Section III: Brooklyn College Campus Constituencies

Sexual Harassment Advisory Panel
ProfessorMiriam Deutch was named the coordinator of the College's Sexual Harassment Advisory Panel. As the coordinator, Professor Deutch is responsible for reviewing all complaints of sexual harassment under the University's policy, adopted by the Board of Trustees at its July 26, 1995 meeting http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/career/SEXHARS.HTM.

Transfer Evaluation Day
Last year, the Library Café twice played host to the Registrar's Transfer Evaluation Day (TED): Tuesday, January 23, 2001, and Wednesday, June 6. On both days, the Library Café was closed to the public, and Café staff provided technical support. In 2002 the Café hosted TED events on Wednesday, January 16, and Thursday, January 17.

Faculty Day
Virtual Core Project Evaluator Professor Manny Pons and Chief Librarian Barbra Higginbotham offered a poster session on VCP outcomes for Faculty Day, May 23, 2001.

The Gura Group
Barbra Higginbotham served as a member of what was informally called the Gura Group, a committee of five faculty chaired by Professor Tim Gura (Speech) whose remit was to develop guidelines for tenure and promotion candidates who present nontraditional evidence of scholarship (that is, something other than publications in refereed journals).

Faculty Council's Committee on the Library

"The Committee wishes to congratulate the Chief Librarian, Dr. Barbra Higginbotham, and the entire Library staff and for the superb job and the high level of services provided under extremely difficult circumstances while housed in temporary quarters." Annual Report of Faculty Council's Committee on the Library, March 26, 2001

Under the leadership of Professor Fabio Girelli-Carasi (Modern Languages & Literatures) the Committee on the Library took up these issues:

The new Library building

Traditional services (circulation and conservation)

New services, primarily those resulting from the implementation of information technology initiatives

Special attention was paid to the last topic. As Professor Girelli-Carasi wrote:

"The Library has taken a leadership role in this field and its commitment is evident in the extensive amount of resources devoted to faculty and student training, and the development of instructional materials for electronic distribution." Annual Report of Faculty Council's Committee on the Library, March 26, 2001

The report for 2000-2001 concludes with these recommendations:

As new information technologies become an increasingly larger role in the mission of the college in general, greater attention should be paid to the specific function of the Library in this capacity.

It is self-evident that the library should maintain and expand its role as a collector and administrator of educational materials to include electronic formats. It is also evident that the Library needs support in order to fulfill and expand its mission of delivering information and materials to the academic community in the most efficient way. One of the projects in this regard concerns the digitization of materials. Although expensive and requiring substantial investments at first, in the long run the conversion of materials into the electronic format is bound to "pay for itself" generating substantial savings in archiving and preservation costs.

With regard to the development, implementation and delivery of the curriculum (the Virtual College) the College should strive to define the proper role of the Library in this context. The committee advocates a more active involvement of the faculty in defining the vision underlying the goals of the Virtual College. This could be achieved by establishing new formal channels of communication and encouraging the exchange of information and perspectives among the various Faculty Council committees, the Distance Learning Task Force, and the Strategic Planning group." Annual Report of Faculty Council's Committee on the Library, March 26, 2001

The Library Representatives & Technology Representatives
Each fall, the Library asks every academic department to choose both a Library Representative and a Tech Rep as its liaisons to the Library and Academic IT programs. Library Reps work with their departments' subject specialists to shape collections and services, while Tech Reps serve as their departments' interface with Academic Information Technologies. Annually, the Library and AIT invite both groups of Reps for the "state of the union" lunch, our opportunity to share with them new developments and to listen to their ideas and concerns.

The Committee on College Relations planned and held the annual Library Representatives meeting on March 21, 2001. In addition to the Library Reps, we invited department chairs. Rather than limiting the meeting to Library status reports, we provided presentations showing faculty (1) how to sign on to the proxy server, (2) the Library's wealth of electronic resources, and (3) how to use the Library Web page as their information manager.

In 2000-2001 the academic departments' subject specialists, Library Reps, and Tech Reps were:

