Staff News and Notes
August 2006
What we did in June and July
Valerie Carey has been accepted into Drexel University’s Online Masters of Library Science Program. She will pursue the degree while continuing her employment here at Langsdale.
Steve Labash attended the America Library Association's annual conference in New Orleans June 25-28. While there, Steve served as a panelist for a session entitled " Ignored Too Long: the Benefits of Managing a Library with a Union" and attended sessions on numerous topics including diversity and civic engagement within libraries and the PATRIOT Act.
Lucy Holman attended the Frye Leadership Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. The Frye Institute provides a 2-week long immersive training session for librarians interested in management.
Steven Thorpe attended the Ex Libris North America User Group, ELuNA, annual meeting in Knoxville, TN June 4-6. Meeting sessions included a report and update on company activities and strategic direction by Ex Libris, enhancements to future versions of ALEPH (the system used for the UB catalog), user presentations on the use of various Ex Libris products, and discussion group meetings.
Carol Vaeth was elected as University Council Administrative Staff Alternate Representative for 2006/07 school year
Tami Smith attend the Baltimore Area Libraries' Group meeting on June 16.
Thomas Arendall-Salvetti served as host for the monthly meeting of the Maryland Information Literacy Exchange (MILEX). MILEX is a group of local instruction librarians who get together to trade ideas about promoting and delivering information literacy instruction. The group spent much of the meeting planning its upcoming conference for librarians and faculty: Academic Integrity Conversations: Librarian/Faculty Collaborations, which will be held on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County. For more information about MILEX or the MILEX conference, go to: http://milexmd.org/.
Lucy Holman and Michael Shochet attended planning meetings for the Maryland Association of Research Libraries in June and July. This organization will be the "host" chapter for the Association of College and Research Libraries annual conference that will be held in Baltimore next March.
Proposals from Thomas Arendall-Salvetti, Lucy Holman and Michael Shochet to teach information literacy as part of freshman learning communities were all accepted for further development.
Carol A. Vaeth, Langsdale’s Interlibrary Loan Coordinator, co-presented at the July MA ILL meeting held at Montgomery College, Germantown Campus. MA ILL, the Maryland Inter library Loan organization celebrates its 20 th Anniversary this year. Carol and Cheryl Gordon (CCB, Catonsville), ‘founding mothers’ of the organization, presented the History of MA ILL, including an attendees participation quiz- “You’ve been doing Interlibrary Loan too long if you remember...” Carol has served on the board in several capacities over group’s 20 year history.
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