Volume 2, issue 2

Visiting Scholar, March 16th - March 19th
Dr. Anita Mirijamdotter is Professor and Head of Research for Social Informatics in the School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering at Växjö University, Sweden. She also serves as chair of the Växjö University Computer Science research board. In June 2009, she will keynote the Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP5) conference in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information about the conference, see: http://blogs.kib.ki.se/eblip5/

On Tuesday, March 17th, from 2 – 3 in the ELC B, she will discuss Scandinavian-style workplace communication, decision-making, and planning practices. In addition, she will describe a student-generated study of the Lulea University of Technology learning commons.


Faculty Reading Room
The Auraria Library will be closing the Faculty Reading Room at the end of March 2009. This space will be incorporated into office and processing space for the Special Projects team. As we re-envision our learning and collection spaces on the first floor and as we pursue our strategic plan goals, we will be exploring services and resources that will have a positive, meaningful impact on the faculty.


Auraria Library Essay Contest Awards Reception
All are invited to the Awards Reception to congratulate our six winners for this year’s essay contest:
Wednesday, March 18th
2:00 PM
Jackson ELC
(no need to RSVP)


Emerging Technology Subcommittee
As you may have noticed there are some changes to the committee structure. There will be a Technology Strategy Committee and it will have a subcommittee called the Emerging Technology Subcommittee. The descriptions can be found in this report. We need to find members for the Emerging Technology subcommittee. The plan is to have the subcommittee decide on new members but since it is just starting I am going to have Doug and Niraj work together to choose committee members, as they are standing members. The most important traits would be: 1) a real commitment from you and your supervisor for you to put some real energy into the process of checking out new technology, 2) an interest and enthusiasm for technology and 3) an ability to work well with others and consider the whole library when evaluating products.
If you are interested in applying (this is open to student employees as well), please fill out this short form. I encourage anyone who might be interested to apply. We need enthusiasm..that is the only real requirement.



Systems/Technology Department Update
First of all I wanted to publically thank everyone who worked so hard during the last six months to make sure that things kept running: Gayle Bradbeer, Nina McHale, Rick Boeder, Doug Flint, Niraj Chaudhary, Rick Simons, Shelley Wendt, Farhad Vakilitabar, Eric Baker and many, many others. We couldn’t have done it without everyone’s help. And a special thanks to Doug and Rick Boeder, whose often unnoticed yet superhuman efforts kept the library up and running in February.
This is a really exciting time for our department. There are a lot of changes going on and I wanted the library to be updated. Niraj Chaudhary is back with us as of February 25. During the time since he started as a permanent employee, Niraj, Doug, Rick Boeder and our new students have worked very hard to bring the Bugzilla count down from 129 to 68. This is our first priority. Our next priorities are: to recycle a lot of out of date equipment which we have stashed in various places, to finish purchasing which has been put off (please send me any thoughts about technology purchasing ASAP), set up and install many computers which we have in the building, train students and start establish work flows and procedures. It will not happen overnight, but we hope to slowly see improvements.
We have hired three students to help with the work in our department. Their names are Philip Leo, Sohrab Islamzai, and Trijoon Pradhan. You will probably come in contact with them. We are also rethinking the space we have and have started to use part of 256 for setting up computers and for student work. We will be moving the III server out of 109B during spring break and will soon stop using that room. We are having x6003 moved to ring up there.
I want to emphasize that I appreciate everyone using Bugzilla. I know that thus far it may have felt that you were not getting much of a response, but that will improve as our staffing becomes more established. I also want people to feel free to call x6003, which we still monitor, for emergencies, etc.
I want to thank everyone for their patience during a tough six months, but I think that we are on an upswing now and you will see service significantly improve in the next six months.


Maymester
UCD is initiating a Maymester from May 19-June 5 this year. Therefore, instead of the Library closing earlier during this first intercession, we will be open the following hours. Our revised bookmarks with Maymester and Summer hours will be coming out soon.

Maymester May 19 – June 5

Library hours

Sat May 16 9 am to 5 pm End of Spring semester for MSCD/UCD
Sun May 17 Closed
Mon May 18 8 am to 5 pm

Tue May 19 7:30 am to 9 pm Beginning of Maymester
Wed May 20 – Thu May 21 7:30 am – 9 pm
Fri May 22 7:30 am – 5 pm
Sat May 23 9 am to 5 pm
Sun May 24 Closed
Mon May 25 Closed Memorial Day
Tue May 26 – Thu May 28 7:30 am – 9 pm MSCD/CCD Summer term starts
Fri May 29 7:30 am -5 pm
Sat May 30 9 am to 5 pm
Sun May 31 Closed
Mon June 1 – Thu June 4 7:30 am – 9 pm
Fri June 5 7:30 am – 5 pm Maymester ends
Sat June 6 9 am to 5 pm


April 8th Deadline for Resissued Tax Documents
Employees can request PBS to reissue 2008 tax documents (W-2 and 1042-S) through Wednesday, April 8, 2009 and still meet the 2008 tax filing deadline. Employees can pick up
documents in person or request they be mailed. If an employee wants to pick up a reissued W-2 or 1042-S (Foreign Person's U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding), PBS will
guarantee its availability for pick up at the PBS office (3100 Marine Street, 6th Floor, Boulder) by April 14, provided that a properly completed Form W-2/Form 1042-S Reissue Request
form has been received by April 8, 2009. Requests made after this date cannot be guaranteed to be completed in time, since PBS requires up to four business days for processing and they cannot fax or email reissued tax documents. If an employee wants a tax form to be mailed, it
is strongly suggested PBS receive the request in time to allowsufficient time for U.S. Post Office delivery. PBS does not guarantee receipt of mailed tax forms. Employees can now also
access and print out their own W-2 replacement copy by logging into their campus portal.