Staff Achievements

Ross Atkinson, Library Administration

Awards:

1999 ALCTS/Blackwell Scholarship Award, presented by the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services for the most significant publication in 1998 in the field of acquisitions, collection development and related areas of resource development in libraries.

Elected Offices:

Elected to be the divisional representative of the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services on the American Library Association Council for 1999-02.

Publications:

"Toward a Redefinition of Library Services," in Virtually Yours: Models for Managing Electronic Resources and Services, ed. Peggy Johnson and Bonnie MacEwan, Chicago: ALA, 1999, pp 3-21.

Susan Barnes, Veterinary Library

Awards

Recipient, SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship (May, 1998).

Stuart Basefsky, ILR Library

Awards:

ILR Recognition Award, June 9, 1999.

Presentations:

"The Influential Library and Librarian: Practice and Research Agenda for the 21st Century." Special presentation and consultation for the Central Library and Documentation Bureau (ILO Library), International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, November 4-6, 1998.

"How is Globalization Affecting Information Needs?" as part of a panel presentation at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland for the 52nd Annual Conference of the Committee of Industrial Relations Librarians (CIRL), May 12, 1999.

"The Library as an Agent of Change: Pushing the Client Institution Forward." Presentation at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland for the 52nd Annual Conference of the Committee of Industrial Relations Librarians (CIRL), May 14, 1999.

"The Influential Library and Librarian: Practice and Research Agenda for the 21st Century." Presented for the Cornell University Library, Professional Development Week, May 19, 1999.

"ILRHR664, HR Online Research and Reporting Methods: A Librarian/Professor Partnership" as part of a panel on "The New Frontier of Electronic Media and Teaching: Agents, Collaborations, and Partnerships" at the "Innovative Teaching in Human Resources and Industrial Relations Conference," held June 11-12, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia, sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations Research Association, Georgia State University and others.

Publications:

"The Library as an Agent of Change: Pushing the Client Institution Forward." INFORMATION OUTLOOK (The Monthly Magazine of the Special Libraries Association) 3:8 (August, 1999), pp. 37-40.

Barbara Berger-Eden, Preservation & Conservation

Appointments:

Member, Research Libraries Group, Working Group on Preservation Issues of Metadata.

Chair: American Library Association, Preservation and Reformatting Section.

Member, Board of Trustees, South Central Regional Library Council.

Presentations:

"How to Write a Winning Grant Proposal." South Central Regional Library Council, July 1998.

"Introduction to Digital Imaging." Western New York Library Resources Council, September 1998.

"Preservation Reformatting Workshop." South Central Regional Library Council, March 1999.

Publications:

"Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Illustrations," (with Anne R. Kenney, Louis H. Sharpe II), in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Digital Libraries, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 21-23, 1998, p. 279-294.

Production Editor, RLG DigiNews (http://www.rlg/org/preserv/diginews).

Carmen Blankinship, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Presentations

"Cornell University's Electronic Reserves." American Library Association , Association of College and Research Libraries Electronic Reserves Discussion Group Mid-winter meeting, Jan. 31, 1999, Philadelphia, Pa.

David Block, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Consultancies:

Preservación de la Memoria Historica. Ford Foundation, Santiago de Chile, May 1999.

Inter-Regional Area Program Dissemination Working Group. Social Science Research Council, New York, November 1998, Quebec, June 1999.

Elected Positions:

Center for Research Libraries. Latin American Microform Project (LAMP), chair.

Latin American Studies Association. Scholarly Research and Resources Section, chair.

Presentations:

"Colaboración transamericana bajo el World Wide Web, propuestas modestas." Del Papiro a La Biblioteca Virtual. Havana, March 1999.

"Remote Storage, how did it come to this?" 44th Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. Nashville, June 1999.

Christian Boissonnas, Central Technical Services

Publications

"BIBCO: A Winning Proposition for Library Users and Staff," with Karen S. Calhoun, Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, vol. 22 (1998), pp. 251-255.

Robert Braude, The Weill Medical College Library

Awards:

Elected: Fellow American College of Medical Informatics, November 1998.

Presentations:

"Art in the Library" A poster presented by helen-ann brown and Robert M. Braude at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, May, 1999.

Publications:

"Virtual or actual: the term library is enough." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 87:1 (1999) pp. 85-87.

Lynn Brown, Management Library

Office:

Chair 1998/99, ALA's Business Reference and Services Section Education Committee.

Presentations:

Seminar in Nitra, Slovakia, "Information Sources and Analysis for Marketing and Finance.", co-presented with Warren Brown, CISER, January 11-15, 1999, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Presentation was organized by the Faculty of Economics and Management, Institute for Economic Studies, University of Agriculture Nitra, Slovakia and Cornell University.

Publications:

"Strategies for Conducting Secondary Research for Environmental Analysis." and "A Guide to Information Sources for Marketing Strategy Analysis.", in Vithala R. Rao and Joel H. Steckel, Analysis for Strategic Marketing, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.

