Library Express delivers articles directly to your desktop for UW faculty, staff and students. The fee-based service provides copies of journal articles from the library collections and sends them to campus requesters. Requests can be submitted by electronic mail, telephone, fax or campus mail. In most cases your request will be put in the campus mail within 24 hours of receipt. The charge for most articles billed to campus budget numbers is $4.
For more information send e-mail with a blank message to docme@u.washington.edu or call 685-8049.
Are you planning a scholarly visit to another university this summer? Include Resource Sharing Service (RSS) in your travel plans to inquire about the Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program of the Research Libraries Advisory Committee to OCLC.
The program allows faculty members of participating institutions borrowing privileges and on-site access to the collections of some of the most important research libraries in North America. Obtain a Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program card from RSS before you leave.
Contact by e-mail at librss@u.washington.edu or call 543-1878 for additional information on the program and a list of participating research libraries.
The UW Libraries is a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) which is a major resource for scholarly research materials that are less frequently held in North American libraries. This benefit is particularly attractive when more resources are becoming available in various formats while materials budgets remain static or increase only slightly. Nearly 150 member institutions belong to CRL throughout the U.S. and Canada.
As a member institution the UW Libraries can borrow materials from the Center's research collection of over 3.6 million volumes and 1.1 million microforms. UW Libraries utilizes this valuable resource in filling your information needs.
CRL's holdings have recently been made available through the Internet. The Libraries plans to make the CRL catalog available as a UWIN service.
The UW Libraries has recently been awarded several important grants. Reported in this issue are programs at the Southeast Asia Section, East Asia Library, Curriculum Materials, Manuscripts and University Archives and the Health Sciences Library and Information Center.
Betty Bengtson, director of UW Libraries, has been appointed chair of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Preservation of Research Library Materials Committee for a two-year term, 1994-95. During 1994 the committee will develop a preservation agenda for ARL and will coordinate ARL's efforts with those of the Commission for Preservation and Access, the Library of Congress and other national programs.
An ad hoc Planning Committee for the Suzzallo Library Renovation has been appointed by Provost Clough. The members of the committee are: Charles Chamberlin, University Libraries, chair; Robert Breidenthal, Faculty Council on University Facilities and Services; Roberta Hopkins, Capital and Space Planning; Nancy Huling, University Libraries; Ray Jonas, History; Leah Jossem, ASUW; Joe Kiegel, University Libraries; Sarah Michalak, University Libraries; Edmund Mignon, Graduate School of Library & Information Science; Paul Remley, English; Joel Patz, Environmental Health and Safety, ex-officio; Jim Shilt, Plant Engineering, ex-officio; and Pamela Stewart, Computing & Communications, ex-officio.
The project will include major improvements to the air systems, fire sprinklers and alarms, elevators, ceilings and windows, and upgrading of the computing and communications infrastructure. There will be additional exterior wall and safety improvements to meet current standards.
This predesign study to be completed by May 1 lays the foundation for effectively and economically completing the project and preparing a proposal for the 1995-97 biennial capital budget.
Elisabeth Carey Miller, a prominent horticulturist and generous donor to the UW and the Libraries, died on March 16. Miller received numerous national and international horticultural awards and took an active role in local horticultural affairs including founding the Northwest Horticultural Society. Among her gifts to Special Collections were five 19th century bird's-eye views of Northwest cities, the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary and the first edition of the Lewis and Clark journals.
In 1988 Miller gave the family papers to the Manuscripts and University Archives Division and provided funding for their processing. Subsequently, Miller provided money to the University of Washington Press for the writing of a family history. She was also instrumental in establishing the UW's Center for Urban Horticulture whose library is named in her honor.
Anna Browning (Anna McCausland), Library Specialist-Supervisor, Interlibrary Borrowing Service, retired on March 31, 1994 after 20 years with the University Libraries.
Browning was originally hired by the Libraries in August 1968 in Photocopy Services and transferred to the Print Plant in December 1969. She rejoined the Libraries in March 1974 to work with interlibrary loans.
Hilda Anna Berta Turnsen, former Library Technician, Cataloging Division, died December 25, 1993. Turnsen was with the staff of the University Libraries from July 1966 until her retirement in March 1976.