Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (2002)

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Volume iS • Number 14 • December 17, 2002

Exempt Staff
Will Have
Union Election

Exempt staff members will
have an opportunity to
choose whether they
want to engage in collective
bargaining with the university
and have a labor union repre-
sent them.

The State Higher Education
Labor Relations Board (SHELRB)
has certified that more than 30
percent of eligible exempt staff
members have signed authoriza-
tion cards expressing an inter-
est in having University Profes-
sionals United/AJFSCME repre-
sent them in negotiations with
the university about wages,
hours, and other terms and con-
ditions of employment.

The SHELRB has ordered an
election on Wednesday, Jan. 22
in the Grand Ballroom of the
Stamp Student Union. The
polling place will be open from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eligible em-
ployees must present a photo
I.D. in order to receive a ballot.

Eligible employees will
choose either to be represented
by the AFSCME union or not to
be represented. The majority of
those actually voting determines
the outcome. If the union wins,
then every exempt bargaining
unit employee will be repre-
sented by University Profession-
als United/AFSCME, regardless
of whether the employee voted
or is a member of the union.

"It is extremely important
that everyone understand the
purpose of the election and the
importance of voting," said Dale
Anderson, director of personnel
services.

Employees excluded as super-
visory, managerial or confiden-
tial under the law are ineligible
to vote. If the union wins, it will
not represent the excluded
employees, SHELRB will mail
copies of the notice and sample
ballot to all eligible employees
at their home addresses. A com-
plete copy of the election order
is available online at
www.mhec.state.md.us/shelrb.

This is Outlook's last
print edition of the
semester, though
an online version will go
upon Jan. 14 at www.
coflegepublisher.com/
outlook. All submissions
for that issue should be
sent, no later than Jan. 8,
to: outlook@accmail.umd.
edu, Outlook will resume
printing with the Jan. 28
issue. Have a great break.

Governor Zooms by Maryland Booth

PHOTO BY MELISSA SWEENEY

Gov.-elect Bob Ehrlich stopped by the university's booth at the Maryland
Technology Showcase held at the Baltimore Convention Center on
Dec. 4 and 5. Donnie Neuenberger (left), NASCAR driver of the uni-
versity's "Fear the Turde" race car, presented Ehrlich with a Maryland
racing team T-shirt.

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Perfect" New Vice President Named

John D. Porcari will
be the new vice presi-
dent for administrative
affairs at the University
of Maryland, President
Dan Mote Jr. announced
recently.

Porcari will join the
university administra-
tion after Feb. 1 , having
served the last four
years as secretary of the
Maryland Department
of Tran sportation.The
youngest secretary of
transportation in Mary-
land history, Porcari, 43,
boasts a broad back-
ground in business and
economic development,
environmental planning
and public policy.

"John Porcari brings
to Maryland the perfect port-
folio to take on the leader-
ship of the university's
administrative affairs," Mote
said. "This is a critical time
for the university as we
assume greater responsibili-
ties with shrinking resources,
John has the experience and
organizational skill to meet
those challenges ."

Mote noted that in four
years as secretary of trans-
portation Porcari has under-

John 0. Porcari

taken a comprehensive reor-
ganization of the highway,
transit and aviation adminis-
trations. He has been com-
mitted to community revital-
ization and to community
involvement in transporta-
tion decisions.

"These are all critical
areas for us," Mote said, not-
ing that the university is
implementing a progressive
new campus master plan
with a focus on managing

traffic and strengthen-
ing its involvement
with the local commu-
nity in economic devel-
opment initiatives.

"The University of
"Maryland is the most
exciting place in the
state to be right now,"
Porcari said.'i am hon-
ored to have the oppor-
tunity to serve with
President Mote as he
guides the university to
its very promising
future."

As secretary, Porcari
has overseen a depart-
ment with more than
9,700 workers and a
budget of *2.2 billion.
He is currently imple-
menting a $9. 1 billion
six-year capital program
that includes expansion of
Bal t imore/Washington
International (BWI) Airport,
statewide transit planning,
service improvements at the
M otor Vehicle Admin istration
and transit corridor improve-
ments.