Karen Calhoun, Central Technical Services

Presentations:

"CORC: Message in a Bottle," presentation to CORC User Group at the ALA annual conference, June 26, 1999, New Orleans LA. Available at http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/corc/ppt/index.html.

"SCA Task Force on Journals in Aggregator Databases," presentation (with John Riemer) to Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Participants Meeting at ALA annual conference, June 27, 1999, New Orleans LA.

"The Cornell University Library Gateway," presentation (with Edward Weissman, Zsuzsa Koltay, and Tom Gale) and breakout sessions for librarians at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, June 8, 1999.

"E-Journals in Aggregators: Breaking the Rules," presentation to the ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Discussion Group, January 30, 1999, Philadelphia PA.

Publications:

"Library Gateway: Project design, teams, and cycle time," (with, Zsuzsa Koltay and Edward Weissman), Library Resources & Technical Services 43:2 (April 1999): 114-122.

"Progress Continues for Aggregator Task Group," (with John Riemer), CONSERline: Newsletter of the CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) Program 14 (Summer 1999). Available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/consrlin.html.

"An interview with Ross Atkinson, Deputy University Librarian, Cornell University Library," Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 23:2 (Spring 1999), 169-178.

"Designing for Wow! The optimal information gateway." In Racing toward tomorrow: proceedings of the ninth national conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries (Chicago: American Library Association, 1999), 154-160.

Katherine Chiang, Mann Library

Presentations:

"Building Library Webs: Integrating Online and Web-based Resources in a Networked Environment." Presentation given at the METRO Conference in New York, NY, in October 21, 1998.

Suzanne Cohen, ILR Library

Publications:

"Search Engines: Basic Reference Tools," in CareerXroads, by Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler, Kendall Park, NJ: MMC Group, 1999, pp 55-58.

"Internet Sites for Human Resources," (with Deborah Joseph), in Compensation by George T. Milkovich and Jerry M. Newman, with the assistance of Carolyn Milkovich, Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999, pp 603-623.

"Human Resources and the Internet," (with Deborah Joseph), Ithaca, NY: School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Fall 1998, ERIC Document ED 422621.

Paul Constantine, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Positions:

Chair, Reference Services in Large Research Libraries Discussion Group, ALA {RUSA}.

Lenore Coral, Music Library

Appointments:

Concluded term as President of the US Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). Continue to chair the Planning Committee for the IAML meeting to be held in Berkeley CA in August 2002.

Chair of the Publication Subvention Awards Committee of the Society for American Music (formerly the Sonneck Society).

David Corson, Library Administration

Presentations:

"To Do Justice to the Singular Beauty of Birds: The Art and Artistry of John James Audubon and Louis Agassiz Fuertes." Invited public lecture, Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, October 1998.

"Five Hundred Years of Ornithological Art." Presentation to visiting staff and friends of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute (Jamestown, NY), October 1998.

"The Herbal in Art and History: Fifteen Centuries of Use and Delight." Two lectures to the staff and volunteers of the Cornell Plantations, April 1999.

Tony Cosgrave, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Publications:

Cornell University Library Distance Learning White Paper. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University (Fall 1998). ERIC Document ED418705.

Martha Crowe, Central Technical Services

Publications:

"Cornell Provides Comprehensive Planning Model." ARL Spec Kit 236 = Transforming Libraries 7 (October 1998), pp. 19-20.

Charles d'Orban, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Elected Offices:

Secretary, Council on East Asian Libraries, 1997-2000.

Presentations:

"Sources and strategies for collecting Chinese popular music." International Convention of Asia Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, June 27, 1998.

"On-line resources for the study of Chinese cinema." Council on East Asian Libraries annual meeting, Boston, MA, March 10, 1999.

Rebecca Warren Davidson, Fine Arts Library

Presentations:

"Gardens in Art." Invited presentation at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, May 2, 1999.

Philip Davis, Mann Library

Presentations:

"Library Support of Distance Learners : Access, Support and Caveats." Presented at Distance Learning and Higher Education National Conference, Cornell University, Office of Distance Learning, November 2, 1998.

"Practical Tips for Using the Internet: Search Engines, Organizing and Downloading." Presented at Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference, Cornell University, Dept. of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics and Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management, December 15, 1998.

"How Undergraduates Learn Computer Skills." Presented at CUL Professional Development Series. Mann Library, Cornell University, May 19, 1999.

Publications:

"How Undergraduates Learn Computer Skills: Results of a Survey and a Focus Group." Technological Horizons in Education Journal 26 (9) (April 1999): 69-71.

"CUL Distance Learning White Paper". Ithaca, NY, Cornell University (Fall 1998). ERIC Document ED418705.

John F. Dean, Preservation & Conservation

Consultancies

Sino-Nom Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam. May 1999. Preservation Feasibility Study. Harvard-Yenching Institute.

National Library of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. February 1999. Preservation Management Report. United States Information Service.

