Information and Library Science @ Carolina

              Carolina INFORMATION AND
LIBRARY SCIENCE
The SCHOOL of INFORMATION and LIBRARY SCIENCE • The UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL
@
Fall 2002/ Winter 2003 www. ils. unc. edu Number 61
First Students Set to Begin Work on IS Major
After earlier this year receiving final approval for its bachelor’s degree in
information science, SILS has completed its application process for undergradu-ate
students wishing to begin working toward their major in the spring.
Of the 28 students who submitted applications, 18 were accepted into the
major program. Ten of those chosen were previous minors in information
systems. Associate Dean Barbara Wildemuth said the goal is to have 90 students
enrolled in the program by 2005.
“ We have been planning for an undergraduate major in information
science for several years and it’s very rewarding to finally get to work with the
By Katie Vick
New Professor
Garners ASIST
Teaching Prize
Wildemuth To Oversee New Degree
Deborah Barreau
Barbara Wildemuth
Inside this Issue
Letter from the Dean ............................ 2
Faculty News ............................................ 5
Student News ......................................... 12
Alumni President’s Message ............ 14
Alumni Updates ..................................... 18
SILS Professor Barbara Wildemuth has
been named the school’s new associate dean for
undergraduate studies. Her appointment follows
the introduction this fall of the school’s new
major in information science.
Wildemuth played an active role in the
creation of the new undergraduate degree,
Continued on page 3
Continued on page 3
Dr. Carr Goes to Washington
Associate Professor David Carr met First Lady Laura Bush
and addressed an audience of library and museum
professionals at a recent White House awards ceremony
sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library
Services ( IMLS). Story, Page 3.
Dr. Deborah Barreau , an assistant
professor at SILS, has been named Outstanding
Information Science Teacher for 2002 by the
American Society for
Information Science and
Technology ( ASIST). She
recieved her award Nov. 20
at the ASIST annual
meeting in Philadelphia.
Established in 1980,
the award is co- sponsored
by ASIST and the Philadel-phia-
based Institute for Scientific Information. The
award recognizes individuals who have demon-strated
sustained excellence in information science
instruction.
Barreau is the third faculty member at SILS to
receive the ASIST teaching award. Associate
Professor Stephanie Haas won in 1996 and Professor
Barbara Wildemuth received the honor in 2000. ❑
Singing the Blues ... William Ferris ( above), associate director of the Center for the Study of
the American South, enlightened and entertained those in attendance at this year’s Henderson
Lecture on November 7. Ferris played his guitar, showed a video documentary on the blues he
filmed in the 1970s and addressed issues related to “ The Humanities, Technology and the
American South.”
By Katie Vick
2
Linking a Proud Past to a Great Future
A Letter from the Dean
Joanne Gard Marshall
As I read through some of the stories for this issue of the newsletter,
I was once more struck with the wealth of accomplishments of the
students, faculty, staff and alumni of our school.
Thanks to the organizational efforts of our new associate dean for
undergraduate studies, Barbara Wildemuth, our BSIS degree is up and
running. Our two new faculty members, Deborah Barreau and Jonghoon
Lee, are settling in and many new research projects are under way.
I would like to say a special thanks to those of you who participated
in the alumni and student surveys that were conducted in recent months
by our marketing consultant, Jeff Hill. The information we collected will
be used to help guide our future activities.
The deans and directors of library and information science ( LIS)
schools met recently at the American Society for Information Science and
Technology ( ASIST) meeting to discuss the changing nature of LIS programs
and the potential need for a formal council of deans and directors.
As shown in the KALIPER report, Educating Library and Informa-tion
Science Professionals for a New Century, LIS programs are
expanding their curricula to address broad- based information
environments and information problems. SILS distinguished
alumna Professor Joan Durrance from the University of
Michigan chaired the KALIPER project, which was published
by the Association of Library and Information Science
Educators ( ALISE) in 2000.
While library science is still at the heart of many
programs, there are new information- related degrees
emerging at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We
can see this trend at SILS in the MSIS degree that was
introduced in 1987, the undergraduate minor in information systems that
was added in 1997 and the brand new undergraduate degree program.
These new programs have added resources to SILS – two new faculty
positions with the undergraduate minor in 1997 and another five from
2001- 2003 to help support the undergraduate degree. At SILS, faculty
members are not fully assigned to one program or another and many
faculty have expertise that spans multiple degree programs. This approach
has led to an increase in resources for all programs.
Despite all of the good things about adding faculty resources to the
school, our new directions are not without challenges for all. Library
science faculty must learn to work with a new, more heterogeneous group
of multidisciplinary colleagues. New faculty, who may not have back-grounds
in LIS, must learn about the values and approaches to gathering,
organizing and disseminating information that have been developed by
librarians over the centuries. Students and alumni must learn to adapt to a
more diverse group of teachers, appreciating each for what they have to offer.
Unfortunately, new resources for support staff were not forthcoming
and this represents a major challenge. The broadening of LIS is creating a
new expanded professional field that includes library science, information
systems, and related fields such as archives and records management. At
SILS we provide an interdisciplinary learning environment where students
with these various interests can work together.
In response to program changes, some schools have chosen to take
the word “ library” out of their name. Is this necessary? The name debate
goes on with a variety of names such as “ information science,” “ informa-tion
studies” and just plain “ information” being adopted.
Some schools, including SILS, have stayed with a dual designation.
The word library can apply today to a broad range of recorded informa-tion
in multiple formats. The human genome can be thought of as a
library, as can spatial data in geographic information systems and weather
data. The National Science Foundation has given large research grants for
the development of “ digital libraries” of all types.
Libraries as buildings and entities in organizations are experiencing
a renaissance as communities continue to value the resources and
services that public, academic, school and special librarians provide. The
collections in these libraries go far beyond books and other information
formats to services that turn the library into a community meeting place
and an access route to the digital world.
The Internet, once thought to be a replacement for libraries, has
turned out to be a seething mass of unorganized and unfiltered informa-tion.
Librarians are developing many of the approaches being used to
make web content more usable and useful, such as metadata.
When I tell new acquaintances that I direct a school of information
and library science, the most frequent comment that I receive
is how challenging and interesting the job must be and how
much the field must be changing. I see this expanded vision of
the “ library” and the increasingly challenging role of the
“ librarian” as a great advantage in creating a renewed sense of
excitement about what library and information professionals
do.
Library science has been an established profession for
many years, whereas the newer, broader information
professions are still emerging. At SILS, we continue to build on
the values, ethics and traditions of library science in all our programs,
expanding and enhancing the traditional knowledge and skills of
librarians and applying them in a broader range of information- intensive
environments in both the public and private sectors. This partnership can
only benefit the old and the new.
My personal preference is to continue to link our proud past as
librarians to the great future that all of our graduates will have as they
enter the workforce in a range of sectors. Ultimately the decision to go
with a name change is a local one. At Carolina, libraries have been a
greatly valued part of the academic scene since Louis Round Wilson,
university librarian, founded our school in 1931.
Professor Wilson was a visionary who saw the role of librarians as
“ tapping the vast reservoirs of human knowledge” – a phrase that still
inspires us today. We continue to have close partnerships with UNC’s
libraries through the Carolina Academic Library Associates ( CALA)
program and our association with the venerable Professor Wilson and the
libraries continues to be enormously beneficial.
Look at what we are doing at SILS and what other “ information”
schools are doing in North America and you will find very similar trends.