He also oversees two
police forces with law
enforcement responsibilities

See PORCARI, page 3

Journalism
Lab Provides
Tech Boost

The university announced the
launch of a new journalism center
designed to help news organiza-
tions use innovative computer
technologies to develop new ways
for people to engage in critical
public policy issues.

J-Lab:The Institute for Interac-
tive Journalism will provide seed
money to news organizations that
propose interactive news ideas
and team them with computer sci-
entists to help build software and
easy-to-navigate news experiences.
The institute also will spotlight the
best cutting-edge news innova-
tions through the Batten Awards
for Innovations in Journalism, fund-
ed by the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation.

"J-Lab will help address a critical
need in today's journalism," said
Thomas Kunkel, dean of Mary-
land's Philip Merrill College of
Journalism. "We desperately need
to develop new ideas on how to
excite and engage news con*
sinners about serious issues, or risk
losing them to the frivolity of sen-
sationalism, sound bites and info-
See J-LAB, page 2

It's Time to
Make that Walk

More than 1,700 stu-
dents expect to
receive bachelor's
degrees in this weekend's com-
mencement ceremonies. Nearly
1 ,000 will be receiving graduate
degrees. Based on the past three
graduations, communication,
criminology and criminal jus-
tice and psychology majors will
be the majority.

The main commencement
speaker will be Dorothy Height,
president of the National Coun-
cil of Negro Women. The cam-
pus-wide commencement will
be held at the Comcast Center,
at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 22.
Guests are urged to be seated
approximately one half-hour
prior to the designated time for
the ceremonies if they wish to
observe the student and faculty
processional.

Graduates, their families and
friends are invited to join uni-
versity officials and members of
^thc faculty and staff at the
reception following the cam-
pus-wide commencement. Shut-
de bus service will provide free
transportation across the cam-
pus throughout the day. For

See COMMENCEMENT, page 3

DECEMBER I J , 2002

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YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS: DECEMBER 17-JANUARY 9

december 17

3-5:30 p.m. Black Faculty
and Staff Association Holi-
day Celebration Multipur-
pose Room, Nyumburu Cultur-
al Center. Open to everyone.
Bring your appetite and an
unwrapped item for a swap
meet. Also, bring your favorite
music for some dancing! For
more information and to RSVP,
call Dottie Bass, 5-5618.

3:30-5 p.m., Numerical
Analysis Seminar 3206 Math
Building. Speaker Daniel
Kessler, Department of Mathe-
matics, will present: "A posteri-
ori Error Estimates for the
Allen-Cahn Problem: Is it Possi-
ble to Survive Grbnwall's
Inequality?"Formore informa-
tion, contact Tobias von Peters-
dorff at tvp@math.umd.edu or
visit www.math.umd.edu/
dept/seminars/nas.

december 20

7-9 a.m., Chick-Fil-A Pe
Bowl Breakfast with Fridge
Inn and Conference Center.
Terrapin fans will have the
opportunity to get up-close
and persona] with Ralph Fried-
gen for morning breakfast and
"chalk-talk" at the Marriott Inn
& Conference Center in Col-
lege Park. Doors open at 7:15
a.m. and Coach Friedgen will
address the group from 7:30-
8:30 a.m. The first 500 fans
will receive a new Maryland
football T-shirt! There is no
cost to attend and a continen-
tal breakfast will be provided
free of charge. For more infor-
mation, contact the Terrapin
Ticket Office at 4-7070 or
mk225@umail. umd.edu, or
visit www.umterps.com.

