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From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      Re: Hours on Desks for Heads/Coordinators
              25 Sep 1992 16:08:57 EDT from
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I applaud the answer to this question I have read and I salute you!

I do electronic references work for persons both inside and outside
Project Gutenberg. . .when the signs of overload began appearing on
the horizon a year or two ago, I was warned by members of the Board
of Directors that I should not field any of these questions myself.

After a slight scuffle, I pinned the Board Members to the Boardroom
floor and told them how much I LIKED answering those questions, and
that I got a great deal of satisfaction from it. . .I was then most
rewarded to find out the person giving me the most grief about this
had gone through the same process, defending the same right to work
reference, even when there were executive duties thought to be more
demanding by people such as board members.

Take the fun out of my work and it is just not fun to work anymore!

=====================================================

Thank you for your interest,

Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text
Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext
Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532
No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC
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From:         Todd Yeager <TMY@WVNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: cd-rom sign-up

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
On 09/29/92 at 13:26:25 (Deborah L Bailey) said:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Libref-l readers,
>     We are currently discussing the pros and cons of having
>a sign-up sheet with assigned times for cd-rom use.  Any
>experience you might want to share would be helpful or if this
>topic has been discussed before tell me how to access the
>discussion.  Thanks in advance.

>Deborah Bailey

Hello Deborah and LIBREF-L,

West Virginia University (Main Library) has sign ups for the LAN which
accesses six CD-ROM products.  Each station has a little sign by the
printer which asks users to first sign in at the Reference Desk before
searching.  The sign ups are set in half-hour increments.  If it isn't
busy I don't enforce the sign up policy.

But sometimes when it's very busy some folks don't bother signing up and
all the stations get occupied.  Then someone comes along and says "Hey,
all the stations are busy but no one is signed up."  Then I tell them to
pick a station (they're numbered) and I will kick someone off at the next
half-hour time slot.  It makes the person getting kicked off a little
grouchy but they get over it (10 days, three if they push it :-)

We tried sign up sheets unsuccessfully with the InfoTrac terminals (two
stand-alones) but they are used so much it was just impossible.  There
is a notice to users to limit their searches to 15 minutes when others
are waiting and most are courteous and willingly leave after the 15 or
so minutes.  InfoTrac (Academic Index and National Newspaper Index) is the
first CD-ROM product slated for inclusion in the NOTIS MDAS module and I
look forward to the time when sign up sheets will not be necessary.

*************************************************************************
Todd M. Yeager                         West Virginia University Libraries
Coordinator, Interlibrary Loan         Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
Internet:  tmy@wvnvm.wvnet.edu         304-293-3640
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From:         sheila barham <SHEILAB@vm1.uca.edu>
Subject:      Re: Hours on Desks for Heads/Coordinators
              25 Sep 1992 12:14:53 EDT from
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RE:  Hours on Reference Desk for Head/Coordinators of Departments

I am Head of Reference at a state university with an enrollment of 9500.
The Ref Desk is staffed by six full-time professionals Monday-Saturday
and two part-time professionals on Sunday.  I work the Ref Desk approx.
15 hours per week--slightly more than the other reference librarians who
also wear other hats (i.e. User Instruction Lib., Circulation Lib. ILL
Librarian, etc.).  The Coordinator for Public Services is also in on desk
rotation working approx. 12 hours per week.

I would personally feel alienated and isolated from the other members of
the Reference Dept. if I did not staff the desk and deal with patrons in
this capacity.  I also feel I would be less effective in my duties as
Reference Collection Development librarian.  I consider myself a Reference
Librarian first and foremost and Head of the Department only when it comes
to the administrative and scheduling duties I perform.  I frankly cannot
imagine being an effective administrator at the department head level
without spending at least part of my time working at the desk.

Hope you convince the powers-that-be that time on the Ref Desk is very
valuable indeed!

Sheila Barham
Torreyson Library
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR 72035
sheilab@ucavm1.uca.edu
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From:         Gary Parsons <PARSONS@FAUVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Internet Brochures

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      I, too, would be extremely grateful foro anything on internet:

      Gary Parsons
      Reference Department
      Box 3092
      Wimberly Library
      Florida Atlantic University
      Boca Raton, Florida, 33431
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:21:35 EDT
From:         Denise Beaubien Bennett <DENISEB@NERVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Sci/Tech Reference

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*  Do you cringe when patrons ask sci/tech reference questions?

*  Do you find gaps in your knowledge of sci/tech reference sources?

*  Are you sorry you didn't take a sci/tech reference course in library
   school?

*  Would you like to brush up on sci/tech reference sources?

