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Notes from the Chair – Making Plans for Annual Conference
By Melody Kelly
Everyone should be planning for an exciting Spring Break week (March 17 – 20)
in San Antonio for our annual conference. In addition to our own CULD programs
(highlighted below) there are over 40 other programs of interest to CULD
members. Edward Kownslar will be adding a complete list “hot picks” to the
CULD website that will help you plan your schedule. Our business
meeting is scheduled to follow our Thursday March 18th program “Zen and the Art
of Assessment” (Shelley Phipps) 2:00 – 3:50 pm. Please contact me if you
have agenda items.
The General Session speakers Nikki Giovanni, General Session I and Ralph
Nader General Session II are well worth the trip and the closing luncheon on
Saturday will feature Tony Brown.
This year the TLA membership will have an opportunity to participate in a One
Book – One Conference reading/discussion forum. The Conference book
is Ella, Minnow, Pea by Mark Dunn and Mark will be attending the
conference. Publishers Weekly described Ella, Minnow, Pea as a “
‘progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable,’ and the result is a novel
bursting with creativity, neological mischief and clever manipulation of the
English language.” Intrigued? Read the book before conference and
attend One Book – One Conference discussions. The book discussions and
workshops on how to organize a One Book program for your campus or city will be
lead by the now “infamous” Nancy Pearl of Seattle. So bring your librarian
action figure with you for Nancy to autograph!
Dana Rooks will assume the TLA Presidency at the end of Conference. We
need to all work together to increase CULD membership and support Dana’s
Conference Program Committee’s efforts on our behalf.
This newsletter will be sent in both electronic and print with the print
edition including the official CULD Officers Ballot. The Nominating
Committee has done an excellent job identifying a slate of wonderful
candidates. Remember you must renew your membership to cast your ballot.
CULD Elections 2004-2005
Slate of Candidates
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NOTE: CULD
members will receive the ballot with the print version of the
newsletter. ***
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The ballots must be received by FEBRUARY 20,
2004. ***
Submitted by CULD Nominating Committee:
Karen Hendrick, Abilene Christian University
Janet Key, Tarrant County College-SE
Karen
Wielhorski, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Chair
Candidates for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Karen Hopkins
Karen Hopkins is the Assistant to the Directorate for Planning and Assessment
at the University of Texas at Arlington. Joining the UTA staff in 1977, she also
held various cataloging positions. Karen has been an active member of TLA,
served on various committees, and is a current member of the CULD Legislative
Committee and the 2004 TLA Conference Program Committee. She has also served as
Chair of District 7 and the Texas Regional Group of Catalogers and Classifiers,
and co-chaired the 1993 and 1995 TLA Conference Program Committees.
Statement of Issues: All academic libraries are dealing with the same issues
- the roles of the librarian and the library within higher education, the impact
of technology on information availability, and the challenges of providing more
services in a better way with limited resources. CULD needs to provide
leadership by asserting the abilities of librarians and strategically mapping
collaborative initiatives to address these issues, through TLA, on our
individual campuses and within the greater community of higher education.
Edward Kownslar
Edward Kownslar has worked in the Bell Library at Texas A&M University -
Corpus Christi since 1998. He has worked in several positions in this
library for the past five years, including Educational Services Librarian,
Coordinator of Instruction, and currently as Government Documents
Librarian. He has also served as the Interim Associate Director for Public
Services since July 2002. Before coming to Corpus Christi, Edward worked
as Reference/Instruction Librarian at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS, from 1996
to 1998. He also worked as the Government Documents/Periodicals Librarian
at Austin College in Sherman, TX, from 1995 to 1996.
In the Texas Library Association, Edward has been active in several
groups. He has served as the chair of CULD's
Information/Membership
Committee for the past four years, and he has also served as an officer or
committee chair in the New Members Round Table (he was the NMRT Chair
2000-2001), the Library Instruction Round Table, and the Reference Round Table.
Statement of Issues: I have been active in TLA/CULD since 2000.
As the chair of the Information/Membership Committee, I have worked with several
CULD committees and have learned a great deal about the issues facing academic
libraries, as well as the operations of CULD and TLA. I have also found my
networking experiences with Texas academic librarians to be rewarding and
invaluable! CULD serves the interests of all academic librarians in Texas,
and I look forward to continuing my work with this group. I believe the
Chair's position would enable me expand those roles and opportunities.