5:30-8 p.m.. Holiday Gradu-
ate Student Outing, Wash-
ington, D.C. The Office of
Campus Programs will sponsor
a trip for graduate students to
the Pageant of Peace in Wash-
ington, D.C. Come out and see
the national Christmas tree and
hear musical groups from
around the region. Meet at 5:30
p.m. at the College Park Metro
station. Metro fare is free. The
musical performances happen
from 6:30-8 p.m. and there is
an optional dinner afterward

Lobbying on Behalf of Higher Education

A

lurnni, faculty and staff, students and parents are
getting organized to speak face to face with their
, elected representatives on behalf of higher educa-
tion support in general and the University of Maryland
specifically.

Those who reside in Maryland are encouraged to become
part of the volunteer force by setting up appointments to
meet with at least one of their delegates and senators. This
should be done on personal time. Ethically and legally, state
employees cannot be asked to lobby for the benefit of the
institution as a part of their work.

Go to www.stategov.umd.edu to sign up.

In addition. University Relations is offering training ses-
sions with tips, contact information, directions and parking.
Three sessions, all taking place from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the
Visitor Center Conference Room, will be held Jan. 8, Jan. 22
and Feb. 11. Contact Sandy George at (301 ) 405-4615. There
will be a self-serve Web-based training option available at
the Web site on Dec. 20.

(at participants' own expense).
The group will return to Col-
lege Park, after dinner, around
1 1 p.m. For more information,
contact Zaneeta Daver, 5-0839
or zedaver@uriion,umd.edu.

8-10:30 p.m.. Observatory
Open House University
Observatory. Elizabeth Warner
on "To buy or not buy., .(a tele-
scope!)" The University Obser-
vatory hosts open house
evenings on the 5th and 20th
of each month from Novem-
ber through April. The pro-
gram begins at 8 p.m. with a
short lecture followed by
observing through the tele-
scopes (weather permitting).
For more information, contact
Elizabeth Warner at 5-6555 or
warnerem@astro.umd.edu, or
visit www.astro.umd.edu/
openhouse.

January 9

8 p.m.. Classical Music
Concert Gildenhorn Recital
Hall. Co-sponsored by the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center and the Embassy of

Correction

In last week's issue of Out-
look, in the story "Giving
New Students that Extra
Soost," Joelle Davis Carter's
middle and last names were
transposed.

Israel. Israeli-Arab pianist
Saleem Abboud Ashkar and
Israeli cellist Inbal Megiddo
will perform. For more infor-
mation, contact Amy K. Harbi-
son at 5-8 169 or harbison®
wam.umd.edu..

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J-Lab: Seeks to Innovate

Continued from page 1

partnered, from the
start, with Knight
Ridder Newspapers
to create civic news
templates," said Hod-
ding Carter HI,
Knight Foundation
president and CEO.
"The Batten Awards
honor both Jim and
his spirit of innova-
tion in service to the
community.''

The Knight Foun-
dation has made
grants to a series of
projects nationwide
to further the goals
of journalism in the
public interest. They
include a Web site
that will help northern Cali-
fornia news consumers rate
coverage; an interactive tele-
vision show that will help
Chicago-area residents under-
stand how news organiza-
tions work; a public-designed
digital merger of public radio,
and public television stations
in Cleveland; and a pilot proj-
ect in Boulder, Colo., aimed at
finding out how much local
election coverage public tele-
vision can provide.

"Civic journalism, public
journalism, community jour-
nalism, good journalism "said
Eric Newton, Knight Founda-
tion director of journalism . ■-'
initiatives. "We've found. many .3°C
different ways to describe the
idea, perhaps best put by
Arthur Miller, that a good
newspaper is a nation talking
to itself."

J-Lab also represents the lat-
est journalism initiative at
Maryland's Philip Merrill Col-
lege of Journalism designed to
support and improve the
news business. The college
operates American Journalism
Review (AJR), the Knight Cen-
ter for Specialized Journalism,
the Casey Journalism Center
on Children and Families, the
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow-
ship Program for international
journalists and the Journalism
Fellowships in Child and Fam-
ily Policy. It also serves as
headquarters to the National
Association of Black Journal-
ists and the American Associa-
tion of Sunday and Feature
Editors.

