ENY/ACRL Newsletter Winter 2004
ENY/ACRL
Eastern New Y ork Chapter of ACRL Newsletter
Volume 27, Number 3, Winter 2004
Contents
+ President's Letter, by Michael McLane
+ Spring conference news
+ ACRL news
+ Librarian of the Y ear nominations sought
+ Run fora Position on the ENY/ACRL Board!
« Newkirk Award Reports
« Notes from the Field
President's Letter
Greetings from snowy Central New Y ork! I don't think that any part of the ENY/ACRL region has escaped this
January's winter wonderland. But we can all look forward to better things ahead, particularly the ENY/ACRL Spring
2004 Conference, which will be held at Skidmore College in beautiful Saratoga on May 17. Program Chair Inga
Bamello and her Committee are busy finalizing plans for what promises to be an outstanding conference.
The ENY/ACRL Board of Directors met at Hamilton College on January 22. The entire Board was able to be present,
and each officer and committee chair presented a report. The Chapter is in very sound financial shape, which will
enable us to continue sponsoring outstanding conferences at reasonable cost. Vice-President Inga Bamello gave a
report on the Chapters Council meeting at ALA Midwinter at which she represented our Council.
I know you have been asking yourself, "How can I become more involved in ENY/ACRL? I just love that
organization!" Well, there are many answers to that question. Among them are: put your name forward to serve as a
Chapter Officer or Committee Chair. Volunteer to serve on a Chapter Committee. Apply for a Janice Newkirk
Research Award. Nominate someone for the Librarian of the Y ear award. Information on all these possibilities can be
found on the Chapter web site at enyacrl.org, or you can contact me (mclane@clrc.org) or Past President Kristin
Strohmeyer (kstrohme@hamilton.edu). The Chapter thrives on member input and participation.
Finally, I want to remind you that the 12th ACRL National Conference will be held April 7-10, 2005 in Minneapolis.
We have been asked by ACRL to encourage our members to submit proposals for presentations, panel sessions, poster
sessions, etc. for the Conference in one of seven conference tracks. Among them are Teaching and Leaming, Changing
Environments and Cultures, and Managing Electronic and Digital Information. Additional information and proposal
forms can be found on the ACRL website at www.act.org. Best wishes for an enjoyable and productive semester. I
hope to see you all at Skidmore on May 17th!
Michael J. McLane, President ENY/ACRL
Executive Director, Central New Y ork Library Resources Council
6493 Ridings Road
Syracuse, New Y ork 13206
315-446-5446
Fax: 315-446-5590
mclane@clic.org
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Spring Conference Registration Fee Lowered
The Executive Council voted at its January meeting to lower the registration fee for members from $35.00 to $30.00.
Treasurer Sheldon Wein reported on the Chapter's finances and urged consideration of using its resources to better
fund conferences. In keeping with the Chapter's main objective of offering affordable conferences, the officers believe
that support for the professional development of its members should benefit from the Chapter's excellent financial
condition.
Controlling Chaos: Harnessing Digital Collections Monday, May 17, 2004 at Skidmore C ollege. Save the date!
James Neal (Columbia University) will be the keynote speaker at the spring conference in beautiful Saratoga County
New Y ork. There will be a dinner on Sunday evening for those arriving the day before the conference. Details soon via
the web page.
ACRL News
Professional Development Offered by ACRL ACRL's professional development programs help you keep up with the
changing nature of higher education and academic and research librarianship. Complete details are online at
Wwww.alaorg/acr/events .
12th National Conference Call for Papers Share your ideas with a national audience! ACRL's National Conference
Executive Committee invites you to submit a proposal for the 12th National Conference, "Currents and Convergence:
Navigating the Rivers of Change," to be held in Minneapolis, April 7-10, 2005. The conference will focus on the
increased emphasis on interdisciplinary research and technology, which has librarians constantly "Navigating the
Rivers of Change" to provide information access that connects people and resources in new ways.
ACRL seeks the best ideas in our profession and invites proposal submissions for contributed papers, panel sessions,
workshops, poster sessions, pre-conferences, and roundtable discussions. Full text of the Call for Participation is
available at the ACRL National Conference Web site at www.acti.o. i lis. The Call also appears as an insert
in the November 2003 issue of C&RL News.
