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Number 519 January 22, 1988
C A L E N D A R _ j
January 22 David Wark Griffith, 1875-1948, pioneer  
American film producer and director. {
January 23 Marie Henri Beyle, 1783-1842, French
author, best known under the pseudonym
Stendhal.
January 24 Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, American
author. _
January 25 Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, English  
author.
January 27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791,
Austrian composer.
January 29 Galler Series: "Music of Bartok,
Mozart, and New Music for Electro-
acoustic Percussion: Keyboard Recital :
‘ Sam Holland, School of Music.
i February 1-28 Black History Month.
February 2 James Joyce, 1882-1941, Irish novelist
and poet. N
February 5 Galler Series: "Lexington Remembered by
Its Black Senior Citizens" : An Oral
History Forum : Emily Parker, Moderator.
February 12 Gallery Series: "Caribbean Literature l
and the United States" : Lecture : Dr.
O. R. Dathorne, Department of English.
Next Green Bean: Friday, February 12, 1988
Deadline: Friday, February 5, 1988
Production Staff: Editor/typist: Bonnie Jean Cox; typist /
proofreader: Carol Ranta; printer: Cecil
Madison.
‘Iné Newsletter of the Umversnty
of Kentucky Lnbrarnes

 
 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK PC LEARNERS/USERS GROUP
Y Please keep in rnind that
Paula Pope has told us that the PC Learners/Users Group is
our "Library Information. for all faculty and staff in
Report" program began on radio the University Libraries.
station WBKY last week. Anyone interested in computers
The taped spots will appear on is encouraged to take advantage
Tuesdays at 9:42 a.m. of meetings and workshops.
and Thursdays at 1:42 p.m. The only exceptions are those
--BJC meetings limited by space or
facilities for which par-
NEW STAFF .... WELCOME ABOARD ticipants must register in ad-
_ Dennis Davenport Cataloging vance.
Both the January and
BON VOYAGE AND GOOD LUCK! February meetings will require
Rob Aken Reference registration. On Thursday,
January 28, 1988, Tari Keller
STAFF ACTIVITIES will conduct an introductory
DOS workshop. The workshop
will be held in On-line
Toni Powell, director of the Cataloging on the third floor
Agriculture Library, has pub- of King North at 2:00. Reser-
lished an article, "Creating a vations are necessary as space
traditional reference tool in is limited to 8 people.
` c the Age of Electronics", in On Thursday, February 25,
the December issue of C & R L Bonnie Cox will conduct an Ad-
.; News. The article describes vanced DOS workshop .
_ the processing through which This will also be held at 2:00
{ Toni prepared the Bibliography p.m. and is limited to 8
of Landscape Architecture, pub- people. Reservations are
_ is e ast year by Oryx Press. necessary.
To register for either
workshop call Christie Robinson
at 7-8372 or Gary Stottlemyer
**** at 7-8349.
with the March meeting the
group will resume its regular
Judy Sackett, head of the schedule with meetings in Room
Periodicals/Newspapers/ 104 Khm Soudm The Mmmh
Microtexts Department, has been meeting will cover batch files
invited for the second time to and the April meeting will dis-
serve on a grant review panel cuss public domain software.
for the National Endowment for Specific dates and times
the Humanities Office of will be forthcoming. (Submitted
Preservation. She will review by Christie Robinson.)
proposals requesting funds to
join or continue the United
States Newspaper Program state
. projects. ‘
Judy is director of the Ken-
tucky Newspaper Project at UK.
2

