CCML will conduct its first videoconference annual meeting on Tuesday, April 24, from noon - 4 p.m. The meeting will be broadcast from the University of Colorado School of Nursing in Denver to sites in Durango, Grand Junction, Pueblo, and Jackson (Wyoming). A list of contact persons for the remote sites appears below.
The main program will feature Kathy A. Wells, M.A., speaking on Personal Diversity. Kathy "is a psychotherapist living in Denver, Colorado, who has been in private practice for seventeen years. Her area of expertise is working with gifted adults -- which she describes as a group of people with the 'rage to know.'" Her web site is at: http://www.kathywells.com/index.html
About Personal Diversity she says, "Currently, there is both a great deal of excitement and great deal of confusion, even anger, around how we use the concept of diversity. Too often the qualities of diversity that have been acknowledged: race, sex, gender, ethnicity have become so externalized that paradoxically they create more separation that the intended purpose of deeper connection among individuals. Perhaps a deeper way of honoring plurality and multiplicity is to begin by acknowledging the diverse psychological patterns that exist within all individuals."
"Understanding your personal archetype is a way of understanding who you are and who you are not. It gives you information about how you relate to others; men and women, parents, children, your peers. Understanding your archetypal makeup explains how you receive other people and their ideas and the way, in turn, they receive you. This knowledge will enhance your style of relating both personally and professionally. Knowing about our collective human history/herstory, on a psychological level, allows us to understand patterns of relating and not relating, without collapsing into the endless depths of blame." Although this all sounds rather dry and academic, Kathy is a noted storyteller, and she engages with wit, wisdom and humor to explain our 'Great Stories.'
Following Kathy's presentation, Beth Carlin of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine / Midcontinental Region (NNLM/MR) will give an NLM update. Topics she will cover will include EFTS; how to update holdings in DOCLINE; NLM Gateway; Cubbies; and any others that are requested through the Education Committee.
Site coordinators/contact persons for the remote videoconference sites are:
Thanks are due to Lynne Fox for coordinating the videoconference; to the site coordinators listed above; to NNLM/MR both for sending Beth and for partially supporting the videoconferencing costs; to Ebsco Subscription Services for providing lunch; and to W.T. Cox for afternoon refreshments.
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Imagine an interlibrary loan system spreading like an electronic net across the state offering instantaneous connections to locate the materials you need at absolutely no cost to your library.
This is not a fantasy. The Colorado State Library is implementing the service; and pilot libraries are in training to go live this spring. The SWIFT (State Wide Interlibrary Fast Track) system, initiated by some $225,000 in LSTA funding, will support online requests from either patrons or staff and will use the Colorado Virtual Library as the front end for searches.
The system, slated for implementation across the state this year, has many benefits, including:
On-going support for the system will be funded through the annual ACLIN budget. For more information on SWIFT, contact Jean Madsen, jmadsen@aclin.org.
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May 2001
Colleague Connection
May 8, 2001
Denver University
Contact: Kathleen Rainwater, (303)744-4150 or krainwater@gates.com
32nd Annual Colorado Interlibrary Loan Conference
May 10-11, 2001
Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado
http://www.aclin.org/coloillconf/
MLA Annual Meeting
May 25-31, 2001; Orlando, Florida
Contact MLA at 312-419-9094 or http://www.mlanet.org
June 2001
Special Libraries Association Conference
June 9-14, 2001
San Antonio, Texas
http://www.sla.org/
American Library Association (ALA)
June 14-20, 2001
San Francisco, California
http://www.ala.org/
Check the Library Continuing Education Calendar at http://cedb.aclin.org for other Colorado events. See also: http://www.libraryjournal.com/articles/news/calendar/calendarindex.asp for national or inter-national events.