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ENY-ACRL Member Running for ACRL Board Member at Large Past President and recent ENY-ACRL
Librarian of the Y ear Award recipient Lynne King is running for election to the position of Member At Large on the
ACRL Executive Board. Please watch for your American Library Association annual ballot and don't forget the ACRL
elections as well. Lynne, formerly of Sage Colleges, was recently appointed director of Schenectady County
Community College. Congratulations, Lynne!
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Online Balloting in 2004 In the 2004 elections, ALA will introduce online voting. Electronic ballot information will
be transmitted to all ALA members with valid email addresses in March 2004. As with the paper ballot, members will
be able to vote for ALA officers, councilors, and division and roundtable officers via the election web site. ALA
members without valid email addresses on file and members who prefer to vote via paper ballot will receive materials
by mail.
ENY/ACRL LIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR AWARD
NOMINATION DEADLINE, March 15, 2004
Help us honor a deserving colleague. Do you know someone who is an outstanding member of the chapter and whose
contributions have benefited the chapter and our profession? We are currently seeking nominations for the annual
ENY/ACRL Librarian of the Y ear Award. The Librarian of the Y ear Award is in recognition of an ENY/ACRL
member who has exhibited a dedication to fulfilling the ACRL mission and furthering the goals and objectives of
ACRL and ENY/ACRL in particular. The award includes a plaque and a $250 honorarium, which will be presented to
this year's winner at ENY/ACRL's spring conference in May of 2004.
Previous ENY/ACRL Librarian of the Y ear Award recipients are:
Mary Alice Lynch, 1994
Janice Newkirk, 1995
Elaine Coppola, 1996
Carla List, 1997
Gillian McComhs, 1998
Cerise Oberman, 1999
Michael Engle, 2000
Mary Jane Brustman, 2001
Barbara Via, 2002
Lynne King 2003
ENY/ACRL covers a wide geographic region and the Nominations Committee relies on suggestions from members
for this important award. Please take a few moments to consider nominating a colleague. The nomination form is
available on the ENY/ACRL website at www.enyacr.org/loy.html .
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Completed Nomination forms should be sent to:
Kristin L. Strohmeyer, ENY/ACRL Past President
Reference Librarian/Coordinator of Instructional Services
198 College Hill Road, Clinton, New York 13323
kstrohme@hamilton.edu
315-859-4481 FAX 315-859-4578
Run for a Position on the ENY /ACRL Board!
Wanted: Board of Directors Candidates Looking for a few good people who are willing to work for free, want to
work with talented and dedicated librarians from throughout the region, enjoy a good meal at the pre-conference
dinner, and are willing to run for one of the following ENY /ACRL Board of Directors positions:
§ Vice-President/Program C hair/President Elect (3yr. Term) Year One - Oversees the planning process for the fall
and spring conferences, locates host institutions, contacts speakers, prepares publicity, and prepares conference budget.
Convenes meetings of the program committee as necessary (generally 3 times per year) to develop conference themes.
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May represent chapter at the ACRL Chapters Council Meeting at ALA (midwinter and summer). Year Two - Serves as
official spokesperson for the chapter and as chair of the Board of Directors. Represents (or designates someone to
represent) chapter at the ACRL Chapters Council meetings at ALA midwinter and annual conferences. Y ear Three -
Solicits nominations and conducts elections for chapter Board of Directors, and serves as Chair of the Librarian of the
Year Award Selection Committee. May represent chapter at the ACRL Chapters Council Meeting at ALA (midwinter
and summer).
§ Government Relations C hair (2yr. Term) Monitors legislative and other govemmental activities of importance to
academic libraries; coordinates activities with the legislative and govemmental affairs committees of other library
organizations; serves as liaison to the ACRL Govemment Relations Committee.
§ Membership Chair (2yr. Term) Solicits memberships for chapter, maintains membership database, supplys mailing
labels as needed, publishes the annual chapter directory, and interacts with campus liaisons. Knowledge of Filemaker
Pro software helpful. Chapter will purchase the program if necessary.
