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Camille Andrews, a public services librarian at Mann Library, became the instruction coordinator in January. Camille will be responsible for the management and coordination of all instruction activities at Mann. Kornelia Tancheva, who was the instruction coordinator for five years, will focus on special projects and research, specifically on the topics of social networks and social navigation.

Phil Davis, the life-sciences selector at Mann, has accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the library research journal College & Research Libraries.

Phil’s work in investigating the duplication of material in Emerald’s publications was named one of the top stories of 2005 for academic librarians by ACRLog:

“Emerald Pulls a Fast One—Journal publisher Emerald was caught with its pants down when Phil Davis, life-sciences librarian at Cornell, published data that showed he found issues from different Emerald titles that were complete copies of one another. This story actually broke in the Chronicle in December 2004, but much of the controversy played out in 2005. Thanks Phil for keeping these guys honest.”

In February Carla DeMello will be attending the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District II Accolades & Achievement Awards Gala in Pittsburgh as Cornell’s representative and the designer of the CUL Library Guide, which won the bronze award in the CASE District II Accolades Awards program, Individual Institutional Relations/Alumni Relations Publications category. CASE is a non-profit educational organization that helps its members build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, raise funds for campus projects, produce recruitment materials, market their institutions to prospective students, diversify the profession, and foster public support of education. Competition for its publication awards is stiff, and CASE looks at the skill and creativity of designers who make the most of their resources at hand.

Ali Houissa, the Middle Eastern and Islamic studies selector, has been elected president of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) for a two-year term. He is currently also an ALA Councilor-at-Large.

Last semester Kornelia Tancheva, then the instruction coordinator at Mann Library, co-taught a class in Computing and Information Science with Professor Geri Gay. The class was on human-computer interaction and design, and Kornelia was in charge of the theoretical section. She also delivered lectures on critical theory and design, social informatics, social networks, and social navigation.

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