News Library News Online
Vol. 17, No.3/Spring 1995

Nuts and Bolts: Is Space an Issue? Of Course!
Profile of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Web Site for the News Division in the Works
Library Operations: USA Today Librarians on the Road
Introducing Our Vormelker-Thomas Student Award Winner
Awards: News Division Award Winners Announced
1995 Conference (Preview): News Division Programs - Montreal, 1995
1995 Conference (Preview): Mainiac Heads North to the Border: Calls for Reinforcements
1995 Conference (Preview): News Librarians Will Brunch and Then Work It Off with a Long Walk
1995 Conference (Preview): Special Tour to Ottawa
1995 Conference: Division CE Course to Focus on Leadership Strengths and Opportunities for News Librarians and Information Specialists
People
Notes from the Chair: Head Spinning from All the Changes in Our Profession? Let the News Division Help You
Job Opening: Librarian - Assistant Archivist
The News Division Just Keeps Growing!
Aside Bar
Channels: Report from Down Under: Challenges for Information Management in the Radio Division of Australian Broadcasting Corporation
News Division 70th Anniversary Reception and Tour



               

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DATE: FRIDAY June 9, 1995
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SOURCE: By Marcia MacVane Editor's Note: This is the first in what we hope will be a continuing feature on the issues that we all face, hence the name, Nuts and Bolts. Our aim is to speak to the solo librarian at a small paper, as well as to the big guys. If you have ideas or contributions, please contact Marcia at 207-791-6318 or write her at the Portland Newspapers, PO Box 1460, Portland, ME 04104. NUTS AND BOLTS: IS SPACE AN ISSUE? OF COURSE! Want to know how to fit a square peg in a round hole? Ask news librarians, who daily face the space-defying task of storing ever-increasing volumes of information in the area used (and overloaded) for years. Add to this very murky stew the financial constraints of most newspapers these days and the possibilities for expansion of the library shrink to almost nothing. But never call a news librarian a quitter. Out of necessity, we have developed more ways to adapt to the ebbs and flows of the journalism industry than any other group. Mary Mackzum of the Toledo Blade manages a library which works under the mandate that NOTHING be thrown away. Clippings are filed in vertical cabinets filled to capacity with letter-size folders. To maintain room for filing, she has established weeding criteria. The library staff removes folders containing fewer than four clippings of insignificance. Because they cannot throw then away, they file them alphabetically in bankers boxes stored on top of the cabinets. Notebooks contain records of which folders are in the boxes with a brief notation containing date and subject of the stories. National and international clippings are removed and placed in boxes in a storage area across the street. The library has been working in the same amount of space for 15 years. Carol Kasel at the Rocky Mountain News reports that they have five power files containing old clippings, as well as a storage room holding files that no longer fit into the power files. They have been online since mid-1989, so they no longer spend much time weeding. They moved their picture files onto rolling shelving, but discovered that the top two shelves need to remain empty because the weight of the unit wore out the rollers.They have been in the same amount of space for 8 years. A few libraries have invested in electronic scanning equipment. Old or relatively inactive clippings are potential scanning fodder. Libraries use a variety of storage formats - CD-ROM, microfilm, microfiche and databases. So, what do you do when you have exhausted all possibilities and still don't have enough room? When Ginny Hauswald of the Winston-Salem Journal ran out of space on the bookshelves, she moved books like old city directories, Facts on File and state manuals down to bookshelves in board rooms and conference rooms. Now they are accessible, but out of the way. Mary Mackzum stores all of her bound volumes of newspapers in a basement storage area (ask her about the flood). Here at the Portland Newspapers, we were able to acquire a room for storage because of changes in our personnel policies. Smoking in our building was allowed only in designated areas, one of which was down the hall from the library. Because this room was poorly ventilated, the doors were always left open, causing smoke to roll down the hall into the library. Changes in the state law coupled with complaints from personnel forced the doors to be shut, which caused the smokers to move to a better location. Eventually, the company decided to ban smoking in the building altogether and I was the beneficiary of cleaner air and a large storage space. What do you do for space? Can you pass along some ideas to other struggling librarians? I'd love to hear from you. The next Nuts and Bolts will deal with selling your information on a local level. Anything you can contribute to help others down this path will be gratefully accepted.

