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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LIBRARIES’ NEWSLETTER ` I
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_ CALENDAR
I Jan. 7—l2 AIA Midwinter Conference in Washington, D.C,
: Jan. ll I Banana Boat Day
National Printing Ink Day
Jan. 16 · National Nothing Day
. ° National Clean—Off—Your—Desk Day
I Jan. l6—22 Printing Week A
Jan. l8 Peter Mark Roget's Birthday I
Jan. 2l John Cabell Breckinridge’s Birthday
I I Hat Day V »
5 Jan. 26 J Library Faculty Meeting, 8:30 a.m. RESCHEDULED .
Next "Green Bean" iseue: Friday, January 20.2 4
- Deadline for inclusion: lO a.m., January 17. I I
‘ Emergency items can be submitted to the editor by ·
phone after the deadline (7~l63l).
Production Staff: Cecil Madison, Liz Pogue, Rob Aken {editor)
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT THE MARGARET I. KING LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON, KY. 40506-0039

 LETTERS OF APPRECIATION A
. The following letter was sent to the ISO. if
Dear Staff Organization:
V Being with "you all" at your delightful and delicious Christmas luncheon
last Friday was .a highlight of the season! I wish I knew each of you
l personally to thank you for remembering retirees. You are most thoughtful
and cordial. I enjoyed being with you in a library I have loved these
. many years. `
g Fondly, A I - ‘ ‘
Kate Irvin
_ The following letter was sent to JohnBryant.
‘ Deal? John;
Congratulations for an excellent job in leading the University of Kentucky_
through another successful United Way Campaign. I know this was not an _
easy task this year; however, I have heard nothing but glowing reports of
j the dedication and enthusiasm with which you discharged your duties. I
V am sure that this added responsibility consumed mast of your time during
` the past several months, and I do want you to know it is greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for caring enough to share of your time and efforts in this
most worthwhile project. I
Cordially, °
Otis A. Singletary ·
President
The following letters were sent to Paul Willis. ‘
Dear Paul; V e
_‘ I commend to you Gail Kennedy for her outstanding work in assisting the-V
Department for Libraries and Archives and its Advisory Council on Libraries
. in developing a library network for the state of Kentucky. Several task forces,
made up of volunteers from the library community, were given chargesto plan
- for the implementation of Phase I of the Network. We have come to realize
` that one particular task force, the Catalog Specifications Task Force, had an
extremely difficult job to do. Ms. Kennedy made an invaluable contribution to
a successful conclusion of the Task Force's work by being an extremely
conscientious and dedicated member of the Task Force.
We knew when we began to discuss our hopes and dreams for a Kentucky Library
Network that it would only succeed through dedication and participation of
the Kentucky library cormunity at large. The dedication has truly overwhelmed
us and we want you to know what a fine staff person you have in Ms. Kennedy.
Sincerely, _
' James A. Nelson, State Librarian and Commissioner
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. .-»— ~" MEr~oRANDuM
TO: Paul A. Willis, Director FROM: Laurence E. PrescottL%gqf9
of Libraries /’
RE: Staff Assistance DATE: 9 December 1983
I wish to call to your attention the kind cooperation and assistance which
members of the M. I. King Library staff accorded me this semester. Last
August I asked Ms.Karmen Crowther of the Reference Department for assist-
` ance in preparing some sessions on basic library research for the students _
in my SPI 318 (survey of Spanish American Literature) class. Ms. Crowther
was quite responsive to my request and had Mr. Brian Coutts contact me
about the sessions. Mr. Coutts and Mrs. Judy Fugate, Collection Developer
for Latin American Studies, consulted with me and took responsibility for ‘
organizing two sessions.
I am very pleased to say that Mr. Coutts and Mrs. Fugate carried out their
responsibility with admirable professional competence. They made a diligent
effort to expose the students to both traditional and new sources which
could serve them in later pursuits. They prepared useful handouts which
·wen:clearly and concisely annotated. They also employed visual aids which
facilitated our understanding of the source materials. Finally, Mr. Coutts
prepared an exercise related to my syllabus and which tested the students' `
ability to carry out a mini—research project using the information presented
in the sessions. The exercise provided both a good assessment of learning
and gave the students an indication of what they would be expected to do.
Thus it encouraged the students to get an early start on their research ·
topics.
In short, then I am confident that the two well—prepared sessions helped me `
to give the students a good basis for conducting initial research in the
field of Spanish American literature and in literature in general. -I com-
pliment you on having a hardworking, well—organized staff that is responsive ‘
to the needs of the·faculty and students. Mr. Coutts, Mrs. Fugate, and Ms.
