School Canceled October Program, Joined College Ceremony
New Quarters Phase I to Get Underway
School's 3-year Louisville Collaboration Receives High Marks from LFPL Director
Identify Yourselves! Please
Lee Todd Inaugurated UK's 11th President
Edward Elsner's Article about Internet Filtering Makes Cover of Public Libraries
Mary Sue Ferrell Appointed Learning Resources Consortium Director in California
Sarah Mackey Promoted to Branch Manager
Peter Armistead Dies Unexpectedly at 49
We'd Like Your Help with a Project
Libraries and Literacy
Alumni Activities
Recent Graduates
Contact
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School Canceled October Program,
Joined College Ceremony
Professor Lois Chan, PLCH Director Kim Fender,
Student Cassie Domek
Honored at November Banquet,
Rescheduled following September 11
The School of Library and Information Science was well represented last fall, when a faculty member, an alumna, and a student were recognized at the College of Communications and Information Studies Recognition Ceremony and Awards Dinner, which was held on Wednesday evening, November 14, in the King Alumni House. The event had been scheduled for September 14 but was rescheduled following the tragic events of September 11. The College comprises the School of Library and Information Science, the School of Journalism, and the Department of Communication.
Professor Lois Chan received the College Excellence in Teaching Award. Ms Kim Fender ('83), Director/Librarian of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, received the School's Outstanding Alumna/us Award. Ms Cassie Domek, who entered the School's master's program last fall, was recognized for having been awarded a Charles T. Wethington Fellowship for graduate study at the University of Kentucky.
For a number of years the Outstanding Alumna/us Award had been presented at the School's Alumni and Awards Banquet, held each year at the end of the spring semester, at Spindletop Hall. However, when several graduates told the School's Director, Tim Sineath, that they would like a School of Library and Information Science homecoming, in the fall, Dr Sineath planned such an event for the weekend of October 6,7. The Outstanding Alumna/us Award was to be presented at a banquet on Saturday, October 6; but the response to invitations to the homecoming was disappointing, Dr Sineath told the Newsletter, and when Dean David Johnson rescheduled the College program from September to November, Dr Sineath decided to combine the School's planned banquet with that the College would hold. Dr Sineath told the Newsletter he has not decided whether to try again to have a fall homecoming.
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New Quarters Phase I to Get Underway
The School's Director, Tim Sineath, received good news early in February, that money would be made available this fiscal year for work to begin on the first phase of the renovation to the top floor of what had been King Library North, and which will become home to the School of Library and Information Science. The first phase includes two state-of-the-art classrooms and a third instructional room that will be equipped with individual computers. Dr Sineath told the Newsletter he is hopeful phase I to be completed in time for the fall semester 2002.
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School's 3-year Louisville Collaboration
Receives High Marks from LFPL Director
Several months ago Director Tim Sineath received an especially gratifying letter. It began:
| Nearly three years ago Hannelore Rader of the University of Louisville, Paul Lanata of the Jefferson County Public Schools and I asked for your help in addressing the graduate library education needs of our employees and others in this part of Kentucky. You responded by creating a three-year program offering certain courses in Louisville beginning with the fall semester 1999. |
In his letter, Craig Buthod, Director of the Louisville Free Public Library, went on to say, "From our end, the program has been a hearty success." Mr Buthod reported that 12 LFPL employees took advantage of the opportunity to take courses in Louisville, and as of the end of the fall term 2001 four had completed the master's program, through a combination of courses offered in Louisville and courses that required the students to come to Lexington.
The School committed to offering at least one course in Louisville each semester, beginning fall term 1999 and continuing for three years, fall and spring terms. The objective was to attract a cohort group who would take advantage of having, in Louisville, as many as one-half of the number of courses required to complete the degree. The three-year program ends with this spring term, and the School will have offered 10 courses in Louisville.
Mr Buthod also wrote, "The cooperation among our institutions exemplifies the kind of university engagement in the community that Gordon Davies [chief executive officer, Kentucky Council on Post-secondary Education] talks about in encouraging more state support for higher education."