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2000-2001 was a busy and productive year for CCML. Highlights include:
GOAL ONE: Optimize cooperation and communication among CCML members
GOAL TWO: Strengthen affiliations between CCML and affiliated groups:
GOAL THREE: Respond to the educational and professional needs of CCML members:
GOAL FOUR:
Education Committee
Members: Jenny Garcia, Chair, Margi Stewart, Dorothy Struble, Daphne Norsworthy, Amanda Enyeart
The members met once at Denison Memorial Library and conducted all other business online for the remainder of the year.
Professional Development Fund: Since the MCMLA meeting was in Denver in October 2000, the members utilized the Professional Development Fund more this year than in previous years. There were five requests for funding for educational opportunities totaling $455, all of which were granted.
Isabelle T. Anderson Collection: The following titles were added to the ITA Collection, using most of the budget for purchases: The Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries, Making the Case for your Library, Book Repair, Defusing the Angry Patron, Leading the Wired Organization.
Pre-CCML Meeting Educational Events:
Beth Carlin from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-Midcontinental Region spoke about the features of the new DOCLINE at the annual meeting in June 2000. At the upcoming meeting in April 2001 she will expand her presentation to include SERHOLD, cubbies and other topics. In August 2000 OVID gave a demonstration of their online products. Members that had attended MLA in May gave a review of the highlights of the meeting. In February 2001, Rosalind Dudden presented a workshop on creating a database of information about online journals.
Teleconferences: On Wednesday, November 15, 2000 MLA aired the satellite teleconference The Effects of E-Journals on Your Library. Twenty-one CCML members attended the teleconference at the Medical Centers of Aurora, North Campus. Two of our members, Rosalind Dudden and Margaret Bandy appeared as panelists in the teleconference.
Another teleconference, UCITA: A Guide to Understanding and Action was cosponsored by AALL, ALA, ARL, MLA and SLA and aired December 13, 2000. Five members of CCML attended the teleconference with several members of other library associations.
Internet Committee
Members: Lynne M. Fox, Chair, Barb Griss, Jeff Kuntzman, Carol Luallin, Catherine Reiter, Carol Ann Smith, Mary Walsh (List Owner)
Routine updating and maintenance of the web site occurred early in the year, during the months of April, May, and June. The following pages have been revised or updated during 2000-2001:
In fall 2000, CCML was informed that CSN (which had been purchased by Qwest) would no longer be able to host our web site or discussion list. A subcommittee of the Internet Committee (consisting of Lynne Fox, Jeff Kuntzman, and Mary Walsh) researched alternatives and chose Indra's Net to be our service provider. The findings of the committee were presented to the CCML Executive Committee and were approved in October 2000. Overall, the transfer of Internet Service Provider progressed smoothly with no interruption of service and little inconvenience to members. The new Web page went live on November 3, 2000 at the new URL of http://www.ccmlnet.org/.
CCML established a domain name of www.ccmlnet.org This domain name has been registered until 2010, when it
will have to be renewed by a representative of CCML. An account has been established at Indra's Net for www.ccmlnet.org. Key members of CCML will be informed of the login and password to post files to the server. There were no changes to the basic structure or contents of the website, so except for the URL change, the site is the same.
Setup Costs:
$130 to register our ccmlnet.org domain name
$5 for majordomo list setup
Ongoing costs:
$51 per month for web page
An announcement of the URL change was sent to Libnet and the MCMLA list. A search on Altavista revealed about 35 sites linking to pages at the CCML web site. About 20 of those sites could be contacted to inform them of the change in URL. These sites included links from pages in France, the University of Barcelona Health Sciences Center, from the MLA Hospital Librarians Section, and Yahoo. CLA, the Colorado Library Marketing Council, and other organizations also had links to our site.
The contract with Indra's Net and with the Domain Names clearinghouse has been filed in the President's notebook, along with instructions to renew the www.ccmlnet.org domain name in 2010, under the tab: Domain Name Renewal - Spring 2010
Thanks should be conveyed to the CCML Executive Committee, especially Jenny Garcia, who provided support and background information that helped identify ISPs with whom CCML could work. Jeff Kuntzman should be thanked for communicating with Qwest about service changes and with Indra's Net about web site set up. Mary Walsh, the new ccmlnet listowner, should be thanked for her work with Indra's Net to set up the discussion list.
