Paul Willis, in
Cobb Lecture, Discusses Roles of Academic Libraries
At the Awards
Banquet
Professor Emeritus
Bob Cazden Dies at 71
Anne McConnell,
Arthur Cotterill Wed
Linda Lillard
Joins SLIS Faculty this Fall
Among the Faculty
Work Begins at Last
on SLIS New Quarters
Nominations Sought
for Alumna/us Award
Student Group Wins
Two SARC Awards
Letter from Our
Norwegian Correspondent
Ling Hwey Jeng Elected
to ALA Council
From "IT" To "KT":
Building a Learning PLace in Cyberspace
Alumni Activities
Recent Graduates
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Paul Willis, in Cobb Lecture, Discusses Roles of Academic Libraries
Director of Libraries at Kentucky Addresses Audience at Annual
Banquet
as He Prepares for Move to University of South Carolina Libraries
PAUL WILLIS, LONG-TIME DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES AT UK, who became head
of libraries at the University of South Carolina July 1, delivered the
Karen Cobb Memorial Lecture at the School’s Awards Banquet, held at Spindletop
Hall on Friday, April 26. Mr. Willis spoke on “Changing Roles of Academic
Libraries in the 21st Century.” He said that although he would focus
on university libraries, his comments would apply generally to all academic
libraries.
Mr. Willis began his remarks by describing the environment for university
libraries, marked by ongoing competition among their parent institutions,
in which “those in the top twenty want to be in the top ten, and those
in the top ten want to be in the top five,” and by persistent budget pressures
on the libraries. Still discussing the environment, he said “information
technology has changed permanently how scholars communicate with one another,”
and research material is increasingly digital. Further, competition for
libraries may come from commercial information providers, and remote use
of libraries is increasing. Elaborating on the growing role of digital
material, Mr. Willis noted that in fiscal year 2001-02 17.5 percent of
UK Libraries’ materials budget was devoted to digital materials, a figure
which he said could reach 50 percent in the next 4-5 years.
Providing additional data to buttress his views, Mr. Willis said results
of a quality survey among faculty undertaken by 45 members of the Association
of Research Libraries found that whereas 15 percent of respondents said
they use the library daily on-premises, 20 percent said they use it daily
remotely. Moreover, a Harris Survey reported that 96 per-cent of undergraduates
begin their research on the Web, and at UCLA four out of five freshmen
start with the Web. Conceding that convenience is a major driving force,
Mr. Willis said, “What concerns me is not that students start with the
Internet, but that they end with the Internet.”
Mr. Willis cited the growing challenge the library faces to keep
patrons, especially faculty, aware of available library and information
products; and he told of one UK researcher who, when informed there was
endowment money to purchase more materials in the researcher’s area of
interest, replied that, more than additional materials, he needed a way
to keep abreast of the large volume of information already available to
him, in the materials the library was then getting. Mr. Willis stressed
that “faculty personal management of scholarly resources in their field
is increasingly difficult,” and he added that although historically information
has been central to the research university, “information drives the modern
research library.”
He said that in his vision “the libraries must make available to faculty,
staff, and students all relevant information products when needed.”
He stressed the information provided must be “comprehensive, current, and
with a single entry point from a desktop PC in a library, office, lab,
home, or residence hall, to everything I want, when I want it.” Mr. Willis
emphasized that “libraries are in the ‘information business,’ not the ‘book
and journal’ business.” He said, too, that the UK library “has an obligation
to collect and preserve the intellectual and cultural heritage of Kentucky,
and to expand access to it through digitization.” Moreover, he noted the
opportunities that digitization affords for “equalization of access to
information for all Kentuckians.”
Nearing the end of his remarks, Mr. Willis addressed de-velopment,
about which he knows considerable, having pre-sided over the growth of
the library book endowment at UK to more than $60 million: “External resources
are critical, and any academic library is going to have to be in the fund-raising
business.”
Concluding his remarks, Mr. Willis said, “I believe that the future
of our libraries – and to a great extent our re-search universities – depends
upon the graduates of our library science programs today. We must position
our libraries to manage the digital information environment and deal with
the other significant changes at hand which impact scholarly communication.”
