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OUTLOOK

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991
VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3

A Period of Ambiguity... A Time of
Uncertainty

At last year's meeting there were
coffee and doughnuts. This year, ice
water sufficed. This significant
change symbolized the difference
from last year to this, when Presi-
dent William E. Kirwan called a
meeting for deans, directors and
department heads during the first
week of school.

His goal: to share information on
the fiscal 1992 operating budget and
the difficulties faced in preparing
the FY '93 budget request. His tone
was somber.

"We've received a lot of negative
news recently, but this news needs
to be put into perspective. In the
midst of this bad news, there are
some positive signs," the president
told the group of some 200 seated in
the Colony Ballroom to absorb the
not-unexpected discouraging bud-
get news.

He wanted to accomplish three
things, said Kirwan: to share infor-
mation on the '92 and '93 budgets;
to solicit input on the difficult deci-
sions that must be made and to ask
the group for advice, counsel and
good ideas; and to ask the group to
share what they were about to leam

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Group Studies Parking Fee
Structure

Committee recommends a slid
scale

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New Achievements in
Superconductivity

Regulation of transition
temperatures improved .

Campus Senate Has New Presi-
dent

Gerald Miller sees a year of j

challenges ahead , /

Faculty-Staff Annual Fund
Drive Begins

Donors may designate gifts for
specific programs

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State Supported General Fund Levels

FY 1989 - Projected FY 1993

320
300
280
260
240
220
200
180

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CHART 1

Psychology Department
Receives National Award

The university's Department of
Psychology has been chosen as the
first psychology department to
receive the National Alliance for
the Mentally III (NAMI) Award for
Excellence in Training for training
students interested in working with
seriously mentally ill persons.

The training on serious mental
illness, under the direction of
Robert Coursey of the Clinical /-
Community Graduate Psychology
Program at the university, is fund-
ed by a $239,000 NIMH Training
Grant and trains an ethnically di-
verse set of students.

"This is because much of the
chronic mentally ill population is
largely poor with a disproportion-
ate number of ethnic /racial minori-
ties," says Coursey.

According to Coursey, an esti-
mated 2.8 million people suffer
from serious and chronic mental
illnesses. And while state and fed-
eral programs have rapidly ex-
panded to meet this need, the
training of professionals has lagged
far behind.

"The University of Maryland at
College Park is now one of the few
psychology programs in the nation
that provides this training," says
Coursey.

Students, who are trained to
take a multidimensional perspec-
tive toward these illnesses — biolog-
ical, experiential, cultural and
socioeconomic — and participate in
a nine-month practicum. The
practicum allows each student to
follow several patients during their
hospital stays, or while in the com-
munity receiving various services
such as housing, rehabilitation,
psychotherapy, and social services.
A simultaneous seminar on serious
mental illness is coordinated with
the students' placement
experiences.

"The program integrates the stu-
dent's work in the community with
what is learned at the university,"
says Coursey.

Throughout their graduate
career, students also participate on
a research team which develops
and evaluates new interventions
with people who are severely
mentally ill. There are also courses,
practicum training, and research
opportunities for undergraduate
psychology majors.

Coursey is also active in devel-
oping training programs for mental
health workers in the community.

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Committee Offers Recommendations to Ease
Estimated Tripling of Parking Fees

With the parking fees paid by
faculty and members estimated to
triple during the next five years, an
advisory committee has recom-
mended changes in funding of the
parking system — including com-
pensation for parking spaces lost to
construction projects and a grad-
uated fee schedule for faculty and
staff members — to ease the burden
of increased costs on system users.

The recommendations are part
of a 35-page report on the campus
parking situation released last
spring by the Campus Parking
Committee, an advisory committee
appointed by President William E
Kirwan in 1989. The committee was
headed by Burt Leete, professor of
business and management, and
included faculty, staff and students.

The report projects that parking
fees for faculty and staff members
will increase from $86 per permit
in fall 1991 to $278 per permit in
fall 1996. According to this estimate
fees would increase gradually over
this period to $109 in 1992, $155 in
1993, $205 in 1994 and $258 in 1995.

These figures assume that opera-
tion of the parking system and con-
struction of new spaces will con-
tinue to be funded as they are
now — through parking registration
fees, parking meter revenue and
fines.

Less than half of the increase
would result from rises in oper-
ating costs such as salary and
maintenance. These costs are
estimated to rise by an average of
six percent annually.

The majority of the increases
would stem from the anticipated
need to build a new parking garage
to replenish parking spaces lost to
new construction at the university
and for an enhanced UM Shuttle
program to lessen the strain on a
shrinking parking system. Con-
struction of a third parking garage
to replace lost spaces would
account for $91 of the projected
$192 in increases over the five-year
period.

"Because of the construction of
buildings on existing parking lots,
a new 1,600-2,000 car garage will
need to be constructed and avail-
able for use in the fall of 1996 in
order to maintain the number of
parking spaces at a level reason-
ably close to the current campus
inventory," the report says.

The report urges that at least
some of these costs for new spaces
be paid by someone other than
users of the parking system. In one
highlighted section, the report says:
"The committee feels that every
opportunity should be pursued to
include the cost of replacement or
new parking demands within the
budget for a particular construction
project."

In another highlighted section it
says: "...the costs associated with
the construction of replacement
parking when new facilities are
placed on existing lots should be
covered by state appropriations or
campus general funds."

As another means of lessening
future costs, the report recom-
mends a variety of enhancements
in the UM Shuttle system.

Arguing that increased use of
the shuttle system could reduce the
number of cars on campus, the
report calls for longer hours, more
frequent stops during peak periods,
additional routes and an intra cam-
pus bus service, all of which would
cost more than $500,000 annually.
Faculty and staff would be
required to help support these new
programs as part their annual park-
ing fees. By 1995, additional sup-
port for the shuttle system would
account for $25 or slightly less than
10 percent of the parking fee under
the plan.

In another recommendation, the
report advocates parking fees
based on salary to ease the burden
of increases on lower paid faculty
and staff members. Under the pro-
posal, parking fees would be based
on where an employee fits into
four different salary tiers.

For instance, under the current
system, all users of the system
would pay an annual fee of $278 in
1996. Under the tiered-system, in
that same year employees earning
less than $25,000 would pay $122,
those earning between $25,001 and
$35,000 would pay $196; those
earning between $35,001 and
$65,000 would pay $315; and those
earning more than $65,001 would
pay $507.

The report also explored a
variety of other parking issues
including:

Visitor parking. The report
recommends that campus visitors
pay for parking through meter or
permit fees between 7 a.m. and 5
p.m. Monday- Friday. (Departments
and units, however, would have
some free permits available for
guests.) Between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m.
and on weekends a number of lots
would be open to visitors. In
addition, the report calls for signs,
brochures and a visitor parking
coordinator to help explain regula-
tions to visitors.

Fines. The report recommends
no major changes in fines or
enforcement.

Members of the committee
included: Thomas Corsi, professor
of business and management; the
late Richard Farrell, former
associate professor of history; Jean
Hebeler, professor of special educa-
tion; Kenneth Krouse, chief of
police; Lander Medlin, assistant
director of physical plant; John
Menard, director of facilities for
computer, mathematical and physi-
cal sciences; Bill Patterson, assistant
professor of theatre; Stephanie
Stockman, graduate student;
Dwight Williams, assistant director
of intercollegiate athletics; Peter
Wolfe, professor of mathematics;

Faculty/Staff Five-Year Parking Fee Estimate

Total Cost

Academic Projected

per Faculty/

Year Expenses

6%*

PG3"

Shuttle

Staff

Sept. 91 $3,671,990

$0

$0

$0

$86

Sept, 92 $3,892,309

$11

$0

$12

$109

Sept. 93 $4,753,181

$12

$31

$3

$155

Sept. 94 $5,665,705

$14

$31

$5

$205

Sept. 95 $6,632,980

$17

$31

$5

$258

Sept. 96 $7,030,959

$20

$0

$0

$278

' For this illustration, the Committee assumed 8 5% annua! increase in salaries, general operating
costs, etc.