Let’s focus on we do in our schools and not what we call ourselves – we
have too much challenging work ahead of us to let such debates slow us
down. I also hope that the deans and directors decide to create a council
in collaboration with ALISE. The field can use a better- supported
association of educators and resource sharing can provide a more cost-effective
way for the deans and directors to meet their need for a formal
entity to represents the schools. ❑
3
Information and
Library Science
@ Carolina
David C. MacDonald
Executive Editor
SILS Director of Communications
Katie Vick
Communications Assistant
Junior, School of Journalism
and Mass Communication
Published by the UNC- CH School of Information
and Library Science and its Alumni Association
for the school’s alumni and friends.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is committed to the principles
of equal opportunity with regard to its students and its employees.
Please send submissions to:
SILS Newsletter
CB # 3360, 100 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 3360
news@ ils. unc. edu
It was the same type of presentation he’d
given countless times before, but for Associate
Professor David Carr, this speech was something
special. Not only was it being delivered in the
East Room of the White House in the presence
of the First Lady of the United States, among the
attendees were some of the nation’s most
inspirational library and museum professionals.
Carr’s speech, titled “ Each Life: Cultural
Institutions and Civic Engagement,” was part of
an annual awards presentation hosted by the
Institute of Museum and Library Services
( IMLS) on October 29. The awards, presented
by librarian and First Lady Laura Bush, honored
libraries and museums from across the United
States for their outstanding public service
initiatives. Just being part of the festivities, Carr
said, was a somewhat humbling experience.
“ Everywhere I turned, there were award
winners from across the nation and important
people who make decisions and stand up for the
arts and humanities,” he said. “ Imagine giving
a speech, in that setting, to not only the First
Lady, but the Librarian of Congress and the
It was a grand and historic setting with a
ceremonial richness filled with art.”
Carr described his speech as an attempt to
redefine cultural institutions in the context of
democracy. A student of cultural institutions for
25 years, Carr described museums and libraries
as being essential to the flow of ideas and
possibilities in society.
“ I think that people become different, see
differently, and know in different ways because
they have had great experiences in cultural
institutions,” he said.
Now that he has returned home, Carr said
that he feels as if he is a “ changed man.” In his
eyes, the awards presentation was a very
important moment for libraries and museums
across the nation, where the significance of
preserving culture was recognized.
The excitement of his White House visit
will not be soon forgotten. “ It was just so cool to
be inside the White House,” Carr said. “ I’m
used to walking around the White House and
looking inside it through the windows. But this
time, I looked out of it. It was unlike anything
else.” ❑
For Carr, White House Visit Awed and Inspired
By Katie Vick
executive directors of all the nation’s federal
information and cultural agencies and advisory
boards.”
Amid the pomp and ceremony, however,
Carr said that he and his wife, Carol, “ felt
comfortable and were warmly addressed by all.
David Carr poses with First Lady Laura Bush
during IMLS awards program at the White House.
members of January’s entering class,” she said. “ Over the long term, the
school will benefit from this program by having a larger and more diverse
student body and by being able to offer a richer curriculum for all our
programs.”
The bachelor of science in information science ( BSIS) requires
students to complete 30 hours of coursework, including classes such as
“ Retrieving and Analyzing Information,” “ Tools for Information Literacy,”
“ Informational Use for Organizational Effectiveness,” “ Database Concepts
and Applications” and “ Information Systems Analysis and Design.” Each
student should also have a thematic concentration.
For more information on the SILS Undergraduate major, contact
Beth Boyette in the SILS administrative office at ( 919) 962- 0208 or visit
the school’s web site at www. ils. unc. edu. ❑
Continued from front page
Students Set to Begin Major
serving as chair of the school’s ad hoc undergraduate major
committee. The school’s interest in a major grew from the success
and popularity of its undergraduate minor in information systems,
first introduced in 1997.
“ The undergraduate degree in information science is a major step
forward for the school,” said SILS Dean Joanne Marshall. “ Barbara
Wildemuth’s broad vision of the field of information and library science as
well as her knowledge of the curriculum and the UNC campus make her
an excellent person to implement this initiative.” ❑
Continued from front page
Wildemuth To Oversee Degree
4
Dr. Claudia Gollop, an associate professor at SILS, recently
received a grant supplement for $ 110,523 to continue a research
project titled “ Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis.”
The award is from the National Institute of Nursing Research/
National Institutes of Health and will support this project through
February 2005.
The project combines efforts between SILS and UNC- Chapel
Hill’s School of Nursing, where Professor Margarete Sandelowski is
principal investigator and Assistant Professor Julie Barroso is co-principal
investigator. Gollop joined the research team in the spring
as co- investigator. She will work on the project until the fifth year of
the grant. The grant also allowed the team to hire SILS student
Oknam Park, who serves as research assistant.
“ Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis” is directed
toward the development of a set of guidelines to conduct
metasyntheses of qualitative findings in health science research. The
project focuses on qualitative studies of HIV- positive women as a
method case. The ultimate goal of the project is to design a highly
interactive web- based system and interactive handbook that will
contain the guidelines.
“ The idea is to help nurse researchers search for qualitative
research better,” said Gollop. “ It is a grand collaboration between
researchers in SILS and the School of Nursing.”
For more information on the project, visit http:// nursing. unc. edu/
research/ current/ qualitative_ metasynthesis. html ❑
SILS Boshamer Professor Gary
Marchionini and Associate Professor
Stephanie Haas are leading a joint
university/ government effort to make govern-ment
statistics available over the Internet more
accessible and understandable by the general
public.
The National Science Foundation ( NSF)
earlier this year awarded Marchionini, Haas,
and their team a three- year, $ 1.3 million grant
to lay the foundations for a national statistical
knowledge network. UNC- Chapel Hill is the lead
institution on the project and is coordinating the
nationwide effort to link state and federal
statistical resources and develop user interfaces.
Other team members include researchers
from the University of Maryland at College Park
( Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman) and
Supplement Lets
Gollop Continue
Metasynthesis
Research Efforts
Faculty Leading Government Statistics Project
Gary Marchionini Stephanie Haas
By Katie Vick Claudia Gollop
Syracuse University ( Carol Hert), and
representatives from a variety of federal and
state statistical agencies, including the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, Energy
Information Administration, Social Security
Administration, National Agricultural Statistical
Service, and the North Carolina Office of
Information Technology Services.
The project, formally titled “ Integration of
Data and Interfaces to Enhance Human
Understanding of Government Statistics: Toward
the National Statistical Knowledge Network,”
builds upon studies of how people seek and use
statistical information and human- computer
interface designs done in collaboration with
these agencies over the past five years. Based in
the SILS Interaction Design Laboratory ( IDL) in
Manning Hall, the project’s web site can be
found at http:// www. ils. unc. edu/ govstat.
“ Federal, state and local governments
gather large amounts of statistical data to help
public servants and the general public
understand our world and make informed
decisions,” said Marchionini. “ This project will
help people without specialized training use the
Internet to find, and understand, the statistical
data they need.” ❑
Guest Speaker ... Dr. John Michon, chief of oculoplastic,
reconstructive and orbital surgery at the Duke University Medical
Center, joined Dr. Jane’s Greenberg’s “ Metadata Architectures and
Applications” class for a presentation on October 22. He addressed
“ Metadata, Ontologies and the Semantic Web -- Foundations of a
Universal, Distributed Knowledge Base.”
Digitization Program Set for May
“ Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals” will be hosted by
SILS for a second consecutive year, from May 11- 16. For more information
on the weeklong series of workshops, co- sponsored by SILS, the Humani-ties
Advanced Technology and Information Institute ( HATII), the
University of Glasgow and Fondren Library at Rice University, visit the
program’s web page at www. ils. unc. edu/ DCHP. ❑
5
What’s Happening with Faculty, Staff
Continued on following page
Assistant Professor Deborah Barreau
was awarded the Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial
Research Grant by the Special Libraries
Association ( SLA) for her project titled “ The New
Information Professional: Vision and Practice.”