National Library of Egypt, Cairo. November 1998. Preservation Feasibility Study. Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation.

Presentations (selected):

"The Road Ahead: The Future of Preservation in America." The Barbara Goldsmith Lecture, New York University, September, 1998.

"Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Viet Nam: Road Towards Recovery after War and Civil Unrest." Disaster and After: Information Service in Times of War and Other Catastrophes. International Group of the Library Association. University of Bristol (UK), September 4-6 1998.

Publications

"Conservation of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts," Institute of Paper Conservation, Paper Conservation News Number 89, March 1999.

"The Preservation and Conservation Needs of the Upper Regions of Southeast Asia," Libri (Vol. 47, No. 3) 1998.

Selected Workshops

"Conservation Treatment of Chinese Double-Leaf Books and the Mounting of Stele Rubbings," Sino-Nom Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 1999.

"Binding Structures," National and University Library of Iceland, February 1999.

"Conservation Enclosures," Dar el-Kutub Library, Cairo, Egypt, November, 1998.

"Basic Book Repair," SCRLC, December 1998.

"Protective Enclosures," SCRLC, January 1999.

"Disaster Planning and Collection Salvage," SCRLC, April 1999.

Teaching

Art, Archeology and Analysis, Spring 1999, Cornell University. Three lectures on the subject of historical book structures and materials.

Summer Session 1998--Syracuse University, School of Information Studies. Adjunct Lecturer.

"Preservation Policy and Management".

Sandy Driscoll, Mann Library

Awards:

1999 Secretary's Honor Award for the USDA Economics and Statistics System (http://www.usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/). Presented by USDA Secretary Dan Glickman. Washington, D.C., West Lawn of the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, June 9, 1999.

Michael Engle, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Presentations:

"Creating and Maintaining a Chapter Web Site." ACRL Chapters Council. Philadelphia: ALA Midwinter, 31 January 1999.

"Using the Web to Create Instruction Tools." Eastern New York Chapter, Association of College and Research Libraries Fall Conference "What's Brewing in Libraries?" Skidmore College, 26 October 1998.

Publications:

"The Social Effects of Electronic Text Centers: Isolation and Integration." Library Hi Tech. 16(3-4) (1998): 15-20.

Angi Faiks, Mann Library

Presentations:

"Help: Technical and Research Support in Digital Libraries." Poster session (with Nan Hyland) presented at ALA in New Orleans, LA, June 1999.

Linda Fisher, ILR Library

Publications:

Design and Publication of the CIDC Special Web Exhibit Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Ends in Political Authority (with Prof. John Borneman, Anthropology and Noni Korf Vidal, Curator for Electronic and Special Collections). Site was awarded Great Britain's "UKPlus" Site of the Day for Aug. 8, 1999.

Mark E. Funk, Weill Medical College Library

Appointments:

Chair, 1999 National Program Committee, Medical Library Association, 1997-1999.

Literature Selection and Technical Review Committee [for MEDLINE], National Library of Medicine, 1999-2001.

Thomas D. Gale, Mann Library

Publications:

"Optimizing Web Access to Geospatial Data: The Cornell University Geospatial Information

Repository (CUGIR)."(with Philip Herold and Thomas Turner) Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship no. 21 (Winter, 1999). Available online: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-winter/article2.html

Claire Germain, Law Library

Appointment:

Research Libraries Group/Digital Library Federation Task Force on Long Term Retention. Advisor to Electronic Publications Subgroup.

Presentations:

Lectures on "Introduction to French Law," Cornell in Paris Law School Summer Program, July 1998.

"Digital Legal Information," presented at CUL Professional Development Series. Kroch Library, Cornell University, May 20, 1999.

"Long Term Access to Digital Legal Information," RLG Law Roundtable, July 10, 1999, AALL Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Publications:

"Legal Information on the Internet: U.S. Perspectives," (Paris, Oct. 1998, French Association for the Development of Legal Informatics) (ADIJ, Association pour le developpement de l'informatique juridique), http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/.

"L'Accès Electronique aux Droits de Langue Française Vu d'un Pays Anglo-Saxon," (Electronic Access to Laws of French Language Countries Seen from an Anglo-Saxon Country) (Paris, Nov. 1998, Paris Center for Foreign Commerce (Paris Centre Français du Commerce Extèrieur), http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/.

Lance Heidig, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Presentations:

"Explaining the Information Universe in 50 Minutes or Less: Using the World Wide Web for Library Instruction." North American Web '98 Conference, Fredricton, NB, October 1998.

Philip Herold, Mann Library

Presentations:

"The Cornell University Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Node" (Co-presented with Tom Gale) at 13th Annual Northeast Arc Users Conference in Bethel, ME, September 1998.

"The Cornell University Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Node" (Co-presented with Tom Gale) at 14th NYS GIS Conference, Rochester, NY, September 1998.

"The Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR)." Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Central New York Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 30, 1999.