In 1999, CCML made a goal to hold a video teleconference meeting for a future Annual Meeting. This meeting would allow members in distant locations, such as Wyoming, Grand Junction, Durango, or Pueblo to attend the annual meeting via video teleconference equipment currently available at many educational and health organizations. Plans have not been finalized at the writing of this report, but a number of remote members plan to participate in the meeting. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine - Midcontinental Region (NN/LM-MR) has committed funds to cover costs of the connections. The estimated cost of connection at this point is $900. The NN/LM-MR will provide a speaker for the meeting. Beth Carlin will discuss and demonstrate DOCLINE using a connection to the web which will be broadcast to the sites. This is a cost effective method for reaching a variety of DOCLINE users in our region, because Beth can provide one training session to multiple locations. This meeting will ensure that members who have access to video teleconferencing will be able to interact with members and presenters in Denver. The Internet Committee chair plans to report on the meeting in a future issue of CQ.
Journal Locator Committee
Members: Catherine Reiter, Chair, Sandy Arnesen, Kate Elder, Sandy Hudock, Gene Stortz
The 2000 - 2001 Journal Locator Committee coordinated the production, publication, sale, and distribution of the 24th edition of the Journal Locator - Colorado and Wyoming (2000).
The 2000 Journal Locator was created based on journal holdings information from the SERHOLD database obtained via FTP. Participating CCML libraries' journal holdings information was updated through March 31, 2000 by Gene Stortz. NLM unexpectedly created the CCML list on April 1, 2000, which stopped all updating. In previous recent years, updating was allowed to continue until July 1 and NLM failed to notify CCML that the deadline would change in 2000.
The journal holdings of 52 Libraries were included in the 2000 Journal Locator, the same as in 1999. NLM had informed CCML in 1999 that non-DOCLINE libraries would no longer be allowed to maintain their journal holdings in SERHOLD after the implementation of new DOCLINE. However, the holdings of CCML's two participating non-DOCLINE libraries, Michener Library at the University of Northern Colorado and Dayton Memorial Library at Regis University, were not removed from SERHOLD and remained in the 2000 Journal Locator. The 2000 - 2001 Journal Locator Committee should be aware that the holdings of these two libraries could be removed from SERHOLD at some point during 2001.
In October 2000, the committee sent a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to each library that had participated in or purchased the 1999 Journal Locator. The MOU described pricing and required purchasers to indicate their level of participation (Participant - Holdings updated, Participant - Holdings not updated, Non-participant) and number of copies desired. Announcements advertising the new Journal Locator were made via Council Quotes, ILL-L, and LIBNET to other potential purchasers. These announcements generated the sale of 2 copies.
The price of the Journal Locator remained the same as in 1999, as follows:
The shipping and handling charge for distributing copies via the U.S. mail increased from $5 in 1999 to $10 in 2000. This increase was based on the actual costs of postage and supplies used in 1999.
The committee received orders for 43 copies, as follows:
The CCML list of journal holdings information was retrieved via FTP and imported into MS WORD 6.0. The list was formatted and the information in the List of Participating Libraries was updated, including adding NLM's new six-letter LIBID for each entry. A master copy of the Journal Locator was printed and sent to Rediprint, Inc. for reproduction on November 22, 2000. Rediprint delivered 43 copies of the Journal Locator to Denison Memorial Library on December 5, 2000. Eight copies were picked up at the December CCML meeting; the remainder were delivered the following week via the CCLS courier or U.S. mail.
Direct expenses for producing the 2000 Journal Locator totaled $2,602.20, as follows:
Invoices were prepared and mailed on January 4, 2001. The total amount billed was $4,165, generating a profit of $1,562.80 for CCML.
With the implementation of new DOCLINE and SERHOLD, individual libraries can now update their own journal holdings information in SERHOLD. The new Journal Locator Committee will need to encourage all CCML libraries to keep their holdings information current.