"We feel our role as journal-
ism educators extends far
beyond the classroom," said
Kunkel. Initiatives such as J-
Lab.the Knight Center, AJR
and the others are critical to
the betterment of the news
industry."

Information on J-Lab calls
for proposals and Batten
entries will soon be available
at www.j-lab.org Regular ,
J-Lab updates will be sent
electronically to the J-Flash
mailing list. Subscribers to
J-F!ash under the Pew Center
will automatically receive the
J-Lab updates. Others can join
the list by writing to asilva®
j-lab.org.

"We feel our role as
journalism educators
extends far beyond
the classroom."
— Thomas Kunkel,
dean, Philip Merrill
College of Journalism

tainmettt."

The new institute is a spin-
off of the Pew Center for
Civic Journalism, which com-
pletes its work next year.
Over the past decade, the cen-
ter has supported hundreds
of civic news experiments;.,;:;^
that invited public interaction
through town halt meetings,
focus groups and other meth-
ods new to journalism organi-
zations.

"Civic journalism taught us
that a lot of people accept
information when they own
some of it "said J-Lab Execu-
tive Director Jan Schaffer.
"And they own it — not when
it's spoon fed — but when
they help gather it, discuss it,
examine trade-offs and envi-
sion solutions."

"Now is the time to capi-
talize on new technology
that can help make people
smarter about public issues
and advance civic participa-
tion in the digital arena," said
Schaffer, who was a Pulitzer
Prize- winning journalist at
The Philadelphia Inquirer
before directing the Pew Cen-
ter for Civic Journalism.

J-Lab also will give $15,000
awards each year to journal-
ists who build die best inter-
active news models that fos-
ter public participation. The
Batten Awards for Innovations
in Journalism honor the late
James K. Batten, former chair-
man and CEO of Knight Rid-
der, who championed the idea
that journalism can both build
citizenship and tell hard
truths.

A $250,000 Knight Founda-
tion grant will fund an annual
awards competition and edu-
cational symposium in 2003
and 2004.

"Battens vision helped
launch the Pew Center, which

OUTLOOK

Commencement:

Continued from page 1

The World Awaits

FILE PHOTO BV MONETTE AUSTIN BAILEY

PHOTO BY JOHN T. CONSOLI

College of Education graduate Kristen Ehrenspeck (above right) will be the main commencement's student speaker.
The venerable Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, will deliver the guest speech at
the ceremony, which begins at 1 p.m. Guests are asked to arrive at least a half hour early.

more information, visit
www.lnf orm . unui.edu/
commencement/.

"
Individual College and School
Commencement Ceremonies,
listed alphabetically

(Please note that "* next to the cere-
mony name means that ceremony is
being held on Dec. 21, not Dec. 22.)

Agriculture & Natural Resources

Memorial Chapel .
Dec. 22{ I 4 f p.fn\! |jr,t sv'siW.MwtJsUitl

10-71 fifth

Architecture

Architecture Building Great Spaed :
Dec. 22,4 p.m. < »>■ •■

Art History/Art Studio
1240 Art-Sociology Building I
Dec. 22,4 p.m.

* "Behavioral and Social Sciences

Comcast Center
Dec. 21,7p.m. ■

Robert H. Smith School of
Business

Comcast Center

Dec. 22, 4 p.m.

Speaker: Jay Nussbaum, vice

president, BearingPoint, Inc.

^Communication

Ritchie Coliseum

Dec. 21, 7 p.m.

Speaker: Charles A. Moose, chief

of police, Montgomery County

'"Computer, Mathematical and
Physical Sciences

Concert Hall, Clarice Smith

Performing Arts Center

Dec. 21,7 p.m.

Speaker: Miguel Rios Jr. (physics

alumnus), chair and CEO, Orion

International Technologies

"Education
Tawes Theatre
Dec. 21, 7 p.m.

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A. James Clark School of
Engineering-'' ' ; - -'"-■" J '" ''
Reckord Armory
Dec. 22, 4 p.m.