KEYWORDS: SPACE; NEWS LIBRARIES; TIPS AND ADVICE

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GRAPHICS: CHANNELS (SIDEBAR)
SOURCE: By John Bartholomaeus PROFILE OF THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is Australia's major public broadcaster. It was established in the 1930s by an Act of the Australian Parliament with a charter to provide broadcast services in a very similar way to the BBC. To this day the ABC remains free of advertising (but not corporate sponsorship). The Corporation receives A$500 million per annum from the Australian Parliament and raises A$100 million for itself through the sale of programs, videos and books. The Corporation is divided into five major divisions: Television; Radio; Radio Australia, a short wave service to the world, but especially to Asia; Concerts, which maintains the six major Symphony Orchestras in Australia; and Enterprises. The TV Division has one national network and a satellite service to Asia. It produces documentaries and dramas, and has a prestigious News Current Affairs Section. Libraires maintained by the Television Division include a TV and Film Archive and a News Current Affairs Library, which supplies a document delivery and information service from its newspaper clipping files and CD-ROM and online searches. The TV News Current Affairs Library employs four people in Sydney. The ABC Radio Division has five national networks. Radio National is the major serious talk station in Australia with regular programs on current affairs, women's issues, the arts, social history and religion. JJJ is the national youth network with an emphasis on contemporary rock, youth affairs and a lot of irreverent humour. Classic RM concentrates on classical music, quality drama and a little talk. Each state capital city and country region has its own station with many programs being networked through a National Programming Unit. The newest network is a 24 hour news network which also broadcasts live sessions of the Australian Parliament when it is in session. Since September of 1994, I have been the acting Head of ABC Radio Program and Information Resources. This is the department that provides the library and information services to the Radio Division. Included in this group is the ABC Reference Library comprised of two professionals with clerical support. This library provides an information service from a collection of 40,000 volumes and about 200 current serial subscriptions, a small number of CD-ROM databases and searches from the Dialog and Nexis/Lexis database services. The other departments include Radio Archives, the Sound Libraries and Radio Tape Sales. Radio Archives has fourteen staff in Sydney and is responsible for the archiving of the sound of ABC radio. It catalogues its holdings onto a database called RADA which uses BASIS Plus software and runs on the ABC VAX cluster. The archive is held in analog tape format with CDR or CD-ROM being considered as the future storage medium. Program or Archives staff search the database for suitable items to be included in programs. The Archives staff retrieve, audition and dub off suitable items. Sound Libraries exist in all of the six state capitals and employ a total of sixteeen staff. A single database for recorded music called SOLID is maintained on BASIS Plus software and runs on the ABC Vax cluster. Satellite collections not controlled by Program and Information Resources are also catalogued onto the SOLID database. This latter process takes up considerable energy of the database co-ordinator. Radio Tape Sales has four staff supplying a quality dubbing and duplicating service of mainly Radio National programs to the Australian public. The challenge to these resouce areas over the past decade has been the reduction in staff by management looking to contain costs and to maintain levels and standards in the output areas as Government allocations have fallen. The use of computers has assisted in bringing the resources to our clients, although a large part of the collections held before the introduction of the databases still remain available only through the old manual catalogues. John Bartholomaeus can be reached at: GPO Box 9994 Sydney NSW Australia 2001 Voice 61 2 333 2653 Fax 61 2 333 2558 Email BARTHOLOMAEUS.JOHN@a2.abc.com.au

KEYWORDS: BROADCAST LIBRARY; PROFILE; RADIO; TELEVISION

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DATE: FRIDAY June 9, 1995
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PAGE: 17 THE INTERNET WEB SITE FOR THE NEWS DIVISION IN THE WORKS Plans are afoot to establish a World Wide Web site for the SLA News Division. The Poynter Institute has kindly offered to store the web pages on its web server located at the Raleigh News & Observer. This web site will not only serve members of the Division, but also students, editors, reporters and others interested in news libraries and the role information plays in quality journalism. Such a resource has great potential because it can make accessible lots of information in a convenient form. Making the web site the best it can be is obviously an undertaking. There is a lot of material to gather. But if the work is spread around a bit, we can get this organized in no time. If you would like to help, please contact me as soon as possible. Below is a tentative outline of topics. If you have suggestions on where to get the information, or if you would like to provide some of the topic categories, let me know. You can mail paper items to the address below. Or if it's in ASCII text form, ship it via e-mail or floppy disk. THE NEWS DIVISION Benefits of membership How to become a member 1995-96 officers, (name, address, phone, e-mail, photo) News Division awards (description and past recipients) SLA 1995 MONTREAL CONFERENCE How to register News Division program Text of speeches given at previous conferences NEWS LIBRARY NEWS Staff. How to subscribe/advertise. Archives SLA JOB CLEARINGHOUSE How to use the clearinghouse Job postings(?) NEWS LIBRARY ARCHIVING SYSTEMS Text library systems Product reviews (supplied by news librarians who use the systems) List of who uses them Photo archiving systems Product reviews List of who uses them ESSENTIAL BOOKS AND ARTICLES ABOUT NEWS LIBRARIES, NEWS RESEARCH AND COMPUTER ASSISTED REPORTING ESSENTIAL REFERENCE TOOLS USED IN NEWS LIBRARIES Online services Description, cost, signup info, links of major vendors Books and periodicals Bibliography of essential titles and types of materials CD-ROM products Description, cost, ordering information INTERNET RESOURCES FOR NEWS LIBRARIANS Gopher World Web Web News Groups Mailing Lists RELATED ASSOCIATIONS (DESCRIPTION AND LINK OR ADDRESS) Journalism and library institutes and associations Annual conferences of interest TOP TEN WEB SITES FOR REPORTERS National By State (supplied by news librarians in that region) CREDITS People who made this web possible It would also be desirable to have some introductory articles or an FAQ on news libraries and research. Topics could include news library services and collections, the work of news librarians and qualifications, computer archiving tools, etc. These could be of great help to students and others who are interested in pursuing a career in this field of librarianship. It would also be a way to explain how the field has changed since the adoption of computers in newspapers and TV/radio stations. Any takers? Thanks. Pete Basofin Editorial Library Sacramento Bee McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. 2100 Q St. Sacramento, CA 95816 Voice (916) 321-1108 Fax (916) 442-8444 sacbee@netcom.com