§ Treasurer (2yr. Term) Handles the financial matters of the chapter including maintenance of the chapter checking
account, paying chapter expenses, providing receipts for members attending conferences, and prepares an annual report
for inclusion in the Chapter records. Also, serves on the Janice Newkirk award committee.
The Board of Directors generally meets three times per year. Board members also play important roles at the fall and.
spring conferences.
All candidates will be asked to submit a brief Candidate's statement, which will be sent to chapter members, along
with the ballots, in February of 2004. Terms of office will commence after the spring ENY/ACRL conference in May
2004.
If you are interested in serving on the Board, or if you know someone who might, please contact:
Kristin L. Strohmeyer, ENY/ACRL Past President
Reference Librarian/Coordinator of Instructional Services
198 College Hill Road, Clinton, New York 13323
kstrohme@hamilton.edu
315-859-4481 FAX 315-859-4578
Newkirk Award Reports
Editor's note: Special thanks to Barbara Via for gathering the following reports and sending them along to the
Communications Chair.
Study of Bibliography Software
We would like to thank the committee again for the award funds we received and provide you with an update on our
research project.
We are doing a comparative study of online and pc- based software programs that create bibliographies. We purchased
one pc-based product, EndNote, and subscribed to 2 online services, Noodletools and Easybib. We also purchased a
copy of the Publication Manual of the APA.
Student bibliographies from information literacy classes at the University at Albany were used to generate 100 random
sources. We created citations for these sources in each of the 3 programs. We are in the process of analyzing the
results to determine the accuracy of the citations and to document differences among the programs. To date, we have
observed substantial differences among the citations generated from the programs as well as some discrepancies with
APA guidelines. We made notes on the usability and features of the programs. We have also completed a survey of
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ARL member web sites to determine if, and how, these institutions are supporting bibliography- generating software.
The next phase of our project is to write an article discussing our findings, which we plan to submit to Research
Strategies. We also plan to prepare a tip sheet for students detailing resources to help with creating bibliographies. We
hope to give a presentation about our project at an appropriate conference. We have also discussed creating a
demonstration workshop for students.
Mary Van Ullen
University at Albany Libraries
September 30, 2003
On- and Off-Campus Use of Published Literature
I collected my first student papers last spring, their bibliographies were copied and the data was collated late in the
summer, and I am now looking at the results. The award allowed me to hire a student assistant, Marie Laude, a senior
from Brooklyn, majoring in social work. Marie leamed a lot about research design and research paper bibliographies
during her work! She entered data into an Excel spreadsheet that I created. The sample size of 41 is very small. While
the data shows apparent differences between on and off-campus students use of published literature, there is no
statistically significant difference when the two-tailed T-test is used. For example, while on-campus students as a
group cited 13% more joumal articles than off-campus students did, the difference would have to be over 26% to be
significant with this small sample size. My plan is to complete the analysis for the spring data and collect more data
this fall and next spring. If there are no significant differences between groups in the different semesters I will
aggregate the data set and complete the analysis. I look forward to sending the committee another preliminary report
by December, and a final report in the fall of 2000. I sincerely appreciate the support of the committee, ENY/ACRL,
and the Newkirk family for the opportunity to begin this research.
Holly Heller
October 1999
Notes from the Field
Colgate
Colgate University faculty members, Vicky McMillan, Interdisciplinary Writing, and Debbie Huerta, Science
Librarian, have been invited to discuss their 10-year collaboration teaching two levels of science research and writing
at the ACRL/STS 2004 program in Orlando on June 28th, 2004.
Ellie Bolland, as a member of the NY LINK Resource Sharing Advisory Group, participated in the planning for the
first NY LINK resource sharing conference entitled "Blueprints for Success: Practical Strategies for Effective Resource
Sharing". It was held at Hudson Valley Community College in Poughkeepsie, NY on October 14th, 2003. Ellie and
Cindy Dubinski from Vassar did a joint presentation on ConnectNY and the different models Vassar and Colgate
have used to implement it.
Barbara Burd, Head of Information Literacy, team taught the ACRL online course "Assessing Student Leaming
Outcomes" i in October 2003. ae course will be offered again in March 2004. For more information see:
R fessional_Tools2/A: t Student _Leaming Outcomes.htm
College of Saint Rose
Kate Moss received tenure and the rank of Associate Professor. Jean Root-Mahalov and Steve Black attained the
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rank of Associate Professor.
