Library Staff News

Conference Participation

Stephanie Bricking, Albert B. Sabin archivist, was selected as the winner of the MARAC Meeting Travel Scholarship to attend the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in Richmond, VA, October 25-27. She gave a presentation titled "The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Reconstructing a Collection on the Web while Balancing Privacy, Restrictions and Access," which will be published in the MARAC digital repository housed at the University of Maryland.

Karen Cudjoe, student worker supervisor, Circulation and Multimedia Services, Langsam Library and UC adjunct professor, attended the Joint Conference for Librarians of Color's (JCLC) 2nd national convention in Kansas City, MO, September 20-23. Discussions were held on various topics including banning books, micro-aggression, genealogy research, scholarship availability, and ethnic minority recruitment and retention strategies.

Erma Fritsche, director of Library IT, and Michael Mahoney, assistant director of Library IT, participated in MAX Training in the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Foundations Training and Certification Program. It included three days of intense training complete with hours of homework, which culminated in the administration of an Internationally Certified Test for certification in ITIL Foundations. ITIL is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. ITIL provides a cohesive set of best practices, drawn from the public and private sectors internationally. Currently, UC's IT Managers are working through the implementation of ITIL practices across all IT services throughout the university.

Stephen Marine, associate dean for special collections, attended the American Library Association's annual conference in Anaheim, CA, June 22-25. The common theme that seemed to be omnipresent at the conference was librarians' role in data curation and management, big data, digital repositories, and digital scholarship.

Linda Newman, digital resources librarian, presented a paper at Open Repositories 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and won an award in the Developers challenge.

Peter Poulos, information technology analyst in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, presented a paper entitled "Simone Molinaro's Madrigali a cinque voci: Musical Patronage and Cultural Exchange" at the American Musicological Society, Midwest Regional Conference at Butler University, Indianapolis, IN on September 29.

Jay Sinnard, operational services manager for the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), attended InfoComm 2012 Expo and Conference in June. At the expo, he previewed the latest pro-AV products and applications and had hands-on demos with technologies that could be utilized in the STRC including colored lights and projection equipment.

Edith Starbuck, information services librarian in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, presented a paper entitled "Accepting an Invitation to be the 'Experts' for a Physician-Scientist Journal Club Session" at the 2012 Midwest Chapter, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Rochester, MN, October 7.

New Course

Kevin Grace, university archivist and head of the Archives and Rare Books Library, has been asked to lead a UC Forward course, "Inquiries to Innovation" for spring semester, an important component of which will be use of the digitized Cincinnati birth and death records collection, 530,000 records digitized in 2010 with the support of an LSTA grant.

New Hires

Dean Bachelder joined the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library as the new evening and weekend supervisor in the Circulation Department.

Christa Flueck joined UC Libraries in February as the new director of development.

Service

The following staff members were recognized from the University for reaching milestone anniversaries through January.

5 years
Dennis Gavin
Dennis Tunningley
Michael Mahoney
Jessica Ebert

10 years
Barb Macke
Sarah Mihaly
Melissa Cox Norris
David Sandor

25 years
Caryn Watts

40 years
Dan Gottlieb
Sally Moffit

Promotions and New Appointments to Faculty

Pam Bach – Assistant Librarian
Paul Cauthen – Senior Librarian
Sean Crowe – Assistant Librarian
Charles Kishman – Assistant Librarian
Suzanne Maggard – Associate Librarian

Edith Starbuck – Assistant Librarian
James Van Mil – Assistant Librarian

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