KEYWORDS: WORLD WIDE WEB; INTERNET

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SOURCE: By Bruce Rosenstein, USA Today Library LIBRARY OPERATIONS USA TODAY LIBRARIANS ON THE ROAD How do you find out about what's happening in other news libraries? Reading News Library News is one way. But Barbara Maxwell, USA TODAY's library director, has gone further during the last year and a half by visiting, so far, 14 other media libraries on the East Coast. Maxwell, who makes the tours with USA TODAY photo librarian Susan O'Brian, said the visits are a great way to observe what others in the same business are doing, compare notes and share ideas. Among the libraries visited so far have been The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Newsday, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Sun, in Baltimore. In explaining the need for the visits, Maxwell said, ''I think the first two years of my tenure here were spent trying to get this library up to industry standards. I think we're moving along with that.'' Maxwell said that because the USA Today library is ''fairly isolated'', she thought that it ''would be good to start exploring and meeting other people and seeing what they're doing.'' For financial reasons, she decided to limit the travel to the East Coast, but not just in the DC area. ''We started visiting major news libraries...this is a project that's probably going to run four or five years total. We started in New York City because that's where a majority of the libraries are. And we generally see two or three in a trip depending on the schedule. One of the reasons that Susan goes along is that we've been looking at photo collections, looking at systems they have for archiving...We're looking at more than just the reference operation, we're looking at imaging as well.'' Contacts were established beforehand in a variety of ways. Some of the libraries were ones with which Maxwell had established a relationship, sometimes by assisting them in the past. This was the case with a New York-based library facing internal changes which, according to Maxwell, ''wanted us to talk about how change was brought about in this (USA TODAY) library when the changing of the guard happened. What do people say when they're contacted for an appointment? Are they wary or apprehensive? O'Brian, who has scheduled many of the appointments, replied, ''It varies. The magazine libraries were for the most part very receptive and understanding of what we wanted to do. Some of the newspapers were a little apprehensive about our motives, I think. Why would USA TODAY have an interest in their paper, their library? When I'd talked to them on the phone, they'd make the appointment reluctantly, more I think out of curiosity...But once we got there and started talking and realized we have a lot of common goals, common interests...They're going to open up and be a lot more relaxed and start sharing many more ideas...We always left with a really good feeling and rapport.'' O'Brian said a common reaction afterwards from the librarians is: ''This is a really good idea, maybe we should network some more.'' As a result, they recommend other libraries to visit. O'Brian said, ''A lot of times X will say, have you tried Y? They'll give you a name, that you were referred to them by so and so. Which again, is almost like a letter of introduction, so it cuts down one more barrier.'' If you are thinking of starting a project like this for your library, Maxwell suggest that you start with libraries in your own back yard. O'Brian recommended looking through a directory of special libraries to find those of interest in your area, and ultimately in other cities. ''Intitially I would choose one library where you were familiar, perhaps, with the director. (Then) figure your transportation, how long it's going to take you.'' She said that they average 2-3 hours per library, depending on how big the organization is and how extensive the collection is. There are also in-house matters to consider: Says Maxwell, ''I think it's very important ... to let your manager know what you're doing and the value of it. It shows initiative on the part of the library. You can't just do it and not tell anybody.'' Maxwell says that it is also important to share with the rest of the staff what you see. This lets them know where they are compared to other libraries and where they need to go. In recent years, other USA TODAY librarians have gone to other libraries for visits, cross-training, or to give presentations. Maxwell thinks that it is important for the library staff to participate in these trips. ''It helps them understand the business that they're in and it also gives them an assessment of... where their own library is.'' In 1995, Maxwell and O'Brian will travel as far as Boston. Because they try to schedule visits so they can return to Washington on the same day, the Boston trip could be a grueling 18-hour day.

KEYWORDS: NEWS LIBRARY; REPORT

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GRAPHICS: PHOTO INTRODUCING OUR VORMELKER-THOMAS STUDENT AWARD WINNER In what we believe to be a first for the Vormelker-Thomas Award, our winner this year is from Canada. Her name is Catherine Cino and she's graduating this spring with an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Catherine is a native of Hamilton, Ontario. She obtained her undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal so conference should be like old home week for her. Her interest in news librarianship was spawned by a fascination with politics, society and popular culture. She has a wealth of library experience, but she has also sold computers and worked with troubled adolescents at a detention facility in Montreal. She says ''this (award) gives me the opportunity to explore an exciting career option.'' If you see Catherine at conference, please introduce yourself.

GRAPHICS: PHOTO (1) 1. Catherine Cino

KEYWORDS: BIOGRAPHY; AWARD

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GRAPHICS: PHOTO AWARDS NEWS DIVISION AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED The Mount Stephen Club, an historic site and former home of the Founder of the Canadian National Railway will be the location for the annual News Division Banquet. University Microfilms has once again agreed to host the pre- banquet cocktail reception. The Joseph F. Kwapil Memorial Award will be given this year to Barbara Semonche, Director of the Library at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism in recognition of her distinguished career in news librarianship and her long history of service to the division. Semonche's many contributions include serving as Chair of the Division, editing ''News Media Libraries: A Management Handbook'' and working on numerous committees for the division. There are two Agnes Henebry Roll of Honor Winners. Elizabeth Haworth and Diane Sponsler Logsdon have been selected for their outstanding service to the division through participation in its programs. Haworth, currently the Director of the Midlands Technical College Library in Columbia, SC, served for two years as editor of News Library News where she made many innovations. She is in her second year as Chair of the Publicity Committee . Her activities in that position included the planning of the 70th Anniversary Celebration in Atlanta. Logsdon, librarian at the Pantagraph in Bloomington, IL, is a former Chair of the Division and is currently in her third year as Chair of the Small Libraries Group. In this capacity she has planned several conference programs and has contributed numerous articles to News Library News over the years. For the first time, the Vormelker-Thomas Student Stipend Award has been given to a Canadian member. Catherine Cino of Hamilton, Ontario was chosen the selection committee co-chaired by Barbara Maxwell and Alison Head. (see related article, ed.) Current division Chair, Mary Kate Leming will receive the Ralph Shoemaker Award of Merit.

