Library Staff News

Awards

Gabrielle Fox, Conservator in the Preservation Services Department, was named the 2010 recipient of the Glasgow Cup Award by the Miniature Book Society (MSB). Established in 1990, the award is given to the MSB member who “has shown a special dedication and above all, friendship to the membership, and who keeps alive that special spirit so evident at our founding in 1983.”

Conference Attendance

Several staff members attended the Fall 2010 Conference for the Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group (EGL-IUG) held October 15, 2010, at the Akron Public Library. Ben Kline, Assistant Director of the Circulation and Multimedia Services Department; Lorna Newman, Head of Interlibrary Services and Government Documents; Susan Banoun, Head of the Electronic Resources Department; Sean Crow, e-Resources Librarian; and John Stork, Assistant Director of Circulation and Multimedia Services.

Cheryl Albrecht, Associate Dean of Library Services, and Leslie Schick, Associate Dean of Library Services and Head of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, attended the “Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment,” held in Baltimore, Maryland on October 25-27, 2010.

In Print

David Sandor, Circulation Supervisor in the Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library, published “The Music, Monograph and Online Collections at the College-Conservatory of Music Library, University of Cincinnati Libraries” in the October 2010 issue of The News, the monthly newsletter of The State Library of Ohio.

Personnel News

Sean Crowe was appointed e-Resources Librarian in the Electronic Resources Department effective September 1, 2010.

The following staff members received recognition from the university for reaching milestone anniversaries during the last half of 2010 for their years of service.

• Jennifer Burke, 5 years
• Karl Hiller, 5 years
• Mark Specker, 10 years
• Cade Stevens, 10 years
• Michael Bramel, 25 years
• Al Early, 25 years
• Alfreda Green, 25 years
• Diana Smith, 25 years

Presentations

John Borntrager, Research Associate in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, gave a presentation titled “Critical Thinking in an Age of Information Overload: Think Google Can Give You All the Answers?” at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County on January 6, 2011.

Ben Kline, Assistant Director of the Circulation and Multimedia Services Department, gave a presentation about generating circulated usage data titled “Hands On!: The Many Uses of Web Management Reports” at the Fall 2010 Conference for the Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group (EGL-IUG) held October 15, 2010 at the Akron Public Library.

Linda Newman, Assistant Head for Technical Research & Development, presented “Digitization of Books and the New World of the Born-Digital” to members of Cincinnati Skeptics, a.k.a. The Association for Rational Thought (A.R.T.) on February 12, 2011.

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