PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 19, May 2, 2002

GSLIS
Music retrieval colloquium is May 2
Ever had a tune running through your head that you could not name? Attend the "Midwest Regional Colloquium on Music Information Retrieval: Demonstrations and Discussions" to see what researchers are doing to solve this problem. The colloquium will be from 9 a.m. to noon May 2 in Room 126 of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Among the demonstrations is "Moving MIR Research to the Next Level: Fostering Research, Implementation and Evaluation Connections" providing information from the MIR Annotated Bibliography and MIR Evaluation Frameworks Projects at the UI.

Contact J. Stephen Downie at jdownie@illinois.edu for more information. A full listing of demonstrations is at http://music-ir.org/MIR_meeting.html.

See http://music-ir.org for general information on the multi-disciplinary research being done on Music Information Retrieval.

Enhancements will temporarily affect services
Changes planned for online catalog
The University Library will enhance its online catalog this fall with a new Web-based system called Voyager. Implemented in phases beginning this spring, Voyager will provide better and quicker access to library materials through ILLINET Online.

Certain services will be affected during the implementation of Voyager. From now until the end of June, newly cataloged materials will not be viewable online. Faculty and staff members and students are encouraged to contact library staff members for assistance in finding these materials.

For more information about Voyager and changes in the online catalog, visit: www.library.uiuc.edu/voyagerweb/voyagerfaq.htm.

WILL-TV
Documentary focuses on Japanese
"Under Another Sun: Japanese in Singapore," a documentary produced and edited by David W. Plath, professor emeritus of anthropology and of East Asian studies, looks at the lives of 30,000 Japanese living and working in Singapore. The documentary will be broadcast on WILL-TV at 10 p.m. May 7.

The program explores the tensions between the attachment of these Japanese to their native land and their desire to be released from the burdens imposed by Japanese society.

The documentary also examines the challenge that Japanese in Singapore must confront: coming to terms with the history of Japanese involvement in Southeast Asia during the last 150 years.

Filmed on location in Singapore and Japan, "Under Another Sun" was directed by Chet Kincaid of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications. Previous award-winning programs created by Plath and Kincaid include "Makiko’s New World" (1999) and "Fit Surroundings" (1994).

The project is a joint effort of the National University of Singapore’s department of Japanese studies and the UI Asian Educational Media Service.

Members of P-FLAG to speak
Ally Network to meet May 3
The Ally Network will hold a meeting from noon to 1:30 p.m. May 3 in Illini Union Room 406. There will be a break at 12:55 p.m. for those who need to leave early.

At the meeting, the Champaign chapter of P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) will talk about the issues they face. Cookies and pop will be served.

The Ally Network is a group of faculty and staff members who work to help all students understand issues of sexual orientation and to improve the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students on campus.

The Network is sponsored and administered jointly by the Sexual Orientation and Diversity Allies Committee of the Counseling Center and the Student Affairs Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns.

Teaching/learning
Workshop is May 17
A workshop on teaching and learning will be from 8:30 a.m-2 p.m. May 17 on the third floor of Levis Faculty Center. "The Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Celebration: Thinking About Teaching and Learning" will include presentations by the three 2001-2002 Distinguished Teacher/Scholars: Shelly Schmidt, professor of food chemistry; Michael Loui, professor of electrical and computer engineering; and James Gentry, professor of finance.

A light breakfast and a buffet lunch will be provided. Each participant will receive a copy of the book "Thinking About Teaching and Learning," by Robert Leamnson.

Space is limited, and registration is required. Participants should register no later than May 13 by contacting Lisa Ochoa at l-ochoa@illinois.edu or 333-2353.

For more information, e-mail Schmidt at sjs@illinois.edu.

Japan House
Children’s Day is May 5
Children’s Day at Japan House, which is free and open to the public, will be from 1-3 p.m. May 5.

Toshie Kasada, a kimono instructor from the Hakubi Kyoto Kimono School in Tokyo, will demonstrate the art of kimono dressing as well as dressing children in kimonos. Other activities will include origami and calligraphy.