Candidates for Secretary/Treasurer
Martha Rinn
Martha Rinn has been University Librarian at Texas Lutheran University since
2002. She came to TLU in 1990. Prior to becoming library director she held the
positions of Coordinator of Readers Services and Library System Administrator at
Texas Lutheran. She has been an active member of TLA since 1988. She has served
as District 10 Chair, participates regularly in Texas Legislative Day
activities, and has delivered contributed papers at TLA conferences. Most
recently, Rinn was a member of the TALL Texans Leadership Institute Class of
2003, and she is serving on the local arrangements committee for the 2004 TLA
Conference in San Antonio.
Statement of Issues: All types of librarians benefit from membership and
active participation in TLA. However, I often hear
statements from my
colleagues in academe that go something like this: I don't participate in TLA;
it's really for school and public librarians. I try to dispel this notion
whenever I encounter it, and I feel that CULD is the perfect place to accomplish
this goal. I admire the work that the division does and would enjoy the chance
to play an active role as an officer. My personal 'hot topics' are information
literacy and the changing role of academic libraries.
Beth Thomsett-Scott
Beth Thomsett-Scott is a Reference and Liaison Librarian in the Science and
Technology Library at the University of North Texas. She has been with UNT
for 2 years and has held similar positions at two universities in Canada since
receiving her MLIS in 1995. A recent graduate of the TALL Texans 2003, Beth is a
member of the Scholarship and Research Committee, webmaster for the Reference
Round Table and involved in two ad hoc committees of the TALL Texans Round
Table. Beth is also active in ALA.
Statement of Issues: It is an honor to be asked to participate in CULD
in such a significant role. If elected, I will serve the CULD Executive
Committee, CULD members, and TLA with the highest degree of professionalism.
Supporting and promoting academic librarians and libraries, as well as
librarianship in general, and providing quality service and resources to library
users are the foundations of my professional work.
Candidates for Councilor/Alternate
Diane Gwamanda
Diane Gwamanda is the Head of Access Services at the University of
Houston. Diane is involved in many aspects of Academic Librarianship
serving as the subject librarian for Anthropology and Women’s Studies and as the
liaison to the Center for Students with Disabilities, working the reference
desk, and supervising Current Journals, ILL and Circulation in her
department. Her University committee work includes the Electronic Journals
Task Force, Public Workstations, and Collection Management; and she serves as
chair of the Bylaws and Safety Committees.
Diane is a Tall Texan (class of ’96) who has served on the Local Arrangements
Committee for three Houston conferences and is co-chair of the 2005 Program
Committee. She currently serves at chair of the Library Partnerships
Committee and is proud to be the past chair of District 8 as well as the past
lead-singer of the Doo-Wop Intergalactic Round Table. Diane is also active
in ALA.
Statement of Issues: Academic Libraries are in a great state of flux
which makes our jobs challenging as well as interesting and I see TLA as vital
source for information and support in our ever changing world. I welcome
the opportunity to be considered for the position of Councilor for CULD. I
feel it is important for a councilor to be able to attend all sessions of
council to represent the division and to bring information back to the
division. I am already committed to attending TLA Annual Conference and
Annual Assembly each year and look forward to serving responsibly as councilor
for CULD.
Leslie Ann Navarro
Leslie is currently Head Librarian for Austin Community College Rio Grande
Campus Library and also supervises the ACC’s five evening high school site
libraries. Leslie has an undergraduate degree in Journalism from the
University of Texas at El Paso. She also has a Masters in Library Science
from the University of Texas at Austin along with a Learning Resource
Endorsement, 1998. Leslie will defend her dissertation this summer
2004, on the role of libraries in a learning college environment. She is
currently a Board Member of a parenting resource library in Austin named
Family Connections. She is also an active member in TLA as she has held
several leadership responsibilities in LIRT, REFORMA, the 2000 TLA Conference
Planning Committee, TLA-Texas Book Festival Liaison, the 2004 Local Arrangements
Committee and is a 2003 Tall Texan. Her passion for libraries has also
encouraged her to volunteer in promoting libraries through her workshops in
conferences such as NISOD, National Institute for Staff Development and the
League of Innovations and the Texas Library Association. Leslie's personal
goal is to promote libraries and their important role in student learning.
