E-NEWS

Dear NCLA members and readers of NCLA E-News,

In the past four days, these things have consumed my mind:

1. Returning from 10 days in England, Scotland, and France with a group of GTCC students.
2. Completing a $1 million distance learning grant application and taking it to Fed Ex at 9:30 last night.
3. Heading now to Tennessee for a family funeral.
4. Heading, too, to see my mother who has just been moved to a nursing home.

Certainly, I know that all of you have things going on in your lives that would compete fairly with this list, but I am beginning to look forward to calmer days, so that I can then wonder why my life is so boring! You just can't make some people happy, can you?

The one other thing that I did accomplish in the past four days has been to notify all those on the slate for the recent NCLA elections of the results.   Now I can tell you, too.

 Ross Holt, Vice President/President-Elect
 Sue Ann Cody, Secretary
 Patrick Valentine, Director - East
 Phil Barton, Director - West
 SELA Representative - John Via

They will be serving with Al Jones, who becomes President at the conference in September and Diane Kester who continues as treasurer for two more years.  Congratulations to these devoted NCLA members and thanks, too for their willingness to do even more for NCLA.

A final thank you to Gwen Jackson, former President of NCLA and Chair of the Nominations Committee for a job well done!

May your summer days be not too hot and your watermelons always cold.

Sincerely,

-- Beverley Gass, President, NCLA
 
 

Nationally known speakers Sally Helgesen and Maureen Sullivan, North Carolina's best and brightest library leaders, over 100 vendor exhibits, programs and workshops for every interest, special events and ceremonies to recognize excellence in librarianship -- all await you at the 53rd NCLA Biennial Conference.  Join us in historic Winston-Salem at the Benton Convention Center and the newly renovated Adams Mark Hotel on September 21-24, 1999.

In July, look for your preregistration packet, including housing information.  Plan ahead so you won't miss the last NCLA Conference of the millennium!  Visit the Conference Web site at:

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bcchang/ncla.html

  --Plummer Alston "Al" Jones, Jr.,  NCLA Vice-President/President-Elect
 
 

Larry Alford, Sr., Associate University Librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill was recently elected Vice-President/President-Elect of the OCLC Users Council.

Susan K. Nutter, Director of North Carolina State University Libraries, was the 1999 recipient of the Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award, "the highest award for innovation and risk-taking in librarianship."

When Beverley asked me to chair the NCLA 2000 Leadership Institute Planning Committee, I said yes before she could finish asking the question! After being a participant in the first institute in 1996 and serving on the planning committee for the 1998 institute, I knew this was an opportunity that I could not pass up. We are just starting the planning phases for the next institute, so we have a lot of work ahead of us.

The initial plan for the institute was sponsored by the Library Administration and Management Section of NCLA and was quickly adopted by NCLA. Over the past 2 institutes, 60 participants, who include librarians, library assistants, and library directors, along with 9 mentors, began the arduous process of building future leaders for North Carolina Libraries. The participants have included library staff from public, academic, media, and special libraries from all over the state. Some were fresh out of library school and others were seasoned veterans of the library world, each with their own value and insight to add to the institute.   Speaking from personal experience, the Leadership Institute was one of the most intensive and enjoyable experiences of my library career. I learned more about my personal management style, how to lead effectively, and how to construct change than I thought possible. The process of developing lifelong friendships, mentors, and cohorts led to the belief that we are the future and we can make it happen.

The next Institute will be scheduled for the fall of 2000. Over the next several months, more information will be coming. Keep your eyes and ears open and start thinking about someone you think might be a future leader.
   --George Taylor,  Chair, 2000 NCLA Leadership Institute

The North Carolina Library Association supports the principle of open, free and unrestricted access to information and ideas, regardless of the format in which they appear.  The Association endorses the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights and its Resolution on the Use of Filtering Software in Libraries.

The Association supports the rights of all individuals to determine which resources are appropriate and necessary for themselves as well as the responsibility of all parents to guide their own children's use of the library and its resources and services.

The Association recognizes the issues and concerns generated from providing full access to the Internet.  Although use of  Internet filters to restrict access to certain kinds of information on the Internet has been suggested as a solution to these problems such use raises ethical and legal concerns for libraries.  On June 26, 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a sweeping affirmation of First Amendment principles and held that information  communicated over the Internet merits the highest level of Constitutional protection.  Due to the imperfections of filters, valuable information is blocked, thus preventing individuals from retrieving the information and constitutionally protected speech they seek as well as preventing the library from fulfilling its basic mission.

