* What do you think are the biggest challenges facing higher education today? UMN in particular?
* Do our goals help to address these challenges?
* What are the biggest challenges facing research libraries?
* Do we have enough stretch in our goals?
* Are they doable?
* Are we missing anything important?

Try it out!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact anyone in the Implementation Group:

Peggy Johnson
Jerilyn Veldof
Charles Spetland
Bernadette Corley Troge
Stacie Traill
Christopher Rose
Virginia Gunville Bach
Karen Williams, Lead

Jennifer Papin-Ramcharan will interview on Monday, August 13. Her presentation will also be 10-11 a.m. in 310 Walter Library. Jennifer serves as Librarian II at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Division of the Main Library at the University of the West Indies. Her MLS is from the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She also holds a B.Sc. in Math and Physics from the University of the West Indies, a National Diploma in Computer Science from San-Fernando Technical Institute, and an M.Phil in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong. The PSE staff session will be 2:30-3:00 p.m., 314 Walter Library.

Zoe Chao will interview on Wednesday, August 22. Her presentation will be 9:30-10:30 a.m. in 310 Walter Library. Since 2006 she has served as Portal Librarian, Illinois Harvest, at the Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois. She earned her MSLIS at Illinois, and also holds a BS in biology from Tunghai University, Taiwan, and an MS in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University. The PSE staff session will be 1:45-2:15 in 338 Walter Library.

Candidate resumes are available at http://staff.lib.umn.edu/ateam/HRCandidateSearchesMain.html

Please send feedback to Marilyn McClaskey as search committee chair at m-mccl@umn.edu no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, August 24.

The E-Learning Project group is now in the process of designing quality interactive learning tutorials. The first modules to be designed are:

* Library Organization and Services Overview
* Popular vs. Scholarly
* Effective Keyword Searching
* Using Source Material (aka Avoiding Plagiarism)

If you have any questions or are interesting in helping, please contact Lynne Beck (l-beck) or Jerilyn Veldof (jveldof)

You can find the link under CES/Diversity.
https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/CES/InternationalStudentOutreachProject?from=CES.InternationalStudents

Jody Gray
grayjl@umn.edu
612.624.9913

Please join your Libraries and MINITEX colleagues on Friday, June 15, for a special presentation by Anne Kenney, Interim University Librarian at Cornell University. Anne will be speaking on “Research Libraries in the Age of Google� at 10 a.m. in 120 Andersen Library.

Anne is the co-author of three award-winning monographs and over 50 articles and reports. Active in the archival and preservation communities, Anne is a Fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists. She currently serves on the Social Science Research Institute's Committee on Libraries and Archives of Cuba and is a member of Advisory Committee of Portico, a non-profit digital preservation service supported by Mellon and JSTOR. For the past 15 years she has led research and training initiatives in digital imaging and digital preservation. Previously Anne served as a Commissioner of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (National Archives), the National Science Foundation/European Union Working Group on a Digital Preservation Research Agenda, and as a member of the Clinton/Gore Transition Team. Her current research interests include public services and assessment in research libraries.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from an outstanding leader in the research library community.
-- Wendy Pradt Lougee