Volume 26, Number 1 Fall 2006 ISSN 1523-8997

PRESIDENT’S LETTER, 2006/2007 reports from ASDAL committee chairs. The September letter communicated the progress By Ruth Swan made by the Executive Committee towards fulfilling the objectives set forth for the Dear ASDAL Members, Committee in the Bylaws and provided general Greetings to each of you! I want to take this updates. opportunity to extend thanks to the many members who have contributed to this newsletter The Executive Committee has held monthly and thank our ASDAL Action editor, Sallie meetings since the Conference. We are meeting Alger for another fine edition. We have extended via Yahoo Chat. It took some getting used to! condolences to ASDAL Secretary Lauren However, after getting IDs and learning how to Matachio in the loss of her parents, and to hold a chat conversation with 5 people, we’re members who are experiencing illness at this nearing “pro” status. Some benefits of using chat time and ask that they be remembered in your are that we have an automated transcript of prayers. Since the June conference at Southern meetings, the conference is free --- and it’s fun. Adventist University we have all gone about our separate ways to meet responsibilities in In addition to our monthly meetings, the common with the rest of us. This newsletter membership authorized me to represent you at serves to help us stay connected. Connecting, or the ASDAL Europe conference held July 24 – 27 increasing communications expresses my at Saleve Adventist University in Collonges- leadership theme for us this year and is one of sous-Salève, France. Lauren Matacio attended as ASDAL’s founding goals – Connecting! well and shared vital information on the ANGEL program. It was well received. However, you Since the conference we have been connecting in might want to ask her about her travel adventures traditional, non-traditional, challenging, and and what she wore to the first meeting! Guido interesting ways. For starters, we have the SDA Delameillieure, Director of the Alfred Vaucher librarians’ listserv, which by the way has been library and his staff, hosted this excellent way too quiet! Steve Sowder has the listserv up conference. Ralph Köhler (Friedensau) and Per again and ready to carry our messages. Some Lisle (Newbold) assisted the host library with organizations have hosted guest expert speakers conference planning. Libraries in Europe were on their languishing listservs. A relevant and very well represented. Attendees gave common issue is posted for discussion and the informative visual presentations of their expert facilitator moderates the discussion. This institutions and libraries which I hope can be can serve as a stimulating mini conference. We shared with the general membership. You can be may want to do something similar early next very proud of the caliber of our European library year. programs. I was asked to provide an overview of “mother” ASDAL and to speak on library Recently, I have used the listserv as a means of evaluation including job descriptions and library connecting with the general membership. By mission statements; and to assist as otherwise now you should have received the July needed in the continuing organization of the membership update, as well as the September chapter. Dr. Roberto Badenas, Education & General Membership Letter. Without rehearsing Family Ministries Director, Euro-Africa that content, the July letter reminded us of the Division, made the conference possible and was founding ASDAL goals, and shared progress an active participant during the entire conference.

1 He is to be commended for his commitment to provided a tour of their vibrant library and Ellen the schools and libraries of his constituent area. G. White – SDA Research Center which is under Plans are underway to continue to improve the directorship of Hong Pal Ha. While at information access to students matriculated in Sahmyook, I recognized opportunities for our sister European institutions. Main concerns collaboration between the schools in France and include how to best obtain access to electronic South Korea and perhaps with some of the rest resources in the face of limited funding. of us as well. It was a very worthwhile visit. Libraries are looking to regional consortial Seventh-day Adventist yearbook information on agreements to partially address access issues. In Sahmyook University can be found at addition, the ASDAL Europe chapter faces http://www.adventistyearbook.org/default.aspx? challenges in taking on collaborative activities page=ViewEntity&EntityID=10432. due lack of a common language. English might be the language that best serves collaborative As we continue to move through this semester, purposes best at this time. please accept my thanks to you for willing to be nominated to take on new leadership roles within Lastly, in August, I made a presentation on ASDAL, for continuing to reach out and library assessment for the International connect, and for continuing to be mindful of how Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) your local decisions can or might impact global annual meeting held in Seoul, South Korea this librarianship. The Executive Committee and I year. I have already forwarded materials to some would be pleased to receive suggestions for of you from that conference. As a result, ASDAL’s continued growth and development. Helderberg College and Valley View University Thank you for allowing me to serve you in this now have complementary access to the JSTOR capacity. database. They are more connected! If you know of other libraries in Africa that need JSTOR Cordialement/cordially/kamsa hamnida, access, please alert me so that I can forward ______information. I visited several libraries including Ruth M. Swan, ASDAL President, 2006-2007, ASAN Medical Library at the University of Associate Director, Coleman Library, Florida A Ulsan http://aml.amc.seoul.kr and Korea & M University, Tallahassee, Florida University Centennial Digital Library ([email protected]) http://library.korea.ac.kr/index.jsp. Be sure to take the virtual tour from the web site. Korea IN THIS ISSUE— University Library is driven by a very visible global mission and invites us to collaborate with President’s Letter 1 them to provide global information services. ASDAL 2007 Preliminary Schedule 3 Words fail to express my awe of their program Plan Your Trip to South Africa 3 and facilities. I extended my conference stay in Accommodations 5 Seoul to be able to visit on your behalf the Call for Papers 5 largest (according to Keith Clouten) Seventh-day School Librarians’ Section 2007 6 Adventist school, Sahmyook University Pre-Conference Reports 6 www.syu.ac.kr, (English) Condensation of Keynote Address 8 http://www.syu.ac.kr/sahmyook/englis/about_sa Highlighted Minutes 2006 12 hmyook/about_sahmyook01.php Treasurer’s Report 22 (museum) French Impressions, ASDAL Europe 22 http://www.heritage.go.kr/eng/mus/unv_26.jsp Building the Information Commons 23 Journal of Adventist Education 26 University library director Kyu Pyo Hong was Leadership Conference/Book Review 27 traveling during the time of my visit. In his Adventist Resources Column 28 absence, Academic Dean Dr. Ki Kap Lee was From a Distance 29 kind enough to spend time learning about Obituary 32 ASDAL and arranged for another meeting with Bytes & Bits 32 Librarians Soon Woo Lee, Suyhye Choi, Eliz Library Position 33 Chun, Yeng Ju Jung, Kyung Yoo, and Kyung Kim. They are eager to participate in ASDAL. Language will present a barrier, but I think we can find ways to compensate. Soon Woo Lee

2 27th ANNUAL ASDAL daresay that was not during one of the famous CONFERENCE storms!

Preliminary Schedule When you plan your trip to ASDAL next year, 2007, your city of destination is Cape Town. June 17 (Sunday) – School Librarians Section Many flights from overseas arrive at June 18 (Monday) – Local tour for those arriving Johannesburg, and then you will have another early two hours’ flight to Cape Town. The June 19 (Tuesday) – ASDAL meetings, ALICE transatlantic flights all have Johannesburg as board meeting (morning), evening concert destination but this could change. If you come June 20 (Wednesday) – ASDAL sessions with via Europe you can easily arrange to fly straight ARS incorporated. SDAPI meets in the evening. to Cape Town. I personally found the June 21 (Thursday) – ASDAL sessions with transatlantic flight just too long (18 hours) ARS incorporated. Evening banquet. whereas coming via Europe or London you June 22 (Friday) – Local tour day. divide the flights more equitably into endurable June 23 (Sabbath) – Local tour in the afternoon times. Your travel agents will be able to give June 24-July 1 -- Lanz von Horsten tour of South you alternative costs, convenient connections Africa and comfortable flights.

Questions? Contact Sabrina Riley, ASDAL Helderberg College is located in Somerset West, President-elect, [email protected]) about 25 miles east of Cape Town. Other towns nearby are Strand and Gordons Bay. The ◘◘◘◘◘ university town of Stellenbosch is about twenty minutes drive away. These are all in the PLAN YOUR TRIP TO SOUTH Wineland area in the southern part of the Western Cape, a province of South Africa. AFRICA FOR ASDAL 2007 Cape Town is only about forty minutes’ drive away but longer when the traffic is heavy. By Wendy Young The college, on the slopes of Helderberg Mountain, overlooks False Bay, which has the Here is some information to help you plan to warmer water from the Indian Ocean current and attend the ASDAL Conference next year in is thus a swimmer’s – and surfer’s paradise. South Africa. Some of the websites listed below, have maps and other information which will help Remember it is winter here in June and we have you orientate yourselves. winter rainfall so do bring umbrellas. We have fairly chilly weather at times (average 18 C in The Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Africa day time) but we will pray for one of the Capes’ carries northward the cold “Benguela” current warm and calm winter respites. I don’t think you which sweeps up from the Antarctic, passing will want to swim or stand around on the beach, Cape Point on the tip of the Cape Peninsular. but you may enjoy hikes. Have warm clothes The warm Indian Ocean current, the Agulhas, which can be “peeled” off in layers when sweeps southwards from the opposite side along necessary. the East coast and around the southern tip of Africa, also as far as Cape Point. The meeting of We will be able to provide accommodation in these two massive ocean streams with one of the dormitories for everyone, and plan to temperature differences of >10 degrees C, results charge $30 per day per person, which will in major differences in marine life, and has a include food and accommodation. Helderberg large impact on the climate. So although the College will host the banquet, so that won’t cost surface of the sea at Cape Point seems the same, extra. We are still working out the costs of the it does harbour deep clashes and thunderous outings but we don’t expect it to be more storms. It was first called the Cape of Storms by expensive than previous ones. Helderberg the early Portuguese mariners but was later College does not own a bus so transport will be renamed the Cape of Good Hope, a name we still the most expensive item. use today. Sir Francis Drake (in 1580) described it as the “fairest cape in all the world”, but I Plans for our days’ outing are - to go by bus to Cape Town and hopefully ride the Cable Car up

3 Table Mountain and later go by boat to Robben www.safrica.info Official gateway Island (where Mandela was imprisoned). You www.southafrica.info/plan_trip/travel_tips/questi will be able to have lunch at the Waterfront in ons/saenglish.htm Amusing language differences Cape Town, and we will arrange another venue www.southafrica.info/2010/vuvuzela.htm For for supper. Depending on the weather we may the world cup also visit Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens or www.saeverything.co.za/site-seeing-western- drive along scenic routes of the Cape Peninsular, cape.htm African Safari travel. though not as far as Cape Point. www.experiencesa.com Western Cape www.infocapetown.com Choose “tours” For relatives who may accompany conference www.gocape.com Choose “tourism” attendees but are not themselves participating, www.stufftodo.co.za Choose Table Mountain outings can be arranged. One of our past Nat. Park students has a Kombi and offers guided tours to www.tourism.co.za Digital guide local destinations. He charges reasonable fares, www.tourismstellenbosch.co.za Quaint and which diminish for each additional participant. historic town. There are also other tour vendors and other www.kapstadt.de Includes video at Cape Town places to go. Some may want to go to Cape www.gapadventures.com Choose Africa-South Point, where two oceans meet, see whales near Africa the other coastline, pet the leopards at the Spier www.i-escape.com Choose SA & Cape Town “project”, visit “Monkeytown” or the Lion Park, or alternatively view some of the many historic Other things to do! wine estates with their unique Cape-Dutch architecture and stunning “photographic The International Booksellers' Federation (IBF) opportunities”. will be holding its annual conference in Cape Town from 13-16 June 2007. This prestigious Below is a list of websites which will give you conference will be hosted by the South African information about Cape Town or travel in South Booksellers' Association (SABA). This is the Africa. Please note we are not endorsing any of first time that the IBF Conference will be hosted these sites or accommodation. We are simply in South Africa. providing some interesting information for browsing. The Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) has succeeded in its bid to South African Websites host the World Library and Information Congress from 19 - 23 August 2007 in Durban. www.sa-venues.com South Africa explored The International Federation of Library www.sanparks.co.za National Parks Associations & Institutions (IFLA) is the leading www.explore-southafrica.co.za international body representing the interests of www.helderberg-africainvitation.co.za Somerset library and information services and their users. West accommodation It is the global voice of the library and www.africastay.com/south-africa Choose: W information profession. Cape, Cape Town. Map www.capetownwebcam.com Also has other info Together with the Cape Town Book Fair www.tourismcapetown.co.za Also has visa scheduled for 16 - 19 June 2007, we certainly requirements have an exciting array of international book www.capetown.gopassport.com events destined for our country in 2007." www.capemeanders.co.za Choose Western Cape www.sa-travelindex.com (from "Books" newsletter of the Centre-for-the- www.southafrica.net Book, South Africa) www.easytigertourism.co.za ______www.scapenotes.com Wendy Young, Director, Pieter Wessels Library, www.pickuptourism.co.za Helderberg College, Somerset West, South www.capeinfo.com Africa ([email protected]) www.meetsouthafrica.com Link to tablemountain.net ◘◘◘◘◘ www.satourism.za.net Directory for SA www.cape-town.info

4 ACCOMMODATIONS NEAR GAME PARK TOUR HELDERBERG COLLEGE ANNOUNCEMENT:

As I mentioned elsewhere, we are planning to Following the ASDAL Conference, Lanz von offer everyone who comes to the ASDAL Horsten of Helderberg College will guide a tour conference in 2007, rooms in the Guest Rooms of Cape Town, Johannesburg, Kruger Park Game located in the Ladies Residence. We are busy Reserve, and eastern South Africa from June 24 upgrading the facilities and hope to have it all to July 1. The tour will conclude in completed before the conference. Some of the Johannesburg. If you are interested in joining rooms have en-suite bathrooms and other areas this tour group and would like to receive updates have communal bathrooms. Internet connections as more information becomes available, please are available in all of the rooms. Each room has send your name and email address to Sabrina two beds with cupboards, and is provided with Riley at [email protected]. linen and towels. The cost will be $30 per person per day, sharing, and this will include ◘◘◘◘◘ meals.

