Volume 24, Number 1 (2005)

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    Using Internet Resources of International Governmental Agencies for Research in College, Public and School Libraries
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Morrison, Andrea Marie, 1957-
    Information published by international intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) on the Internet is rich, varied, authoritative, and sure to please your library users. These are excellent sources of information on countries and regions of the world. IGOs publish on a broad range of subject areas covered in this article: agriculture and food, business and finance, copyright and intellectual property, culture, economics and economic development, education, energy, environment, foreign affairs, health, labor, law, regional affairs, trade, transportation and much more. The activities of the IGOs are reported in current news and cover hot topics that library users want to know about. The type of information published at no fee on the Internet by IGOs includes current news, online full-text magazines and journals, information on individual countries, statistical data, governmental policy and treaties, research and development, and much more. This article will introduce and describe major Internet subject resources produced by international intergovernmental organizations that supply quality information for librarians.
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    Management Basics: Life as a Library Board Member
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Snyder, Herbert W.
    I spend a lot of my time teaching and writing about financial management in libraries and elsewhere, but I’m also a member of my local library’s board. As a result, I found myself sitting through seven hours of board training a few weeks ago. If your library has never done this, I strongly recommend it, not because it’s particularly fun, but because it actually makes a difference in how well both the library and the board work.
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    Managing Student Employees
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Davis, Alberta; Okada, Emily; Stinnett, Rebecca; Swinson, Bara
    Many of us in public, academic, school, and special libraries find ourselves supervising student workers. This article will examine different aspects of the student employee experience, from the hiring process to bringing students into the organization to assessing the mutual benefits gained from hiring student workers.
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    Being a Freshman, Being an Author: An Interview With Teen Author Zoe Trope
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Nowling, Gregg
    While most fourteen year old girls are hanging out at the mall spending their hard-earned allowance on new clothes and quarters for an all-day marathon of Dance Dance Revolution at the video arcade, Portland-based author Zoe Trope was muddling through her freshman year of high school and composing a diary, which would later be turned into a much praised work of young adult literature, Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir. In the opening pages of the book, Trope displays her rare and witty teenage insight into the world of librarianship, insisting of the school media specialist, “You’re the one got stuck working in a high school library. No one chooses that profession, I’m sure.”
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    2004 AIME Staff Development Survey: Professional Activities Compared to National Averages
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Callison, Daniel, 1948-; Patterson, Naomi
    In 2004 the Association of Indiana Media Educators (AIME) sent out the AIME Professional Development survey. Subjects covered staffing and professional development in the school library media center. A series of charts highlights the results of this survey and indicates how Indiana averages compare to national ones.
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    Collaboration of Indiana Public and School Media Center Youth Services: A Survey Analysis of Current Practices
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) LaMaster, Jennifer
    This project was designed to survey the collaborative efforts of Indiana public libraries with their elementary level school media center counterparts. Much has been written about the necessity of collaboration between entities providing children’s services – particularly agencies traditionally charged with reading and literacy skills.
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    Indiana Libraries Submission Guidelines
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Indiana Libraries
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    A Uniting Force: The One Book, One City Program in Indianapolis
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Bowron, Patrick; Buck, Katherine; Micheel, Ryan; Mihelich, Amanda
    One Book, One City is a nation-wide program in which everyone in a community reads the same book. Typically an annual event, the program is intended to foster a sense of community, promote reading among adults, and celebrate literature. This paper evaluates the implementation of Indianapolis’s version of this program—One Book, One City: Indy Reads. In order to do this, the paper analyzes Indianapolis’s reaction to the program through book circulation, community involvement, and patron response.
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    Documents Librarianship in Indiana: A Historical Review
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Malcomb, Lou
    A topic of conversation and concern during ALA Midwinter was the announcement by Judith Russell, Superintendent of Documents, that “GPO will produce and distribute only 50 titles in print, those listed on the “Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper Format.” Everything else will be distributed to depository libraries in electronic format only. This decision had been mentioned at previous meetings of U.S. Federal Depository Librarians but never with a firm date for implementation, October 1, 2005. With all federal government information available on the Internet, will all librarians become “government information librarians” or will the specialist, “the documents librarian,” become even more important within the profession in order to maneuver the maze of our government’s actions on the information superhighway? This article provides a preliminary historical overview of how the specialty of government information grew within the profession with emphasis on its development within Indiana. Perhaps understanding its beginnings will assist in assessing future directions for this area of librarianship.
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    Notes
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2005) Indiana Libraries