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A Shoe for All Seasons: The 25th Anniversary Exhibition
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Ohio Support Staff Institute Closing Session
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Express your artistry and help us create a welcoming environment in the Libraries. Your signs will be posted during and after Welcome Week September 2002.
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Dear Colleagues,
Chiquita Mullins Lee (mullins-lee.1@osu.edu) |
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Public Employee Days at Kings Island,
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The Human Resources Office has received discount coupons for Public Employees Days, July 13 - July 21, 2002 at Kings Island. One coupon admits six. We have also received ticket applications for OSU Night with the Columbus Blue Jackets vs. the Nashville Predators, Sunday, September 22 at 5:00 pm and OSU Employees Nights with the Columbus Crew vs. the L.A. Galaxy, August 14th @ 7:30 pm. Toni Morrison-Smith (morrison-smith.1@osu.edu) |
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Reading: the Digital Future
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Spot Bonus Award Winners |
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Four Libraries employees receive Spot Bonus awards this June for their outstanding work.
Mel has also coordinated efforts with Donna DeGeorge of STX to review and weed the books as he shifted and cleaned them. He has removed perhaps 20,000 volumes from deck 3 in the last two years. As a result of Mel's thorough weeding, 3A was sufficiently empty to accommodate temporarily the de-accessed government documents for the first floor, allowing Sherry Engle to work on improvements such as a new study area and the expansion of the census collection. Mel's work also created space for Andy Krutko's books. Mel's work not only improves the environment in Main Library, but also inspires us to follow his example. 3A is a clean and well-maintained floor because of Mel's "adopt-a-deck" efforts. He work has been exemplary.
One particular instance was the library event held at President Kirwan's residence last December. Donna did such a successful job of contacting donors individually and building up the excitement for the event that we were over capacity at the dinner. As a result, the donors felt important because the event was packed with important people and became more connected with our library renovation project, which will lead to gifts for the campaign. The President and Vice-President, seeing the number of people who supported the Libraries, realized how important the library project is to so many people. This kind of support ensures that the campaign will reach it's goal of $30 million because the Libraries will continue to have successful donor cultivation events. Donna is consistently courteous and helpful to donors when they call. Kaye and Shannon are able to focus their energies on fund-raising because they have seen how she handles our donors. Donna also produces their report documents to share with donors. With very little input from them, she creates documents that are organized and easy to understand. Having clear and concise materials have enabled Kaye and Shannon to take the Libraries' story on the road to share with new prospects. This has led to an increase in interested donors to over 200.
In January 2002, the department needed help with the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Greek books. Michael, who knows, Greek, Latin, and German, offered to do the Greek books. When overtime began in mid-April 2002, Mike's assignment was to work on the Greek backlog. He has cataloged the backlog of 432 Greek books, doing both copy and original cataloging. Around 60-70 percent of these titles required original cataloging. He used his knowledge of Greek to do the descriptive cataloging and establish headings for these pieces. Now that he has completed the cataloging of the Greek backlog, Michael continues to keep the catalog of these materials current. In addition, he also volunteered to assist in cataloging the backlog of new receipt Spanish materials. We are fortunate to have Michael Putman as a staff member. He is very productive, makes good use of his time, does all of his jobs with enthusiasm, and welcomes new assignments and challenges.
Deb emailed libts@lists thanking everyone for their patience if she'd had to "throw them of their machine while it was being worked on…" She also thanked people for their willingness to experiment with the Windows 2000 operating system and application delivery. Her colleagues enthusiastically express their appreciation for Deb. An unprecedented thirty-three faculty and staff members, representing all five Technical Services departments have applauded Deb's knowledge, positive, attention to detail, willingness to help others, and patience during this project and on an ongoing basis. One colleague wrote, "…Deb truly is the savior of Technical Services when it comes to IT! Her recent organization and execution of the 2000 system migration is just one dramatic example off the competence and patience she exhibits every day. When I speak with folks in other divisions and locations, they grow green with envy that we have someone as knowledgeable and helpful (not always a common combination) to run interference for us in handling both the daily frustrations and the major upheavals. I know Deb enjoys this part of her job, as well, so it's definitely a win-win situation." Chiquita Mullins-Lee (mullins-lee.1@osu.edu) |
Mel Ankeny in Information Services, receives a spot bonus to acknowledge his exceptional efforts to improve Main Library. Mel essentially and unilaterally "adopted" decks 3A and 4 and made them his own. Single-handedly and systematically over the last two years, Mel has moved every book and cleaned every shelf for about 90% of 3A and has moved up to deck 4. Mel rearranged shelving to accommodate cleaning and changed the flow of traffic to correct problems associated with the dark and private areas of the floor.
Donna Kosch has been an amazing behind-the-scenes assistant to the Libraries Development Office. She quickly learned the in's and out's of development work, donor relations, and the follow-up and follow-through that is required for successful fund-raising. Donna has demonstrated a high level of competence and ability and has been able to relieve Kaye Madden and Shannon Tippie on any number of details as they progress farther along in their development duties.
Michael Putman of the Cataloging Department became a Libraries staff member in June 2000. At that time, he reviewed what he had been able to do as a student, learned what he should do as a staff member, asked questions, and immediately started in on the monographic card retrospective conversion project. He worked on the analytic retrospective conversion project while still doing the German-language titles in the card retro project. He worked well with students in both projects by giving them clear instructions and explanations and answering their questions.
Deb Cameron of the Monographs Department is recognized for her exceptional performance in coordinating and implementing the rollout of new pc's and Windows 2000 for faculty, staff, and students in the five Technical Services departments. Deb was instrumental in planning the hardware/software upgrade with IT. She scheduled equipment downtime to not disrupt departments involved in fiscal year rollover. She handled equipment swaps, created detailed documentation (with pictures!), did set-up, answered questions, and fixed glitches.Luminous Lucubrations Last week's entry; "cadastral" means "showing or recording property boundaries, subdivision lines, buildings, and related details."
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In order to comply with University procedures, employees who are applying for listed vacancies must complete a Promotion/Transfer Request (form 8931, Rev 9/97) during the week of the first listing of the vacancy in the University Personnel Posting (green sheet). To ensure awareness of all vacancies which have been posted, applicants should consult the weekly green sheet rather than relying on the listing in NEWS NOTES Online and are encouraged to attach a resume and/or other supporting documents to the form. Prospective faculty and staff applicants who are absent during the five-day posting period and wish to apply should see Toni Morrison-Smith Library personnel may also review University employment opportunities at http://www.ohr.ohio-state.edu/index.htm |