Below I will list alternative accommodation nearby, for those who would prefer more luxurious facilities. I will include web sites or email addresses. Because it is in winter, rates will be at low season. Remember that the exchange rate at the moment is $1:R7.3 You will also need to hire a car, or make arrangements to be collected by the College’s DEVELOPING PEOPLE THROUGH courtesy car. LIBRARIES—Call for Papers Shepherd’s Lane (1 km distance) Brand new, near the college gates, luxury By Sabrina Riley accommodation at R550 pp 10% discount for Helderberg College visitors. Inspired by the presentations of ASDAL 2006, Incl. breakfast. (Still setting up website.) our theme for 2007, “developing people through libraries,” gives us an opportunity as a Helderberg Cottages (2 km) professional body to explore the many ways in Also right next door. Varying accommodation, which libraries and librarians shape the people prices from R450. See www.hbcc.co.za they serve. It is widely recognized that technology is changing the way librarians Strandzicht Guest Lodge (3 km) interact with each other and their patrons. At the Prices from R320 pp See same time, the attitudes, expectations, and needs www.villastrandzicht.co.za of our patrons provide a motivation for us to continually improve our services and find better Two Oaks B&B (4km) ways of meeting patrons’ needs. Whether our Price R400 pp. See www.twooaks.co.za users are North American “Millenials” practically born with technological gadgets There are others which you will find on the attached to them, or youth struggling for websites I quoted in my introductory article, and economic survival in the developing nations of you could even stay on the beachfront in the other continents, libraries have the resources and Strand and commute, or out in the wine lands on librarians the information skills to help empower a country estate. people to change their lives and their communities. Possible topics for consideration Looking forward to seeing you here— include the first year experience for undergraduate students, collaboration between Wendy Young and Colleagues. college/university librarians and school librarians, collaborating with faculty, mentoring ◘◘◘◘◘ students, mentoring other librarians, recruiting

5 new librarians, and innovative uses of • How SDA American schools run their technology in reaching out to patrons. libraries. Is there an appointed librarian (part-time or full-time)? Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2006. • The local librarians have requested guidance on suitable SDA books. They Proposals need to include the following items: would appreciate any lists of approved Presentation title SDA Christian books. Presentation format (presented paper, panel • Book repair. discussion, poster session, and so on) • Where to purchase library books. One paragraph abstract • Maintaining the library – student Presenter’s name involvement. Postal address • How to determine grade level of books. Email address • Information literacy.

Please submit proposals to: Since school librarians have little funds for Sabrina Riley, ASDAL President-elect travel, ASDAL members will have to step up 3800 South 48th Street and help present this workshop. Can I count on Lincoln, Nebraska 68506 or you to take a topic and do a 30 to 45 minute [email protected]) presentation?

◘◘◘◘◘ If you have other topics in mind that you would like to present or see discussed, please notify the SCHOOL LIBRARIANS’ chair of the School Librarians Section, Katye SECTION—2007 Hunt at [email protected] or 423.236.2593. Let’s make this the best conference ever! By Kayte Hunt ◘◘◘◘◘ The school librarians section is already planning the program for next year’s ASDAL pre- PRE-CONFERENCE REPORTS— conference to be held at Helderberg College in ASDAL 2006 South Africa on Sunday, June 17, 2007. The theme of the main conference is Developing Sunday, June 18 School Librarians Section Libraries Through People. The school librarians want to use that same theme. You don’t want to By Suzy Robertson miss this workshop!!! There are plans to have a number of attendees from the surrounding area Devotional, Stories Then and Now: Dr. Carole schools. Wendy Young, our host from Haynes, Professor Emeritus, Southern Adventist Helderberg College, wants to invite people from University— other schools around the college in addition to the eleven local SDA schools in the Western Dr. Haynes started our day with a fun, clever Cape. devotional. The Pins’ helped to illustrate a very

important point; there are many different Wendy states “Our schools are required to use personalities in the Church that we interact with the ‘Outcomes-based’ approach now and on a daily basis. Dr. Haynes also shared with us incorporating library materials is more important many stories and facts about libraries and how than ever before. Primary level (K-7) and High things have changed over the years. Did you School (8-12) are all interested. We need to know that the Library of Congress has over 500 advertise so people can plan to come.” miles of shelves full of books?

Wouldn’t you like to be a participant in this How Providing Reference has Changed in 25 workshop? The school librarian section is small Years, Reference and Beyond: Marge Seifert, and definitely needs assistance from other Public Services Librarian, Southern Adventist ASDAL members. Here are some suggested University and Karen Ross, Collegedale topics to be presented. Academy Librarian—

6 Mrs. Seifert and Ms. Ross gave us some food for Frank DiMemmo, Media Librarian, Southern thought in their presentation on the changing Adventist University—Media and Classroom face of library reference material. We learned Resources— there are other ways of accessing information besides Google! With large percentages of Mr. DiMemmo shared with us just how easy it is students using I-Pods, Cell Phones, PDA devices to obtain permission to use copyrighted materials and the like on a daily basis, should information for educational purposes. He spoke about laws be more readily available in these formats? Mrs. using copyrighted material and shared how the Seifert and Ms. Ross share tips with us for professors at Southern use media in their evaluating web resources, and gave a handout of classrooms. Mr. DiMemmo also gave us a valuable sources for the Media Specialist handout on Tech Tips for Every Librarian. Librarian. Group Discussion: There seemed to be a The Best Can be Better: Dr. Krystal Bishop, general consensus that most of ASDAL was not Professor, School of Education, Southern applicable to the school librarians. Some guests Adventist University— had belonged to ASDAL in the past, but allowed their membership to lapse because they didn’t Dr. Bishop’s love for books was translated into a feel it was worth it. How can ASDAL address very interesting, informative presentation on these challenges? choosing the best literature for your library. She provided many examples of children’s and School Library Committee: Katye Hunt, young adult books as well as picture books. Dr. Southern Adventist University, Chair; Bishop shared her enthusiasm for providing good Yanira Paloma, Forest Lake Academy; Gloria reading material for students, and read aloud to Sepulveda, Oakwood College; Kristy Berry, us, pointing out different styles of writing. Walla Walla College; Nabisa Mbali, Hilderberg College, So. Africa; Heather Rodriquez-Jones, From JMV to J.K. Rowling: Changes and Northern Caribbean University. Choices: Jodi Ruf, Assistant Professor of ______English, Southern Adventist University— Suzy Robertson, ANGEL Manager, Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tennessee, Mrs. Ruf discussed how much reading material [email protected] has changed throughout the years, and the choices and challenges facing librarians and ◘◘◘◘◘ educators today. She shared with us the changes she has seen in her lifetime, comparing the Adventist Resources Section Meeting reading material available to her as a child and June 19, 2006 the literature accessible to her own children Southern Adventist University today. She also stressed being aware of the age appropriateness of different books. By Jim Ford

Katye Hunt, Director of ANGEL— Our day opened with a devotional by Jack Led a group discussion on bringing outdoor Blanco, former Dean of the SAU School of education into the Library. Religion. The thoughts were based in part on Suzy Robertson, Manager of ANGEL— Matthew 7:21. He asked, what is our Ms. Robertson demonstrated methods of relationship with Jesus Christ? properly mending damaged books, something that every school librarian needs to know. She Jud Lake, professor of religion at SAU, showed us how to fix torn pages, reinforce presented “Independent Ministries and Those bindings, etc. Finding the right kind of glue and Irritating Web Sites.” He reviewed various other mending materials was of particular periodicals from the “right” and from the “left” interest to our guests from other countries who as well as a number of anti-Ellen White web were quite amazed at what could be mended sites. He pointed out that most of the criticism using these materials. leveled at Ellen White was first heard from Dudley Canright 100 years ago, so nothing is really new. He reviewed a number of resources which can help to counter these shrill voices.

7 Lake concluded the following approaches when After lunch Marsha Rasmussen from meeting critics of Ellen White: Southwestern Adventist University presented 1. Avoid engaging in ad hominem “Joys And Challenges Of Establishing An Ellen (attacking the man) fallacy yourself. G. White Research Center On A University Don’t attack the critic themselves, but Campus.” She reviewed briefly some of the deal with their arguments. positive activities for the locally funded Ellen 2. Don’t waste time writing to hard core White Research Center at SWAU. Then she critics. This only gives them fuel. looked at some of the significant challenges. 3. Understand that Ellen White “hostiles” These are funding, organizational and physical have a dysfunctional relationship with placement of the Center within the university, her writings. They were likely badly public relations, and training for the staff. misguided in the past and were on one of the fringes. Next, Michael Campbell from Loma Linda 4. Learn to recognize when a friend or University presented “Adventist Digital relative has closed their mind to all the Resources Two Years Later” which was a follow evidence. Be diplomatic; love them, up of the digital discussions of the past few ARS accept them as a person, but not accept meetings. He reported some of the advances their viewpoint. made as well as reviewed some of the challenges 5. Remember that the greatest argument to be overcome. for Ellen White’s prophetic ministry is its positive fruits in your own life. The ARS business session elected Lori Curtis 6. Her writings can make you a loving from Loma Linda to replace Merlin Burt on the and Christ-like person. ARS planning committee. 7. Fortify your mind with the facts about ______Ellen White and her prophetic ministry. Jim Ford, Associate Director, Center for 8. Study the apologetic works. Adventist Research, James White Library, 9. Study the critical works and look at the Andrews University, Berrien Springs, criticisms one at a time, not all at Michigan([email protected]) once—it could be overwhelming. 10. Apply correct principles of interpretation when studying Ellen ◘◘◘◘◘ White’s writings. 11. Never be afraid of honest open CONDENSATION OF THE investigation of her writings. The KEYNOTE ADDESS OF THE 25th weight of evidence is in her favor. ASDAL CONFERENCE 12. Read her writings regularly, but read the Bible more. ADAPTATION, ASDAL, ATROPHY The morning concluded with a fine presentation by Bill Sumners, Director of the Southern By Keith Clouten Baptist Historic Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee. His topic was archival My first involvement with organizing a outreach. According to a survey about 30% of club happened when I was 12 years old. archives have no outreach program. We must do Three of us of about the same age formed the outreach to make our collections relevant to the Bush Rovers Club, complete with badges that we public. We must state our case clearly. He then cut out of tin. Within a short time the club grew delineated a number of steps or activities to until it had 5 members – all male, of course – but promote your archive or library including the organization didn’t last more than two years. determining your audience (user group), We tired of bird watching in the nearby bush, publications such as a brochure and newsletter, and discovered cycling. So the club died a community involvement, exhibits, and web natural death of disinterest. It was a case of presence. He concluded his presentation talking atrophy, because it couldn’t survive the changing about what, in his view, constitute a good web interests of growing boys. site.

