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On April 17, 2006, the University of Hartford held its annual Recognition Day ceremony to pay tribute to its faculty and staff for their valued services to the University. The University Libraries honored the following members:
Jennifer Olson, Allen Technical Services Coordinator – 5 years
George Lechner, Mortensen Reference Assistant – 15 years
Jean Prescott, Mortensen Senior Reference Librarian – 35 years
Hats and Horns to the Libraries staff! |
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Randi Ashton-Pritting, Director, University libraries, was the keynote speaker at the recent Black Caucus of the American Library Association Connecticut Affiliate (BCALA-CT) meeting on March 8, 2006. Her speech - Me? A Librarian? Why not! discussed education, the importance of the masters in library science, and the role librarians play in the quest for information.
 Kristina Edwards has taken the position of Serials and Stacks Coordinator at Mortensen Library. Kristina comes to Mortensen from the Albert Brenner Glickman Family Library at the University of Southern Maine, where she worked in Interlibrary Loan for several years. Kristina previously worked at the Mortensen Library while she was a student at the University of Hartford. Welcome back Kristina!
Tom Caw, Allen Memorial Library Public Services Librarian, attended the International Association for the Study of Popular Music US Branch Meeting, held at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, February 16-19, 2006, where he delivered a paper titled “Kim Gordon’s Gender Trouble: Betting on the Bull in the Heather” as part of the Reconfiguring Women’s Gendered Identities panel. Caw also attended the 75th Annual Conference of the Music Library Association in Memphis where he served as moderator for the New Members Forum. He has co-chaired the New Members Forum for the past three years as part of his service on the MLA Membership Committee.
Tom Caw, Public Services Librarian at Allen Memorial Library, has been appointed by Music Library Association President Bonna J. Boettcher to serve as co-coordinator for
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MLA’s Jazz and Popular Music Roundtable with Peggy Alexander, Performing Arts Special Collections Librarian at UCLA. Roundtables are assemblies of members of the Association that convene at the Association’s annual meeting to exchange ideas on topics not specifically addressed by the committees of the Association.
Brooke Lippy, Assistant Head of Allen Library, has been accepted into the NACO Music Project (NMP), a specialty of the national NACO (Name Authority COoperative ) project. Through this cooperative cataloging program participants contribute authority records for names, uniform titles, and series to the national authority file, which supports WorldCat, the international library database. The records of new NMP participants’ are reviewed by a coordinator or independent NMP editor until the participant achieves independent status. Independent status in NMP is thus achieved through NMP review and testing of the individual, not through the status of the home institution.
Linda Solow Blotner, Head, Allen Memorial Library, attended the Music Library Association Annual Conference in Memphis, TN from February 22-26, 2006 where she was on a panel and presented a paper titled Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM): Expanding Coverage of American Journals. The paper was titled “A Report on RIPM’s Americas Initiative, 1800-1950: A Call for Collaboration” and resulted from the Online Forum on the RIPM-US web site which she moderated. Blotner is chair of the MLA Publications Committee and a member of the Program Committee for the 2007 meeting in Pittsburgh. |
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