Associate Professor David Carr:
■ Served in September on a panel for the
National Park Foundation in Washington, D. C.,
discussing the design of learning experiences for
millions of National Park users.
■ Also in September, delivered keynote
address, “ Rescuing the User: Cultural Institu-tions
and the Building of Bridges,” to the Rhode
Island Museum Docent Association at the Roger
Williams Park and Zoo in Providence.
■ In October, delivered keynote address for
the Michigan Museums Association,
“ Themeworks: Museums Weaving Ideas.”
■ In November, delivered a keynote address,
“ The Meanings of Us,” to the Reference
Librarians of the Indiana Library Federation in
Indianapolis.
■ Announced that his book, The Promise of
Cultural Institutions, will be published by
AltaMira Press in June 2003.
■ Had the following articles published: ( 1)
“ A Community Mind,” Public Libraries,
September/ October 2002, pages 284- 288; ( 2) “ In
Byzantium,” ( with Jeffrey K. Smith), Curator,
44( 4), October 2001, pages 335- 354.
■ Had the following reviews published: ( 1)
The Unfinished Bombing ( Edward T. Linenthal,
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), in
Museum News, November/ December 2002, 22- 25,
27; ( 2) Making Museums Matter ( Stephen E.
Weil, Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution
Press, 2002), in Curator, 4( 2), April 2001, pages
314- 318.
■ Participated in an August conference at
the Ackland Art Museum as part of its multi- year
Five Faiths Project, delivering the final talk of the
gathering.
■ Led informal reading groups for the local
Deep Dish Theater Company, the first devoted to
Ernest J. Gaines’s novel A Lesson Before Dying,
and the second devoted to Charles Baxter’s novel
The Feast of Love.
Assistant Professor Jane Greenberg:
■ Presented the following at the European
Digital Library Conference in Rome in August:
Greenberg, J., Bullard, K., James, M. L., Daniel,
E., & White, P. “ Student Comprehension of
Classification Applications in a Science Education
Digital Library.” The paper also appears in the
conference proceedings. Co- authors include Dr.
Evelyn Daniel, SILS students Kris Bullard and
Lovetta James.
Jonghoon Lee
Deborah Barreau and Jonghoon Lee are the newest faculty members at the School
of Information and Library Science. Both joined the faculty this summer and began teaching
classes this fall.
Most recently an assistant professor at The Catholic University of
America in Washington, D. C., Barreau returns to the school where
she earned her master’s of library science degree in 1986.
Specializing in the areas of information systems and technology,
organizational behavior and digital libraries, Barreau taught INLS 180
( Human Information Interactions) this fall. Before joining the faculty
at Catholic’s School of Library and Information Science in 1997, she
worked as a systems librarian in Pennsylvania and a project manager,
applications supervisor and systems analyst at Aspen Systems
Corporation in Rockville, Md. She earned her Ph. D. in library and information services from
the University of Maryland at College Park.
“ Deborah brings an excellent background in teaching, research and practice to SILS,”
said Dean Joanne Gard Marshall. “ We welcome her back to Carolina and look forward to her
contributions to both our undergraduate and graduate programs.”
Lee focuses on areas such as information storage and retrieval, information visualiza-tion,
digital libraries and human- computer interaction. He taught INLS 102 ( Information
Tools) this fall.
A native of Korea, Lee earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology at Seoul
National University. He began work on his Ph. D. at Illinois in 1997.
“ Jonghoon’s background in cognitive psychology and his interest in user search behavior
will strengthen our research activities in human- computer interaction, a key area in our field
today,” said Marshall. “ We are excited about the contributions he will make at our school.” ❑
Barreau, Lee Latest to Join SILS Faculty
■ Presented a poster, titled “ Abstraction
versus Implementation: Issues in Formalizing the
NIEHS Application Profile,” at the 2002 Dublin
Core Conference in Florence in October. Co-presenters
included SILS alumni Corey Harper
( MSLS ’ 02), Dav Robertson ( MSLS ’ 75) and Ellen
Leadem ( MSLS ’ 87). A summary of the poster
appears in the conference proceedings.
■ With Robertson, director of the NIEHS
library, presented paper titled “ Semantic Web
Construction: An Inquiry of Authors’ Views on
Collaborative Metadata Generation” at the Dublin
Core Conference.
■ Had “ Metadata and the World Wide Web”
published in the Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science.
Assistant Professor Brad Hemminger:
■ Contributed the chapter “ Display,
Including Enhancement, of Two- Dimensional
Images” to the recently published book Image-
Processing Techniques for Tumor Detection.
■ Presented his paper, “ Softcopy Display for
Digital Mammography” at the SPIE Medical
Imaging Conference in February.
■ Received a grant from CADx company to
help it develop and evaluate computer- aided
detection methods for mammography.
■ Received a grant from Hologic company
to help it develop its radiologist review worksta-tion
for its digital mammography system.
■ Initiated the SILS bioinformatics journal
club and regular lecture series, and helped create,
with Dr. Alex Trophsa, Todd Vision and Michael
Giddings, the UNC Bioinformatics Training
Program on campus.
■ Served as co- investigator of a grant
received from the N. C. General Assembly that
funds the new training program. This grant
provides funding for students in their first year of
the program. John MacMullen and Dihui Lu were
funded under this grant for 2002- 2003.
Clinical Associate Professor and ibiblio
Director Paul Jones was featured in June on
National Public Radio’s “ Morning Edition” about
a Library of Congress ruling which forces Internet
radio stations to pay royalties to musicians and
record companies for the right to play music
online.
Boshamer Professor Gary Marchionini
attended the European Conference on Digital
6
Libraries in September in Rome. He presented a
paper on the school’s Open Video Project.
Earlier in 2002, Marchionini was appointed
editor- in- chief of the ACM journal Transaction
on Information Systems ( TOIS). TOIS is a
premier journal for computer and information
science research.
Associate Professor and Associate Dean
Paul Solomon attended the fourth Interna-tional
Conference on Conceptions of Library and
Information Science: Emerging Frameworks and
Methods ( CoLIS4) in Seattle in July.
Associate Professor Diane Sonnenwald:
■ In September attended a National
Institutes of Health ( NIH) workshop on
collaboratories. The purpose of the workshop was
to provide NIH advice regarding its next
biomedical collaboratory research program,
including what should be included in its next
call for proposals.
■ Also in September, attended the third
Comparative Investigation Workshop held by the
Science of Collaboratories Project at the University
of Michigan.
Associate Professor Helen Tibbo:
■ Attended the Digital Reference Research
Symposium in August at Harvard University.
■ Attended the First International
Invitational Meeting on Archival User Studies in
Ann Arbor, Mich., July 28 — August 1.
■ Had her paper, “ On the Nature and
Importance of Archiving in the Digital Age,”
accepted in Advances in Computing.
■ Had her paper, “ Primarily History:
Historians and the Search for Primary Source
Materials,” published in Proceedings of the ACM/
IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
2002. She presented the paper at the conference,
held in Portland, Ore., in July.
■ With SILS Ph. D. graduate Dr. Lokman
Meho, submitted “ Modeling the Information-
Seeking Behavior of Social Scientists: Ellis’s Study
Revisited” to the Journal of the American Society
for Information Science & Technology ( JASIST).
■ Presented her paper, “ Going to the
Source,” to the Society of American Archivists in
Birmingham in August.