GRAPHICS: PHOTO (3) 1. Semonche 2. Logsdon 3. Haworth

KEYWORDS: AWARD; BIOGRAPHY; BARBARA SEMONCHE; DIANE SPONSLER LOGSDON; ELIZABETH HAWORTH

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DATE: FRIDAY June 9, 1995
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PAGE: 13 1995 CONFERENCE (PREVIEW) NEWS DIVISION PROGRAMS - MONTREAL, 1995 Please note: The NEWS Division Hospitality Suite will be the Presidential Suite at Le Centre Sheraton. All SLA Conference activities will take place at the Palais des Congres (convention center), which is eight blocks from Le Centre Sheraton and six blocks from the Queen Elizabeth. All hotels are in close proximity to the Convention Centre either by walking or a quick subway ride. Shuttle bus service will NOT be provided. SATURDAY, June 10 6 p.m.- NEWS Division Open House in the Division Hospitality Suite. SUNDAY, June 11 9 a.m-4 p.m. - NEWS Division CE Course - Leaders in an Electronic Era. 4-5 p.m. - NEWS Division 1994/95 Board Meeting (Suite) 6 p.m.- NEWS Division Open House in the Division Hospitality Suite. MONDAY, June 12 9-10:15 a.m. - SLA General Session I. Keynote address by Nuala Beck, president and founder of Nuala Beck & Associates, Inc., a Toronto-based consulting firm specializing in innovative research for its clients. 10:30-11:45 a.m. - The Wired City. Paul Hoffert, of Cultech Collaborative Research Centre at York University, will discuss the wired community that is being built in Southern Ontario as a test site for access and use of the information highway. Noon-1:15 p.m. - 7th Annual NEWS Division Luncheon. Annual luncheon and speaker, Robert W. Merry of Congressional Quarterly, sponsored by CQ. By invitation only. 1:30-2:45 p.m. - NEWS Division Annual Business Meeting. 3-4:30 p.m. - East/West Library Cooperation - Are the Needs of Eastern European Libraries Being Recognized? A roundtable discussion on the status of cooperation between American and Central European libraries. A reception sponsored by the Freedom Forum will follow in the same room. 6-9 p.m. - NEWS Division Awards Reception and Banquet at the historic Mount Stephen Club. Cocktail reception hosted by UMI. 9 p.m.- Open House/Reception in the Division Hospitality Suite sponsored by Lexis/Nexis. TUESDAY, June 13 9-10:15 a.m. - SLA General Session II. Keynote address by Howard Rheingold, journalist, editor, and author of The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. 10:30-11:45 a.m. - Geographic Information Systems in News Libraries. A look at GIS developments in news libraries. 1:30-4:15 p.m. - New Libraries From the Ground Up: The Sky's the Limit! Something for everyone interested in news libraries. Spend the afternoon browsing through handouts, videos, PC and MAC demonstrations on issues for today's and tomorrow's news library. Over 20 simultaneous presentations by NEWS Division members. 6 p.m.- NEWS Division Open House in the Division Hospitality Suite sponsored by DataTimes. WEDNESDAY, June 14 7:30-8:45 a.m. - NewsBank Breakfast. Breakfast for NEWS Division members sponsored by NewsBank. 9-11 a.m. - SLA Annual Business Meeting 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. - Getting the Most Out of Your Research Dollar. Reference materials, in a variety of formats, are analyzed with consideration of relative cost in a shrinking budgetary environment. 1-2:15 p.m. - Dealing With the ''Not Enoughs.'' Turn negatives of small libraries daily ''not enoughs'' into positives by organizing, prioritizing, using technology to your advantage, networking, establishing good public relations, and effectively marketing services. 2:30-4:00 p.m. - Designing and Implementing Effective Newsroom Training. Proactive strategies for helping end-users navigate the increasingly complex information resources of today's news library. 4-5 p.m. - NEWS Division 1995/96 Board Meeting (Suite) 6 p.m.- NEWS Division Open House in the Division Hospitality Suite sponsored by DIALOG and VuTEXT THURSDAY, June 15 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - NEWS Division Brunch. A pre-tour brunch for division members at the Salle Sainte-Famille, sponsored by Lexis/Nexis. Additional information and sign-up rosters will be in the Division Hospitality Suite. 1:00 p.m.- NEWS Division Walking Tours of Old Montreal. Guided tours of Old Montreal narrated by Montreal Gazette feature writer, Alan Hustack. Tours will be available at 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sign-up rosters will be available in the Division Hospitality Suite. Tours of the libraries of the Montreal Gazette, Le Devoir and the National Film Board of Canada will be arranged. Check in the Division Suite for information on days and times.

KEYWORDS: CONFERENCE PREVIEW 1995

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SOURCE: Charlie Campo, News Division Chair-elect 1995 CONFERENCE (PREVIEW) MAINIAC HEADS NORTH TO THE BORDER: CALLS FOR REINFORCEMENTS O Canada! The NEWS Division has plans for you! Enlightenment, excitement and enchantment are three attributes Old Montreal and convening news librarians have in common. Each year, the springtime promise of an upcoming Annual Conference helps many of us shake off another year's accumulation of professional concerns. This year, members will be enjoying the creative magic of program coordinators Debra Bade, Carol Ashurst, Leone Earls, Phyllis Lyons, Jim Hunter, Mona Hatfield, Donna Scheeder, Karen Van Rossem, Ann Kinken Johnson, Diane Sponsler Logsdon, Barbara Hijek, Elizabeth Haworth and the legions who are assisting them. So, pack up your woes and join the throng heading for Montreal. It is time to recharge ourselves with energy and enthusiasm for the year ahead.

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PAGE: 12 1995 CONFERENCE (PREVIEW) NEWS LIBRARIANS WILL BRUNCH AND THEN WORK IT OFF WITH A LONG WALK Grab your sneakers and your French phrase book and join us for a walking tour of Old Montreal! Lexis-Nexis is hosting a News Division brunch in the historic Salle Saint Famille followed by a walking tour of Old Montreal on Thursday June 15. Buses will shuttle our budding Francophiles to the restaurant in time for a 10:30 brunch. Walking tours will leave at 1:00 and 3:00 and will be led by Alan Hustak, a features writer at the Montreal Gazette and an authority on Old Montreal. If enough members are interested, we can ask for an Old Montreal After Dark tour. You will be receiving more information on reservations for the brunch in the mail. Be sure to mark your calendars to stay through Thursday!

