Eastern Washington University

Personnel

Retirements
Kathy Hebert, a Library Specialist II, is retiring from the EWU Libraries at the end of August. Kathy has worked for the library for 31 years in the Cataloging & Acquisitions Unit. She specializes in serials and curriculum materials and is an Eastern graduate. During her time with Eastern Kathy has been a member of numerous library committees and is currently the Commute Trip Reduction representative for the library.

Karen Schatz, also a Library Specialist II, is retiring at the end of September after working all but one of her 30 years for the EWU Libraries. She specializes in non-print and print media and is a graduate of Eastern. Karen’s son, Alex, is the fourth generation in her family to attend EWU.

Karen’s volunteer work for the library includes being Events Coordinator for EWU Friends of the Library, managing editor of RapAround (an in-house newsletter), an active member of many library committees and public relations officer for EWU Libraries’ annual Oktoberfest dinner & auction.

Both Kathy and Karen will be missed in many ways.

Departures

Rachel Fenske, a well-known face in the library, will be leaving Eastern Washington University in June to begin a new adventure in the Virgin Islands. Rachel spent time there on professional leave in 2004 studying the development and integration of information literacy skills among K-12 students. This experience rekindled Rachel’s desire to work with underprivileged populations and she and her husband plan to return to St. Croix this year.

Rachel, a Librarian IV Instructional Services Coordinator/Reference Librarian has been with Eastern since 1995. Dean of Libraries and CIO, Pat Kelley, states, “Rachel has been instrumental in developing Eastern’s user education program almost from scratch and eliciting the confidence and cooperation of college faculty members.” She will be dearly missed and we wish her well on her new adventure.

All of the above personnel changes will result in vacancies that we plan to fill in 2005.

EWU Friends of the Library Upcoming Events

The EWU Libraries celebrates National Library Week, April 10-16, by holding a variety of events during the week. The EWU Friends of the library have a book sale on April 15-16 with a preview sale and special presentation on Thursday, April 14. Dr. Laurie Winn Carlson will present “John Ledyard’s Big Adventure: How U.S. Copyright Law Opened the Pacific Northwest.” The presentation is based on a few chapters from her book, Seduced by the West: Jefferson’s America and the Lure of the Land Beyond the Mississippi.

The EWU FOL is also sponsoring its annual bookmark contest. Each spring the EWU Friends of the Library hold a “Make Your Mark” bookmark contest, where participants design an original 2-1/2” x 7-1/2” bookmark. The winner receives great prizes and the winning entry is distributed campus-wide and used for special events throughout the year. This years contest runs from March 28-May 10.

Books2Eat was such a delicious success last year that the FOL will host this event again on May 25 this year just for fun. Our version of this international event (see www.books2eat.com) is casual, with entries from all interested individuals, regardless of expertise in decorative baking. Each entry is an edible cake, cookie, pie, etc., with a literary theme identifiable to the observer. All who attend the event have the opportunity to vote for their favorite before we slice up the entries for all to enjoy. Last years winner, an adorable caterpillar representing The Very Hungry Caterpillar, was the masterpiece of Laurie Connelly, Executive Assistant to the university’s president.

Contributed by Carol Raczykowski

University of Washington, Bothell/Cascadia Community College

Leslie Bussert, Ethics and Humanities Librarian, published an article in the February 2005 C&RL News: "Comic books and graphic novels - digital resources for an evolving form of art and literature." Leslie also attended the Marketing for Academic Libraries workshop in Tacoma presented by Washington State Library, along with Kaijsa Calkins, Mass Communications and Technology Librarian.

Suzan Parker, Social Science Librarian, participated in a panel discussion on online learning at the winter CLAMS conference at Green River Community College in February. Suzan also co-presented with Dr. Catherine Crain, Psychology faculty at Cascadia Community College, at the League for Innovation in the Community College conference in New York this March. Their presentation discussed the developmental and contextual nature of information literacy, using William Perry's model of intellectual and ethical development as a theoretical framework.

