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College & University Libraries Division |
Fall 2005 |
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Wow. What a fall semester THIS has been. Everyone in CULD sends good thoughts and best wishes to our colleagues along the Texas coast. We hear that some of you have just recently been able to return to your campuses. We have heard from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston that the library escaped any serious damage. Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena reported that there was little damage from Rita. All their efforts covering shelving and protecting unbound journals were good practice, though. Staff at the Mary and John Gray Library at Lamar University in Beaumont just returned to their library last week, returning to blown out windows and some water damage. There are many others who we have not heard from and the rest of us in the state are eager to hear your stories. Before Hurricane Rita several other Texas colleges and universities were welcoming students from New Orleans seeking an education despite the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. We were finding ways of including them in late registration on our campuses and clearing obstacles for access to library materials. All of these events remind us of what is really important as well as the value students have for their college experiences that include library services. Your CULD officers and committees have been working for the past few months on several projects. Ted Drake has headed the effort to revise our Bylaws to incorporate several technical changes to make CULD a stronger and more effective Division. Programs have been finalized for the 2006 TLA Annual Conference, “Libraries: Igniting the Passion,” to be held April 25-28, 2006 in Houston. You can find more information on both of these topics in this Newsletter. The Membership Committee is developing a survey aimed at increasing our membership. The Scholarship Committee will be distributing scholarship information, including the submission deadline, in the middle of November. Be looking for this information coming to you soon. Occasionally be sure to check the CULD webpage for our developing new look. I encourage all of you to review the TLA Strategic Plan. There are a few days left to give input into the revisions which will be finalized in 2006. TLA is a dynamic organization with over seventy units. Currently CULD comprises approximately 12% of the voting membership. As a Division our voice is only as strong as our membership and our willingness to be active within the TLA organization. I urge each of you will encourage your colleagues to belong to TLA. Remember, CULD is also the Texas ACRL Chapter. 2006 Conference Preview Meetings and programs and meetings sponsored by CULD at the 2006 TLA Annual Conference
April 25, 2005 Tuesday, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Interacting
with High Functioning MR Patrons Matthew Bridges is the speaker. (Preconference co-sponsored with Public Libraries Division)
April 25, 2005 Tuesday, 2:00 pm – 3:50 pm CULD Executive Board Meeting
April 26, 2005 Wednesday, 2:00 pm – 3:50 pm Fervent Project Choices Discover portfolio management, a technique leading to teamwork and efficiency with all of your projects in your organization. Learn techniques of deciding not only which projects to do, but how to prioritize them for effectiveness and efficiency. Diane Wahl, Librarian for Planning, Assessment, and Training, University of North Texas
April 26, 2005 Wednesday, 5:00 pm – 4:50 pm CULD Community and Junior College Discussion Group Business Meeting
April 27, 2006 Thursday, 8:00 am – 9:50 am SACS Igniting Libraries How can academic libraries contribute to the success of their institutions? Discover why assessment is the new buzzword in higher education, and how you can provide data indicating your contribution to the success of institutions of higher learning. Dr. Ralph Russell, Associate Executive Director, Commission on Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
April 27, 2006 Thursday, 2:00 pm – 3:50 pm Unleashing the Phoenix Within Remember the excitement of first working in a library? Have the increasingly rapid changes in technology and user expectations clouded your joy? Discover how we can continually rediscover the passion for our careers. Dr. Abigail Hubbard, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Houston
(CULD Business Meeting follows Dr. Hubbard’s remarks.)
April 28, 2006 Friday, 8:00 am – 9:50 am Prescription for Success Prescription for Success focuses on different initiatives undertaken providing Consumer Health Information outreach to communities. The community college libraries and public libraries are ideal partners this effort. During a panel discussion different initiatives will be examined. The Regional Medical Library of the NLM will be available as resource person. Patrica Diana Brooks, epidemiologist, Texas Cancer Data Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center; Bobbie G Long, executive director, Learning Resource Center, Central Park Campus, Collin County Community College District; Sheila Ross Henderson, library director, Pasadena Public Library; Beth A Scudder, library director, McKinney Memorial Public Library; Karen J Vargas, consumer health coordinator, National Network/Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region. Sponsored by the CULD Community and Junior College Discussion Group by Karen L. Hopkins The Nominations Committee, chaired by Ed Kownslar (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi), has begun working. Other members of the Committee are Jeanne Pyle (The University of Texas at Tyler), and Patricia Stinson-Switzer (University of North Texas). Cary Sowell (Austin County Community College) will be the incoming Chair for 2006-2007, and the Nomination Committee will be selecting nominees for Chair-Elect and Secretary/Treasurer. CULD Bylaws Revision Recent changes in TLA Conference planning have moved the responsibility for conference programming from the chair-elect to the chair. We thought correcting this in our bylaws would be a simple matter but when we compared CULD bylaws with those recommended by TLA (http://www.txla.org/html/docs/model.html ) we learned that we have an opportunity to do what TLA did long ago. We propose to completely redo the bylaws to move all specific duties and responsibilities to the Standing Rules where changes require only a simple vote by the CULD Executive Board rather than a revision of bylaws which must be approved by membership - a process taking up to a year or more. We also discovered that the CULD bylaws do not currently allow for electronic voting which means CULD will not be able to take advantage of this new TLA service until the bylaws are changed. Additionally while the Community and Junior College Discussion Group is specifically addressed in the bylaws there was great ambiguity concerning programming for this group from limited CULD funds and there were no provisions for creating new discussion groups. In order to address these problems the ad-hoc committee for bylaws revision (Ted Drake, Tarrant County College; Martha Rinn, Texas Lutheran University; and Earnstein Dukes from Texas Tech) have worked with the CULD Executive Board and the Community and Junior College Discussion Group leadership to address these issues prior to submitting a bylaws revision to membership. Please take a few minutes to review the proposed revised bylaws and the new CULD Standing Rules in their draft form at http://lib-serv.tccd.edu/~slib/tla/ (these may also be on the CULD web pages at http://www.txla.org/groups/culd/ by the time you read this) and send your comments or concerns to CULD officers (http://www.txla.org/groups/culd/officers.html) or to Ted at theodore.drake@tccd.edu
Newsletter Editor: Lea Worcester |
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