Briar Cliff University
Briar Cliff University welcomes Sara Thompson to the library
team in July. Sara comes to us from Urbana, Illinois, where she worked as the
Visiting Assistant Coordinator at the Asian Educational Media Service Center for
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sara earned her MLIS degree from
the University of Illinois. In 2009, Sara was selected as an American Library
Association Emerging Leader; and an experience Sara highlights from her
undergrad years is a semester of study in German and Linguistics, at Eberhard
Karls Universiät, in Tübingen, Germany. We are very excited to have her join our
team at BCU, in Sioux City, Iowa! Deb Robertson, director of the Bishop Mueller
Library at Briar Cliff University, has been selected by the Council on Library
and Information Resources and the Council of Independent Colleges to attend a
workshop in the "Leadership through New Communities of Knowledge" series,
titled, “Work Restructuring in the Library.” With funding from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the
focus of the workshop is to discuss the principles of library work design and
redesign to promote customer service and staff involvement. Through an
application process, 21 library directors and/or chief information officers at
small to mid-sized private colleges and universities were selected to
participate in this discussion -- which will be lead by ACRL’s 2010
Academic/Research Librarian of the Year, Maureen Sullivan.
-Submitted by Debora Robertson
Clarke College
Clarke College will become Clarke University on
August 1st of this year. We are moving from ARIEL to ILLiad. ILLiad allows us to
better serve our students by providing a much quicker turn-around time for
Interlibrary Loan materials and makes it easier to give them electronic access
to ILL materials as well. Our library houses the Learning Center and the Writing
Center. These two areas will be combining their space and will be together on
one side of the library to increase effectiveness and better meet students needs
as it will now be a one-stop-shop for students instead of having to send them to
two different areas.
-Submitted by Sue Leibold
Cole Library, Cornell College
GetYourGeekOn
On May 5, 2010, Cole Library at
Cornell College sponsored an outdoor
event over the lunch hour. Twenty
students, staff, and community members
lined the ped mall at tables sharing
their geeks -- from deaf culture to
handiwork to collections to reading
passions to string theory -- there
was something for everyone. One
student built a hovercraft out of
plywood, a shower curtain, a leaf
blower and lots of duct tape. Trying
to keep one's balance as the
hovercraft "floated" drew the crowds in.
See pictures and videos of the
hovercraft on our
Library Blog ,
and on
Facebook. (see Cole Library's posts from May 6 and May 10)
As the event drew to a close, several
students told us what they wanted to
share at next year's GetYourGeekOn!
Cole Team Trivia
Students, staff, faculty and
administrators joined together on teams for
a night of questions, challenges and
fun earlier this year. This was
organized by the trivia experts in
our Center for Teaching and Learning,
and the Library. Everyone had a great
time, learned new stuff, ate good
food, and transformed our Quiet Study
Floor into a Quiz Show. One of the
team challenges was to sort a cart of
books by call number. Every team
needed more than one chance to get it
right. Lots of laughs.
-Submitted by Mary Iber
St. Ambrose University
St. Ambrose University Library is saying goodbye and good luck to two great
staff members. Nicole Lindstrom will be leaving her position as night time
circulation department supervisor to join the team at the University of Iowa
Libraries and Syl Rex, after twelve years of service as our night time Reference
Librarian, will be retiring! Both will be missed.
Congratulations are in order for Library Director Mary Heinzman, who has
taken on additional responsibilities as St. Ambrose University’s Executive
Director of Information Resources.
-Submitted by Leslie Ross Ferm
Wilcox Library William Penn University
This summer at Wilcox Library we were able to spruce up two of our rooms. The
Quaker Collection received new paint, carpeting, and furnishings. A large group
study room that had been used frequently as a classroom was reconfigured to
create a more comfortable classroom space with new furnishings and a.v. equipment.
-Submitted by Jennifer Sterling