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Identify Yourselves! Please
Each year, LISSO, the Library and Information Science Student Organization, presents its Leadership Award at the spring banquet. It appears the Award was first presented in 1984. The School's Director, Tim Sineath, is trying to identify each year's recipient, but he has not identified the recipients for these years: 1984, 1985, 1987. If, as a result of merit or manipulation, you received the LISSO Leadership Award in one of those years, please report that to Dr Sineath via e-mail: tsineath@uky.edu
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Lee Todd Inaugurated UK's 11th President
Ceremony Marked by Pomp, Pageantry, Plenty of Color
Lee T. Todd, Jr. was inaugurated Friday, February 15, as the eleventh president of the University of Kentucky in a colorful, traditional, pull-out-all-the-stops 2 Ό hour ceremony the likes of which had not been seen at UK since 1964, when John Oswald became president. It was held in Memorial Coliseum; attendance was put at 3,500.
The inaugural events began early Thursday afternoon, with a convocation in the Singletary Center for the Arts. The convocation speaker was Molly Corbett Broad, President of the University of North Carolina. According to the Kentucky Kernel, President Todd suggested that she be invited to speak "because she has taken UNC through the same building process that UK is now beginning." The convocation was followed by a reception in King Alumni House, which was followed by an Inaugural Gala Concert, back in the Singletary Center. Thursday night there was an Inaugural Student Gala downtown at the Radisson Plaza Hotel.
Throughout Thursday and Friday there were numerous other events across campus music, readings, art exhibits, open house at the Career Center, and tour of the Lucille Little Library. On Friday, a reception in the Student Center Grand Ballroom followed the inauguration. The final, invitation-only events were a reception, followed by dinner and dance, at Marriott Griffin Gate Hotel Sunday evening.
The inauguration began at 11:00 AM Friday. For the university community the sartorial specification for the ceremony was "academic regalia." The result was a sea of color, when several hundred faculty massed in the center of the coliseum in their academic caps, gowns, and hoods. The default setting for gowns was black, but sprinkled throughout was an animating admixture of gowns in red, green, orange, blue. Even on many of the black gowns, the three prominent velvet bars that adorn each sleeve and the pair of parallel panels that run from top to bottom on the front were other than black. And the hoods contributed considerable color, with their velvet edging in the hue of the discipline and the exposed lining in the color(s) of the institution at which the highest degree was earned.
The platform party included members of the Board of Trustees, who wore blue caps and gowns, with white bars and panels. President Todd's wife, Patsy, in the front row, wore a suit in an especially attractive shade of blue. Also in the front row was Dr William E Kirwan, President, The Ohio State University, wearing a bright red gown. President Todd's cap and gown were distinctive. He earned his Ph D at MIT, and according to the MIT web site "The gown is of gray faille with red velvet front trim and sleeve bars. The hat of gray faille is an eight-sided tam with a red tassel." However, it appeared Dr Todd's tassel was orange, the color of engineering, his discipline.
We've not been (and don't expect to be) invited to the installation of a Pope, but we assume the ceremony is very colorful. However, we came away from the inauguration of President Todd convinced that it challenged the best Rome has to offer, at least of an earthly nature.
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Edward Elsner's Article about Internet
Filtering
Makes Cover of Public Libraries
It might even look like Edward Elsner ('01) just a little the figure of authority that appears on the cover of the July/August 2001 issue of Public Libraries. The cover art complements the title of the article, also on the cover, "Legal Aspects of Internet Filtering in Public Libraries." Edward became Interested in the subject as a result of discussions in two courses he took while in the MSLS program, Donald Case's core course, Information in Society, and Don Schabel's course, Public Libraries.
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Mary Sue Ferrell Appointed Learning Resources Consortium Director in California
We thank MARY SUE FERRELL ('73) for passing along a press release, and we congratulate her. It reads:
The Council of Chief Librarians and the Community College League of California are pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Sue Ferrell as the League's new Learning Resources Consortium Director. She will be responsible for the overall management and operation of the CCL/CCLC database consortium.
CCL President Gregg Atkins said, "Mary Sue's background with libraries, vendors and associations fits perfectly with what we need in the new consortium director."