Amy Sisson left for warmer pastures, and is now a cataloging librarian at the Pasadena Public Library in Pasadena,
TX.
Mary Lindner is the new part-time cataloger for our Curriculum Library.
Steve Black and Amy Sisson published "Bradford's Distribution, the 80/20 Rule, and Pattems of Full-Text Database
Use" in Against the Grain, v.15 no.6, Dec.2003/Jan. 2004, p. 20-24.
Dutchess Community C ollege
Evelyn Rosenthal celebrated her 25th anniversary at the Ritz Library.
On January 12, 2004, Library Liaisons hosted a meeting for Faculty Liaisons. The agenda included overviews of our
LibQUAL + results and the liaison program, a review of the workflow of our technical processing department, and the
importance of submitting book orders early and frequently. Next was an explanation of acquisition tools including
Choice cards, publishers' catalogs, etc. and an introduction to our new project using Choice Outstanding Academic
Titles. Library liaisons highlight titles that our pertinent to our level of instruction and curriculum and distribute the
relevant titles to faculty liaisons as recommendations for inclusion into the collection. Faculty liaisons then choose the
titles they want ordered. The following section of the program consisted mainly of a review of our reserve and.
electronic reserve policies. The last part of the program was a discussion session for faculty liaisons to tell us what
works for them and to answer their questions. Coffee and homemade cookies were served. The feedback we have
received so far is positive and we have already received an order from our suggested titles from Choice Outstanding
Academic Ttitles.
The President of DCC, D. David Conklin, in his weekly column fora local newspaper wrote about the importance of
information literacy for today's students and citizens. The article highlighted the collaboration of the faculty and
librarians at the college and the outstanding job our two fulltime reference librarians, Ron Crovisier and Tom
Trinchera, are doing.
New York State Library
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the New Y ork State Library a grant for $680,866 from July
1, 2004 to June 30, 2006 to continue the New Y ork State Newspaper Project. The Project began in March 1987 and is
expected to be completed in June 2006. The New Y ork State Newspaper Project identifies, describes, preserves, and
makes available to researchers the significant newspapers in all communities in New Y ork since the first publication of
the "New- Y ork Gazette" in 1725. More information on the Project is available at http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/
Two new librarians have joined the State Library's Public Services staff: Valerie J ablonksi and Regina Vertone.
Congratulations to Liza Duncan, Principal Librarian for Collection Acquisition and Processing at the State Library,
who has been appointed to fill a vacant position in the "other" category on the Nylink Council.
Carol Reid, Senior Librarian, Cataloging, curated a one-month exhibit of Louis Slobodkin books and sketches at the
Albany Public Library. Slobodkin was a well known children's book author/illustrator/scuptor who was bom and raised
in Albany. The exhibit consisted of books from Carol's personal collection as well as State Library materials.
Janny Venema of the State Library's New Netherland Project is the author of the book "Beverwijck: A Dutch Village
on the American Frontier, 1652-1664" (published by SUNY Press, 2003). The book is based on her doctoral
dissertation at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Onondaga Community College
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Gretchen Roberts retires from Coulter Library in May 2004, having worked at the library since 1984 as Head of
Periodicals/Reference and serving as Chairperson for the past three years.
Jeff Harr, Technical Services Librarian, was granted tenure this year and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
He was also the co-recipient of a President's Incentive Grant (along with Pauline Lynch-Shostack, Electronic
Resources Librarian, and two English professors). The project will be to develop an online tutorial for literary research.
Frank Doble, Periodicals Librarian, rejoined us after being on sabbatical leave last fall. Frank's sabbatical project was
entitled "Information Literacy; a critique of an accrediation mandate together with a proposal for an altemative
approach." During his sabbatical Frank wrote a long essay, "100 Great Quotes; on libraries, language, literacy and
leaming". If you would like to read the introduction to that essay email him at doblef@sunyocc.edu , and he'd be very
pleased to respond.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Judith Frangos has been hired as the new Media Librarian. Judith is currently the Director of the Erol Ucer Music
Library, at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in Istanbul, Turkey. There, she built a state-of-the-art library and
engineering studio in support of Master and Doctoral Degree programs in Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Theory,
Composition, Sound Engineering and Design and Music Administration. Prior to her position at ITU, she was
Librarian for Recorded Sound and Image at the New Y ork Public Library for the Perfonming Arts.
