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OMNILORE NEWS March 2012 1 Volume 21 Issue 2 www.omnilore.org March 2012 OLLI AT CSUDH “Libraries of the Future” at the Spring Forum OMNILORE by Carol Kerster mniloreans are fortunate! We have heard a OMNILORE NEWS is a publication of variety of experts entertain, enlighten, and/or OMNILORE, a Learning-in-Retirement educate us at our quarterly Forum meetings. Organization, a program of the Osher Life- O While most of our speakers have followed a direct long Learning Institute at the California State University Dominguez Hills course from their education and experience to their current occupations, this is not the case for the BOARD OF DIRECTORS speaker at our next Forum on April 30: Katherine R. Gould, director of the Palos Verdes Library District, Elected Officers whose eclectic background enhances her qualifica- President Bill Gargaro tions to share her ideas about how our traditionally paper-based library systems are transitioning into VP - Academics Jade Suzanne Neely Katherine Gould VP - Administration Howard Korman the digital world. Treasurer Jim Slattery Armed with a magna cum laude B.A. from Brandon University in Manitoba, Recording Secretary RosaLee Saikley Canada, and an M.S. in Library and Information Management from USC, Past President Ruth Hart Ms. Gould has traveled huge distances, both professionally and geograph- Member-at-Large Don Johnson ically. She started out as a reference librarian in Pasadena, then in 1989 Member-at-Large Mary Louise Mavian moved to Queensland, Australia, to lead a multi-disciplinary team on a $20 million project to redesign and implement business processes, the first of Member-at-Large Jill McKenzie three positions she held on that continent. In 1998 she returned to the U.S. Standing Committee Chairs to serve as vice-president of Commonwealth Industries, a public company Membership Linda Jenson with 2000 employees in five states. Currently, as director of the PV Library Forum Lori Geittmann District, a job she assumed in 2004, she manages technology, community Communications Mary Golob outreach, fundraising, finance/accounting, human resources, and facilities Curriculum Rick Spillane management. Head Coordinator Norman Morris And then there are the numerous professional organizations which she has Appointees served and/or chaired since 2003, including a statewide library technology development and purchasing consortium and the Palos Verdes Chamber of New Member Liaison Edith Garvey Commerce. Registrar Dennis Goodno Archivist Vacant Ms. Gould is truly a woman of wide-ranging skills, many talents, varied ex- Office Manager Carol Johnson periences and, undoubtedly, the most up-to-date ideas on “Libraries of the Room Scheduling Lynn Taber Future.” Do plan to see and hear her at our Spring Forum on April 30. You Laptop Administrator Rick Spillane may register for the luncheon by sending in the handy form on page 9 of this Equipment Hal Hart newsletter, or use the pastel-colored flyer, which should reach you by regu- Supplies Andrea Gargaro lar mail early in April. Of course, we’ll again enjoy the excellent food and Keys Marilyn Landau service at our venue of choice, the Los Verdes Country Club. Vegetarian Web masters Hal Hart meals are available for the same charge of $20 as the regular lunch, but you Dennis Goodno must request the vegetarian entrée on your registration form. DON’T MISS — IN THIS ISSUE Omnilore News is published six times President’s Message Page 2 annually. We welcome short feature articles Omnilore’s Fifth President Page 3 and news stories. Please contact the editor AED Training Page 6 with your contributions. Computer Talks Page 7 Editor Mary Golob Dean’s Corner Page 8 Staff Member Carol Kerster The Bookshelf Page 9 2 OMNILORE NEWS March 2012 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT and a positive by Bill Gargaro inducement for attending the y now those of you who are To continue thoughts on our entry into actual perfor- going to attend S/DG’s this the digital world, for the summer mances staged B summer have already voted for trimester we took a first step in trying by the Univer- the ones you wish to participate in and to reduce the bulk of the postal sity. These are I hope they made the final cut at a time mailings associated with the free lectures for when you are available. The array of enrollment process. We asked those OLLI members, subjects was interesting, as usual, and who had volunteered to receive the which we all the Curriculum Committee (CC) is to newsletter via our website to take part are, and I encourage you to take be congratulated once again. It turns in an experiment to review the advantage of these and all the other out that the most popular subject for summer S/DG offerings