Ray Giles, the director of special services for the Community College League, praised the new consortium director. "We are very happy Mary Sue has joined the consortium and the League. I know librarians and library staff will enjoy working with her in the years ahead."
Mary Sue received her MSLS from the University of Kentucky and an MBA from Golden Gate University. She has held positions in a variety of fields including director of learning resources for Western Nevada Community College, regional representative for The Faxon Company and executive director of the California Library Association.
The CCL/CCLC consortium provides Internet-based resources to all 108 community colleges in California. Mary Sue is looking forward to working with vendors, librarians, library staff and the CCL board of directors and Electronic Access and Resource Committee to improve and grow the program. |
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Sarah Mackey Promoted to Branch Manager
'first youth services/manager in many years'
SARAH MACKEY ('95) has been promoted to Manager of the Northside
Branch of Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH. She had been at the branch
as Children's Services Librarian, and as head of the branch she retains
responsibility for youth services. According to the announcement of her
promotion, Sarah is Columbus Metropolitan Library's "first youth
services/manager in many years."
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Peter Armistead Dies Unexpectedly at 49
We have received word from his sister, Jessica DeWolf, that PETER ARMISTEAD ('88) died
in September 2000. According to Ms DeWolf, Peter went jogging that morning and then went
to work, at the Winter Park Public Library, FL, where he suffered cardiac arrhythmia that was
not reversed in time to save his life. Peter had worked at the library for 11 years. He was also
the librarian for his church, where he served additionally as a Deacon. "He had great love for
library science as well as for the university," Ms DeWolf wrote. "He was a great person. We
miss him very much." We remember Peter fondly from his days as a student here.
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We'd Like Your Help with a Project
Information Sought about Non-Traditional Employers
From time to time we're asked, "What can I do with the MSLS degree?" We answer the
question by saying that although most of our graduates find their first professional position
with traditional employers academic, public, school, and special libraries a small but
growing number go directly from the master's program to other kinds of employers vendors,
private-sector firms that hire our graduates for the firms' "information centers," and even
every once in a while a dot-com.
We'd like to compile a database, of sorts information about where graduates work that still are thought of as non-traditional employers. If you are such a person, would you help us your school by sending a note to Dennis Carrigan, at carrigan@uky.edu If you're able to help, thanks.
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Libraries and Literacy
by Natalie E. Cummins
Natalie Cummins ('95) is Assistant Director of Operation Read, in Lexington. Operation Read began in 1979 and works with adults with
low reading skills in Fayette County. It is a volunteer-based organization.
There is a national crisis quietly brewing in the United States. This crisis is an epidemic, afflicting up to 50% of all Americans. This epidemic keeps Americans from working or working fully. It increases their dependence on public assistance. It makes them more likely to be in jail or to return to jail. It prevents their children from reaching their educational potential. It destroys dreams. But it is treatable, and libraries can be one of the most important treatment centers.
The epidemic is low literacy among adults. Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. defines adult literacy as the ability to read, write, and speak English proficiently, to compute and solve problems, and to use technology in order to become a life-long learner and to be effective in the family, in the workplace and in the community. This view of literacy is broader than most expect; we have come to equate literacy solely with the ability to read. But with today's increasing use of technology in life and the workplace, the definition has expanded to include computational and critical thinking abilities.
In 1992, the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) conducted the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). This study sought to determine adults' reading abilities on a scale of 1 to 5. Per NIFL, "Almost all adults in Level 1 can read a little but not well enough to fill out an application, read a food label, or read a simple story to a child. Adults in Level 2 usually can perform more complex tasks such as comparing, contrasting, or integrating pieces of
information but usually not higher level reading and problem-solving skills. Adults in levels 3
through 5 usually can perform the same types of more complex tasks on increasingly lengthy
and dense texts and documents." The NALS revealed that between 21-23% of the adult
American population scored at Level 1. An additional 25-28% of American adults scored at
Level 2. Adults at Levels 1 and 2 lack the basic skills necessary to function effectively in our
society.