8 Organizations and Change our responsibility to manage that knowledge well. According to David Segal, one of the roles of a One relatively new technological advance that professional association is to be a change-agent.1 offers intriguing possibilities for us is the Web It should facilitate change, help make it happen. Portal. Portals provide exciting possibilities for He warns, though, that as an organization library service to our clients. When a student or matures, the role of change-agent becomes more faculty user can personalize a library website difficult. An organization begins to focus with their own subject links, and be inward, to maintain current structures rather than automatically aware of new publications in their develop new ones. specific field of interest, we will have provided a valuable tool for our users. Will ASDAL have a ASDAL has survived its first quarter century and role in providing this new technology to has adapted very well to change and new Adventist libraries, whether in North America, or opportunities. It has become a mature beyond our shores? organization. ASDAL may now, though, be facing some new challenges – the future of 1. The Changing Adventist Landscape ALICE as an information cooperative, and The Seventh-day Adventist Church today is adapting the SDA Periodical Index to an online radically different from the Church of 25 years environment. ago. Let’s look at membership growth during that period: 2 How the World Has Changed SDA Membership 1980-2005 The world in 2006 is different from the world of 1980 Statistics 2005 Statistics % Increase 1981. The landscape in which we operate our Global: 3,383,000 Global 14,400,000 325 IAD: 637,000 IAD: 2,608,000 310 libraries has changed in many ways during the SAD: 471,000 SAD: 2,492,000 430 last 25 years. Ghana: 36,000 Ghana: 307,000 753 NAD: 593,000 NAD: 1,012,000 70 I want to briefly talk about three that have already impacted ASDAL and will continue to Notice that most of the growth has been do so. occurring offshore. Within the NAD much of the growth has been with Hispanic and non- The Changing Information Landscape Western cultures. What we have seen and are continuing to see is the Internationalization of Who, in their wildest dreams, could have the Seventh-day Adventist Church. envisioned the awesome changes that technology has brought to information storage, retrieval, and The same pattern is seen in the growth of sharing in 25 years? In 1981 the world had just Adventist Higher Education during the same 25- 3 given birth to the Personal Computer, electronic year period. mail was not yet a public communication tool, and the World Wide Web was not even a dream. SDA Higher Education 1980-2005 1980 Statistics 2005 Statistics % Increase Global Institutions: 72 Global Institutions: 101 40 Our libraries have adapted well to powerful new Universities: 2 Universities: 42 2000 information technologies which have Global Enrolment: 32,800 Global Enrolment: 92,500 182 revolutionized our processes of ordering, NAD Enrolment: 19,602 NAD Enrolment: 23,297 19 cataloguing, indexing, collection building, and public services. But libraries now survive in a Notice the huge increase in the number of world of competition. Every day new church-owned universities, almost all of them information providers dot the landscape. Some outside North America. Notice too the services that we have traditionally provided to enrolment statistics. In 1980 the NAD enrolment our users are now better performed by Google. represented 60 percent of the global enrolment. We live in an information-rich age. Some would In 2005 North America’s enrolment represented say it is super-saturated. only 25 percent of the world total.

Yet libraries will continue to have unique roles. Not only are we seeing a dramatic expansion of Our libraries will continue to be repositories of Adventist higher education in many developing important knowledge, and it will continue to be countries, but the picture is very different from

9 what it was a generation ago. In most of today’s - 18% (1.1 billion) of the Third World, Adventist education is highly world’s population are young respected for its quality. As access to technology people, ages 15 to 24. and the Internet becomes the norm rather than - 85% of these youth live in the exception in overseas Adventist institutions, developing countries, and our schools become very desirable places to get mainly in rural areas. an education. It comes as no surprise that non- 1 Half the world’s jobless are young Adventist young people are flocking to Adventist people universities in great numbers. 2 Youth unemployment is skyrocketing worldwide (88 During the last ten years or so, ASDAL has million in 2002) reacted boldly to the internationalization of the 3 250 million youth worldwide live Adventist Church. We have significant on less than $1 per day membership representation from outside of 4 133 million youth are illiterate North America. We have developed standards 5 110 million youth are malnourished for collection building at schools overseas. Our 6 7,000 become infected with HIV North American libraries have provided a range every day of help to libraries overseas, including cataloguing assistance, site visits, consultations, In 2004 the Draeger Foundation 5 described and gifts of library materials. ASDAL chapters global youth unemployment as “a time bomb” have formed on three continents, and ASDAL adding that in the next ten years, around a billion has conducted its conferences in places as far young people will reach employment age and away as England, Mexico, and Argentina. crowd the world’s labour markets. It’s a troubling thing, because you cannot have vast In these and other ways ASDAL is contributing numbers of unemployed youth, crowded together to global needs. Are there new challenges for in poverty, and not expect outbreaks of violence. ASDAL service to a world church that is Several recent books and articles make the becoming increasingly international in connection between youth poverty, employment membership and education? and terrorism. Jordan is a good illustration of what is happening. The nation is officially pro- We’ve already stepped outside our North western, an island of stability is a sea of American comfort zone. Will the ASDAL of the upheaval. But the increasing poverty of the future be a truly global association? masses (mainly young people and second- generation Palestinians) is producing a mood that 2. Global Youth Landscape is decidedly anti-Western and anti-American.

The World today is very different from what it Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the was 25 years ago. In 1981 we rarely heard of University of Ottawa in his book, The terrorist acts. We were familiar with guerrilla Globalization of Poverty,6 uncovers a scandal of movements – the Mau Mau in Uganda, the global proportions. While 250 million young Shining Path in Peru -- but all that was people in developing countries survive on less happening in faraway places. The world was than one dollar per day, the wealth of a handful basically a safe place. You could travel almost of private individuals managed in offshore tax anywhere on the planet without fear of being havens exceeds a staggering 3,300 billion shot or taken as a hostage. How that has dollars. Addressing the rape of Third World changed in 25 years! societies by large corporations, Chossudovsky’s writes: “Expansion and profitability for the The threat of terrorism affects our daily work in world’s largest corporations is predicated on a small ways. But while we go about our work, global contraction of purchasing power and the there are some global trends that we must think impoverishment of large sectors of the world about because they help to explain why there are population.” I can paraphrase that statement: so many angry young people in the world. Here are some recent statistics from the International We in the West have become rich at the Labour Organization (ILO) and the United expense of the more than one billion poor in Nations.4 our world.

10 So, what can Adventist librarians and ASDAL preparing a web-based manual that gives step- do about it? I believe we can do some things by-step guidance to those planning and hosting that are relevant to the desperate needs of world the meeting. Such conferences will be able to youth, and unique to what Adventist librarians deal with the needs and issues that are relevant to have to offer. Virtually all reports highlight the regions in which they are held. education as one of the urgent needs of the developing world. Education is a key lever in Helping to meet the challenge of providing the dealing with global youth unemployment. best possible education for youth in developing countries, ASDAL might encourage librarians of As an organization of Seventh-day Adventist North American institutions to adopt a school in librarians, people who care as Christ did for the a developing country. An adoption program needy and downtrodden, we can do something to might involve reciprocal visits by librarians, support the education of youth in developing raising funds for specific needs at the overseas countries. We know that good libraries are school, and helping sponsor attendance by critical to higher education, and through our librarians at ASDAL or other library support for the libraries of Adventist universities conferences. in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we can do something tangible to educate young men and Conclusion women, many of them non-Adventist and non- Christian, to be leaders in their society. By I began with the story of the Bush Rovers Club, integrating our faith with our profession in a which failed to meet the changing needs of its practical way, we can help to change the world. five members. Several years later, when I was a high school senior, we organized a new club, a Thinking About ASDAL of the Future speleological society that made trips to explore and study limestone caves in eastern Australia. I have discussed just three areas in which the This time we peaked at around 20 members, both changing world has messages for ASDAL: sexes, and had a lot of fun times. 1. The new technologies 2. The internationalization of the Eventually, though, we ran out of caves to Seventh-day Adventist Church explore. But instead of disbanding the club, we 3. The urgent need of education for broadened our interests to include rock-climbing youth in the Third World and back-packing. We adapted the club to fit our needs, and later we changed its name to reflect I’ve thought about two or three ways in which the widened sphere of activity. Fifty years later ASDAL might help meet these challenges in the that club is still active, with lots of participants. foreseeable future. It has succeeded in coping with change, and has adapted to the interests of its members. On the technology front, imagine a future ASDAL-designed web portal in which students I am confident that ASDAL will continue to go and faculty at any Adventist university are forward, meeting the challenges of the 21st empowered to create their own unique gateways century. Happy 25th, ASDAL! to the knowledge that is relevant and specific to their academic interests. Personal choices could References include language of presentation, selection of relevant databases, and using a sophisticated • Segal, David. “The Role of current awareness service. (Amazon.com and Professional Associations in other online companies are already providing Organizational Change.” Journal of this level of services to their customers). Library Administration, 19, nos.3/4, 1993. Responding to the increasing • SDA Yearbook, 1982 and 2006. internationalization of the Seventh-day • Statistical reports of the SDA Office of Adventist Church, ASDAL might sponsor mini- Education. conferences in various parts of the world. • International Labour Organization. Support for such conferences might include Facts on Youth Employment, 2006, and sending an ASDAL representative to the Youth at the United Nations: UN World conference, paying for a guest presenter, and Youth Report, 2005.

11 • Draeger Foundation. Turning the Map PRESENTATION: “Media and Classroom of the World Upside Down. October Resources” 2004. Frank Di Memmo, Media Librarian, Southern • Chossudovsky, Michel. The Adventist University Globalization of Poverty and the New GROUP DISCUSSION: Consensus that most World Order. 2nd ed. Global Outlook, of ASDAL was not applicable to school 2003. librarians—how can ASDAL address this? ______Keith Clouten, Retired Library Director, Monday ([email protected]) Adventist Resources Section June 19, 2006

◘◘◘◘◘ DEVOTIONAL: Dr. Jack Blanco, former

professor of Religion, Southern Adventist HIGHLIGHTED MINUTES OF THE University. It’s not what we know about Jesus, ANNUAL MEETING OF THE but do we really know Him? ASSOCIATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST LIBRARIANS PRESENTATION: “Independent ministries “25 Years: Tradition and Change, 1981-2006” and those Irritating Web Sites” June 18-24, 2006 Southern Adventist University Jud Lake, Professor of Religion, Southern Collegedale, TN Adventist University

Sunday PRESENTATION: “Communication for June 18, 2006 Denomination Archives” School Librarians Section Bill Sumners, Director of the southern Baptist Collegedale Academy Library Historic Library and Archives, Nashville, TN

LUNCH DEVOTIONAL: “Stories now and then” Dr. Carole Haynes, Professor Emeritus, Southern PRESENTATION: “Joys and challenges of Adventist University Establishing an Ellen G. White Research Center on a University Campus.” PRESENTATION: “Reference and Beyond” Marsha Rasmussen, Technical Services Marge Seifert, Public Services Librarian, Librarian, Southwestern Adventist University. Southern Adventist University Karen Ross, Librarian, Collegedale Academy PRESENTATION: “Adventist Digital Resources Two Years Later” PRESENTATION: “The Best can be Better” Michael Campbell, Associate Chair, Archives Dr. Krystal Bishop, Professor, School of and Special Collections, Loma Linda University Education, Southern Adventist University BUSINESS SESSION LUNCH We reviewed the minutes of last year’s ARS session. PRESENTATION: From JMV to J.K. Rowling: Changes and Choices The term of Merlin Burt expires with this Jodi Ruf, Assistant Professor of English, meeting. Lori Curtis from Loma Linda was Southern Adventist University elected to a three year term (2007-2009).

DISCUSSION: Katye Hunt, Director of Church records procedure ANGEL Michael introduced a recently completed Katye led out in a group discussion on bringing brochure to help local churches know what to do outdoor education into the library. with their church records. It would be well to distribute this widely. PRESENTATION: Suzy Roberton, Manager of ANGEL

12 Cataloging of SDA Periodicals Suggestions included: Warren Johns from Loma Linda, told how he • There is a book being compiled on SDA was cataloging scores of Adventist periodicals history in Africa, a presentation based on OCLC. He also told how he has found on that work would be good. around 700 titles on OCLC already. • Develop detailed procedures. • Try to get church leaders to understand Clearinghouse arrangement for Adventist what types of records need to be Resources preserved. • Ralph Köhler suggested a professor at After discussion, Steve Sowder volunteered to Friedensau who has done work on facilitate the dissemination of this information. Adventists in Tanzania. He will work closely with Stan Cottrell to get the • Emphasize the work of S.A.I.L. information posted on the Adventist Resources • Tour and history of Helderberg with Dr. section of the ASDAL web page. It was Birkenstock. requested that when something new is added to the web page in this regard, an email be sent out Plans for 2008 ARS at Loma Linda via SDA-Librarian alerting recipients of the The next ARS meeting in North America will be change. in 2008 at Loma Linda. Suggestions for that meeting included: Types of information to be included in the • Update on digitization projects clearinghouse: • New technologies • Lists of serials added to OCLC along • ContentDM update with the OCLC number. • Conservation. Loma Linda is upgrading • Where full text serials can be found their conservation lab, so it will be good

• Digitization projects under way or to see and experience what can be done contemplated. This will help mitigate there. against duplication of effort.

