Professional Activities
Awards and Grants
Rebecca Adler ( Staten Island ) received a LACUNY Professional Development Grant to attend “Digital Media, Learning, and Libraries: Web 2.0, Learning 2.0, and Libraries 2.0,” the 2007 ACRL Conference in Baltimore.
Monica Berger (City Tech) was among the City Tech faculty receiving a Faculty Development Grant from CUNY CASTL ( Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) for their Green Brooklyn project. Monica's role is to provide support for the integration of information literacy into curriculum for interdisciplinary student research related to urban sustainability.
An article by Jerry Bornstein and Louise Klusek (Baruch) was named one of the top-twenty information literacy articles of 2006 by ALA 's Library Instruction Round Table. “Information Literacy Skills for Business Careers: Matching Skills to the Workplace” appeared in Journal of Business and Finance Management 11.4 (2006): 3-22.
Michael Miller ( Queens ) received a PSC-CUNY Research Award for the topic “New Media Commons, 2010: The State of the Art in Academic Library Media Services Support.”
Jennifer Oates ( Queens ) and John James, Associate Professor of Music and Direct of Choral Activities at Queens , received a PSC-CUNY grant to record songs of Hamish MacCunn with the Queens College Vocal Ensemble and voice majors at Queens . Sales of the June recording will support Queens ' choral program.
Katherine Parsons ( Bronx ) received a Mentor Certificate from the BCC CUNY Month Steering Committee on November 5. Katherine was chosen for her outreach across the curriculum, including one-on-one support for visually challenged students.
Suzanna Simor ( Queens ) received a Sherman Clarke Professional Development Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America /New York Chapter in support of image license fees for her monograph Imaging the Creed: Visualizations of the Christian Creeds from Charlemagne to Luther, to be published by Brepols/Harvey Miller in 2009.
Exhibitions
Daisy Dominquez and Sydney Van Nort (City) curated “The Russell Sage Foundation Library Collection at CCNY” on display in the Cohen Library September 17-October 5.
Suzanna Simor and Alexandra de Luise ( Queens ) curated “Face to Face: From See to Shining See: Photographs by Sid Kerner,” August 27-October 31, and “Brush with Nature: Installation Art by Barbara Roux,” November 5-December 21. The latter exhibition was co-sponsored by the Queens Department of Biology and the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and continued the school's participation in Focus the Nation, a national education initiative aimed at raising awareness about climate change and global warming: www.focusthenation.org. With Paul Remeczki, Suzanna curated, with contributions from Noel Agnew, Alexandra de Luise, Shoshana Kaufmann, Jennifer Oates, Manny Sanudo, and Evelyn Silverman, “Treasures in Facsimile: From the Collections of the Queens College Libraries,” October 10-December 4, dedicated to the memory of Dick Wall. Suzanna also organized “The Urban Red-Tailed Hawk: Photographs of Queens Hawks by Jeffrey Kollburner,” June 1-September 30, which received media coverage from The New York Times , the National Aububon Society, and others, and “Books of Print,” December 6-20, an exhibition of books on the theme of ethics through animal imagery written and illustrated by students in Professor Rikki Asher's graduate course Classroom Methods in Printmaking. More information, including images, is available at here.
Professional Involvement
Rebecca Adler (Staten Island) provided library instruction to visually impaired students as part of the grant-funded PeopleTech Summer Institute at the Baruch Center for Visually Impaired People on June 27 and July 9.
Laura Cobus (Hunter Health Professions) has been selected to serve on “An Inquiry into Learning: CUNYwide Seminar on ePortfolio Research and Practice.” This research seminar will assess the use and potential of ePortfolios.
Profiles of Beth Evans and Maura Smale (Brooklyn) have been added to ACRL's “Meet Our Members” site. Stanton Biddle (Baruch) was previously profiled.
Mounir Khali (City) compiled “Selected Bibliography on Intervention, Retention, and Mentoring Students with Disabilities” for LACUNY's Disability Services Roundtable (pdf).
Louise Klusek (Baruch) developed, with Jana O'Keefe Bazzoni, chair of Baruch's Department of Communication Studies, and Diane DiMartino, retired Baruch librarian, the tutorial “Guide to Research for Oral Presentations: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Online Sources."
Michael Miller (Queens) has two-year appointments on ALA's Resolutions Committee and its Task Force on Electronic Member Participation.
Jennifer Oates (Queens) has been elected chair of the Greater New York chapter of the Music Library Association for 2007-2009 and chair of MLA's Electronic Reference Services Subcommittee for 2007-2111.
Rita Ormsby (Baruch) has convened, with Brita Servaes of the New School, a Metro Green Librarianship Special Interest Group. The SIG grew out of Brita's suggestion at the Library Camp conducted at Baruch in August.
Kevin Reiss (Graduate Center), with Paul Albert of Weill Cornell Medical Library, convened Library 2.0, a new Metro Special Interest Group. Library 2.0 will focus on the implementation and use of next-generation library services, including social networking tools, social tagging software, digital library systems, institutional repositories, federated search tools, next-generation OPACs, and the protocols and programming tools that power these applications.
Kenneth Schlesinger (Lehman) attended the summer 2007 Academic Library Leadership Institute at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College.
Polly Thistlethwaite (Graduate Center) has been Chair of the Board of the Graduate Center's Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies since May.
Stephanie Walker (Brooklyn) has been elected to ALA's Scholarships & Study Grants Committee and the Library and Information Technology Association's Assessment & Research Committee.