IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 August 14, 1995 Volume XII, Number 31 Issue 268 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Indiana State U.: Ass't. Dean, Library System 2. NW (Louisiana) State U.: Ref/Bib Instruction Librarian 3. NYU: Head, Coles Science Center III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. Symposium on the Transformation of the Public Library C. Miscellaneous 1. Debate on Destruction of Federal Records IV. PROJECTS E. Miscellaneous 1. NYPL's "The Global Library" Exhibit ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Steve Hardin Re: Indiana State University: Assistant Dean for Library Systems RESPONSIBILITIES: Indiana State University Library invites nominations and applications for the position of Assistant Dean for Library Systems. Provides creative leadership in planning, implementing, evaluating and managing library information technologies. Reports to the Associate Vice President for Information Services/Dean of Library Services. Serves on the Information Services Administrative Council and works collaboratively with campus computing and telecommunication units. Supervises 5 FTE. May assist with other administrative responsibilities. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: Master's degree; at least five years professional experience in library or field directly related to the position, with minimum three years of proven management ability. Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated experience in managing online systems with knowledge of mainframe and networked personal computer systems. Understanding of and willingness to explore emerging information technologies. Desired: Knowledge of client server, multi-platform operating systems and WWW. ALA accredited MLS preferred. COMPENSATION: Twelve-month, tenure track appointment. Salary commensurate with qualifications. Excellent fringe benefits including TIAA-CREF. THE LIBRARY: Indiana State University Libraries serve more than 600 faculty and 11,600 students in a comprehensive university offering Associate through Ph.D. programs. The Library, staffed by 29 professional and 45 support staff, has collections of more than 2,000,000 items, an extensive CD-ROM network, (NOTIS) Library management system and WWW home page (http://odin.indstate.edu/home.html) APPLICATION: Position available immediately. A review of applications will begin on September 15, 1995, and continue until position is filled. Send letter of application, resume and names/addresses/telephone numbers/e-mail addresses of three current references to: Judy Tribble, Chairperson, Library Search Committee, Indiana State University Libraries, Terre Haute, IN 47809 (libtrib@cml.indstate.edu) ISU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ********** II.2. Fr: Martha Henderson Re: NW (Louisiana) State U.: Reference/Bibliographic Instruction Librarian REFERENCE/BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTRUCTION LIBRARIAN (anticipated) available September 1, 1995. Responsibilities include providing reference services, developing and providing library instruction, designing and implementing computer-assisted instruction, providing online searching, and supervising student employees. Call (318) 357-4403 for complete position description. Requires ALA-accredited MLS. Send application, resume, and 3 references to Dr. Ada Jarred, Director of Libraries, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA 71497. Northwestern is an EEO/ADA employer. ********** II.3. Fr: Lucinda Covert-Vail Re: NYU: Head, Coles Science Center New York University Libraries Head, Coles Science Center -- Vacancy Administer the Coles Science Center in Bobst Library. Direct staff; coordinate collection development in all science disciplines; select materials in one or more science fields. Requires accredited MLS (subject Master's required for tenure); minimum four years progressive responsibility in reference and collection development in large research library; experience with print and electronic library resources and services and knowledge of new technologies; excellent communication skills; evidence of professional and/or scholarly activity. Advanced degree in physical or life sciences and previous supervisory experience. Faculty status, excellent benefits. Minimum $40,000. Send resume and letter of application, including the addresses and telephone numbers of 3 references to: Ms. Alice Deich, Library Personnel Director, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled, but not later than September 30, 1995. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS. Lucinda Covert-Vail Director, Reference and Information Services New York University Libraries 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 Tel: 212-998-2497 Fax: 212-995-4070 Email: COVERTL@ELMER1.BOBST.NYU.EDU ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: Symposium on the Transformation of the Public Library Library of Congress Coalition for Networked Information Freedom Forum Media Studies Center Science, Technology and Public Policy Program John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Access to Digital Information in a Networked World An Invitational Symposium to be held at the Library of Congress December 8, 1995 For hundreds of years libraries of many kinds -- private, academic, commercial, and public -- have brought the work of authors and publishers to an increasingly literate population. They have helped societies incorporate information as the lifeblood of democracy and economic growth. Now, as information becomes digital and networked, the practices and institutions that make up this web are fundamentally challenged. The promise of networking is that information is unburdened of physical processes and products. Networked information need not be manufactured, shipped, collected, catalogued, and shelved. It can be created, assembled, and archived for access from any point on the globe. It can be linked and given context in ways that were impractical or impossible in the print world. The free public library is uniquely positioned and uniquely challenged -- a local institution invested in physical processes facing a world of increasingly networked resources. Unlike libraries within institutions and companies, the networked public library cannot easily limit its constituency. Like publishers, it provides access to information in an open market. For millions of Americans, the local public library still embodies the social, political, and economic values associated with access to information. But as information becomes digital and globally accessible, what will be the goals and objectives of local initiative and local funding? What will be the relationship between the public library, continuing education, and other institutions and policies for empowering individuals? What role should state libraries and the Library of Congress play? How will the characteristics of and the market for different kinds of content shape the development of a virtual public library? How can the virtual library be embodied in new forms of infrastructure, such as the World Wide Web? What will be the roles of private