It is only natural at this point to ask, "What can be done about this problem?" That is a question that volunteer-based literacy programs such as Operation Read have answered for years. Operation Read is a non-profit organization that began in 1979 to work with adults with low reading skills in Fayette County. (In Fayette County 15% of adults are at the lowest levels of literacy.) We recruit and train volunteer tutors to work one-to-one with adults who fall into the lowest levels of literacy. We also work with adults learning English as a Second
Language (there are between 15,000-30,000 adults in Lexington with low English skills). We
provide free textbooks, in-service trainings, student and tutor support groups, and specialized
computer labs. In our fiscal year 1999-2000 we served over 1200 students using 300 tutors
and non-tutoring volunteers.
At Operation Read, we receive calls every week from individuals who have finally acquired the courage to admit they have trouble reading. This is a difficult first step that may take months or years to happen. Our learners' ages vary greatly; some are in their late teens or early twenties, but many others are in their forties, fifties, even sixties. Their stories are heartbreaking yet courageous. One woman, whom I will call Sally, came to us four years ago. She had dropped out of school in the eighth grade after years of special education classes that never helped her. She had three children by a man who later abandoned her, leaving her to subsist on meager minimum-wage jobs and public assistance. After a nervous breakdown, she
decided that education was the only way she would ever truly provide for her family. She
dreamed of getting her GED and getting a real job. But she had one major obstacle she could
barely read.
When Sally came to Operation Read, we gave her a standardized test to determine her reading level; we test all incoming students and then retest periodically to measure progress. Sally tested at a second-grade equivalent reading level. We placed her with a tutor who then worked one-to-one with Sally three hours a week, slowly improving her reading skills. In early 2001, Sally was tested for the last time, and now her reading score was above the sixth-grade level. This level is the "graduation point" for students enrolled in Operation Read. Now that her reading was improved, Sally was able to begin attending GED classes. Although it will take her some time to reach this goal, she has demonstrated true dedication. Perhaps more importantly, Sally has also demonstrated to her children the importance of an education. She is justifiably proud that her oldest daughter recently graduated from high school and is contemplating college. Sally is also happy to be able to experience one of the simple joys of being a parent - reading bedtime stories to her youngest child.
There are many Sallys out there, as national studies have proven. Reaching them all is a daunting challenge, and it is one which organizations cannot accomplish alone. Operation Read partners with many organizations - Literacy Volunteers of Amer-ica, Laubach Literacy Action, the United Way, Verizon, and Cen-tral Kentucky Technical College, to name a few - but our strong-est link is with the organization which originally sponsored us, the Lexington Public Library. What began as an outreach of the library has burgeoned into an independent organization with a thriving connection to the library that continues through joint grant projects. Our partnership is a living example of the impor-tance of libraries in fighting low literacy. After all, libraries' sur-vival depends upon continued patronage by persons who are ca-pable of taking advantage of the wealth of resources the library provides. The American Library Association recognizes this as well and, through its Office of Literacy and Outreach Services, promotes 21st Century Literacy, one of the five key actions areas of the organization. 21st Century Literacy seeks to educate li-brarians about the important role they can play in improving liter-acy services in their communities and helping to create lifelong learners who will view the library as a place to turn to again and again for information and education. The ALA's platform may be viewed at http://www.ala.org/work/literacybrochure.html
At Operation Read, we seek to contribute to the goals of ALA through providing individualized instruction to adults who need improved reading or English skills to become more produc-tive members of their families, their workplaces, and society. These services are not a luxury - they are fundamental to the fabric of our community. As present or future library profession-als, you can make a difference. Become informed, become in-volved, and help to stop this epidemic.
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Alumni Activities
LING-YUH W. (MIKO) PATTIE ('68) in December was appointed Kentucky Virtual
University's Chief Information Officer. She continues to serve as Director of the Kentucky
Virtual Library.
MICHAEL LACROIX ('72) is Director Reinert/Alumni Memorial Library, Creighton
University, Omaha, NE.
MARILYN GENTHER ('74) is Director of the Mount Prospect Public Library, IL.
MARY L BURGETT ('75) has been appointed Senior Product Analyst, Gaylord Information
Systems, to support Gaylord's Polaris library automation system. Prior to joining Gaylord,
Mary was an academic market specialist at epixtech, Inc. She has been a consultant
implementing Voyager software, and was a Project Manager for Endeavor Information
Systems. Before embarking on a career in the private sector, Mary was Director of the
Salzmann Library, Saint Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, WI.
