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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:15:04 EDT
From:         paige harper <PAIHARP@NERVM.BITNET>
Subject:      UF Library Paraprofessional Development Conference

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REMEMBER!!!   It's Still Not Too Late!  REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!!!
_______________________________________________________________________________

The Library Paraprofessional Development Group of the University of Florida are
holding their First Annual Paraprofessional Development Conference, February
20-21, 1993 at the Holiday Inn - University Center in Gainesville, Florida and
wants to welcome all interested paraprofessionals.

              REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS POSTMARK OF NOVEMBER 4, 1992

The registration fee of $90 includes:  Conference introductory kit, breakfast
and lunch buffets Saturday and Sunday, banquet Saturday, attendance at all
lectures and panel discussions and two roundtables (from a choice of twelve,
including all aspects of library work -- circulation, reference, cataloging,
acquisitions, interlibrary loan, reserve, children's services, adult services,
documents, periodicals/serials, administrative services, and preservation).

The Conference is designed to include information on all types of libraries
as well as all aspects of library work.  Paraprofessionals across the country
are expected to attend.  An ideal chance to interact, develop contacts,
encounter first-hand knowledge of new technologies impacting on traditional
library procedures, and perhaps to get some individual attention from people
who can help you solve problems.  Tours of campus libraries and opportunities
for some hands-on experience are possible if arranged in advance.

For further information please contact:

Tinker Massey, 300 Smathers Library, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  32611  Phone:  (904) 392-0351.  Fax:  (904) 392-7251
      EMAIL:  TINMASS@NERVM.BITNET   OR  TINMASS@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

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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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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:20:32 EDT
From:         Robert.Kelly@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject:      cd-rom sign-up

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Secure your signup sheets.  Before we networked our CD ROM's we had serious
 problems with clients who would remove the sheets with the day's signers and
 thus we had no way of verifying whether a person in fact had reserved the 1/2
 hour
 time slot on that day.  Networking, while it has some drawbacks, has eliminated
  many of the conflicts which had occurred over the use of these products.
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:46:12 EDT
From:         G_BRUCE@TWU.BITNET
Subject:      is "quick and dirty" really "KWIC and dirty"

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Was the expression "quick and dirty" searching once "KWIC and dirty."
Is that when and where it had its origin?

M.J. Bruce
G_Bruce@TWU
G_Bruce@VENUS.TWU.EDU
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 14:23:33 EDT
From:         Paula Mochida <paula@uhunix.BITNET>
Subject:      Heads at Ref Desks

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I am Coordinator of Public Services for the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  I
work with the heads of seven public services/reference departments who ALL
participate in serving at their reference desks.  The number of librarians in
each department varies, but in total there are about 40 public services
librarians.  Our desks are staffed by librarians and one or two graduate
library school interns in each department.

It would not even be considered that heads would be completely removed from
serving at the ref. desks where there is so much to gain by being on the
front line.  Not only are our own skills maintained by working at the desk,
but we are also made aware of patron needs, physical plant requirements, and
the rewards of helping people find what they need.

As Coordinator I am part of the administrative team, but also serve at the
Information Desk on the main floor as often as I can.  In rare pinches, like
this week when the Undergraduate Library reference desk was short-staffed and
deluged with instructional requests, I volunteered to take a two hour slot.
(my prior experience was in the Undergraduate Library and in
Humanities/Social Sciences).  Our three top level managers, the University
Librarian, the Associate Librarian for Personnel, Budget and Planning, and
the Associate Librarian for Processing, Operations, and Automation also take
occasional slots at the Information Desk.  It gives them a good feel of
general public service needs, requires them to use the PAC and other library
created finding aids in assisting patrons (we are a development site for
CARL), makes them visible to faculty who frequent the library, and is great
for the morale for the public services staff who put in demanding hours at
desks that handled over 205,400 questions in 1991-92 and conducted 701
instructional sessions for 9,288 students.

