Wednesday, December 8, 1993

DAY OF MEETINGS:  The faculty association and staff association will both
hold their annual general meetings this afternoon.

Staff association: 3:30 p.m., Davis Centre 1350.  The meeting will hear
reports from 1993's president, Linda Norton, and other members of the
executive.

Faculty association: 2:30 p.m., Physics 145.  Annual reports are also on
the agenda.  The membership committee notes that the association had 602
members as of October, down from 610 a year ago, and includes 70.1 per cent
of eligible professors.  "Over the past two years there has been an
increase in Engineering (from about 60% to 68%) but this has been offset
by decreases in Mathematics (57% to 52%) and Science (82% to 76%)."

ADESTE FIDELES:  The annual Christmas concert in the great hall of the Davis
Centre is set for 12:15 today.  Organizers from the music department at
Conrad Grebel College are sending thanks to everybody from the president's
office to the plant operations department (for turning off the noisy fans
and making other physical arrangements) and the usual occupants of the Davis
Centre.  Now all they need is an audience, on the floor of the great hall
and the surrounding balconies.

GIFT ANNOUNCEMENT:  Coming at 2 this afternoon is a cheque presentation
to Campaign Waterloo from Royal Trust.  The ceremony is happening at the
Westmount Golf and Country Club; no other details have been announced yet.

SEEKING A BOOK?  The UW bookstore has launched "Booklook", an extension of
its computerized inventory system, available on UWinfo.  Starting from the
main menu of UWinfo, you choose "Facilities", then "Bookstore", and then
"Booklook", and you'll see a facsimile of the system that's used on the
in-store terminals to look up any book by author or title.  (Also possible:
looking up by course number, in the case of assigned books.)  Booklook could
save a walk over to South Campus Hall -- although the store would be sorry
to lose browsers, we'd think -- and if you find that the book you want is
in stock, Booklook will also tell you how much it costs.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs
credmond@watserv1    ext. 3004