FRIEDA MARIE PATRICK DAVISON ('76) is Dean of Libraries at the University of South
Carolina Spartanburg.
TRUDI BELLARDO HAHN ('76) has been chosen President-Elect of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).
A man who has explained to us any number of enigmas over the years may have the longest
title among School alumni. TERRY BIRDWHISTELL ('78) is Director, Wendell H Ford
Research Center and Public Policy Archives and Director, UK Oral History Program.
DR PHILIP DARE ('78), Director of the library at Lexington Theological Seminary, in
October 2001 was appointed Dean of the Seminary. Phil had served as Interim Dean since
February of last year. His appointment is for a term through the end of the 2003-2004
academic year. During that time he will hold the title of Dean and Librarian. Many graduates
of the School of Library and Information Science will remember Phil's wife, NANCY DARE,
who, as Administrative Assistant to the Dean (and later Director), held the place together for
years. After trying retirement, Nancy joined the staff at Lexington Public Library and is at the
Beaumont Branch.
SALLY DOYEN ('78) has been appointed Superintendent of Schools in Lebanon, CT. She
had been Deputy Superintendent in Manchester, CT, and the most senior school
administrator there, where she had been for nine years. As Deputy Superintendent Sally was
the district's business manager, and curriculum and pupil supervisor. She lives in Storrs, CT,
with her husband, Robert Henning, a professor of industrial psychology at the University of
Connecticut, and their 5-year-old daughter, Maye Henning.
JOHN POPKO ('78) was a member of the ACRL Board 2000-2001 and is a candidate for
ACRL Vice-President/President Elect. He is University Librarian at Seattle University.
Although this is not new news, we have learned that BETSY TIBE ('78) is Librarian at Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary School, Lexington.
DOTTIE WOLF ('78) is enjoying her retirement after being a public librarian, but she has
gone back to the library as a part-time staff member, on-call. She staffs the Lawyer Referral
Desk and the Detention Center, as well as her daughter's media center.
CATHY HUNT ('81) has been appointed Student Affairs Director in the College of
Communications and Information Studies at UK. She had worked in Central Advising here at
the University of Kentucky.
"I know it's been a while since I sent any type of update," DORIS SIGL ('87) admitted, "so I thought I'd rectify that. 2001 marks my 10th year in North Carolina. Currently I'm in my third year as serials librarian at North Carolina Central University in Durham. Prior to that I
worked at North Carolina State University in Raleigh in several different capacities. With the
exception of four years at the University of Michigan (1987-1991), I've lived in southeastern
states since 1975 and I don't see that changing."
REINETTE JONES' ('88) article in the summer 2001 issue of Kentucky Libraries is unusual
fare for the magazine, or for any other publication in our field, as suggested by the title, "1946
Alcatraz Escape Attempt Led by Library Orderly from Kentucky." We want to report, also,
that, McFarland has published Reinette's book, Library Service to African Americans in
Kentucky, from the Reconstruction Era to the 1960s.
NANCY QUELLAND ('88) accepted the position of City Librarian in Palmdale, CA. She
was, for 9 years, Assistant Director of the Monterey Public Library, CA.
We assume it was a condition of parole that caused the prodigiously prodigal recidivistic
reprobate MIKE FLANNERY ('89) to check in. Mike is Associate Professor & Associate
Director for Historical Collections, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of
Alabama at Birmingham. He manages the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, the
Reynolds Historical Library, and University Archives. "Somehow," Mike wrote, "I've
managed to get steered toward the history of the health sciences and teach a course here in the
spring semester, something I never would have guessed in my student days." How many
graduates, we wonder, could say about their work, "something I never would have guessed in
my student days." Many, we suspect.
After 11 years in the library at Midway College, CAROL DELLAPINA ('90) left there to
join the staff at Lexington Public Library. She is a Reference Librarian at LPL's Northside
Branch.
ROBERT KELLY ('90) sent a report to Tim Sineath, who passed it along. Robert is Librarian at Sand Creek High School, CO, where he also teaches a history course.
