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ShortsRoss Atkinson Honored Anne Kenney I wanted to let you know, on this one-year anniversary of Ross Atkinson's death, that we have hung the ALA memorial resolution honoring his lifetime achievement and contributions to librarianship just outside the Ramin conference room in 201 Olin. Please stop by to admire it when you have a moment. It is also wonderful to share the news from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) that Ross was posthumously awarded the Blackwell's Scholarship Award for 2007 for his article "Six Key Challenges for the Future of Collection Development," published in Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), vol. 50, no. 4, October 2007, p. 244-251. The Blackwell's Scholarship Award honors the author of the year's outstanding monograph or article in the field of acquisitions, collection development, and related areas of resources development in libraries. Blackwell's donates a $2,000 scholarship to the U.S. or Canadian library school of the winning author's choice. Carole Atkinson has designated the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, in Boston, as the recipient. ALCTS also established a new award this year, the Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award, in Ross's memory for his extraordinary service to ALCTS. Brian Schottlaender, the university librarian at the University of California, San Diego, is the recipient of the 2007 award, which will be presented to him at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony at the 2007 ALA meeting. This new award is sponsored by EBSCO Information Services and honors the recipient with $3,000 and a citation. An incredible colleague, mentor, visionary, and friend, Ross Atkinson is missed by many of us. It's wonderful to acknowledge these honors to him. News from across the Pond From The Independent, 21 February, 2007 A double-first at the Bodleian library as US woman takes over By Richard Garner, Education Editor One of the last remaining bastions of male domination has come crumbling down as one of the oldest libraries in Europe prepares to get to grips with the demands of the 21st century. For more than 400 years, the Bodleian library—the main research library at the University of Oxford and the second largest in the UK after the British library—has had a man at the helm. It has also never been run by anyone born outside these shores. But both of those taboos have been broken this week, with the accession of Sarah Thomas to the post of librarian. Dr Thomas has a distinguished record in the United States, where she worked at the Library of Congress in Washington DC as acting head of its Public Service Collections before moving on to oversee the 20 libraries at America’s Cornell University. They won an international award for excellence in 2002. Now, as executive head of the Oxford University Library Services, with its more than 11 million printed volumes in 40 different library sites, her task is to ensure the university’s fantastic collection survives the move to the new digital era unscathed. "The challenge is to bring forward the best of traditions—which in Oxford’s case includes the superb collections and the commitment to preserving the record of our civilisation for current and future scholars and students—while at the same time creatively reinterpreting these traditions for the digital age," Dr Thomas said. She added that she saw the job as "the opportunity to lead one of the world’s most distinguished libraries at a time of such change in our educational institutions and society". Ellen Marsh The Library is in the beginning stages of creating a library store. The store’s purpose is to promote awareness of the library brand and increase visibility of the library’s many unique and amazing collections, exhibitions, images, and unit libraries. Unlike the Cornell Store and the stores of many other colleges around campus, the Library Store will be modeled after museum stores that have a more "artsy' twist. Images and sayings will play a strong role. The store is "virtual" at the moment, with a small inventory housed in Library Communications. Plans include going online and perhaps partnering with the Cornell Store, other campus units, students, or unit libraries to make the merchandise available to a wider audience. For starters, items have developed around the Ezra Cornell Bicentennial Exhibition, including a T-shirt, tote bag, and post-it note cube. We sold these to visitors during the exhibition opening and will sell them at other times throughout the spring. We welcome the involvement of the CUL community. Plan on attending a brain-storming meeting on Friday, March 30, at 3:00 in 703 Olin. If you can't come, please contact us with your ideas. Tell us what unique collections or images you have that may translate well into T-shirts, coffee mugs, placemats, coasters, note cards, magnets, and more. And, of course, we welcome your support by purchasing items as gifts for visitors to the library, for a student worker, for staff recognition, or to treat yourself, family, or friends—call or visit Library Communications, 213 Olin, to see what's available. Please contact us at libcomm@cornell.edu if you have any questions or ideas.
The T-shirt is now available in 213 Olin. Best Seller Nancy Skipper In early February, a CUL guide entitled How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography was highlighted in the Australian online publication Librarians World Weekly Newsletter. Just last week, a faculty member from a neighboring college called the reference desk to inquire if she could make multiple copies of the guide for her students. In spite of its slightly dry title, we seem to have a worldwide best seller on our hands! Congratulations go to the author, Michael Engle, a librarian in the Department of Collections, Reference, Instruction and Outreach in Olin Library, and to other staff who worked on the text over the years, including Tony Cosgrave, the instruction coordinator, and Amy Blumenthal, a former member of the reference staff. Faculty frequently assign students the task of preparing an annotated bibliography as a way of introducing them to the research process. The first paragraph of How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography provides this definition: "An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited." Reference librarians often use this guide as an element of the instruction sessions they provide for classes of Cornell students who have research assignments. The print version of the guide disappears on a regular basis from the literature racks near our reference desks. It is also available electronically through the Library Gateway's Help pages as well as the research skills guide collection on the Olin and Uris Web site. The online version of the highly popular guide received 735,000 visits last year, and CUL receives regular requests from other libraries, near and far, for permission to copy or link to the guide on their Web pages. Patrons made it clear in recent library user surveys that they want online tools that help them to be self-reliant and find information on their own. Michael was well ahead of his time in 1995, when he began creating Web-based research tutorials and other resources that support the university’s teaching mission and enable students to learn on their own.* For more examples, take a look! *Engle, Michael O. "Instruction and the Web: The Development of a Library Research Tutorial." In The Library Web. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1997, 167-177. New York State Library Assistants' Association Jacalyn Spoon A few months ago I was asked to be the list moderator for the New York State Library Assistants' Association, and, having been an active member in NYSLAA since 1986, I accepted the offer. I encourage library assistants to become active in a library organization. NYSLAA is a terrific place to start. Today, on NYSLAA-L, I learned that Vergie Savage-Branch, a serials clerk at Weill Cornell Medical Library was selected by Library Journal as one of three paraprofessionals to watch. Vergie, an active NYSLAA member, was nominated for the 2007 Paraprofessional of the Year award. Regardless of your membership status in NYSLAA, please consider joining our list. To subscribe to NYSLAA-L, send an e-mail to lyris@cornell.edu.The body of the message should be: join NYSLAA-L "your name". Keep the quotes around your name. For more information on joining an e-list, see CIT's Web site. To learn more about NYSLAA, visit its site, or feel free to ask me (jcs93). The Adelson Library Now Has a Web Presence Jacalyn Spoon I'm proud to announce the completion of the Adelson Library Web site. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/adelson. This is my first such project outside of my library school assignments. As a solo librarian with a staff of part-time and volunteer assistants, it is imperative that I ask my colleagues to assist me in identifying problems with the site. Please visit the site and send feedback on necessary improvements to Adelson_lib@cornell.edu. You can link to the site from the Library Gateway via the Individual Libraries link (top right). An interesting feature: I am experimenting with the RefShare trial in two places on the site, on the new books page and with a bibliography of ivory-billed woodpecker resources. I've had many good comments from Lab of Ornithology staff who have tried these RefShare resources. Annex Move Statistics for November 2006
Annex Move Statistics for December 2006
Annex Move Statistics for January 2007
Annex Move Statistics for February 2007
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