Crowther are deserving of com endation.
Dear Sir:
As a doctoral student in the Music department at UK, I use the music library
quite frequently. I would like to comment to you on the friendly, helpful
atmosphere I always find there. The library is well—organi2ed and up to date
on the acquisition of materials. Cathy Hunt does an excellent job managing
the library. She is very helpful and efficient and encourages her staff to
be th€ SHIRE Way.   1'IlLlSj.C .].j.b1”8lZ`y EC UK ig Ong Of the bggf; I have ever used.
Sincerely,
Susan C. Perry
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 _ Dear Paul, _
1 I am nearing the end of my mammoth three—month—long research on a set
I of American Association (a majoruleague `thatroperated from l882»to 1891)
` _ players. It has been a great success; the information that I have garnered
from various microtexts has enabled me to open up a vast era of rich baseball
; history, heretofore lost in obscurity, which I hope to turn into a piece
A entitled "The Forgotten Stars"' Perhaps, in time, the Baseball Hall of Fame
{ will see fit to induct all these worthy players.
l This research would have been absolutely impossible without the aid of imo
. people: Frank Levstik andifivian MacQuown. The former co—signed the numerous
  requests I made for microfilms of numerous newspapers because I was not a (student
, or faculty member. That in itself was ouite an extraordinary gesture since I
{ was a complete stranger to him when we first met. Over a passage of time, we
i got to be good friends, and I enlisted his aid in getting this valuable material.
For his generosity, I cannot thank him enough. His friendship and expertise
both exceeded his generosity, enabling me to find trivial bits of information
that otherwise would have been lost to me. (I hasten to add, however, that no
matter what he tells you,     FIT THE FASTBALL.)
Mrs. lhcQuown, in her capacity as the Director of Inter-Library Loan, processed
every one of my request forms. In several instances, when the films were not
available through my listed source, she contacted another source and got the .
film for me, evem though I had not listed it. I assume this was due both to _
her knowledge of the available sources and her caring attitude toward my research.  
In one notable instance, she definitely went an "extra yard" by getting a film  
from the Library of Congress (which does not ordinarily loan such film), which  
in turn produced a gargantuan amount of information on a player named Davey Orr, §
a great first—baseman of the late l‘?th—century about whom no one has ever written. §
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I realize I could say the University pays for these services with my tax money,   I
and the Library is there for my usage, because it is funded by my tax money.  
That is all true. But the fact remains that without the tireless efforts of S
both Frank Ievstik (Assistant Head of Periodicals, Newspapers and Microtexts) {
and Vivian NacQuown, I could never have accumulated the wealth of material about g
these long—forgotten and sadly-neglected players that I have in the past few {
months. It is an understatement almost bordering on rudeness to say I owe them  
and your library a great debt and am thankful, but there is simply no other way 2
to express it. I thank them, directly, and you indirectly, for all of your §
I magnanimous gestures in the way of my research.  
Cordially yours,  
Philip E. Von Borries §
INFORIM .
Staff Development Committee Program ?
On January l2, l98i+, the program "Effective Student Assistance" will be  
presented by NW9 UK HUHBH RGSGUTCGS Development Office for the UK Libraries  
staff. The program will be held in The Gallery from IO a.m. ~ I2 noon and  
· repeated from 2:OO—¢+:OO p.m.  
3  

 j/ The Hu an Resources Development Office has requested that we limdt
' attendance to 25 for each presentation. Staff nembers planning to
attend should notify (by telephone only) the Staff Development
Conndttee members listed below by 3:00 p.¤t on Tuesday, January l0.
Hank Harken 7-8397
Cathy Hu t 7-2800
Claire McCann 7-8373
p Preference for your choice of time will be given if possible; however,
due to the limitations on attendance, adjustments may have to be made.
You will be notified if the time you request has to be changed. (Gerry Webb)
Fall Issue of The Kentucky Review
Published just before the Christmas holiday and available from Brad
Grissom in the Cataloging Department is Volume V, Number l of
I Thg Kentucky Reyigw. A contribution of special interest to staff and
j users of the library is Jin1Birchfield's "The Peal Collection as a
Literary Archive" (originally presented at the spring l983 meeting of
p the Kentucky Council on Archives), which treats this inportant assemblage
of books and.nenuscripts as a primary sou ce for the study of the early
English Romantics. Rounding out the fall issue are articles on Coleridge,
A Faulkner, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Lytle, and the final years of slavery
in Kentucky. (Brad Grissom)
Using Federal Government Statistics
The Government Publications Department; the Center for Applied Economic -
Research; and the Office for Continuing Education, College of Library and
Information Science will sponsor a federal government statistics workshop
on January 27 & 28 in room 230 of the Student Center Addition.