■ Presented “ Loving Our Users as Our
Material” at the Midwestern Archives Conference
in Minneapolis in May.
■ Received grant funding for the NC ECHO
( Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) Administra-tive
Metadata Template from the N. C. State
Library, LSTA Grant.
■ Received a grant from the Gladys Kriebel
Delmas Foundation for her project, “ Primarily
History: Historians and the Search for Primary
Source Material,” with the University of Glasgow.
Professor Barbara Wildemuth:
■ Had the following paper she co- authored
presented by Dr. Gary Marchionini in September
at the European Conference on Digital Libraries
in Rome: Wildemuth, B. M., Marchionini, G.,
Wilkens, T., Yang, M., Geisler, G., Fowler, B.,
Hughes, A., & Mu, X. ( 2002). “ Alternative
Surrogates for Video Objects in a Digital Library:
Users’ Perspectives on Their Relative Usability.”
■ Had two papers to which she contributed
accepted for publication in Health Promotion
Practice. Co- authors of the first include SILS
faculty, students and alumni. They are ( 1)
Linnan, L. A., Wildemuth, B. M., Gollop, C.,
Hull, P., Silbajoris, C., & Monnig, R. ( 2002).
“ Public Librarians as a Resource for Promoting
Health: Results From the Health for Everyone in
Libraries Project ( HELP) Librarian Survey” and
( 2) Cheh, J. A., Ribisl, K. M., & Wildemuth, B. M.
( 2002). “ An Assessment of the Quality and
Usability of Smoking Cessation Information on
the Internet.”
■ Contributed to a paper accepted for
publication in the Journal of Preventive
Medicine: Sutherland, L. A., Campbell, M.,
Ornstein, K., Wildemuth, B. M., & Lobach, D.
( 2002). “ Development of an Adaptive Multimedia
Program to Collect Patient Health Data.”
Library Technical Assistant Stacy Graham
won a Star Heels Award from the Academic Affairs
Library.
Director of Development Shawn Jackson
was elected treasurer of the Raleigh- based
nonprofit organization Capital City Clauses,
which collects toys for the Salvation Army
Christmas Cheer program each year.
Assistant Director of Information Technol-ogy
Cheryl Lytle was elected to the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Employee Forum, a
group of employees elected by their peers. The
forum’s mission is to constructively address the
concerns of UNC- CH employees.
Director of Communications David
MacDonald and his wife, Marlyse, welcomed their
first son, Evan Christopher, on Sept. 28. ❑
As the result of a Fulbright grant, Professor Jerry Saye will be
based this spring in the Department of Library and Information Science
and Book Studies, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Ljubljana in
Slovenia.
As a lecturer at the university, Saye will address topics such as the
organization of information approaches and initiatives in the United
States and the history of the book in the Western Hemisphere.
During his five- month stay, Saye will work with his former
doctoral advisee Dr. Alenka Sauperl ( Ph. D. ’ 99), an assistant professor
at the university. For the past four years, Saye and Sauperl have co-presented
papers at the Annual Conference of the Union of Associations of Slovene Librar-ians,
of which they are both members. ❑
Jerry Saye
What’s Happening
with Faculty, Staff
Continued from preceding page
Director/ Staff News
Beth Boyette has joined the SILS
staff as assistant student services manager.
Boyette, who received
her bachelor’s degree
and a 9- 12 teaching
certificate from
Meredith College,
most recently worked
as assistant guest
services director of
the YMCA Blue Ridge
Assembly in Black Mountain, N. C. At SILS,
she will work primarily with the school’s
undergraduate programs.
Ann Lambson has joined the SILS
staff as external affairs assistant/ student
services assistant and
is the first person
most people will see
when entering the
school’s main office
in Manning Hall.
Lambson, who
received her
bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from Brigham Young
University, worked for the National Building
Museum in Washington, D. C., before
relocating to the Triangle. ❑
Two Join Office Staff
Beth Boyette
Ann Lambson
Saye to Spend Spring Semester in Slovenia
7
SILS was well represented at the American
Society for Information Science and Technology
( ASIST) annual meeting held recently in
Philadelphia. Faculty members, doctoral
students and master’s students participated at
the conference in several capacities.
Professor and Associate Dean Barbara
Wildemuth helped organize a research
symposium on measuring search behaviors,
moderated award- winning student papers and
served as a panelist for “ The Library of the
Future: Interweaving the Virtual and the
Physical.” She also organized a doctoral
seminar on research and career development.
Associate Professor Diane Sonnenwald
gave a talk on collaboration at the conference’s
Knowledge Management Summit and presented
a paper, co- authored with Ph. D. student
Seung- Lye Kim , titled “ Investigating the
Relationship Between Learning Style and
Preferences and Teaching Collaboration Skills
and Technology: An Exploratory Study.”
Associate Professor and Associate Dean
SILS Presence Definitely Felt at ASIST Annual Meeting
Paul Solomon presented a paper on
“ Bringing People, Technology and Systems
Together Through Classification” and partici-pated
in a panel discussion. Assistant Professor
Jane Greenberg chaired two panels,
including “ Subject Metadata from the Other
Side.”
Boshamer Professor Gary Marchionini
was a panelist for “ User Studies and Information
Architecture.” He and Assistant Professor Brad
Hemminger served as panelists for
“ Bioinformatics in Information Science
Education” as well as mentors for junior scholar
participants in the doctoral seminar on research
and career development, in which SILS doctoral
student Gary Geisler participated.
Assistant Professor Greg Newby and
Ph. D. student Bin Li presented a paper on
laptop requirements in graduate LIS education.
Assistant Professor Deborah Barreau
presented a paper titled “ Laying the Foundation
for a Virtual Department.” She also received
the ASIST Outstanding Information Science
Teacher Award ( see story, front page).
Ph. D. students Sheila Denn and John
MacMullen presented a poster on “ The
Ambiguous Bioinformatics Domain: A Concep-tual
Map of Information Science Applications for
Molecular Biology.”
Doctoral student Lovetta James
presented a poster titled “ Teachers’ Attitudes
Towards Computer Adoption: An Integrated
Theoretical Perspective.” Fellow Ph. D. student
Abe Crystal helped with the setup for several
sessions.
Master’s student Tony Bull was a
participant in the ASIST student chapter
meeting along with Marchionini. Kelly
Maglaughlin, a Ph. D. student, was invited to
participate in the conference’s doctoral forum
but was unable to attend.
Dean Joanne Gard Marshall attended
a meeting of deans and directors at the
conference to discuss the changing nature of
LIS programs and the potential need for a
formal council of deans and directors. ❑
NHPRC Grant Gives Boost to ‘ Digital Desktop’ Project
Duke University’s Tim Pyatt ( left), co- principal investigator, describes the
“ Digital Desktop” project at a recent meeting held at Davis Library. SILS
Dean Joanne Gard Marshall looks on.
By Katie Vick
“ The point of this research
is to design best practice
guidelines around the
way people
really work.”
-- Dr. Helen Tibbo
Dr. Helen Tibbo, an associate professor at SILS, and Duke
University Archivist Timothy Pyatt have received $ 174,530 in funding from
the National Historical Publications and Records Commission ( NHPRC)
for the second and third years of a joint UNC- Duke project titled
“ Managing the Digital University Desktop.” Combined with the $ 78,605 for
year one, this is the second largest electronic records project funded by
NHRPC. Total project funding
amounts to over $ 500,000 with
support from SILS, UNC’s
Academic Affairs Libraries and
Duke University Library.
