Volume 25, Number 1 (2006)

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    Adult Literacy in Indiana
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Diesman, Julie; Moffett, Paul; Thomas, Amie; Twigg, Michael
    Mary McLeod Bethune, an African-American educator and adviser to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, has been quoted as having said, "The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." Unfortunately for many in Indiana, the "whole world" may be closed to them because of illiteracy. According to the Indiana Adult Literacy Coalition in 1989, 12% to 19% of Hoosiers over age 25 could not read or write at a functional level. As early as 1930, illiteracy was recognized as an issue within the state. An article in the Indinapolis Star dated September 25, 1930, headlined that over 50,000 Hoosiers were illiterate ("52,034 in state," 1939). It is natural to assume that at some point Indiana developed a robust statewide initiative to address the problem of illiteracy amongst its citizens. One might imagine a program that over time slowly but surely reduced the number of Indiana citizens who struggled under the mantle of illiteracy; however, myriad reasons and circumstances have conspired to prevent that from happening. Instead of a forceful statewide program, numerous segmented efforts by local or regional entities with modest support from various federal, state, or non-profit organizations are more apt to be found.
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    Cover
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana Libraries
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    Filtering Software That Libraries Use
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana Libraries
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    Forthcoming Issues of Indiana Libraries
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana Libraries
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    From the Editor's Desktop
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Comer, Alberta Davis
    Welcome to the winter 2006 issue. As you can tell by the name at the top of the page, Indiana Libraries has a new editor. I started my position this past August and am excited about the opportunity to bring you informative and interesting articles about libraries. Emily Okada from IU-Bloomington has graciously agreed to continue as assistant editor. Joining her are two new assistant editors, Marissa Priddis from Alexandrian Public Library and Julie Moline, school librarian in Franklin Township. I hope that having assistant editors from diverse libraries will allow us to offer articles from across the spectrum of librarianship.
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    In Harmony: Sheet Music From Indiana: A Collaborative Digital Library Project
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Brancolini, Kristine; Kowalczyk, Stacy
    In October 2004, the Indiana University Digital Library Program received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to fund IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana (see the project website at http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/inharmony/). This is a three-year project to catalog and digitize sheet music from the collections of four partner institutions, Indiana University's Lilly Library, the Indiana State Museum, the Indiana Historical Society, and the Indiana State Library. The purpose of the project is to create an online sheet music collection that will demonstrate how museums and libraries with complementary materials can work cooperatively to create shared digital resources. By concentrating initially on the collections of American sheet music owned by each of the partners, the project will accomplish two highly adaptable goals: 1) it will demonstrate how approximately 10,000 digitized pieces of sheet music and their attendant metadata can be presented on a single website, offering federated searching of all collections or access to one or more selected collections; and 2) it will demonstrate how collaborative digital library development can provide online access to the important regional collections of museums, libraries, and historical societies. These collections may, in fact, be sheet music, or they may be important materials in other formats, such as photographs, maps, manuscripts, or artifacts.
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    In Step With Indiana Authors... This Month Featuring an Interview With Michael Koryta
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Comer, Alberta Davis
    It is appropriate that the inaugural issue of this column features an author whose first book was published when he was 21. Michael Koryta's first novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye, published a mere two years ago, has won two prestigious awards, the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel award in 2003, before publication, and the Great Lakes Book Award for Mystery/Intrigue in September 2005. His book was also a finalist for the Edgar award for best first novel. His new book, Sorrow's Anthem, should be out in February and he is hard at work on a third novel.
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    Indiana Libraries Submission Guidelines
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana Libraries
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    Libraries Support Family Members of All Ages
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Rae, Susanna-Judith
    Indiana libraries have long supported my family. When toddlers, my children enjoyed "story hour." In the early 70's, how exciting it was when my son Robby, about three years old, was on the local news as one of the first patrons of the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library's (IMCPL) brand new Southport branch. On more than one trip to the main branch of the IMCPL, elementary school-aged Mike and I turned microfilm reels in order to read headlines, weather, birth announcements, and other engrossing news of February 4, 1972, the day of Mike's birth. (His being born in the car on the way to St. Francis Hospital--when the wind chill factor was 28 degrees below zero--made it even more intriguing.)
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    Medical Informatics
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Becker, Marie E.
    The topic for this paper is an overview of medical informatics in the United States, what it is, how it is used in patient care, and what role librarians play in it. Medical informatics, a term first coined in Europe in the early 1970's, encompasses the disciplines of computer science and medicine. Medical informatics is a relatively new field, with its beginning in the 1950's. The first scholarly papers written in the field that was to become medical informatics are found in the literature of the engineering society, Professional Group in Bio-Medical Electronics of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). This group published papers on the term "biomedical computing" in its annual conference proceedings known as the IRE Transactions on Medical Electronics. Although the definition of medical informatics may be stated as applying the power of computers to the medical field, there are many variant definitions to be found in the literature.