Fran Scott, Architecture and Fine Arts Librarian, was elected Vice- President/President- Elect of ARLIS/WNY (Art
Libraries Society of Westem NY).
The Roebling Collection in the Institute Archives was recently utilized by a BBC director and scriptwriter during the
production of the "Seven Wonders of the Industrial World" feature on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Sage Colleges
Lynne King, formerly Associate Director of Libraries, has accepted the directorship of the library at the Schenectady
County Community College. Lynne held increasingly responsible positions at The Sage College's libraries over a
period of 15 years. Her friends and colleagues at Sage miss her continuously, but wish her well among her new (lucky)
associates at SCCC.
For the remainder of this academic year, Margaret Lanoue will serve as acting Associate Director; Interlibrary Loan
Librarian, Andy Krzystyniak will add Access Services to his responsibilites, and adjunct librarian, Kirsten Kite, is
Director Kingsley Greene, Terry Wasieliewski and Margaret Lanoue are attending the "Continuous Assessment and
Continuous Improvement" workshops sponsored by the NY 3Rs Association, hosted by the Capital District Library
Council over the course of this Spring.
Terry Wasieliewski, head of Technical Services, attended a Middle States workshop on assessment in Philadelphia,
December 7, 2003
Sheldon Wein, Instruction Librarian, received a 'Froman! award (recognizing innovative use of technology in
pedagogy) from the Sage College's administration for his work developing the libraries’ Information Literacy course.
All of the librarians assist in team teaching this credit bearing course which is being taught on both campuses and is
being developed as an online course.
Margaret Lanoue, who serves as advisor to the campus chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society for two-year
degree students, recently hosted the New Y ork State Regional Honors Institute at the Sage College of Albany. The
participants heard presentations by Sage faculty and a NYS Assistant Attomey General, and were treated to a tour of
the new Center for Medical Science on the adjoining University Heights campus.
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Skidmore
Barbara Norelli, past-chair of the Law & Political Science Section (LPSS) of ACRL, (happily) attended the ALA
Midwinter meeting in San Diego, CA, January 9-12, 2004. She is currently chairing the LPSS Review & Planning
Committee and the LPSS Education Task Force. The Education Task Force is developing discipline specific
information literacy standards for political science.
Susan Zappen moderated "Totally Virtual: Libraries, Librarians, and Information from a Distance," a program
sponsored by the Capital District Library Council's Continuing Education and Coordinated Collection Development
Committees on October 20, 2003. On November 5 she presented a paper, "Deja Vu: Inflated Prices and Deflated.
Budgets," at the 23rd Annual Charleston Conference pre-conference, Serials Management. She presented a workshop,
Copyright Issues for Students and Educators, twice for school administrators on November 14 at the WSWHE BOCES
Model Schools Program, "Technology --- A Tool for Leaming."
SUNY Oswego
Penfield library is pleased to welcome Barbara Uchtorff as our new Associate Director. Barbara is well known
throughout the region and was most recently Systems Librarian at Ithaca College. Welcome Barbara!
Special Collections is excited about its new project using PastPerfect's Digital Imaging Module, which works with its
collection management software. We're using it to enter archival images--photographs, at this point-- via a scanner and
attach each image to a photo- archive catalog record. This will make browsing and identifying photographs much.
easier for both researchers and, and it's an important preservation step.
Tom Larson, Coordinator of Reference & Database Services, has been granted a sabbatical from July 1 - December
31, 2004. Tom has also developed and is teaching Global Studies 100, "London: A Global City." This 3 credit quarter
course (with 37 students) is a collaborative effort between Oswego's Office of Intemational Education & Programs and
Global Studies Program. The course is a pilot, with plans to offer additional "global cities" sections in 2005. Classes
meet for seven weeks on the Oswego campus and continue daily in London during Oswego's spring break.
