Twenty-one years ago, all hands were on deck as the Libraries were gearing up for the implementation of a new library system. Sound familiar? Here’s a snapshot of the Agenda from July 1997.
With a Little Love from Our Friends
Merit awards for 1997. See any names you recognize?
Below are some notes we recently received from members of the Friends of the Rutgers University Libraries. We thought you might like to see them too!
Letter #1
Yesterday (Sunday, May 25th) I walked in the rain to the Alexander Library. Absolutely everything was closed – the caravans at the bus stop, the food shop further up, clearly all the teaching buildings. I met not one person on College Avenue.
But the library was open, and there were people going in and out, using it.
We get a publication from the Library of the University of Michigan, which announces the library to be the center of the university. Truly, I believe yours is, and truly I thank you for acting as though it is!
Letter #2
I have been a Friend of the Library for several years….
I continue to actively use several branches of the Library on a regular basis. I have been particularly impressed with the caliber of the reference librarians at the Dana Library. It has been a satisfying association for me.
Thank you for your assistance.
The Agenda 19, no. 13 (July 6, 1997)
LIS Teams, Assemble!
We have had a wonderful response to the several calls for people to become involved with the training program for the new LIS coming later this summer. Nearly seventy people from all over the library system have volunteered to participate in some aspect of the training program.
We have compiled all the information from the completed “LIS Training Committee Questionnaires” returned to us by the volunteers and have worked with each of the LIS Implementation Chairs to place volunteers into the training teams for the Circulation/Reserves, Cataloging and OPAC modules. The remaining teams, Acquisitions/Fiscal Control and Serials Control, will be announced shortly.
Based on volunteer’s questionnaire responses, each team will be divided into smaller working groups to write documentation, develop scripts, test scenarios, conduct sessions and assist trainees at the computers.
The Agenda 19, no. 13 (July 6, 1997)
Connie Abroad
Partially funded by “Chun Hui Plan,” a government grant from China, Connie Wu at LSM went to China for a lecture tour in June. She and four presenters from other universities and information companies visited three top ranking universities in China: Fudan University, Zhejiang University and Hangzhou University. Connie presented three topics: (1) Internet Overview and Its Applications and Resources; (2) Electronic Publishing and Its Impacts; and (3) Challenges to Librarianship. More than 400 academic and public library directors and librarians from several provinces attended these workshops. Since her presentations interested the audience Connie has already received several invitations for next year’s lectures after she came back.
The Agenda 19, no. 14 (July 20, 1997)