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PAGE: 12 1995 CONFERENCE (PREVIEW) SPECIAL TOUR TO OTTAWA The following is an announcement for a late-breaking tour that didn't make the preliminary conference program. A one-day visit to Ottawa, Canada's capital, is sponsored by the Sci/tech and Biology Divisions of SLA, and by CISTI, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. This tour will be of interest to librarians who work primarily in the sci/ tech or medical information fields. Ottawa is a 2-hour drive from Montreal, along a scenic route from Montreal in the province of Quebec, to Ottawa in the province of Ontario.The bus will leave from the Queen Elizabeth Hotel (Mansfield Street entrance) at 8:30 am and return by 5:30 the same day. THE DAY INCLUDES: - a visit to CISTI, North America's largest sci/tech and medical information centre - lunch at CISTI - a drive past the Parliament buildings in downtown Ottawa - a visit to Canada's national science and technology museum. The tour will take place on June 15th. The cost is $15 (U.S.). HOW TO OBTAIN A TICKET: To reserve a place, contact Patty Horne: (E-mail is preferred.) pattyh@cs.cmu.edu (412) 268-6107 (phone) (412) 681-1998 (fax) Tickets can be picked up at the CISTI booth at the SLA Annual Conference exhibits in Montreal, June 11-14. If any tickets are still available, they can be purchased at the booth. Ticket refunds will not be available. This tour is limited to 45 people. Further information is available from Elizabeth Katz, CISTI, at elizabeth.katz@nrc.ca or by calling 1-800-668-1222.

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SOURCE: By Debra Bade, News Division Education Chair 1995 CONFERENCE DIVISION CE COURSE TO FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEWS LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION SPECIALISTS The News Division will once again be sponsoring a full-day Continuing Education Course during the 1995 Special Libraries Association Conference in Montreal. The CE course will be offered on Sunday, June 11, 1995 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and is entitled ''Leaders in an Electronic Era''. Cost of this event is $150.00 for SLA members and $180.00 for non-members. The goals for this course are: * to look at general definitions of leadership and management. * to help participants identify some of their own strengths and weaknesses. * to examine specific ways information professionals in the news industry can utilize their strengths and be leaders in their corporate structures. * to present a bigger picture of our new information world. * to suggest some new leadership roles for librarians in that world. Not all of the speakers had been locked in at presstime. Paul Pohlman, who directs management programs for the Poynter Institute, will be there, as will Howard Rheingold, author of ''The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier'' and our own Mary Kate Leming of the Palm Beach Post. Howard has been asked to share with us his thoughts on the future for information and information professionals.

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SOURCE: By Barbara Hijek PEOPLE MOVING, SHAKING AND BREAKING NEW GROUND... A belated News Division VST (Very Special Toast) to Mary Kate Leming who was promoted to Assistant Managing Editor at the Palm Beach Post. Mary Kate joined the Post as Library Director in 1987 and has directed much of the newsroom's growing use of computers. Managing Editor Tom O'Hara said ''as newspapers become more and more dependent on computers and the information they provide, we need someone with Mary Kate's expertise and vision to guide us.'' Thank you Mary Kate! You've provided us all with leadership, insight and proof positive that good things happen to deserving people. MORE KUDOS And another toast to Barbara Semonche, who has been awarded the prestigious ''Fellow of the Special Libraries Association'' award at the recent SLA Winter meeting. The award will be presented to Barbara during the SLA Awards Banquet and Ceremony. Barbara is also our Kwapil winner this year (see awards announcements). Congratulations, Barbara, from the entire News Division! Editorial Research at the Orlando Sentinel was recently honored with an the award based on their research, training reporters on various computer applications and maintaining the Sentinel's archives. Also Cynthia N. James-Catalano, Sentinel librarian, has started writing a column for Internet World titles ''Cyberlibrarian.'' The first column will appear in the April issue. Congratulations to Judy Grimsley and staff! Don't miss Nora Paul's article titled ''The Future Past'' in Presstimes's March 1995 issue. The articles deals with new roles and challenges for news researchers and reporters. FROM THE BAYOU TO THE BAY AREA Mona Hatfield recently reconnected with her West Coast roots - she moved to the California. Mona is now the Head of News Research at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek. She began her new position in March - just in time for the NewsView/PhotoView conversion. Jill Arnold, is the new Library Director at the Baton Rouge Advocate, replacing Mona. Jill was Mona's assistant, but left to take a position with Innovative Emergency Management. Four months later she was summoned back to the Advocate where Jill put her newly acquired knowledge in emergency management to good use. A true journalist - she's thrilled to be back in news. GOOD NEWS .... News From CNN: Debra Bade was promoted to Manager of News Research at CNN's Library this winter while Dina Gunderson was promoted to Manager of News Archives and Fran Pici became Manager of Administrative Services. New staff members coming in at the Librarian I level this spring will include Marina Lee and Gwinn Bruns. Greg Paraham has been promoted to Assistant Director at the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, replacing Rosemary Nelms, who is now Director and Director. Paraham graduated from the University of Memphis with a BA in journalism and from LSU with a MLS degree. He has been with the CA for 5 years. ....AND BAD NEWS In January a merger between the Milwaukee Journal and Sentinel was announced. As a result, the library has restuctured and Jo Reitman's position was eliminated. Jo said that in addition to her position, the ''flattening'' process affected her staff of 26 employees: 1 transferred to the new online service, 5 longtime employees took retirement and others are awaiting decisions on buyout packages. Jo is actively seeking a new position. Contact Jo if you have any leads for her or her staffers. Phone: 414-351-4409