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At the Awards Banquet:
New Members Inducted into Honorary;
Howard, McClanahan Efforts Recognized
Seventeen members of the annual graduating class were inducted into
Beta Phi Mu at the April banquet. They were the August 2001 graduates Kevin
Connor, Martha Damron, Sara Howrey, Karen Iannitti,
Cindy
Luckey, Deborah Rathman; the December 2001 graduates
Edward
Elsner, Anna Hartle, Mykie Howard; and the May 2002 graduates
Janet
Alger, Jennifer Embry, Tiana French, Barb Hensley,
Kitty
McClanahan, Trond Peersen,
David Scarlott, and
Deanna
Streng.
Mykie Howard received the Library and Information
Science Student Leadership Award, given each year to a member of the graduating
class whom fellow students wish to recognize for contributions to the life
of the School. Kitty McClanahan received the Melody Trosper Award,
presented annually to a member of the graduating class whom faculty wish
to recognize for excellence and high achievement in scholarship, leadership,
and service.
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Professor Emeritus Bob Cazden Dies at 71
Professor Emeritus Bob Cazden died in May in Lexington. He was 71
and had been in poor health since suffering a stroke last year. Professor
Cazden joined the University of Kentucky faculty in 1965 as assistant professor,
was subsequently promoted to associate professor and granted tenure, and
in 1976 was promoted again, to professor. He retired in 1992. An accomplished
pianist, he studied at the Julliard School of Music and among his degrees
earned an MA in musicology at the University of Southern California.
Professor Cazden’s major study, A Social History
of the German Book Trade in America to the Civil War, was published in
1984. In 1987 his scholarship was recognized when he was elected to membership
in the American Antiquarian Society, the first national historical society
to be established in the US, founded in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas.
Don Tolzmann (’73) wrote a piece about Professor
Cazden for the Newsletter of the Society for German-American Studies (vol
23, no 2, June, 2002) and in it noted:
In every respect a Renaissance scholar at the University of Kentucky,
he displayed a wide range of interests, becoming well known there for his
academic competency, his compassionate concerns, and his subtle wit and
humor.
We know Bob would appreciate Don’s kind words, but we suspect he’d
ask Don, “What about my clothes? You didn’t say a thing about how I dressed.”
And since the way he dressed is one of the things others are certain to
remember about Bob, we’ll say a thing about how he dressed: Creatively.
He had an enviable ability to combine plaids for stunning visual effect.
He had an uncanny knack to match dress shoes with Bermuda shorts and be
turned out perfectly for dressdown Friday or dress-up Monday-Thursday.
He had an utter disregard for the small holes that ventilated the fronts
of many of his shirts and were a byproduct of his pipe-smoking. He was
a character, perhaps even a curmudg-eon, and his retirement may have marked
the end of an era at the School more than did the departure of anyone else.
Anne McConnell, Arthur Cotterill Wed
When reporters for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Daily
Planet, and this Newsletter all have their request denied that they be
allowed to cover a wedding, you can be certain it’s something special,
and indeed, it was. On Sunday, April 21, Anne Young McConnell and Arthur
Cotterill were married in a simple ceremony. The Cotterills divide their
time between Anne’s home in Lexington and Arthur’s in Anderson County.
We join with the many others who wish Anne and Arthur years of happiness.
Linda Lillard Joins SLIS Faculty this Fall
Linda L. Lillard joined the faculty this fall as Assistant Professor.
She has a BS in business education from Penn State, an MA in education
from San Diego State, and an MLS and PhD from Emporia State, where she
wrote her dissertation on Information Seeking in Context: An Exploratory
Study of Information Use Online by eBay Entrepre-neurs. Prior to coming
to the University of Kentucky Professor Lillard was Chair, Department of
Library Science, Central Missouri State University. Tim Sineath said, “Linda’s
knowledge of information technology and experience with distance education
add strength in two areas that are of increasing importance to the School
of Library and Information Science.”
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Among the Faculty
Jim Andrews was elected to the editorial
board of the Journal of the Medical Library Association. He is Secretary/Treasurer/Webmaster
of the Medical Library Education section of the Medical Library Association.
Professor Andrews’ article, “An Author Co-Citation Analysis of Medical
Informatics,” will appear in the January 2003 issue of JMLA. He is Co-Investigator
on a Center for Disease Con-trol (CDC) directed source grant, Improving
Medication-related Outcomes, working with the College of Pharmacy (Don
Perrier) and Dept of Communication researchers, Nancy Harrington, Gretchen
Norling, and Leola McClure.
