The digital exhibit in the Daley Library’s Tanner oasis opened in September with a two-minute display time for each CITY2000 image. Last week, Mrs. Tanner asked us to change the display time to 20 seconds. Now, we want to know your reactions to the shortened time. Do you like it? Did you notice whether patrons pay more or less attention to the display? Should the display time be longer, or even shorter?
Please send your comments to lnaru@uic.edu. Thanks.
Cleo Pappas is the recipient of a Medical Informatics MBL/NLM Course Fellowship – Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. She attended and received her Certificate for the Fall Course of 2009.
Jo Dorsch, Health Sciences Librarian, Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria, was a panelist at the “Ounce of Prevention…Is A Ton of Work” conference held at the Riverfront Conference Center in East Peoria on Wednesday, September 30. The conference was sponsored by Quality Quest for Health of Illinois and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. Her comments on the Reactor Panel were directed to how health consumers find health information on the Internet and how physicians can guide their patients to quality preventive health guidelines.
Congratulations to those employees hired in the month of October!
Ramona Williams, 28 yrs
Kathy Kilian, 23 yrs
Peggy Glowacki, 20 yrs
Renee Kilduski, 16 yrs
Linda Naru, 11 yrs
Adela Nieto, 10 yrs
Dasheka Whitaker, 8 yrs
Amber Hoppenworth, 5 ys
Laquashei Lynn, 5 yrs
Jacqqueline Leskovic, 4 yrs
Valeria Harris, 3 yrs
Janet McMahon, 3 yrs
Robert Sandusky, 2 yrs
Michael Duran, 2 yrs
Leslie Wedel, 2 yrs
Kathryn Stine began as Visiting Assistant Special Collections Librarian and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Special Collections Department on September 16, 2009. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Stine served as Archivist for the HistoryMakers. She earned her M.L.S. at the University of Michigan in 2006. Kathryn can be reached at 6-2742 or at katstine@gmail.com.
UIC men’s basketball has a new season ticket plan, the FLAMES FLEX PLAN, available for as little as $90.
For a $90 FLEX PLAN, you receive 12 undated ticket vouchers to use for any men’s basketball game combination you choose. For example, you could bring a group of 12 friends to one game or you could bring a friend to 6 different games throughout the season. FLEX PLAN seating is in the lower level of the Pavilion.
In addition, there are other season ticket packages for those who are interested in having an assigned seat throughout the season:
- Full Season Floor Seat for $475
- Full Season Premium Lower Level Seat or Upper Level Seat for $175
To see a schedule of games and opponents for this year, check the Flames Web site.
The organizers of the Campus Charitable Fund Drive would like to invite you to join us at the kick-off breakfast program, October 1st at Student Center East, Illinois room. If there are other individuals interested in learning about the 2009 Campus Charitable Fund Drive, please pass this along and ask them to return the attached with their RSVP. We need your support!
Our kick-off for the Campus Charitable Fund Drive will be a breakfast meeting on Thursday, October 1, from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. in Illinois Room A, B & C of Student Center East. On the west side of campus we will host a breakfast program and charity fair Wednesday, October 28, from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. in the Chicago Rooms of Student Center West. Please RSVP as soon as possible, you may fax the attached form to 6-6807, or by calling 3-2960 or via email dponcher@uic.edu. If you are unable to attend please pass this along so that others may attend.
We look forward to this opportunity to express our appreciation to you for your role in ensuring that UIC reaches its goal. Agency representatives will be present to provide a brief overview of their charities, distribute their brochures, and answer any questions you as representatives may have.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact Rushi Parekh at 6-3504, rparek2@uic.edu, or Dana Poncher at 3-2960, dponcher@uic.edu.
Thank you for your time and energy!
Sincerely,
Dana Poncher and Rushi Parekh
Has the American dream of homeownership gone bad? John Wasik, UIC alumnus (LAS ’78, MA ’88), personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News, and author of 13 books about business and economics, talks about his book Cul de Sac Syndrome. Wasik examines the growing financial, ecological and social costs brought about by the pursuit of homeownership. How did 23 million home owing families become “financially insecure,” and how can Americans regain prosperity and happiness?
Wasik, a former special projects editor for Consumers Digest magazine, has won 18 awards for his columns and investigative reporting, including the National Press Club award for Consumer Journalism. He has contributed to Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, Modern Maturity, Parade, Smart Money, Popular Science, Health, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Barron’s, The Chicago Tribune, and newspapers across North America.
John Wasik at UIC
Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 4 pm
Daley Library, First Floor
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
This event is sponsored by the University of Illinois Alumni Association and the UIC Library and is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be available.
Clifford Lynch is the guest speaker at the fifth and final First Monday Podcast Openness 2.0 episode on Sunday, September 20, 2009, in the Daley Library Room 1-210 (south end of the first floor of Daley Library) at 2:15 p.m. The program is free and open to the public.
Lynch, currently executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), will address the future of the Openness movement.
Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.
Lynch currently serves on the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board, the board of the New Media Consortium, and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits.
Openness 2.0 is an examination of the Openness movement since the 2006 First Monday/UIC Library conference Openness: Code, science, and content. This series is generously supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the University of Illinois at Chicago Library.
Episode 1: The State of Openness featured Sandra Braman, Mary Case and Steve Jones. Eduardo Villanueva gave his views in Episode 2: Sharing Openness in Developing Nations. Episode 3: Open Source will feature Brian Belhendorf, primary developer of the Apache Web server, will be released in October 2009. Episode 4: Open Science will feature Dan Gezelter, director of The Open Science Project and professor of theoretical and computational chemistry at the University of Notre Dame, will be released in November 2009.
An All Staff meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 8, 2009, 3 – 4:30 p.m., in Lecture Center F4.
Buses will leave LHS-Chicago at 2:40 p.m. to travel to LC F4. Buses will make the trip from the east campus to LHS-Chicago, leaving at 4:50 p.m.
E-rooms will be available for remote staff participation; additional information will be forthcoming.