"University-Wide Access to GIS Data, Technology, and User Support." (Co-taught with Bill Walters and Susan Greaves). Five-day workshop on the use of Geographic Information Systems in libraries, ArcView software and Wessex data.

Publications:

"Optimizing Web Access to Geospatial Data: The Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR)." (with Thomas Gale and Thomas Turner) Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, no. 21 (Winter, 1999). Available online: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-winter/article2.html.

H. Thomas Hickerson, Library Administration

Elected Offices:

Served as Vice President/President-Elect of the Society of American Archivists.

Presentations:

"Developing Digital Products in Special Collections: Practices and Policies," 9th National Conference, Association of College and Research Libraries, April 9, 1999, Detroit, Michigan.

"Strategic Issues in Digitization Initiatives in Special Collections" (co-presenter with Frances Groen, McGill University), 134th Annual Meeting, Association of Research Libraries, May 13, 1999, Kansas City, Missouri.

"The Emerging Archival Landscape: Partners and Possibilities," Annual Meeting, Society of Southwest Archivists, May 29, 1999, Austin, Texas.

"Organizational Models and Professional Boundaries: A Time for Change," 40th Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference, Association of College and Research Libraries, June 22, 1999, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Diane Hillmann, Technical Services Support

Presentations:

"Is Meta Really Bettah?" LITA National Forum, Oakland, CA. November 16, 1998.

"Better than Bookmarks? Representing Internet Resources in Your Public Catalog." Workshop conducted for CNY Library Resources Council, Syracuse, NY. May 25, 1999.

"Is Meta Really Bettah?" and "META vs. MARC--the new generation gap?" Atlantic Provinces Library Association, St. John, New Brunswick. May 28, 1999.

Publications:

(Editor) "A User Guide for Simple Dublin Core." Current draft dated July 31, 1998 (http://purl.org/DC/documents/working_drafts/wd-guide-current.htm).

Peter Hirtle, Cornell Institute for Digital Collections

Presentations:

"User Access to Digital Collections: The Cornell University Experience," EVA `99: Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, New York, NY.

Closing Plenary Panel Presentation, Research Libraries Group's Primary Sources Forum, New Haven, Conn.

"Government Records in the Digital World," invited speaker at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology 1998 Library Roundtable, Kanazawa, Japan.

Publications:

"Recent Changes to the Copyright Law: Digital Millennium Copyright Act," Archival Outlook March/April 1999: 6-7.

"Recent Changes to the Copyright Law: Copyright Term Extension," Archival Outlook January/February, 1999, special insert.

"Selecting a Digital Camera: the Cornell Museum Online Project", (with Carol DeNatale) RLG DigiNews, 2:6 (15 December 1998) http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews2-6.html.

Recent Appointments:

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) Working Group on Best Practices.

Research Libraries Group/Digital Library Federation Task Force on Long Term Retention. Institutional Records Working Group.

Society of American Archivists Executive Committee and Program Committee.

Grant Reviewer for the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Advisory Committee, "Gateways to the Past, Present, and Future: Practical Guidelines to Secondary Uses of Electronic Records Project," Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY.

Workshops Taught:

"Selection for Digitization," Western New York Regional Library Council, Buffalo, New York.

"Advanced Issues in Copyright for Archives and Manuscripts," Western New York Regional Library Council, Buffalo, New York.

"Digital Imaging Project Management" (with Carol DeNatale), Museums and the Web Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Angela Horne, Management Library

Presentations:

"The Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus: An Overview." Presented at CUL Professional Development Series. Kroch Library, Cornell University, May 18, 1999.

Publications:

"Trekking to Victoria with Technological Shoelaces Tied Tight: The Path to Winning the Inaugural OCLC/CLA Award." Feliciter 44:3 (1999), pp. 160-163.

Ali Houissa, Central Technical Services

Presentations

"The Internet in the Middle East: Connectivity, Access and Censorship." ACRL / AAMES program. ALA Annual Conference. 28 June, 1999, New Orleans, LA. (invited).

Publications:

"Developing a World Wide Web Resource Collection and a Guide to Internet Resources on the Middle East and Islamic Studies" MELA Notes 67-68 (Fall 1998-Spring 1999), pp. 12-30.

8 Book reviews acquisitions for The Library Journal (July 1998-June1999).

Nan Hyland, Mann Library

Presentations:

"Help: Technical and Research Support in Digital Libraries." Poster session (with Angi Faiks) presented at ALA in New Orleans, LA, June 1999.

Jo Jaynes, Mann Library

Awards:

1999 Secretary's Honor Award for the USDA Economics and Statistics System (http://www.usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/). Presented by USDA Secretary Dan Glickman. Washington, D.C., West Lawn of the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, June 9, 1999.

Yumin Jiang, Mann Library

Presentations:

"Toward Better Access to Full-Text Aggregator Collections." Workshop conducted at the 14th North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Annual Conference, June 12, 1999.