To remove a head from participating, especially when she wants to, would be
detrimental.  IF nothing else, it could be cause for alienation from her
colleagues.  Don't do it!

Paula Mochida
University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:22:18 EDT
From:         TILLER@DAYTON.BITNET
Subject:      Re: city names

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WE have just received the entire set of the Omni Gazeteer of the United States
of America.  It looks pretty complete, with 1,500,000 place names in the
United States and territories.  It is quite expensive though.
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:33:49 EDT
From:         Lonnie <LAWSON@CMSUVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      Internet Brochures

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Greetings,

Much has been said about Internet.  Some people on this list have even
indicated that they are active in instructing faculty, staff and students on
using Internet.  If possible, could those of you who have devised brochures,
etc. about Internet and about teaching it to others please sent me copies.

Thanx in advance.

                             Lonnie

                                               _________
V. Lonnie Lawson, Reference Librarian          \         \
Ward Edwards Library                            \         \
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Warrensburg, Mo 64093-5020                      l Da 'Burg \
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From:         stephen stoan <STOAN%LIBRARY.UTA.EDU@Kentvm.Kent.edu>
Subject:      Mediated Online Searching

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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Since CD-ROMs and locally loaded electronic databases have greatly
reduced mediated searching through the traditional vendors like
Dialog, etc., the volume of activity hardly justifies trying to
involve all reference librarians in searching.  They can't stay
current with the few searches many of them get, and a few people can
handle all of the load more efficiently.  This gets us away from the
tradition of "subject specialization" that many libraries tried to
apply in setting up their search units and also raises the question
of what compensatory work you give those librarians who are withdrawn
from mediated searching.  I am interested in finding out how other
libraries are structuring their mediated searching now.

1.  Do all reference librarians do it or only a few?
2.  Does one person handle all mediated searching?
3.  What other job responsibilities does the coordinator of online
searching have?
4.  If some of the reference librarians do not participate in
mediated searching, what do they do instead?  CD-ROM instruction?
OPAC instruction?  Additional collection development responsibilities?
Internet training?  Additional BI?
5.  Any other information you deem helpful

Please respond directly to me.  If the results are varied and
interesting, I will summarize for the list.

Stephen Stoan
Internet: stoan@library.uta.edu
Bitnet: b366sks@utarlvm1
Voice: 817-273-3000
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:11:43 EDT
From:         dixie jones <DJONES@NNOMED.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Hours on Desks for Heads/Coordinators

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We have four reference librarians in our department serving a
medical school of approximately four hundred students plus residents
plus a school of allied health with programs in communications
disorders, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory
therapy, and medical technology, in addition to a graduate school
with programs in cellular biology and anatomy, biochemistry,
microbiology, pharmacology, and physiology.  As Head of Reference,
I spend five hours a week on the desk (more if someone is absent).
I feel that I need time on the desk in order to better know the
collection, know the clientele and their needs, and know what
the staff librarians are experiencing in order to have a full
understanding of how the department functions, what its problems
are, and where it needs to go in the future.
Dixie Jones
LSUMC Library, Shreveport, LA
318/674-5447       djones@nomvs.lsumc.edu
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:26:32 EDT
From:         elaine moore <MOORE2@WKYUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Hours on Desks for Heads/Coordinators

----------------------------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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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 13:24:52 EDT
From:         LIBRRTP@OSUCC.BITNET
Subject: Re: Hours on Desks for Heads/Coordinators

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I am the head of the social sciences division here at Oklahoma
State Univ., all of our deprtment heads work the reference desk|
Currently I average around 14 hrs per week, though there are times
when this seems a bit excessive there is no better way to take the pi
pulse of our university.  Perhaps the greatest reason for working the
desk from my point of view is the ability it gives me to observe
the conduct and actions of those librarians and staff who work
the desk with me.  We are evaluated in part on our service,
though I could potentially unobtrusivelly observe activities
at the desk, nothing beats actually being there, it really
allows me to notice some pitfalls before they develop into
problems.

rich paustenbaugh
oklahoma state univ.
librrtp@osucc
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:37:56 EDT
From:         "(chuck dintrone)" <dintrone@library.sdsu.edu>
Subject:      infotrac and reference nos.