The research project will
run through June 2005 and
investigate the desktop
management and e- mail
practices of faculty and staff in
academic units and adminis-trative
offices at UNC- CH,
across the 16- campus UNC system and Duke University. It will result in a
compilation of best practices and realistic recommended guidelines for
management of e- mail and electronic records based on user needs and
behaviors. It will also produce classroom and web- based training modules.
“ Electronic records, and especially e- mail management, are issues
that universities across the country are struggling with now,” said Tibbo.
“ The point of this research is to design best practice guidelines around the
way people really work. To do that, we need to know how real faculty,
administrators and staff deal with their digital desktops.”
Tibbo and Pyatt will lead the project. Dr. Paul Conway, director
of information technology services for Duke University Libraries, will
act as project consultant. Frank Holt, record services coordinator,
and a UNC archivist, will serve as co- advisors. SILS Ph. D. student
Ruth Monnig is project manager and Kimberly Peters of SILS is
assistant project manager.
“ Time is of the essence in finding solutions and best practices to
help employees manage the materials on their computers,” said Tibbo. “ It
is very exciting that Carolina and Duke are collaborating on a project that
is addressing digital preservation and electronic records management –
some of the largest challenges of our time.”
The NHPRC, a statutory body affiliated with the National Archives
and Records Administration, supports a wide range of activities to
preserve, publish, and encourage the use of documentary sources relating
to the history of the United States. ❑
Co- Principal
Investigator
8
Distance Ed Offerings at SILS on the Rise
The world of technology is revolutionizing
traditional teaching methods and SILS continues
to stay at the forefront of this change. Courses
taught via the Internet have risen in number
and popularity as professors and students realize
the benefits of distance education.
Drs. Claudia Gollop and Evelyn Daniel are
two “ pioneers” of distance education at SILS.
Gollop is currently teaching her “ Health
Sciences Information” course online and taught
“ Consumer Health Information” over the web
in the spring. Daniel has taught several
Internet- based courses, including “ Manage-ment
of Information Agencies” and “ The School
Library Media Center” ( this fall). The latter is
part of the school’s new school library media
coordinator certificate program, offered online
in conjunction with UNC’s School of Education.
“ Evidence- Based Medicine and the
Medical Librarian” is another online course at
SILS and is led by adjunct professors Julie
Garrison and Connie Schardt, from the Duke
University Medical Center Library, and Julia
Kochi, from the University of California at San
Francisco. All online courses at SILS are taught
using the Blackboard software package.
Gollop, who taught “ Consumer Health
Information” as her first online course in
Spring 2002, said that she decided to give
distance education a chance as an experiment.
While she had to make some changes in her
style of teaching, Gollop thought the hardest
part was adjusting from traditional classroom
culture to that of a virtual classroom.
“ I can’t see people; I can’t get that
inquisitive look,” she notes. “ I pick up on lots of
cues in a physical environment that I can’t pick
up online.”
Schardt says she encounters the same
problems with “ Evidence- Based Medicine.” “ If
the students don’t tell us, we don’t know if they
are getting all the material.”
Students from all over the world enroll in
“ Evidence- Based Medicine” and “ Health
Sciences Information,” both of which have been
approved for continuing education credit by the
Medical Library Association. “ Evidence- Based
Medicine” has attracted students from as far
away as Brazil, Iceland, Hong Kong and India.
While adding to the diversity of the class,
this worldwide reach does pose some logistical
challenges, however. Gollop notes that with
some of her students three time zones ( or
more) away, scheduling “ chat” sessions is
sometimes difficult, if not impossible.
Regardless of such difficulties, the
advantages of distance education outweigh the
disadvantages, Schardt says, adding that the
online environment allows her to give her
students more individual attention and gives her
the chance to reach students that she might not
be able to in a regular classroom setting.
“ Evidence- Based Medicine,” which runs
for eight consecutive weeks, was taught as a
Medical Library Association CE course for two
years before being moved to SILS in 2001. It is
divided into four modules, which include
building a clinical question, searching the
literature and evaluating studies. The fourth
module deals with the role of librarians in
evidence- based medicine. A final assignment
ties together all four modules.
“ Each student receives personalized
feedback on the reviews and exercises which
accompany each module,” says Schardt. “ It is
this feedback that the students consistently
report as being the strength of the course.”
Distance education also allows people that
may not be able to come to a classroom on a
regular basis the chance to learn and improve
their skills. Online courses also typically provide
instructors with more flexible hours.
Gollop said that online courses give
students that may be too shy to speak in class a
chance to share their thoughts via the
discussion board. She thinks this is important
because many students need to re- read
information before they can form an opinion
and distance education provides them the time
to do so.
“ Students feel more comfortable and have
a better understanding of the material and are
required to speak up,” said Gollop. “ It forces
involvement. It’s good for them.”
Past participants of “ Evidence- Based
Medicine” have found the class to be extremely
valuable and applicable to the real world. Jo- Ann
Babish, director of library sciences at Moses
Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Penn., took
“ Evidence- Based Medicine” a year ago. Since
then, she, along with the hospital’s medical
director, started an evidence- based medicine
journal club and invited two professors from
California to present an evidence- based
medicine workshop for residents.
“ I am sure none of this would have
happened if I had not taken the online course,”
says Babish.
Beth Hill, who received her MLS through
the distance education program at the
But Online Education
Not Without its Share
Of Challenges
By Katie Vick
Dr. Claudia Gollop uses Blackboard software to teach her Health Sciences Information online class.
Continued on next page
9
University of Arizona in August 2001, says the
skills she gained were immediately applicable
since the class was geared toward librarians. “ I
have started to teach some classes here at my
hospital on searching the Internet, evaluating
the Internet and print resources, with the hopes
of eventually teaching the ‘ formulating the
clinical question and searching the resources’
component of ‘ Evidence- Based Medicine’,” she
says.
“ Evidence- Based Medicine” will next be
offered in the spring of 2003. For more
School Plans Return to Prague
information, visit www. ils. unc. edu/ ils/
continuing_ ed/ ebm. The next session of
Gollop’s “ Health Sciences Information” has not
been decided, but information about the course
can be viewed at www. ils. unc. edu/ hsi.
For more information on the school’s new
school library media coordinator certificate
program, visit www. ils. unc. edu/ SLMC or
contact Daniel at daniel@ ils. unc. edu.
Two new distance education courses are
planned for next spring as well – “ Information
Entrepreneurship” and “ Open- Source
Technology for Librarians.” Watch the SILS
continuing education web page ( linked at
www. ils. unc. edu) for more information. ❑
SILS Faculty to Help
Improve PR in Russia
Dr. Barbara Moran ( fourth from left) is flanked by participants in last year’s inaugural seminar to
the Czech Republic: ( from left) Miriam Intrator, Fran Larkins, Vivienne Blake, Glynis Grau, Elizabeth
Tsai and Nicole Urquhart. Intrator and Urquhart are SILS master’s students.
Building on the success of its inaugural
Prague seminar earlier this year, SILS is now
taking registrations for a return visit to the
Czech Republic in June 2003.
The two- week program for library science
students and professionals will begin June 1, and
run through June 15. Modeled after the school’s
popular “ Libraries and Librarianship: Past,
Present and Future” seminar to Oxford and the
Bodleian Library, now in its 11th year at SILS,
the Prague program features lectures and tours
relating to librarianship in the former
communist nation.
Co- sponsored by Charles University, the
seminar is available for academic credit
through UNC- Chapel Hill. A SILS faculty
member will serve as the seminar’s academic
advisor.
