Publications and Bibliographies
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American Library Association
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Preliminary Schedule of ANSS Meetings
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VICE-CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT
Shawn W. Nicholson, Michigan State University
Whitson, Katharine A., Univ. of Washington, Bothell
MEMBER-AT-LARGE (2-year term)
Susan Erickson, Vanderbilt University
Lynn Hattendorf Westney, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates' Statements:
Nicholson, Shawn W.
Education: Univ. of Northern Iowa, B.A. 1993; Illinois State Univ.,
M.S., 1995; Univ. of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign, MSLIS, 1998. Present
Position: Head, Government Documents and Bibliographer for Sociology
and Social Work, Michigan State University, 2003 - present. Previous
Position: Bibliographer for Sociology and Social Work and State Documents
Librarian, Michigan State Univ., 1999-2003. ALA Divisions: ACRL-ANSS:
Sociology Librarian's Discussion Group, Co-Convener, 2002-present; Membership
Committee, Member, 2000-present; Publications Committee, Member and Co-editor
of ANSS Currents, 2002-present. Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT):
Member. State and Regional Library Association Activities: Government
Documents Roundtable of Michigan (GODORTMI), President, 2003-present;
GODORTMI, Program Chair, 2002-2003; GODORTMI, Treasurer, 1999-2002. Publications:
Bennett, Terrence and Nicholson, S.W. "Interactions between the Academic
Business Library and Research Data Services." portal: Libraries and
the Academy, Forthcoming, January 2004; Nicholson, S.W. and Rossman, B.
"Planning and Zoning Documents," IN Local and Regional Government
Information: How To Find It, How To Use It, Oryx/ Greenwood Press. In
Press; Nicholson, S., Hernandez, J. Cook, M. "Numeric Data Products
and Services," SPEC Kit 263, Washington, D.C.: Association of Research
Libraries, 2001; Frank, H, Nicholson, S., Dickson, L. and Miller, T. "The
Interview Process," SPEC Kit 260, Washington, D.C.: Association of
Research Libraries, 2000.
Statement of Concern: Building on my experience with the Membership Committee, I believe a large challenge confronting us is reaching the silent members of ANSS. I will work to reach this group by pushing ACRL to share accurate, timely electronic mailing lists, which will allow the Publications and Membership Committees to get our message to this group of interested, but not active members. Additionally, I will further pursue the idea of virtual membership on our committees for those members who cannot attend two conferences per year. Lastly, I will support the efforts of committees to reach out to non-member constituencies that could benefit from an interaction with ANSS. The Liaison and Membership committees are already making great strides in this area. Simply put, we need to continue spreading the word of our programs, publications and the expertise of the membership as a whole. Elect me and I will work to further these and other goals as Vice Chair/Chair Elect, Anthropology and Sociology Section, ACRL.
Whitson, Katharine A.
Education: Univ. of California Berkeley, B.A. 1972; Univ. of Washington,
M.Libr., 1992. Present Position: Head, Access Services/Reference
Librarian - Campus Library, serving Cascadia Community College & Univ.
of Washington, Bothell, 2000 - present. Previous Position: Head,
Access Services/Reference Librarian, Univ. of Washington, Bothell, 1997-2000.
ALA Divisions: ACRL NMRT: Program Committee, 1998; ACRL NMRT Students
to ALA Reception, 1998; ACRL - ANSS Bibliography Committee, 1999-2002;
ACRL - ANSS Executive Committee - elected Secretary for 2001-2003. ACRL
- ANSS Review and Planning Committee, 2001-2003. LAMA/SASS Circulation
Services Committee, 2000-2003 - Presented at ALA Annual - LAMA Pre-conference
(One-Stop Shopping - June 2002): Washington State Library Association
(WLA) 2000-present; Community College Librarians and Media Specialists
(CLAMS), 1999-present. Publications: "Electronic Reserves:
Pilot and Evaluation," Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery,
and Information Supply. v10(3), 2000; "Sociological Abstracts."
[review]. ANSS Currents: The Newsletter of the ACRL Anthropology &
Sociology Section, 15(2) November 2000.
