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KudosTony Cosgrave, the instruction coordinator and CL3 manager in CRIO, presented a paper with Professor David Schwartz, Department of Computer Science, concerning the Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory at the 2nd Annual Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development in Computer Science Education in February. The paper is titled "Designing Shape-Shifting Collaborative Laboratory Spaces to Facilitate Game-Design Education." Peter Hirtle’s article "Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives" was published in D-Lib Magazine in November 2006. Peter was also one of the featured participants in New York City at the METRO Symposium, Copyright: The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty. He will also be participating in a panel, How Copyright Law Curtails Access and What That Means for Libraries, and offering a breakout session, Copyright 101:A Crash Course Introduction to Copyright Law for Librarians. Peter, Anne Kenney, and Nancy McGovern traveled to Wellington, New Zealand, in December at the invitation of the National Library of New Zealand to present CUL's week-long digital preservation workshop. "Integrating an Engineering Library's Public Services Desk: Multiple Perspectives" appears in the most recent issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. The authors are Jill Powell, Linda Bryan, Marybeth Michelson-Thiery, Zsuzsa Koltay, and Mary Patterson. Ira Revels has been accepted to the 2007 Frye Leadership Institute, for which only about 26% of the applicants were accepted. Once she leaves the formal session of the institute, which will be held in June, Ira will work on a year-long practicum project that relates to her work at CUL. Here she is the project manager of an educational initiative in digital imaging for staff at Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU) libraries, the HBCU CUL Digitization Initiative, which includes CUL, ten participating HBCU libraries, the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET), and the Robert. W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center (AUC). The purpose of the effort is to enable the development of an HBCU digital library collection of American cultural heritage materials. Ira's practicum will involve research engaging HBCU campus administrators, faculty, student, and staff perceptions and attitudes about the development of an HBCU Digital Library. The ultimate goal of the project is to gain HBCU community buy-in and support for the development of the digital library.
Adam's involvement in this realm began while working as a programmer in the Academic Technologies Center unit of Cornell Information Technologies several years ago. He was supporting a Faculty Innovation in Teaching grant called Draping the Human Form, which required sophisticated image manipulation from within a Web browser. Adam continued the development on his own time, after the project was completed, by writing and distributing the ZoomifyImage software as an open source (free) package available on the SourceForge service. Adam began his career in CUL as a student intern in Mann in the mid-1990s. At the time, he was working on a Master's degree from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. On graduation, Adam was hired as a full-time programmer and worked in that capacity until 2002, when he left Mann for a position at Claritas, in Ithaca. After a short time there, he joined CIT. In January 2006 he returned to CUL. Now he works in Olin, developing software solutions to support the library's MathARC preservation project and the Large Scale Digitization Initiative. We are pleased to have Adam working as our colleague again in CUL! A preprint of Adam’s article is available in DSpace. —Article and photo by Adam Chandler
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Library Journal selected Vergie Savage-Branch, a serials clerk at the Weill Cornell Medical Library, as worthy of special acknowledgment in its Paraprofessional of the Year Award competition. The March 1 issue describes Vergie: "Referred to as a motivator, this 22-year veteran in collection development has been a leader through many technological changes during her tenure, most recently the move to e-journals. She's also been dedicated to staff development as the 'inspirational force' behind the Library Assistants, Support Staff, and Associates Special Interest Group of the Metropolitan New York Library Council and through involvement in the New York State Library Assistants’ Association."
Adam Smith, a programmer in Digital Library and Information Technologies, is the author of the lead article in the March 2007 issue of Information Technology and Libraries. The article, "Introducing ZoomifyImage," describes an open source implementation of the image-processing software used to prepare files for