• Gaps in holdings and solicitation to help ADJOURNED fill the gaps. • List of Adventist materials to give A tour of the Southern Adventist University away. Pierson Room and Heritage Museum located in Lynn Wood Hall was given. Appreciation to Marilyn Crane Marilyn Crane is leaving her post as Interim ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND POSTER Directory of the Archives and Special SESSIONS – 6:00-8:00pm Collections at Loma Linda. She is returning to The following posters were presented: cataloging responsibilities. • “After Hurricane Ivan: Jamaican Libraries” Heather Rodriguez-James, New Resources and Outreach Activities Director of Library Services, Northern In addition to the new resources coming at loma Caribbean University Linda, Jim Ford announced the acquisition of a • “ASDAL 2007!” Wendy E. Young, John Andrews collection for Andrews Library Director, Helderberg College, University. Minneola Dixon reported on work South Africa being done on the O.B. Edward collection at • “ASDAL Europe Conference Preview” Oakwood College. It is a very rich collection of Ralph Köhler, Leiter der Bibliothek der original documents related to the origins of the Theologischen Hochschule Friedensau school. • “Ask EBSCO: Training/Exhibits”

Tommy Smith, Regional Sales Plans for 2007 ARS at Helderberg Manager, EBSCO Publishing Wendy young from Helderberg suggested it will be mostly local Africans attending the • “Extending Customer Service and conference with only a few from outside South Instruction through Podcasts” Andrea Africa. Y. Griffith, Reference Librarin and Elisa Cortez, Reference Librarian, Loma Linda University

13 • “Friedensau Wiss. Bibliothekar New PRESENTATION: “Tag, You’re It: Behind Library Building” Ralph Köhler the Screen” • “Google Book Search: thumbs Up or Steve Sowder, Systems Librarian, Andrews thumbs Down” Lauren Matacio, University Instruction Librarian, Andrews University and Larry Onsager, Dean of GROUP PICTURE Libraries, Andrews University • “Jump Starting the Andrews LUNCH Information Commons” Cynthia Helms, Head of the Information Services PRESENTATION: “Faculty Outreach Department, Andrews University Programs” • “Thailand Travels: Adventures in Tony Zbaraschuk, Special Collections Librarian, Cataloging in a Third World Country” Archivist and Library Webmaster, La Sierra Sallie J. Alger, Head, Bibliographic University Services, Andrews University PRESENTATION: “New Ways of Spreading Tuesday Library Information” June 20, 2006 Stan Cottrell, II, Technical Services Librarian, Southern Adventist University WELCOME: Ruth Swan, ASDAL President Elect, Linda Mack, President, Genevieve BUSINESS SESSION I Cottrell, Library Directory, Southern Adventist The session was called to order by ASDAL University President, Linda Mack. Tony Zbaraschuk was chosen by the Executive DEVOTIONAL AND WELCOME: Gordon Committee to serve as Parliamentarian for the Bietz, President, Southern Adventist University Business Sessions. Dr. Bietz began by mentioning how ASDAL has led the way for other Adventist organizations. Election Results President Elect: Sabrina Riley Secretary: Lauren Matacio (2006-2008) KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Treasurer: Lee Marie Wisel (2006-2009) ASDAL Action Editor: Sallie Alger (2006-2008) “Adaptation, ASDAL, Atrophy” Constitution & Bylaws: Carolyn Gaskell (2006- Keith, Clouten, Retired Library Directory, 2009) Andrews University Rank & Tenure Committee: Cristina Thomsen (2006-2009) Keith began by talking about ASDAL and how it Deanna Stevens (2006-2009) has survived for 25 years. It has survived and Carolyn Gaskell (2006-2008) matured. It is different now Adu Worku (2006-2008) Larry Onsager (2006-2007) PRESENTATION: “ASDAL 2007” Scholarship & Awards Committee Cynthia Wendy Young, Library Directory, Helderberg Helms (2006-2009) College, South Africa SDA Classification Advisory Committee: Morris Iheanacho (2006-2009) BREAK Site Planning Committee: Sharon Wion (2006- 2009) PRESENTATION: “A Trail Guide for the 21st Century: Liaison Teams” Nominating Committee: Patricia Beaman, Periodicals Librarian, Southern Sallie Alger Adventist University, Loranne Grace, Retired Dan Maxwell Technical Services Librarian, Southern Adventist Mineola Dixon University and Ann Greer, Reference and Carolyn Gaskell Instruction Librarian, Southern Adventist Warren Johns University Since five names were nominated, this list will make up the committee. VOTED, 2 OPPOSED

14 Sallie will call the first meeting together, a chair o That an official representative to will be chosen at that time. Forms were passed ASDAL Europe be approved by the out so people could recommend others or ASDAL Executive Committee and themselves for offices. ASDAL Europe Program Committee. Resolutions Committee Nominations o That said representative receive Bruce McClay financial assistance from ASDAL Christy Berry not to exceed $500. (ASDAL Larry Onsager Europe has pledged to cover all Lauren Matacio local costs). DeForest Nesmith o A formal proposal to address Annette Melgosa representation at future ASDAL Moved nominations cease. Chapter meetings be discussed by the Executive Committee and the Resolutions Committee: ASDAL Business Session at the Bruce McClay 2006 Conference. Christy Berry o ASDAL Europe invited Ruth Annette Melgosa Swan, ASDAL President-elect (and Reports President at the time of the conference) to present at their Secretary’s Report: Marge Seifert, ASDAL conference. We appointed Ruth to Secretary be the official ASDAL Marge made a motion that the Minutes of the representative. 25th Annual ASDAL Conference be accepted as • Ralph Köhler will chair the Site published in the Fall ASDAL Action with just a Planning Committee. couple of minor corrections in wording, which • The election chose a reinstatement of she just was told about. VOTED the Rank & Tenure Committee. Following the pattern outlined in President’s Report: Linda Mack, ASDAL ASDAL Standing Rule 7 regarding President “term of membership on standing and Stan Cottrell has been reappointed Web site section working committees” it was coordinator for another 2 year term (2006-2008). VOTED that the 2 persons receiving Ann Greer has been appointed Distance the most votes receive a term 06-09, the Education Coordinator for a 2 year term (2006- persons receiving the 3rd & 4th number 2008). of votes receive a term 06-08. The The Executive Committee has done a person receiving the 5th number of votes considerable amount of work during the year on receive a term 06-07. the following items: • It was VOTED that after counting the • Wolfhard Touchard’s term as School ballots, the president will inform Library chair had expired, Katye Hunt was candidates of the outcome. Appropriate appointed chair for a 3 year term (2006- committee chairs will also be informed 2009). of member(s) that will join their • There was a request from the Nominating committee so that the new Committee that we go outside the current members/officers may be included in bylaws for a position on the Classification discussions during the conference Committee; we discussed it, but in the end before their official terms begin the committee chose someone who fit the (customarily at the conclusion of the current bylaws. conference). • Honorary awards for distinguished careers • It was also VOTED that the in SDA librarianship. The matter has been Constitution and Bylaws Committee referred to the Scholarship and Awards prepare a proposal to work this practice Committee. into official ASDAL documents. • Study the possibility of sending an official representative to oversees chapter meetings ASDAL Action: Sallie Alger or conferences. After considerable Thanks to all of you for your contributions to discussion and negotiations it was VOTED: ASDAL Action. I also encourage you to submit

15 more articles—especially scholarly articles. 2010 Oakwood College host ASDAL—the GC Sallie’s email is [email protected]. session will be in Atlanta, no dates yet. Deadlines are January 15, April 15 and October 2011 Right now PUC is listed for 2011. Should 15. Please submit articles in Microsoft Word, there be another International Conference at that using Times Roman, 10 point. time?

Treasurer’s Report: Lee Marie Wisel Library Manual Committee: Annette Melgosa Last year in the checking account 5-31-05 This is an ad hoc committee that is one year over $19,110.87 its expiring time. They have started looking at This year in the checking account 5-31-06 performance indicators. This committee has gone $11, 877.03 over its deadline more than once as an ad hoc committee. The committee has laid the What has Lee been doing with the money? She groundwork, now they are ready to begin transferred $7962.39 to Hilts Scholarship. As of creating the manual. 3-31-05, there was $14, 466.04 in the It was moved and VOTED that we extent the scholarship. This year, 3-31-06, there is $25, Library Manual Committee as an ad hoc 966.28. That means we could award $547.00 committee for two years, from 2006-2008. right now. Because we haven’t had the $25,000 for the full year, the amount we can award is Adventist Resources Section Report: Jim small. We still need contributions to the Ford Community Foundation for the scholarship. Lee Jim went over the program that was presented on would like to begin awarding the scholarship Monday. See the ARS Section of this report for next year and she would like to see $1,000 the listing. awarded at a time. In the savings account there was $5013.With interest there is $5064.50. Lee Business Session: had Daneen Achenbach, who was controller at Lori Curtis was elected to serve on the ARS CUC for a number of years, look at the books. planning committee. Warren Johns has cataloged many SDA Question: Is there any reason we couldn’t move periodicals onto OCLC. Andrews is cataloging several thousand dollars from checking to many Heritage Materials onto OCLC. savings? Lee’s answer, there is no reason at all Words of the Pioneers CD ROM new edition why we couldn’t do that. She just does not make will be coming out soon. those kinds of decisions on her own. Thanks and best wishes to Marilyn Crane for all she has done over the years for Adventist Did you notice the banner over the front door? It Resources. does not have a specific date or place on it. That Set up a clearinghouse so we can communicate means the banner can be moved from conference better. Send information to Steve Sowder. Steve to conference. will communicate with Stan, who will add this to the Adventist Resources Section web page. A printed report will appear in the Fall edition of ASDAL Action. Also discussed plans for 2007-2008.

Site Planning Committee: Ralph Köhler ADJOURNED ASDAL 2007 A consensus for June 17-22, 2007. Is there a need or interest for a tour? Yes, there 6:00 pm. A tour of McKee Library was was a definite interest. conducted.

2008 The conference will be at Loma Linda. Wednesday ALA is at Anaheim, June 26-July 2. There is a June 21, 2006 good possibility that we could schedule ASDAL from June 15-20. We could also go from This was tour day. Bruce McClay had our Tuesday to Tuesday. APPROVED devotional while we were on the bus to our first appointment. 2009 ALA will be in Chicago that year, and the A.C. Kalmbach memorial Library – Official meeting will be taking place in July, so there Railroad Library of the State of Tennessee might be a fiscal year problem again. Tennessee Valley Railroad train trip

16 Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Public Services: Christy Berry Library—we were shown a digitization project. 1. Whether to charge a printing fee for items Lunch downtown printed in the library. Also discussed name tags. Rides on the Chattanooga Ducks 2. Discussion about copy machines, how they are International Towing and Recovery Museum used. Are they integrated into the campus charge Incline Railway system? Dinner at the Pastaria, an Italian restaurant 3. Discussed hours during which a professional librarian is on staff. This specifically referred to Thursday evening hours. June 22, 2006 Technical Services: Marsha Rasmussen DEVOTIONAL 1. Discussed backlog—most libraries have them. Ruth Williams Morris, Professor, School of 2. Shelf lists. No one has a paper shelf list any Education and Psychology, Southern Adventist more. University. Five new laws for librarianship. 3. Cataloging. There is always a need for more cataloging help. PRESENTATION: “Disaster Preparedness & Recovery: Is Your Institution Ready?” Archives: Tony Zbaraschuk Tina Mason, Manager of Preservation Services, This was the first Archives breakout ever. Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) Institutional archives could be summed up in one sentence, “not enough time, not enough people, Many of the documents Tina will mention are on not enough space.” the web at www.solinet.net/preservation. Her 1. Discussed archival collections and holdings. workshop topics ranged from keys to disaster Notify Jim when there is an update so it could be preparedness to disaster recovery and response. added to the ASDAL web page. 2. Discussed ways for people to be able to find LUNCH out what each school has. It was strongly suggested to catalog your archival holdings on PRESENTATION “From BI to Wi-Fi: A OCLC. Library Instruction Journey” 3. If several universities are trying to get a Marge Seifert, Public Services Librarian, certain collection, who gets it? Southern Adventist University School Librarians Section: Katye Hunt BREAKOUT SESSION REPORTS – Breakout Facilitators Six met on Sunday, three from academic Directors: Sabrina Riley settings, three from school libraries. The School Library Committee consists of Katye Hunt as 1. ASDAL statistics chair and Yanira Paloma. There are three more Directors use the statistics, so there should be a positions open on the School Library committee. director on the Statistics Committee. The Paulette Johnson volunteered Gloria Sepulveda, directors would like the Statistics Committee to the media librarian at Oakwood. Christy Berry work with Stan to make the form a web form so and Heather Rodriguez James also volunteered. statistics could be submitted online. 2. Recruiting for the profession. BUSINESS SESSION II There are not many people to choose from when Report about Online Registration: Genevieve current librarians retire. Perhaps this next year Cottrell and Stan Cottrell we could develop a taskforce or work toward coming up with a strategy for recruiting new Online registration was done for the first time librarians. this year. Part of the agreement was to evaluate 3. Web site issue and shared experiences of the situation to see how things went. Lee: “I being forced to use templates on our library web think we should use this for membership, for sites and ways that has worked for us or has not ASDAL conferences forevermore. It is worked for us. wonderful, convenient and delightful.” Stan can set things up so membership could also be done online. A motion was made that ASDAL

17 continue to use PayPal for membership dues and Representatives of ALICE met with two groups: conferences. It was moved to amend the motion. • Adu Worku and Margaret Von Hake The web master will be the PayPal coordinator represented ALICE, and Jim Ford and forms generator. AMENDMENT VOTED, represented the SDA Periodical Index at MOTION VOTED the Association of Adventist Colleges and Universities’ constituency meeting ALICE: Margaret von Hake on February 7, 2006. The meeting went ALICE has continued to have 17 members well and we received a number of during the 2005-2006 year: 11 in the North helpful suggestions. American Division, 1 each in the Euro-African • One of the suggestions was for Dr. Division and the Trans-Europe Division, and 2 Garland Duland to present to the World each in the Inter-American and Southern Asia Education Advisory, which had a Pacific Divisions. The cooperative is currently meeting in March. This group consists overseeing a total of 16 databases, including 5 of Education Division leaders from which come free with paid database contracts. around the world. Dr. Duland put One new database was added during 2005-2006: ALICE on the agenda and Adu and I Britannica Online. The Council committed itself met with the group on March 30, 2006, to seeking financial support from the GC and/or Adu again making a very effective the NAD. presentation.