The North Carolina Library Association does not recommend the use of Internet filters in libraries, and  emphatically opposes attempts by federal and state governments to set such policy for libraries.  The Association strongly recommends that decisions regarding the use of Internet filters remain with local boards and that each library develop an Internet Use Policy containing guidelines for use of the Internet by all library users, both adults and children.  Each local library should decide what educational, informational, and research Internet services they will provide based on their mission.

Approved by:

The  North Carolina Library Association Executive Board
June 1, 1999
  --Gene Lanier, Intellectual Freedom Committee Chair

Children's Services Section

North Carolina Children's Book Award

The North Carolina Association of School Librarians and the Children's Services Section of the North Carolina Library Association are pleased to announce the book VERDI, written by Janell Cannon, has won the eighth annual NC Children's Books Award, PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY, and the book, FRINDLE, by Andrew Clements, has won the fifth annual JUNIOR BOOK CATEGORY.

The PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY honors a picture book, suitable for grades K-3, and is selected by the children themselves.  Over 107,000 children throughout the state of North Carolina voted during the month of March for their favorite book from a list of previously nominated titles.  VERDI received almost 22,000 of the votes cast.  Many of North Carolina's public school systems participated, as well as public libraries and private schools.

This award, sponsored by the Children's Services and School Librarian sections of the North Carolina Library Association, is intended to broaden students' awareness of current literature, to promote reading aloud with students in the early grades as a means of introducing reading as a pleasure, and to give recognition and honor to children's favorite books and authors.

The purpose of the JUNIOR BOOK CATEGORY is to encourage students in grades 4 through 6 to become better acquainted with noteworthy writers of contemporary books, to broaden their awareness of literature as a means of personal satisfaction and lifelong pursuit, and to give recognition and honor to their favorite books and authors.  FRINDLE received 3,700 of the 18,300 votes cast.

These awards will be presented during the NCLA Conference in the fall of 1999 in Winston-Salem, NC.  For further information, please call Jackie Pierson at 336-945-5163 (Vienna Elementary, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools) or Jenny Barrett at 336-712-4450 (Clemmons Public Library).

Documents Section

The Documents Section program at the Biennial Conference will be held Wednesday, September 22, from 3:30-4:45 p.m.  The topic will be "Government Statistics on the Web."  Speakers will highlight federal, state and international sites for demographics, business, health, education and agriculture statistics.  Look for more information in the next issue of NCLA E-News.
  --Marilyn Schuster, Documents Section

Library Administration and Management Section

The Personnel and Staff Development Officers Special Interest Group has scheduled a lunch with round table discussions for the NCLA Biennial Conference in Winston-Salem. Mark your calendars now for Thursday, September 23, 1999 from 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.  It will be a great way to network and share ideas!
  --Deborah N. Lambert, Library Administration & Management Section

Resources and Technical Services Section

NOMINEES NEEDED FOR THE RESOURCES AND TECHNICAL SERVICES SECTION AWARD

The Executive Board of the Resources and Technical Services Section is seeking nominations for two awards.  The winners will receive plaques and $200 cash awards during the awards presentation at the NCLA Biennial Conference.

Resources and technical services includes:  acquisitions, cataloging, classification, resources, collection development, and preservation of library materials.

Student Award

The STUDENT AWARD is open to students actively enrolled in library education in North Carolina as of July 1, 1999.  Recent graduates who are North Carolina librarians are also eligible.  Nominees must show a strong potential for contributing to resources and technical services responsibilities with an intent to pursue these areas of library work as a career.  Self nomination is permissible.

The nomination deadline is June 30, 1999.

To submit nominations for the Student Award, please contact Susan Rathbun-Grubb, Chair, Student Award Committee:

Susan Rathbun-Grubb
Technical Services Supervisor
Rowan Public Library
201 West Fisher Street
P.O. Box 4039
Salisbury, N.C.  28145-4039
grubbs@co.rowan.nc.us
TEL:  704-638-3034
FAX:  704-638-3013

Or

Virginia Gilbert
Chair, NCLA RTSS Executive Board
230D Perkins Library
Duke University
Box 90191
Durham, N.C.  27708-0191
vag@duke.edu
TEL:  919-660-5815
FAX:  919-684-2855

Significant Contribution Award

The Significant Contribution Award is open to North Carolina librarians, either professional or paraprofessional,  who have made important contributions to resources and technical services, either in their institutions or more widely.  At least part of the nominee's current work must involve some aspect of resources and technical services.  Applicants must be nominated by a current member of NCLA.

The nomination deadline is June 30, 1999.

