---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:29:08 -0400
From: Lee Ann Howlett <lhowlett@COM1.MED.USF.EDU>
To: SEREDIT@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: Electronic Serials Institute (Marilyn Lewis)

Marcia Tuttle wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 09:40:17 -0500
> From: Marilyn Lewis <mlewis@SULROSS.EDU>
> To: SEREDIT@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: Re: Electronic Serials Institute
>
> I also agree with those searching for alternative ways to stay current.
> It's not only an issue of financing travel, it's also a staffing issue.
> Who will mind the store when we're away?  (Do we/can we "close up the
> shop" when we travel?) This dilemma cannot be improved with solely the
> traditional meetings.  Although the traditional meeting/program has it's
> place, emerging technologies and staffing cutbacks necessitates searching
> for alternatives.  I think that this institute is as good a place as any
> to start addressing the bigger problem of library continuing education in
> all areas of librarianship.  I'm in favor of teleconferencing and
> videotaping.  Both aren't nearly as good as attendance, but are better
> than nothing!
>
> (Just my 2-cents worth on a Friday morning!)
>
> Marilyn P. Lewis
> Director of Library Technical Services
> Bryan Wildenthal Library
> Sul Ross State University
> Alpine, TX  79832               email: mlewis@sul-ross-1.sulross.edu
>
> Phone: (915) 837-8406           Sul Ross Home Page: http://www.sulross.edu

Here! Here!
If you are a one-person department with only part-time
help from other library personnel (who already have their
own jobs to do) teleconferencing is the way to go.  With
all the changes that are taking place in our profession
(particularly Serials), it's become a monumental task to
keep up with reading, list-servs, & local committees -
not to mention your day-to-day responsibilities.

So much for my 2 cents.

Thanks,
Lee Ann Howlett (lhowlett@com1.med.usf.edu)
Serials Librarian
Health Sciences Center Library
University of South Florida
Tampa