Events Sponsored (or Co-Sponsored)
by the College and University
Libraries Division
Note: This listing of programs comes from the preliminary listing on
December, 2003. For more information, the official preliminary program
for the TLA 2004 annual conference will be mailed to all TLA members in January
or early February.These programs will include information on registration
costs, days, times and locations. We’ve identified numerous other
programs of interest to CULD members and these will be posted on our CULD
website at: http://www.txla.org/groups/culd/index.html
More information on the 2004 Annual Conference is available at:
http://www.txla.org/conference/conf.html
Preconferences – Wednesday, March
17, 2004
Measurement and Assessment in Libraries
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
In this
time of shrinking resources, can you justify your library’s budget? How
about your job? Learn methods and tools for
gathering information and
evaluating success in this introductory workshop. Discuss the challenges of
adopting measurement
strategies and practice writing measurable goals.
*** Preregistration required ***.
Shelley Phipps, assistant
dean, University of Arizona Library.
Thursday, March 18, 2004
eScholarship
10:15 – 11:50 am
Roy Tennant, a pioneer in digital
library development, discusses faculty led innovation in scholarly publishing at
the California Digital Library and the implications of digital repositories
for the publishing world.
Roy Tennant, manager, eScholarship Web &
Services Design, California Digital Library, University of California.
Academic and Public Libraries Unite!
12:00 – 1:50 pm
Providing joint
services and facilities to support both academic and public libraries is a
growing area of interest. Four directors of libraries providing services for
diverse groups of patrons offer their experiences, insight, and advice.
Douglas Ferrier, director of educational support, University of Texas at
Brownsville; Linda Lupro, library director, Harris County Cy-Fair College
Community Library; and Lyle Vance, managing director of library, Northlake
Community Library; and Mary Jean Webster, coordinator for library
services/acting director, Tomball College Library.
College and University
Libraries Division and CULD Community and Junior College Discussion Group.
MARC, XML, and FRBR – Oh My!
12:00 – 1:50 pm
The interaction of
current and developing standards is creating a cataloging roller coaster. Three
experts will discuss the relationship and impact of MARC, XML, and
Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR) on everyday cataloging.
William Moen, associate professor, School of Library and Information
Sciences, University of North Texas; Edward O’Neill, research scientist,
OCLC; and Roy Tennant, manager, eScholarship Web & Services Design,
California Digital Library, University of California.
Zen and the Art of Assessment
2:00 – 3:50 pm
Find practical ways of
fitting assessment into library planning, ensuring that is it meaningful, and
creating a culture of assessment. Focusing on the reasons for assessment
helps make it a manageable journey. A business meeting follows the program.
Shelley Phipps, assistant dean, University of Arizona Library (Tucson).
Friday, March 19, 2004
College and University Libraries Division: Community and Junior College
Discussion Group Business Meeting
11:00 - 11:50 am
Marketing: It's Not an Academic Question
3:00 - 3:50 pm
Sure your
library has changed -- but has your image? Increasing visibility and support for
academic and research libraries and librarians has never been more
important. Speakers will share success stories and tips for marketing your
library.
Anne M. Drake, coordinator, Learning Center, Tarrant County College
– NE; Theodore E. Drake, director of library services, Tarrant County
College – South; and Tommie Wingfield, assistant to the directorate for
marketing and external relations, University of Texas at Arlington
Libraries.
TexShare Update
3:00 - 3:50 pm
Hear about the outcome of recent
strategic planning sessions and the future of TexShare with an update on the
Library of Texas project.
Rhoda Goldberg, assistant county librarian,
Harris County Public Library; Kevin Marsh, network services librarian, Texas
State Library and Archives Commission; Ann Mason, TexShare coordinator, Texas
State Library and Archives Commission; Eva Poole, library director, Denton
Public Library, and president, Texas Library Association; Peggy Rudd, director
and librarian, Texas State Library and Archives Commission; and Syma Zerkow,
materials selection coordinator, Houston Public Library.
Newsletter Editor: Jo Monahan
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