As Dr Bietz said on Tuesday morning, ALICE is Both meetings were productive and encouraging. held up by the SDA college and university The AACU voted to help ALICE lobby for administrators as an outstanding example of funding and gave helpful advice. The World inter-institutional cooperation. However, ALICE Education Advisory members were interested does face a number of challenges, such as: and asked for more information. The Council also discussed a number of membership issues • The growing number of local and relating to institutions which might be subsidized regional organizations which can by the GC. leverage group access to databases at lower prices than ALICE. At the present time, ALICE is working to get on • More institutions, particularly non- the agenda to make a presentation at the 2006 NAD institutions, are participating or NAD K-12 Teachers Convention, to be held in expressing interest in ALICE, and Nashville, Tennessee, August 6-9, 2006. interest is shown by participating institutions in more databases. Other items were discussed at the Council Time/staff to manage this. meeting. • ALICE would like to help meet the • Vendor information and relations. information needs of more non-NAD • Recommended changes to the ASDAL institutions and the K-12 sector. Bylaws With all these issues in mind, at last year’s ASDAL Conference, the Council committed SDA Periodical Index : Jim Ford itself to a determined effort to seek financial The SDA Periodical Index Board met Tuesday support from the GC and/or the NAD. The evening. Decisions made: Finish retrospective purpose of such support would be to provide indexing of 1973. Once 1973 completed, they release time for the ALICE project manager so will index only the Review and Herald for, 1972, that the project manager can expand the 1971 and back. In addition, they will begin provision of electronic resources to more non- adding links to the index from the full-text of the NAD institutions and to the K-12 sector. The Review and Herald at GC Archives website. Council is also asking for subsidization of costs Next will be Ministry Magazine. They will be of at least one major database to non-NAD asking for help in cutting and pasting URLs into institutions and K-12 schools and it is seeking the index database. They will develop procedures involvement at the GC and/or NAD level in and security, then will be in touch with other facilitating communication and coordination. institutions for help.

18 Constitution and Bylaws Committee: Steve New Business: Tony Zbaraschuk Sowder This is from treasurer’s report from yesterday. It The Constitution and Bylaws committee has was moved that we keep as much as possible in a been fairly quiet this year. It was moved to give savings account or an interest bearing checking the committee permission to make corrections in account, to earn as much as possible for the spelling and typos as they find them, as long as it organization. does not change the original intent. MOTION MOTION CARRIED, VOTED PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. Steve made the motion that we streamline the Constitution to Publicity Coordinator Report: Christy Berry include only the officers and their duties. In To publicize the ASDAL Conference this year, another document we put the standing Christy put an ad in most of the North American committees, the standing rules. The committee union papers. Christy also put an announcement would propose to do its work on a web site. on PlusLine.org. They will work at this over the next several months. When the document is ready to be One more motion looked at, it would be announced on the listserv. It was moved that we encourage donations to D All could then look at the proposal and consider Glenn Hilts Scholarship by having ASDAL it. MOTION CARRIED, VOTED match up to the first $2500.00 of donations in the next fiscal year. Listserv Coordinator Report: Steve Sowder MOTION VOTED At the beginning of every semester, Steve sends out a test message to the listserv membership. MEETING ADJOURNED You do not need to respond to this message. Is there information on our web site on how to join BANQUET, 6:00 pm the listserv? Yes. Friday Scholarship and Awards Committee Report: June 23, 2006 Cynthia Helms Cynthia Helms was voted as chair. Scholarship: Devotional: Dr. Jannith Lewis, former Director Hilts Scholarship has not been awarded due to of Libraries, Oakwood College, Huntsville, AL the lack of funds. Right now there is $547. Dr. Lewis brought several newspapers that talked Donate to the foundation--an appeal letter will be of catastrophic events around the world. She sent. mentioned how important it is for librarians to keep up with the news to know what is A motion was made to award SDA librarians happening. who have given outstanding lifetime contributions to SDA librarianship. MOTION PRESENTATION: “Electronic Futures, CARRIED, VOTED Paper traditions” Dan Maxwell, Electronic Resources Librarian, Statistics Committee: Lauren Matacio Southern Adventist University Statistics committee met Tuesday at noon. There were some suggestions for improvement, such as PRESENTATION: “Creating the Caring members of the committee should be directors. Library as Community Building Place” There are only two elected members. The Gilbert Abella, Reference and Instruction former secretary and current secretary are ex- Librarian, Pacific Union College officio members of the committee. PRESENTATION: “ASDAL Europe A motion was made that the current secretary of Conference Preview” Ralph Köhler ASDAL serve as chair of the Statistics Committee. MOTION FAILED BREAK

A motion was made that the two elected BUSINESS SESSION III members of the committee be library directors. This issue will be referred to the Constitution & The last business session was called to order by Bylaws committee. Linda Mack, President. MOTION CARRIED, 2 OPPOSED Steve Sowder, Parliamentarian.

19 Chapter Reports New Business and ongoing business Africa: Wendy Young This chapter started in 2004. Membership Coordinator: 26 members now. There is a lot of enthusiasm, We have not appointed a Membership people want to join. Coordinator for the next two year term. If someone is interested, see Ruth or Linda Mack. South America: The job description is to work with treasurer and No Report at this time publicity coordinator in preparing and distributing materials to new and prospective Rank and Tenure Standing Committee: members, formally recognize new members at Deanna Stevens the annual conference, and contact members who The purpose of the committee is to get have allowed membership to lapse and ask them information and share information with each to reconsider. Please volunteer for this job or other on rank issues. Share documents between suggest someone to help fill this important role. institutions. Conference Planning Committee: SDA Classification Committee: Stan Cottrell It is not a standing committee, it’s not an ad hoc Marilyn Crane is resigning as editor at the end of committee, it is something that just happens and this year. New edition of the schedules. it is an important committee. It always appears Challenges: need for a new editor, need to work with the list of committees. Members: on our committee structure and may wait until the bylaws have been changed to make changes Site Planning coordinator on the committee Pres elect Treasurer – ex officio Web Master Coordinator: Stan Cottrell Posting ASDAL Action has been the biggest part It was moved to refer the issue of the Conference of the job. Electronic delivery of ASDAL Action. Planning Committee to the Constitution & It was recommended that Stan send out a notice Bylaws Committee to see where it fits. It was to SDA Librarian that the next edition is ready. asked they also look at the responsibilities for It was moved that Executive Committee explore each member of the committee. the option of hiring someone to redesign the MOTION CARRIED, VOTED website, find out the cost, bring it back to the membership.MOTION CARRIED, VOTED, 1 Official representation to ASDAL chapter OPPOSED meetings: Stan appealed to all who have made The financial responsibility needs to be divided presentations at this conference to send their between the person attending and their host presentations to him. He will post them on the institution, the host chapter meeting, and web site as soon as he can. ASDAL. Each should make a contribution. It was recommending that the Executive Oversees Coordinator Committee continue studying the matter until we No report at this time. Linda will try to get a have a better handle on what is going to be report for ASDAL Action in the fall. needed.

Membership Committee: Gen Cottrell It was moved that we make the European ASDAL has four new members as of May 31, Chapter active. It is listed as inactive in Bylaws 2006. at the present time. VOTED, MOTION We have 98 members in ASDAL currently. CARRIED

Distance Ed Coordinator: Linda Mack for It was moved to refer the consideration of Ann Greer inviting representatives from chapters outside the Ann has been writing the “From a Distance” United States to ASDAL Conferences to the column for ASDAL Action. Executive Committee and they will bring back a She also did an AVLN presentation for the first proposal. VOTED, MOTION CARRIED global online conference of AVLN.

20 It was moved that the Oversees Coordinator be Ruth Swan installed as president of ASDAL. represented along with the Executive Committee Linda turned the gavel over to Ruth. on the above matter. Linda was thanked for her hard work and was It was moved that airfare be paid in full by presented with a plaque. ASDAL for the current representative to the Europe chapter meeting. VOTED, MOTION Addendum to Resolutions Committee Report: CARRIED, SOME OPPOSITION Lee Marie Wisel ☺ Whereas the ABC Resolution Committee, Could there be some recommendation to the Annette, Bruce, Christy, neglected to mention chapters as to how often they meet? that they stormed the ice cream station at Pasteria Wednesday evening. ASDAL Archives: ASDAL Archives Be it resolved that members of the 2006 We voted to move ASDAL archives to Andrews Resolutions Committee henceforth and a number of years ago. . forevermore: 1. be seated as far from the dessert as Election Procedures: possible Constitution & Bylaws Committee needs to 2. separately come up with election procedures that will tell us 3. in the most undesirable places how election are conducted as well as some imaginable procedures on informing newly elected officers 4. always made to stand at the back of the before the conference so they can be invited to line committee discussions. It will help business can move forward expeditiously. KEYNOTE: “The View from 25: Looking It was moved that a sentence be added to the Back, Looking Forward Bylaws “that the nominating committee send out Harvey Brenneise, Chair, Dept of Research and the ballots.” VOTED, MOTION CARRIED, Instruction, University of La Verne 1 OPPOSED LUNCH There was discussion about the timing of elections. It was felt they should be moved up PRESENTATION: PR for Desperate several months to January or February. Librarians on Hysterical Lane” There was also discussion about notification of Frank Di Memmo, Media Librarian and chair of newly elected officers, but there was no the McKee Library PR Committee, Southern resolution to the issue. Adventist University

New business Closing Remarks Consider looking at the Constitution to allow The theme for next year will be “Developing the president to serve more than one year. people through libraries.” The bottom line is, if you have an active president-elect, president, and past president, it Possible future topics: becomes a 6 year commitment. It is hard to find First year experiences for students individuals who are willing to commit to that How to mentor students time frame. Mentoring other librarians K-6 collaboration for information literacy Concerns of a nominating committee Collaborating with staff member: Term limits Recruiting new librarians There are few volunteers so we felt fortunate to have one candidate for each position. If Post Conference Activities someone is willing to continue serving, they are Friday evening Vespers Program: Dr. Jack asked to do so. It was moved that we close this Blanco, then Archaeological Museum/ Vessels in discussion on term limits and refer it back to Time Executive Committee for further study. VOTED Sabbath afternoon tour: Tennessee Aquarium

21 Supper at Marge Seifert’s home after the sous-Salève. My daughter and I arrived in Aquarium visit. Geneva by boat. Somehow we got on the wrong ______bus and ended up in the middle of the Marge Siefert, ASDAL Secretary, Public Services countryside with no idea where we were. Librarian, McKee Library, Southern Adventist Undaunted, my daughter flagged down the first University, Collegedale, Tennessee car that came by and the driver graciously agreed ([email protected]) to take us to Collonges-sous-Salève.

Please go to the ASDAL website for the full ASDAL Europe was an unforgettable text of the Secretary’s Report. experience. Ralph Köhler, library director at http://www.asdal.org/ (Conference Minutes Friedensau (Germany); Guido Delameillieure, and Proceedings) library director at Salève Adventist University, Per Lisle, library director at Newbold College ◘◘◘◘◘ (England); and Roberto Badenas, Euro-Africa Division, Education Department; planned an excellent conference. TREASURER’S REPORT— See attached sheet at end of this issue The theme of the ASDAL Europe Conference, “Working Together,” permeated our time On March 31, 2006, there was $25,966.28 in the together. I especially enjoyed the interesting D. Glenn Hilts Scholarship Fund which is slide presentations given by librarians from each invested with the Community Foundation of institution, informative presentations with a good Riverside, CA. $547 is available to be awarded dose of humor by Per Lisle of Newbold College in 2006. We are not planning to make an award on collection management and library this year so by next year when we do plan to automation, Linda Baildam’s valuable begin giving the scholarship out again, we experiences and suggestions for training student should have enough money. workers and library users, and Guido ______Delameillieure’s tour of the Alfred Vaucher Lee Marie Wisel, Reference Librarian, Weis Library. ASDAL president, Ruth Swan, Library, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, presented information on the parent organization Maryland ([email protected]) and facilitated goal setting for ASDAL Europe.

