Staff News

Conference Participation

Dorothy Byers, Head of the Engineering Library, and Olga Hart, Coordinator of Library Instruction, attended the second annual Gaming, Learning, and Libraries symposium in Oak Brook, Illinois, November 2-4, 2008. This exciting and informative symposium featured an interesting variety of keynote speakers including Dr. Lawrence Kutner, co-founder and director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media and author of the book Grand Theft Childhood; Marc Prensky, a renowned expert in educational gaming; and Andrew Bud, author and host of the Web site GamerDad: Gaming with Children.

Erma Fritsche, Head of Library IT, Linda Newman, Coordinator of Digital Projects, and Holly Prochaska, Head of Preservation Services, attended Persistence of Memory: Sustaining Digital Collections in Chicago, Illinois, December 9-10, 2008. The conference’s focus was preserving digital collections.

Peter S. Poulos, Information Technology Analyst in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, presented “A Late Sixteenth-Century Endowment for Music at the Cathedral of Genoa” at the annual conference of the Società Italiana di Musicologia, Bergamo, Italy, October 24 -26, 2008.

Jay Sinnard, Operations Manager of the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), attended Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco, California, November 17-20, 2008. Over 5,000 forward-thinking developers, designers, and business leaders attended the conference to explore the leading edge of innovation and how to expand Adobe product skills.

Published

Elizabeth Meyer, Visual Resources Librarian and Interim Head of the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), assisted with the publication 50 from the 50s: Modern Architecture and Interiors in Cincinnati, a new book by DAAP faculty members Udo Greinacher, Associate Professor of Architecture, and Patrick Snadon, Associate Professor of Interior Design. The book reveals Cincinnati as the unexpected home to many gems of modernist architecture.

Peter S. Poulos, Information Technology Analyst in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, published “Dedication and Devotion in Simone Molinaro’s Motectorum quinis, et missae denis vocibus, liber primus (1597)” in “Cui Dono Lepidum Novum Libellum?” Dedicating Latin Works and Motets in the Sixteenth Century. Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Academia Belgica, Rome, August 18-20, 2005.

New to the Library

Sharon Hayes, Library Associate, Chemistry-Biology Library
Leon Jackson, Delivery Driver, Interlibrary Services
Suzanne Maggard, Reference/Collections Librarian, Archives and Rare Books Library
Lauren Pascoe, Administrative Secretary, Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library
Mark Specker, Accountant, Accounting Department

Retirement

Jerry Newman, Assistant Dean for Collection Development

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