Deborah Joseph, ILR Library

Presentations:

"Empowerment Online: Creating an Internet Training Program for Labor Unions" Talk presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Council of Industrial and Labor Librarians--International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland, May 12, 1999.

Bill Kehoe, Mann Library

Awards:

1999 Secretary's Honor Award for the USDA Economics and Statistics System (http://www.usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/). Presented by USDA Secretary Dan Glickman. Washington, D.C., West Lawn of the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, June 9, 1999.

Anne Kenney, Preservation & Conservation

Elected Positions

Chair, Executive Committee, National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Presentations:

Keynote Address, Joint RLG and NPO Conference on Guidelines for Digital Imaging, University of Warwick, UK, Sept 1998.

"Digitizing Nordic Newspapers," Nordic Digital Workshop, Mo i Rana, Norway, Oct 1998.

"Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives," October 1998, Ithaca, NY (co-teach 5-day hands-on workshop).

"Introduction to Digital Imaging," 1-day presentation for the Western New York Library Resources Council, August 1998, St. Olaf's College, NY.

"Managing Digital Imaging Projects," Australia, December 1998 (co-teach 2 2.5-day workshops in Canberra and Melbourne).

"Managing Digital Imaging Projects," Syracuse, NY, May 1998 (co-teach 2-day workshop).

Publications:

RLG DigiNews, co-edit a bimonthly electronic journal, which is read worldwide by 3,000 individuals.

Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: the Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books, co-authored by Anne Kenney, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources.

"Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations," with L. Sharpe II and Barbara Berger, Proceedings of the Second European Digital Library Conference, Sept 1998 Presentations & Lectures.

Zsuzsa Koltay, Library Information Technology

Presentations:

"Cornell University Library Gateway" presentation and round table sessions at McMaster University, June 8, 1999, Hamilton, Ontario. Other presenters from Cornell: Ed Weissman, Karen Calhoun, Tom Gale.

"Designing for Wow!" The Optimal Information Gateway" presentation at the Ninth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 11, 1999, Detroit, MI.

Publications:

"Library Gateway: Project Design, Teams, and Cycle Time." (with Karen Calhoun, and Edward Weissman). Library Resources and Technical Services. 43(2) 1999: 114:122.

"Designing for Wow! The Optimal Information Gateway."( with Karen Calhoun) Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Ed. Hugh A. Thompson. Chicago: ACRL, 1999: 154-160.

Frederic Kotas, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Positions:

Chair, Multivolume Set Project, National Coordinating Committee for Japanese Resources, Sept. 1997-Sept. 1999.

Presentations:

Workshops on the electronic databases of the Gakujutsu Joho Senta (National Center for Scientific Information Systems), Tokyo, Japan, at Duke University, Southwest Regional Association for Asian Studies (El Paso, Texas) and Cornell University. Summer/Autumn 1998.

Martin Kurth, Central Technical Services

Presentations:

"Subject References in Online Catalogs: A Public Services Perspective." Research results presented at the 1999 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1999.

Greg Lawrence, Mann Library

Awards:

1999 Secretary's Honor Award for the USDA Economics and Statistics System (http://www.usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/). Presented by USDA Secretary Dan Glickman. Washington, D.C., West Lawn of the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, June 9, 1999.

Jim LeBlanc, Central Technical Services

Presentations:

"Ongoing Mutations in Copy Cataloging: The Situation in Cornell's Central Technical Services." Paper presented at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference, Philadelphia PA, Jan. 31, 1999.

"Mamalujo's Millen(n)ium: Some Thoughts on Nostalgia and Repetition in Finnegans Wake II/4." Paper presented at the North American James Joyce Conference, Charleston SC, June 17, 1999.

Publications:

"'His Grandmother's Corpse': A Report on the Sixteenth International James Joyce Symposium, Rome, Italy, 14-20 June 1998." James Joyce Quarterly 35:2/3 (1998), pp. 235-241.

Greg McClellan, Mann Library

Presentations:

"Designing Discipline-Oriented Information Systems," ASIS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 26, 1998.

"Harvesting Hyperspace: Developing Technological Solutions to Internet Resource Discovery and Description," ACRL 9th National Conference, Detroit, MI, April 8-11, 1999.

Publications:

"Harvesting Hyperspace: Developing Technological Solutions to Internet Resource Discovery and Description." (with Thomas P. Turner) In Racing Toward Tomorrow: Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 8-11, 1999. Ed. by Hugh A. Thompson. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999. pp. 297-305. Available online: http://www.ala.org/acrl/mcclellan.pdf.

Janet McCue, Mann Library

Elected Office:

Chair-elect, Agricultural National Information Clearinghouse (AgNIC), 1998.

Presentations:

"Metadata Projects at Mann Library." Presentation given at the AgNIC Alliance Coordinating Committee Meeting in College Park, Maryland, March 19, 1999.

"Bumper Crop of Useful Statistics: Building AgNIC Sites Through Collaboration." Presentation given at the Special Libraries Association 90^th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN, June 8, 1999.