** The ft* Increase for me construction ot a third parking garage (PG3) is based upon a 1 ,600 car
facility and 1991 construction costs.

Estimated Faculty/ Staff Graduated Fee Schedule

Fiscal
Year

1993

1994
1995
19%

Salary
$0-25,000 $25,001-35,000

$53
$74
$97
$122

$95
$130
$168
$196

Level

$35,001-65,000

$172
$227
$290
$315

$65,001 -above

$309
$397
$502
$507

and Joan Wood, executive adminis-
trative aide in arts and humanities.
Ex-Officio members of the com-
mittee were: David Allen, associate
director of campus parking;
Warren Kelley, director of budget
analysis for resource planning and
budgets; Irene Redmiles, land use
planner for resource planning and
budgets; Janice Simmons, assistant
director of campus parking and
Richard Stimpson, assistant vice
president of student affairs.

Brian Busek

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SEPTEMBER 16, 1991

...And a Good Time Was Had by All

More than 2,000 people enjoyed an all-campus picnic on McKel-
din Mall the week before classes began, an outing complete with
volleyball, prizes, and music. Coordinator Jon Rood (director.
Communication Services) took on the challenge of providing a
picnic with no budget support and received volunteer help from
every unit on campus. Barbecued chicken, hot dogs, veggies, fruit,
ice cream and soft drinks were available for a nominal charge.
More than 500 donated prizes were given out, ranging from tennis
balls and dance recital tickets to a book on leadership from the
business school. See you next year?

College Park "In the News

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College Park-related stories
appear regularly in both the
regional and national media, and
our faculty members often are
quoted as experts in breaking news
situations. Here are some recent
highlights of news coverage of Col-
lege Park faculty and staff.

•The first scientific study to
identify the best beaches in Amer-
ica received an avalanche of nation-
al media coverage. Stephen
Leatherman, director of the Labor-
atory for Coastal Research,
appeared in The New York Times,
The Washington Post, The Los Angeles
Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe,
The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore
Sun, The Chronicle of Higher Educa-
tion, and every other major news-
paper in the country. The story was
picked up by virtually every news
service in the nation and fed to
hundreds of newspapers from coast
to coast. In addition, he was fea-
tured in The Economist, U.S. News &
World Report, Conde Nast Traveler,
and several other national maga-
zines. Leatherman also appeared
on ABC's Regis and Cathy Lee
Show, ABC's Good Moming Amer-
ica, CBS, CNN, and dozens of TV
and radio affiliates throughout the
United States.

•Research on the pink lady slip-
per, an orchid that thrives despite

its apparent violation of the basic
principles of natural selection,
earned Doug Gill, professor of
zoology, major articles in The New
York Times, The Washington Post,
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
and OMNI Magazine.

•Work by Horticulturist William
Healy to create a cut-flower indus-
try in Maryland was featured in
The Baltimore Sun, The Washington
Post, and the Prince George's Journal.
The story also was picked by the
Associated Press news service, and
Dr. Healy is scheduled to appear
on Channel 9 TV (Washington).

• Beverly Greenfieg and Barbara
Goldberg, coordinators with the
Returning Students Program, were
featured in The New York Times in
an article addressing the special
needs of older students.

• In a Washingtonian Magazine
article on writing classes, Richard
Blum, associate professor in the
department of radio /television,
and his television-comedy writing
workshop were featured.

The recent crisis in the Soviet
Union provided an opportunity for
the College Park campus to make
available to the media several
prominent experts on Soviet and
international affairs. As the result
of a media advisory faxed out on

the day of the coup attempt, sev-
eral campus experts received exten-
sive media coverage. They include:

• Visiting Scholar Henry
Trofimenko was featured twice in
The New York Times and also
appeared in The Washington Times,
The Baltimore Sun, and The Kansas
City Star. He appeared on CNN,
National Public Radio, WJZ-TV
(Baltimore) and Channel 5
(Washington).

•Roald Sagdeev, Distinguished
Professor of Physics, was quoted
extensively in The New York Times
and The Prince George's journal and
appeared on CBS television and
Channel 5 TV evening news, and
syndicated columnist Hobart
Rowen's column on economics
appearing in major newspapers
around the nations.

•Warren Phillips, professor in
the Department of Government and
Politics, appeared in The Baltimore
Sun and Evening Sun, among other
places.

•Catherine Kelleher, professor
in Center for International Security
Studies, appeared on Christian
Science Monitor television.

• William Galston, professor in
School of Public Affairs, was
quoted in The Boston Globe.

Ponnamperuma To Receive First
International Service Award

Cyril Ponnamperuma

Cyril Ponnamperuma, professor
of chemistry and director of the
Laboratory of Chemical Evolution,
has been selected as the first recip-
ient of the Distinguished Interna-
tional Service Award.

The award recognizes his signi-
ficant contributions to the develop-

ment of international programs at
College Park and honors his distin-
guished professional career in
international affairs and scholar-
ship.

Ponnamperuma will be honored
at an International Affairs Gala Fri-
day, Sept. 20 at the Center of Adult

Education. A reception in the
Founder's Room begins at 6 p.m.
followed by dinner in the Chesa-
peake Room at 7 p.m.

President Kirwan will deliver
the welcome address, "UMCP and
Maryland: Their International
Futures." The gala also will recog-
nize Townsend Hoopes, Benjamin
Kremenak, and Charles Miller, the
three 1991-92 Distinguished Inter-
national Executives-in-Residence at
College Park.

Ponnamperuma, a native of Sri
Lanka, joined the College Park fac-
ulty in 1971. Author of more than
400 publications, his work includes
16 books, most notably The Origins
of Life, and he is the recipient of
numerous international awards. He
is science advisor to the President
of Sri Lanka, director of the Insti-
tute of Fundamental Studies, and
had been director of the Authur C
Clarke Centre for Modern Technol-
ogies in Sri Lanka.

At College Park, he has played a
major role in developing programs
related to Sri Lanka, among them
the Institute of Fundamental Stud-
ies, a program to build a modern
information system for the coun-
try's libraries, and a USAID-funded
project of the School of Public
Affairs designed to build relation-
ships between the private and pub-
lic sectors there.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991

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International Faculty and Administrator's
Group to Hold Conference

The University of Maryland's International Faculty and
Administrator's Association is conducting its first annual conference
Sept. 22-23 in Ocean City, Maryland. The conference is being coordi-
nated by the University of Maryland at College Park in its role of
permanent secretariat. AH faculty members and administrators
involved in international programs in the UM System are invited to
attend, as are friends of the university involved in international
affairs. For more information, call 4054772.

Tough Budget Decisions
for College Park

Ahead

Fy 1992 State General Funds

Mandated vs. Non-Mandated Expenditures

Mandates/
Entitlement

51%

Higher Education

11% Hospitals/Centers
6%
Comm. Health
. Grants 3%
3 o\ ice/Corrections
6%

CHART 2

State Personnel

(FY 1992-AII Funds)

Transportation

12.5%

Public Safety/
Justice 19.3%

Higher Education
24.8%

Other 20.1%

Special Groups 23.3%

Fiscal 1992 positions are 1,515 less than Fiscal 1991.

CHART 3

University of Maryland at College Park
1992 Cost Containment

1. Tuition Surcharge (15% Spring 1991)

$6,388,631

2. Educational Grants (Financial Aid;
Remissions)

(688,631)

3. Reduction Non-Instructional Part-Time

1,442,869

4. One-Day Furlough (State and Non-State)

1,055,526

5. Fund Balance (State and Non-State)

338,605

TOTAL

$8,537,000

CHART 4

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in order to make informed state-
ments about the budget once they
returned to their units.