 GAINES FELLOWSHIPS Dr. Joseph L. Fink III of the
IN THE HUMANITIES College of Pharmacy will speak
" on "Public Policy Changes That
February 15 is the applica- Affect the Health Care
tion. deadline for the (Gaines Expenditures of the Elderly:
Fellowships in the Humanities. The Case of Drug Product Selec-
The Gaines Fellowships are tion Legislation."
awarded in the student‘s
sophomore year for both the
junior and senior· years; the TRAINING AT UK
stipend for the junior year is
$2,000 and that for the senior UK's Human Resource
year is $3,000. Development Office has a number
Application is open to any of workshops planned for the
student in any discipline in. spring semester. A number of
the University of Kentucky, in- no-cost workshops are listed
cluding the community college for February and March, includ-
system. ing payroll, personnel, pur-
Full information. is avail- chasing, sponsored projects ac-
able in the Green Eean office counting, and travel.
or from the Gaines Center for There are also several
the Humanities, 232 East Max- leadership skills workshops
well Street. The telephone planned in February and March
number is 7-1537. will registration costs ranging
from $25-$75 per participant.
Topics include planning, com-
ARTS AND SCIENCES FORUM municating confidence, giving '
constructive criticism, and
problem solving and decision
The second College of Arts and making.
Sciences Forum lecture will be A brochure outlining the
presented on February 3, 1988, complete spring offerings is
at noon in the Real Gallery of available in the Green Bean of-
King Library North. fice.
Percival Everett, associate
professor of English, will talk ALA LIBRARY/BOOK
on "Novel and Novelist: the FELLOWS PROGRAM
Problem of Distance."
Applications are now being
SANDERS - BROWN CENTER accepted for the 1988-89
LUNCH SERIEQ Library/Book Fellows program, a
joint project of the American _
The first of the spring series Library Association and the
of brown bag lunch presenta- United States Information
tions sponsored by the Agmuy.
Sanders—Brown Center cnr Aging Fellowships will be avail-
will take place on Friday, able to place librarians_ in
Jmnmry ML atrmwn miRomn112 libraries and schools of
of the Sanders-Brown Building. librarianship in eight posi-
» · tions. in Malawi, Uganda,
Liberia, Venezuela, Argentina,
3

 l ' Thailand, Phillipines, France, tem from indexing dates in the
‘ Sweden, North Yemen, Sudan, and subject subdivisions. You
Egypt. could not limit your search by
While twelve countries are a time period. with this part
listed, funding will permit ap- of the reindexing project, we
proximately eight placements. have asked the system to index
Stipends are $23,000 per year; all general subject subdivision
travel expenses for the fellow words except the prepositions,
and one dependent are reim— conjunctions and articles.
bursed and health and life in- This is the biggest task in
surance coverage are provided. Part I of the Project.
Applicants must be U.S. 2) The Government Document
citizens, have a command of the Index did not pick up invalid
host country's language , and SuDoc numbers as we had hoped.
have education and experience This mini—project will do that.
in library or information 3) The series indexes found
science, publishing or other in the OPAC are hard to use.
fields directly related to the If you know the series title
country's specific project. and the volume or part number
Further information is you want, you will still have
available in the Green Bean of- difficulty finding the record.
fice. with this mini—re1ndexing
project, the system will index
the volume numbers separately.
THE LS/2000 REINDEXING PROJECT You can use the series
. authority index to find the
December 18th marked the series, then use the limiting
start of the great Reindexing index for series numbers to
Project Part I. what is the find the volume you want.
great Reindexing Project Part 4) The Material Type index
I? The LS/2000 Bibliographic and the MType information in
Database profile initially made the item records for microforms
it impossible to retrieve cer— was not handled at all in the
tain types of information. original profile. If we wanted `
There are four mini—reindexing this information to appear in
projects 111 Part ZE that will the data base, we were going to
make it possible to perform have to key it into the records
those "lost searches". ourselves. This meant editing
1) The subject subdivisions the bibliographic records and
(650 subfields x, y, and z for the item records for
the technical service crowd) microforms. This mini—project
were indexed by key word only. will use information in the
The original profile had a list MARC record (MAchine—Readable ·
of words called a "stop list" Catalog record) which is
that prevented really popular downloaded into the LS/2000.
words from indexing. That The LS/2000 will take the in-
meant you could not use those formation in one of the fields
words to limit your search. and translate it into the ap-
Unfortunately some of the propriate material types. It
popular words were HISTORY and will add an MTY tag or two to
- PERIODICALS, among others. The the bibliographic record for
profile also prevented the sys- the General Media Designator
4