Statement of Concern: As the selector for anthropology and folklore
at the University of Washington, Bothell and Cascadia Community College,
ANSS has given me the opportunity to meet new colleagues, learn more about
relevant resources in my field, and find out what innovations are taking
place at other institutions. My service as Secretary to the ANSS Executive
Committee provided me a better understanding of the missions of both ANSS
and ACRL. If elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, one of my goals will be to
introduce new librarians to ANSS. I will work toward increasing membership
by promoting the interdisciplinary focus of ANSS. Since we are no longer
just an anthropology and sociology section, but have recently expanded
to include criminology, I believe we can reach out to librarians in multidisciplinary
subject areas. If elected, I will do my best to communicate and share
ideas that will enhance and promote this Section.
The ANSS Bibliography Committee met twice at the ALA Annual meeting in Toronto. The committee discussed, edited, and finalized reviews of the Ageline database reviewed by Valery King, and also the Chicano Database reviewed by James Nalen. The Ageline review will be published in the next edition of ANSS Currents. The Chicano Database will be published in the spring edition of ANSS Currents. The last agenda item on Sunday included a discussion of the current ANSS Bibliography Committee Projects List. As a result of the discussion, some current projects that the committee is considering for review are AATA Online: Art & Archaeology Technical Abstracts and Web of Science.
Since this program is being conducted jointly with AFAS, the Committee met with Lisa Pillow, chair, and other AFAS members. Fowlkes & Pillow will co-chair this committee through the conference in Orlando. The committee worked on the planned program devoted to celebrating the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston, African-American anthropologist, ethnographer, author, and feminist from the Orlando area. We also talked about the solicitation of additional funding from outside vendors. Stephen Fowlkes plans to contact the ZNH Museum in Eatonville to explore utilizing some of their resources for the program and/or the ANSS tour. Fowlkes & Pillow will be contacting potential speakers, and working on the budget together. Sally Wilson Weimer agreed to work on a bibliography; Joann Jacoby agreed to work on a flyer, and Maggie Dittemore had agreed in advance to work on publicity. We have co-sponsorship agreements with LES and WSS, and Sally volunteered to look into having the Feminist Task Force as another co-sponsor. We agreed that it would be good to have coffee and pastries available, depending on our success in securing donations from vendors; and this will be included in the draft budget to be submitted.
Our charge is to identify organizations and professional bodies active
in the fields of anthropology, sociology, and affiliated fields of the
social sciences that issue publications. Our committee also seeks to serve
as a clearinghouse and communicate with those scholarly and professional
organizations. For example, the American Anthropological Association is
a scholarly organization that our section has members in who initiated
a Scholarly communication Interest group to plan and coordinate programs
at the annual AAA meetings. In addition, both Susan and Sally are working
on updating the list of organizations and persons to whom we send a copy
of the ANSS Currents newsletter each time it is published. We look forward
to having new members volunteer to serve on our committee. We welcome
section members' suggestions and ideas to help achieve the goals of the
committee. We are eager to build ongoing communications and relationships
with the scholarly and professional organizations in anthropology, sociology,
and related fields, and hope that we can also work with the Section's
discussion groups in Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminology/Criminal
Justice to facilitate those communications and relationships. We want
to thank former and current committee members for their leadership and
ideas.
The ACRL push to increase membership was discussed, and we mentioned
several activities our committee might pursue to drum up some new members
for our own section including: 1) encourage each ANSS member to talk up
the section and its activities, publications, etc. to colleagues; 2) promote
the section to non-member subscribers of the listserv; and 3) draft a
letter for NMRT listservs. The proposal to alter the makeup of the ACRL
Membership Committee was discussed briefly; logistical problems with someone
from our committee being a member include a conflict in meeting times,
and possible over-extension in terms of meeting commitments. [A solution
arose at Exec. Committee with Sue Erickson taking on this role while she
serves simultaneously on the ACRL Membership Committee]. The Friday Social
in Greek Town was at an interesting and pleasant venue. Watch ANSS-L for
announcements for the Midwinter social. Lastly, Erin Daix was recognized
for her service to the committee.
Review & Planning Committee
Anna L. DeMiller, Chair
The Committee took one last look at the Manual and By-Laws revisions
they have been working on for the last couple of years before presenting
to the Executive Committee for approval at its June 23 meeting. Executive
subsequently approved both the Manual and By-Laws by a 7-0 vote. The revised
Manual will go up on the ANSSWeb shortly. The By-Laws will go forward
to the ACRL By-laws Committee and if they approve the changes, will be
on the 2004 ACRL elections ballot for voting by ANSS membership. The Committee
also discussed Electronic/virtual membership on ANSS committees; they
noted that given its charge, the Liaison Committee would be ideal for
this. Virtual membership will be an item for further Committee discussion
and recommendations. Another topic for further discussion may be strategic
planning following the ACRL Board meeting in October.