KEYWORDS: BIOGRAPHY

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CATEGORY: NEWS LIBRARY NEWS 1995 Vol. XVII No.3
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SOURCE: By Mary Kate Leming, News Division Chair NOTES FROM THE CHAIR HEAD SPINNING FROM ALL THE CHANGES IN OUR PROFESSION? LET THE NEWS DIVISION HELP YOU Bonjour! The theme of th 86th Annual SLA Conference is: The Power of Information: Transforming the World. Ain't it the truth! In this past year the changes in our business has been nothing short of spectacular. Consider: 1) Most of us first saw Mosaic about a year ago. Now it is hard to imagine the world without a graphical interface to the Web. 2) I don't know about you, but I had just figured out voice mail when e- mail became my primary means of communication. 3) We have become intimate with things called files servers and CD-ROM networks. 4) End-user searching is happening every day and good ol' boolean searching is no longer the only way to guarantee search results. 5) Newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio list e-mail addresses for reader/ viewer/listener feedback. 6) News Librarians all over the world are getting involved with new product development and online services. 7) The face of online searching (especially pricing) is changing rapidly. 8) We spend as much time training as we do researching. 9) The walls are down between the library and the photo department. If we are not already doing image archiving, at least we are talking about it. 10) Not only is our annual conference in Canada, but we correspond frequently with information specialists from other countries. Our profession has become much more international, and computers have become multi-lingual. So how do we prepare ourselves for tomorrow? Here are a few ideas: 1) Join the News Division of SLA. As a part of your membership you receive this publication (News Library News.) It is the lifeline that we all share. Use it for inspiration and learning. If you know someone who is not a member, but who could benefit from our division, please have them contact our Membership Chair, Ginny Everett at the Atlanta Journal Constitution - (404) 526-5420. 2) Subscribe to Newslib. This is the cyber-drinking fountain for the News Division. Discussions range from reference assistance to technical support to silliness. It is a fun place to keep up with others in the profession. To join: send an e-mail letter addressed to: listserv@gibbs.oit.unc.edu leave subject line blank. type in message field: subscribe newslib Firstname Lastname Special kudos to Barbara Semonche (Library Director, School of Journalism & Mass Communications, UNC at Chapel Hill) for making this listserv available. 3) Visit the Poynter Institute internet homepage for information and fun. The address is: TS10 http://www.nando.net/prof/poynter/home.html Special thanks for Nora Paul (Library Director, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies) for making this site available. 4) Network. Network. Network. Everywhere and with everyone. Join other organizations and other listservs. Talk to everyone. O.K., that was my last column, I'll move on. . . 5) Volunteer. Volunteer to serve as an officer in the News Division, volunteer to coordinate programs for your company, or to host meetings, or write columns, or make telephone calls. Just do it. 6) Come to Montreal. Learn from the experts and your peers. With the increase in newsprint costs it may be difficult for many of you in the print media to attend, but try. Charlie Campo has put together an impressive program which will address many of the issues and technologies that we all face today and will be looking at tomorrow. 7) Get to know the people in the News Division who make it such a wonderful network of experts and friends. Get to know: Charlie Campo (Bangor Daily News) - Chair-Elect Sherry Adams (Houston Chronicle) - Secretary Debra Bade (CNN) - Director/Education Lu-Ann Farrar (Lexington Herald-Leader) - Treasurer Mona Hatfield (Contra Costa Times) - Director/Publications Donna Scheeder (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress) - Director/Awards, and SLA Treasurer. Linda Henderson (Providence Journal) - News Library News Managing Editor. Carol Ashurst (CTV - Toronto) - Broadcast Committee Judy Cantor (San Francisco Examiner) - Long-Range Planning Committee M.J. Crowley (Philadelphia Newspapers) - Archives and History Committee Leone Earls (Canadian Broadcast Corp.) - Broadcast Committee Elyse Eisner (UMI Information Store) - Employment Clearinghouse Barbara Ellenbogen Maxwell (USA Today) - Student Stipend Award Coordinator Ginny Everett (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) - Membership Committee Kathy Foley (Washington Post) - Automation/Technology Committee Carolyn Hardnett (St. Petersburg Times) - Affirmative Action Committee Elizabeth Haworth (Midlands Technical College, Columbia, SC) - Publicity- Public Relations Committee Allison Head (Press Democrat - Santa Rosa) - Student Stipend Coordinator Julie Kirsh (Toronto Sun) - Automation/Technology Committee Phyllis Lyons (Freedom Forum) - International Relations Richard Ploch (Washington Post) - Elections Committee Dargan Richards (State-Record - Columbia, SC) - Nominations Committee Diane Sponsler Logsdon (The Pantagraph - Bloomington, IL) - Small Libraries Committee I know that these names are listed in the front of NLN, but I wanted to stress the importance of these individuals. They care enough to volunteer and to help guide us into the future. They each know the benefit of networking and as a result, each of them has accomplished some professional goal in this past year which better places them for the future. Whether is was additional salary, additional staff, ability to attend seminars, new job offers, or new titles, these are the people whose companies have recognized their contribution to their profession. I would like to thank each of them for their wonderful teamwork during the past year. Each of them, as well as the people who have worked with them, and those who have helped from outside the formal nature of the division, have made this journey into the future a much easier ride for me. Thank you. And now looking toward our future, these are the people you should get to know: Teresa Leonard (News and Observer - Raleigh, N.C.) - the Chair-Elect-Elect (and program planner for the Boston Conference) Jody Habayeb (Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne, Ind.) - Candidate for Treasurer and News Division Clearinghouse keeper. Ginny Hauswald (Winston-Salem Journal) - Candidate for Treasurer Ron Larson (Wisconsin State Journal) - Candidate for Director-Education Carol Campbell (Daily Oklahoman) - Candidate for Director-Education A special thanks to each of them for their interest in, and commitment to, the News Division. I'd also like to thank in advance all of you who will be serving as committee chairs and volunteers in the coming year. You really are our future. I'm looking forward to it! See you in Montreal!

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PAGE: 04 JOB OPENING LIBRARIAN - ASSISTANT ARCHIVIST The Sporting News Publishing Company is seeking an organized, detail- oriented individual to become our Assistant Archivist. Responsibilities include aiding in transforming the archives into an electronic library; assisting in developing and administering marketing and licensing arrangements; providing reference and research services to the Editorial and Sales Departments; as well as to the public; and assisting in managing the library and archival resources of the Sporting News. The ideal candidate will have a thorough knowledge of sports statistics and sports history; a high level of computer literacy including database management; experience with online services and the Internet; and excellent oral and written communication skills. A Masters degree in archival administration a plus. We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and a generous benefits package. Please send resume with cover letter indicating salary requirements, to: The Sporting News, att: Kim PUtman, 1212 N. Lindberg Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63132. EOE m/f/d/v.

