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New Library Automation System
Through
a competitive application
process, Parkland Library was recently accepted for membership
to ILCSO (Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization), a
consortium of over 60 Illinois academic and research
libraries. Beginning fall 2004 Parkland Library will have a new
library automation system including a new catalog. We’ll begin the complex migration
to ILLINET Online (IO) in February 2004.
Information Services librarians will be designing and
teaching short hands-on training sessions for students,
faculty and staff.
Look for more about the conversion and how the new
automation system will enhance library services in future issues of Library
News.
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Women's
Studies Collection Expands
A
collection of educational support materials from Parkland’s
Women’s Studies office will be added to the Parkland Library
collection. The addition of these titles will broaden the
Library collection in areas such as history of the women’s
movement, feminism, gender, education, and discrimination.
Once cataloged, the materials will searchable in the Library
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Mortenson
Associate Visits Our Library
In
October, Parkland Library hosted Anissa Gaisina, a
librarian at the National Library of Udmurt Republic Izhevsk,
Udmurtia Russia. Anissa was selected for the 2003 Mortenson
Associates program at UIUC. During the three days with us,
Anissa learned about community college libraries and was specifically interested in reference services, acquisitions, and
circulation procedures. Her visit also included a tour of the
campus and a college-wide reception in the Center for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
For
information about the Mortenson Center and their programs
see their website: http://door.library.uiuc.edu/mortenson/index.html
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Infonesia
Infonesia is
an inability to remember where you saw or heard an item of
information. The condition is sometimes temporary, but
can recur frequently. One common form of infonesia is internesia,
the inability to remember on which Web site you saw an item of
information. A person who is racking his brain to
remember the information source could properly be termed an infonesiac.
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