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The
Allen Library is pleased to welcome Eric Bernasek back to its staff.
Eric served as our first part-time Cataloging Assistant in spring
2003 and then was promoted to Public Services Coordinator from September
2003-2004, when he left for an extended trip to India. Eric will
be back in his role of Cataloging Assistant, succeeding Heather
Strizalkowski who left in June to pursue other career options.
 Diane
Napert has been promoted to Head, Technical Services, Mortensen
Library. Previously she held the position of Assistant Head, Allen
Memorial Library, for five years. The head of technical services
oversees acquisitions, cataloging, serials and stack maintenance.
Diane holds an MLS degree from Southern Connecticut State University
as well as an MBA from the University of Connecticut. Her undergraduate
degree was a double major in music and Spanish from Trinity College
in Hartford.
Diane worked in business for a number of years before switching careers,
most recently at Travelers Life and Annuity as Senior Manager. She
resides in Berlin with her husband and two-year-old daughter and
looks forward to the opportunities this new position offers.
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Hermeticism in the art and culture surrounding the court of Pope Urban VIII.
The documentary was filmed in New York and Rome by Hidden Treasures
Productions, an award-winning television production company. The
film is scheduled to be released at the end of the year and broadcast
by the History Channel.
The Allen Library welcomes Brooke
Lippy as its new Assistant Librarian.
Brooke comes to us from the Univerity of Central Arkansas where she
was Catalog Librarian since 2001. While there she was responsible
for original cataloging for new and existing materials, including
all foreign language and archival items. She also supervised paraprofessional
staff and worked at the reference desk. From 1999-2001 Brooke served
as Catalog Librarian at the University of Southern Mississippi, where
she was responsible for cataloging and database maintenance for music
scores and sound recordings.
In
addition to her “day jobs,” Brooke has been a member
of the Music Library Association, serving on its Automation Subcommittee
from 2000-2003, and the South East Music Library Association, serving
on its Nominating Committee in 2001. She is a member of the American
Library Association, and served on its New Members Round Table from
2000 to 2004 where she chaired its Handbook Committee for several
years and in 2004 was a member of its Organizational Review Committee.
Brooke is also a member of the Arkansas Library Association. She
is vice-chair of its Resources and Technical Services Division and
was a member of the 2004 Conference Planning Committee.
Brooke
has published a number of articles in Arkansas Libraries and Mississippi
Libraries and prepared poster sessions at various national meetings.
She created “USM Symphony Orchestra Series,” a
website she maintained from 1999-2001 which was designed to bring
together concert programs, library services, and concert attendees.
The site provided Internet links, access to the catalog, and historical
information on the pieces to be performed.
Brooke holds a BA in Music from Whitworth College, an MS in Library
Science from the University of North Texas, and a Certificate of
Advanced Studies from the University of North Texas.
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Last
March, George Lechner, Reference Assistant
in Mortensen Library, was invited to New York to be filmed for an
upcoming documentary based on the New York Times nonfiction
bestseller Secrets of Angels and Demons. Lechner, an art historian
and adjunct faculty member who teaches AUC’s Italian Renaissance
course, is an authority
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astrology
and the occult sciences in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
He had completed a section for the book entitled The Magical and
Mythical in the Art of Bernini.
The setting for the filmed interview was the beautiful Gothic Revival interior
of the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin located near Times Square. Lechner’s
interview lasted over two hours and he discussed the rise of the “Alumbrados”,
the so-called Spanish Illuminati, and their influence on the teachings of St.
Ignatius Loyola and St. Teresa of Avila, the great Spanish mystics. He commented
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