Donald Case’s book, Looking for
Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior,
was published earlier this year by Academic Press. He was the principal
author of the paper, “How Information Seeking Models and Theories Portray
the Avoidance of Information,” judged to be one of the top three papers
in health communication at the International Communication Asso-ciation
conference in Seoul, Korea. Donald is a member of the editorial boards
for Library Quarterly and JASIST.
Gerry Benoit’s article, "Data Discretization
for Novel Relationship Discovery in Information Retrieval," was published
in the July 2002 issue of JASIST. His paper, “Data Mining,” appears in
B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36
(2002).
Lois Chan’s article, “Exploiting
LCSH, LCC, and DDC to Retrieve Networked Resources: Issues and Challenges,”
was published in Proceedings of the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic
Control for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of Networked
Resources and the Web, edited by Ann M. Sandberg-Fox (2001). An Italian
translation has been published of Lois’ Dewey Decimal Classification: A
Practical Guide, 2nd ed (2001), as Classificazione Decimale Dewey: Guida
pratica. Over the past year the much-traveled Professor Chan has presented:
a paper entitled “Subject Data in Metadata
Schemes” at the Seminar on Bibliographic Control, sponsored by the Royal
Library of Sweden, October 10, 2001, Stockholm;
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a series of lectures on “Library of Congress
Classification” at the University of Hong Kong, March 13-18, 2002;
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“An LCSH-Based Controlled Vocabulary for Networked
Resources,” at Library of Congress, May 31, 2002;
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a paper entitled “Ensuring Interoperability
Among Subject Vocabularies And Knowledge Organization Schemes: A
Methodological Analysis” at the 2002 IFLA Conference on August 20, 2002,
Glasgow, Scotland.
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Work Begins at Last on SLIS New Quarters
Work got underway this summer on Phase I of
the renova-tion to the top floor of what had been King Library North, now
the Little Fine Arts Library, and which is to become the home of the School
of Library and Information Science. The first phase comprises two classrooms,
a computer lab, and two offices. School Director Tim Sineath has been assured
Phase I will be completed in time for spring semester 2003.
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Nominations Sought for Alumna/us Award
Please help identify alumni whose contribution to
the pro-fession warrants recognition by the School. Send the name of any
graduate you wish to nominate for the Outstanding Alumna/us Award and a
brief statement explaining why you believe the person should be considered
for the Award to the School’s Director, Tim Sineath tsineath@uky.edu Prior
recipients are: John Bryant, Anne Buck, John W Collins III, Kimber Fender,
Virginia Fox, Ellen Hellard, Deanna Marcum, Anne McConnell, Karen McDaniel,
Joseph More-head, Jim Nelson, Raymond Palmer, Miko Pattie, George Shannon,
Carla Stoffle, Sandra Welch, Delmus Williams.
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Student Group Wins Two SARC Awards
The School’s SLA Student Chapter won two SARC (Student Academic Relations
Committee) awards this year, first place for Creative Use of Electronic
Resources and third place for Outstanding Leadership. The awards were pre-sented
at the President-Elect’s Poster Session and Awards Presentation for Students
at the June SLA Conference.
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Letter from Our Norwegian Correspondent
"Funny how, when you work on Sundays, you need more, and longer,
breaks,” began the nice letter from Thomas Brevik (’96). “Using
one such break, sitting in my office here at the Royal Norwegian Naval
Academy, I surfed over to the SLIS homepage and discovered the deadline
for the next newsletter is September 1. Since I'm sitting here, on my usual
day off, cataloging books for a ship library, I thought I'd send you all
a few words about my career and life.
Most people will probably be surprised to hear that I'm working in
a military institution. The Naval Academy is small, 250 students and 100
staff, with a small library (2 FTEs) and great ambitions. I started last
year after working five years at the regional public library agency, going
out on the bookboat twice a year, managing Internet projects and making
a real pest of myself by frequently saying ‘In the US they do things differently!’
It was time for a change, and when the dream job just popped up I had to
grab it. ‘How would you like to manage a library with a great collection
of books (dating back to 1641), but no services to students and staff,
in an environment that really wants to give the library a high priority
and where budgets are generous?’