SUBJECT SPECIALISTS & LIBRARY REPRESENTATIVES 2001-2002

	SUBJECT SPECIALISTS	LIBRARY REPRESENTATIVES	TECHNOLOGY REPRESENTATIVES
AFRICANA STUDIES	BETH EVANS	LYNDA DAY	PRUDENCE CUMBERBATCH
ANTHROPOLOGY	MARIANA REGALADO	SOPHIA PERDIKARIS	ARTHUR BANKOFF
ART	MIRIAM DEUTCH	MICHAEL JACOFF	RONALDO KIEL
BIOLOGY	IRWIN WEINTRAUB	CHARLENE FOREST	JOHN BLAMIRE
CHEMISTRY	IRWIN WEINTRAUB	IRA LEVINE	JAMES HOWELL
CLASSICS	FRED BOGIN	CHRISTOPHER BARNES	CHRISTOPHER BARNES
COMPUTER & INFORMATION	JAMES CASTIGLIONE	ROHIT PARIKH	LORI SCARLATOS
DOCUMENTS/LAW	JANE CRAMER
ECONOMICS	JAMES CASTIGLIONE	MITCHELL LANGBERT	TAIWO AMOO
EDUCATION	MARTHA CORPUS	DAVID BLOOMFIELD	BARBARA ROSENFELD
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES	WILLIAM GARGAN	WENDY HALL MALONEY	MAURICE WATSON
ENGLISH	WILLIAM GARGAN	LEONARD FOX ; JOAN	LILIA MELANI
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES	IRWIN WEINTRAUB	MICHA TOMKIEWICZ
FILM	JOCELYN BERGER	FOSTER HIRSCH	ELIZABETH LEDOUX
GEOLOGY	IRWIN WEINTRAUB	DAVID LEVESON	WAYNE POWELL
HEALTH & NUTRITION SCIENCES	IRWIN WEINTRAUB	ROSEANNE SCHNOLL	ROSEANNE SCHNOLL
HISTORY	FRED BOGIN	NICHOLAS PAPAYANIS	KC JOHNSON
JUDAIC STUDIES	FRED BOGIN	JONATHAN HELFAND	JONATHAN HELFAND
LIBRARY SCIENCE	JAMES CASTIGLIONE		HOWARD SPIVAK
MATHEMATICS	JAMES CASTIGLIONE	ATTILA MATE	MARVIN KOHN
MODERN LANGUAGES &	WILLIAM GARGAN	WILLIAM SHERZER	FABIO GIRELLI-CARASI
MUSIC	HONORA RAPHAEL	BRUCE MACINTYRE	GEORGE (SKIP) BRUNNER
PERSONAL COUNSELING	WILLIAM GARGAN	SALLY ROBLES
PHILOSOPHY	BARBARA SCHEELE	MICHAEL CHOLBI	MICHAEL CHOLBI
PHYSICAL EDUCATION	MARTHA CORPUS	VANESSA YINGLING	VANESSA YINGLING
PHYSICS	IRWIN WEINTRAUB	VICTOR FRANCO	KEN MIYANO
POLITICAL SCIENCE	MARTHA CORPUS	SAM FARBER	MOJUBAOLU OKOME
PSYCHOLOGY	MARTHA CORPUS	IAN MCMAHAN	ANDREW DELAMATER
PUERTO RICAN & LATINO STUDIES	BETH EVANS	MARIA PEREZ Y GONZALEZ	MARIA PEREZ Y GONZALEZ
RELIGIOUS STUDIES	BARBARA SCHEELE	TOM HARTMANN
SOCIOLOGY	JOCELYN BERGER	MARY HOWARD	TIMOTHY SHORTELL
SPEECH	JOCELYN BERGER	ADRIENNE RUBINSTEIN	NATALIE SCHAEFFER
THEATER	WILLIAM GARGAN	SAMUEL LEITER	RICHARD KEARNEY
TV-RADIO	JOCELYN BERGER	IRINA PATKANIAN	MARTIN SPINELLI
WOMEN'S STUDIES	BARBARA SCHEELE

Grant Writing Resources
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/library/cramer/top2.htm

Government Publications and Microforms Librarian Jane Cramer created a special Web page of statistical resources to assist those writing institutional grants.

Information Technology Services
ITS is our partner for many initiatives, including technology planning. Among the most important issues in 2001 were those discussed on October 18, 2001, when several members of the Library and ITS staff met to discuss issues of mutual concern. Among the agreements reached were:

ITS will further investigate the issue of access to student e-mail. Students find it difficult to access their Brooklyn College mail, and often see no reason why they even need to activate their BC account (most already have AOL or hotmail accounts, for example). However, without access to BC e-mail, they cannot get off-campus access to the Library's wealth of full-text electronic information.

ITS will provide a server (to be located outside the Brooklyn College firewall) on which Library programs requiring server side scripts will reside. If we are careful with our programming and close all "back doors," even though the server is not behind the firewall we should be okay.

ITS will provide another server (also located outside the firewall) on which faculty who want to use server side script can locate their work.

ITS will explore new ways of enabling students more easily to implement their Brooklyn College e-mail accounts, and of encouraging them to take advantage of this College service.

The Library/AIT will join with ITS in promoting Windows Media Player for streaming media, over Real solutions. Read solutions will still be available, for faculty who really need them.

Library Week & the Faculty Author Party
Library Week occurred April 23-27, 2001, with Associate Librarian for Research and Access Services Miriam Deutch as our coordinator. The series of events beautifully showcased the Library's talent and teamwork.

Sylvie Richards (Library), Mark Gold (ITS)

The week began with the promotion of the Library's proxy service and electronic resources, using the theme "Bring Your Library Home, 24/7." Faculty and students were encouraged to learn about the proxy service and the wealth of information available to them from their offices and homes. An extra incentive was the chance to win a prize in the Library raffle. Prizes included three $100.00 Barnes & Noble gift certificates, generously donated by the bookstore http://www.bkstore.com/brooklyn/.

