The Introduction to Windows95 class on September 10, 10:30-12:00, has space for a few more people to attend. The class will meet in the Presentation Palace, Sweet Hall Room 025. If you're interested in attending, please just come to the session. Reservations aren't required for this final session of the Windows95 training series.
-- Lois Brooks, Academic Technology Specialist
We're delighted to welcome the newest member of the RITS group, Olivia Williamson, who joins us as the Expert Partners Program Manager. Olivia will provide technical consulting and training to SUL/AIR computer support staff across the organization. Olivia came to Stanford as a student, then stayed on at the Graduate School of Business as a computer consultant. She's worked extensively with faculty and students, providing direct consulting to them and also managing the student computing facilities in GSB. Olivia will be located in the Systems Office in Green Library. She can be reached at olivia@sulmail, or 3-1474.
-- Lois Brooks, Academic Technology Specialist
Tatiana Barr, Slavic cataloger in the Serials & Electronic Resources Cataloging Group, has accepted a position at Columbia University. Her last day of work at SUL will be Sept. 17th.
Tatiana came to Stanford in 1991. Prior to that, she was at the New York Historical Society, and before that Columbia University Libraries, where she had held a number of different positions from 1982-87, and is now returning as catalog librarian for original and special materials cataloging. During her tenure at SUL, she has provided excellent service for our Slavic program, and has been instrumental in keeping the cataloging of SUL's Slavic collections in good shape. Beyond her cataloging responsibilities, Tatiana has been an active participant in the information desk program at Green, and in the Library's staff association. For the past few years, she has also been a primary organizer of the Library's annual book sale. Her skills and professionalism, as well as her friendly manner and cheerful smile, will be greatly missed by her friends and colleagues here.
There will be a farewell party on Monday, Sept. 16th, 2:30-4:00, on the fourth floor of Meyer, at the corner terrace facing Hoover Tower. Please come and join us in saying goodbye to Tatiana and wishing her well in her life after SUL. A card is available at Lucretia Cerny's desk in the Galvez Module if you wish to add your signature and well wishes. Lucretia will also accept contributions towards a gift.
-- Vitus Tang, Catalog Department
RITS staff members Dave Miller and Peter Chen are featured authors in the recently released "Designing Web Animation" published by New Riders. Dave Miller, the Information Resources Specialist for the School of Education, wrote chapters on Principles of Animation in a Nutshell, Creating QuickTime Animations, and Animating with Shockwave for Director. Dave applies his talents in to his position at SUL/AIR by working with faculty to develop and enhance curriculum, and by delivering lectures in Web animation and Instructional Technology in Education classes. This is Dave's second publication with New Riders.
Peter Chen, Information Resources Specialist for the Department of Biological Sciences, wrote the chapter Adding Sound and Special Effects to Animated Pages. Peter's work with the Biology faculty includes development of Web based educational materials. Peter is also classically trained musician, composing and working with computer-based music. This is his first publication with New Riders.
-- Lois Brooks, Academic Technology Specialist
Jackson Library staff recently completed a retrospective conversion project for monographs and serials cataloged prior to 1977. This project was outsourced to Retro Link Associates, Inc., located in Provo, Utah, and was managed locally by Kent Abbott. Catalog records for 55,225 monographs and 2,796 serials have been loaded into Jackson's CARL database at Lane Library and will eventually appear in Socrates and RLIN. Work is underway to add smart barcodes to material in the library's second floor collection for the 64,000 volumes included in the conversion project.
Progress has also been made on the library's in-house corporate reports retrospective conversion project, which began in mid-January of this year and is managed by Tom Holt. There are three phases in this project: (1) modifying approximately 10,000 existing bibliographic records in the CARL database to reflect the library's holdings, (2) deleting about 3,000 CARL records that do not reflect current holdings, and (3) entering new records in CARL for approximately 25,000 corporate report titles that are only accessible in the library's card catalog now. As of July 1996, over 9,400 records had been modified or added, and an additional 1,400 records had been deleted. A team of 7 students, as well as some library staff, have been working on this effort. Due to the fact that library staff are creating only minimal-level catalog records for corporate reports, these records will appear in CARL and Socrates only. They will not appear in the RLIN database.
Jackson Library has also contracted with Blackwell North America, Inc. for retrospective and ongoing authority control processing of the library's bibliographic database. Tapes with over 130,000 bibliographic records were shipped to Blackwell earlier this summer. The anticipated completion date for the initial authority processing is September 1996.
The library's separate government documents collection was totally disbanded this summer. For years, library staff have been removing selected titles from this special collection and recataloging/classifying them for inclusion in the library's reference area and main collection. Now that this effort has been completed, the library's government documents catalog has been removed as well.
As soon as the corporate reports retrospective conversion process has been completed, all card catalogs in Jackson Library will be removed and the library's collection, with the exception of working papers, will be available in CARL and Socrates. Everyone at Jackson Library is thrilled to have reached this stage in our technical services automation program. We are also pleased to be able to provide remote bibliographic access to our collections as a result of these accomplishments.
--Karen Wilson, Jackson Library
Well, it's a typographers "30" for me -- I'm retiring from the Libraries today to think about what else might be fun -- but please continue to send your news notes items to this address (rjurgens@sulmail). And remember, it's i before e except after c.
Cheers, rene.