Fees: UK Students-$2.00; UK Faculty/Staff—$5.00; all others-$20.00.
Program: `
Ja uary 27 (Presentations from.each agency and panel discussion)
8:30 Registration
9:00-l0:30 U.S. Bureau of the Census and Kentucky State Data Center
l0:&5—ll:30 U.S. National Center for Health Statistics
ll:45-l2:30 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
l2:30—2:00 Lunch on your own
2:00-2:20 Kentucky Economic Information System
2:30-5:00 Pa el Discussion — Moderator and Co mentator; Fhrgaret Adams,
Kentucky Economic Information System. Respondents: Mark C.
Berger, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Kentucky;
Cynthia L. Duncan, Ph D. Candidate, Department of Sociology,
University of Kentucky; Ron Nbrgan, Research Division, Kentucky
Department of Economic Developm nt; Frances E. Ross, Kentucky
Economic Information System.
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 January 28 (Concurrent hands—on sessions with publications/databases from
Q each agency. Each agency will present its. matgyjgl twgicé) `
j 9:00-11:00 U.S. Bureau of the Census and Kentucky State Data Center
U.S. National Center for Health Statistics
U.S. Bureauof labor Statistics
Kentucky Economic Information System
i 11:15-1:15 Repeat of concurrent sessions.
Enrollment is limited; to ensure a space, advance register by Jan. 20.
For mare information, call 257-8417.
4 NEH Research Travel Funds
William Ehmann, the Associate Dean for Research, has announced the
availability of research travel funds from the National Ehdownent
_ for the Humanities. The research involved cannot be for work leading
to an academic degree, and the grants cannot support travel to professional
ueetings or conferences. Amounts requested must exceed $500; the deadline
is January 15, 1984. V .
~ For further information, applications and instructions, call or write
_ Program Officer, Travel to Collections
» ' Division of Research Programs, Room 3l9—GI`
_ NEH
. 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. _
, Washington', D.C. 20506 ‘
(202)786-0207
Video Display Terminals Studied
° Both the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences .
and the Federal Health Department of Canada have issued reports stating
video display terminals (VUl`s) do not pose any radiation threats to users.
(Online (November 1983), pp. 10-ll)
4 · U Mich Recruiting for Library Residency Program
4 Sheila Creth, Assistant Director for Personnel, reports that she‘will be
recruiting at ALA Midwinter for the second year of the Research Library
Residmcy Program at the University of Mi.chigan Library. ·
The residency offers the new librarian '.'a two-year professional appointment
which includes an issues-oriented instructional corrponent " and a chance to
gai.n a grasp of "the complex changes affecting research libraries in techno-
logy, cooperation, preservation, bibliographic access, and management strategies
in tines of scarce resources."
Complete information is available from Sheila Creth, University of Michigan
library, 404 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48lO9_ (Librég
Hotline (November 21, l983)_, p.4)
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 National Library Week Theme for 1984
The 1984 NIN theme will be 'Knowledge ls Real Power." The AIA Public
Information Office notes that "The graphics catalog and the 1984 Power
Tools Publicit Book provide the material for six separate campaigns for
The Week. _
Besides the theme noted above, one_ may choose among "Igwrance Is Not l
’ Bliss"; Libraries Are User Friendly"; "E. T. Reads at Home"; and "Keep
Going, Keep Growing." For the free catalog of NLW materials, write to
the Public Information Office, AIA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Il.
60611. Phone: 312-944-6780. The dates of NIN: April 8-14. (Librg
Hotline (November 21, 1983), p.5)
SPEC Kit #99--Branch Libraries in ARL libraries
A Branch Libraries in ARL Libraries (SPEC Kit #99) contains survey results,
two policy statements, three documents on closing or consolidating branches, 3
three on new branches, and two on automation. A list of readings is also
p included. SPEC Kits are available in the Reference Department._ U
New Articles and Books
Broadus, Robert N. "Online Catalogs and Their Users," College.     7
Libraries, 44 (November 1983), 458-467. `
Chadwyck—Hea1ey, Charles. '»‘I‘he Future of Microform in an Electronic Age."
Wilson Library Bulletin, 58 (December 1983), 270-273. ‘ '
Chepesuik, Ron and Shirley Tarlton. "SOLINET; What's.   It for Us.'Z'·'
Wilson Librag Bulletin, 58 (November 1983), 185-189..
Fayen, Emily caiiup. nig mime ca¤a1¤g; ·@m}i¤g Pubné Assess co Librgry
Materials. White Plains, NY: Know edge In ustry PuE1ica.tionsT1 3.
