President

Please RSVP before September 30 to:
Sarah Morley, 272-3773
smorley@salud.unm.edu

I’m currently a Technical Information Specialist for Sandia National Laboratories. I’m also an independent information researcher, as time permits, operating under the business name NKS Info Services.

I returned to Sandia in December 2001 after almost four years in Corvallis, Oregon as an Information Research Analyst for Hewlett-Packard. I learned a lot and I liked the cool summers, but the muddy winters were something else! I was missing New Mexico by year three!!

Pre-HP I was a member of the first Emporia State library school class, along with other SLA RGC members Kathryn Baker, Kathleen LeFebre, Susan Magee, Lucie Mayeux, and Nancy Orlando Gay. If I forgot anybody, let me know. During that time I went to work for Sandia for the first time, and also did a for-credit project for Mary Ellen McMurtrie at Honeywell. And earned my “library newsletter editor” stripes, as co-editor of the NMLA newsletter around 1996-1997.

Those who know me realize that I could not possibly introduce myself properly without acknowledging that, first and foremost, I am a “horse-person”!! I own two lovely Arabian mares, China Spirit and Annaka, ages thirteen and five respectively. They keep me sane when all else fails! You can never go wrong by asking about my horses!

Again, it’s great to be back. With so many friends and colleagues in the area, it's like I never left!

Take care,

Nora K. Stoecker

October 3, 2002
Kick off for the Rio Grande Chapter year will be held at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe on Thursday October 3. Join us at 12:00 p.m. for lunch at the museum café before we begin our 1:15 p.m. tour of the research library and the museum. Program cost: $10.00; lunch on your own. Special thanks to RGC friend Eumie Imm-Stroukoff of the museum research center for organizing this opportunity.

Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, NM When: October 3, 2002 12:00 – 3:30 p.m. Cost: $10.00 plus lunch Please RSVP before September 30 to: Sarah Morley, 272-3773 smorley@salud.unm.edu

November 20, 2002
TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE

How do you make decisions in your library? Do you base these decisions on the best findings from applied research? This course walks participants through the steps in finding relevant research evidence needed to make informed decisions in librarianship. These steps involve: formulating a question relevant to librarianship; refining the question; searching for relevant evidence in both the library and other literatures; weighing the comparative validity of different types of evidence; estimating possible costs and benefits of a decision; and making the decision. This process, known as Evidence?Based Librarianship, represents a part of the broader evidence?based practice movement in the health sciences.

Instructor: Jonathan Eldredge, MLS, PhD, AHIP
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center

Where: NM State Library
When: November 20, 2002, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $50.00 SLA members; $60.00 non-members

December 14, 2002
This year’s annual Holiday get together will be held at the home of Treasurer Judy Neff. Judy will provide coffee and tea while members are asked to bring something for potluck. The get together will take place Saturday, December 14 from 9:00-11:00 a.m. Directions will be announced in a flyer closer to the date.

Other events for the year are in the planning stages. Look for more details soon.

Glorietta Civil War presentation
Virtual Reference Services- Panel and Discussion
Mediation/Communication workshop – 4 hours
International Special Librarians Day Dinner – April 10, 2003
New Mexico Library Association – April 23-25,2003
Annual Business Meeting – May, 2003

September 25, 2002, Speaker: Debra M. Amidon, Topic: "Knowledge Innovation®: the True Competitive Intelligence"
October 30, 2002, Speaker: Alison Head, Topic: "Behind the Firewall: New Research about the Usability of Corporate Research Intranets"
December 4, 2002, Speaker: Tina Byrne, Tentative topic: "Marketing Library Services"
http://www.sla.org/content/Events/distance/virtsem2002/index.cfm to register
202/939-3627 for more information

Present:
Gloria Zamora, President
Sarah Knox Morley, President-elect
Stephanie Gerding, Secretary
Donna Cromer, Membership
Frances Knudson, Webmaster
Mary Ellen McMurtrie, Employment
Sandy Spurlock, Professional Development
Judith Bernstein, Archives
Linda Morgan Davis, Advertising
Judy Neff, Treasurer

Board Meeting Schedule
3 Executive Board meetings to be scheduled. These meetings will include all Board members and be open to all members.

New Officer
The new Chapter Bulletin Editor will be Nora Stoecker from Sandia.