We did not have a formalized topic for discussion this year so we shared
information and questions about various things happening in our libraries
and in the field. Janet Steins gave a report on the changes going on at
Harvard's Tozzer Library and offered handouts with useful information.
We also learned that RLG is now coding by language and it is moving off
the Stanford mainframe. The Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological
Institute is tracking users and may request a donation if you are a heavy
user.
Discussion ideas for Midwinter in San Diego or Annual in Orlando include:
Web-based tutorials/active learning in anthropology;
Have someone from Melanesian Studies Resource;
Center UC San Diego give a report;
Working with distance education;
UCSB's Anthropology on the Web;
Interested in being a co-convener? Contact Gail Egbers at egbersgl@plu.edu.
Getting to know the Canadians through Statistics Canada was the theme of CJC's program. Lindsay Johnston, Government Publications Librarian at University of Alberta, provided a thorough look into Stats Canada and its products and services. Statistics Canada is the nation's official statistical agency providing information on industrial, financial, and social activities. The Agency publishes about 900 titles per year, many of which are available electronically through its web site (http://www.statscan.ca). The site offers free searching with links to both free and priced resources. Ms. Johnston highlighted many of the criminal justice resources for Canada's communities which are accessible and mostly free. One pertinent report, Feasibility Study on the Crime Comparisons between Canada and the United States, is available free on the Internet. She also reported on Canada's Depository Services Program for federal government publications, E-Stat, which gives statistical tables and analytical studies in article form, and the Canada Census, which is conducted every five years. Group members toured the Univ. of Toronto's Centre of Criminology on Monday. We are very grateful to Tom Finlay, Manager, Criminal Information Service and Library, for his gracious hospitality.
A look forward was offered by the new conveners, Jon Harrison and Christina
Smith. A representative from Sociological Abstracts, based in San Diego,
will be giving a presentation to the Criminal Justice/Criminology Discussion
Group at Mid-Winter, 2004, focusing on what the database has to offer
for faculty and students researching criminology or criminal justice.
ANSS members are welcome to attend.
Despite initial technical difficulties, Laine Ruus of the Data Library
Service at the Univ. of Toronto, gave the presentation "Data Services
in Canada: what, when, why and who" that included an explanation
of data vs. statistics and how general reference ("normal librarians")
and data services interact. Ms. Ruus focused on training issues (teaching
reference providers and student staff how to determine when reference
resources are sufficient) and when data services need to be consulted.
She discussed the differences between Canadian and United States data.
Canada has silos of data with very restricted access through Research
Data Centres. The Data Liberation Initiative is trying to address this
through the Depository Libraries Program. At the end of the program, Ms.
Ruus extended an invitation to visit the Data Library Services at the
university. Her PowerPoint presentation is available at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~laine/misc/acrl2003.ppt
and the Data Library Service homepage at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/.
ANSS-L Moves to ALA
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to be on the new list, including those who belonged to the old list, must
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Contact JoAnn Jacoby (jacoby@uiuc.edu),
the new ANSS-L Moderator, with any questions or concerns. Thanks are due
to Stephen Macleod, who launched ANSS-L in 1994, for his many years of
service as ANSS-L Moderator. Thank you, Steve!
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ANSS is seeking volunteers for several committee assignments. Committee appointments require attendance at ALA Midwinter and Annual Conferences. To volunteer, please print and fill out this form, and then return it to:
Dr. Wade Kotter, ANSS Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Social Sciences Librarian
Stewart Library
Weber State University
2901 University Circle
Ogden, UT 84408-2901
wkotter@weber.edu
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ANSS Currents (ISSN 0888-5559) is published by the Anthropology and Sociology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 50 East. Huron St., Chicago IL 60611; (800) 545-2433, ext. 2523. ©American Library Association, 2003.
Co-Editors: Shawn W. Nicholson, Michigan State University, 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824-1048, (517) 432-1749. nicho147@mail.lib.msu.edu
Mary M. Nofsinger, Holland/New Library, Washington State University,
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