Randi Ashton-Pritting received the University’s Community Service Award for 2006 for her work with the J. C. Clark Elementary School. Randi is joined in her efforts on behalf of Clark School by other University staff, including George Brophy, chief information officer and Barbara Intriligator, director of the doctoral program in educational leadership. Randi has assisted the school by sponsoring a campuswide drive to collect label and box tops from Campbell’s food products as part of the company’s Labels for Education program as well as, working with donors to supply new books and securing grants to help finish the activity area of the library, and by hiring the school’s new librarian.
 Nick Wharton is the new Circulation and Reference Librarian at Mortensen Library. His responsibilities are split between oversight of circulation including reserves and providing reference and instruction to library patrons. Nick received a Master in Library and Information Studies from the University of Rhode Island in 1997. He also holds a Master of Science in English Education, 1996 and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Bates College, 1988.
For the past three years, Nick was the Head of Circulation at the Widener Library of Harvard University. Nick was the Interlibrary Loan Librarian also for the Widener Library from 1999 to 2003. Prior to that, Nick was the Information Delivery Services Librarian for Brown University soon after graduating from URI. Prior to choosing librarianship as a profession, Nick spent many years doing a little bit of everything including construction, day care provider, substitute teacher, parking lot attendant, and ski bum. After finally establishing a career he loves, Nick finally decided to settle down as he married his childhood sweetheart in July and moved to Avon, CT to be with her and her four children
Susan Boss resigned her position as Reference and Circulation Librarian in July. She had been in that position since the preceding October, but held other positions in the Libraries for seven years. She is now employed as a librarian by the Connecticut Department of Corrections. She is greatly missed
Brooke Lippy, Assistant Head of Allen Library, has accepted the postion of member at large on the New England Music Library Association board. |
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Linda Solow Blotner, Head, Allen Library, was an invited guest at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the renovation and naming of MIT’s Lewis Music Library on November 15th. Blotner was the first music librarian of the MIT Music Library, serving from 1972–84. She is credited with building the collection and developing its many strengths. The well-attended event featured refreshments, music, and comments by Ann Wolpert, Director of the MIT Libraries. Veni Creator Spiritus, a canon composed for the new library by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Professor John Harbison and etched on the glass facing of the library’s mezzanine level was sung by tenor William Cutter, Director of Choral Programs & Lecturer in Music, and baritone Daniel Cunningham (’07).
Phil Salathé. Cataloging Assistant, Allen Library, continues to maintain an active career as a composer. His “Three Street Pieces” were performed by clarinetist Alan Kay and double bassist Brendan Kane as part of the Cape May Music Festival this summer in Cape May, NJ. Meanwhile, his “Eight Pieces for Piano” were premiered in November by pianist, and Allen student staff, Luiza Aquino, receiving a positive review in the Hartford Advocate. Phil has several premieres planned for the coming year, with upcoming performances in Hartford and in Philadelphia.
Anna Walker, student staff, Allen Library, was accepted into the Library of Congress Junior Fellows Summer Intern 2006 summer program. The 25 college students from across the nation who were in the program last summer surveyed segments of the Library’s nonbook collections and identified unique items by working closely with Library staff and curators in the Copyright Office and a wide variety of divisions at the Library, including Manuscript, Music, Prints and Photographs, Rare Book and Special Collections, Special Materials Cataloging, Geography and Map, and Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound. In addition to researching the actual deposit copies submitted to the Library of Congress for registration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, interns also reviewed thousands of handwritten applications submitted by copyright applicants, yielding many unique descriptions of works registered for copyright over the years. The Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program is made possible through the generosity of the late Mrs. Jefferson Patterson. |