only on the benefits of OLLI. We should all take the the summer will have to do with website and to enroll via email or by time to review the descriptions of the understanding your brain and how to printing the enrollment form, com- lectures and other activities in our OLLI make it work better. I am not surprised pleting it and placing it into the Room catalogues and not miss out on some but am happy that this subject should 7 CC box. This was the first step really great benefits that we have paid prove so popular, since making your toward a totally paperless and for. I would like to encourage you brain work better is one of the primary convenient method of course selection especially to consider the next “lecture” goals of the Omnilore program, if not and enrollment for those of you who in the series: it will be an actual the primary goal. are comfortable with operating a performance by the theater department The subject of the March Forum computer. By the fall trimester we of a play in their small theater. I know it should be particularly interesting intend to have made the process even will be worthwhile. simpler: one selects subjects, fills in a considering the new era we have As I mentioned in January’s newsletter, form on the computer and then simply entered into, where electronic media the time for instruction on the use of our hits a “submit” button on the screen, are challenging the printed word, e.g., Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), with no other action required to enroll. ebooks are available from many located in Room 7, is here again. We However, be assured that we will libraries now for reading on your currently have 45 of our members always make the materials you need Kindle, iPad or other tablet, and digital trained, but the time for training renewal for enrollment available to you in the audio books on CD are available as is in the spring of this year. We plan to form you specify, so the electronic well. The “Future of the Library” is train 30 members at no cost to those enrollment procedure will not be already emerging. But can all the trained starting in April. The call for mandatory. electronic media really replace trade- volunteers to take the training will go out tional “books,” for instance, those OLLI’s Spring Osher Lecture Series soon. All of you are eligible, so please beautiful illuminated manuscripts, e.g., began on February 15 at the give it some serious thought. We hope the Book of Kells? (Of course those University, showcasing the Theater we’ll never need the AED, but if we do, are really hard to check out.) Anyway, and Dance Departments programs. It we’ll also need to have trained members I am sure this will be a very was both interesting to hear of the who know all the proper emergency pro- “illuminating” Forum. University’s programs in these areas cedures, including the use of the AED. March Date Set for New “Introducing Omnilore” Meeting by Linda Jenson The Membership Committee has scheduled an Introducing Omnilore meet- ing for prospective members who may want to join Omnilore for the Sum- mer trimester. The date is: Tuesday, March 27th 10 a.m. at the Franklin Center in Room 7 Attendance at an Introducing Omnilore meeting is mandatory for new members, so please tell anyone you know who might be interested about this upcoming date. We know that most of our new members join as a result of referrals by current members. We have a wonderful organization with a great deal to offer, and classes that are very enjoyable and informative. OMNILORE NEWS March 2012 3 BURT CUTLER — OMNILORE’S 5TH PRESIDENT by Diana Cutler y husband, Burt Cutler, is a man who conceives and supplementary school material does. During his prolific career he founded several publishers in the country. Our most M companies. When he was 63, friends invited him to popular item was GeoSafari, an join the Plato Society at UCLA, an early learning-in-retirement electronic geography teaching aid (LIR) organization; deciding that it was too far away, he that Burt conceived while on thought, “Why can’t we grow our own LIR group in the South vacation - a fun-learning-game that Bay?”…leading to his most cherished accomplishment, National Geographic highly Omnilore. recommended. GeoSafari led us to Burt was born in 1926 in east Los Angeles to poor Ukrainian an expansion of our distribution immigrants. During WWII he enlisted and eventually was beyond schools and teachers, to stationed at Fort Monmouth, NJ. Fortunately during weekend parents. passes he was exposed to music, museums, plays, sport events, Burt also proposed and co-founded etc., in nearby New York City. He also met his many east coast another very successful company, relatives, including me.
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