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Staff and faculty members will get their T4 slips -- those multi-copy bits of paper that say exactly how much you earned in 1996 -- at the beginning of next week. They'll be sent out on Monday, says payroll manager Carol Wooten. "Employees on regular monthly and biweekly payrolls for January should expect to receive them in their departments on campus. Others will be mailed to last payroll address on file."
Students will be looking for form T2202, the Tuition and Education Credit Certificates -- in other words, tuition fee receipts. For full-time graduate students, the forms are available now in academic departments; part-time grad students (and those who have finished their master's or PhD and left UW) will get them in the mail. Undergraduate students can pick up the forms starting on Monday at the registrar's office in Needles Hall.
Richard Pinnell, who heads the UMD library, gives some background and notes that students helped pay for the new system:
Traditional means of protecting the UMD Library's valuable collections of cartographic and architectural design materials from losses due to theft proved to be ineffective and so, with encouragement from students and faculty, particularly those in the School of Architecture, the Library decided to purchase an automated detection system.Various systems were investigated but the one most closely meeting the UMD Library's needs was a model from 3M. Similar 3M systems are currently in place in the libraries at Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Guelph, Conestoga College, St. Jerome's College, and Cambridge Public Library; Kitchener Public Library is considering migrating from its existing system to one from 3M. The way in which these systems operate is well known to most library users: library materials that are not properly charged out will trigger the system's alarm at the library's exit doors. Electronic security systems are commonplace in local video stores, supermarkets, and drug stores and are known to be an effective way of controlling losses. One major advantage of electronic security technology is that it is non-intrusive. Patrons are largely unaware of the system in that there are no barriers -- physical or otherwise -- between them and the library's collections.
The Library would like to acknowledge the efforts of various groups and individuals who helped to make the installation of this system a reality. In particular the Library wishes to thank Cassie Kent, member of the Waterloo Architecture Students Association (WASA), for her long standing interest in the security of the library's architecture collection and for the financial support she provided as a result of her successful application to the UW Student Life Projects Endowment Fund. Similarly the Library is grateful to the UW Federation of Students for its generous award to WASA, and to faculty and students in the School of Architecture -- notably Rick Haldenby, Marie-Paule Macdonald, Lisa Rapoport, Adam Feldman -- who spoke out in support of better security arrangements.
Phase one, now implemented, is the installation of the basic detection system. The second phase involves the purchase of staff-operated equipment that will integrate into one device the circulation function and the security function; this will make the charge out operation much faster and more efficient. And the third and final phase calls for the installation of self charge equipment that is capable of interfacing with the security system. Time lines for these installation phases are dependent upon the availability of funding.
There will be voting for the treasurer's post, however -- union members can visit a polling station in the Davis Centre great hall tomorrow between 2 and 6 p.m. "Please vote outside your normal working hours," says Stewart.
Election results will be announced at CUPE 793's monthly meeting, to be held at 6:15 tomorrow in Davis Centre room 1302. Also on the agenda for that meeting is election of the union negotiating committee for 1997.
The upgrade to Meridian Voice Mail is now scheduled for this Friday evening. New and additional disks are being installed to increase the amount of voice mail storage. Since this involves backing up and restoring the entire voice mail system, voice mail will be unavailable for 12 hours or more after 8:15 p.m. Friday evening. The telephone auto-attendant at 888-4567 will also be unavailable during this time. You may assume that your voice mailbox will survive intact across the transition. Now would be an excellent opportunity to delete any unneeded messages from your voice mailbox.
This Monday, February 24, will be the date of the seventeenth annual Arts Lecture. The speaker this year is Richard Helmes-Hayes, of the sociology department. His topic: "Canada as Vertical Mosaic -- John Porter's Enduring Image". Everyone is welcome (free) to the lecture, which starts at 7:30 in the Humanities Theatre.
Information systems and technology will hold its next open house a week from tomorrow, February 28, at 10 a.m. in Davis Centre room 1302. Topic this time is described as "the decision support capabilities planned for the Financial Systems Project and other information systems".
Today is a birthday for Karen LeDrew, president of the staff association.
And . . . today's a landmark day in the educational history of Kitchener-Waterloo. It seems that when UW was being born, forty years ago, the oldest educational institution in town was already marking its 100th anniversary. That would be the Berlin Central School, lately renamed Suddaby School, which is celebrating its 140 years of service today with (of course) cake for the kids.
CAR
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