If you answer "YES!" to any of these questions, plan your life around
a Preconference to be held in New Orleans on Friday, June 25, 1993.
The Preconference, sponsored by ACRL's Science & Technology Section,
is entitled, "Science Reference Service:  An Introduction for the
General Reference Librarian".  The Preconference is open to all.

Final details will be available in late January, but mark this
special offer on your calendars now!

Denise Beaubien Bennett                     deniseb@nervm.bitnet
STS 1993 Preconference Planning Cttee       deniseb@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
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From:         elaine moore <MOORE2%WKYUVM.BITNET@Kentvm.Kent.edu>
Subject:      Re: Hours on Desks for Heads/Coordinators

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I believe it is part of reference departments heads/coordinators' to
spend time in the trenches at the reference desk if they are to
adequately supervise and evaluate their reference service and staff.

I currently serve 6-7 hours per week at the desk plus ca. 8 hours per
month on weekends.  I would like to serve fewer hours but the recent
cuts in staff make this unlikely.  We presently have only three
reference librarians comprising our pool of  nine librarians who serve
at the desk.

Two of our three reference librarians serve 10 hours per week, the
third is a general reference librarian with fewer subject responsibilities
and serves 13 hours per week.  Our two coordinators, BI and Collection
Development each serve 5 hours per week.  The remaining 4 librarians
from other units serve serve two to three hours per week--Circulation
Librarian; head of Serials; our public services department head; and,
temporarily, the head of our branch Educational Resources Center.
Most serve eight hours once a month on weekends as well.

Our student body is 15,800, approximately 4000 of which are graduate
students.

I'm anxious to read the responses you get.  Please summarize for the
list as I'm sure it will be of interest to many.  Thanks.

Elaine Moore                       Phone: 502-745-6122
Reference Services Supervisor      FAX: 502-745-5943
University Libraries               Bitnet:moore2@wkyuvm
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576
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From: lrobare@jupiter.Willamette.EDU (Lori Robare)
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Subject: Spanish language encyclopedias
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:41:54 GMT
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Our reference collection is lacking a good Spanish language encyclopedia,
and I'm curious about the Enciclopedia hispanica (one of two listed in the
supplement to Sheehy).  The format is quite similar to that of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica.  Can anyone comment on its quality?

Other recommendations are most welcome.  Please reply directly to me,
not to the list.

Lori Robare
Willamette University Library
lrobare@willamette.edu
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:45:11 EDT
From:         "Todd M. Mundle" <MUNDLET@MAX.CC.UREGINA.CA>
Subject:      Current Contents on Diskette

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I have a faculty member who is interested in subscribing to Current Contents
on Diskette for his faculty.  He asked me what I thought of this item and
since I have never used it I couldn't really say.  However I thought someone
out there in NETLAND would've had experience with this item.

More specifically how is the subject searching ability of the software?  Is
it possible to do keyword subject searching with boolean capabilities?  Or is
is simply searchable by journal title?

I'd be interested to hear what people have to say about this work; is it worth
the money? My faculty member is looking at the one that contains Social
Science references.

Please respond to me directly and if I have plenty of responses I will
summarize for the list.

Thanks a bunch.

Todd M. Mundle
Univ. of Regina Library
Regina, SK  Canada
mundlet@max.cc.uregina.ca
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:27:32 EDT
From:         Sandra Raymond <smray@Think.COM>
Subject:      ALA code of ethics
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Is the ALA code of ethics electronically available anywhere?

Sincere thanks!

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From:         "Ulrike Dieterle -- UW-Platteville Library"
              <DIETERLE@ucs.uwplatt.edu>
Subject:      Re: Current Contents on Diskette

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I would like to see a comparison of Current Contents and the ContentsFirst
database available through OCLC's FirstSearch.  Maybe someone could respond to
this as well.  Thanks.  UD

Ulrike Dieterle
Karrmann Library
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Platteville, WI  53818
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Hi, this belongs on LibRef-L.
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
From: Michael Friedman <mfriedma@us.oracle.com>
Subject: City Names

Kind of depnds what you want it for.

If it is for mailing purposes, the USPS sells tapes with cities,
states, and zip codes.

Mike

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 We are looking for an authoritative source for city names; does anyone know
 whether or not there is a standard source that is used?

 Thanks,

 Pauline Hodges
 Chemical Abstracts Service

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From:         "Laurie Hathman" <HATHMAN@RCKHRST1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Hours on Desks for Heads/Coordinators

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Our Director spends 3-4 on the reference desk per week!  Granted, we are
a small library, with only 9 staff members.  We have only 1 full-time
reference librarian.  The Circulation librarian helps out with reference
during busy periods and we also have part-time reference assistants (not
student workers) who do reference in the evenings and on weekends.  Our
boss seems to really like the reference time.  He covers a noon hour when
the reference librarian is at lunch, as well as a few hours one evening
each week.  He is always willing to cover reference duties if both the
Reference and Circulation librarians are unavailable to do reference due
to meetings or workshops.  Our student body is about 2500 students, including
undergrads and grads.