SUNY -Plattsburgh
New Adjunct Librarians: Claire Stern, who recently retired from the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. She is
working ona Ph.D. and continues to work on special projects for the Jewish Public Library. Renee G angwer isa
school media specialist at Beekmantown Middle/High school.
Carla Hendrix, Associate Librarian, and Debra Kimok, Interim Special Collections Librarian, presented at the
GEAR conference: "Computers Too? Developing an Information Management Assessment Instrument in an.
Information Literacy-Rich Environment." Putting Down Roots: Best Practices in Campus-Based Assessment of
General Education, SUNY General Education Assessment Conference, November 13-14, 2003. The PowerPoint that
accompanied the presentation is on GEAR's Web site at http: .cortiand. conte ionlinks. html
Carla Hendrix, Associate Librarian was also part of a panel presentation sponsored by NY LINK called "Navigating
The Maze of Electronic Resources," September 26, 2003.
Debra Kimok, formerly Visiting Assistant Librarian, was appointed Interim Special Collections Librarian.
Nancy Hoshlyk, Associate Librarian, was named to the self-study team for the Canadian Studies Department.
Nancy Hoshlyk and Carla Hendrix presented a workshop entitled "Share the Magic" to the staff of Library &
Information Services. Topics included the visible and invisible web, introduction of Journals A to Z, and maximizing
retrieval of journal articles via databases and the Library Catalog.
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SUNY -Potsdam
Nancy Alzo and Rebecca Thompson are participating in the Continuous Improvement for Libraries "mini- course"
sponsored by NY 3Rs.
Jenica Rogers has been appointed as Coordinator of Collection Development.
Jane Subramanian recently published an article titled "The Enduring and Strong Beat of the Norwood Brass
Firemen" in the St. Lawrence County Historical Association Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4 Fall 2003 issue. She also gave a
presentation of a talk already presented at an earlier conference titled "Milestones in the History of the Crane School
of Music: Julia Crane, Helen Hosmer, and Beyond" for the St. Lawrence County Historical Association in Canton,
NY.
Rebecca Thompson, Director of Libraries, is chairing a college-wide strategic planning task force.
Syracuse University
The Library is pleased to welcome the following new staff members: G reg G riffin as Senior Director of Development,
effective September 2, 2003. William La Moy as Curator of rare books and printed materials in the Special
Collections Research Center (SCRC), effective December 1, 2003. Suzanne Warren as Reference Librarian and
Subject Specialist for Business/Management, effective February 16, 2004.
On October 24th, Library staff held a reception for University Librarian, Peter Graham on his fifth year anniversary
at Syracuse University Library.
As of November 1, 2003, Bonnie Ryan and Kelly Hovendick will serve as Co- Interim Department Heads of the
Reference Department for the next year, as Elaine C oppola will be joining the ranks of the Reference Librarians in the
ES. Bird Library Reference Department.
Donia Conn, Assistant Conservator in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), has been awarded the status
of Professional Associate by the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC).
Randy Bond, Librarian and member of the Syracuse University Library's Fine Arts Department retired effective
January 7, 2004.
Nancy Pitre, Business/Management Librarian, left SUL to retum to her native Canada at the end of August 2003.
Ken Lavender's last day in the Special Collections Research Center was November 26.
After 28 years at the Syracuse University Library, Antonio Bell (Reference Department) retired on July 15, 2003.
Denise Stephens, AUL for Public Services, has been appointed Chair of the Association for College and Research
Libraries (ACRL) Task Force on Access Guidelines. The group's charge is to revise the 1992 ACRL Guidelines for
Preparation of Policies on Library Access.
Pamela McLaughlin has been appointed to the Nylink Council as a representative in the private higher education
category. Pamela attended the Council's fall retreat held on September 23 through 25 at the Rensselaerville Institute
Conference Center.
Carole Vidali, Music Librarian, has been elected to chair the New Y ork State/Ontario Chapter of the Music Library
Association and will take over the leadership of this chapter at the October 2003 meeting.