The fact that this is an academic library, and I really wanted to work
as a YA librarian, was a small problem until I met the people at the English
department here at the academy. They really wanted someone with a background
in English YA literature who could find material that would help motivate
students to read English. (The students some-times behave like great children,
and I sometimes feel I manage a children's section, not an academic library,
so a background in children's librarianship is useful.) I have totally
renovated the library, torn down walls, replaced all furniture (from the
50's and 60's) and gotten rid of the old carpet (from 1981). Now comes
the time to build the library services. The catalog is hopeless, but I'm
working hard on that. We are in the middle of expanding the campus, so
I'll probably have to work on developing off-campus services while parts
of the buildings are closed next year. Great opportunity to look into electronic
reference and document delivery.
The main project right now is getting a ship's library together before
September 4, since that is the day all our first year students go on a
10 week tall-ship cruise with the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, the
world's largest 3-masted barque. The students will sail across the Atlantic
to the Caribbean, up the east coast of USA, with stops at Norfolk and N.Y.
Then they will cross back to Europe to end up here in Bergen sometime in
November. Too bad they don't need a ship librarian.
On a more personal level I'm now the happy husband of doctor Hege.
My wife defended her Ph.D. thesis last Friday and we are still winding
down from that ordeal. Haakon, our three year old, has just discovered
the joys of the computer and loves to play around with games and online
with his favorite TV show ‘Bob the builder’.
That concludes the news from Norway.”
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LING HWEY JENG ELECTED
TO ALA COUNCIL
Professor Ling Hwey Jeng has been elected to the Council of
the Ameri-can Library Association, the govern-ing body of ALA.. She was
elected a Councilor-at-Large 2002-2005.
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From “IT” to “KT”: Building a Learning Place in Cyberspace
By Robert S. Martin, Director, Institute of Museum and Library
Services
Lazerow Lecture, School of Library and Information Science, University
of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, March 7, 2002
(Edited for space limitations; complete text available from carrigan@uky.edu)
I AM VERY PLEASED TO BE HERE at the University of Kentucky, and very
honored to have been asked to deliver the 2002 Lazerow Lecture at the School
of Library and Information Science. As you know, the Lazerow Lecture is
generously funded by the Institute of Scientific Information, and it is
supposed to address some aspect of information technology and libraries.
I cannot claim any special expertise in information technology, but from
lengthy experience working in and around libraries during the last three
decades, I have formed some pretty firm opinions about the impact and proper
use of information technology in libraries, and I am delighted to have
the opportunity to share those opinions with you today.
Before I go into detail on that theme, I need first to digress for
a moment to tell you a little bit about the Institute of Museum and Library
Services. … In all of the leadership activities that IMLS undertakes, we
endeavor to establish that libraries and museums are essential educational
institutions. Libraries of all types provide a broad range of resources
and services for the communities they serve. They preserve our rich and
diverse culture and history and transmit it from one generation to the
next. They provide social settings for numerous community activities. They
support economic development. They provide extraordinary opportunities
for recreation and enjoyment. And they serve as a primary social agency
in support of education, providing resources and services that complement
the structures of formal education. …
In short, then, I take it as a given that the primary role of
a library—any type of library—is to provide the resources and services
that support education in the broadest sense. It is not necessary to argue
that school and academic libraries support education—that is their raison
d’etre. It should also be apparent that public libraries support education,
even more now than formerly. In the 21st century we live in a learning
society. The importance of continuous learning, free-choice learning, for
economic vitality and for personal fulfillment alike, is beyond question.
The three decades in which I have worked in libraries have witnessed
dramatic changes in the practice of the profession. The most significant
of these, without question, has been the impact of networked digital information
technology. … What is “information technology?” Let me offer a simple definition:
Information Technology is any of the congeries of tools, methods and media
used to record, store and transmit information. Usually when we use
that phrase today, however, what we are really talking about is a special
subset of information technology: networked digital information technology.
It is very important, however, to understand that information technology
antedates the twentieth century and the digital. … [T]he print-on-paper
book has been a very successful information tech-nology for more than five
hundred years. I venture the opinion that the reports of its demise have
been premature and exaggerated.
BUT IT IS NETWORKED DIGITAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY that interests us
primarily today. That technology resulted from the convergence of two revolutions
that occurred in the middle part of the twentieth century: the digital
revolution and the telecommunications revolution. The ability to link digital
computers through telecommunications, and transmit digital information
across a network that had been originally con-structed for the transmission
of analog voice signals, is the foundation of the IT world that we now
inhabit.
The impact of this revolutionary technology on libraries has been tremendous.