Mary Margaret McGinnis, ILR Library

Presentations:

"Be My Guest: Customer Service for Academic Libraries" - Invited keynote presentation at Western New York/Ontario ACRL Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. October 2, 1998.

Professional Office:

President, Upstate New York Chapter, Special Libraries Association, 1999-2000.

Teresa Mei, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library, Central Technical Services

Publications:

"Chinese Studies Activities at Cornell University, August 1998-November 1998" Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies 18:1 (Feb. 1999), p. 71.

"Chinese Studies Activities at Cornell University, December 1998-March 1999" Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies 18:2 (May 1999), p. 217.

Service on National Committee

Committee member, Subcommittee on Technical Processing, CEAL (Committee on East Asian Libraries), 1999-2003.

Barbara Morley, Kheel Center, ILR Library

Elected Office:

Board Member, Lake Ontario Archives Conference.

James Morris-Knower, Mann Library

Publications:

"Two Novelists Mine the Mann Library Stacks for Hard Facts, Not Fiction." Cornell Chronicle 30:39 (June 24, 1999), pp. 1-2.

Fred Muratori, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Awards:

Library Journal, Special Citation for Poetry Reviewing ~ 1999.

Publications:

"Having Text with Michael Palmer." American Book Review, v20 n4, May-June, 1999, p. 14-15. (on the poetry of Michael Palmer).

"A Curious Kind of Derangement." American Book Review, v20 n1, November-December 1998, p. 21, 24. (on the poetry of Rochelle Owens).

Ten Library Journal reviews, including: "The Book of Appassionata" by David Citino; "The Best American Poetry 1998", edited by John Hollander; "The Odd Last Thing She Did" by Brad Leithauser; "Appalachia" by Charles Wright; "Other: British & Irish Poetry Since 1970"; "Three Centuries of American Poetry; The End of the Alphabet" by Claudia Rankine; "Jackstraws" by Charles Simic; "World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time"; "Girls on the Run" by John Ashbery.

Work was featured on Poetry Daily Web site, November 5, 1998.

Work was included in the textbook, Writing Dangerous Poetry. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Pub. Group, 1998.

Contributed to "Best Poetry of 1998." Library Journal, April 1, 1999, p. 95-96.

Poems in various magazines.

Mary Ochs, Mann Library

Presentations:

"TEEAL, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library." Presentation at the CGIAR World Centers Week, World Bank, Washington, D.C., September 1999.

"TEEAL, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library: Getting the Literature of Agriculture to the Developing Countries." Paper presented at the ACRL National Conference, Detroit, Michigan, April 1999.

"TEEAL, The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library." Poster session, ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1999.

Jean Pajerek, Law Library

Presentations:

"Assigning and Constructing Legal Subject Headings." Part of a four-day workshop on "Law Classification and Cataloging for Federal Librarians" presented at the Library of Congress, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 1998.

Suzy Szasz Palmer, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Appointments:

Board of Editors, Microform & Imaging Review.

Presentations

Facilitator for Day-long Retreat, University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library Reference Department, May 18, 1999.

"The Future Role of the Reference Librarian," ENY/ACRL Spring Conference, SUNY Cortland, NY, May 17, 1999.

"The Challenge of Technology: Saving Time or Wasting Time?", Nassau County Library Association, Academic and Special Libraries Division, 28th Annual Continuing Education Conference, Hofstra University, NY, April 23, 1999.

"Creating Our Roles as Reference Librarians of the Future: Choice or Fate?", ACRL 9th National Conference, Detroit, MI, April 9, 1999. The complete paper appears in the published conference proceedings.

Lynne Personius, Library Information Technology

Publications:

"The Library, the Computing Center: An Innovative Organization in Nevada." Library Hi Tech 16:3-4 (1998), pp. 63-65.

Julie Peterson, Mann Library

Awards:

1999 Secretary's Honor Award for the USDA Economics and Statistics System (http://www.usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/). Presented by USDA Secretary Dan Glickman. Washington, D.C., West Lawn of the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, June 9, 1999.

Jean Poland, Physical Sciences Library

Appointments:

Special Libraries Association-Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics Section -International Relations Committee.

Jill Powell, Engineering Library

Presentations:

"Create Your Own Web Pages for Beginners" and "Advanced Web Topics ", co-taught with Fred O'Bryant, University of Virginia at the American Society for Engineering Education conference in Charlotte, June 20, 1999.

Howard Raskin, Mann Library

Awards:

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship, awarded by SUNY (April 1999).

Katherine Reagan, Rare and Manuscript Collections

Appointments

Chair, Public Services Group. ALA, Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscript Section.

Chair, ALA Program Committee, Rare Books and Manuscript Section. (Chicago 2000).

Presentations

"Andrew Dickson White and the Origins of Cornell's Rare Book Collections." Presentation for the Rochester Bibliophile Society, May 5, 1999.

"Teaching History with Artifacts." Presentation for Cornell Parents Visit, April 17, 1999.