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October 2, 1992

We have a lot of trouble with those using Infotrac (in our case, Expanded
Academic Index but was also true when we had General Periodicals Index)
and the reference numbers given. Patrons assume (and why shouldn't they?)
that the reference number given is a finding aid. Since we charge for
printing, some patrons choose to write the information down. They are
frustrated when they just write the number down and are told this is not
useful. Lines are often long and they are forced to wait in line again.
I mentioned the reference numbers and the problem to representatives from
Information Access when they were here last Spring and was told that they
could (or would) not remove these numbers from the screen. My question is
are there others of you out there having the same problem? If this
problem is somewhat universal, maybe we can put pressure on Information
Access to do something. You can write or e-mail directly or, if you want
to see a general discussion on this, put it on Libref itself.

Chuck Dintrone
San Diego State University Library
San Diego, CA 92182-0511
(619) 594-4303
dintrone@library.sdsu.edu
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:42:16 EDT
From:         "Jan Watson" <ILIBP56@UNIVSCVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Animal Welfare Act Compliance

----------------------------Original message----------------------------


----------------------------Original message----------------------------
     Cross-Posted to LIBREF-L, PACS-L, MEDLIB-L.

I am interested in what other librarys are doing to meet the information
requirements of the Animal Welfare Act.

The library administration at USC has been told that researchers, who use
animals in their work and are applying for federal grants, must submit
the strategy of a computer search that they have done on animal testing
alternatives relating to their research with their grant application.

I would like to know how other librarys are handling this and especially-

     which databases you have found most useful;
     your opinion of AGRICOLA for this type of search and how much you use
        it;
     if you have a special form that is signed and given to researchers
        stating a search was done in compliance with the act and what it
        is like.

Any other information, thoughts, or comments on the subject would also be
     welcomed.

Jan Watson
Thomas Cooper Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC  29209

803-777-3151
Fax: 803-777-4661
BITNET: ILIBP56 at UNIVSCVM
INTERNET: ILIBP56 at UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:17:59 EDT
From:         RHADDEN@USGSRESV.BITNET
Subject:      RE: Hours on Desks for Heads/Coordinators

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When I was head of a section, I alwys scheduled at least two hours a week on the
 desk. This time was needed to keep up with current trends in Reference;
keep contact with library users and contacts (useful for horse trading outside
of routine channels); see how changes/lack of changes in the e section helped
or hindered; oversee the work of the other librarians and staff, and hear
compliments/complaints/suggestions within the work environment instead of
in a closed office.
  I really can't see the effectiveness of a reference librarian who is
removed from the reference environment entirely. Some scheduled time is
alaways needed.
   BTW, one of the reasons I left the job was that I loved refernence work.
When the job became too much administrative, I found I was not enjoying it
as much or a doing as good a job. So I returned to the ranks, and have been
lots happier.

lee hadden
usgs library
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:21:10 EDT
From:         "Miguel Menendez,
              North Miami Campus Library" <MENENDEZ@SERVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: cd-rom sign-up

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We had to go to sign-up sheets for our CD workstations and titles.  There
is great demand for titles such as Psyclit and Sociofile.  The reference
staff, which referees the cd area from the desk, would be in big trouble
without sign-ups.  Also, we have limited use to one hour per cd per student
per day.  That is, they can us a title, say PAIS, once a day, but can sign
up for Medline for that same day.    Warning:  When students and faculty
discover cds, take cover!!

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Miguel M. Menendez                  Internet: Menendez@servax.fiu.edu
Florida International University    Bitnet:   Menendez@servax
North Miami Campus Library          Voice:    305 940-5729, 940-5719
North Miami, Florida 33181          Fax:      305 949-1591
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