services Section

Chapbook, quarterly journal of the Children's Services Section North Carolina Library Association, has been published.  This fall issue is found on the web at http://www.nclaonline.org/css/ChapbookFall2002.pdf.
--Diane Kester, Treasurer, NCLA

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Community and Junior College Section

If you are a current or past member of the CJC section, or if you are employed in a community or junior college library, please check your workplace mail box during the month of December!  You will receive a "Fact Sheet" of our section, highlighting our past accomplishments - and future plans, plus an application form to join NCLA.  And don't forget to choose the CJC section as your free section with membership!

If you have any questions about our section, or if you can't remember if your membership is current, pleae contact one of our board members below.

Peggy Quinn, Chair, pgquinn@waketech.edu, 919-662-3308
Carol Freeman, Past Chair, cfreeman@forsyth.cc.nc.us, 336-734-7176
Keith Burkhead, Chair-Elect, burkheadk@gtcc.cc.nc.us, 336-334-4822
Penny Sermons, Secretary, pennys@email.beaufort.cc.nc.us, 252-940-6243
Laura Gorham, Director, laurasgorham@hotmail.com, 919-563-3477
Sondra Oakley, Director, Oakley@vgcc.edu, 252-738-3331
--Peggy Quinn, Chair, Community and Junior College Section

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Documents Section

The Documents Section held its Fall Workshop on November 8, 2002, in Raleigh at the McKimmon Center, and it was well attended.  During the business meeting following the Workshop, Bryna Coonan, Coastal Resources Management Librarian, ECU, was elected Vice Chair/Chair-Elect.  Beth Kaylor, Outreach/Faculty Liaison Librarian, UNCW, was elected Secretary/Treasurer.  Many thanks to Paula Hinton, Past Chair, and Karen O'Keefe, outgoing Secretary/Treasurer, for all their hard work.
--Eileen G. Brown, Chair, Documents Section

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North Carolina Association of School Librarians 

NCASL Section sponsored a scholarship for a practicing school librarian to attend the NCLA Leadership Institute.  The recipient was Robin Boltz, a school librarian in Granville County and a master's student in library science at East Carolina University.  I hope that she will agree to serve the remainder of the 2001-2003 biennium as Vice Chair and work with me to plan exciting programs for school librarians to be presented at the 2003 NCLA Biennial Conference and agree to serve as Chair of the section during the 2003-2005 biennium.

Diane Kester and I will continue to serve as representatives of NCASL at the American Association of School Librarians Affiliate Assembly meetings to be held at the midwinter and summer conferences of the American Library Association.  NCASL is a recognized state chapter of AASL.
--Al Jones, Chair, North Carolina Association of School Librarians

ROUND TABLE NEWS

North Carolina Library Paraprofessionals Association

Call for Applications - The North Carolina Library Association's Paraprofessional Roundtable is pleased to announce its inaugural NCLA Conference Paraprofessional Scholarship.  The scholarship will provide financial assistance to one paraprofessional currently working in a North Carolina library who would like to attend the NCLA conference in Fall 2003.  Any current North Carolina library employee who does not hold a Master's degree in library science is eligible to apply.  The scholarship award will include conference registration, one night's lodging in the conference hotel, and the NCLPA business luncheon.

During each conference, the NCLPA sponsors several workshops and presentations on a variety of topics relevant to library support staff.  Our hope in offering this conference scholarship is that more library paraprofessional employees will be able to take part in these activities.  We encourage all North Carolina library support staff to take advantage of this valuable development opportunity.

Application materials are available on the North Carolina Library Association website at: http://www.nclaonline.org or on the North Carolina Library Paraprofessional Association website at http://www.nclaonline.org/nclpa.

The deadline for submission of all application materials is June 1, 2003.  For questions or for further information, please contact Linda Hearn (lhearn@law.wfu.edu), Chair, or Annis Barbee (annis_barbee@ncsu.edu), Vice-Chair, North Carolina Library Paraprofessional Association.
--Annis Barbee, Vice Chair, North Carolina Library Paraprofessional Association

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Round Table of Ethnic Minority Concerns

2003 is coming!  The North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns (REMCo) is continuing to recruit members.  There will be opportunities to serve on REMCo Committees (i.e., Awards, Elections, and Program Committee).  You must be a member of REMCo to serve. Student members of NCLA are invited to join REMCo and serve, also.  If you are interested or need more information, you can visit the NCLA Webpage at http://www.nclaonline.org.  You can also contact Gerald Holmes at gerald_holmes@uncg.edu.  Thank you in advance.  If you are a current member, do not forget to renew your membership for 2003!
--Gerald Holmes, Vice Chair, REMCo

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Round Table on Special Collections

Greetings!  I wanted to report some news from the NCLA Executive Board.  The board voted this month to have a special Centennial conference in the fall of 2004.  This means that we will have the regular bi-annual conference in the fall of 2003, the Centennial conference the fall of 2004 and then another conference in fall 2005.  Which means for us lots of opportunities for programs.  And since the theme of the 2004 meeting will be about celebrating libraries and library contributions, we should have a lot to offer from the Special Collections corner!

It would be a great time to highlight the richness and variety of our collections.  I encourage everyone to begin thinking about ways the RSTC can participate in the conferences - program sessions, posters, brochures.

We have some good ideas from the last meeting on program topics for 2003 and beyond.  These include:

If you have other ideas, please don't wait for a meeting, contact a board member and share them now!

Also, our website http://www.nclaonline.org/rtsc/index.html has been updated with some new links.  Please let me know of other links that would be helpful.  Suggestions for improvement to the page are most welcome - It's a little bland for such a terrific group.  One thing I'd like to try is creating links to online exhibits or to special collections pages.  If you'd like your page to be part of the RTSC page, send me your link.
--Jan Blodgett, Chair, Round Table on Special Collections

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Round Table on the Status of Women in Librarianship

The Roundtable on the Status of Women in Librarianship has been working on plans for offering an award at forthcoming biennial conferences.  Details regarding this award, named in honor of Dr. Marilyn Miller, will be shared in early 2003.
--Laura Weigand, Chair, RTSWL

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Technology and Trends Round Table

The TNT Roundtable has established a listserv for TNT members and other interested individuals to encourage the exchange of information related to library technology in North Carolina.  It will also be used to distribute information about TNT Roundtable activities and programs.

List and subscription information can be found at http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ncla-tnt.  

If you have any other questions about this listserv, please contact Terry Brandsma, TNT Chair (and Listserv Administrator), at twbrands@uncg.edu, or 336-256-1218.
--Terry Brandsma, Chair, Technology and Trends Round Table

LINKS OF INTEREST

   North Carolina Library Association    State Library of North Carolina
   Calendar of Events    NCLive
  Treasurer's Report    Southeastern Library Association
   Employment Opportunities    American Library Association

 

DESCRIPTION:  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 below.

 

EDITOR:
Marilyn Schuster
Local Documents/Special Collections
UNC Charlotte
mbschust@email.uncc.edu