Beginning almost forty years ago, libraries began to centralize some of
the work of organizing their collections. This resulted not only in some
economies in operations and improvements in quality. More importantly,
it resulted in dramatically improved access to information about library
collections. The development of large-scale bibliographic databases not
only made it easier for librarians to catalog their collections, it made
it easier for users to find out what books existed and where they were
located. The impact on scholarship was dramatic. Those of us accustomed
to instant access to tools like WorldCat have difficulty comprehending
the nature of scholarly research in the period prior to the ad-vent of
such technology. Merely finding our what texts existed in what libraries
was a task of major proportion.
The new technology was soon applied to indexing of journal literature.
Citation databases soon expanded into full-text databases, making possible
rapid retrieval not only of information about literatures, but in fact
the documents themselves. In the last decade large-scale creation of digital
surrogate collections have expanded access to unique resources. It is now
possible to retrieve not only bibliographic information about a staggering
array of materials, it is also often possible to retrieve an image or PDF
file, or at least an HTML transcription.
These developments have transformed the way that libraries function,
and have altered professional practice in libraries. It has made a wealth
of information resources available on the desktop of anyone with a networked
computer with broadband access to the Internet. But I would argue that
it has not fundamentally altered the essential mission and role of libraries
in society: to provide the resources and services that support education.
I think that there is substantial confusion about this in some segments
of the library profession today. For the past decade or more we often hear
and see assertions that libraries are in the “information business.” I
have argued elsewhere that this has had some unfortunate consequences for
public understanding of—and support for—libraries and library service.
I also think that it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature
of what libraries do. Although we librarians are indeed good at collecting,
organizing and providing access to information, that is not our central
mission. Our central mission, as I have said, is supporting education.
Let me elaborate on the difference.
THERE IS I THINK MUCH MISUNDERSTANDING about what “information” means.
Used in a construction such as the “information business,” the meaning
of the word “information” is not clear. It connotes many expansive meanings.
Some take “information” to mean any and all human communication, and I
think this is the connotation associated with the phrase “information business.”
To use the term so broadly, though–to make the word “information” mean
everything—gives it no meaning at all. It is important, I believe, to distinguish
information from other elements of what the philosopher Mortimer Adler
termed “the goods of the mind.”
Adler posits that, just as “health, strength, vigor and vitality are
bodily goods, so information, knowledge, understanding and wisdom are goods
of the mind.” Adler further stipulates these goods are not equal in value,
but rather are arranged on an ascending scale of values. I would adapt
Adler’s typology, and speak of data, information, knowledge and wisdom
as the ascending order of “goods of the mind.” They can be distin-guished
from each other as follows.
Data derives from the Latin root meaning “things given.” Data could
be defined as any sign or symbol in a form that can be directly captured
by a person (or a machine). In contrast, information may be defined as
data upon which a human has imposed meaning or value. Knowledge is more
difficult to define. There is an entire branch of philosophy—epistemology—dedicated
to the study of knowledge. I will be bold and offer a simple definition:
knowledge is a body of information that has been organized and given structure
and context. Unlike information, which comes to us bit by bit, knowledge
is acquired more systematically. The relationship between the component
parts, their sequence and interconnectivity, has some intelligible rationale.
Wisdom is not the same thing as knowledge. Wisdom derives from being able
to judge what knowledge is relevant and appropriate in a given set of circumstances.
Accordingly, wisdom might be defined as the prudent application of knowledge.
There are two aspects of this typology relevant to our discussion today.
The first is that, contrary to common usage, there is a clear distinction
between information and knowledge. Second is that the continuum of these
“goods of the mind” is readily apparent. One can have data without information;
information without knowledge; knowledge without wisdom. Each … presupposes
possession of the previous good.
How does this relate to the mission of libraries and the use of information
technology? It seems obvious to me that, as the name implies, information
technology would be very good at recording and transmitting information.
Online databases of all kinds readily attest to the power of the technology
to store and convey access to huge amounts of information. These technologies,
however, are less effective in recording, storing and delivering knowledge.
To understand this distinction, think about the difference between
the bibliographic database—the library catalog—and the texts that the catalog
represents. The online catalog is a very effective tool for storing information
about a library’s collection. It can be searched both locally and remotely
using a variety of search engines, retrieve significant information that
leads the user to bibliographic sources, and display that information for
the user. The texts that the catalog represents can also be stored digitally,
retrieved and displayed on a computer terminal. …
Consider the way most people use libraries today. In a typical public
library, only a small portion of the people who come to the library or
call on it for services are actually interested in retrieving information.