To submit nominations for the Significant Contribution Award, please contact Margaret Foote, Chair, Significant Contribution Award Committee.  A nomination form is available at: http://www.unc.edu/~ldsmith/rtss/award.htm.

Margaret Foote
Head, Cataloging Dept.
Academic Library Services
Joyner Library, East Carolina University
Greenville, N.C.  27858-4353
footem@mail.ecu.edu
TEL:  252-328-0294
FAX:  252-328-4834

Or

Virginia Gilbert
Chair, NCLA RTSS Executive Board
230D Perkins Library
Duke University
Box 90191
Durham, N.C.  27708-0191
vag@duke.edu
TEL:  919-660-5815
FAX:  919-684-2855
  --Virginia Gilbert, Resources & Technical Services Section

Reference and Adult Services Section

The Reference and Adult Services Section (RASS) is looking forward to the NCLA Biennial Conference.  We will be sponsoring a luncheon on Thursday, 9/23, that we hope will prove entertaining as well as informative.  Maggie Jackson, Associated Press agent from New York, will be our speaker and will talk about "N-Gen, Gen X'ers, and Who's Next: Our Patrons in the New Millennium".  We will also be co-sponsoring a program with RTSS on Wednesday, 9/22, featuring John Webb and Electronic Resources.  Also, RASS is always looking for interested Reference Librarians who would like to get more involved in planning programs and having ideas to share with the > other reference librarians from all types of libraries in N.C.  Contact Carolyn Price at (336) 727-8456 or e-mail c_price@forsyth.lib.nc.us for more information.
   --Carolyn Price, Reference and Adult Services Section Chair
 
 

Continuing Education Committee

The Continuing Education (CE) Committee held its initial meeting on March 19, 1999 at The Friday Center, Chapel Hill. Members of the CE Committee agreed on recommending to NCLA the role of the Committee and the guiding theme for CE as drafted by the Chair.

           The Role of the Continuing Education Committee

The Continuing Education Committee provides advice to the North Carolina Library Association's Executive Board, Sections,  Round tables, and Committees on policies and procedures for continuing education and professional development of members.  In so doing a thematic approach is suggested to reflect six major contextual and functional categories to be addressed in continuing education activities: strategic issues and trends; reframing through effective management and analysis; concepts, principles, and developments in organization of information; information services and collection development; and, research expertise.

                       Recommendations

After considerable discussion of issues relating to resource development, duplication of effort, and communications, the Committee agreed on recommending the following principles and strategies as an initial stage in building a statewide planning and implementation network of CE providers:

                         Principles

* NCLA take a collaborative state-wide approach in providing an administrative and technological infrastructure for delivery of continuing education.

* Continuing education offerings will be developed based on need assessments, feedback on CE activities/experiences, and shared information.

* Where the need for multiple CE offerings are shown to exist, providers will be encouraged to offer programs in competition with each other.  However, enrollment in these activities will be monitored to ensure that all programs continue to be needed.

* Inter-organizational programs will be developed in instances where multiple sections/round tables wish to offer CE activities on the same topic(s) and the need is not great enough to justify mounting more than one program.  For shared programs, common pricing for the activity will be the rule.

* In functional and operational areas that are critical to effective state-wide information access, certifications of completion programs will be developed as an accountability mechanism for competencies gained through CE.

                             Strategies

* Develop a web-based state-wide survey mechanism for needs assessments, program evaluations, feedback on CE activities/experiences, and sharing of information.

* Develop a web-based state-wide listing of CE activities and events to be placed on the State Library of North Carolina and the University of North Carolina web pages.

* Design and implement a state-wide member/customer database for communication and financial management purposes.

* Create a speaker's list.

Continuing Education Committee:

Susan Adams, Children's Services Section
Philip Banks, Reference and Adults Services Section
Melissa Cain, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
Maureen Costello, NCLA Administrative Assistant
Susan Rathbun-Grubb, Resources and Technical Services
Paula P. Hinton, College and University Section
Robert James, North Carolina Preservation Consortium
Cheryl Reddish, NCCU School of Library and Information Sciences
Susan Smith, Technology and Trends Roundtable
Benjamin F. Speller, Jr., Chair

NCLA Executive Board Report # 33 (April 16, 1999)
  --Benjamin Speller, Jr., Continuing Education Committee Chair
 
 

New Members Round Table

The Nominating Committee of the New Members Round Table of the North Carolina Library Association is looking for four Round Table Members to serve on the NMRT Executive Board.  All members of NMRT are eligible to hold office. The positions are: Chairperson Elect, Secretary Treasurer, and two Directors.