Nicholas Schiller, Policy Studies Librarian, gave a conference presentation in January at Online Northwest. Together with Rachel Bridgewater, Reference Librarian WSU-Vancouver, he spoke about the disappearing public domain, recent radical changes in copyright law, and Creative Commons licenses as a limited solution to these issues. Librarians, as members of a profession devoted to both respecting intellectual property rights and to defending free access to ideas, were identified as being strategically placed to mediate solutions that respect both intellectual property and the public domain. Their presentation and bibliography may be accessed here: http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/bridgewa/onlinenw2005/index.html

Temporary Appointments:

Alyssa Deutschler, Reference Librarian, 3/2005

Kaijsa Calkins, Reference and Instruction/ Mass Communications and Technology Librarian 1/2005

Contributed by Suzan Parker

University of Washington, Seattle

Frankenstein Exhibit

The University of Washington Libraries hosted a major exhibit, "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature," developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. Partnering with Seattle Public Library, Washington Center for the Book, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University Book Store, and distinguished UW humanities and medical scholars, the UW Libraries co-sponsored an opening reception, a film and lecture series and book discussions throughout the city. The exhibit raises a number of questions for audiences at libraries across the country. Among them are: What is the nature of being "human"? How important are our connections to other living beings, and what are our responsibilities to them? What is the nature of power and what are the consequences of its misuse?

For more information about the exhibit, see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/ougl/exhibits/frankenstein/default2.html

Angela Weaver To Head Drama Library

In addition to receiving an MLS from Rutgers University, Angela Weaver earned an MFA in playwriting from the University of California, San Diego. She has staged readings and fully mounted productions of her plays on both the East and West Coasts and her first screenplay, After the Fire, was selected as a semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Film Writers Project. Prior to accepting the position of Head of the Drama Library at UW, she was employed as the Fine and Performing Arts Reference Liaison Librarian at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

New Appointments

Neil Rambo, Associate Director, Health Sciences Libraries, 3/1.
Angela Weaver, Head, Drama Library, 12/13.

J. Karyl Winn awarded Librarian Emeritus status 1/1/2005.

Resignations

Diane Rosolowsky, Electronic Collections Acquisitions Librarian, 11/5.

Retirements

Diana Johnson, Administrative Assistant A, Administration, 1/31.
Shao-yu Chen, Library Specialist I, Monographic Services Division, 10/31.

We also welcome our graduate staff assistants for the 2004/2005 academic year: Craig Allen, Information Technology Services; Zola Maddison, Reference & Research Services Division; Deborah Raftus, OUGL; Carmine Rau, OUGL/Media Center; Stacey Walters, OUGL.

Contributed by Susan Kane

University of Washington, Tacoma

Our current display "A History of Nursing" was put up by Donna Morse, a UWT graduate in the Master's of Nursing Education program. Donna has been a long time collector of nursing instruments, equipment, supplies, photographs, and more! Some of the items on display date back to WWI - and they certainly remind us how far the technology has come! Donna filled our main floor display cases and the bulletin boards on both floors. This display will be here until June 8, 2005 and we hope you enjoy it.

We have welcomed a brand new Librarian to our ranks. Joe Marquez, a March graduate of UW Information School, is filling a temporary position as a Reference/Web Services Librarian. Joe has worked with us as a Reference Assistant for the past year and we are all very happy to help celebrate his graduation. Way to go Joe!

Librarians Emily Keller and Jennifer Sundheim are attending ACRL in Minneapolis and we look forward to their reports on their return.

Contributed by Anna Salyer

Washington State University

Digital Libraries

Virginia Steel, WSU Director of Libraries, Peter Young, the Director of the National Agricultural Library and David Seaman, Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation, participated in a webcast about digital libraries hosted by the WSU Extension and the American Distance Education Consortium. To view a videostream recording of this program, please see, http://caheinfo.wsu.edu/video/stream.html

Sabbaticals

Trevor Bond will be working on a project to catalog and digitize ephemera found in the John Johnson Collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Nicole Campbell will be working to evaluate university library websites to compare accessibility with usability.

Departures

Mary Nofsinger has retired from the position of Social Sciences Reference Librarian after slightly more than 29 years at Washington State University.

Submitted by Joel Cummings

Whitman College

Joe Drazan, Associate Librarian & Collection Development Officer, will retire from Penrose Library, Whitman College on April 1, 2005 after 33 years of dedicated, and conscientious service. I, Henry Yaple, will retire as College Librarian June 1, 2005 after 18 years of service to Penrose Library and Whitman College. It's been absolutely grand, but we both know, "it's time."

Submitted by Henry M. Yaple

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