Michelle Tedrow is our new librarian at the Boone campus. She joined DMACC December 20, 2007. Michelle comes from St. Luke's College in
Steve Johns is our new librarian at the
Cathy Lawyer (Carroll campus) will be retiring this summer. She has been with DMACC 18 years.
Lisa Stock (previous Library Director at DMACC; now Dean of Learning Resources at the
Submitted by Rebecca Funke
Kirkwood Community College Sara Scheib has been hired as Emerging Technologies Librarian. Sara is a 2008 graduate of the University of Iowa Library School. She will work on both the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Campuses and be the Liaison with the Distance Learning Department. Kate Hess and Steve Sickels provided a Teaching Circle based on the book Integrating Information Literacy into the Higher Education Curriculum by Ilene F Rockman and Associates (Jossey-Bass, 2004) in Kirkwood’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Submitted by Arron Wings
North Iowa Community College
NICC passed their $32 million bond levy which includes building/renovating both the Calmar Campus and Peosta Campus libraries. This was our second time trying for the levy, and finally won!
Submitted by Deb Seiffert
Iowa Department of Transportation Library
Hank Zaletel, a consultant at the Iowa DOT Library who is also employed by Iowa State University’s Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE), relates, “The winter has been especially onerous here in Iowa this year. The roads, especially the gravel in southern Iowa, were hard hit. Complaints were numerous about their bad condition. The local CBS affiliate in Des Moines called our Public Affairs Office to talk about muddy roads from the past (if you think it is bad now, this is what it was like a hundred years ago). The Library and I were called upon to respond.” The following clip was the result: http://www.kcci.com/video/15593254/index.html
Submitted by Hank Zaletel