Walking the group through a
complicated set of statistics pre-
sented by overhead projection, the
president showed that 51 percent of
State General Funds are allocated by
formula to entitlement programs
and thus are protected from cuts
that the governor can order. Cuts
for these programs must be enacted
by the General Assembly. Just 11
percent of the remaining 49 percent
in non-mandated expenditures goes
to higher education, he said. (See
Chart 2). Higher education is able to
be cut and therefore could suffer a
disproportionate effect from the
current bad times in the state's
economy, he said.

Currently, a projected $300 mil-
lion budget deficit exists for FY '92,
and the governor is proceeding on
the assumption that there will be no
mid -year tax increase, explained
Kirwan. Therefore, the governor has
asked all state agencies to reduce
their budgets in order to make up
the massive deficiency. The UM
System must give back $24.1 mil-
lion, and College Park's share of
that total amounts to $8.5 million.

The Cost Containment Chart (4)
outlines the five potential ways,
(almost all mandated by the Board
of Regents) in which College Park is
expected to come up with this $8.5
million cut, including: a one-time
tuition surcharge in spring, 1992;
reduction in non-instructional part-
time personnel; and the equivalent
of a one-day furlough for all em-
ployees. Kirwan said that furloughs
were necessary because of cuts
already taken. "The only alternative
is to lay off a large number of peo-
ple or eliminate much needed ser-
vices," he said.

As to how to implement the fur-
lough day, the president indicated
that a number of possibilities are
under consideration. His goal is to
ensure equity and to be sensitive to
the impact of furloughs on lowest
paid personnel, he said, seeking
suggestions from the group on how
best to achieve those objectives.

Asked whether there will be fur-
ther cuts in this year's budget,
Kirwan said he doesn't know — but
he's encouraged by growing talk of
a legislated tax increase. "If there is
a tax increase effective Jan, 1, 1992,
then I believe we have a good
chance of making it through the rest
of this without further cuts,"
he said.

Looking toward consideration of
the fiscal '93 budget, Vice President
for Administrative Affairs Charles
F. Sturtz explained that with an
impending deadline for submitting
the FY '93 budget by the end of
September, the university faces an
even more sobering task than it is
experiencing currently. According

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SEPTEMBER 16, 1991

Do You Wish You Knew Someone Who...?

Campus Club, the university's faculty wives and women faculty
and staff organization, is offering a new matching-up service de-
signed to respond to individual requests from any faculty, staff or
spouse interested in locating other campus members with common
interests or needs. Finding support groups, joint activities, new
friends or shared services are some of the ways the new service is
intended to be of help. For more information write Sorrel Fisher,
1233 Noyes Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Include your name,
phone number and a good time to be called back.

UMCP State Support Revenues by Source

Special

Funds

25.5%

FY 91 Governor's Allowance and
FY 92 Working Budget

Special

Funds

34.3%

Fed.
Funds 1.7%

General
Funds 72.8%

General
Funds 63.4%

Fed.
Funds 2.3%

FY 1991 Governor's Allowance

FY 1992 Working Budget

CHART 5

to a joint study group of staff
members from the legislative and
the executive branches that has been
meeting to assess what deficit the
state must expect, the state is facing
a $600 to $700 million possible defi-
cit next year if there are no tax in-
creases. Regrettably, the FY '93
budget must be prepared with this
assumption. To resolve this severe
potential financial problem, the
governor is assessing a 12 percent
targeted reduction of $360 million to
be cut from state agency funding in
FY '93. The UM System must give
up $79 million, with College Park's
proportionate share of the reduction
amounting to $30 million.

This would be a 25 percent
reduction in state support within
the last two years said Sturtz (See
Chart 1).

What potential sources might the
university turn to for solving the
problem? Chart 6 indicates options
considered thus far, but no final
decisions have been made available
on precisely how much the final cut
will amount to, or from what sour-
ces it should come. Possibilities for
revenue adjustments include tuition
increases and a health fee increase,
converting the Health Center to a
self-support operation. Expenditure
adjustments include accelerating
program closures, salary reductions
or employee lay-offs.

Closing his remarks by remind-
ing the group that the university
must base these hard decisions on a
lot of assumptions — one of which is
that no tax increase is in store in the
longer term — Kirwan emphasized
his belief that the current financial
situation in the state may not be as
devastating as it seems. "It will be
righted in time," he said.

As to what will happen when
this moment comes, he pointed out
that the recently adopted Maryland
Higher Education Commission's
statewide higher education plan
places a top priority on enhancing
College Park and that a committee
of the General Assembly met this
summer and called for special en-
hancement of College Park.

"We're going through an
extremely difficult time, with many
disappointments and frustrations,"
said the president, but he ended on
a note of optimism: "We must take a

longer view. In the face of all the

distress and agony, I believe there
are hopeful signs on the horizon."

Roz Hieberi

FY 1993

Reduction Alternatives to Generate

$30 Million

(In Million*}

A. Revenue Adjustments:

1. Tuition (Each 1% increase)

$.8

2. Increase health fee to make Health
Center self-supporting

1.3

3. Fully charge University College for
use of UMCP resources (3-year
phase in)

*

B. Expenditure Reduction:

1. Terminate part-time non-
faculty/non-college workstudy
employees

$12.0

2. Accelerate program closure
initiated in FY 1992 (33%)

*

3. Consolidate academic and

administrative mainframe
computing

1.5

4. Reduce tuition remission for non-
traditional participants

*

5. Implement non-academic unit
consolidations

*

6. Finance less-than-1 5-year life
equipment

6.0

7. Salary reduction across the board
with fringe benefits: each 1%
equals

2.5

8. Lay-off staff in state and self-
support (except research) (for
every 100 positions)

3.1

* To be determined

CHART 6

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RESEARCH

Panel Discussion Set on international Security and USSR

A panel on international security and the USSR will be held from
12:30 to 2 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20 in the Student Union Atrium. It
will feature Public Affairs Dean Michael Nacht; Roald Sagdeev,
distinguished professor of physics and former science advisor to
President Gorbachev; visiting U.S.-Soviet affairs scholar Henry
Trofimenko; and Townsend Hoopes, CISSM senior research fellow
and specialist on security issues. The panel discussion is free and
open to the campus community.

Physicists Turn Up Knob on
Superconductivity Research

Almost since the discovery of
superconductivity, researchers have
been searching for ways to use
electrical fields in these materials to
alter at will their transition temper-
atures — the temperature at which
these materials go from "normal" to
superconducting. This search has
intensified since the 1986 discovery
of high- temperature supercon-
ductors.

Researchers at College Park
have now made large strides
toward putting a "control knob" on
the transition temperatures of these
materials and may have advanced
the day when superconducting
materials could be used for com-
plex circuits such as those in com-
puters and televisions.

"We have seen a huge effect on
transition temperature regulation
with our three-terminal transistor-
like device," says Xiao Xing Xi, a
research scientist in the Center for
Superconductivity Research (CSR).

"We have demonstrated a zero-
resistance shift of close to one
Kelvin and a resistance ratio above
the transition temperature of about
23 percent, and below the transi-
tion temperature of almost 1,600
percent," says Venky Venkatesan,
an investigator with the center's
project and a professor in the
Departments of Physics and Electri-
cal Engineering. According to the
two researchers, the type of super-
conducting temperature regulation
they have produced is the best ever
recorded and represents a signifi-
cant improvement over results
recently reported by IBM's research
gTOup in Zurich.

Venkatesan's and Xi's results
will be published in the journal,
Applied Physics Letters.

"Most superconductors are two
terminal," explains Xi. "Energy
enters one terminal and exits
another. By adding a third termi-
nal, as we have done, the addition-
al terminal becomes a control knob
that alters the transition tempera-
ture and thereby allows us to regu-
late energy flow in the other two
terminals."

'With this electric field effect on
the properties of the superconduc-
tor, one can introduce an extra
dimension of control on even exist-
ing superconducting devices, such
as high current switches and micro-
wave resonators," says Venkatesan.