◘◘◘◘◘ During breaks we were treated to delicious local fruits and Swiss chocolates. Mealtimes were spent eating, laughing, and talking with new FRENCH IMPRESSIONS—A report friends on the sunny patio adjacent to the from ASDAL Europe cafeteria. The beautiful campus setting with the Salève behind and Geneva below made just By Lauren Matacio walking from building to building an enjoyable experience. The rugged outline of the Saleve mountains against the clear blue sky, friendly faces of Wednesday’s half-day tour of Geneva was one of librarians from across Europe, 15 foot statues of the highlights of the conference. Our first stop protestant reformers on the wall at Parc des was the impressive Martin Bodmer Foundation Bastions in Geneva, succulent fresh fruit and Library and Museum. Viewing this collection mouthwatering Swiss chocolates are just a few was like traveling back in time through the of my indelible impressions from ASDAL history of the book. Cuneiform tablets, papyri Europe at Salève Adventist University, containing the Gospel of John, the Gutenberg Collonges-sous-Salève, France, July 24-27, Bible, a manuscripts of Chaucer’s Canterbury 2006. Tales, handwritten scores by Mozart and Beethoven are just a few of many notable items As a college student in the 1960s I heard many in this large private collection of over 150,000 exciting stories about hitchhiking in Europe. items. When I left Berrien Springs last July I had no idea that hitchhiking would be the means of After the Bodmer Museum tour we were given travel by which I would arrive in Collonges- the option of going on a Reformation walking

22 tour or going shopping. I opted for the Computers, Computer Stations, and Carrels Reformation walking tour through the streets of “Old Geneva” conducted by Badenas. The tour The most obvious change took place in the included famous churches and the Reformation reference room when the library received all 16 Wall at the Parc des Bastions. Upon our return to computers from the University’s main Campus ASDAL members were treated to a computing lab (Nethery Hall) which closed sumptuous array of delicacies to devour while down. The 18 computers that were originally in socializing and networking. the reference room plus 16 from Nethery Hall and 6 new ones brought the total computers in ASDAL Europe is a biennial conference. The the reference room to 40. The four-seated carrels next conference will be held in 2008. It is a great were removed to make room for the additional way to meet European librarians and learn how computers. The reference room was turned into a we can all work together. In addition, it’s a fun computing lab overnight with additional way to experience other cultures. I highly software such as Microsoft Word, Access, recommend ASDAL Europe to all ASDAL Spreadsheets, and Power Point; SPSS Statistical members. Program; Word Perfect, etc. People were coming ______with their floppy disks, CDs, USB drives. Lauren Matacio, Instruction Librarian, James Students were designing presentations, working White Library, Andrews University, Berrien on spread sheets, doing their WebCT or Springs, Michigan ([email protected]) Desire2Learn classes, watching the news, reading their e-mail, etc. ◘◘◘◘◘ Additional computers meant additional computer stations and since the original computer stations BUILDING THE INFORMATION were on Amish-built, we had to order similar COMMONS AT JAMES WHITE ones. The reference librarian went to Amish LIBRARY country (Nappanee, Indiana) and tracked down the builders. The old man who made the original By Cynthia Mae Helms computer stations was leisurely occupying his time with his grandchildren. Since we were told If the electronic resources that have grown in that the Amish usually keep good records, we leaps and bounds can be accessed from were not surprised to learn that he had kept the anywhere, why bother coming to the library? blue prints. Although he no longer makes furniture for income, the project could still be Who needs more seats and more shelf space done because his sons are carrying on the when information is accessible outside the tradition and the business. In contrast to years library? Here’s the deal: If we build the past when we had to go and pick up the Information Commons, the patrons will come. furniture, the Amish business has been upgraded The Information Commons should make the to some extent—they had a telephone answering library not just a place, or the place, but the best service and they hired a van to deliver the place to be. We need to make the library a furniture. The furniture makers came and set up teaching-learning center as well as a refuge from 3 pods with 6 stations each and 4 additional the noise of the dormitories while providing for computer stations for an existing pod, resulting the patrons’ individual and group needs. in a total of 22 additional computer stations.

Andrews University started the Information When the four-seated carrels were removed, the Commons in the year 2005-2006. While the goal old chairs went too. Those chairs had seats that was to apply it to the entire James White Library, came in a variety of colors: orange, blue, yellow, many of the changes took place in the brown. It was also a good time to find another Information Services Department and impacted home for the blue upholstered chairs that used to its reference and instruction personnel. With the be at the computer stations. Thanks to the patron as its central focus, the Information Friends of the Library for raising $6,000.00 and Commons concept includes the physical to Architecture librarian Kathy Demsky for infrastructure, the resources in a variety of arranging a discount with SteelCase, we received formats, updated hardware and software, and 37 computer chairs and 32 carrel chairs. Of the additional services. 32 carrel chairs, 17 were kept in the Reference

23 Room and the rest went to the Seminary Library printing which was set up between the which is also on the Main Floor. By Sept. 2006, Circulation Desk and the Information/Reference the Seminary Library received 20 more chairs for Desk. The printer used the same copy card as the their carrels. public photocopiers throughout the library. Print jobs from the public computers stayed in the The patrons liked those black chairs right away networked printer for two hours and were with their flip arms, swivel legs, a lever for automatically deleted after two hours, thus adjusting the height. The computer chairs had patrons did not have to pay for something they wheels while those that were for the carrels had decided not to print after all. none, and we have observed that patrons would take those with wheels to the carrels and trade Over a long week-end, all public computers from them with those that had no wheels. the entire library were connected to this one centralized print station. Both the Other areas of the library made some changes in Information/Reference Desk and the Circulation the way they had set up their computers. The Desk went into frenzy when patrons had to be Multimedia Center used to have 5 computers in a sold copy cards and taught how to use the linear arrangement, 1 computer for the machine. It was a major transition for patrons microfiche-reader printer, and 1 computer for the and staff but in the long run, people did not have Kurzweil reader which was for the visually to come to the desk to claim their printouts, the impaired. Four computers were added in a staff had more time to address reference and circular arrangement to suit the group needs of information types of questions instead of patrons. A similar approach was done in the counting sheets and money, the Information Periodicals Department which originally had 4 Services Dept. offices could send printouts to its computers in a linear arrangement. Besides own departmental computer without interference adding one computer to the linear arrangement, from public printing, etc. Periodicals added a pod of 4 computers to form a circular arrangement. This networked public printer for all three floors was not problem-free; in fact, it generated Technical Accessories several types of problems, such as patrons coming from all floors of the library to the main Printing is one feature that came as a result of floor to claim their printouts, inability to print this big influx of technology into the library. multiple copies, copy cards being stuck, patrons Several years ago, printers were provided for picking up jobs that were not theirs, people not each area and the one for the Information wanting to buy a card for $1.00 when it would Services Department was linked to the initially give them only 6 prints for 8 cents each, department’s offices as well as the public etc. As far as the cost of printing was concerned, stations in the reference room. Patrons from the we would explain to the patrons that the balance public stations printed to this department’s was to pay for the card and that the card could be printer and claimed their printouts at the refilled at the photocopier or the printer. To Information/Reference Desk during the times maintain good customer service, each of the when the desk was open. Whoever was on duty Information and Circulation Desks had a copy at the desk, counted the sheets and collected the card to print out patron jobs at the cost of 10 payment. When patrons did not like what was cents per page (2 cents more than what they printed, they refused to pay for what they sent to would have paid of they used their own copy the printer. Furthermore, it was not always card). To solve the problem of picking up convenient for office printing to be on the same someone else’s jobs, a solution was made in Dec. printer as the public, especially if the office 2005 when the VendPrint software was set up in personnel were to print on colored paper, official such a way that jobs that were not named would stationery, official envelopes, or scrap paper. The not print. It became obvious to the patrons that situation got worse when all public printing from they had to name their jobs to claim their all three floors of the library was sent to this printouts. They simply have to type a file name department’s printer. or their own name in a window that pops up after the initial print command is given. One benefit that resulted from the All public printing came to a stop at the end June implementation of the Information Commons 2006 and over the July 4th weekend when the one was a networked, centralized printer for public and only networked printer that served all floors

24 died. A printer was attached but the VendPrint instruction is now also being used by other software would not recognize it. The real change library or university departments for other took place when all the public photocopiers and purposes. Of the 144 uses of the Instruction Lab printer were replaced. In place of two for fiscal year 2005-2006, 54 were for other photocopiers on each floor, we got two purposes besides library instruction, such as photocopiers on the main floor (one between the online tests, workshops, demonstrations, visiting Circulation and Information Desks, and one in tour groups, staff and committee meetings. The Seminary Library), one on the top floor hallway, NetOp software has become very useful in and one on the lower floor (Periodicals). Instead allowing students to watch what the teacher is of all floors printing to the main floor, each floor doing from his/her own monitor when set to the had one networked printer which made the “demonstration” mode. The teacher can also put patrons happy. With this convenience came color it on the “attention” mode which prevents printing at a reasonable cost of 20 cents per page. students from reading their email or doing non- Since these machines were leased from Adams related activities on the computer during class Remco, the price was dictated by the company. time. Patrons were not pleased with the fact that their cards are now being charged 10 cents (rather The most recent development in the instruction than 8 cents) per page for black. It did not matter lab came in the summer and part of the fall of any more if the patrons bought a card or asked 2006 when four more computers were added thus either the Circulation Desk or the bringing the total number of computer stations to Information/Reference Desk to use the desk’s 20. Older monitors were replaced so that all copy card, because there was no price break for monitors are now flat screen panels. The buying a card. As a result, the Information and teacher’s monitor was transferred to the platform Circulation desk personnel frequently find and replaced with flat screen panel to make it themselves using the desk’s copy cards to print easier for the teacher to maintain eye contact for the patrons. Oftentimes it took advertising with the students. skills to persuade patrons to buy their own copy cards. A brand new feature added in school year 2005- 06 was the technical and tutorial service offered An accessory that comes along with the in the Reference Room, courtesy of the Student Information Commons concept is the provision Success Office. There is usually only one person of a scanner in the Multimedia Center. The at the Information/Reference Desk but with the Omnipage OCR software converts scanned increase in computers, there was a need for more documents into text or PDF format. We are now staff. After initial negotiations with the Student able to direct patrons to the top floor for all their Success Office, I was able to negotiate for a tutor scanning needs. who was not paid from library budget to be at the Consultant’s Desk (just off the Teaching and Learning Components Information/Reference Desk) in the evenings during the week when there are no other staff to Within the Multimedia Center is an office that back-up the desk. The tutor was required to take falls under the Academic Administration but the library’s student orientation program and to which meshes very well with the Information keep a journal of contacts made. Since the tutor Commons. The Center for Distance Learning and was also to serve as a back-up for the Instructional Technology, commonly known as Information/Reference Desk, s/he had to be DLiT, is in charge of Home School International, acquainted with the library’s web site and the Distance Learning, and Instructional Services. electronic reference resources and had to learn The last mentioned service is particularly worth how to answer reference questions. We counted noting because teachers come to this center for on the tutor to deal with technical questions on help in preparing their online classes, designing the use of Power Point, Word Processing, spread their web sites, and any other form of assistance sheets, etc. and also to help patrons in writing in using technology for instruction and research. their papers, using style manuals to format their bibliographies, etc. Some patrons who were non- The Instruction Lab with 16 computers is traditional students or whose language was not definitely for teaching and learning. The Lab has primarily English looked forward to her coming been existence in the library for several years on desk. She eventually developed a clientele of now and which had been strictly for library

25 non-English speakers who came to her just to service without denting the library’s student learn the English language. budget. Preliminary communications, collaborative decision making, and On a sad note, this tutor graduated and the administrative support coupled with good Student Success Office is still finding a publicity play important roles in making the replacement for her. Information Commons work. It is important to provide technological back-up, to make certain Signage, Open Design, and Lounge solutions to simple problems accessible (such as the key to release a copy card that is stuck), and To create an inviting and comfortable to train the front line personnel. atmosphere, the reference room was rearranged ______to have a more open design. Two tall shelves Cynthia Mae Helms, Head, Dept. of Information were replaced by lower shelves to match the Services at James White Library, Andrews other row of shelves. The low shelves also University, Berrien Springs, MI provided a place for patrons to lay down books ([email protected]) or to provide a place for them to write while browsing the shelves. The old Career ◘◘◘◘◘ Information Collection sign was discarded; matching signs for the CIC and the Reference Collection were mounted on the ceiling. JOURNAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION ARTICLE--Excerpts The low periodical index shelves in the reference room were removed and replaced by a lounging By Wolfhard Touchard area composed of 4 arm chairs, 2 martini tables, 2 ottomans, and some live plants for a homey http://www.andrews.edu/~touchard/m-l.html atmosphere. Students would gather in this area to read a book, work on their laptops, or simply There are FREE databases to full-text articles in take a nap. Generally, patrons who use the single hundreds of magazines and periodicals available carrels have access to electrical outlets along the through your state government or state libraries. walls but there are some patrons who would In Michigan, we can access 40 of them, ranging rather sit on these comfortable chairs with their from KidsInfoBits to Health Reference Center laptops, considering the fact that the library is a Academic, from General Business File to wireless environment. WorldCat. We use our Operator’s license number to gain access to these databases. Several small lounging areas were placed in different parts of the library. Two upholstered For your convenience, I have compiled an chairs were placed in the hallway facing the Internet site to “Databases from State display shelves on the main floor. The lounging Governments” - areas facing the windows on the top floor were http://www.andrews.edu/~touchard/states,html. upgraded with new furniture. All these pieces of This site includes links to: state, public, college, furniture were ordered from SteelCase. and university libraries. I also added a link to National Libraries of the World. Check with Collaboration, Cooperation your local public, school, or college/university library to determine which databases are The implementation of the Information available from your state and how to access Commons is truly a work of collaboration and them. cooperation. Credits go to the library dean for the vision of an information commons. It took the Next, a real treasure, the Spirit of Prophecy reference, instruction, circulation, multimedia, Online! - and systems personnel of the library to work and http://www.andrews.edu/~touchard/sop.html. communicate with each other to implement it in This site has the full text of: 1. most of Ellen G. its initial stages. The Friends of the Library and White’s books (Acts of the Apostles, Desire of the architecture librarian came into the picture Ages, Great Controversy, Patriarch & Prophets, when they provided new chairs for the computer Prophets & Kings, etc.); 2. Ellen G. White’s stations and carrels. The Student Success Office articles published in periodicals; and 3. the full of the University graciously provided tutorial text of literally hundreds of pamphlets. All are

26 searchable, better than a print index! Since this E. Purchase Seventh-day Adventist Resources - collection is absolutely free, have your students new: Adventist Book Center online; bookmark this link at the school, on their Advent Source [many resources for use in laptops, and at home for the benefit of the rest of churches]; General Conference Ministerial; the family. Association Resource Center.