PAULINE KLEIN ('90) let us know that she and Rosanne built their retirement home at a
women's community in Fort Myers, FL. Pauline is Reference Librarian at Cape Coral Public
Library, in Lee County, FL, and, most importantly, reports "Life is truly wonderful!"
We were especially pleased to learn that in July LYNDA L TURNER ('90) married Donald
Eugene Tindall, at her parents' home in Corbin, KY. Donald is retired from Gulf Oil
Company of Owensboro, KY. They are living in Cloverport, KY, where Lynda teaches
English, theatre, German, and music at Frederick Fraize High School.
SUSAN EUBANK ('92) arranged for Kentucky author Silas House to speak to Kentucky's
public librarians at their April 2001 conference, and she was able to have the transcript of his
talk published in the summer issue of Kentucky Libraries as "Silas House: What the Library
Did for Me."
ANGELA REYNOLDS ('94) is Youth Services Librarian, Washington County Cooperative
Library Services, Hillsboro, OR. "Oregon is great rainy, but the summer is worth the wet
winter."
SUSAN PHILP BAIER ('95) is California Sales Representative for Unique Books. She lives
in Lowndale, CA.
NANCYE WHITEHEAD BROWNING ('95) has been promoted to Manager of Branch
Services, Louisville Free Public Library.
We suspected he would not be able to remain out of Virginia very long, and we were right.
ROB PASCO ('95), who had been head of collection development at the Nashville-Davidson
County Public Library, TN, is now Director of the Shenandoah County Library System. The
system comprises the Shenandoah County Library in Edinburg, the Basye-Orkney Springs
Community Library, the Fort Valley Community Library, the Mt. Jackson Community
Library, the New Market Area Library, and the Strasburg Community Library.
(http://www.shenandoah.co.lib.va.us/)
LIZ SCOTT ('95) let us know she has moved from South Dakota to Vermont, where she is
Archivist at St Michael's College, in Colchester. Also, Liz was recently reappointed to the
Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
She wrote, "The 11-member committee includes the Archivist of the United States, the Clerk
of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Secretary of the U.S. Senate, and the Historian of
the Senate, along with six members appointed by the Congressional leadership. The
Committee was created in 1990 to advise Congress and the Archivist of the United States on
the management and preservation of the records of Congress. I have been on the Committee
since 1999."
In February JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM ('96) passed along the news she had accepted the
position Coordinator of Children's Services at Wright Memorial Public Library in Oakwood,
OH. Jennifer had been at the Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library in Dayton, OH.
She reported further: "I have also been appointed to the ALSC School-Age Programming
committee for the 2002-2004 term. This committee plans and coordinates the ALSC sponsored pro-
gram during ALA annual conference. Come check out our program in Atlanta! Lastly, I will be
presenting a workshop at 4 chapters of the Ohio Library Conference this spring. 'Webitize
your Programming!' will focus on locating craft, song, fingerplay, and game ideas on the
internet."
ALISON STUTZ MORGAN ('96) has left Clermont County Public Library, OH, and joined
the library staff at Cincinnati's Xavier University. She manages the circulation department and
does reference and bibliographic instruction. We hope that, as Xavier is a Jesuit institution,
the move will turn out to be a good one for Mrs Morgan. Now if only we could think of
something that would hold out the slightest hope for her husband.
After a couple of years of silence, while he was in the witness protection program, CARY
JONES ('97) recently let us know what he is up to, and it's good. He is Librarian III/Head of
Reader's Advisory and Young Adult Services, Charleston County Public Library, SC. Cary
also confided (but did not ask that we keep to ourself) the news that he "found my 'Southern
Belle' and am enjoying my new focus as a fiction librarian."
STACEY GREENWELL ('98) is Desktop Support Librarian, University of Kentucky Libraries.
ROGER HAMPERIAN ('98) has been appointed Preservation Reformatting Librarian at UK.
BETH KRAEMER ('98) is Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Kentucky
Libraries.
KELLY VICKERY ('98) is Acting Team Leader Electronic Resources, and Electronic
Resources/Support Librarian, University of Kentucky Libraries.
COLLEEN CROWLEY ('99) is Librarian at the Minnesota School of Business, Brooklyn Center,
MN.