This current research is pro-
ducing some of the best results in
the world," says Richard L. Greene,
a College Park physics professor
and director of CSR. "The work is
greatly furthering our understand-
ing of how high-temperature
superconductors actually work. If
we can someday learn through this
research to make superconductors
work like semi-conductors— with
electric field switches — we could
eventually make these materials
applicable to electronic devices and
power transmission systems."

Greene cautions, however, that
such progress will be many years
in the making. "The potential for

Superconductivity researchers Venky Venkatesan, Xiao Xing Xi, Qi Li and Chuhee Kwon; "We
have seen a huge effect on transition temperature regulation."

high-temperature superconductors
was greatly oversold in the early
days of the research, and many
people were disappointed when
practical uses for these materials —
such as levitated trains — did not
pan out quickly. But new technol-

ogies require many years of
research and development. Our
research here at the center is an
important milestone, however,
toward a brighter superconducting
future."

Fariss Samarrtri

Hidden Quasar may be at Center
of Powerful Radio Galaxy

Recent findings by College Park
astronomer Andrew Wilson sug-
gest that Cygnus A, the most pow-
erful — and first — radio galaxy dis-
covered in the northern hemis-
phere, may be hiding a powerful
quasar at its center.

Based on infrared spectroscopy
of Cygnus A, it now appears that
dust and gas clouds are blocking
our view of a quasar in the center
of Cygnus A, according to Wilson.
If this proves to be the case, it
could mean that certain types of
galaxies are much more similar
than was previously thought. For
decades it has been assumed by
astronomers that there were three
basic subtypes of objects termed
"active galactic nuclei." These are
radio galaxies, quasars and Seyfert
galaxies, differentiated by the type
of radiation they emit. Radio galax-
ies, for instance, emit strong radio
waves, while Seyfert galaxies emit
very weak or no radio radiation.

But over the past five years,
many astronomers have come to
suspect that some of these various
sub-types may not represent entire-
ly different objects, but rather, may
be similar objects viewed from dif-
ferent directions. Wilson's work
lends considerable credibility to
this theory by suggesting that
quasars at the center of many gal-
axies may be obscured by a torus, a
doughnut-shaped thick cloud com-
prised of what appears to be dust
and gas molecules. The direction
from which we view the torus then
largely determines the subtype of
active galactic nuclei, Wilson says.

For example, when viewed
down the "pole" of the torus, the
broad line region and compact con-
tinuum (optical, ultraviolet and x-

Andrew Wilson

ray emissions) can be seen directly
and with little obscurity. The object
would then be considered a broad
line radio galaxy, quasar or a type
1 Seyfert galaxy. But viewed more
edge-on, the torus blocks the view
of the broad line region and contin-
uum source. Only the narrow lines
can be seen, hence the object would
be classified as a narrow line radio
galaxy or Seyfert type 2 galaxy.

"It now seems that many of the
differences we see in these objects
simply result from looking at them
from different angles," Wilson
points out.

Wilson, who this year made
national headlines with his discov-
ery of what might be a huge black
hole, also discovered the first evi-
dence for the presence of gas mol-
ecules in Cygnus A, lending fur-
ther support to his theory that a
cloud of dust and gas is obscuring
a quasar nuclei in Cygnus A.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991

New Teacher Greets "Old" Students

New journalism professor Eugene Roberts walked into his first
class this month to find a room filled not only with his new students
but also with some fifteen of his former newspaper colleagues at The
Philadelphia Inquirer — in varying stages of Groucho Marx disguises.
In the photo at left he joins in an after-class discussion with his "old"
students-for-a-day.

Challenging Year Ahead for
the Campus Senate

The following is a column by
Gerald Ray Miller, 1991-92
Campus Senate Chair

The 1990-91 Campus Senate
dealt with a large number of
important issues. This year's Senate
begins its work with a meeting on
September 16 and will face an even
larger number of serious issues.

Last year the Senate completed
work on a major revision of the
promotion and tenure policy for
the campus, and task forces led by
former Senate Chairs Andy Wolvin
and Ralph Bennett reviewed the
Birnbaum Report on faculty gover-
nance, held campus hearings, and
presented a joint report to the Sen-
ate recommending a number of
changes to strengthen campus gov-
ernance. After thorough discussion,
the Senate passed an amended
document that should lead both to
changes in the structure of the
Campus Senate (currently under
review by the Senate's Plan of
Organization Review Committee)
and to improvements in the gover-
nance of our colleges, schools, and
departments (to be carried out by
the academic units this year).

The biggest job the Senate will
face this year will be reviewing the
comprehensive set of proposals for
reducing the academic program of
the campus and for making related
changes in our academic structure.
Consideration of the reduction or
elimination of academic programs
was made necessary by the drastic
budget cuts imposed on the cam-
pus last year and (as I write, the
campus has suffered a 15% cut in
State support since July 1, 1990).
These proposals, initiated by the
Academic Planning Advisory Com-
mittee (APAC), are being formulat-
ed by 19 committees appointed by
the Provost, most of which will
present their reports to him by
mid-September or mid-October.
Proposals forwarded to the Cam-
pus Senate for action will be
reviewed by the General Commit-
tee on Programs, Curriculum, and
Courses which will prepare recom-
mendations for Senate action.

It is vitally important that at
College Park we make the wisest
decisions possible, that we preserve
a solid, balanced core of strong,
reasonably funded academic pro-
grams that will provide the foun-
dation of the university well into
the next century. This will require
fair, careful, and expeditious con-
sideration within the Senate,
thoughtful participation by the
academic community, and a will-
ingness to make tough decisions.

The challenge of these unusually
large budget cuts, second largest in
the nation last year, also requires
that we all be much more active in
telling our neighbors, friends, and
community organizations as well

as our delegates, senators, and gov-
ernor about the benefits of a great
teaching and research university
and about the resources needed to
support such an institution.

The Senate will consider a vari-
ety of other issues during the
course of the year, including a
review of the Blue Ribbon Commit-
tee on Parking (which proposes
some substantial increases in park-
ing fees), a study of the means for
improving undergraduate advising
on the campus, and the report on
impediments to research. The qual-
ity of our university depends on

the quality of the decision-making
we undertake together on the
important issues facing us as well
as on the quality of teaching,
research, and service we do as
individuals. Our university has
made enormous strides in the last
decade and a half; preserving qual-
ity and enhancing it in these very
difficult times is a task for all of us.

Faculty-Staff Annual Fund
Campaign Gets Underway

Consider:

• A much-needed new facility is
planned to house the campus day-
care center. But there is no money
to furnish it.

•Budget shortfalls have severely
cut back the undergraduate sum-
mer research program. This excit-
ing program cannot survive with-
out additional support.

•The university has not been
able to meet the increasing demand
from top-notch students who qual-
ify for Key and Banneker
Scholarships.

"Each of these is an essential
program of a first-rate university.
Each is a victim of tough times,
and each is a need shared by our
entire campus community," accord-
ing to Kathryn Costello, Vice Presi-
dent for Institutional Advancement,
who announced that these three
programs will be initiatives for this
yearns Faculty-Staff Annual Fund
Campaign-

"The economy has dealt a heavy
blow to our programs and our
employees. But many people from
across the campus, both staff and
faculty, have urged us during our
planning meetings to proceed with
the campaign, because they see the
needs as urgent," says Costello.
"We were advised to focus on areas
that affect people, especially people
on this campus who are hurting —
parents with children, our neediest
students, and our students who
need an edge in today's job
market."

Since 1987, faculty and staff
members have supported hundreds
of campus programs through this
campaign. Last year, nearly
$250,000 was given in support of
more than 200 different campus
programs or units.

This year, the focus will be more
specific, but as in the past, donors

may designate their gifts for any
campus need. Other changes in the
campaign will also be evident this
year. There is no chair; the
campaign will be managed by the
Office of Institutional Advancement
and supported by a committee of
volunteers representing various
campus units. Solicitations will be
conducted by peers, not by super-
visors, and all donations will be
confidential.