Another very useful site, prepared by the F. Purchase Seventh-day Adventist Resources - ASDAL, is: SDA Resources - used: Lost-N-Found Books; and http://www.asdal.org/sdare/index.html. It provides links “to many sources where you can G. Internet Resources: Adventist Heritage locate or acquire information and research Ministry; Adventist Historical Resources on the material related to the Seventh-day Adventist web, [updated 2004]; Adventist Daily; Adventist Church.” It is divided into: Library; CIRCLE: Curriculum and Instruction Resource Center Linking Educators; A. Historical Research Material: Links to PlusLine.org; Recursos Adventistas[en español]; research collections or tools specializing in SDAnet; Tagnet [Three Angels Global Seventh-day Adventist related material; Andrews Networking].” University Center for Adventist Research; ______Bibliographies by Gary Shearer [Pacific Union Wolfhard Touchard, Retired Reference & College]; General Conference of SDA Archives; Database Librarian, James White Library, La Sierra University Heritage Room; Loma Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan Linda University Department of Archives and ([email protected]) Special Collections; Master List of SDA Manuscript Collections (Updated May 31, 2001); ◘◘◘◘◘ Adobe Acrobat required--PDF] Seventh-day Adventist Libraries; Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index; Seventh-day Adventist LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE/ Obituary Index; SDA Union List of Journal BOOK REVIEW Titles [shows what periodicals are available at which SDA libraries]; Virtual SDA Library “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Union Catalog [allows user to search several Will Rule the Future”: A Leadership Seminar SDA library catalogs with one search]. By Sallie J. Alger B. Full or partial text of Seventh-day Adventist Periodicals: Adventist Review Adventist Today; On July 17th I had the opportunity to hear Daniel Bible Study Guides [various levels]; College and H. Pink, the keynote speaker for the Andrews University Dialogue Columbia Union Visitor; University Leadership Conference. Not only Historic Adventist Land Marks; Insight; Journal was he dynamic, but just plain fun and attention- of Adventist Education; Lake Union Herald; Our grabbing from the very first word out of his Firm Foundation (1999-Present); Our Firm mouth. He confessed to the audience that he is Foundation (1996-Jan 1998); Pacific Union very much an analytical, list-making, left-brained Recorder; Signs of the Times (USA); Southern thinker, but that anyone can become more of a Tidings; Spectrum. right-brained thinker with some inspiration--it behooves us all to start thinking more this way or C. General Church Information: General we will be left behind! The past belonged to Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; World left-brained thinkers, but the future belongs to Divisions; North American Division; the “designers, inventors, teachers, story-tellers”— Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook; Seventh-day those thinkers who are “creative and Adventist statistics [arranged by division; some empathetic.” Much of his talk was taken from go back to around 1900. his book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right- Brainers Will Rule the Future. D. Local Church Location Help: Adventist Organizational Directory; North American The first part of the seminar was on Abundance, Division Church Locator. Asia, and Automation – the big three of the future. Abundance, in the sense that past generations have overloaded themselves with

27 “stuff,” and that the present generation is ADVENTIST RESOURCES showing an inclination to return to a life with COLUMN “meaning, beauty, and transcendence.” (shades of the 70’s?) His point about Asia is that China and India are where it’s happening now! By Tony Zbaraschuk Outsourcing is the name of the game, although sometimes it’s not what it was purported to be in Marilyn Crane is a hard act to follow. I’ve found terms of saving time and money. He says that many of her reviews helpful over the years, and “much of the anxiety over this issue outstrips the only step into her shoes with trepidation here in reality. We are not all going to lose our jobs the pages of ASDAL Action. I hope to provide at tomorrow. (but) Outsourcing is overhyped in the least some guidance to things your library needs short term (and) it’s underhyped in the long to have that you didn’t now about. For my term.” He warns us to network, form inaugural column, I asked my computer to relationships, learn new skills, and look at the generate a list of books recently added to the big picture instead of resting on our past Heritage Room here at La Sierra, and selected accomplishments! six of the ones I thought were most important. First of all, Gary Land’s Historical Dictionary of His third point was about Automation and how it Seventh-day Adventists (Lanham, Maryland: is even beginning to affect white-collar workers, Scarecrow Press, 2005, 419 p., ISBN 0-8108- because so much can be done by oneself with 5345-0) has a somewhat mixed background. forms on the internet and done much cheaper Land is a well-known historian, but my than by face to face meetings with attorneys, experience of Scarecrow Press is that their books doctors, tax preparers, etc. are often somewhat sketchy, and the articles in this book are no exception. Coverage is often The next hour was spent introducing the “Six rather inferior to the 1996 Seventh-day Adventist Senses”—Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Encyclopedia, and often not very helpful. Play, and Meaning. Functionality is no longer Statistics in many articles are from 2003. enough—a product must also have beauty or Despite these problems, however, the book is a whimsy or be “emotionally engaging.” Effective necessary purchase for any Adventist library. argument or persuasion is no longer enough— Land includes articles for many people (such as there must be a “compelling narrative” or story. Robert S. Folkenberg) who were not within the Symphony means putting the pieces together, guidelines for the SDA Encyclopedia; much seeing the big picture—not just analysis, but more importantly, the final third of the book is a synthesis! We are not to focus only on logic, but very extensive and useful bibliography with an develop a sense of empathy for our fellow extended introduction, which makes it a vital human beings, to “forge relationships,” and to guide to collection development and researchers “care for others.” And finally, we should lighten into Adventist history. up and play—put some humor and fun into our lives! Our second book, Here We Stand: Evaluating New Trends in the Church (Berrien Springs, He spent the last hour answering questions from Michigan: Adventists Affirm, 2005, 810 p., the audience and wrapping up the seminar. I ISBN 0-9677622-1-9) is a collection of essays would encourage you to get a copy of his book, edited by Samuel Koranteng-Pipim; some, such A Whole New Mind—it will inspire you to think as Frank L. Marsh’s “Origins: Evolution and the outside the box and see what opens up! Bible”, first published in the Adventist Review in 1991, are reprints, while others are new in this Pink, Daniel H. A Whole New Mind : Why Right- volume. The authors address various theological Brainers Will Rule the Future. New York, and cultural issues: church growth, doctrines, Riverhead Books, 2006. creationism, music and worship styles, marriage ______and sexuality, church leadership and structure. Sallie J. Alger, Chair, Bibliographic Services, Generally they take a conservative stance. The James White Library, Andrews University, book will be valuable both for conservative Berrien Springs, Michigan Adventists seeking arguments and liberal ([email protected]) Adventists seeking to understand conservatives. Adventist librarians need to understand that a ◘◘◘◘◘ large part of the church’s theological debate is

28 taking place outside the official church structure and chaplains than to scholars, but definitely and not necessarily in its official publications, useful for seminary libraries. and this book is one of the largest examples of that trend. The newest volume of the Adventist Classic Library, Sylvester Bliss’ Memoirs of William Bailey Gillespie’s Valuegenesis project has been Miller, is somewhat of a step down from the studying Adventist youth in North America for beginning. The brief introduction by Merlin more than a decade now. Their latest report is Burt is excellent, but rather than a re-typeset Valuegenesis Ten Years Later: A Study of Two volume with added notes (as with the reprint of Generations (Riverside, California: Hancock Questions on Doctrine in this series) the book is Center Publications, 2004, 423 p., ISBN 0- merely a photographic reprint of Bliss’ original 9748531-0-0), in which Gillespie, Michael J. 1853 work, along with three other brief works, Donahue, Ed Boyatt, and Barry Gane sum up the J.V. Himes’ “Memoirs of William Miller” and results of their decadal study and discuss “Mr. Miller’s Influence upon the People” (both methods and findings. This will be extremely 1841) and Miller’s own “Apology and Defence” useful to anyone who works with Adventist (1845). The book is well-produced and of good youth (i.e., all of us college and high school quality, and particularly recommended for those librarians) and of lasting value as a baseline for libraries which lack the original works or wish to further studies. lessen the use of their original copies. The 25% enlargement of the type, in particular, will make Not all Adventist books are written in North this reprint much more readable than the America these days, and many areas are original. Bliss’ Memoirs, as Dr. Burt reminds us, producing their own contributions of are still one of the most important sources for considerable value. Kofi Owusu-Mensa’s William Miller’s life and very necessary for Ghana Seventh-day Adventism: A History (Osu, research into the Millerite movement, but one Accra-Ghana: Advent Press, 2005, 416 p., ISBN could wish that a little more work had been done. 9964-962-90-8) is a fine example. Making extensive use of interviews, oral history, and Tony Zbaraschuk, Special Collections & various unpublished sources, as well as the Archivist, La Sierra Library, La Sierra scanty previous literature on Adventism in University, Riverside, California Ghana, Owusu-Mensa provides a comprehensive ([email protected]) history of Adventism in Ghana from the late 19th century to the present. Primarily a factual record ◘◘◘◘◘ with little analysis, the book nonetheless is critically important for the study of Adventism in Africa and the study of native and American FROM A DISTANCE… approaches to mission work. The book is labeled “Valley View University Monograph On-Campus Student Success and Retention Series, volume 1”, and one is eager to see what Translated to Distance Learning future volumes of the series will contain. By Ann Greer Graeme Bradford’s Prophets are Human (Victoria, Australia: Signs Publishing Company, Introduction 2004, 92 p., ISBN 1-876010-69-X) is a rather conversational defense of Ellen White’s status as Student success is a combination of processes a prophet. While most of us probably have a and teams working together with the common long shelf of such books in our libraries, it’s goals of retaining and facilitating students to often useful to pastors (and others) to have ones complete their degree programs (Coup, that deal with current issues and are not out-of- McCracken, & Shaik, 2005). Decades ago, Noel date in style or approach. Bradford uses the old (1978) advised that every employee at the school pamphlet technique of lightly fictionalizing the should be a retention agent: custodial and discussion of the issues (as a troubled Adventist cafeteria workers, business office personnel, couple seek the advice of their pastor on various librarians, teaching faculty, and all statements about Ellen White they’ve found on administrators including the president. Continual the Internet). Probably of more value to pastors advances in technology and accountability to accrediting bodies are among the factors that

