ASSOCIATES (vol. 4, no. 1, July 1997) - associates.ucr.edu
*ANNOUNCEMENTS*
July 1997
Apologies to the Library Support Staff Resource Center/SSIRT and
to Terry Rodgers. In the last issue of _ASSOCIATES_ we were
supposed to make announcements regarding the publication of Ms.
Rodgers' book _The Library Paraprofessional: Notes From the
Underground_ (which is being reviewed in this issue) and the
LSSRC/SSIRT support staff survey. Inadvertently, an earlier
version of *ITEMS OF INTEREST* was uploaded.
As a result, we've divided *ITEMS OF INTEREST* into two sections.
In *ITEMS OF INTEREST* we'll continue to list items of long-
standing interest to library support staff such as how to
subscribe to LIBSUP-L or _Library Mosaics_. The new section,
*ANNOUNCEMENTS*, will consist of more timely announcements and
will change each issue. Hopefully, you will provide us with
contributions for this section. News items can be sent to
associat@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu.
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URL Change -
The URL for the Library Support Staff Resource Center shall be
changing shortly.
The current URL, http://rodent.lib.rochester.edu/ssp/
will forward to the new URL for a while. ASSOCIATES will list
the new URL when available.
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Thesis Completed -
Margaret Friesen of the University of British Columbia recently
completed her MLIS. Her thesis was entitled _The Terminology of
Job Descriptions: The Case of Library Assistants Who Provide
Information Services_. Included in her note to us regarding this
was the following "...during the course of researching and
writing the thesis, I frequently tapped into both LIBSUP-L and
ASSOCIATES and read Library Mosaics regularly to keep up to date
with developments related to library assistants".
We hope to have an article from Margaret in the near future.
Congratulations, Margaret!
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Document Review -
The American Library Associations' Committee on Education's Task
Force for the Review of Criteria for Programs to Prepare
Library/Media Technical Assistants would like your participation
in the review of the document "Criteria for Programs to Prepare
Library/Media Technician Assistants". The document is available
at http://rodent.lib.rochester.edu/ssp/ltacrit.htm.
Please study the document and make any suggestions that you
believe will make it relevant to the education of today's LTAs.
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