Those interested in registering for this
inaugural seminar should visit SILS on the web
at http:// ils. unc. edu/ ils/ continuing_ ed/
prague. The web site features detailed pricing
information as well as a list of planned
excursions and activities. Space is limited; early
registration is encouraged.
SILS graduate student Nicole Urquhart,
participated in this year’s inaugural Prague
seminar. “ Prague is a wonderful city with many
beautiful and interesting libraries,” she said. “ It
was such a pleasure to visit the different
institutions, both old and new, and at the same
time get to know the city.” ❑
Briefs
UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass
Communication has received a $ 280,000 grant
from the U. S. Department of State to help
improve public relations education in Russia.
Faculty members from SILS will play an
important role in the project.
The three- year grant from the Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs will create a
partnership among UNC, Moscow State
University for International Relations ( MGIMO)
and Irkutsk State University in eastern Siberia. It
will run through Aug. 31, 2005.
MGIMO, located in Moscow, has been
designated as the Russian accreditation agency
for a professional degree in public relations;
Irkutsk was included in the project to provide a
regional perspective in building a new
curriculum.
In addition to hosting Russian visitors,
SILS will send faculty members to the Russian
universities to assess library and information
science needs and instruct the Russians in the
use and management of information resources.
Distance Ed
Continued from previous page
Winifred Sewell , 85, a member of the
SILS Board of Visitors, recently died at her home
in Maryland.
Sewell was senior librarian at Squibb
Institute of Medical Research from 1946- 1961.
She was instrumental in developing MEDLARS
as medical subject headings and later served as
deputy chair of the Biological Services Division
and head of the Drug Literature Program at the
National Library of Medicine.
Sewell also served as president of the
Special Libraries Association from 1960- 1961,
was president of the Drug Information
Association from 1970- 1971, and served as
honorary president of the American Association
of Colleges of Pharmacy in its 100th anniversary
year in 1999- 2000, earning the distinction of
being the first woman and the first librarian to
be so honored.
In 2000, SILS Dean Joanne Gard Marshall
was presented the Special Libraries Association’s
prize for innovation in information technologies
in biomedical and life sciences librarianship
that is named after Sewell. ❑
Board Member Sewell
Was Leader in Field
10
I recently received a grant from the Thailand University Bureau to
bring me to the Southeast Asian nation as a specialist in children’s
literature for the month of August. Taksin University in Songkhla
( southern Thailand) and Mahasarakham University in Mahasarakham
( northern Thailand) collaborated to support the grant.
When I found that I’d received the grant, an agenda was developed
that had me addressing faculty, elementary and secondary school
teachers, and students from all over the country and Laos. In short, I had
a lecture or workshop nearly every day I was there, including weekends.
It was frantic, but a lot of fun.
I gave two three- day workshops, five one- day workshops and three
lectures. I covered topics such as storytelling, the culture of reading and
the history of children’s
literature in the United States,
resources in children’s
literature, and activities for
promoting reading. I also
addressed the teaching of
children’s literature and
classroom techniques to develop
literacy skills.
My lectures were more
focused, due to their shorter
duration, and covered such
topics as storytelling in medical
and therapeutic settings,
children’s librarians as literacy
advocates, and using children’s
literature for language
acquisition.
I also worked with
university students to refine their research projects and suggest resources
for them to search for further information. I taught class sessions in three
different courses while I was there, and I began the process of mapping
out a strategy for building bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph. D. programs in
children’s literature for Mahasarakham University.
This agenda didn’t leave much free time for sightseeing, but I did
get to see some fascinating things while journeying to and from workshop
sites. One highlight, particularly with my librarianship background, was
kneeling in a Buddhist wat, or temple, as a saffron- robed monk brought
forth a 400- year- old manuscript written in Old Lao and inscribed on dried
palm leaves. The book “ covers” were pieces of wood, and the binding was
two pieces of string that went through holes in the palm leaves.
The old monk was one of the few in Thailand who can still decipher
Old Lao text. While many of the characters are similar to contemporary
Thai, their meanings have since changed. It was remarkable to hold a
book that was older than colonized America.
Another exciting experience was listening to another monk weave
Buddhist Jataka tales in Thai. I knelt on the floor enraptured for two
hours, understanding nothing of the speech, but finding clues to the
stories in his dancing eyes and gestures. I sat so long that my legs went
Tales from Thailand
By Brian Sturm
Professor Discusses Monthlong Visit to Southeast Asian Nation
completely numb.
Other highlights included a chance encounter with an elephant on
the side of the road, a cobra sighting in the grass outside my cabin, and
the magic of a world infused with spirits and Buddhist beliefs. I learned
how to pay respect to Buddha and how to answer the office telephone in
Thai. I also learned how to sing a song that gives honor to teachers.
And what about the food, you ask? What remarkable flavors. We had
rice with every meal ( including breakfast), vegetables in curried sauces,
coconut milk and chili peppers with pork. The fruits were astounding in
their subtlety: mangkhud, or mangosteen, with its cherry- red husk
and delicate white flesh; ngaw, or rambutan, with its tentacled red-and-
green exterior and pear- like interior; and noi- naa, or custard
apples, which were a bit like eating custard filled with thumbnail-sized
pits.
Perhaps the most exotic ( and least tasty) fruit was durian, which
smells like a wet towel after lying in a heap in the locker room for three
weeks, but tastes ( if you can get past the smell) a bit like custard as well.
My most exotic experience while in Thailand, however, was my visit
to a dressmaker in a little village to see the local, handwoven silks. This
woman brought out silk after silk, each more beautiful than the last until
I was surrounded by exquisite fabric art. As I was mulling how to afford as
many of them as I wanted, she brought out a bowl of silkworms, boiled
and still in their cocoons. So we sat on the floor and chatted, with the help
of a translator, and ate boiled silkworms, freshly steamed bamboo shoots
and sticky rice.
When in Thailand …
The whole experience was remarkable. I feel as though I made a
difference in their understanding of the power of children’s literature as a
literacy and language tool, I got to share storytelling and children’s games
with them, and I discovered the immediate power of cross- cultural
collaboration and cooperation. ❑
SILS Assistant Professor Brian Sturm ( foreground) participates in a prayer
that pays respect to teachers. On Sturm’s right is Dr. Wajuppa Tossa, a
professor at Mahasarakham University and a well- known storyteller in
Thailand.
11
When master’s student Kristin Andrews walks into a classroom, she
doesn’t hear her fellow students talking to one another or the professor
clearing her throat in preparation for a lecture. In fact, she hardly hears
anything.
The only deaf student currently enrolled at SILS, Andrews is not one
to let her disability hold her back. She began taking classes during the
second summer session and is working on her MSLS degree. She’s
currently enrolled in three classes: “ Resource Selection and Evaluation,”
“ Information Tools” and “ Information and Reference Services.” Although
attending classes without being able to hear anything is challenging,
Andrews says that SILS has been willing to help her in any way possible.
“ Teachers try to be accommodating,” says the Wilmington, Del.,
native. “ They slow down for me and give me extra help.”
Andrews was not born deaf; her loss of hearing was gradual. She
began losing her hearing when she was 3 and finally became totally deaf
at the age of 13. Because she learned how to talk before completely losing
her hearing, Andrews can read lips and hearing aids allow her to hear a
minimal amount of sound.
“ Sometimes my brain fills in sounds because I remember hearing
certain sounds,” she says.
Even though she is capable of reading lips, the university Depart-ment
of Disability Services provides Andrews with interpreters and note-takers
for each of her classes. She says it’s important to have the same
interpreter for the same class, as each interpreter becomes familiar with
the terminology of a course. She currently has two interpreters.
