Resource Center Newsletter
Fall 2000
Welcome to our first quarterly newsletter. We hope that it will help you to stay updated on what is happening in the Resource Center. Please let us know if there is something you would like to see in future newsletters. Also available in electronic format on the web: cdd.unm.edu/resource/newsletter.
From the desk of Pam
Cataloging Project Underway
Last year the Albuquerque Community Foundation funded a project to catalog materials in the Parents Reaching Out Library and the CDD Resource Center. Cyndie Suniga, currently a cataloger for the Albuquerque/ Bernalillo County Public Library System, recently began working on this project in the CDD Resource Center. She is using Marcive, Inc. to locate and download bibliographic records into the Winnabego Circ/Cat System which we use for our card catalog in the CDD Resource Center. Cyndie expects to be done with the project by the end of the year. Then we will be able to search for materials in both collections from the Winnabego workstation in the Resource Center. In the future, the community technology center project, NO Walls (NOW) will make the card catalog available on the internet. Watch for updates about the progress of these projects and a web site address for the web card catalog!
Araceli Domingo joins CDD Resource Center
In August we welcomed Araceli Domingo, a Library Information Specialist III, to the Resource Center. Araceli most recently worked at Sandia National Laboratories where she was a Technical Writer/Editor and a Senior Library Information Analyst. She has also held professional positions at special and academic libraries and earned a Master of Library Science degree from San Jose State University. We are very happy to welcome Araceli as part of the Resource Center team. She provides information services in the Resource Center from 9 to 12 and does special projects from 1 to 3, Monday through Friday.
Journal Holdings Project
Ricky Greenfeld and Butch Neimeyer are working on a journal holdings project for the Resource Center. Ricky is re-labeling all journals from the Los Lunas Center with CDD Resource Center labels. Butch is entering holdings information into Periodicals Manager, our periodicals software. When the project is completed we will have a detailed list of all our journal holdings which will be searchable on Periodical Manager.
From the desk of Araceli
Resource Center Collection Development Initiative
The Resource Center launched a collection development project to review and evaluate its current collection of materials that support programs in human development and disabilities. The purpose of this initiative is to establish an enhanced package of services, update and continue to develop a growing collection of reference sources, books, journals and videos, to be more responsive to patrons' current and changing needs. The initiative will also employ a more proactive approach in keeping track of users' needs by conducting informal needs assessment surveys on a periodic basis.
A collection development policy was drafted prior to starting work on the project to set up specific guidelines in selecting, acquiring, and disseminating information in the Resource Center. Policies on the retention period of journals and other materials are also being developed as part of the collection development policy.
Book Highlights
From the desk of Judy
This book is written by a mother of a child diagnosed
with Pervasive Developmental Disorder. She shares with
you her story of parenting, as well as Jeremy's story of
triumph over his disability.
A Slant Of Sun: One Child's Courage
by Beth Kephart
"It's so hard, this parenting project. Every kid is different, every parent is different, and the boxes we're permitted so confining. Every difference diagnosed: every variation a treatment problem. And in spite of it all, parents do muddle through, and children do grow, unfold, become their own true selves, as we teach towards and finally to them - as Beth Kephart reaches toward Jeremy and Jeremy toward the world" -Barbara Katz Rothman
Resource Center Staff
Pam MacKellar pmackell@unm.edu
272-4631
Aracelli Domingo amdomin@unm.edu
272-3144
Judy Kepler jkepler@unm.edu
272-0281
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday 9 a.m. 5 p.m.
Closed for lunch from 12 to 1 p.m.
Toll Free 1-800-827-6380
The CDD Resource Center is funded by the NM Department of Health, Long Term Services Division. Center for Development and Disability, a University Affiliated Program.