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SIS INFO
Vol. 15, No. 5
September  2001

Editor's Corner

Future Meetings

If you would like to host a future meeting, or if you have a suggestion for a future program, contact Wanda Barrett, SIS Vice-President, with your ideas. Wanda can be reached by email at wanda@everlove.net or by phone at Everlove & Associates, 727-345-8180.

From the Editor

It's September and not a day too soon. Maybe if we're lucky, it will be cooler soon, too!

October's meeting will be a joint meeting with CFALL and the USF student groups. This is always a well-attended and informative meeting, so plan to come. Meeting details can be found farther down in the newsletter.

If you have any news or items of interest or information you'd like to see in the next newsletter, send them to me via email at: nanbecker@hotmail.com.

News to Share

Pat Boody has accepted a position as Information Technology Strategic Analyst within Tampa Electric Company. "I'm still doing research, only focused on the strategic use of information technology (both hardware and software). I'm also taking the responsibility for IT Benchmarking, learning more about metrics, best practices, and other benchmarking activities."

Cheryl Dee, assistant professor, was appointed to a tenure-track position in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida. Dr. Dee has been a visiting professor at USF for the past two years.

Madison Mosley was named associate professor at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport and director of the law library and the Legal Information Center.

The following announcement was posted as a forward from PUBLIB on the State Library of Florida's FL-Lib email list:

Online Lyceum: Coaching for Performance
ARL IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE ANOTHER ONLINE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY
COACHING FOR PERFORMANCE
October 15 - November 2, 2001

Course Description:

Developing others and helping people to perform at optimal levels is one of the most important roles of supervisors, managers, and leaders in libraries and information service agencies. Using specific skills and behaviors, the manager/coach can help to create a high-performing workplace.

Participants will learn the key principles and techniques associated with effective coaching. After this course, participants will know:

• what coaching is;
• specific techniques, theories, and tools to use in the coaching process;
• how to develop high performers;
• how to confront poor performers and how to coach them to higher levels of performance; and
• the key coaching behaviors necessary for effective coaching.

This course is targeted to individuals who supervise the work of others, which may include department heads, team leaders, mentors, staff development and personnel officers. Instructors:
Kathryn Deiss, ARL/OLMS Adjunct Faculty
Melanie Hawks, ARL/OLMS Program Officer for Training

Course Dates:

This three-week course will begin Monday, October 15, 2001 and ends Friday, November 2, 2001. Cost:
$400 for ARL members
$450 for nonmembers
Registration Deadline: October 5, 2001
For detailed course information, visit
http://www.arl.org/training/coaching.html
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dawn Kight dawn@arl.org.

Sites of Interest?

Thanks to our resident Internet Watcher, Shirl Kennedy, Web Guide Topic Manager, Business 2.0, who submitted these two sites of interest:

Library Juice, an "alternative" library e-mail newsletter with a "progressive" slant.

Note from the editor/publisher, Rory Litwin:

Library Juice is a news digest for librarians, library and information science students, and other interested people. It includes announcements, many web resources, calls for papers, and news affecting the library world. Much of the material has a social-responsibilities or intellectual freedom focus. It is not a discussion list but a digest of material from a variety of sources. However, you are welcome to submit material directly to me.

Library Juice is composed mostly of email culled from approximately three dozen listservs (see below), and occasional editorials and abstracts written for the publication.

I put about ten hours per week into the production of Library Juice and the maintenance of the website, and pay about $25 per month for the web and mail hosting. I recoup some of my expenses through reader contributions, and have started asking for a voluntary donation of $10 per year. You can mail a heck (made out to Rory Litwin) to 1821 "O" St. Apt. 9, Sacramento, CA 9814-6136. Your support is appreciated.

If you would like to contact me with any questions or ideas, you can mail me at rory@libr.org.

Library Juice is indexed by Index Morganagus

Another offbeat site that Shirl watches regularly is a weblog called The End of Free ("chronicling free to fee and beyond"). It tracks the many Internet sites and services that are moving from free to some sort of paid model.
Interesting read -- http://theendoffree.com

How Much Information?
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/
Tries to answer the question "How much information is produced each year, in what form?" Their conclusion is daunting even for information professionals.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm
Daily updates on new articles and research on electronic publishing issues like access, copyright, etc.

Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher
http://www.lita.org/committee/toptech/toolkit.htm
The tools that expert searcher Pat Ensor uses everyday, and why. Search engines, metasearch engines, subject guides, invisible web tools and more.

from Neat New Stuff I Found This Week 9/6/01
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Copyright, Marylaine Block, 2000.

August Minutes

The August 22, 2001 lunch meeting was held at USF Bayboro campus library. Ray Eydmann, President, kicked the meeting off by welcoming attendees.

He also announced that Pat Boody has taken a position within the Information Technology Strategies Department at Tampa Electric Co. We wish her the best, and will miss her in the research department.

Deb Henry of USF St. Petersburg also gave a warm welcome to attendees, and the group made introductions all around.

Wanda Barrett, President Elect, led a discussion regarding the October meeting, which will be hosted by the USF Student Chapters of ALA, SLA, and ASIS. The meeting will tentatively be held at USF Tampa Campus during the first week of October. In addition, the SIS meeting will be held jointly with CFALL, and one potential discussion topic will be copyright issues. More information will follow.

Barrett also requested suggestions for the annual December party - a dinner cruise and a "Duck Tour" were among the suggestions mentioned.

The speaker for the meeting was Kathy Arsenalt, who has recently been named the Library Director of USF at St. Petersburg (Bayboro campus). She gave a fascinating talk and tour of their Special Collection, which includes a diverse collection of documents and photographs.

Some of the major collections include:

• Nelson Poynter's papers
• Extensive collection of ichthyology/natural history texts dating from 16th century to current
• Selection of underground newspapers from the 1960s and 1970s
• Mark Twain special editions
• Photographs of Francis G. Wagner of St. Petersburg from the 1920s to the 1960s
• Oral histories of local, prominent African Americans including Norman Jones Sr. (who was the first African-American to have television show in Tampa)
• 1936 Olympics books (donated by the family of a relay runner who ran with Jesse Owens on the American team)

All of the materials in the Special Collection are available for viewing by appointment, and most are searchable in the USF web catalog.

October Meeting

Lunch ordered from Panera's (on Bruce B. Downs) - Salad or Sandwich or ½ and ½
Maximum cost with drink $8.00
The menu will be sent at later date.

General Topic will be a panel discussion of Copyright Issues and how it's affecting the Libraries of SIS/CFAL members. Any suggestions to the format will be appreciated.

Anticipate as many at 25 students being present. Might have more if one professor allows students to come in late.

If you are planning to attend the August meeting, call or email your confirmation to Wanda Barrett at (727) 345-8180 or (800) 487-6672 – wanda@everlove.net, no later than September 15.