Speaker: D. Wayne Snodgrass, ■"
vice president, Engineering &
Manufacturing Electronic Systems,
Northrop Grumman Corporation

English, Comparative Literature,
American Studies, Woman's
Studies, Dance

Tawes Theatre

Dec, 22,4 p.m.

Speaker: John Caughey, chair,

American Studies

Foreign Languages, Linguistics,

Classics

0200 Skinner Hall

Dec. 22, 4 p.m.

Health & Human Performance

Ritchie Coliseum
Dec. 22, 4 p.m.

History, Jewish Studies, Russian

0104 Skinner Hall

Dec. 22, 4 p.m.

Speaker: Alfred Moss, associate

professor, history

"Individual Studies

Honors Lounge, Anne Arundel

Hall

Dec. 21, 5 p.m.

Speaker: Suzanne Beicken,

professor

"Information Studies

1240 Biology-Psychology Building

Dec. 21,4 p.m.

Speaker: Trudi Belardi Hahn,

University Libraries and president,

American Society of Information

and Technology

Philip Merrill College of
Journalism

Hoff Theater
Dec, 22, 4 p.m.

"Life Sciences

Memorial Chapel

Dec. 21,7 p.m.

Speaker: Willie May, National

Institute of Standards and

Technology (NIST)

Music

Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center
Dec. 22, 5 p.m.

Philosophy

1115 St. Mary's Hall
Dec. 22, 4 p.m.

Porcari: Brings Diverse Background

Continued from page 1

at FWI Airport, Port of Balti-
more, MTA transit facilities, the
Bay Bridge and Baltimore-area
tunnels.

Porcari was deputy secretary
of transportation from 1997 to
1998. He previously served as
vice president of Loiedcrman
Associates, providing environ-
mental consulting services for
public sector civil engineering
clients in the Washington, D.C.
area.

He has also served as the gov-
ernor's ombudsman and assis-

tant secretary for economic
development policy; develop-
ment manager and development
review coordinator for the
Prince George's county execu-
tive; and as an environmental
planner for Prince George's
County.

The Division of Administrative
Affairs at the university includes
the comptroller and the depart-
ments of budget, business servic-
es, environmental safety, facilities
management, personnel servic-
es, procurement and supply,

public safety and travel.

"His intimate knowledge of
management challenges in a
major state agency, his oversight
of capital building projects, his
skills in strategic planning and
policy development, his manage-
ment of complex budgets and
his facility for working with peo-
ple make him particularly well
suited for this leadership posi-
tion," said Mote. "I look forward
to welcoming John to the Uni-
versity community in the spring
semester."

Book Bag

Building Partnerships for
Service- Learning

Barbara Jacoby, director of
Commuter Affairs and Commu-
nity Service, and associates
Uossey-Bass, Feb. 4, 2003)
Summary: It's about how to
develop on- and off-campus
partnerships that serve as the
foundation for service-teaming
programs.

Product Engineering and
Manufacturing

Linda C. Schmidt, Guangming
Zhang, Jeffrey W. Herrmann,
George E. Dieter and Patrick F.
Cunniff. All authors are faculty in
the Department of Mechanical
Engineering.

(College House Enterprises,
Knoxville, Tenn,, 2002)

Summary: This textbook
explains the new product devel-
opment process for undergradu-
ates performing engineering

design projects.

■ ■

The Way We Think:
Conceptual Blending and the
Mind's Hidden Complexities

Gilles Fauconnier and Mark
Turner, Distinguished University
Professor, Department of English
and member of the faculty of the
doctoral program in Neuro-
sciences and Cognitive Science

(Basic Books, 2002)

Summary: An analysis of the
imaginative nature of the human
mind, written to be accessible to
lay readers and students as well
as interested scientists. Concep-
tual blending is at the root of the
cognitively modem human
mind.