BETH ROBERTS ('99) is now Agricultural Sciences Librarian, University of Maryland.
MATT WAGNER ('99) is a Library Liaison with LexisNexis for Kentucky, Michigan, and
Ohio.
Last fall CASSIE BECK ('00) married Eric Weig, in a ceremony at the home of Cassie's
parents, in Fulton, KY. At the time, Cassie was on the staff at Lexington Public Library. Eric
is UK's Digital Initiatives Librarian.
SEAN KINDER'S ('00) article, "Web Page Accessibility for Users with Disabilities,"
appears in the fall 2001 issue of Kentucky Libraries.
BILLIE ANN SNODGRASS ('00) has joined the Midway College library staff as Reference
Librarian, and it's good to have her back in Central Kentucky, where she belongs.
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Among Recent Graduates
TERRY BUCKNER employed a foot-in-the-door strategy that we believe is a good one. She
accepted the offer to be a "long term sub" School Media Specialist at Arlington Elementary
School, here in Lexington.
KATIE WILLIAMS CAMP is a Children's/Reference Associate Librarian at Northside
Branch, Lexington Public Library.
KEVIN CONNOR is Business Reference Librarian at Clemson University.
ANNA CREECH is Serials/Database Cataloger at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond.
MATILDA DAVIS is Technical Services/Reference Librarian, Abbeville-Greenwood Regional
Library System, Greenwood, SC. In an e-mail note to the Newsletter last August, Matilda
wrote that she was "currently working on our web page." (www.agrl.org) More recently, she
told us she has continued to work on the library's web page as one of her other duties, and in
fact has emerged as the principal person maintaining the home page. We suspect recent
graduates of programs such as ours often get that responsibility, as the staff members with
the greatest knowledge.
EDWARD ELSNER was appointed Crawford County Library Director in Grayling, MI.
Edward wrote toward the end of December, "A main library in town, three branches in the
county
and a brand new main library to open mid-March. Looks like a great place with a
good staff and board and one of the nicest new library facilities I've ever seen."
Imagine how this entry would have puzzled people only a few years ago: NICOLE
FRILLING is Virtual Branch Librarian at Kenton County Public Library, Covington, KY.
MARTHA GARRETT is Curriculum Coordinator at UK's College of Dentistry.
TIM HARRIS' article, "'A Source of Useful Information: The Lexington Library,
1795-1810,'" was published in the summer 2001 issue of Kentucky Libraries.
ANNA HARTLE is Teacher/Librarian at Cincinnati Country Day School.
Now this is optimism: In an e-mail note, MYKIE HOWARD let us know her plans: "I'm
going to keep my job as a technician in Young Serials until I find that PERFECT job."
"I believe I made the right decision," SARA HOWREY wrote in a letter in August. "In fact, the Hallie Day Blackburn scholarship that I received was specifically supposed to help
improve public libraries in Kentucky; I hope I do that." The decision Sara referred to was
accepting the offer of Kenton County Public Library to be Middle School Coordinator, in
which position she would "work with administration, faculty, and children at the middle
school in Covington, Kentucky, to develop and deliver library services and programs."
Anyone who knows Sara can have no doubt she will help improve public libraries in
Kentucky.
JULIE KELLER is on the staff at Louisville Free Public Library.
GRETCHEN KELLY is Adult Services Librarian at Itasca Community Library. Itasca is one
of the suburban communities north of Chicago.
MARILYN LEATHERS is a Reference Librarian at the Crescent Hill Branch Library,
Louisville Free Public Library.
MOLLY MCCOMAS is a School Library Media Specialist at Williamstown Jr-Sr High
School, Williamstown, KY.
TANZI MERRITT'S article, "Insuring and Protecting your Library's Collections," appears in the fall 2001 issue of Kentucky Libraries.
ERIN NEVITT is a Children's Librarian at Louisville Free Public Library.
TIM RENNERS has joined the staff of Louisville Free Public Library, as a Workforce
Librarian. And no, we have no idea what a "Workforce Librarian" is or does, and that question
to Tim has gone unanswered.
SHARON WICKHOLM is a Cataloger, Centennial Library, Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville.
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