Peter Verheyen and Donia Conn of the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presented a two-day workshop
to the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers on May 3 and 4, 2003. Peter and Donia (SCRC) prepared a
poster on historic headbands which Peter presented recently at this year’s Guild of Book Workers Conference in
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Denver, CO. Attendees at the poster session were also able to try their hand at creating these headbands on an.
oversized demonstrator developed by Peter. Headbands and how to teach them were one of the foci of this year's
conference which tackled advanced binding and conservation topics.
Bill Garrison, Associate University Librarian for Information Management Services and G eorge Abbott, Librarian
and Head of Media Services, attended IFLA, The Intemational Federation of Library Associations in Bertin, Gemany
this past August.
Sue Miller, Slide Collection Supervisor and president of the Westem New Y ork Chapter of ARLIS, attended the joint
New England and WNY chapter meeting at the opening of the new Smith Art Building in Northampton, MA and the
annual meeting of ARLIS/NA in Baltimore.
In March 2003, Barbara O par, vice-president/president- elect of the Association of Architectural School Librarians
coordinated the annual meeting of the group held in Louisville, Kentucky from March 13-16, 2003. She planned and.
executed the program, including organization sessions, tours, and local amangements. Barbara also attended the
ARLIS/NA conference in Baltimore, MD where she gave a poster presentation on visual images for architecture; in
Apzil she participated in the fifth annual French Graduate Symposium presenting a paper on French arts periodicals
and attended the annual meeting for the Society of Architectural Historians in Denver, Colorado. Lastly she
contributed to an essay to Language & Literature, volume 3, The Best Books for Academic Libraries.
John Olson, Maps/GIS Librarian, attended the 23rd Annual ESRI Intemational Users Conference and the 3rd Annual
ESRI Education Users Conference in San Diego, Califomia on July 6-11.
Music Librarian Carole Vidali attended the New Y ork State/Ontario Chapter Music Library Association meeting at
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY on October 24-25, 2003.
In March, Harriet Sonne de Torrens attended the annual conference of ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North
America) in Baltimore and the annual VRA (Visual Resources Association conference in Houston. In August she
defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Copenhagen and began a collaborative project with the National
Museum and Danmarks Kirker in Copenhagen to digitize their photograph collection of fonts for the Baptisteria Sacra
Project. Also her publication "De fontibus salvatoris: A Survey of Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Baptismal Fonts
Omamented with Events from the Childhood of Christ" in Objects, Images and the Word: Art in the Service of
Liturgy (Princeton, 2003) has been released for distribution.
Bill Garrison, Administration, had an article published entitled, "The Program for Cooperative Cataloging and
Training for Catalogers" by Carol G. Hixson and William A. Gamison, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, v. 34,
no. 3, 2002 (published May 2003), pp. 355-65, with special issue title: Education for Cataloging and the Organization
of Information: Pitfalls and the Pendulum, Part II. Bill has also been elected and appointed to the IFLA Section on
Cataloging as one of the official ALA representatives to IFLA. He also has been appointed as chair of the Program for
Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), Standing Committee on Training, Task Group on the PCC Role in Metadata Training.
Mathematics librarian Mary DeCarlo had an article published in the Summer 2003 issue of the refereed electronic
joumal Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship. The article, titled "Mathematics Education Resources on the
Intemet," can be accessed at: http://www.istl.org/03-summenr/intemet. html
Electronic Resources Librarian Nancy Turner's review of Measures for Electronic Resources (E-Metrics), sponsored
by the Association of Research Libraries, appeared in the July 2003 issue of Portal: Libraries and the Academy. She
reviewed Public Places, Private Joumeys: Ethnography, Entertainment and the Tourist Gaze by Ellen Strain for Library
Joumal (July 2003) and in press are reviews of the website Musee- Online (for Choice) and Ruth Landes: A Life in
Anthropology by Sally Cole (for Library Journal).
During the spring 2003 semester, Randy Bond shuttled intellectually between 19th - century America and World War
II in the Pacific. On February 7, he presented a paper entitled Bell(e)-Time On the Sawkill: Winslow Homer's The Mill
(1871) and The Fishing Party (1869) for the Gilded Age America Symposium put together by Architecture Librarian,
Barbara Opar, and held in E.S. Bird Library's Hillyer Room. The talk was an outgrowth of a five-week course that
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Randy taught in the fall for SU's Humanistic Studies Center entitled Winslow Homer and Gilded Age America. In
April, Randy gave a presentation for Professor Alan Braddock's class on American Orientalism. Randy's topic was
Rodger's and Hammerstein's South Pacific and the representation of Asians in the 1958 film version of the musical.