Andrews’ main challenge while in the classroom, she says, is being
able to pay attention to the professor, interpreter and take notes at the
same time. She says this is especially difficult in her computer class.
“ It’s hard because the teacher is
explaining and demonstrating on the computer
screen and it’s difficult to slow down because
we have so much material to cover,” she says.
“ I need to look at the instructor’s screen, my
screen, the interpreter and the professor. I
can’t look at four places at one time.”
Another adjustment for Andrews is getting
used to the size of each class. She spent her
undergraduate years at Hamilton College in
Clinton, N. Y., which is a smaller school.
“ Here, classes have 30 people in them
and I’m used to smaller classes,” she says.
Andrews says that she doesn’t think twice
about being deaf unless she encounters
problems understanding someone, such as a
professor speaking too fast. Many sounds look
alike to her, so she depends on context clues to
figure out what the professor is saying.
“ Making sure all of the information gets
through is a big challenge,” she says. “ It’s
harder to read lips than sign language. My
brain has to sort through sounds, like putting
together the pieces of a puzzle.”
Andrews’ presence in class has made her professors more aware of
their teaching methods. Dr. Claudia Gollop, who is also her advisor,
says that she has learned to pay more attention to how fast she
speaks during lectures, since Andrews does read lips when her
translators are not there.
“ I’m really glad she is in the class,” adds Gollop. “ She makes
contributions to the class and makes us all aware.”
Outside of class, Andrews puts in a lot of time reading her assign-ments
and talking to her professors to make sure she understands the
material. She has to make sure she knows all of the vocabulary for each
class in case her interpreter is unfamiliar with
terms used in class.
“ I probably have to do more work outside
of class than other students,” she says. “ It’s just
something that I do.”
Andrews says she doesn’t let her hearing
loss upset her. In fact, she says that sometimes
she doesn’t mind that she cannot hear all the
noises that surround her.
“ I can’t imagine what it would be like to
hear everything; it would be overwhelming and
scary,” she says. “ I can turn my hearing off. All
of the background noise must be pretty
distracting.”
After she graduates, Andrews hopes to
pursue either a reference services or a
cataloging position in an academic library.
Wherever she ends up, she’ll likely meet
her challenges head- on, with the same
positive attitude and hard work she’s shown
here at SILS, undeterred by her physical
limitations and perhaps even stronger
because of them. ❑
The Silence of Sound
Master’s Student Unfazed by Hearing Loss, but Does Face Challenges
By Katie Vick
Kristin Andrews ( right) watches Kam Stoll from Deaf Access sign during a
recent class in the SILS computer lab, a setting which Andrews says poses
some difficulties not experienced in a traditional classroom.
Kam Stoll signs to Kristin Andrews ( foreground) as
SILS Associate Professor Claudia Gollop ( left) leads her
“ Information Tools” class. Gollop, Andrews’ master’s
advisor, says she’s glad to have the Delaware native in
her class.
12
What’s Happening with SILS Students
Doctoral student Miles Efron worked at the Santa Fe Institute in
New Mexico over the summer. He participated in “ Complex Systems
Summer School,” a five- week program featuring lectures, labs and
research devoted to complex systems.
For his research project, Efron worked with a doctoral student in
computer science and a post- doctoral fellow in immunology to design a
computer simulation of the process by which web sites on a given topic
develop into an ecological system.
At the Digital Resources for the Humanites Conference in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in September, Efron presented a paper, titled “ The Problem of Access
in Contributor- Run Digital Libraries.” Co- authors of the paper included SILS
alumna Serena Fenton and ibiblio. org Director Paul Jones.
In November, doctoral student Gary Geisler successfully defended
his dissertation, titled “ AgileViews: A Framework For Creating More
Effective Information Seeking Interfaces.”
In September, doctoral student Patrick Howell successfully
defended his dissertation, titled “ Statistical Assessment of Differences in
Information Retrieval Effectiveness.” Dr. Bob Losee served as Howell’s
advisor.
Doctoral students Dihui Lu and John MacMullen have received
two of the seven bioinformatics fellowships awarded at UNC- CH for 2002- 03.
The fellowships, funded by the Bioinformatics Training Grant,
support first- year doctoral students who are entering the bioinformatics
curriculum on campus. This interdisciplinary program has students take
courses and participate in research projects in different departments on
campus as part of their education.
With SILS Associate Professor Diane Sonnenwald and Mary Whitton,
doctoral student Kelly Maglaughlin had a briefing on evaluating scientific
collaborators published in the August/ September issue of the Bulletin of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology ( ASIST).
Doctoral student Pnina Shachaf’s paper , “ Ecological Approach to
Virtual Team Effectiveness,” co- authored with former SILS post- doctoral
fellow Noriko Hara, was presented at, and appears in the proceedings of,
the AIS 2002 Americas Conference on Information Systems ( AMCIS 2002).
Shachaf’s poster on “ National Library Consortia Development” was
presented at the International Relations Round Table ( IRRT) poster
session at the American Library Association ( ALA) Annual Conference in
June in Atlanta.
Shachaf also presented “ The Library Consortia Development Process:
An Ecological Approach” at Connections 7: An Information Odyssey, the
7th Great Lakes Information Science Conference in May in Ontario. An
abstract was published in the Canadian Journal of Information and
Library Science.
Doctoral student Debbie Travers had her research article, titled
“ Five- Level Triage System More Effective Than Three- Level in Tertiary
Emergency Department,” published in the Journal of Emergency
Medicine ( Vol. 28, No. 5, October 2002). Co- authors include Anna E.
Waller, J. Michael Bowling, Deborah Flowers and Judith Tintinalli. ❑
Real- World Experience ... May graduate Tammy Allgood ( left)
and master’s student Pushpinder Gill worked this past summer as
interns for IBM’s Websphere Software Group in Research Triangle
Park, working with, among others, IBM Program Director Michel
Bezy, a member of the SILS Board of Visitors. In August, the students,
charged with evaluating information processes within and among
the company’s AIM strategy, portfolio management and market
intelligence teams, presented their findings to IBM representatives.
In addition to their studies, many SILS students take on leadership
roles within the school’s various student associations. The following is a
listing of the new officers for 2003.
■ The Information and Library Science Student Associa-tion
( ILSSA): President Amanda Wilson; Vice President Marianne Gouge;
Secretary Paul Chang and Treasurer Jean Ferguson.
■ The Student Chapter of the American Library Associa-tion
( SCALA): President Terry Hill; Vice President Mary Bryson; Treasurer
Amy Funderburk; Secretary/ Webmaster Brooke Phillips and Children/
Young Adult Representative Colleen Clancy.
■ The Student Chapter of the Society of American
Archivists ( SCOSAA): President Chris Higgins; Vice President Rebecca
Pernell; Secretary Matt Turi and Treasurer Brian O’Connor.