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PAGE: 04 MEMBERSHIP THE NEWS DIVISION JUST KEEPS GROWING! Forty-four new members joined the News Division from Dec. 1, 1994 through February 15, 1995. As of the end of January, our membership had climbed to 849. Here are our newest members: Mr. Walter S. Albano 1822 T. Street NW # 7 Washington DC 20009 Sandra Allen Library Poynter Institute 801 Third Street S St. Petersburg FL 33701 Anna I. Baird 3900 Tunlaw Rd. NW #501 Washington DC 20007 Ms. Shauna E. Barrows Librarian The Gainesville Sun P.O. Box 147147 Gainesville FL 32614-7171 Ms. Jean A. Barsotti 414 Beatty Street Ellwood City PA 16117 Nancy L. Bentrup 516 Timber La Falls Church VA 22046 Tammy Binford Spec. Serv. Nashville Banner 1100 Broadway Nashville TN 37203 Patricia C. Binns 10 Ridgeway Rd. Port Washington NY 11050 Victoria A. Boylan Editorial Info. Ctr. Chicago Tribune 435 N. Michigan Ave. Rm. 400 Chicago IL 60611 Sandra C. Buchan 208 Shandon St. Columbia SC 29205 Mr. William E. Buchanan 79 W. Wood Street Clarrion PA 16214 Mr. Stephen W. Carlson 788 Columbus Ave # 2H New York NY 10025 Catherine Cino 187 Robinson St. #4 Hamilton ON L8P 1Z7 Canada Ms. Janet E. Cleary Teletec Resource Network Systems Dev. & Technol 2850 Metro Dr. #600 Minneapolis MN 55425-1566 Mr. Gary Dwor-Frecaut 4529 River Rd. NW Washington DC 20016 Jeanne Fong 809 Talbot Ave. Albany CA 94706-1726 Shira E. Goldman 1420 Locust St #35B Philadelphia PA 19102 Ms. Marjorie Gordon Insurance Information Inst. Libr 110 William St. New York NY 10038 Zhi M. Hamby-Nye Real Trends Inc. 9200 Centerway Rd. Gaithersburg MD 20879 Rhonda C. Hamrick Gulf Publishing Inc. Library PO Box 4567 Biloxi MS 39535-4567 Ken G. Hertel 1306 First Ave. W #202 Seattle WA 98119 Alaina P. Hetzlein 177 Temona Dr. Pittsburgh PA 15236 Jason A. Holmes 1431 S. Eugene Baton Rouge LA 70808 Alan D. Husdal 25 Albemarle Ave. Toronto ON Can M4k 1H6 Susan J. Hyland 4800 Ruby Ave. Relay MD 21227 Suzanne M. Kincheloe 521 E. College #3 Iowa City IA 52240 Sharon J. Locken Locken Information 432 N. Few St Madison WI 53703 Margaret E. Martinek 2617 Hallifax Dr. Middletown OH 45044 Lorraine C. Martorana 116 Elizabeth St. NE #8 Atlanta GA 30307 Margaret Mehaffey Delahay Group PO Box 210 Portsmouth NH 03801 Patricia A. Michelin PO Box 2432 Seabrook NH 01730 Lynn A. Mikulsky 1032 E. Knapp St. #713A Milwaukee WI 53202 Anne M. Murphey 205 Telumseh Ave E London ON Can N6C 1S5 Sarah K. Radick Lexis Nexis 800 LaSalle Ave. Ste. 1800 Minneapolis MN 55409 Kathleen A. Shanahan 5690 N. Milwaukee River Pkwy Glendale WI 53209 Yuko Simamoto Salomon Bros. Inc. Tokyo Library 7 World Trade Ctr 46 Fl New York NY 10048 Mary C. Simmons 7236 NE 171st Ln. Bothell WA 98011 Susan C. Smith 3917 W. Emerson St. Seattle WA 98199 Michelle R. Snyder 1011 Arlington Blvd #936 Arlington VA 22209 Nancy Sosnik 517 Van Thomas Dr #E Raleigh NC 27615 Karen A. Stevens 404 E 73rd St. #2 New York NY 10021-3847 Thai N. Strom Newsroom Library The Record 530 E. Market St. Stockton CA 95201 John A. Styczynski 10 Strawberry Ct. Clifton Park NY 12065 Susan Woodland 2 Grove St. #2A New York NY 10014 The 1995 News Division membership directories have been mailed. If you have not received yours, please contact me at the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. Ginny Everett, Membership Chair

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SOURCE: Linda Henderson ASIDE BAR It's almost conference time and I can't wait. Every year I get a little more excited about going to conference and seeing everyone and learning a lot and partying (uh, I mean NETWORKING). It may mean that I have no life or it may mean, and I sincerely hope this is the case, that I'm just enthusiastic about our profession and all the exciting changes it's undergoing. For those of you who have never been, I really hope that you'll get to at least one conference before you retire. For those of you who'll be attending for the first time this year, welcome and bienvenue. For those of you who, like me, get to go on a regular basis, may I suggest that you take a newcomer under your wing? I think my conference experience was a lot richer last year because I got to meet Glenn Johnson-Grau, our Student Award winner, and show him around. In this issue we have lots of conference news. We also have a report from our colleague at the Australian Broadcasting Company and road trip advice from USA Today. We are trying out a new feature this time. I've called it Nuts and Bolts (is it too cute?) and our goal is to address the issues that we grapple with every day when we're not dreaming of photo archiving systems and internet nodes. Marcia MacVane has consented to be in charge of this column and I enthusiastically welcome her to the masthead.