publishers and public institutions in "archival publishing?" Where and how can the free library be reinstitutionalized? How should access to information be voiced as a principle of democracy, social values, and economic growth? These questions will be addressed in one-day invitational symposium to be held at the Library of Congress on December 8. As part of the symposium and subsequent publication, we invite contributed papers on the fundamental issues facing publicly funded libraries in a networked world. Papers must be submitted by November 1 to: Tim Leshan Information Infrastructure Project John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-1389 Fax: 617-495-5776 leshan@ksgrsch.harvard.edu Funding for the symposium is provided in part by a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. ********** III.C.1. Fr: Eddie Becker Re: Debate on Destruction of Federal Records ARMSTRONG V BUSH : A PANEL ON THE LEGAL DISPUTE OVER FEDERAL ELECTRONIC RECORDS On January 19, 1989, the United States District Court of the District of Columbia issued a temporary injunction filed by Scott Armstrong of the National Security Archive and others to prohibit the destruction of the White House electronic mail and records system (known as PROFS). Since that time the case has gone through a variety of appeals, decisions, motions, and cross- appeals. The case involves a number of essential issues relating to the definition of a record, the creation and storage of electronic records, and the final disposition of such records. The decisions promulgated by this litigation will continue to have an increasing influence on the nature of electronic records created and managed by the government in the years ahead. As David Bearman stated: "Armstrong v. the Executive Office of the President revealed that a variety of issues having to do with archival accountability are unresolved in the minds of government employees and that misunderstandings of electronic records requirements are common among information system administrators. If archivists do not use this and other opportunities to articulate forcefully what we expect from records creators and system designers and to extend our mission and authorities both legally and in practice, we will lose most of the archival record of the next decade and squander our role as protector of the public interest in documented and accountable government." (56 American Archivist 674). The panel will focus on the following questions: Should electronic mail be considered records under the Federal Records Act? Does paper copy of electronic messages represent an equivalent counterpart to the text and context of such messages? Is the National Security Council an agency of the federal government? Does the Bush/Wilson agreement contradict federal records laws? What are the government's (and NARA's) preservation and access responsibilities with federal electronic records? The panel will consist of Jason R. Baron, Esq. of the U.S. Justice Department representing the case for the Government (defendants), and Michael Tankersley, Esq., of the Public Citizens Litigation Group, representing the case for the plaintiffs. David de Lorenzo, Curator of Manuscripts and Archives, Harvard Law School, will act as moderator/commentator. It will take place: Friday, September 1, 1995, 9 a.m., Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, "Military" Conference Room, Washington Hilton and Towers, Washington, D.C. ---------------------------------------------- Contacts: David de Lorenzo DELORENZ@HULAW1.HARVARD.EDU Curator of Manuscripts and Archives, Harvard Law School --------------------------- Society of American Archivists, 600 S. Federal, Suite 504, Chicago, IL, 60605 (312) 922-0140 Information about the PROFS Notes Case and the related issues of the record status of electronic mail in Government is available via E-mail. Send requests to ebecker@cni.org in the subject line put Join, in the message body put your e-mail address and the list from which you saw this notice. Thanks. Eddie ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.E.1. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: NYPL's "The Global Library" Exhibit THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY The Global Library Exhibit The New York Public Library will observe the second half of its centennial year with an exhibition devoted to the rapidly emerging global information infrastructure. This exhibition will call particular attention to the role that libraries are playing, and will continue to play, in the development of this infrastructure, and will place this role in its proper historical context. It will also encourage engagement of the social, political, and economic issues arising from the transition to this new infrastructure. The Global Library exhibit will contain four sections: o A Guided Tour of the World Wide Web of Information. A wide-ranging, both topically and geographically, selection of information resources and services currently on the Internet and accessible through the World Wide Web will be presented, together with the opportunity for hands-on experimentation and discovery. o A Brief History of Communication Media and Artifacts. Illustrations of communication media and examples of communication artifacts drawn from the last 5,000 years will be presented, together with information about the libraries that cared for those media and artifacts, and for the people who needed access to them. o A Preview of Coming Attractions. A variety of exciting technologies, resources, and services that are not ready for prime-time will be showcased, together with commentaries from a number of sources on the uses and impacts, both positive and negative, that may result from them. o A Conversation about Issues and Roles Issues that frame the debate about how to insure social, political, and economic well-being in the 21st Century will be presented, together with the opportunity to participate in an electronic dialog about these issues and about the role of libraries in the Information Age. The Global Library exhibit will be an exhibit without walls in the sense that digitized versions of its second, third, and fourth sections will be incorporated into the Internet server that supports its first section so that access to the result can be obtained through-out the Library and around the world. The exhibit will also function as it own catalog in the sense that the "hypertext mark-up language" -encoded documents that realize its first section will be made available for distribution. The Library is planning a number of other activities and offerings that are related to the theme of this exhibit and which will occur and appear in the same time-frame, including: a convocation of library leaders from around the world on the role of libraries in the Information Age; a printed guide to the Internet for library users, perhaps maintained as a loose-leaf service; and, tours, workshops, and various materials pertaining to the intellectually productive uses of the Internet for librarians, teachers, parents, school-age children, and other interested parties. 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