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SIS INFO
Vol. 15, No. 6
November  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

This is issue number 6 of the 2001 edition of the SIS Newsletter. This will be the last issue that I will be editing. I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I’ve really enjoyed being able to make a small contribution to our organization. As I pass the eye shade to the new Editor, I would like to encourage all of you to attend the December meeting to vote for a new slate officers. I would also like to express my thanks to this year’s officers. It’s been a pleasure to work with you all.

News to Share

The Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the slate of nominations for SIS officers for 2002:

• Vice President/President Elect: Anita Lindsay
• Secretary: Kathy Kaldenberg
• Treasurer: Betsy King

We will vote and install the officers at the December 5 meeting, which will be held in the evening at Berkeley Preparatory School (centrally located just west of the Veteran's Expressway and just north of the Courtney Campbell Causeway.)

Sites of Interest?

GigaLaw.com http://www.gigalaw.com

Provides legal information for Internet and technology professionals, Internet entrepreneurs and the lawyers who serve them. This searchable site includes daily news, up-to-date articles, archived articles sorted by date and topic, interviews, and free newsletters. Topics covered in depth include intellectual property, copyright, privacy, and identity theft.

Subjects: Internet -- Law and legislation | Technology and law

SUNLINK Weed of the Month Club http://www.sunlink.uck.edu/weed/

An excellent resource for all librarians, this site includes tips for making weeding decisions, an archived list of past months' weeding topics, and links to other weeding resources. Stories about unusual items found while weeding round out this useful site from SUNLINK, Florida's K-12 public school union catalog.

Subjects: Discarding of books, periodicals, etc. | Collection development (Libraries) from [LIIWEEK] October 25, 2001

IPL Pathfinder: Digitization http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/PF/digitization.html

"This guide provides a number of resources to help make decisions about digitizing a collection." Includes both internet and print resources including a glossary of terms and info on guidelines and planning, preservation, scanning, metadata, sample sites, etc. While you're at it, follow the link to all the other IPL pathfinders -- there's a lot of useful stuff there.

From Neat New Stuff I Found This Week
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2001.

October Minutes

The October SIS meeting was held jointly with CFALL and USF SLA/ALA Student Chapters at the USF Tampa Campus Library on October 3, 2001. The meeting included a panel discussion on copyright issues and a tasty lunch catered by Panera.

Ray Eydmann, President, made opening remarks, welcoming SIS members as well as CFALL members and members of the various student organizations that participated. He indicated that the following positions are open for next year’s SIS officer roster:

• Vice-President/President-elect
• Secretary
• Treasurer

In addition, SIS is looking for volunteers for the appointed positions of Newsletter Editor and Webmaster. Anyone who would like to participate should contact Ray Eydmann or Wanda Barrett, who is heading the nominating committee.

Barbara Flora, a USF library school student who coordinated the meeting, introduced the panelists. The panelists were:

• Merilyn Burke, Dept. Head Access Services, USF Tampa Campus Library. The USF Tampa Campus Library serves as the University of South Florida Library System's research center. Access Services is responsible for circulation, inter-library loan, reserves, shelving, and security.
• Sue Felber, Coordinator, Moffitt Medical Library. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute has a library that is open to the public as well as to the medical staff. The collection includes clinical and academic oncology materials as well as consumer materials about cancer.
• Wanda Barrett, Information Manager, Everlove & Associates, Inc. Everlove & Associates offers library services, web design services, intranet and database design, document retrieval, web hosting, and computer training to law firms and other corporate offices throughout Florida.
• Monica Metz-Wiseman, Coordinator of Electronic Resources for the USF Virtual Library. The USF Virtual Library provides USF students, faculty and staff with access to the library's online catalog and hundreds of subscription databases via a single Web-based interface accessible from any location around the world.

Barbara Flora initiated the discussion with some questions regarding the panelists’ experiences with violations that may have ended up in court. Although none of the panelists have had to testify in court regarding copyright violations, the questions sparked interesting discussion about other libraries’ experiences throughout the U.S. where the vendors have actually closed access to their electronic products as a result of contract violations.

Other points of discussion included the role of and attitudes towards the Copyright Clearinghouse Center; some of the major cases that have made it to court (there are only a few of them); ramifications of the DMCA; the differences in policies in academic and private sector environments; and the changing attitudes of vendors about licensing of electronic products.

December Meeting

As of this printing, plans are for Wright’s Gourmet to cater the meal. It has not yet been decided if the meal will be buffet or sit down. Cost will be approximately $12.00. When details have been finalized, Wanda will send notification to the list.

Directions:

From Downtown Tampa:
Take I-275 South to the Tampa International Airport/Veterans Expressway Exit. Follow the highway to the second exit, which is PAST the SR60/Clearwater exit. The exit is Independence Parkway. After passing SR 60 intersection move to the left lane and exit onto Independence Parkway. Follow until the road dead ends at Memorial Highway (traffic light) and turn left. Go to the second traffic light, which is Kelly Road and turn right. Follow about ½ mile and the campus is on the right.

From St. Petersburg:
Take I-275 North over the Howard Frankland Bridge. Once over the bridge take the Airport exit off the Interstate. Follow this highway to the second exit, which is PAST the SR60/Clearwater exit. The exit is Independence Parkway. After passing SR 60 intersection move to the left lane and exit onto Independence Parkway. Follow until the road dead ends at Memorial Highway (traffic light) and turn left. Go to the second traffic light, which is Kelly Road and turn right. Follow about ½ mile and the campus is on the right.

From Clearwater:
Take Gulf to Bay to the Courtney Campbell Causeway and travel over the bay. Take the causeway to the Veterans Expressway (traffic light). Take a left at the light and then take your first exit, Independence Parkway, which is a left side exit. Follow Independence Parkway until the road dead ends at Memorial Highway (traffic light) and turn left. Go to the second traffic light, which is Kelly Road and turn right. Follow about ½ mile and the campus is on the right.

To view and/or print a map, go to this address: http://www.berkeleyprep.org/map.htm.

If you are planning to attend the December meeting, call or email your confirmation to Wanda Barrett at (727) 345-8180 or (800) 487-6672 – wanda@everlove.net, no later than November 28.