Community College News
Hawkeye Community College
Bob Chittenden, Executive Director of Institutional Research and Planning, will retire on December 31. Bob previously served as Director of Library Services at Hawkeye Community College for over twenty-five years. The library staff hosted a “pre-retirement” celebration for Bob on August 18.
Library director Jan Dellinger collaborated with individuals from the Student Retention Office and the Diversity Committee to develop the Virtual Multicultural Resource Center. <http://www.hawkeyecollege.edu/library/culturalResource.aspx>. This new resource provides dynamically generated results from the online catalog. Patrons first select an ethnic group and then select from a wide variety of subheadings to find both print and nonprint resources available from the HCC library. - Submitted by Judy Mitchell
Iowa Private Academic News
Waldorf College - Luise V. Hanson Library
The Luise V. Hanson Library has been open for one year and we continue to enjoy a large increase in usage on campus. The library has also seen some personal changes this year as Dawn Grunzke our serial and circulation assistant left for Arkansas. We have been approved to add another MLS librarian to fill this loss. Watch for a position opening this spring for an Access Services Librarian. The library continues to upgrade its curriculum and children's collection through a generous grant from the Carver Foundation. - Submitted by Jim Kapoun, Library Director
St. Ambrose University
News from St. Ambrose University – Leslie Ross has joined the staff of O’Keefe Library as a full-time reference librarian. Leslie graduated from the University of Iowa. She worked as a temporary librarian at O’Keefe Library before becoming the full-time reference librarian.
Jennifer Davis, Head of Technical Services, is retiring at the end of November. - Submitted by Mary Heinzman
Coe College
The Stewart Memorial Library at Coe College in Cedar Rapids is celebrating their 75th Anniversary this year. More information about the celebration is available on the Library website: http://www.coe.edu/library/75years.htm -Submitted by Betty Rogers, Head of Reference, Stewart Memorial Library
Cornell College
Cornell College began the year with two new librarians. Tonnie Haas joins us as Consulting Librarian for the Social Sciences; Tonnie most recently worked as a librarian at Mercy Medical North in Sioux City. Jen Rouse joins us as Consulting Librarian for the Humanities and Performing Arts. Jen has previously served as a Writing Consultant at Cornell. In addition, we have a new Writing Consultant in the library's Writing Studio—Nicole Jackson, who had previously worked as Senior Editor for Buckle Down Publishing. - Submitted by Jean Donham
Divine Word College
Governor Vilsack has named Daniel Boice, College Librarian of Divine Word College, Epworth, to the Iowa Commission of Libraries.The Commission is responsible for seeing that the State Library fulfills its mission to advocate for Iowa libraries and promote excellence and innovation in library services in order to provide statewide access to information for all Iowans. - Submitted by Daniel Boice
Iowa Public Academic News
University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library
Linda McLaury has been serving Rod Library as Access Services Coordinator since January 2006. She manages the Access Services Department and manages safety and security issues for the Library, oversees auxiliary services account receipts and expenditures, and serves as a member of the Library Administrators Council. She earned her M.A. in Library Science from UNI. Previously Linda served as Library Associate in the Rod Library MultiService Center.
Gretchen Gould joined the Rod Library as Reference Librarian & Bibliographer in April 2006. Her responsibilities include reference and collection development/management in government documents, maps, political science, and law. She also serves as bibliographer for the Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian languages. She earned her M.S. in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously she served as Librarian for the National Center for Evidence-Based Practice at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Rod Library has implemented the MetaLib library portal from Ex Libris.
Known locally as "Panther Prowler," the service became available
to library users at the end of July 2006.
- Submitted by Stan Lyle
The Rod Library will participate in the LibQUAL+ survey for the first time during spring semester 2007. LibQUAL+ is administered by the Association of Research Libraries. It includes a web-based survey that "helps libraries assess and improve library services, change organizational culture, and market the library." Quoted text and more information are at http://www.libqual.org/. - Submitted by Jerilyn Marshall
Iowa State University News
Does your Library publish a newsletter for Library employees?
