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INFO NEWSLETTER
Vol. 13, No. 3, May 1999

EDITOR'S CORNER

Spring cleaning here at the old PC. Tossing out stale URLs and adding new ones. Here are a hand full of intriguing sites that have crossed my radar screen within the past couple of weeks:

• Daily Diffs (http://www.dailydiffs.com/)
  "Daily Diffs monitor changes on tens of thousands of pages, all hand-selected for quality and usefulness. Every day, we publish brand new changes and history for over 4,000 dynamic pages." This service subdivides changes under some useful subject headings, including Computers and Programming , Environment, etc.
• Euroguide (http://www.euroguide.org/)
  Kind of like an EU-oriented Yahoo!, Euroguide will help you find your way through the maze of European Information on the Internet.
• Orientation (http://eeu.orientation.com/)
  For Europe and beyond, this site carries a collection of links to regional search engines and directories for Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin American & the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Oceania.
• Fishsearch (http://fishsearch.com)
  Fishing is something most people either like or hate. Even if you're not an enthusiast, you've probably got friends, relatives, cowokers or customers who are. Fishsearch provides a searchable subject index about fishing -- fishing tools, fishing trips, taxidermy, etc.
• Library Juice (http://libr.org/Juice/)
  Library Juice is a current awareness service for library and information science students, librarians, and other interested people. It includes announcements, many web resources, calls for papers, and news items. Much of the material has a social-responsibilities or intellectual freedom focus.

Enjoy. And e-mail me with resource finds of your own, to share in future issues of the newsletter.

Shirl Kennedy
sdk@tampabay.rr.com

UPCOMING MEETING INFO

• When: May 18, 1999, 6:00-8:00 pm
• Where: Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library, 900 North Ashley Street, downtown Tampa (between Tyler and Cass Streets, across from the Performing Arts Center.)
• What: John Iliff will speak on planning a web site: "Developing a Web Site. Same Old Song, New Instruments to Play It On." This replaces June meeting and will be the annual election meeting.
• Catered dinner: Hot food; plan on $ 10-12 per person.
• RSVP:

• Directions/Parking: Parking is available across the street at the city's Poe Parking Garage.

MEETING MINUTES
April 7, 1999

In a departure from the usual Monday SIS meeting day, 25 persons gathered for dinner on Wednesday, April 7, at Ruby Tuesday's 201 N. Dale Mabry, Tampa. The dinner hour provided opportunities for networking and camaraderie. Afterward, our meeting hostess, Liz Bumgarner of Time Warner, Inc. led us to her company's mezzanine meeting room in the striking glass office building next door. As we arrived, Liz welcomed us with coffee/juice and cookies, an after dinner treat to enjoy during the business meeting.

**Business Meeting

SIS President Trudie Root called the meeting to order and received approval of the minutes from the last meeting. Trudie reported on the innovation of displaying photos from the last meeting on our web site. For persons who had not had the opportunity to see the pictures, she passed around samples of the photos that had been scanned in to show scenes from the prior meeting at Stetson University's College of Law library.

Our group should be aware of changes in two electronic addresses:

• Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC) -- http://tblc.org  
• Trudie's e-mail address -- troot@jwbpinellas.org

We were reminded that information on up-coming meetings and conventions can be posted on our web site and in the newsletter. Also, reports from persons who attend such gatherings are always welcome for publishing these two ways.

Sites and dates for the next two meetings have been set:

• Tuesday, May 18, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library, Main Library
• Monday, August 2, luncheon meeting, Raytheon Systems Company, St. Petersburg

The May meeting is the traditional time for the election of next year's officers. Trudie announced the following slate:

• President: Mary Kaye Raddatz of St. Petersbur Junior College (current Vice President, President-elect)
• Vice President: Ray Eydmann of Tampa Electric Company
• Secretary: Cheryl (C D) McLean of Paradyne
• Treasurer: Betsy King of Reflectone, Inc.

C D McLean, the regional contact person for SLA has suggested that SIS might have a social jointly with SLA in August or September and has generously offered her home as the site. The general consesus among SIS members seems to be that this would be a welcome opportunity.

Betsy King asked for volunteers to look at the by-laws in terms of meeting days. Betsy has a collection of other organizations' by-laws. In the past, she noted, there has been some precedent for varying the meeting days. Betsy also pointed out that we might consider voting on officers electronically and having our year coincide with the calendar instead of beginning in October.

Ray Eydmann pointed out that usually, if there are no objections or additional nominations, an organizatin's secretary can cast a single vote for the slate. Joyce Burkhart suggested we continue our same method of approving the slate unless there were objections. None were heard. The business meeting was adjourned for the program and tour.

**Program

The scheduled speaker, Laura Cash, of Lexis/Nexis, was blocked on "Alligator Alley" and unable to come from Miami. Laura sent word that she would send copies of her presentation to anyone who wants one. Let Liz Bumgarner know if you would like one.

Despite Laura's not being able to come, Liz Bumgarner demonstrated her aplomb and ability to rise to the occasion by giving us an insightful program on the development of her company's technical library for data processing services.

The Tampa branch of Time Warner where Liz works deals mainly with the firm's magazine publishing business. Data processing here deals with the publication and subscriptions for such periodicals as Time, Money,, Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, and Martha Stewart Living.

Liz has been the organizing genius behind this library, beginning in Chicago, during it's move to Tampa in 1987, and through the present. While still in library school, Liz was faced with ordering, updating, and organizing data processing manuals that had been kept in 3-ring binders. Also, she had to make the information in them easily locatable and accessible. These were manuals whose titles almost always began with "IBM" and were obtained from packing lists.

She also maintains a tape library of vendors' software and must store, retrieve, and weed in-house written software on IBM cartridges. Additionally, department heads look to her to organize section libraries.

During her tenure, she has acquired Dialog and CompuServe on-line services, has gotten book and magazine jobbers, selected IMB's BookManager for on-line documentation, and implemented an integrated on-line catalog and home page.

Liz developed her home page using Microsoft's FrontPage '98 and uses Caspr's LibraryWorld '98 for her on-line catalog. LibraryWorld '98 also keeps her tape library records.

Company programmers locally and internationally will eventually have access to the library catalog on their desks through the intranet and home page.

After her talk, Liz took us up to the 5th floor where we saw first-hand the library's organization and the use of the software she had told us about.

Liz is an inspiration to us all and demonstrates what the right person can accomplish in a "one-person library."

SIS INVITED TO TELEC

On Friday, May 21, TABAMLN will sponsor a 3 hour teleconference on copyright, at Lakeland Regional Medical Ctr. TABAMLN President, Jan Booker, extends an invitation to members of SIS as well. Here are some details:

Copyright Law in the Digital Age, taught by Laura Gassaway

Satellite Teleconference on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to be shown at sites across the country on Friday, May 21, from 12 noon-3 pm. Co-sponsored by MLA along with the American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Special Libraries Association.

For more information on this teleconference, SIS members should contact:

Mary Kaye Raddatz, Librarian
St. Petersburg Jr. College - Health Education Ctr.
7200 66th St. N.
Pinellas Park, FL 33781
727-341-3657
raddatzm@spjc.edu

SIS OFFICERS, 1998-1999

Suncoast Information Specialists
c/o Tampa Bay Library Consortium
1202 Tech Boulevard, Suite 202
Tampa, FL 33619
Phone: (813) 622-8252
Email: sis@tblc.org
URL: http://tblc.org/sis/
Listserv: SIS-L@tblc.org