Nowadays if you need to find out the address and telephone number of an
individual or business, you can get it on the Internet quickly and effectively.
Similarly, you don’t need to go to the library to find out the Gross Domestic
Product of Portugal or the average annual rainfall in Afghanistan—this
information is available to you readily on the Internet. But if you want
to understand the structure and context surrounding these individual facts—if
you want to understand what the component parts of the Portuguese economy
are, for example, and how they interplay to produce that country’s GDP,
then you are looking for knowledge, not information, and you will find
that need addressed more readily and satisfactorily by using a library.
…
Networked digital information technology is very good for storing,
retrieving and transmitting information; it is less well suited to handling
knowledge. Networked digital technology is also extremely good at transmitting
information across space, rapidly and reliably. It is considerably less
effective, however, at transmitting information or knowledge across time.
Indeed, the electronic text is by its very nature ephemeral, mutable, and
impermanent. It is stored as bits in a computer’s memory or on magnetic
storage media, and is easily altered, deleted or destroyed, either intentionally
or unintentionally.
So what would “knowledge technology” be? The important distinction
between information and knowledge, as I defined it earlier, is that knowledge
has structure and context. So “knowledge technology” might be technology
that presents information in such a way as to illuminate its structure
and context. … [I]t is not the technology that it is important, but rather
the use to which it is put. The print-on-paper book, if properly used,
is a splendid technology for recording and disseminating knowledge. So
is the networked computer—if properly used. The real issue is not the technology,
but the purpose. I assert strongly that this is a most important distinction.
In short, Knowledge Technology is simply Information Technology put to
proper use.
So what are the implications of all this for libraries and librarianship?
And what are the implications for LIS education? The first implication,
it seems to me, is that libraries must fo-cus their resources on providing
systems and services that support not just the retrieval of information,
but the dissemination of knowledge. That is, libraries must focus on services
and systems that supply content—information—that has been given structure
and context. Whether libraries develop such systems and services themselves,
or purchase them from a vendor on the open market, they must address this
core issue.
The implications for LIS education follow logically. LIS educators
must construct curricula that provide learning experiences that help students
master information technology, and the design and use of information systems.
These skills and knowledges are important. But the LIS curriculum must
also provide learning experiences that prepare students to understand the
context and structure of information, and that prepare them to assume their
important role as educators. …
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Alumni Activities
In April Virginia Fox (’69) was inducted into the Journalism
Hall of Fame, University of Kentucky. She is Executive Director and CEO
of Kentucky Educational Television.
Beverley Nickell Raimondo (’69) is Director, Commonwealth Institute
for Parent Leadership/Parent Leadership Associates at Kentucky’s Prichard
Committee for Academic
Excellence. In the position she is responsible for the Prichard Committee’s
new effort to share skills and knowledge about parent leadership and advocacy
for improving public schools with interested parties outside Kentucky.
Carla Stoffle (’69) received the 2002 Elizabeth Futas
Catalyst for Change Award, which consists of “$1,000 and a 24k gold-framed
citation of achievement recognizing and honoring a librarian who invests
time and talent to make positive changes in the profession of librarianship
by: taking risks to further the cause; helping new librarians grow and
achieve; working for change within the American Library Association or
other library organization; inspiring colleagues to excel or make the impossible
possible.”
Joanne Perry (’72) is Maps and Geology Librarian at the Pennsylvania
State University.
Karen Kosty Stover (’72) was awarded Public Library Certification
for the State of Ohio. She is Head Reference Librarian/Manager, Pickerington
Public Library.
A headline over this might read, Short Commute Allows Graduate to Avoid
Traffic. Joel Beane (’73) wrote: “There’s not much new about the
fact that I have the same job I got when I graduated from library school
twenty-nine years ago, as the Director of the Kingwood Public Library in
the small town of Kingwood, West Virginia. The Library’s at 205 West Main
Street and I live at 206.”
Sheryl Whitehead Asgari (’74) is now the Library Media Specialist
at Tully Elementary School, in Louisville.
Jim Powers (’74) this summer retired from the Boyd County Public
Library, in Ashland, KY. He had been with the library 40 years and had
been Director since 1996.
Anne Buck (’77) has co-authored a chapter entitled "Future Vision
for the Research Library" in Global Issues in 21st Century Research Librarianship,
Helsinki, 2002.