George Abbott, Head of Media Services, gave a presentation on "Copyright in the Digital Environment" at the annual
CLRC ILL workshop on June 6, 2003 at the SUNY Monisville campus.
Robert Cleary, Acquisitions Librarian, reports that his master's thesis in history was discussed in the Kansas City Star
on August 31, 2003. The reporter cited it as useful for an activist in the Mexican-American community in her efforts to
gain greater recognition for Satumino Alvarado. The article can be found on a new website dedicated to Satumino
Alvarado. Excerpts from Robert's thesis are available there as well: http:/Awww.kckps.org/disthistory/dist-
history/bi ESalvé html
Vassar College
Vassar College Libraries Acquire a Rare Collection of Einstein Papers (press release)
An alumna has donated to Vassar College a rare collection of over 150 of Albert Einstein's papers, inscribed books,
photographs, and ephemera, many of which reflect on the physicists social and cultural concems. The collection is
comprised mainly of correspondence with economist Otto Nathan, Einstein's close friend and estate executor who
taught at Vassar and Princeton University. It also includes correspondence with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud,
Louis Brandeis, and Felix Frankfurter, as well as an anti-nuclear war petition signed by both Einstein and Henry
Wallace.
This is a rich resource for both teaching and research. The many letters between Einstein and Nathan are especially
significant in documenting the views of one of the twentieth century's most important thinkers,said Ron Patkus, head
of Archives and Special Collections at Vassar College.
Most of Einstein's personal effects were donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem upon his death in 1955.
Vassar's new collection is the gift of Mrs. Adele Gabel Bergreen and her husband Moris Bergreen, who were left the
rare items when Otto Nathan died in 1982. Nathan had taught Mrs. Bergreen at Vassar, and they later became friends.
Both Einstein and Nathan fled Nazi Germany, and the most powerful letters in the collection reflect Einstein's
concems with the rise of fascism and the fate of Jews in Europe.
For example, ina letter to Nathan onJuly 14, 1936, Einstein wrote, "The developments in Europe are unspeakably
homible. The Lord God appears to have appointed the devil to be the chief clerk of it. The fascist danger here also
seems to be on the move." On September 15 of the same year he continued, "The only good thing appears to be that
Hitler in the awareness of his power will commit enough stupidities to bring the whole world against him."
According to physicist James Challey, director of Vassars multidisciplinary program in Science, Technology, and.
Society, These papers will make it possible to study in detail the interaction of science and society in the crucial period
around Word War II.
Einstein came to believe that nuclear weapons were a profound risk to civilization, and on November 12, 1945, he
wrote to Nathan that, The physicists have figured things out well in that they are all against the secret anmament and
for the prevention of war on an intemational basis but they are hesitant to draw the last consequences, a world.
govemment which alone rules over military power.
Public access to the Morris and Adele Bergreen Albert Einstein Collection will begin in the Archives and Special
Collections department of Vassar Colleges main library in 2004, and the library will mount a formal public exhibition
in late 2004 or early 2005.
Other Vassar news
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Ron Patkus, Head of Archives and Special Collections, was selected as one of ten American librarians who visited
key German libraries and sites from September 28-October 12, 2003. The tour was organized by Initiative Fortbildung
fur wissenshaftliche Spezialbibliotheken und verwandte Einrichtungen e. V. and sponsored by Checkpoint Charlie
Stiftung. Shortly after his retum, he gave an illustrated talk to library staff on his fall trip to German Libraries,
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Betty Oktay, Head Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarian, interviewed Victor Navasky, Publisher and
Editorial Director, The Nation in April 2003 and the interview was published in Against the Grain in November 2003.
The citation is Oktay, Elizabeth J. ATG Interviews Victor Navasky. Against the Grain 15 no.5, (November 2003): 46-
54.
Newsletter compiled from member contributions February 10, 2004 by Steve Black, Communications Chair,
blacks@strose.edu.
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