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SOURCE: By John Bartholomaeus Head Program and Information Resources Radio Division Australian Broadcasting Corporation CHANNELS EDITOR'S NOTE: As NLN was going to press, John sent me an e-mail message telling of new reports and funding for ABC. The Internet and interactive multimedia technology have been the catalyst to this new awareness of the importance of information management. He has offered to update us later. REPORT FROM DOWN UNDER: CHALLENGES FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN THE RADIO DIVISION OF AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION In May 1994, I travelled from Sydney to the United States, Canada and back home through London and Singapore. While this trip was originally planned as holiday, I took the opportunity to visit a number of libraries servicing media organisations and to attend an Online conference in New York. At that time I was the Chief Librarian of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and I was curious to discover how my overseas colleagues in media organisations had been faring during the lean times and how they were meeting the challenges of new technologies. In 1993, I had recommended a change in the way we handled collections at ABC, but the recommendations were not adopted. Since then, there have been the most amazing developments in information management by way of the Internet and standards such as Z39.50 which allow different databases and sources to be accessed through common interfaces. Articles I have read in Fortune and Business Week attest to the increase in productivity by making available a range of information that was previously unavailable to workers' desktop computers. In the library and information circles we talk of the Library Without Walls and the Virtual Library. Therefore, in order to put my proposed brief visits to such a variety of organisations into a coherent context I asked the librarians to complete a questionnaire which I thought would indicate how far down the track their organisations were to achieving the Virtual Library. The survey was adapted from the ''Quick-SPEC Survey on the Virtual Library'', conducted by the Office of Management Services, association of Research Libraries (ARL) and reported in ''The Emerging Vitual Library.SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) Kit'' by N. Schiller (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, July/ Aug 1992). The main aim of the original survey was to ''gauge the progress of ARL libraries towards realising the virtual library'' as expostulated by Schiller. OBSERVATIONS All my hosts kindly filled out the survey. I discovered from the replies that the sample I had taken was too small and the organisations too different for any significant result. Yes, we all seem to be heading in the same direction at different speeds and with different levels of control and understanding. It seems to me that well resourced libraries in corporations which have enlightened IT Departments will get there without any trouble at all while others of us may need to adopt a higher profile in order to ensure that we have a role to play. I confess to feeling in that latter class. I visited libraries at the Los Angeles Times; CBC in Toronto; CBS, ABC, WNET in New York; NPR in Washington; CNN in Atlanta; BBC and News International in London and in Singapore; Singapore Broadcasting Corporation; and Singapore Press Holdings. I would like to thank all of those librarians who received me for their graciousness and generosity. My main observation was that, on the whole, newspaper libraries were more valued because they were better resourced with staff and systems. This might be accounted for by the fact that most newspaper libraries are involved with the maintenance of the newspaper database which is not only a source of revenue but also a major research tool for the organisation. It would seem reasonable to say that an organisation mainly concerned with textual information would be supportive of information systems that store and retrieve text. In most of the broadcasting organisations that I visited, the major databases storing the output were managed separately from the library (usually by an archive department). The libraries only provided the reference and information services and were often not as well resourced. The exceptions were the BBC, where all the libraries and archives came under a single umbrella management, and Singapore Broadcasting, where a similar structure existed on a smaller scale. The commercial broadcasters appeared better resourced than the public broadcasters including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I say appeared because I suspect that the BBC might again be the exception with its large resources. OPPORTUNITIES It has become obvious to me that a need and opportunity exists for ABC Program and Information Resources, including the Reference Library, to better integrate its resources into the broadcasting process. Two initiatives that I saw in my travels could assist in this regard. The first is the Prolog system which operates at the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). By the way, the CBC most resembles the ABC by being a large public broadcaster covering a large and sparsely populated country. Prolog is a graphical user interface tool which provides program makers with templates for creating their programs. There are templates which allow the client to search the archives' and record libraries' databases and to cut and paste this information into their program log. At the ABC we are increasingly using digital audio systems and it is only a short step to attaching the audio to the surrogate record being retrieved. The great advantage of such a system is that a database of programs is created by the program makers and is available for searching across the corporation. Such a database of programs could save much time in Archives and Radio Tape Sales when locating and selecting new programs. It also has the potential to cut down in the duplication of documentation activity. Such a system, providing an interface to a range of information services, is also a good example of a client-focused initiative with which departments and processes can be re-engineered to ensure optimum delivery of information services. The second initiative relates to the management of resouce areas and the valuing of the services. It seems that if ABC were to follow the practice of the BBC libraries and to write service contracts with production departments, it would assist us to allocate our resources more efficiently and effectively. It would also enable us to obtain the funding for new services when their need and value can be clearly demonstrated. Since I have been in my present position, ABC Program and Information Resources has written a new Mission Statement emphasising its role in the stewardship of the intellectual capital of the Corporation and as the supplier of the audio and textual documents which enable the creation of the best programs for all Australians. Our vision is the delivery of audio and textual docments to the desktop computers of the program makers. This is the beginning of a planning process which will see all our departments documenting their resources and relating them to outcomes that will be agreed with management. In implementing this plan, we in Program and Information Resources will be seeking partnership with our clients in planning and installing a program rundown database, like Prolog, that will link directly with our resources databases. It is my belief that implementing new information technologies and management processes will give us the opportunity to mark the end of a painful period of attrition as we become integral to realising our organisations' aspirations.

KEYWORDS: BROADCAST LIBRARY; PROFILE; REPORT; RADIO; TELEVISION

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DATE: FRIDAY June 9, 1995
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PAGE: 08 NEWS DIVISION 70TH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION AND TOUR Thursday, June 16 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Celebrate the News Division's 70th Anniversary to be held at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta during the SLA Annual Conference. This celebration event will include a champagne brunch from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., followed by a tour of the museum and library. Local celebrities and dignitaries, including the Honorable Jimmy Carter, will be invited to the brunch. This event is sponsored by Mead Data Central.

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