Jane Dean (’77) retired in June, 2002, after 29 years as a public
school media specialist. Jane’s last position was at Second Street Elementary
School in Frankfort, KY. In retirement, she especially enjoys reading and
traveling.
Carol Lee Carlton (’78) retired after having been Director of
Library Services at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College
for 21 years. Carol wrote: “I am enjoying retirement. I plan to travel,
and to spend more time with my family, including my sixteen nieces and
nephews!”
Barbara Rowe Roark (’82), Director of the Franklin Public Library,
WI, received the Wisconsin Library Association’s 2002 Muriel Fuller Award,
“in recognition of out-standing accomplishments, which have significantly
im-proved and benefited library services.” According to the news release,
Barbara was “recognized for her accomplishments in improving community
access to and increasing the use of library resources in the Franklin community.”
Terry Hawkins (’83) is Chief of Reader Services, Air University
Library, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, AL. Air University is the
center for professional military education for the US Air Force, sister
services, and officers from many foreign countries.
Charlie Harris (’86) is now Manager of Louisville Free Public
Library’s Main Library. Whodathunkit.
After a number of years in UK’s Medical Center Library, Cindy Cline
(’87) this summer moved to the west side of Rose Street and is now
a member of the Special Collections and Archives staff, right here in King
Library.
You might have seen the supplement to the March 15, 2002, issue of
Library Journal. It has the title “2002 Movers & Shakers: The People
Who Are Shaping the Future of Libraries.” Yvonne Farley (’87) is
listed among the Activists. Yvonne is Senior Librarian/Adult Programming
Coordinator, Kanawha County Public Library, Charleston, WV.
According to The New York Times, Marianna McKim and Reinhart Sonnenburg
(’87) were married in May. Both work at Dartmouth College, where Reinhart
is Reference Bibliographer for German and Classical Studies.
Carol Dellapina (’90) is Assistant Manager, Northside Branch,
Lexington Public Library.
Robert Kelly (’90), library media specialist at Sand Creek High
School, Colorado Springs, CO, recently earned an M.Ed. Sport Administration
from Wichita State University.
In August of last year Carol Ann Borchert (’91) completed her
second master’s degree, an MA in Spanish. She is Reference/Latin American
& Caribbean Studies Librarian at the University of South Florida, in
Tampa.
Karalyn Kavanaugh (’91), Account Services Manager, EBSCO Subscription
Services, is Chair of the Information Technology Division of SLA for this
2002-2003 year.
Margo Hamm (’92) started doctoral work in UK’s College of Education,
Education Policy and Evaluation Program.
Charles James (’92) has been appointed Library Director at Lexington
Community College.
Cindy Price Welch (’92) last spring was chosen to be Deputy
Executive Director of YALSA/AASL. She had been Young Adult Specialist at
the Chicago Public Library.
At University of Cincinnati Libraries, Dan Gottlieb (’93) has
been promoted to Assistant Dean for Budget. He remains Head of Acquisitions.
Ken Gibson (’94) is Director of the Agnes Brown Duggan Library,
Hanover College, Hanover, IN.
Marguerite Wolf (’94) is Technical Services Librarian and Archivist
for St Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, Boynton Beach, FL.
For the supplement, “2002 Movers & Shakers: The People Who Are
Shaping the Future of Libraries,” Library Journal selected Cheri Estes
(’95) as one of the Service Providers. Cheri is Media Specialist, Detroit
Country Day Middle School.
Brendan Starkey (’95) has entered law school, at the University
of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Linda Cantara (’98) has accepted the position Metadata Librarian
with Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.
Stacey Greenwell (’98) is Desktop Support Librarian, William
T Young Library, here at UK.
Jennifer Riddle Gregory (’98) in February of this year became
Archivist at Northern Kentucky University.
Christopher Kiefer (’99) is Information Scientist in Procter
& Gamble Company’s corporate library in Cincinnati.
Dustin Strong (’99) is now Branch Manager, Portland Branch Library,
Louisville Free Public Library.
We received a nice report from Jonathan Cartledge (’00). He
is Visual Resource Librarian at the Massachusetts College of Art, “the
only state-run art college in the country. We have about 1200 students,
and we mainly teach Fine Art and Design. We are located in Boston.”
Matilda Davis (’00) left South Carolina and joined the library
staff at Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH. She is Cataloger/Reference
Librarian, oversees government documents and serials, and is liaison with
Ohio/LINK.