 the OPAC. It will assign the URGENT MESSAGE FROM
more specific designator to the THE SYSTEMS COMMITTEEII
MType in the item record. The
system generates its statistics There will be a survey mailed
from this field in the item to all staff members in the
record when it does statistics next week or so. Please make
by material type. sure to fill one out. Call
Already we have passed the Miko Pattie at 7-1101 if you do
date we had hoped to complete not receive a survey or if you
this particular group of rein- have questions.
dexing projects. We are going
to have to suspend the Project
for awhile to allow bibliog- M. I. KING OPENINGS
raphic and item work to catch
up. We hope to have the first LT V, grade 9, Government Pub-
two mini-projects complete lications. If interested 7
- before we suspend the Project. please contact Ann Howell 257-
OCLC is going to run a program 3801.
to analyze the extent of the
work to be done for the third `
mini-project. If it looks like
it could be completed before
January 25th, we may try to do PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
it. If not, we may give the go
ahead for bib/item work as soon
as the analyses is done. If we CALIFORNIA
do not complete the third mini-
· project by January 25th, we Government Publications
will have to suspend bib/item Librarian. University of
work sometime in February to do California, Santa Barbara.
this project. Because the Salary: $25,380-44,676.
fourth mini-project (the Deadline: February 22, 1988.
material type project) involves
all the bibliographic records Tenure-Track Librarian posi-
and item records, we will tions. California State .
schedule that to be done during University, Long Beach. Assis-
Spring Break. Of course that tant Librarian, $28,884-34,740.
means NO BIB/ITEM WORK over Senior Assistant Librarian,
Spring Break and for the dura- $31,680-43,896; Associate
tion of this mini-project. Librarian, $39,960-55,548; and
The improvements in search- Librarian, $50,544-61,044.
ing abilities being made by the Deadline: March 15, 1988.
Reindexing Project, Part I _
_ will be worth all the hassles Music Catalog Librarian.
of suspended bib/item work. University of California,
Stay tuned for REINDEXING PART Davis. Salary: Assistant
II--THE LC/MESH SUBJECT HEADING Librarian $25,380-32,472 or As-
SOLUTION. with any luck, this sociate Librarian $31,008-
Summer we may have a project to 44,676. Deadline: March 18,
cure the authority maintenance 1988.
. problems in this area. LS/2000
is getting better and better!
5

 Louis. - Salary: None
Reference Librarian, Bibliog- specified. Deadline: April
5 rapher. University of Califor- 30, 1988. "
nia,‘ San Diego. Salary: As-
sistant Librarian, $25,380- NEW YORK
32,472. Associate Librarian, i
31,008-44,676. Deadline: Preservation Librarian. New
March 18, 1988. York University. Salary:
$25,000 minimum. Deadline:
Public Services/Collection February 15, 1988.
Development Librarian. Univer-
sity of California, San Diego. Interlibrary Loan and Reference
Salary: Assistant Librarian, Librarian. New York Univer-
$25,380-32,472. Associate sity. Salary: $25,000 mini-
Librarian, $31,008—44,676. mum. Deadline: February 15, “
Deadline: March 28, 1988. 1988. _
Original Cataloger. University Art and Architecture and En-
of California, San Diego. vironmental Design Subject
Salary: Assistant Librarian, Specialist. University at Buf-
$25,380-32,472. Deadline: falo. Salary: $26,000 mini- I
March 18, 1988. ‘ mum. Deadline: None ”
specified. _
DELAWARE
OHIO ‘
Reference Librarian/Business
and Economics. University of Head, Catalog Department.
1 Delaware. Salary: $20,000 University of Cincinnati.
minimum. Deadline: February Salary: $30,000 minimum. .
19, 1988. Deadline: February 29, 1988.
INDIANA TENNESSEE
Systems Officer. Indiana Technical Services and Systems
University. Salary: $25,000 Librarian. Vanderbilt Univer- V
minimum. Deadline: March 1, sity. Salary: $20,000 mini-
1988. mum. Deadline: None
specified. H
Head of Reference Services '
Department. University of TEXAS _
Notre Dame. Salary: $28,000 `
minimum. Deadline: March 15, Head of Access Services.
1988. University of Houston. Salary:
$30,000 minimum. Deadline:
MISSOURI April 1, 1988. _
Science/Engineering Librarian.
Washington University, St. Head of Information Services.
Louis. Salary: None University of Houston. Salary:
specified. Deadline: January $30,000 minimum. Deadline:
29, 1988. April 1, 1988.
. Social Sciences Librarian.
Washington University, St.
6

 Head of Central Library i
_ Reference. University of Texas _ E
at Arlington. Salary: $25,000 L
minimum. Deadline: Until ;
position filled. T
Head of the Science and Tech- z
nology Library. University of Q
Texas at Arlington. Salary: _ _ i
$25,000 minimum. Deadline:
until position filled.
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