In January 2001, NLM announced the availability in new SERHOLD of the Union List Product feature "Holdings by Library Group." It appears that CCML could create an online Journal Locator by selecting "delimited format holdings" for the CCML group and importing the data into an MS ACCESS or other database. The 2000 - 2001 Journal Locator Committee may want to survey the membership to determine interest in pursuing an online Locator.
Membership Committee
Members: Anne Beach, Carol Anne Smith, Kelly Near, Sue McGuinness (chair)
Membership renewal for 2001-2002 is well underway. The committee mailed renewal notices in early February. One month later, over half of our membership has renewed. In April, Shelley Coleman, our database coordinator will create a new print directory. New directories will be distributed at the annual meeting in April.
Following the trend of last year, membership has increased again this year. Last year we made extra copies of the membership directory so members joining during the year would have that information available to them without having to wait until renewal time. We used all of them, and even had to make additional copies. In hopes that our growth continues, we will make extra copies this year as well. Thank you and welcome to all of our new members. We hope you will join us for another fun and informative year of CCML.
Past President
CCML hosted a reception for its members at the MCMLA Conference in September 2000 at the Downtown Denver Holiday Inn. There were two major reasons for hosting the event. First, the Conference Planning Committee saw it as an opportunity for our non-metro area members to meet and socialize with local members. We also thought that it would be a perfect time to get feedback from the greatest number of members on several issues or projects that CCML was considering.
Although it was not a formal meeting, we did cover a few items of common interest. We explored interest in purchasing products or databases as a group. Because most CCML libraries are members of BCR, establishing another consortium seemed unnessesary. Since SERHOLD was scheduled to change in 2001, would people still be interested in a print CCML Journal Locator? It was decided to do one more for 2001 and then assess the situation. We discussed if it made sense to continue to hold a summer meeting outside of Denver when attendance is usually low. The consensus was to try an out of town meeting in the spring or fall. It was also proposed to try an afternoon meeting of CCML instead of morning. Most importantly, we wondered if members thought that a teleconference of our Annual Meeting in April 2001 would be a worthwhile endeavor. There seemed to be some interest in several possible sights outside Denver including Grand Junction, Pueblo and Wyoming. At CQ press time, sites were still being reviewed and evaluated. Submitted by Glenn Pflum
President-Elect - Jerry Carlson
Committee Chairs for 2001-2002 will be:
Education - Margi Stewart
Internet - Lynne Fox
Journal Locator - Gene Stortz
Membership - Sue McGuinness
Nominating - Glenn Pflum
The Officers' Luncheon was held at Domo. All of the feedback I received about it was positive.
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Yvonne Harding has been a CCML member since 1989. She's made many contributions to multi-type library cooperation. She has been very generous with the space at Aurora Public. She's helped AORN more than once, both with reference (e.g., the wonderful business library at APL) and with management issues. She shared her thoughts on her upcoming retirement in a recent announcement:
"This note serves to inform you that my last official day with the Aurora Public Library, Department of Library and Recreation Services will be April 30, 2001.
On March 3, 2001, I will have been a part of the Aurora Public Library for 28 years. Many interesting changes have occurred during that time to propel the APL from one modest library building to a multi-facility, cutting-edge informational delivery system in a community of 258,000 persons.
There have been many challenges, but always a forward movement bringing better and more efficient library service to the citizens of this city. It's been tough sometimes, yet rewarding; and so much progress has taken place through the continuous efforts of hard-working staff teams and the support of dedicated management. Nevertheless, it is time to let someone else take over stewardship of APL Public Services. A heartfelt thanks to all who have touched my work life, helping my tasks in countless ways, achieving our team objectives, making me laugh, and supporting when I struggled with difficult and tedious choices.
I wish you all a spirited and successful future as APL expands its resources and outlook. Keep your sense of humor and put some fun in your work. And, I look forward to being your future retiree-citizen-customer on May 1!"