The active phase of the fund
drive will run for one month, from
mid-September to mid-October.
Donors may choose from several
options for giving: payroll deduc-
tion, direct cash or credit card.

"Having a campaign may seem
out of place at a time when our
employees are already sacrificing so
greatly. But I know that there are
many members of the community
who want to continue their personal
support of some of our outstanding
programs, and what a difference
their gifts make," says President
William E. Kirwan. "I'm amazed at
the generosity of our campus
community, and I see, in so many
ways, how this generosity helps to
carry us through the most difficult
times."

Costello indicates she will be
sending a letter to every campus
employee in the next few days,
encouraging participation
in this campaign. "The volunteer
support for this campaign from our
faculty and staff is already enor-
mous. I want to encourage everyone
to just do what you can, and help in
whatever ways you can. Our needs
have never been greater," she says.

Jan George

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991

O

CALENDAR

Campus Club's Newcomers Reception to be Held Sept 22

The annual newcomers reception and welcome back tea, hosted by
Campus Gub, the university's faculty wives and women faculty and
staff organization, and Mrs. Patty Kirwan will be held at the presi-
dent's house on Sunday, Sept. 22 from 2 to 4 p.m. In addition to the
tea, Campus Club sponsors luncheons, art talks, tours, and lectures
throughout the year. For information about the Sept. 22 tea, the
newsletter, club activities, the directory and the $10 annual dues, call
club president Caroline Hummel at 445-0020.

"Catfish: Fyke Netting," lithograph by Neil Harpa, It part of an exhibit the artist' » drawings at the Parents Association Gallery. The exhibit,
"Honoring the Chesapeake," features work recently published In A Maryland Sea Grant Book, Working the Chesapeake: Watermen on the Bay,
by Mark Jacoby. The exhibit runs from September 3 through October 2 In the Parents Association Gallery In the Stamp Student Union.
Call 314-2787 for Info.

SEPTEMBER 16-25

MONDAY

Art Gallery Exhibition: 'Select-
ed Works by Alfred C. Crimi,"
featuring paintings, was rectos.
drawings and graphic works,
Sept. fz-Oct. 4. The Art Gallery.
Call 5-2763 for info.

Parents' Association Art Gal-
lery Exhibit: "Honoring the

Chesapeake,' featuring the litho-
graph drawings of Neil Harpe,
today -Oct. 2, Parents' Association
Gallery, Stamp Student Union.
Call 4-2787 for info.

Horticulture Seminar: "Xylem
Sap Proteins," Fred 8. Abeies,
Appalachian Fruit Research Cen-
ter, Kearney sville. WV, 4 p.m.,
Q128B Holzapfel. Call 54336 for
info.

Space Science Seminar: 'Monte
Carlo Simulations of Charged
Particle Transport," James Earl,
Physics and Astronomy, 4:30
p.m., 1113 Computer and Space
Sciences. Gall 5-6226 for info.

Physics Colloquium: "A New

Symmetry of the Strong Interac-
tions," Nathan Isgur. Theory Divi-
sion, CEBAF, 4 p.m.; tea. 3:30
am, 1410 Physics. Call 5-5953
for info.

M WEDNESDAY

Molecular and Cell Biology
Seminar: "Cyclic AMP, Calcium
and Control of Developmental
Gene Expression in the Cellular
Slime Mold Dictyosretium dis-
ooideum," Daphne Blumberg,
Biology, UMBC. 12:05 pm, 1208
ZocVPsych. Call 5-6991 for info.

TUESDAY

Center for International Devel-
opment and Conflict Manage-
ment "Brown Bag" Seminar:
"The Sociology of Peacekeeping."
David Segal. Sociology. 12:30
p.m., MHIBIdg., 2nd floor. Call 4-
7703 for info.

College of Agriculture Wel-
come Picnic, for students, fac-
ulty and alumni, featuring food,
entertainment and activities. 3:30
p.m., Symons Hall (outside facing
the Mall). Call 5-2078 for info. '

m THURSDAY

Libraries Open House: "Pan.
ners for Knowledge,"
Demonstrations of automated ref-
erence services at McKeldin and
Hornbake, including VICTOR (on-
line catalog}, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.;
Tours and demonstrations of
specialized reference tools in
branch libraries (Art, Engin,
Music, etc.), 1-3 p.m.; Reception
to welcome new faculty, 3-4
p.m., Hornbake Library, second
Boor. Call 5-9257 for info,

SUPC Fall Open House, featur-
ing information and sign-up activ-
ities for cultural events, films,
concerts, tournaments and out-
door recreation, 1 1 a.m.- 3 p.m..
Tortuga Room, Stamp Student
Union. Call 4-8495 for info.

College of Life Sciences New
Students Welcome Reception,
lor freshmen, transfer students

and faculty, featuring food and
information, 2-4 p.m., Symons
Hall lobby. Call 5-2060 for info.

Meteorology Seminar: 'Budget
Study of the Systematic Error of
the NMC Global Model." M,
Kanamrtsu, NMC, Camp Springs,
3:30 p.m., 2114 Computer and
Space Sciences; refreshments,

3 p.m. Call 5-5392 for info.

Committee on the History and

Philosophy of Science Collo-
quium: Experiment, Difference
and Representation: On the
Laboratory Production of Transfer
RNA," Hans-Jorg Rheinberger,
M&dizinisctie Untversitat, Lubeck.

4 p.m., 0201 Computer and
Space Sciences. Call 5-5691 for
info.

Women's Volleyball vs. Tem-
ple, 7:30 p.m.. Cole Field House.
Call 4-7070 for info.

Movie: Bill & Ted's Bogus Jour-
ney, 8 p.m., Hoff Theater, Stamp
Student Union. Call 4-HOFF for
info.'

ar; Townsend Hoopes, CISSM
senior reserach fellow, 12:30-2
p.m. Student Union Atrium. Call
5-6352 for info.

Mental Health Service "Lunch
'n Learn": "Managing Crises with
Patients Involved in substance
Abuse," George Kotodner, psy-
chiatrist, Silver Spring, 1-2 p.m.,
3100E Health Center, Call 4-
8106 for info,

Women's Field Hockey vs.
Stanford. 7 p.m, Astroturf Field.
Call 4-7070 for info.

Movies: Bill & Ted's Bogus Jour-
ney, 8 and 10 p.m.; And Now
For Something; Completely Differ-
ent, midnight, Hoff Theater,
Stamp Student Union. Call 4-
HOFF for info.'

FRIDAY

College of Library and Informa-
tion Sciences Alumni Day: "The
Library Professional: Endangered
Species?." including speakers,
luncheon, awards ceremony and
rally, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Hornbake
Library. Call 5-2064 for info.'

School of Public Affairs Panel
Discussion on International
Security and USSR, Michael
Nacht, Public Affairs; Roald
Saqdeev, Physics; Henry
Trofimenko, Soviet affairs schol-

SATURDAY

UM Football vs. West Virginia,

4 p.m., 8yrd Stadium. Call 4-
7070 for info."

Movies: Bill & Ted's Bogus Jour-
ney, 8 and 10 p.m.; And Now
For Something Completely Differ-
ent, midnight, Hoff Theater,
Stamp Student Union, Call 4-
HOFF for info.'

SUNDAY

Men's Soccer vs. N.C. State, 2
p.m., Denton Field. Call 4-7D70
tor info.

Campus Club Annual New-
comers Reception and Wel-
come Back Tea, 2-4 p.m. Presi-
dent and Mrs. Kirwan's home.
Call 445-0020 for info.

Movie; Bill & Ted's Bogus
Journey, 5 & 8 p.m, Hoff
Theater, Stamp Student Union.
Call 4-HOFF for info.'

MONDAY

Horticulture Seminar: "The Con-
cept of Precision Dosage for
Pesticides in Fruit Orchards"
Paul Steiner, Botany, 4 p.m,
0128B Holzapfel. Call 5-4336 for
info.