Tom Enneking (’00) let us know that since May 2001 he has worked
at the Cincinnati Law Library as a Reference Librarian and divides his
time between legal reference work and collection development. Tom let us
know, too, that he “secured an outfield spot on my girlfriend’s coed softball
team; I’m a much better fielder than hitter.”
“Talk about wearing several hats,” Dustin Larmore (’00) wrote.
“I am in charge of the technical services department, which means I oversee
database management, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, and processing
and weeding of library materials. I am also the systems administrator,
meaning I'm the go-between for the library and the South Dakota Library
Network. I help keep track of the budget, and I do reference on Thursday
nights.” Dustin is Technical Services Librarian, Karl Mundt Library, Dakota
State University, Madison, SD.
Kari Lyons (’00) is a Reference Librarian at Eastern Kentucky
University Libraries, Richmond.
Sharon McGee (’00) is Instructional Technology Coordinator at
Kentucky State University’s Blazer Library.
Ann Nichols (’00) is Librarian (cataloging) at Hopkinsville
Community College, KY.
Sheryl Stahl (’00) admitted to enjoying California and said,
“The family has been busy buying (but not mastering) the required ‘gear’
– we’ve gotten the skateboard, the scooter, the inline skates (my personal
favorite) – but no surfboard (yet).” To finance all of this, Sheryl is
Senior Assistant Librarian, Frances-Henry Library, Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion, Los Angeles. This summer Sheryl gave a paper and
was part of a panel on information literacy at the Association of Jewish
Libraries convention.
Terry Buckner (’01) is Circulation Librarian, Learning Resource
Center, Lexington Community College.
Katie Cash (’01) let us know, in April, she was working for
Suffolk Public Library, VA, as a cataloging librarian.
Tim Harris (’01) has been admitted to the PhD program in history
at UK.
She claims to have found it, that perfect job, and we hope Mykie
Howard (’01) is right. She is Serials Acquisitions Librarian at George
Washington University.
Tanzi Merritt (’01) was chosen one of three national re-cipients
of the 3M/NMRT Professional Development Grant. According to Tanzi, the
program, sponsored by ALA New Members Round Table and funded by the 3M
Corporation, covered her expenses to attend this June’s ALA Conference.
Wendy Overfield (’01) is Children's Librarian at Northside Branch
of Lexington Public Library.
We received a postcard from Karlen Topping (’01) that read:
“Just wanted to let you know that I finished my A[ppalachian] T[rail] thru-hike
on Sept 3. I did indeed manage to walk from GA
ME! all 2,168.8 miles.”
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Among Recent Graduates
Janet Alger works at the Library of Congress, in the Copyright Cataloging
Division, Literary Team.
Diane Arnold accepted the position Serials Librarian at Logue
Library, Chestnut Hill College. Only good can come from Diane’s coming
under the nuns’ influence.
Arianne Beaman is Children’s Librarian I at the Nashville Public
Library, TN.
Deborah Brooks is 5th grade teacher at Burgin Independent School,
KY.
Kristiana Burk is Client Services & Information Manager
in the Lexington office of Systems Design Group, Inc, a network infrastructure
and security systems design firm with offices in Lexington, Louisville,
and Cincinnati.
Jason Buydos has joined the staff at Louisville Free Public
Library as an Acquisitions Manager.
Lucinda Ehringer is a Children’s Librarian Assistant at Louisville
Free Public Library, Southwest Branch.
Tiana French has joined the library staff at Lexington Community
College. We suspect in the future they’ll be more careful about checking
references.
Manuel Garr is the Electronic Services Librarian at the Louisville
Free Public Library.
Melissa Gibson is Librarian at Millersburg Military Academy,
Millersburg, KY.
David Gregory is Music and Audiovisual Librarian, James P Boyce
Centennial Library, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville.
Chris Hart is Director of the Mt Sterling-Montgomery County
Public Library, here in Kentucky.
Karen Higdon is a math teacher at Paul Lawrence Dunbar High
School, Lexington.
Jennifer Miller is Library Media Specialist, Anderson County
Middle School, Lawrenceburg, KY.
Beth Rogers is School Media Specialist, Lexington Chris-tian
Academy, KY.
Cheryl Selby is Reference Librarian, Green Township Branch,
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Susanne Wells is gainfully employed at Public Library of Cincinnati
and Hamilton County, Green Township Branch.
Alice West is Primary School Librarian, Summit Country Day School,
Cincinnati.
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