The Iowa State University Library distributes InForm biweekly to
all employees. A new feature, “Reader’s Corner,” highlights
books or authors. Contributions are submitted by Library employees. To
date, the newsletter has featured the following books and authors:
It’s Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider, a collection
of quotes and stories from Muppets creator, Jim Henson; Lives of Girls
and Women by Alice Munro; author Larry Brown; A Passion for Books by Lawrence
Clark Powell; author Richard Feynman; My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk; and
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link. The column has proved to be a popular
feature, and it is a good way for employees to share reading interests
with their colleagues.
Standards Center
As part of ongoing renovations in Parks Library, vacant space near
the Reference collection has been converted into a Standards Center. The
Standards Center contains the bulk of the industry standards that are
available in the ISU Library. It houses the ANSI standards filing cabinets,
a series of bookshelves with other sets of standards (such as ASTM), and
a computer workstation.
A standard that has been approved by one organization is often slightly revised, reprinted and/or approved by a national or international organization such as ANSI, ASTM or ISO. These "alternative" standards are often difficult to compare since they tend to not be shelved anywhere near each other. Researchers regularly have difficulty locating industry standards in our collection and we hope that, by creating a separate area for them, the individual standards will be easier to find.
An online user guide to standards has recently been updated and is available on the web at: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/services1/ref/standards.html
Multimedia Production Stations
The Reference area in Parks Library now includes four multimedia
production stations. The stations include two high-end Macintosh and two
high-end Windows systems, which enable users to create media products
like VHS tapes or DVD disks for class projects. Such projects might include
creating a visual portfolio or a project animation, creating/transporting
PowerPoint slides to video and adding a soundtrack to a display, or even
creating an online movie for a class, a conference, or formal presentation.
Bookends Café
ISU Dining's newest cafe, Bookends, will be opening in Parks Library
in mid-November. The café will be located on the first floor, near
the Fireplace Reading Room.
People in the News
Sean Cordes, Instructional Technology Librarian, presented at two
sessions at the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, CA on October
24-25, 2006. Sean’s sessions were entitled, “Off the Rack:
Podcast Uses and Content for Broad Educational Process Support”
and “Excuse Me Professor but When are you Passing out the Podcasts?”
Sean also presented a session at the Brick and Click conference at Northwest
Missouri State University on November 3, 2006. His session was entitled,
“Big Wings, No Bull: Do-it-Yourself Podcasts for the Distributed
Course.”
Andrea Dinkelman, Science and Technology Librarian, presented a poster session entitled, “1 Librarian + Teaching Faculty = Successful Collaborations!” at the Association of College and University Biology Educators annual meeting in Decatur, IL on October 27, 2006.
Jon Haupt, Fine and Performing Arts Librarian, was part of a panel presentation entitled, “Library Education for a Changing Job Market,” at the Music Library Association Midwest Conference in Milwaukee, WI on October 6, 2006.
Kathy A. Parsons has been elected as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the ACRL Chapters Council which functions as communication and information exchange between National ACRL and its 42 chapters as well as assists in promoting membership in National ACRL.
Kris Stacy-Bates, Science and Technology Librarian, was a co-presenter at the Brick and Click conference at Northwest Missouri State University on November 3, 2006. Her session was entitled, “Establishing Virtual Reference through Partnership: The GWLA Model.” - Submitted by Andrea Dinkelman
University of Iowa
Edward Miner is the new director of the African Studies Program, replacing Rex Honey, a UI geography professor in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS). Miner is currently International Studies bibliographer for the University Libraries, where he manages library collections in African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, as well as linguistics. His research interests include digital librarianship and archives and their role in African development. He co-edited the digital archive Nuer Field Notes (Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2003), and currently manages a UI Libraries digital project on Akan religion and medicine. Miner has been at the UI since 2002 and will serve as director of the African Studies Program for three years.
Appointments:
Rachel Garza Carreón, Librarian I, Recruitment and Outreach Librarian,
Human Resources, Administrative Offices, effective July 1, 2006
Linda Walton, Associate University Librarian (AUL)/Director, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences (HLHS), effective August 31, 2006. Linda comes to Iowa from the Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University where she has been the Associate Director.
Jonathan Koffel, Librarian I., Hardin Library Education and Outreach
Librarian, effective October 31, 2006 - Submitted by Jeff Dodd
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