For more information, call Japan House at 244-9934.

Fiscal year 2002-2003
Campus Holidays announced
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration and Human Resources announced the holidays for fiscal year 2002-03 for the Urbana-Champaign campus:

July 4: Independence Day
Sept. 2: Labor Day
Nov. 28: Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 29: Designated holiday
Dec. 24: Christmas Eve (afternoon only/gift day)
Dec. 25: Christmas Day
Dec. 26: Designated holiday
Jan. 1: New Year’s Day
Jan. 20: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
May 26: Memorial Day

In addition, employees will have two floating holidays that can be taken anytime during the fiscal year. Scheduling of these holidays is subject to departmental approval.

Because many university activities must continue throughout the holiday period, some employees may be required to work on days designated as holidays as well as the prescribed work days to provide necessary services as determined by their supervisors.

Technology
Summer workshops open
The CITES/EdTech (formerly CET) is offering free weeklong educational technology workshops for UI faculty members who want to learn more about using educational technology.

The workshops include BlackBoard, June 10-14; Multimedia, June 17-21; and WebCT, July 8-12. Another WebCT workshop will be offered in July (to be announced).

The workshops are for faculty members who want to re-think their use of educational technology and learn effective instructional design principles. The workshops include discussions, seminar presentations, group work, online collaboration and open lab time.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Space is limited.

For more information or to reserve a space, contact Mary Barker at mdietz@illinois.edu or at 333-1078.

Department of theater
Summerfest begins June 14
Summerfest, the department of theater’s annual summer season of comedy, opens June 14 and runs through July 28. This year’s rotating performances, selected by producing director James Berton Harris, include "Educating Rita," by Willy Russell; "Murder Among Friends," by Bob Barry; and "Merton of the Movies," by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

Summerfest 2002 also includes two performances of "I Heard It at the Movies," a benefit event for the Summerfest Apprentice and Internship Programs, which includes "Merton of the Movies" followed by a musical cabaret of Academy Award-winning tunes.

Performances take place in the Studio Theater of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and begin at 8 p.m. on weeknights and Saturdays, and 7 p.m. on Sundays and for the benefit performances.

For more information, call the Krannert Center ticket office at 333-6280.

Krannert Art Museum
Exhibitions open May 10
Exhibitions and related events scheduled at the Krannert Art Museum, beginning in May, include:

• "Living in a Material World: Art of the ’80s," an exhibition chronicling the excesses of the art world, on view May 10-Aug. 4. The exhibition features works by artists, represented in the museum’s permanent collection, who participated in the booming art economy of the 1980s. The show explores the "materiality" of art production on a variety of levels.
  
• "Featured Works IX: Calligraphy Between Two Cultures," an exhibition running May 17-Aug. 4 that explores relationships between calligraphy and gesture in works by Chinese artists Wang Dongling and American artist Robert Motherwell.
  Anne Burkus-Chasson, the show’s guest curator, will discuss those relationships at the May 22 Midweek ArtSpeak talk, at noon in the museum’s Light Court Gallery.
  
• "Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Permanent Collection," May 31-Oct. 27.
  

The Krannert Art Museum is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; until 8 p.m. on Wednesday; and from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. A donation of $3 is suggested.

WILL-FM
Concert to feature clarinetist
The May WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert, "Solomon & Friends," will feature performances by Millikin University clarinetist Solomon Baer with cellist Amy Flores, violist Rudolf Haken and pianist Susan Teicher. Haken and Teicher are professors of music at Illinois.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be at 2 p.m. May 12 in the West Gallery of the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. It will be broadcast live on WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) with host Brian Mustain.

The group will perform Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op.11, by Beethoven; "Pocket-Size Sonata No. 2," by Alec Templetonm; "Abyss of the Birds" from "Quartet for the End of Time," by Olivier Messiaen; selections from "Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83," by Max Bruch; and "Tonada y Cueca," by Carlos Guastavino.

WILL-FM Second Sunday Concerts are a joint venture of WILL-FM, the UI School of Music and the Krannert Art Museum.