Space Science Seminar:
"HEIDI: High Altitude Scientific
Balloon Payload tor Imaging
Solar Flares, Hard X-rays and
Gamma Rays." Carol Jo
Crannell, NASA/GSFC, 4:30 p.m,
1113 Computer and Space Sci-
ences. Call 5-6226 for info.

Movie: Dead Poets Society, 5 &
8 p.m, Hoff Theater, Stamp Stu-
dent Union. Call 4-HCfF for

info.'

TUESDAY

Women's Soccer vs. Lasalle, 3
p.m„ Denton Field. Call 4-7070

for info.

Outstanding Woman ot the
Year Award Ceremony, presen-
tation to Marilyn Berman,
associate dean, College of
Engineering, 3:30-4:30 p.m,
1400 Marie Mount, reception fol-
lowing. Call 5-5252 for info.

Movie: Dead Poets Society, 5 &
8 p.m, Hoff Theater, Stamp Stu-
dent Union. Call 4-HOFF for
Info.'

WEDNESDAY

Computer Emporium's Sixth
Annual Computer Fest, today
and tomorrow, 9:30 a.m. -4:30
p.m., Grand Ballroom, Stamp
Student Union. Call 5-5825 for
info.

Center for Teaching Excellence
Conversations About Teaching:
The New Core Courses:
What's Happening Mow and
Implications for Teaching," noon-
1:30 p.m., Maryland Room, Marie
Mount, light refreshments served.
Call 5-2355 for info.

Movie: Backdrafl, 5 & 8 p.m,
Hoff Theater, Stamp Student
Union. Call 4-HOFF for info.'

Archil set ure Lecture, Michael
Dennis, architect, author and
educator, Boston, on recent work,
7:30 p.m., Architecture Auditor-
ium. Call 5-6284 for info.

' Admission charge for this
event. All others are free.

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SPECIAL LIBRARIES SUPPLEMENT

OUTLOOK

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991
VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3

Victor is Up and Running-and Growing

Welcoming new and returning
faculty to the campus libraries this
fall are the many workstations of
the new Library Information Man-
agement System (LIMS ID. To some
an already familiar sight and to
others a new resource to explore
and learn, this new system holds
the key to open a wide variety of
information sources. A product of
CARL Systems, Inc., of Denver,
LIMS II first became operational at
this university in February 1991.

While the new system offers a
range of databases, the one most
frequently used is VICTOR, the
public access catalog of the Univer-
sity of Maryland System Libraries.

The technologically advanced
VICTOR replaces the Geac online
catalog. Initially, five UMS library
catalogs were loaded into VICTOR,
including the College Park campus,
UMBC, UMES, UMUC, and
theUMAB Law School. During this
summer the following were added:
Bowie State, Coppin State, Towson
State, Salisbury State, Frostburg
State, the University of Baltimore,
the University of Baltimore Law
Library, and the Center for Envi-
ronmental and Estuarine Studies.

In addition, a "union" catalog
representing the collective holdings
of all of the participating UMS
Libraries is being developed. When
this is ready, the user will have the
option of searching for an item on
only one campus at a time, or on
all campuses at the same time.
VICTOR now contains approxi-
mately 90 percent of the mono-
graphs held by the College Park
Libraries. Generally, music books
and materials in Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean are not included at this
time. While many serials (maga-
zines, journals, newspapers, annual
publications, etc.,) have been added
to the VICTOR database, the Serials

UMCP LIBRARIES
September 19, 1991

OPEN HOUSE

10:00 o.m.-l:00 p.m.: Demonstrations
of Automated Reference Sources

at McKELDIN LIBRARY

10:00 o.m.-l 1:00 o.m.:

Social Sciences. Behavioral Sciences.
Education. Law, ond Business

• CD-ROMs

• Online Products

• VICTOR, CONSER, UnCover

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.:
Sciences

. CO- ROMs

t Online Products

• VICTOR. CONSER. UnCover

12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m.:

Humanities

• CD-ROMs

• Online Products

• VICTOR. CONSER. Uncover

at HORNBAKE LIBRARY

10:00 a.m.-l 1:00 a.m.:

VICTOR. UnCover. CD-ROM demos
All morning In Lobby and 3rd ftoor

Instruction room

1:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m.:

Tours and demonstrations of special
reference sources In branch libraries
and otner service sites

Lisf remains the authority for find-
ing out what periodicals are avail-
able here.

Special collections, such as
archival material, individual titles
included in many of the microform
collections, and the bulk of govern-
ment documents, also do not cur-
rently appear on the VICTOR data-
base. However, new government
documents being added to the col-
lection on an ongoing basis soon
will be included.

Because the Libraries are not yet
using LIMS II to circulate books,
VICTOR does not now display the
circulation status of material. This
information can be obtained by
searching the call number on any
public circulation (Geac) terminal.

VICTOR is an easy system to
use, offering keyword searching by
words, names and a combination of

words and names. The user may
also browse by title, series title, or
call number. Menus and help
screens lead the user step-by-step
through the search process and as-
sist in refining the search. In addi-
tion, the Libraries' staff has devel-
oped a number of guides to search-
ing VICTOR and these are avail-
able at any reference desk.

VICTOR may also be searched
from a remote location such as
through dial access from a home
computer or through the campus
network or certain hard-wired ter-
minals located on campus. Bro-
chures with more detailed informa-
tion are available at the various re-
ference desks.

VICTOR is a database in transi-
tion. New enhancements and new
files will be added over time.

McKeldin Renovation:

A Look at Coming Attractions

The renovation of "old" McKel-
din, now known as McKeldin East,
officially began on March 25, 1991.
If work progresses as scheduled,
the renovated building is expected
to open for the Spring 1993
semester.

The first floor will include a
large circulation desk on the right
and, just ahead, as a prominent fea-
ture of this floor, a large catalog
assistance/information desk. The
first floor will also have Reference
Services, online catalog terminals,
Interlibrary Loan, the reference col-
lection and the bibliography collec-
tion.

Periodicals, the microforms col-
lection, newspapers, and the
Photocopy Center will remain on
the first floor of McKeldin West.

The renovated building will

include Government Documents on
the second floor, Special Collec-
tions on floor three, and adminis-
trative offices on the fourth floor.
A public lounge will be a new sec-
ond floor feature and a graduate
reserves reading room is planned
for the fourth floor. There will be
open seating for approximately
2,000 persons throughout the
building.

The newly-renovated McKeldin
East will have women's and men's
rest rooms on each floor and also
will feature large reading rooms
illuminated by new halogen ceiling
fixtures, which will provide a
warm, diffused light more appeal-
ing than the old fluorescent lights.
In addition, all reading room bal-
conies will be enclosed by glass
walls.

Renovation continues at
"Old" McKeldin.

UNIVERSITY

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PARK

Did You Know?

•This past fiscal year more than 613,000 items were borrowed from
the College Park campus Libraries.

•Libraries' staff responded to 580,215 questions in FY 91 compared
to 524,990 the previous year, an increase of more than 10.5 percent.

•This past year more than 65 percent of the Libraries' materials
budget was spent for serials such as magazines, journals, newspap-
ers, and annual publications.

A Word From Libraries
Director H. Joanne Harrar

Communicating with you, our
users, and establishing an environ-
ment that provides for the inter-
change of ideas and information is
of paramount importance to us.

Along these lines, we have
turned to the pages of Outlook, spe-
cifically this special four-page sup-
plement, to communicate some of
our key services and policies direc-
ted to faculty members, graduate
students, and staff. 1 hope you find
this publication helpful.

This is not intended to be a
comprehensive summary of the
services we offer. When it comes to
more detailed information, we have
a number of pamphlets, brochures
and leaflets to help our users gain
easy and ready access to what they
need. Please ask for them, because
they are designed to make your
use of the Libraries more effective
and efficient.

I hope faculty members take
special note of our new Faculty
Paging Service and also of their
eligibility to make use of the
Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing
Program which allows them bor-
rowing privileges and on-site
access to the collections of some of

the most important research
libraries in the United States.