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Alire, Camila, ed. Library Disaster Planning and Recovery Handbook. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2000. The book is in the Isabelle T. Anderson Collection at Denison Memorial Library.
Everyone living in Colorado in the summer of 1997 is most likely familiar with the major flood that occurred on the night of July 28 in Fort Collins, flooding the CSU
campus and submerging the lower level of Morgan Library. However, one gets a true sense of the magnitude of the disaster by reading the recently published book Library Disaster Planning and Recovery Handbook, edited by Camila Alire, Dean of Libraries at CSU.
The book, a little over 600 pages in length, gives a detailed account of the disaster and its aftermath. The chapters are written by CSU staff members who offer advice and suggestions for disaster recovery based upon their experiences. Each chapter ends with a one-page summary of their "Key Recommendations." A list of references follows many of the chapters, and a complete bibliography can be found at end of the book.
The lower level of Morgan Library, which was in the final stages of a renovation project, housed all the bound journal collection, the entire science monograph collection, and a good portion of the social science collection. All of this was submerged under 658,750 cubic feet of water after the west wall of the library collapsed and flood waters rushed in. Bookshelves were literally toppled and twisted, furniture and computers were destroyed, and books were floating everywhere. Staff who had offices on the lower level lost everything.
Initially, the library was uninhabitable and the fall session was only a few weeks away. The university president informed Camila Alire, who had been on the job for only eight days, that he wanted the library to be fully functional when school started. Morgan Library was fortunate in that they had a disaster plan in effect, but everyone soon realized that many things weren't included in their plan. No other library had suffered a disaster of this magnitude, and the literature on disaster recovery was not adequate for all of the problems they faced. Nearly 500,000 volumes of the monograph collection had to be replaced or restored. In addition, there was extensive damage to the library's electrical, mechanical, and telecommunication systems.
Besides providing a detailed account of restoring library services, sometimes from remote sites, the authors offer recommendations on hiring and training temporary staff, working with consultants, contractors, insurance companies, and the media, and dealing with distressed staff members. The final chapters discuss restoration of the collection, including the role of gifts and resource sharing. CSU has come a long way in their disaster-recovery efforts, and the reader can't help but admire all the staff for their determination and dedication. Hopefully, libraries will prepare or review their own disaster plans, and if ever faced with a major disaster, they can learn from the lessons and solutions outlined by the CSU staff members in this book.
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[NOTE: For complete information see printed Council Quotes.]
2001-2001 Membership Directories will be available soon to members who submitted their renewal forms and dues before March 31, 2001. Thank you to all renewing members!
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The arrival of the National Library of Medicine's new edition of Medical Subject Headings-Annotated Alphabetical List (MESH) is, for many seriously disturbed people, as much a harbinger of Spring as the opening of Spring training. Leaving aside the question of what in the world a harbinger is, and why someone would use a word he or she can't define, the new MESH always raises questions of its own. The terms make up a thesaurus (named for a very small, very extinct dinosaur who talked too much and made too little sense) of medical terms to be used when searching the massive medical literature contained in the library's database of articles.
The meanings are not always as obvious as one might hope, leaving a choice between trying to read the incredibly small print included in the book, and simply making a good guess. I've chosen the latter, and, in the spirit of helping others, offer some terms, both new and old, clearly defined.
"Ammotherapy" This is also known, more prosaically, as "removing the bullet."
"Base Pair Mismatch" Two Air Force sergeants meet on a computer-arranged blind date, only to learn that both are male and currently heterosexual.
"Spontaneous Combustion" Something that seems to happen fairly frequently to people who get too close to reporters and/or photographers from supermarket tabloids, such as the National Worldly Enquiring Sun.
"Space Suits" Yet another new field for enterprising attorneys. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I must ask you to try to imagine the pain and suffering my client has been forced to endure as a result of the excessive vacuum action of NASA's carelessly designed, tragically defective space station toilet."
"Skates, Fish" Something no longer carried in pet supply stores, but which apparently served a purpose somewhere along the evolutionary timeline...and are we talking roller, ice, or inline??