29 shape the concentrated focus on student success protocol for added value. Their goal is to provide (Rushing & Poole, 2002; Lindauer, 1998). As a personalized attention to each learner’s needs result, the information commons concept with (Shaik, 2006, July 15). The School of Business the library playing a pivotal role as the at Eastern Illinois University envisions similar information hub has evolved. Ferguson (2000) rapport with the use of blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, relates the shaking of library traditions when and podcasts (Distance Education Report, 2006). innovative academic administrators partner the library as a support service entity with the Distance Learning Library Support multiplicity of other support services on campus: career guidance, counseling, testing, information How does the distance learning library technology, academic advising, financial aid, complement its institution’s mission and goals online learning, writing center, etc. for student success since most students never set foot on-campus? Since the face of the library to a Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, distant learner is the virtual library web page, U.S.A., serves as an example of a unique hyperlinks for routing to resources and services institution that actively involves its can be a viable solution. Not only would there be administrators, faculty, and staff. Orgeron (2001) routes to the unique library services that distance relates that Administration began the process by learners need but there would be provision to evaluating results from their Student Satisfaction access their classroom, financial aid, mentoring Inventory (SSI) that surveys student opinions services, career guidance, and other support regarding support services in addition to campus services offered by the university. The following life and academics. They learned that overall, is an example of a virtual library page that students were not aware of the available support incorporates the Human Computer Interactive services that existed to “serve the students.” To (HCI) elements (Shneiderman & Plaisant 2004) insure that students become aware of support of simplicity, consistency, color coding, and services, the academic library as the academic grouping: research support service became the clearinghouse hub for student referrals to Full Text Online Borrow Reliable tutoring, career guidance, counseling, disability, Books, Class Resources Resources and assessment services. An area adjacent to Articles, Reserves from on the Reference was set up and named The Academic & Media Another Internet and Career Excellence Center (ACE). ACE hired Library students who received extensive cross-training in Ask-a- Chat Blogs & My Desktop all the support services to staff the Center. As a Librarian Space Conferen result of the paradigm shift to an information cing commons utility, the library has played an Tutorials Other Language Enter My important role in the university’s goal to increase SAU Translators Classes student success and resulting retention. Other Support institutions have experimented with variations of Services the information commons concept: Figure 1 Virtual Library Web Page Georgia Institute of Technology IFLA 2006 Seoul, Korea Presentation The simple web page of three bands of color American Library Association 2003 - 2006 with similarly grouped items focuses the Presentations attention. Resources comprise the first band; types of communication, the second; and, Not only do on-campus learners need ready miscellaneous support, the third. Color coding access to a variety of student support services but helps users to easily navigate a web site without distant students expect similar facilitation. The losing control of where they are and also allows Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas, has expanded for user predictability. It aids memory and helps into online career counseling for its online users to re-find information as they become population (Lorenzetti, 2006, Sept 1). Likewise, dependent upon visual color clues and Coastline Community College in Fountain groupings. Valley, California, provides online tutoring for its distance learners (Nash, 2006, Aug 15). The The design is compatible with the user-friendly University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign guidelines of computing guru, Jakob Nielsen created the Student Relationship Management

30 (2006), who specifies that interfaces should not Ferguson, C. (2000). Shaking the conceptual only be simply designed but they must also foundations, too: Integrating research and prevent cognitive overload. Common examples technology support for the next generation of of overload are bleeding-edge technology, information service. College and Research running animation, scrolling pages, and words Libraries, 61(4), 300-311. that are meaningless to the user. It is imperative that users be able to focus on their tasks rather Lindauer, B. (1998). Defining and measuring the than on figuring out how to explain and library’s impact on campus wide outcomes. maneuver the web page. A web page should College and Research Libraries, 59(6), 546- present users with logical choices in the context 570. of their objectives, and when they make a choice another page should open with their Lorenzetti, J. (2006). Online career counseling expectations. The bottom line is that distant for online students. Distance Education students and faculty have needs that may be Report, 10(17), 5-7. Madison, WI: Magna satisfied through a library’s portal to Publication. information, or its web page. Therefore, the organization of the information and the clearest Nash, B. (2006). Eleven tips for improving route to obtain the information must be the retention. Distance Education Report, 10(16), objectives of the web page author. 1-2. Madison, WI: Magma Publication.

Conclusion Nielsen, J. (2006). Prioritizing Web Usability. Berkeley, CA: New Riders Press. Student retention has been a topic of increased research in recent years for both on-campus and Noel, L. (1978). Reducing the Dropout Rate. San off-campus users. “Superficial gimmicks or Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc. tricks of the trade will not work ... Institutions that make a concerted effort to help students Orgeron, E. (2001) Integrated academic student discover individual talents – and then create an support services at Loyola University: The environment in which those talents can grow – library as a resource clearinghouse. Journal of will flourish in the decade ahead” (Noel, 1978, p. Southern Academic and Special Librarianship, vii). The author gleaned several solutions from a 2 (3). Retrieved October 3, 2006, from review of the literature that involves librarians WorldCat database. who remain indispensable and valuable to their institution’s missions and goals as change Rushing, D. & Poole, D. (2002). The role of the occurs. Ideas may be appropriate for Seventh- library in student retention. In M. Kelly & A. day Adventist librarians whose parent Kross, (Eds.), Making the Grade: Academic organizations are redesigning all support services Libraries and Student Success (pp. 91-101). for more effective student success and resulting Chicago: Association of College & Research retention. Libraries. Bibliography Shaik, N. (2006, July 15). Service center: A Bok, D. (2006). Our Underachieving Colleges: strategy to promote student retention. Distance A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn Education Report (10)14, 7-8. Madison, WI: and Why They Should Be Learning More. Magma Publication. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Shneiderman, B. & Plaisant, C. (2004). Coup, B., McCracken, H. & Shaik, N. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for (September, 2005). Student Retention in Effective Human-computer Interaction. Online and Distance Learning Courses. Boston: Pearson/Addison Wesley. Retrieved September 13, 2006, from ______http://people.uis.edu/hmccr1/UCEA/ Ann Greer, Distance Education Librarian McKee Library, Southern Adventist University, Distance Education Report. (2006, July 1). New Collegedale, Tennessee. Submissions for “From technologies help build learning communities. A Distance” may be sent to Distance Education Report, 10(13), 1-2, 6. [email protected] Madison, WI: Magma Publication.

31 ◘◘◘◘◘ ______Submitted by Lawrence W. Onsager, Dean of Libraries, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, OBITUARY Michigan ([email protected]) & Margaret von Hake, Library Director, Weis Death of Mary Jane Mitchell, Director Library, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Emerita, James White Library Maryland ([email protected])

Mary Jane Mitchell, Director Emerita of the ◘◘◘◘◘ James White Library, died one month before her 91st birthday, on October 11, 2006 at the Sacred BYTES AND BITS Heart Home, a nusing home in Hyattsville, Maryland. She had Alzheimer's disease. La Sierra University

Mrs. Mitchell was born near Pequot Lakes, Looking back on another busy summer, I am Minnesota and raised around the Midwest. She pleased to report that the long-term Library re- was an English graduate of Washington carpeting project has been completed. Our Missionary College (present Columbia Union original solid brown broadloom carpet has been College), a Seventh-day Adventist school in replaced on all three floors with patterned carpet Takoma Park, Maryland. Mrs. Mitchell received tiles in a color the manufacturer calls “Matisse a bachelor's degree in library science from Purple”. One of the most interesting features of Catholic University and she received a master's this project was to observe workers using degree in church history from the Seventh-day equipment to move the bookstacks fully loaded. Adventist Theological Seminary. If a recarpeting project is in your future, be sure to check into this option for dealing with Mrs. Mitchell worked for the Seventh-day bookstack issues. Feel free to contact me for Adventist Theological Seminary from the early further information. 1940s until it merged with Emmanuel Missionary College in 1959 to form Andrews At the end of June we launched a summer University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. She reading program for faculty and staff called moved to Berrien Springs in 1960 to set up the “Power of Pages.” Details were posted on the Seminary Library. In 1962, The University Library’s web page including a form for library merged with the Seminary library to form reporting on books read. All reports were posted the James White Library. Mrs. Mitchell served as blog-style for everyone to enjoy. We gave prizes the James White Library director until her to every participant and additional prizes to all retirement in 1983. readers of five and ten books. The contest ended in early September with a Library-hosted Mrs. Mitchell returned to the Washington, D.C. reception where we announced the grand prize area in 1999 and spent several years in the reader of the most books. District. In 2004, she moved to the Sacred Heart Home. We were surprised to have a tie with two participants each reading 26 books. We Her husband of 39 years, Robert H. Mitchell, rewarded both with a gift certificate to Barnes & died in 1986. Noble. This program generated a lot of interest and positive comments from all areas of the Survivors include a daughter, Kathleen Mitchell campus, and we are planning to make it an of University Park, Maryland, and two sisters. annual event.

A memorial service will be planned for the Kitty J. Simmons ([email protected]) future. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Berrien Springs, Michigan. ◘◘◘◘◘

Sources: Washington Post, Friday, Oct 13, 2006, p. B08; Andrews University Relations, email, Oct 12, 2006; Center for Adventist Research, James White Library, Andrews University.

32 Southern Adventist University Each library student worker has been given a T- shirt and told to wear it proudly. We’ve got During the month of June, 2006, quite a few knowledge and they’re coming! things happened at Southern Adventist University, McKee Library. We had the Genevieve Cottrell ([email protected]) privilege and pleasure of hosting the 26th annual ASDAL conference on our campus. The theme ◘◘◘◘◘ “25 Years: Tradition and Change” was timely for our library as several changes and improvements happened in our library over the LIBRARY POSITION summer. The first improvement was having 35 year old blue chairs around the study tables The position for Reference/Database/Off- removed and replaced with brand new 3-position Campus Services Librarian at Andrews black and red Sauder chairs. The second University is still open. Nominate a qualified improvement was 20 new sit down computer librarian or apply if you are interested. stations, 5 of which were donated to us by the Student Association Senate Project Committee. PRIMARY DUTIES: The library was able to pay for the remaining 15 - Provides various levels of reference assistance. with library funds. A third addition was the - Responsible for collection development of purchase of 12 study carrels which accommodate electronic databases; develops policies and students, their laptops and resource materials procedures; negotiates licensing agreements. more adequately. Two wood/glass walls were - Assists in developing print reference collection. removed on the main floor creating a more open - In charge of electronic reference service. and inviting feel. The floor stone around our - Participates in library instruction. main floor staircase was removed and soon sheet - Serves as a liaison librarian. rock will encase the stone enhancing our display - Coordinates all library services that support off- area as well as improving and updating the look campus students; provides statistical and other on the main floor. reports. - Represents James White Library on campus The addition of word processing software on all distance education services. patron stations allows students to accomplish - Serves on university and library committees. both research and writing or homework - Performs scholarly research and service. assignments in one place. In addition to the Writing Center being housed in the library we QUALIFICATIONS: have also partnered with the Office of Online - Master's degree in library science from an Learning and every evening from 5-10 pm their ALA-accredited institution. office staffs an e-class help desk across from the - Minimum of three years’ experience in an reference desk which is staffed from 6-9 pm. Our academic library preferred. gate count for the first three weeks of school - Enjoys helping students and faculty. indicate an increase of over 4000 more visits to - Strong interpersonal skills in a multicultural our library this school year over the previous environment. year. We are excited about students’ use of the - Ability to work collaboratively. library and most afternoons and evenings there is - Knowledge of complex library-specific not a seat to be had! The library theme for the computer applications, electronic reference year is “got knowledge? McKee Library” sources, etc. marketed by the awarding of T-shirts and caps - Oral and written communication skills. with the slogan as prizes at the annual - Excellent judgment and reasoning ability. Organizational Showcase. - Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.

33 RANK AND SALARY: ASDAL OFFICERS, 2006-2007 - Rank and salary commensurate with experience. President: Ruth Swan, FL A&M President-Elect: Sabrina Riley, UC Past President: Linda Mack, AU STARTING DATE: - Open until position is filled. Secretary: Lauren Matacio, AU Treasurer: Lee Marie Wisel, CUC ASDAL Action Editor: Sallie Alger, AU APPLY TO: Employment, Human Resources, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104-0860 For membership and other information, write: http://www.andrews.edu/HR/emp_jobs_faculty.c gi Phone: 269.471.3570, Fax: 269.471.6293 ASDAL Columbia Union College Library 7600 Flower Ave. Takoma Park, MD 20912 ______

Editor: Sallie Alger

ASDAL Action is the official publication of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians. Its purpose is to keep members abreast of the association’s activities, collection development projects and activities related to SDA materials, and the progress of SDA libraries throughout the world. It includes book reviews, bibliographies, and articles that keep SDA librarians up-to-date with the profession. It is published three times a year: fall, winter, and spring. Deadlines are October 15, January 15, and April 15. Your subscription is part of the ASDAL membership fee. Non- members pay $20.00 per year.

Forward manuscripts for publication, using Word, Times New Roman, 10 pt., to: Sallie Alger at [email protected]

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34 ASSOCIATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST LIBRARIANS ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT for May 31, 2005 to May 31, 2006 presented November 8, 2006

Balance on hand May 31, 2005 $19,110.87 INCOME: Dues 1660.00 Subscriptions 80.00 Scholarship 1300.20 ‘05 conference 6306.00 PayPal .51 TOTAL: $9,346.71 $28,457.58 EXPENSES: ACTION 395.57 Administration 394.94 Hilts Attorney 2000.00 Hilts Scholarship 7951.28 FHC contribution to SDAPI 500.00 ‘05 conference 5338.76 TOTAL:

$16,580.55 Balance on hand May 31, 2006 $11,877.03

Lincoln SDA Credit Union - March 31, 2005 $5,013.13 Interest 50.37 Lincoln SDA Credit Union - March 31, 2006 $5,063.50

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