We also are quite pleased about
our new online catalog named VIC-
TOR. An item in this supplement
highlights the accessibility and usa-
bility of this state-of-the-art system.

Finally, I ask that you take a few
moments from time to time to pro-
vide us with feedback. The budget
situation and the McKeldin renova-
tion project notwithstanding, we
are still committed to providing
you with quality library service.
Let us know what kind of a job
we're doing and how we can better
serve you. What are some of your
pet peeves about the Libraries and
what are some of the things that
we do well?

My door is open and my tele-
phone, 405-9127, does not go
unanswered. If I am unavailable,
Danuta Nitecki, our Associate
Director for Public Services, would
be happy to hear from you on
405-9251. Please help us help you.

H. Joanne Harrar

Director of Libraries

H. Joanne Harrar

Faculty Advice Sought on New Book Purchases

Collection building is a major
activity involving both staff and
faculty, and even students.
Accordingly, the Libraries place
heavy reliance on faculty sugges-
tions and recommendations for the
purchase of new library materials
including books and periodicals.

The easiest and fastest way for
faculty to recommend the purchase

of new library materials is by fill-
ing out a form at any reference or
information location in one of the
campus libraries. Book purchase
recommendations may also be for-
warded to the Collection Manage-
ment Office on floor three of the
McKeldin Library,

Once a suggestion to purchase je
received, it is forwarded to the ap-

propriate bibliographer or selector
responsible for choosing materials
in the particular subject area.

To have a newly-ordered book
held after it has been processed,
the requestor need only provide his
or her name and social security
number at the time the recommen-
dation for purchase is made.

Serials Cancellations Eased by Faculty Input

The Libraries' serials collection
contains over 23,000 subscriptions
to annuals, newspapers, and to
various technical, scientific, human-
istic and social science journals.

During the fall 1990 semester,
the faculty was alerted to the fact
that the Libraries would probably
have to cancel approximately
$700,000 in subscriptions in order
to help stabilize the proportion of
the budget expended for serials
and to prevent further erosion in
the purchase of other items such as
monographs.

At that time, subject biblio-
graphers and selectors contacted
faculty members to seek their
advice and direct participation in
prioritizing serials in order to
identify those for cancellation in
the next fiscal year. Affected and
interested faculty were extremely
helpful and understanding and
gave a considerable amount of time
to this serials review/cancellation
project.

This past May, Libraries' Direc-
tor H. Joanne Harrar announced
that the original target figure of

$700,000 in cuts had been pared to
$285,000 due to salary savings re-
sulting from the hiring freeze that
had been directed to support serial
costs. Another positive factor was
the improved state of the U.S. dol-
lar abroad.

Harrar has cautioned, however,
that serial price fluctuations and
the overall health of the library
budget a year from now may very
well necessitate additional cancella-
tions of subscriptions in FY 93 and
FY 94.

The Photocopy Card —

Don't Leave Your Office Without It

The Danyl Card System installeo tower attached to the copier and

on the Savin 7500 coin-operated then receives a card reflecting the

public copiers in the Libraries value of the money inserted. The

makes copying easier and more card can then be used in place of

convenient and also provides sav- coins for copying,

ingspf 20 percent. By utilizing the card system, the

Similar to the Washington Metro per copy cost is 8 cents compared

System, the user first inserts an to 10 cents without it. The card also

amount of money into the coin offers a user the advantage of not

having to have change on hand
each time he or she wishes to make
copies. Cards and instructions for
their use are available from the
Photocopy Center on the first floor
of McKeldin West. Staff there will
be glad to help. The Photocopy
Center telephone number is
405-9056.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 1991

Librarian Judy Cmero (right) offers assistance
in making an interlibrary loan request.

Changes Speed Interlibrary Loans

The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) pro-
gram affords the College Park cam-
pus Libraries the opportunity to
supplement their own collections
by borrowing materials or securing
photocopies primarily from other
libraries, and from special sources
as well- In turn, the Libraries pro-
vide loans and photocopies of Col-
lege Park-owned materials to other
libraries.

In most cases the staff here will
send out a request to a supplier
within 24 hours of having received
a completed Libraries Document
Delivery /ILL Request Form. Mater-
ials supplied by off-campus sources
are usually received in two to four
weeks. When time is of the essence,
Fax service to College Park is often
available for photocopies.

Materials borrowed through ILL
are subject to me loan period, re-
newal, and use restrictions set by
the lending library. Loan periods
usually range from two to four
weeks with the possibility of a

14-day extension in most cases.

The Libraries absorb most loan
and photocopy costs. Normally
users will only be billed for
photocopies filled from College
Park-owned material and for loans
and photocopies obtained from
non-College Park sources that cost
more than $20 (loans) or $15
(photocopies) per request.

Anyone with a valid College
Park borrower's card is eligible for
this service. After filling out the
form, the library patron can expe-
dite the request by citing or attach-
ing a photocopy of the source
where the item was listed. The
completed form can be left at the
ILL Office in McKeidin or at the
reference desk of any campus
library.

More information about ILL
policies and services, as well as
forms, are available at the ILL
office on the third floor of
McKeidin or by calling 405-9178.

Faculty Can Ask for Customized
Instructional Services

The Libraries staff have devel-
oped a wide-ranging array of
instructional services for faculty.
These activities range from orien-
tation tours or table displays at
College park functions to full class
sessions or in-depth research con-
sultations on a one-to-one basis.

Librarians at the different cam-
pus libraries will be glad to assist

faculty in planning a library ses-
sion for students. A meeting with
the librarian should take place
about two weeks in advance of the
session. Also advisable is a call
early in the semester to insure that
the librarian, room, and materials
are available when needed. For
further information contact Rebecca
Jackson at 5-9187.

All System Libraries Open to
College Park Faculty

Faculty members having a cur-
rent identification card and, in
some cases, a borrower validation
certificate from any UM System
library are entitled to direct bor-
rowing privileges at any of the
libraries in the System.

Each individual has the same
ability to use unrestricted library
materials as do users at the home
institution. This program does not
provide for the transfer of bor-
rowing privileges to others. Gener-
ally, borrowers are required to

return the borrowed material to the
library from where it came,
although twice weekly there is
delivery service between UMAB,
UMBC, UMCP, UMES, and UMUC.

Through this direct borrowing
program, any library material that
the institution's own faculty, stu-
dents and staff can borrow, is
available for direct borrowing by
other valid users. A loan period of
at least 21 days is offered by each
lending library.

Special Faculty Card Can Be Used at
151 Off-Campus Libraries

Faculty members at College
Park now have on-site access to
and may borrow materials from
any of 151 other university research
libraries as a result of the univer-
sity's participation in the OCLC
Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing
Program.

The uniqueness of this program
is that it provides easier and
broader access to scholarly mater-
ials. College Park faculty who are
interested in this program need
only request a Reciprocal Faculty

Borrowing Program card from the
Head of Interlibrary Loan, at
405-9178.

This card will provide privileges
at any of the 151 participating
libraries. Letters from deans or
library directors or other official
correspondence are not required.

Materials may be used on the
premises of the owning library or
may be borrowed, depending on
the policies of the owning .nstitu-
tion. Privileges vary from institu-
tion to institution.

NEW SERVICES

New Paging Service
Offered to Help Simplify
Faculty Research

The university faculty paging ser-
vice was initiated in April 1991 to
alleviate some of the inconvenience
experienced by users of the McKei-
din Library compact shelving.

Faculty members may mail or
drop off a paging request form to
the McKeidin Circulation Desk for
any McKeidin circulating item that
is not charged out. This service
does not apply to retrieval of ref-
erence, reserve, or periodical room
materials or non-circulating stack
items.

Before a Paging Request Form is
submitted, it would be helpful to
the staff if the current status of
needed items is verified in the on-
line catalog system as being "in the
library." Unfortunately, items that
are owned by other libraries cannot
be requested through this service.