"Retraction of Publication" Something authors, editors and publishers hope very much to avoid. There's a movement in the scholarly world to attempt to take some of the sting out of retraction...to lighten the mood and get readers to forgive if not forget a few misplaced decimals or invented population groups. The proposed new approach is the ubiquitous smiley face plus the simple explanation: "Just Kidding!"
"Rest" Clever attempt to shorten the book. This stands for "all the stuff we didn't put in here."
"Psittacines, Psoas Muscles, Psoriasis, etc." It's psimply psilly to pspread pso many extra p's around when there are more psublte ways to pspell those things.
"Procollagen" It's true: most people do seem to be in favor of it.
"Preservation, Biological" What happens naturally when that protective layer of green fuzz forms over the surface of the onion that's been in the back of your refrigerator's vegetable drawer for six months.
"Plant Growth Regulators" Lawn mowers.
"Speech Delay" Often caused by a teleprompter failure when the elected official about to speak to the crowd has no idea what town he's in, what the topic is supposed to be, or what his stand is on the issues raised by the topic.
"Sleep, REM" The deep state, conducive to dreaming, which up to 60% of the crowd in the previous example will find themselves floating in approximately three minutes after the "speech delay" ends and the speech proper begins. Continued next page . . .
"Pitch Discrimination" Curve balls versus fast balls...what you hope your new, $3 million-a-year left fielder, who just completed his third visit to a rehab clinic in the last four years, is capable of when standing at home plate with a bat in his hand.
"Nonverbal communication" Primitive but frequently used practice in rush hour traffic in Colorado Springs and other urban centers.
"Animal Use Alternatives" There are many: grilled, fried, fricasseed, stuffed, ground, racing dogs and horses and turtles, locking them up in zoos, forcing them to live with humans (excessively cruel) as pets.
"Fictional Works" Scientific papers that are eventually looked at by someone who has a clue, leading to the aforementioned "Publication Retraction."
"Models, Animal" Who can forget Lassie in those Calvin Klein briefs, or Flipper in a thong in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue?
"Nuclear Pore" One that was just to the left of my nose when I was in the ninth grade, producing the (documented) world's largest pimple...check the Guinness Book of World Records.
"Spinach" In some cultures, legend has it, it's considered to be a "food."
"Protein Sorting Signals" They use miniscule flags and the U.S. Navy's traditional waving-around system.
"Safe Sex" The kind that takes place inside a bank vault, probably, but not necessarily, after hours.
"Dogfish" Once you start this topic, it's hard to stop. Certainly dogs are hard to control, and most are working with between zero and two brain cells, but this sort of breeding misdemeanor simply should not be allowed.
"Sperm Maturation" Often that's the first and only thing to mature in the human male.
"Sperm-Ovum Interactions" Sperm: "You don't see tails like this too often, do you, baby?" Ovum: "Take a hike, slim."
...And, in another fascinating bureaucratic attempt at clarification (a committee may have been involved), the old term "SITS" has been replaced by "4-Acetamide-4'-isothiocyanatostibene-2,2'-disulfonic Acid." Oh.
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Try the PSEUDOdictionary at http://www.pseudodictionary.com/ Here is a sampling of what you can find there:
seesayleptic - a person who cannot resist reading movie/tv subtitles aloud even though all others present are capable of reading them
acrojumble - Using too many acronyms in speech. Such as : I'd love to, but it is the DFR deadline week for all KIX's and ZSW's.
animousity - vigorously clicking your pointer device because a page is loading too slowly.
pajamaficate - the act of putting pajamas on kids when its bedtime - also pajamafy, pajamafication.
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The Wyoming State Library and University of Missouri, Columbia are teaming up to bring courses to the state that are geared toward a master's degree in Library and Information Science. The first course will be offered June 2001 via the Internet and in a week on site at Casper College. For more information contact Judy Yeo at the Wyoming State Library: jyeo@state.wy.us; 306-777-5924.
From: Nexus News, CCLS, March 2001
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