"History of the Book." Two-part class for Wells College course on History of the Book, March 23 and May 5, 1999.

Sharon Reeves, ILR Library

Awards:

ILR Recognition Award for outstanding service to faculty, staff and students of the school, December 1998.

Carolyn Anne Reid, Weill Medical College Library

Appointments:

Medical Library Association Representative to the Board of Documentation Abstracts, Inc., 1997-2000.

Editorial Advisory Board of Information Science Abstracts, Information Today, Inc., 1998-1999.

Presentations:

"MeSH for Searchers," 1-day continuing education course, invited by Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, May 1999, Boston, MA.

Oya Y. Rieger, Preservation & Conservation

Appointments:

Research Libraries Group/Digital Library Federation Task Force on Policies and Practice for the Long-Term Retention of Digital Materials.

Presentations & Lectures:

"Introduction to Digital Imaging," 1-day presentation for the Western New York Library Resources Council, September 1998, Buffalo, NY.

"Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives," October 1998, Ithaca, NY (co-teach 5-day hands-on workshop).

"Managing Digital Imaging Projects," Australia, December 1998 (co-teach 2 2-day workshops in Canberra and Melbourne).

"Managing Digital Imaging Projects," Syracuse, NY, May 1998 (co-teach 2-day workshop).

"Lossy vs. Lossless File Compression Debate," American Library Association Conference, Preservation and Reformatting Section, February 1999 (presentation and session moderation).

Publications:

Co-editor, RLG DigiNews (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews). Also authored several FAQ's and Highlighted Web Sites for RLG DigiNews.

David Ruddy, Cornell Institute for Digital Collections

Presentations:

"The EAD/XML Finding Aids Project at Cornell." National Digital Library Federation Forum on Technical Practices, Washington D.C., July, 17, 1999.

William Sayers, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Publications:

"C. S. Lewis and the Toponym Narnia. Mythlore 84 (1998), pp. 54-55, 58.

"The Etymology of Middle English oreven `oar blank.' Mariner's Mirror 84 (1998), pp. 322-25.

"Ancien judéo-français étupé `ayant un prépuce, incirconcis': glose biblique -- et insulte réligieuse? Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 115 (1999), pp. 234-43.

"The Ship heiti in Snorri's Skáldskaparmál." Scripta Islandica 49 (1998), pp. 45-86.

"Bloeju thöll - Young Fir of the Bed-Clothes -- Skaldic Seduction." In Menacing Virgins Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Eds Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie. Newark University of Delaware Press and London Associated University Presses, 1999. Pp. 31-49, 201-06.

"Etymological Sleuths" [the origin of the tailoring term sloper `customized pattern'] (co-authored with Lois Bragg). Threads 84 (August-September, 1999), pp. 9, 11.

"Two Nautical Etymologies killick `small stone anchor' and drake `male duck'." ANQ 12 (1999), pp. 3-6.

John M. Saylor, Engineering Library

Elected Offices:

Director of the Executive Committee for the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) at the ASEE Annual Meeting in June 1999 for 1999-02.

Patricia Schafer, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Presentations:

"Cornell University Library Annex Expansion Project," Library Administration and Management Association Storage Discussion Group, American Library Association Midwinter Conference, 1999.

Offices:

Chair, Nominating Committee for Executive Committee, Statistics Section, Library Administration and Management Association, 1999.

Donald Schnedeker, Johnson School of Management Library

Publications:

"Database access in academic business libraries." Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, vol. 4 (2) 1999, p.49-66.

"Letter to the editor." Cornell Business, December 7, 1998 p.3.

"Looking for a seat in the Library?" Cornell Business, December 7, 1998 p. 7.

"Academic business library statistics, 1995/96 update," Journal of Business &Finance Librarianship, vol. 3 (3) 1998, p.43-57.

"College and University Business Library Statistics Website." Compiled and edited by Donald Schnedeker. Ithaca, N.Y.: Johnson Graduate School of Management Library, 1997-. updated annually (April). http:\\cubl.johnson.cornell.edu

Daniel Smith, Law Library

Award:

1998 American Association of Law Libraries/Matthew Bender Award. A travel grant to attend the annual AALL convention.

Publications:

"The Legacy of Nuremberg: Sustaining Human Rights," Cornell Law Forum, 25:3 (March 1999), 2-7. Also curated an exhibition of the same title, with guide available online at http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/leghist/leghist.html.

Editor, LH&RB. The newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Co-editor, InSITE: A Current Awareness Service of the Cornell Law Library. Publication distributed in multiple formats: web, listserv, and print.

Michelle Thevenin, Management Library

Awards:

1998 Nominee George Peter Award for Dedicated Service, Cornell University.

Selected Memberships:

1999 Rotary International Group Study Exchange Team Member, Turkey.

Sarah Thomas, Library Administration

Library Visiting Committees

Carnegie Mellon University

Harvard University

MIT

Smith College

Washington University

Presentations:

"Digital Futures/Tangible Treasures," A presentation for Cornellians and friends at the Cornell Club, New York City, March 23, 1999.