Library Week also included a fines amnesty--all fines for overdue materials returned during Library Week were forgiven. (This works to our benefit, as we prepare for the move to the new Library and wish to have the collections and our records in apple pie order.)

The Annual Author Party occurred April 25. In the spring 2001 our faculty authors were:

Faculty Authors, 2001

DEPARTMENT	INSTRUCTOR	PUBLICATION DETAILS
Anthropology	John Beatty	Intercultural Communication Cincinnati, Ohio Atomic Dog Publishing, 2001
Biology	Ray H. Gavin, editor	Cytoskeleton Methods and Protocols Totowa, NJ Humana Press, 2001
Chemistry	David E. Goldberg	Fundamentals of Chemistry, 3rd Edition Boston McGraw-Hill, 2001
Chemistry	Milton J. Rosen	Industrial Utilization of Surfactants, Principles and Practice Champaign, IL AOCS Press, 2000
Computer & Information Science	Danny Kopec	Mastering the Sicilian London Batsford, 2001
Computer & Information Science	David M. Arnow & Gerald Weiss	Introduction to Programming Using Java: An Object-Oriented Approach Reading, MA Addison-Wesley, 2000
Economics	Robert Cherry	Prosperity for All?: The Economic Boom and African Americans New York Russell Sage Foundation, 2000
Education	Manuel Martinez-Pons	The Psychology of Teaching and Learning: A Three-Step Approach London & New York Continuum, 2001
English	Moustafa Bayoumi, editor	The Edward Said Reader New York Vintage Books, 2000
Health & Nutrition Sciences	Gerald M. Oppenheimer	AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic New York Oxford University Press, 2000
Health & Nutrition Sciences	Kathleen & Kenneth Axen	Illustrated Principles of Exercise Physiology Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall, 2001
History	Bonnie S. Anderson	A History of Their Own: Women in Europe From Prehistory to the Present, Rev. Ed. in 2 Vols. New York Oxford University Press, 2000 Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860 Oxford; New York Oxford University Press, 2000
History	Abraham Eisenstadt, editor The American History Series	Lori D. Ginsberg Women in Antebellum Reform Allan M. Winkler Home Front U.S.A.: America During World War II Donald R. Wright African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins Through the American Revolution Wheeling, IL Harlan Davidson, 2000
History	Hans Louis Trefousse	Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian Mechanicsburg, PA Stackpole Books, 2001
Judaic Studies	Herbert Druks	The Uncertain Friendship: The US and Israel from Roosevelt to Kennedy Westport, CT Greenwood Press, 2001
Library	Anthony M. Cucchiara	From the Free Academy to CUNY: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847-1997 New York Fordham University Press, 2000
Mathematics	Frederick Gardiner	Quasicon Formal Teichmuller Theory Providence, RI American Mathematical Society, 2000
Modern Languages & Literatures	Luigi Bonaffini, translator	Molisan Poems, Selected Poems Toronto Guernica, 2000
Modern Languages & Literatures	Marguerite Fernandez Olmos & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gerbert, editors	Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean Amid Its Diaspora New York St. Martin's Press, 2001
Music	Ellie Hisama	Gendering Musical Modernism: the Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon New York Cambridge University Press, 2001
Political Science	Samuel Farber	Social Decay and Transformation: A View from the Left Lanham, MD Lexington Books, 2000
Political Science	Immanuel Ness	The Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America Armonk, NY E. M. Sharpe, 2000
Puerto Rican & Latino Studies	Maria Perez y Gonzalez	Puerto Ricans in the United States Westport, CT Greenwood Press, 2000
Puerto Rican & Latino Studies	Bettina Schmidt	Anthropology of Violence and Conflict New York Routledge Press, 2001
Sociology	Jerome Krase	The Review of Italian American Studies Lanham, MD Lexington Books, 2000
Sociology	Roberta Satow, editor	Gender and Social Life (with workbook) Boston Allyn & Bacon, 2001
Speech	Timothy Gura	Oral Interpretation, 10th Ed. Boston Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2001
Speech	MaryAnn Messano-Ciesla	Smart Notebook: A Guide to Effective Note Taking Dubuque, IA Kendall/Hunt, 2000
Television & Radio	George Rodman	Making Sense of Media An Introduction to Mass Communication Boston Allyn & Bacon, 2001
Theater	Samuel L. Leiter	Japanese Theatre and the International Stage Leiden; Boston Brill, 2000
Theatre	Tobie S. Stein	Boston's Colonial Theatre: Celebrating a Century of Theatrical Vision Boston Colonial, 2000

Presentations in Cooperation with the Center for Teaching
These included:

November 7, 2001: "Electronic Full-Text Information" (Mariana Regalado, presenter; a co-sponsorship with the Center for Teaching)

December 5, 2001: "E-Cheating: How to Avoid It and How to Stop it" (Mariana Regalado, presenter; a co-sponsorship with the Center for Teaching)