The Rhetorical Presidency,
Propaganda, and the Cold
War, 1945-1955

Shawn J. Parry-Giles, assis-
tant professor. Department of
Communication; director, Center
for Political Communication and
Civic Leadership; and affiliate
assistant professor, Women's
Studies

(Praeger, 20021

Summary: Demonstrates how
Presidents Truman and Eisen-
hower transformed the U.S.
propaganda program into a tool
reliant on presidential surrogates
in promulgation of Cold War ide-
ology.

The Stakes: America and the
Middle East

Shibley Teihami, Sadat Chair
for Peace and Development, Col-
lege of Behavioral and Social
Sciences

Product Engineering
And Manufacturing

Jrfltn W. I term ml
Crorgr Dieter

(Westview Press, Nov. 2002)
A concise and penetrating
analysis explaining Arab and
Muslim attitudes toward the
United States.

Sister Circle: Black Women
and Work

Edited by Sharon Harley and
the Black Women & Work Collec-
tive; contributors include nine
campus professors

(Rutgers University Press,
2002)

Summary; Black women in the
tourism industry, as 19th century
social activists, as working single
mothers, as "numbers backers,"
as artists, as authors and media
figures and other fields. Each
contributor connects her own life
history to survey subject.

To submit your book to Book Bag, send an e-malt in the above format to
outlook@accmail.umd.edu. Cover images can be accepted as scanned
jpeg files, which can be sent to cmrtche(@accm art. umd.edu. The next
Book Bag will appear Feb. 18, 2003.

DECEMBER 17, 2002

Rossborough Inn Holiday
Menu Specials

Experience the holidays around
the world with the following
daily menu specials through
Dec. 20 at Rossborough Inn:

• Tuesday, Dec. 17: Ethiopian

• Wednesday, Dec. 18: Chinese
« Thursday, Dec. 19: Russian

• Friday, Dec. 20: Old Colonial
Buffet

Call early; reservations are
required. For more information,
contact Pamela Whitlow, (301)
314-8013 or pwhidow® dining.
umd.edu.

Business Plan
Competition

The university is hosting its
third annual Business Plan
Competition, which offers up
to $50,000 for the best plans
for new companies. The com-
petition is open to all students
and recent alumni. The first
round involves submitting an
executive summary of your
new venture idea. The deadline
for this round is Jan. 15, 2003.
For more information, con-
tact Karen Thornton at (301)
405-3677 or karent@eng.umd.
edu, or visit www.hinmanceos.
umd.edu/Business_PIan/2003/.

Call for Proposals:
Teaching With
Technology Conference

The Office of Information Tech-
nology, in conjunction with the
Center for Teaching Excellence
and the University Libraries
will be hosting the 10th annual
Teaching With Technology con-
ference on April 4, 2003-

If technology has enabled
you to facilitate learning in
new and exciting ways, OIT
wants to hear from you. Pro-
posals for individual, panel or
round table presentations are
now being accepted at www.
oit.umd.edu/twt. The online
proposal application must be
submitted by Feb. 14, 2003.

For more information, con-
tact Deborah Mateik at (301 )
405-2945 or zdeb@umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/twt.

Web Developer Classes

Get on the fast track to become
a Web designer and developer
in one week over winter break.
Learn to:

• Create an attractive and
effective Web presence using
standard HTML and FrontPage

• Render your own graphics
using PhotoShop

• Use JavaScript to add func-
tionality to your site

At the completion of this
course, you will be able to
design and develop profession-
al quality Web sites. The course
runs from Jan. 6 to 13, from
6:30-9:30 p.m. The cost, includ-
ing textbook, is $189 for stu-
dents, faculty and staff.