"Publish!Information, Networking and Motivation for Cataloging Research," Panel Reactor, Cataloging and Classification Section Policy and Research Committee program, American Library Association, New Orleans, June 27,1999.

Professional Service:

Association of American Universities Working Group on Library of Congress Fellowship Program, (Chair)

Association of Research Libraries, Committee on Access to Bibliographic Information, (Chair)

Association of Research Libraries, German Resources Project Working Group, (Co-chair)

Association of Research Libraries SPARC Governance Committee

Council on Library and Information Resources Task Force on The Role of the Artifact in Library

Collections

Council on Library and Information Resources Long-Term Retention of Digital Materials Group

Digital Library Federation Steering Committee, (Chair)

Digital Library Committee Director Search Committee

Museum and Digital Library Collection Board

Regents Commission on the Future of Libraries in New York

Research Libraries Group Board of Directors

Tompkins County Public Library Program Services Committee

Publications:

"Collaborating for Fun and Profit: Confessions of an Ex-Cataloger," in CASLIN '99: Souborne katalogy:organizace a sluzby (Union catalogs: their organization and services),Praha: Narodni knihovna CR, 1999, p.11-20.

"Der Einfluss von Technologie auf Bibliotheken und strategische Planung in den USA," Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, v. 22 (1998), p. 337-340.

"On the Centennial of Peking University: Will Electronic Records Created Today Survive to the Bicentennial?" in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Missions of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century, Beijing: Peking University Press, 1998, p. 344-347.

University Committees

CISER Board of Governors

Task Force on Computing and Information Science

Thomas Turner, Mann Library

Presentations:

"Harvesting Hyperspace: Developing Technological Solution to Internet Resource Discovery and Description." Ninth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Detroit, MI, April 8-11, 1999.

Publications:

"Rising to the Top: Evaluating the Use of the HTML META Tag to Improve Retrieval of World Wide Web Documents through Internet Search Engines."(with Lise Brackbill) Library Resources and Technical Services 42:4 (October, 1998), pp. 258-271.

"Optimizing Web Access to Geospatial Data: The Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR)." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship no. 21 (Winter, 1999). Available online:

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-winter/article2.html.

"Harvesting Hyperspace: Developing Technological Solutions to Internet Resource Discovery and Description." (with Greg McClellan) In Racing Toward Tomorrow: Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 8-11, 1999. Ed. by Hugh A. Thompson. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999. pp. 297-305. Available online: http://www.ala.org/acrl/mcclellan.pdf.

Martha Walker, Olin/Kroch/Uris Library

Presentations:

"Design, Produce, and Install an Effective, Desktop-Published Interior Sign System." ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 28, 1999.

William Walters, Mann Library

Presentations:

"University-Wide Access to GIS Data, Technology, and User Support." With Philip Herold and Susan Greaves. Five-day workshop on the use of ArcView software and Wessex data.

Publications:

"Ethnic and Religious Components of the Jewish Income Advantage, 1969 and 1989." (With Esther I. Wilder). Sociological Inquiry 68(3): 426-435.

"Guidelines for Collecting Aggregations of Web Resources." (with Samuel G. Demas, Linda Stewart, and Jennifer Weintraub.) Information Technology and Libraries 17(3): 157-160.

"Building and Maintaining a Numeric Data Collection." Journal of Documentation 55(3): 271-287.

Thomas Weissinger, Africana Library

"Defining Black Studies on the World Wide Web." Journal of Academic Librarianship 25:4 (1999), forthcoming.

Edward Weissman, Library Administration

Presentations:

Karen Calhoun, Tom Gale, Zuszsa Koltay and Edward Weissman. "The Cornell University Library Gateway: An Informative Presentation on a Visionary Service." Presented to the McMaster University Library Staff, June 8, 1999, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Karen Calhoun, and Edward Weissman. "A Fork in the Road: Towards a Common Gateway to Library Resources." Presentation at the NYLINK Managing Virtual Library Collections Symposium, Nazareth College, Pittsford, New York, July 9, 1999.

Publications:

Karen Calhoun, Zuszsa Koltay and Edward Weissman. "Library Gateway: Project Design, Teams, and Cycle Time." Library Resources and Technical Services 431:2 (1999), pp. 114-122.

Iris Wolley, Central Technical Services

Elected Positions:

Secretary/Treasurer for Art Libraries Society of Western New York (ARLIS-WNY) a chapter of Art Libraries Society of North America. 1998-1999.00

Appointed to the Cataloging Policy Committee of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC). 1999-2000.

Presentations:

"Cataloging Videorecordings/Sound Recordings." A workshop presented for the Central New York Library Council, April 27, 1999.

"Why Core Is/Is Not the 'Devil in the Blue Dress': Core Cataloging at Cornell University Library." A presentation for the PCC Participants' Meeting at ALA Annual, June 27, 1999.