Discussion on Chapter Bulletin Distribution on Web Only
The mailing is often delayed, and members often read the web version before they receive the paper copy. The question was raised as to whether advertisers can still be included. The chapter would save money as approximately $450 in income is received from advertising, but it costs $150 per quarter for mailing costs. There are some people that still need a paper copy, such as: Archives; two copies to New Mexico State Library; National headquarters; and retirees that don’t have email. Would advertisers have a problem with moving to web based?

Purpose of Bulletin? News about members and informational pieces are shared. Should we survey to find out who is interested in web based only? Does a copy need to go to Headquarters? If we move it to the Headquarters’ site, are we still able to advertise? Frances Knudson will look into it; probably not.

Linda made the motion that we will have electronic copies of the newsletter, with a few print copies for those who don’t have access. This will enable us to publish current information more often. Sandy seconded the motion. The motion passed.

Gloria will send a letter to all members about the change. Donna will give her a list of all addresses. Linda will see if advertisers want to sponsor a program rather than put ad in Bulletin.

Officer Needed
PR board position is still open; there are great files thanks to Linda.

Committee Reports

President Elect Report—Sarah Morley
Handed out great schedule of upcoming programs for the year. Program sponsors are needed for the workshops.

Treasurer’s Report
We have a balance of approximately 1527.08. A brief report was handed out.

Membership—Donna Cromer
Still haven’t received $200 from International Special Librarian’s Day from Headquarters—Anthony Black. We have just under 65 people, lost a few; gained a few.

Frances won $50 gift certificate from SLA for use in the SLA store by emailing someone to familiarize them with SLA.

Archives
The archives are up to date thru 2000. Judith would like more pictures, please send her copies of any you have of SLA events/members. She is also making lists of past Presidential visits and special events to include in the archives.

Employment--Chair Mary Ellen McMurtrie
Mary Ellen has no activity to report from the past year. Job announcements are posted to the Rio Grande listserv. Suggestions for Employment position in future:

• Combine it with another position?
• Look for jobs to post
• List jobs on webpage
• Develop job packet for library employment in NM; including lists of contacts; web addresses; statistics; NMLA contacts; Hitchhiker
• Research what other chapters are doing
• Hold a resume workshop

Last year she had two people contact her, but none this year.

Advertising—Chair Linda Morgan Davis
Linda will contact advertisers to identify those that want to sponsor programs for the chapter, instead of advertising in the newsletter.

Professional Development—Chair Sandy Spurlock
Sandy brought up the question of whether this position needs to be folded into Programming. She also handed out information on SLA offerings, including virtual opportunities. Sarah will investigate these workshops; if some members are already paying for them; it would be cost beneficial to show it to a group.

Gloria recommended that at next Executive meeting Sandy should discuss the current position and whether it is beneficial for the chapter or needs to be changed.

Webmaster & Newsletter: Frances Knudson
Working to get webpage moved to the SLA page.

Awards
Donna Berg was not present, but emailed Chapter Awards information. Nominations have been received and research is being wrapped up.

Special Committee on the Winter 2004 Meeting
Heather Hlava was not present, but she has been working hard and it is an extravaganza! So we need fundraising! Two tickets have been donated from Southwest Airlines. The suggestion was made to find ideas to raise money outside of our membership. We could hold raffles at SLA mid-winder and annual to raise funds. There are sample letters available that you can send to vendors you work with to ask if they want to sponsor. For the Winter 2004 there are plans for dinner and entertainment in one night, including transportation, which may be provided by OCLC.

Bylaws
The bylaws vote will effect the Chapter. The deadline is in Oct. and will negate the need for our Chapter Bylaws. We can then work from a strategic business plan model.

The Center for Development and Disability (CDD), a university affiliated program in the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine has a new website to provide New Mexicans easy access to health information sources on the Internet. CHIP, acronym for Consumer Health Information for the Public, features a wide selection of sources currently available on the web that discuss all aspects of healthcare, report medical breakthroughs, and provide links to agencies that address public concerns about medical issues.

The website was developed under the auspices of “Access to Electronic Health Information for the Public,” a grant recently awarded to CDD by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region. The grant seeks to ensure that New Mexicans are given support in accessing health resources on the web to enhance their capacity for making informed decisions about their health, medical care, and general well-being.

Please visit the website at:http://cdd.unm.edu/iu/access/accessindex.htm

Librarians are urged to support and spread the word about the General Obligation Bond Issue "C" on the ballot in November that would provide books and educational resources for multi-type libraries in New Mexico. The bond would provide $7.7 million for 770 public school libraries in all of New Mexico's 89 school districts, $4.9 million for 75 public and community libraries plus bookmobiles serving all 33 counties and $3.4 million for 25 publicly supported colleges and universities libraries in 22 counties.