For more information, con-
tact the LcarnIT Staff at (301)

Music, Food and the Ancestors

PHOTO BY M0NETTE AUSTIN BAILEY

Students from Bladensburg High School, Martin Luther King Elementary School in
Greenbelt, residents from Woodlawn Terrace senior community in Washington, D.C.,
and university students, faculty and staff gathered last week for a Kwanzaa celebra-
tion m Stamp Union. Local master drummer Joseph Ngawa, above, led the singing of
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," accompanied by percussion instruments played by students
(including Bladensburg senior Isatu Jalloh, right). Ngawa also accompanied dancer and
student Chinweoke Ezekwueche.The event included lighting of the seven candles repre-
senting the seven principles of Kwanzaa; a speech calling for creation of a world view by
Acldyn Lynch, professor of political economy and African American studies at die Univer-
sity of Maryland, Baltimore and father of U.S. Olympic gymnast Jair Lynch; and poetry.

405-1670 or LearnlT@oacs.
umd.edu, or visit www.
LearnlT.umd.edu.

2003 Bryn Mam
Summer In s tit u te

The university seeks applica-
tions for administrators and fac-
ulty interested in participating
in the Summer Institute for
Women in Higher Education
Administration to be held at
Bryn Mawr College, June 22-
July 18,2003. The institute
seeks to prepare women for
leadership positions in aca-
demic administration. The cam-
pus will nominate and provide
tuition for applicants based on
their credentials, career plans
and the project they will
implement upon their return
to campus.

Inquiries should be directed
to Ellin K. Scholnick, associate
provost for faculty affairs, 1119
Main Administration Building.
A letter of application that
includes the planned project
and a curriculum vitae should
be sent to her by Feb. 10, 2003.

For more information, con-
tact Scholnick at (301) 405-
4252 or es8@umail.umd.edu.

Libraries Improvements

Library users of the University
System of Maryland will discov-
er a new and improved online
catalog — catalogUSMAl — to
assist them in accessing the
Libraries' collections, beginning
Monday, Jan. 6. The new Web-
based online catalog will pro-
vide University System of Mary-

land and Affiliated Institutions
(USMAD students, faculty and
other researchers with more
advanced features than the pre-
vious automated library system
used by the Libraries.

The Libraries are also config-
uring a new citation/resource
linking technology called SFX
that will link together the
Libraries' databases and e- jour-
nals, making it easier to find the
online full-text of an article or
track down additional informa-
tion about a topic. Students and
faculty searching in the
Libraries' research databases
will be able to click on an SFX
button to link directly to an
article's full text or to look up a
journal title in the catalog.

Some of the new capabilities
of catalogUSMAl include:

• An enhanced Basic Search,
with onscreen tips to guide
users in searching and the abili-
ty to do keyword searches in
specific areas of the catalog
records, such as words in the
title area

• Ability to refine a list of
search results to show only the
available items, screening out
items that are checked out, lost,
or otherwise unavailable

• A powerful Advanced
Search capability, with options
to:

— Combine keyword searches
in different parts of the record
(e.g. in the author field, search
for "Beethoven" and search for
the word "piano" anywhere in
the record).

— Limit searches by format
(e.g., theses, videos or online
resources), by language, range
of dates or library collection

— Browse lists of authors,

tides, subject headings or call
numbers

— Use cbrtihiahd language
searching to create complex
searches with maximum con-
trol over your search

• Ability to create lists of cat-
alog records and save them to
consult when searching the cat-
alog at a later date

• Ability to save favorite
search strategies and repeat the
searches at a later date

Library users will also be
able to use the new catalog to
place requests for materials in
other LISMAl libraries if the
item is not available at their
home institution, and to view
their own accounts to see lists
of library materials they have
borrowed and review requests
they have made.

Award Nominations:
Teaching with Technology

Nominations for the "University
of Maryland Award for Innova-
tion in Teaching with Techno-
logy" are now being accepted,
Co-sponsored by the Office of
Information Technology and
the Office of Undergraduate
Studies, this award recognizes
outstanding accomplishments
in the use of technology to pro-
mote excellence in teaching
and learning, and it helps high-
light the many ways in which
the university has taken leader-
ship in this critical area. Indi-
viduals or groups may apply.
The application deadline is
Feb. 28, 2003.

For more information, visit
www.oit.umd.edu/asAJMITT/.