Once a form is submitted.
Libraries' staff will check the call
number in its correct shelf location.
If the item is found, it will be
retrieved and held for pickup at
the McKeidin Circulation Desk. If
not found, the form will be
returned to the address specified.
Notification of the availability of
the items requested will be sent by
mail within three days of the
receipt of the request.

For additional information on
this paging service, please contact
the McKeidin Library Circulation
Desk, 5-9095.

Faculty Can Now Renew
by Mail

The Libraries have made it eas-
ier for permanent College Park fac-
ulty members to renew their
books — they can do it by mail.

To renew by mail, the faculty
member need only make a photo-
copy of the front cover of each
book to be renewed, making sure
that the barcode is copied clearly.
This should then be sent to the cir-
culation desk of the College Park
campus library most frequently
used.

This service is for books from
the College Park campus Libraries
borrowed by College Park faculty
only. Other libraries within the
UMS should be contacted for infor-
mation on their renewal policies-
Books checked out from Horn-
bake Library or items from certain
collections, such as Nonprint Media
Services, reserves desks. Music
Library compact discs, or EPSL's
technical reports, are not included
in this service.

For more information on this
service, contact the Circulation Staff
in any College Park campus
library.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991

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Did You Know?

•The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Baltimore Sun are now
available online in full text format.

•As of June 30, 1991, the Libraries' collection included 2,119,523
volumes, 4385,087 pieces of microform, 723,620 government docu-
ments, 191,480 maps, 49309 phonograph records, 33,215 audio cas-
settes and or tapes, 9,827 video cassettes and or discs, and 9,428
slides.

Many Databases Available Through VICT0R--
And More are on the Way

One of the reasons the UMS select-
ed the CARL System with the VIC-
TOR online catalog was that it of-
fers access to many different data-
bases. A user opting to enter one of
CARL's other databases has avail-
able a screen of at least 22 different
menu options. These choices can be
grouped into the following four
categories:
■ UMCP Database

As noted, approximately 90 per-
cent of the monographs in the
UMCP Libraries System are record-
ed in VICTOR.
• UMS Libraries' Database

VICTOR affords the user the
ability to search the individual
library catalogs of the many and
diverse collections of the University
of Maryland System.

• Other Libraries Databases

Other databases accessible
through VICTOR include the
holdings of various other library
systems including the University of
California's MELVYL System.

• UnCover

Through VICTOR, the user has
access to UnCover, a table of con-
tents file for articles in over 10,000
periodicals, both general interest

and scholarly, from October 1988 to
date. Over 600,000 articles are
entered each year. While presently
UnCover provides article abstract
information and not full- text, in the
near future CARL Systems
anticipates extending UnCover ser-
vices to include fee-based online
delivery of the full text of journal
articles.

CARL-member libraries provide
input to the UnCover database
which is updated daily. As a result,
journal articles can often be iden-
tified months before they appear in
printed indexes.

New Automated Reference Sources Make
the "Database Difference

.? ?

Library users can now take ad-
vantage of the speed and flexibility
of microcomputers to search,
retrieve, and print or download
information on a wide variety of
topics.

The automated reference sources
of the Libraries are available as on-
line and CD-ROM databases and
can be searched free of charge. The
databases are available in McKel-
din Library, Hombake Library,

White Memorial Library
(Chemistry), Engineering and
Physical Sciences Library (EPSL),
Art Library, Government
Documents/ Maps Unit, and Non-
print Media Services.

The subject areas represented by
the databases range from the life
sciences, social sciences, business,
physical sciences, and law to the
humanities and several multi-dis-
ciplinary databases.

The Libraries require reserva-
tions for the use of many of the
databases to which they subscribe.
For information on which automa-
ted reference sources are available,
in which library they are located,
and the policies for using them,
consult the Automated Reference
Sources handout available at any
College Park campus library.

Powerful New Research Tool FIRSTSEARCH
Makes Trial Run

The Libraries are field testing a
powerful new research tool,
OCLC's FIRSTSEARCH, which has
an easy-to-use menu interface
allowing faculty, students and
other users to access the OCLC
database with a few simple com-
mands from any Internet terminal
on campus. FIRSTSEARCH sup-
plements information in the
College park Libraries with data
from more than 1 1 ,000 libraries
throughout the world.

FIRSTSEARCH allows users to
search by author, title, keyword, or
subject without assistance or
training. In addition, it lets users
compile subject bibliographies,
verify difficult-to-find items, and
identify libraries which own a
particular book or journal.

Currently the information in
FIRSTSEARCH comes from two
sources, and it is likely that other
popular databases will be added
soon.

The first source is the OCLC
Online Union Catalog, which con-
tains over 23 million bibliographic
records for books, serials, audio-
visual materials, music, govern-
ment documents, maps, computer
software, and more.

The second source of informa-
tion for FIRSTSEARCH is ERIC, the
Educational Resources Information
Center, ERIC is the world's largest
bibliography of educational materi-
als, and its file contains abstracts of
journal articles and special reports.
The full-text reports are available in
the ERIC Document Microfiche

Collection which is housed in the
Current Periodicals Room of
McKeldin Library.

During the test phase of
FIRSTSEARCH the service is free to
Libraries' patrons. The introduction
of FIRSTSEARCH marks the first
time that a research tool of such
power and magnitude has been
made available to every networked
terminal on the campus.

Comments and questions about
the HRSTSEARCH database should
be directed to Gloria Chawla, Tech-
nical Reports Librarian, Engineer-
ing and Physical Sciences Library,
at 405-9159. Questions about log-
ging on through the computer net-
work should be directed to the
Computer Science Center Help
Line at 405-1500.

CRL Program is Magic Key to Large
Off-Campus Research Collections

The Libraries recently began to
supplement College Park collec-
tions by making available to
researchers, faculty and students
the vast resources of the Center for
Research Libraries (CRL).

Located in Chicago, this
cooperative, membership-based
organization, provides to the
scholarly community research
materials that are rarely held in
North American libraries due to
budgetary restraints, space limita-
tions and the infrequent demand
for such materials.

Members of the Center, which
serves 136 member university, col-

lege, and research libraries, include
virtually every well known aca-
demic institution in the United
States and Canada.

Joining CRL means that the
Libraries can provide access to the
3.6 million volumes and 1.1 million
microforms that are in the CRL col-
lection.

Requests from CRL are sent in
by computer, and the material is
often here in about eight days. The
loan period is two months but an
item can be renewed as needed un-
less it is sought by someone else.

Among CRL's holdings are
more than 2,000 college and univer-

sity catalogs, insurance company
reports, corporate annual reports,
textbooks, archival material from
Great Britain, Germany and Japan,
foreign science and technology
publications, various foreign and
U.S. newspapers including a large
number of ethnic periodicals, geo-
graphic studies, foreign doctoral
dissertations, and extensive materi-
als on women's studies.

An easy way to find out if
material is available through CRL
is to check the handbook, a des-
criptive guide to all its collections,
available at the ILL office on the
third floor of McKeldin Library.

A collection of CD ROMs.

A single disk can hold the equivalent

of 275,000 pages of text.

The new on-line catalog VICTOR Is
user-friendly and thorough.

This special Libraries Supplement lias
been prepared by the staff of the Univer-
sity of Maryland at College Park Libraries.

H. Joanne Hanar Director of Libraries
Damrtfl A, NltecW Associate Director for
Public Services

Contributors

Frank Booties. Gloria Chawla, Judith
Cmero. Denise Davis, Aravind Hanrte.
Paula Hayes. Flora Jones. Rebecca
Nwude. Desider Vikor and Donald
Williams

Thanks should also go to the editor of
the Computer Science Center Unk
Newsletter for furnishing the VICTOR art-
work, to Campus Photo, and to
photographer Al Danegger

This supplement was produced In
cooperation with the offices of Public In.
formation and Creative Services

Comments and suggestions about this
supplement are welcome and should be
directed to Qanuta Nitecki. Associate
Director for Public Services, (301)
405-9251

SEPTEMBER 16, 1991