The item appears at the end of a very long ballot, so be sure not to overlook it. There has not been a statewide bond issue for libraries since 1994, so it is time for this overdue and much needed support. For additional information and details about allocation and taxes, see www.nmbooksbond.org

92 participants representing 51 public libraries from all over New Mexico were selected from over 100 applicants to attend the Institute. 10 trainers traveled from as far away as Washington State and 4 of the trainers were New Mexico State Library staff members. They taught a wide variety of classes ranging from “Having Fun with Digital Photography” and “Creating Library Flyers and Newsletters Using MS Word” to “Using IIS and Content Server as a Web Server” and “Server Security and Firewalls”.

Heather Gallegos-Rex, Deputy State Librarian, delivered welcoming comments and introduced new Library Development Services Bureau staff members, Karen Starr, Stephanie Gerding and Pam MacKellar. Keynote speaker, Joan Frye Williams, an independent information technology consultant from California, gave a keynote, “Preview of Coming Distractions: Library Technology Futures”.

The Grant funded accommodations for attendees in apartments on the College of Santa Fe campus and meals in the College cafeteria. In addition to attending stimulating classes on Thursday and Friday, attendees enjoyed a networking buffet on Wednesday evening and dinner at a local Santa Fe restaurant, La Choza, on Thursday. From the evaluations we received, 92% of respondents gave the Institute an overall rating of “above average” to “excellent” and 97% agreed that they acquired knowledge they can use.

Stephanie Gerding and Pam MacKellar of the Library Development Services Bureau staff are currently planning regional technology workshops to be held in early 2003 in various locations throughout the state. These workshops will also be funded by the same U.S. Library Training Program Grant.

The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) made a wobbly leap over another hurdle on its way back to state legislatures last week at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) held in Tucson. NCCUSL is the body that promulgated UCITA in the summer of 1999 and has since promoted its adoption by state legislatures.

The UCITA Standby Committee, the NCCUSL committee responsible for drafting UCITA, presented 38 amendments for final approval by the full body of NCCUSL. Although the amendments did pass on the floor as expected, and were adopted by NCCUSL at its business meeting on August 1, there were hours of debate during which commissioners made additional recommendations for more changes. More significantly, approximately 40 commissioners signed a petition to the NCCUSL Executive Committee asking that UCITA be downgraded from a uniform law to a model law. Such a change would have removed NCCUSL's commitment to fully promote the passage of UCITA.

Although the effort to change the status of UCITA was ultimately postponed, there was visible evidence of considerable disenchantment with UCITA within NCCUSL. Miriam Nisbet, ALA Legislative Counsel and president of the Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions (AFFECT), the national coalition opposing UCITA, attended the conference with a contingent of AFFECT members. AFFECT representatives made clear to the NCCUSL leadership that even with the new changes to UCITA, the law remains fundamentally flawed and that AFFECT will continue to oppose UCITA's passage in the states.

It is expected that NCCUSL will continue to work with the American Bar Association (ABA) in order to pave the way for ABA approval of UCITA in early 2003. An ABA Working Group appointed to study UCITA recommended a number of changes to UCITA earlier this year. The Working Group also made an overall observation that UCITA as currently drafted is complex and unclear and should be redrafted to make it easier to understand and to use.

For those of us out of the loop on this issue, here’s some information from ALA on this issue. For more information see http://www.ala.org/washoff/ucita/what.html ---NKS, editor

What is UCITA? The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is a proposed state contract law developed to regulate transactions in intangible goods such as computer software, online databases and other information products in digital form

Libraries & UCITA Contract law is becoming more important to libraries. Nearly all libraries are engaged in contract negotiations, and regularly sign license agreements for software, online databases, and other information products in digital form. License agreements allow the library to use information products under certain conditions. Libraries play an important role in negotiating licenses that allow for the broadest use rights possible, including the right to lend, preserve, and make a fair use of a work. With the ratification of UCITA, contractual licensing will assume increased importance in libraries, but our ability to negotiate balanced contractual terms in the interests of library users will be weakened.

Rio Grande Chapter
Special Libraries Association
c/o Nora K. Stoecker
1400 Virginia St., NE #56
Albuquerque, NM 87110

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