We think we have a great boss and the staff really appreciates his willingness
to do the front-line reference work.

Laurie Hathman
Rockhurst College Library
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:26:25 EDT
From:         "(Deborah L Bailey)" <dbailey@quapaw.astate.edu>
Subject:      cd-rom sign-up
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Libref-l readers,
     We are currently discussing the pros and cons of having
a sign-up sheet with assigned times for cd-rom use.  Any
experience you might want to share would be helpful or if this
topic has been discussed before tell me how to access the
discussion.  Thanks in advance.

Deborah Bailey
Arkansas State Universtiy
dbailey@quapaw.astate.edu
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:42:39 EDT
From:         RHADDEN@USGSRESV.BITNET
Subject:      Re: city names

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Try the US Geological Survey, National Mapping Division, Board of Geographic
Names. They have control of the authority list for names of places in the
US, and the Defense Mapping Agency for names outside the US.
        USGS/ Baord of Geographic Names
        Mail Stop 523
        National Center
        Reston, VA 22092
        (703) 648-4544
Good luck!

lee hadden
usgs library
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:41:22 EDT
From:         "(Mary Minow)" <minow@netcom.com>
Subject:      Re: Party Platforms
              "LIBREF-L@Kentvm.Kent.edu" at Oct 5, 92 9:39 am

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>
Yes, ftp to nptn.org   In a subdirectory called Campaign.92, you'll
find Rep. Dem. and Libertarian papers.  You'll need to get the
indexes for each, since the files themselves have such names
as b103.txt

Alternatively, I have read that you can telnet to info.umd.edu
and log in as gopher.  You'll get a main menu and one of the choices
will be for presidential policy papers.  You can search the Dems
and the Repts by keyword or you can scan through a list.   Since its
a gopher, you can tell the system to e-mail you a copy of
whatever you read.


> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Are the current Party Platform documents of the Republican and
> Democratic parties (USA) available in electronic form on the
> Internet?  Is there an FTP site which has them for downloading?
>
> Any advice?
>
> Keith Boettcher
> San Joaquin Valley Library System
> Fresno, CA
> Phone:  209/488-3229
> Internet:  sanjoboe@class.org
>


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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:19:41 EDT
From:         david lewis <DLEWIS@UCONNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Position Announcement

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Posted to GOVDOC-L, LIBREF-L, and LIBADMIN
______________________________________________________

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Reference Librarian/Selector - Documents
The University of Connecticut Libraries

Under the general direction of the Head, Research and
Information Services Department, the incumbent has
special responsibility to provide leadership for the
Library's documents programs for the United States and
Connecticut.

The Reference Librarian/Selector - Documents participates
in all aspects of the department's service program.
Departmental services include assisting library users
at the service desk; collection development; providing
assistance with computer-based services, including
CD-ROMs and online searching; instructional and orientation
activities, including creating appropriate instructional
materials; developing new information services, and
producing printed, audio visual, or computer-based guides,
bibliographies, and other tools to assist in the work of
the department.

The incumbent also assists in the development and
implementation of departmental policies and will serve as
liaison to the Political Science Department, including
the selecting of materials for the general collection.

Required:  ALA-accredited MLS and experience with U.S.
government documents; knowledge of microcomputer
applications in libraries and excellent communications
skills; ability to work with diverse users and staff
in a changing environment.  Desired:  At least three
years relevant post-MLS academic library experience
in a reference or documents position; reading knowledge
of a modern foreign language; graduate study other
than the MLS; knowledge of the information needs of
Political Science faculty and students.

Appointment level and salary will be commensurate with
experience and qualifications  (e.g. Librarian II
$31,800 to $40,054, Librarian III $36,583 to $47,387).
To apply, please send a letter of application, resume
and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of
three professional references to:  Brinley Franklin,
Associate Director for Administrative Services,
University of Connecticut Libraries, Box U-5A, Storrs,
CT 06269-1005.  (Search #3A60)

The Search Committee will begin screening applications on
October 30, 1992 and will continue until the position is
filled.  The University of Connecticut actively solicits
applications from minorities, women, and people with
disabilities.

If you have questions concerning the position please
contact:  David Lewis, Head, Research and Information
Services Department, University of Connecticut,
dlewis@uconnvm.uconn.edu
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