The objectives of the New Members Round Table are (a) to help individual members to orient themselves in the profession of librarianship, (b) to encourage their membership and participation in professional organizations on national, state and local levels, (c) to promote within its membership a greater feeling of responsibility for the development of library service and librarianship, and (d) to promote libraries and library service in North Carolina.   For more information about the New Members Round Table, see our website at: http://www.rcpl.org/ncla/nmrt

Volunteers are welcome, or you may nominate another person (with their permission, of course!). Send nominations, including the nominee's name, address, daytime phone number and email address to:

Amy K. Weiss, Nominating Committee, NCLA-NMRT
P.O. Box 1053, Boone, N.C.  28607
Or,  email:  weissak@appstate.org
  -- Amy K. Weiss, Nominating Committee, New Members Round Table

Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns

REMCo is finalizing plans for the upcoming NCLA Biennial Conference. Plans have been made to sponsor the annual luncheon on Thursday, September 23rd.  A featured part of the luncheon will be a panel discussion by two recipients of the ALA Spectrum Initiative Scholarships.  Gerald Holmes will moderate this portion of the meeting.

Additionally, REMCo will conduct a business meeting where officers will be elected and RoadBuilder awardees will be announced.  Presentations to awardees will take place at the NCLA presentation and general session.

Solicitations are currently being sought for officers and Roadbuilder nominees.

In addition to solicitations for officers, REMCo would like to extend an invitation to NCLA members to become members of the roundtable.  The Roundtable for Ethnic Minority Concerns is open to anyone with an interest in the materials, publications, curricula, artifacts, realia and related areas as they pertain to cultural, ethnic, religious, challenged or other areas of minority involvement.

Several REMCo officers and members have assumed new roles and responsibilities:

Chair Elect, Robert Candida, II is Interim Library Director at University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Past-President, Shelia Johnson is a Customer Account/Information Specialist at DIALOG Corporation in Cary, N.C.

Director, Gerald Holmes, is Assistant Reference Librarian at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Former board member, Lu Sua is Director of the Chavis Library Branch of the Greensboro Public Library System.

Veola Williams is Head of the Serials Department at North Carolina Central University.

Chair, Barbara Best-Nichols is chair of the Chemistry Division of the Special Libraries Association.  The Chemistry Division has in excess of 600 members.

The Roundtable for Ethnic Minority Concerns invites all members of NCLA to meet the Spectrum Initiative Scholarship winners and to attend the luncheon program.  This is your opportunity to learn how you can have a positive effect on the future of librarianship.  Please come!
  -- Barbara Best-Nichols, Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns Chair
 

Round Table On Special Collections

The Round Table on Special Collections newsletter is now online at http://www.rcpl.org/ncla/spec_coll/newsletter1.htm.

Program Planned for NCLA Biennial Conference

This year's conference program, to be held Thursday, September 23, from 10:30 a.m. until 11:45 a.m., is entitled "Documenting the African-American Community:  African-American Archives in North Carolina."  The speakers will provide information about important archival collections in North Carolina and how they can be used for research:

Dr. Phyllis Galloway, director, Heritage Hall, Livingstone College, will describe collections at her institution.

Mr. Paul Baker, president, North Carolina African American Archives Group, will discuss the work of his organization.

Ms. Teresa Church, manuscripts processing librarian, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill, will explain the scope of the collections recently transferred from North Carolina Central University to the Southern Historical Collection.  These include the Floyd McKissick Papers, the records of White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, the WTVD Videotape Collection, the William J. Kennedy Papers, and the North Carolina Central University Oral History Project tapes and transcripts.

Dr. Benjamin Speller, Dean, School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University, will discuss the importance of collecting and using archival material that reflects the history of African Americans.

Please attend this important session.
  --Maury York, Round Table on Special Collections Chair
 

Round Table on the Status of Women in Librarianship

Get that Friday Morning VERVE! Join us at NCLA Biennial Conference:
September 24, 1999, 10:30am - 11:45am

LAURA McLAMB-HAMILTON will bring her energy and enthusiasm to "Imagine the Future: Women in Charge".  A program co-sponsored by the Round Table on the Status of Women in Librarianship and the Public Library Section.

Watch for details in future issues.
  --Elizabeth Grey, Round Table on the Status of Women in Librarianship
 
 

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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 or Assistant Editors below.

EDITOR:
Pam Burton
Head, Systems Department
East Carolina University
burtonp@mail.ecu.edu

ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Margaret Foote
Head, Cataloging Department
East Carolina University
footem@mail.ecu.edu

Marilyn Schuster
Local Documents/Special Collections
University of North Carolina Charlotte
mbschust@email.uncc.edu