EZ76997 .F34/1983) ‘
Gorney, Ieonard. Queuing Theo : ` A Problem Solving Approach. New York.;
Petrocelli, 1981. ($7.9/ .G677l98l5 .
, Hellinga, Lotte. Caxton iLn__ Focus: The Be   of      
london: British Library, 1982.-(,271517 .,H4507l98Z5_ _
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 if Holley, Edward G. and Robert F. Schremser. TE Librag Services arg
Construction Ari: gi Historical Overview hom gre Viewpoint of
Major Participants (Foundations in Library and Information Science,
- vol. 18). Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1983. (KF/£+3l5/.H6i+/1983)
p Kesselman, Martin. "Online Update." Wilson Library Bulletin, 58 (December
* 1983), 286-287. _
Q Discusses the upcoming H. W. Wilson Company's online system.
Mason, Marilyn. The Federal Role in Library and Information Service
(Professional Librarian Series). White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry
{ Publications, 1983. (Z/678.2/.M37/1983)
Stevens, Norman D. Communication Throu hout Libraries (Scarecrow Library
( Administration Series, vol. 65. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1983.
(2/678/ .5725/1983)
if Nine Years Ago in the "Green Bean"
Norma Jean Gibson, then in the Art Library, was elected Secretary/Treasurer
1 of the Special Libraries Section ofKLA for 1975.
l. Liz Pogue joined the Library Staff in the Circulation Department. r
it INFORMATION FROM THE PRESERVATION COMMITTEE
if Fire prevention in libraries introduces the old controversy of taking the I
risk versus the introduction of water or chemicals into the library environment. .
, The National Fire Prevention Agency and most insurance underwriters have
V current library disaster statistics indicating the wisdom of careful prevention
, plans geared to a library's contents, needs, and finances.
2 Keyes Metcalf, in Planning Academic and Research Librgy Buildings, says:
. "The removal or lessening of hazards will not stop fires altogether. The
: question of fire detection, alarm, and extinquishing must be considered."
  There are a variety of heat- or smoke- detection and alarm systems available
‘ 3 to a library. The best ones are wired into a central fire alarm monitored by
, fire or facilities personnel.
  A number of automatic systems for putting out fires are available on the market
`g and serve a variety of needs and purposes. No longer do all sprinkler heads go
  off when fire is detected. If a fire is to be put out by a fire department, as
.   mich as 11,000 gallons of water per minute can be poured into a library. The
Z possibility of coping with such a disaster makes the prospect of dealing with »
  several hundred books wet by a sprinkler head alnnst insignificant. (Jessie Adams)
  Preservation Reading
  Griffith, J.W. "After the Disaster: Restoring Library Service." Wilson
  Librgy Bulletg, 58 (December 1983), 258-265.
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 , "   PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
I (For more information, contact the Director's Office.)
Iowa I V
Mmographic Cataloger, Iowa State University. Salary: $16,500  
Deadline: January 17, 1984.
Science Monographic Cataloger, Iowa State University. Salary: $16,500
  Deadline: January 17, 1984. ,
Luxembourg ,
Librarian/ Information Scientist, The European Parliament. Salary: not
· specified. Deadline: January 30, 1984.
Librarian, The European Parliament. Salary: not specified. Deadline:
January 30, 1984.
Nebraska
` System Planner; University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Salary: not specified.
Deadline: March 1, 1984. __
Pennsylvania
Head, Cataloging; Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State
University. Salary: $16,008   Deadline: Janniary 27, 1984.
Documents Librarian/ Social Science Cataloger, Pennsylvania State University
Salary: $18,000   Deadline: February 15, 1984.
Engineering Librarian/ Science Cataloger, Pennsylvania State University.
Salary: $18,000   Deadline: February 15, 1984.
Physical Sciences Librarian/ Science Cataloger, Pennsylvania State University. V
Salary: $18,000   Deadline? February 15, 1984.
’ General Reference Librarian, Humanities and Social Sciences Department;
Pennsylvania State University. Salary: $16,008   Deadline:
, February 15, 1984. ·
1 Washington 3 1
1 Assistant Director of Libraries, Undergraduate Library Services; University
of Washington. Salary: $33,000   Deadline: January 31, 1984.
Head, Curriculum Materials Section; University of `Washington. Salary:
$18,500   Deadline: January 31, 1984.
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  UK LIBRARY SYSTEM OPPORTUNITIES I
(If interested, contact Ann Short.)
LT III, grade 5, Circulation.
LT III, grade 5, Agriculture Library.
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