■ The student chapter of the American Society for Informa-
Student Groups Choose New Leaders
Continued on facing page
13
SILS Graduates
Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Science in
Information Science
Master of Science
in Library Science
Undergraduate
Minors
August & December 2002
August 2002
Roger John Donaghy
Xiaoran Lu
David Wayne Myers
David J. Parramore
Yutao Peng
Yuehong Wang
Yihua Zhang
December 2002
Martha Nelson Ballenger
Kenneth A. Brockway
Robert Scott Hanrath
Kate Johnson
Ashley Richardson Langley
Christopher Allen Lee
Kevin John Morgan
Kathryn Michelle Nasser
Mary C. Parmelee
Elizabeth Elaine Robbins
Zachariah Steven Sharek
Jewel Hope Ward
Yuming Zhao
August 2002
Wen- Chin Lan
Kiduk Yang
August 2002
Molynda Ann Cahall
Aisha Antoinette Harvey
Sean Patrick Knowlton
Avena- Lyn Smith
Kristen Nicole Warren
Kelly Ann Wooten
December 2002
Christy Elizabeth Case
Audrey L. Cash
Kathryn Rena Gundlach
Stephanie Dawn Holmgren
Matthew L. Kern
Jessica Marguerite Kilfoil
Bridget T. Lerette
Susan Simon Lovett
Cynthia W. Merrill
Anne Charlotte Osterman
Dorothy Carr Porter
Ruffin Louise Priest
Rebecca Wynne Rhodes
Krista Dawn Schmidt
Gayatri Singh
William Joseph Thomas
Carla Valetich
Richard David Pullen ( Aug.)
Adetola Atewologun*
Michael Patrick Devlin
Alexis Nicholas Mueller*
Swapna Putcha
John Charles Roam
Anthony Dean Robbins*
* - August graduate
December 2002
Patrick D. Howell
Certificate of
Advanced Study
Gates Grant to Aid Students
Interested in Public Libraries
Research Review ... SILS doctoral
students discussed their research at a special
daylong forum held on Dec. 13 in
Manning Hall. Among those presenting were
( counter clockwise from top right) Ron
Bergquist, Miles Efron, Meng Yang,
Junliang Zhang, Debbie Travers, Kelly
Maglaughlin and Todd Wilkens.
SILS has received a project support grant in the amount of $ 6,024
from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will provide one-time
funding for two full- time students working toward their master’s
degrees in information or library science.
The grant will benefit students that are dedicated to the improve-ment
of public library service. In selecting students to receive the grant,
first priority will be given to those committed to serving a North Carolina
public library for at least one year after graduation.
To apply for the funding, applicants must write an essay expressing
their interest in public library service, views on the role of technology in
public libraries and special characteristics that will enable them to help
people in North Carolina utilize public libraries and information
resources. Candidates will also be interviewed. The award covers the
student’s tuition expenses for one academic year.
“ Support for students is a key factor in attracting the best and
brightest to library and information science,” said SILS Dean Joanne Gard
Marshall. “ The future of our field, and of citizen access to information,
depends on it.”
“ Library staff are key players in providing individuals with free
and open access to information,” said Craig Arnold, director of the
foundation’s U. S. Library Program. “ We are proud to be working in
partnership with the University of North Carolina to support future
library professionals.” ❑
By Katie Vick
tion Science and Technology ( ASIST): Chair Matthew Carroll; Vice
Chair Patrick Giovinazzo; Secretary Abe Crystal; Webmaster Jesse Wilbur
and Project Coordinator Kali Lewis.
■ The new Association of Museum and Library Informa-tion
Student Society ( AMLISS): President Sarah Falls; Vice President
Kristin Fiore; Secretary Susan Teague and Treasurer Jennifer Rinalducci.
■ The student chapter of the Special Libraries Association
( SLA): President Susan Keesee; Vice President Meghan Lafferty; Webmaster
Karen Fiore; Secretary Trish Losi and Treasurer Mary White. ❑
Student Leaders
Continued from facing page
14
AlumniNews
Board President Selden Lamoureux ( front row, right) stands with the winners of this year’s book
scholarships: ( bottom row, from left) Martha Preddie and Lisa Stronski and ( top row, from left)
Evelyn Poole- Kober and Nicolae Harsanyi.
Alumni Association
President’s
Message
By Selden Lamoureux
Greetings from Chapel Hill. It is with a
great deal of pleasure that I write my first
column as the SILS Alumni Association Board
president. I’m looking forward to the year ahead
and to continuing the Alumni Association’s
traditions as well as exploring new ways to
support the school, its students, faculty and
alumni.
I’m very pleased to announce that Andy
Ingham ( MSLS ’ 97)
has joined us as our new
vice president/ president-elect,
and that Donna
Nixon ( MSLS ’ 01) is
our new treasurer. Andy
is systems librarian at
Davis Library at UNC,
and Donna is reference/
access services librarian
at the UNC- Chapel Hill
Law Library.
Returning to the
board this year are Secretary Susan
Gramling, who has done yeoman’s work
organizing our events, and Dave Goble , this
year’s immediate past president. I fortunately
have Dave’s good example to follow as president,
and want to take this opportunity to thank him
for his leadership, energy and many creative
ideas.
I also want to thank Martha Barefoot,
who preceded Dave as president, for her steady
steering and long memory, and Ralph
Kaplan, who not only balanced the books, but
also completed a term and a half as treasurer
( by popular demand). Thanks are also due to
SILS administrative directors Shawn Jackson
and David MacDonald, and Dean Joanne
Gard Marshall, for their hard work and
continued support of the board’s activities.
Each year, SILS alumni host a new student
reception. This year’s reception took place on
Sept. 10 and we had a great time and one of our
largest turnouts. I want to thank all who came
and all who provided the food.
I also want to thank those who contributed
New Board in Place
And Ready to Serve
Images from
New Student
Reception
Continued on page 15
ABOVE: A display board at the reception features
images of the late Elfreda Chatman, a faculty
member at SILS from 1986- 1998. The book schol-arships
awarded by the Alumni Association were
recently renamed in honor of Chatman, who
passed away in January 2002 at the age of 59. AT
RIGHT: Board President Selden Lamoureux con-gratulates
scholarship winner Nicolae Harsanyi.
15
SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD
2002- 2003
Selden Lamoureux, President
Head, Serials Section
UNC- CH Academic Affairs Library
CB # 3902
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 3902
( 919) 962- 1120
lamours@ email. unc. edu
David S. Goble,
Immediate Past President
Associate Dean of Libraries
Central Piedmont Community College
Learning Resources Center,
203A Central Campus
( 704) 330- 6441, fax ( 704) 330- 6887
david. goble@ cpcc. edu
Andy Ingham, Vice President/ Pres.- Elect
Systems Librarian
UNC- CH Academic Affairs Library
CB # 3946
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 3946
( 919) 962- 1288
andy_ ingham@ unc. edu
Donna Nixon, Treasurer
Reference/ Access Services Librarian
UNC- CH Kathrine R. Everett Law Library
CB # 3385
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 3385
( 919) 843- 7890, fax ( 919) 843- 7810
nixod@ ils. unc. edu
Susan S. Gramling, Secretary
GrantSource Librarian
Office of Information & Communications
CB # 4106
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 4106
( 919) 962- 7766; fax ( 919) 962- 6024
susan_ gramling@ unc. edu
EX- OFFICIO MEMBERS
Joanne Gard Marshall, Dean
Shawn Jackson, Director of Development
David MacDonald,
Director of Communications
ILSSA Student Representative
Front row ( l to r): Susan Gramling, Selden
Lamoureux and Andy Ingham. Back row
( l to r): Donna Nixon and David Goble.
Ruffin Latest to Be Honored
As SILS Distinguished Alumnus
1981 — Emerson Greenaway
Herman Howe Fussler
Mary Elizabeth Poole
William Stevens Powell
Mary Eunice Query
1986 — Fred Roper
1987 — Gene Lanier
1988 — Jerry Campbell
1992 — Mary Edna Anders
Evan Ira Farber
Lucia Johnson Rather
Katina P. Strauch
1993 — Ray L. Carpenter
1994 — Dale M. Bentz
Barbara Branson
Lesley Farmer
1995 — Rebecca S. Ballentine
1996 — Ridley R. Kessler Jr.
Edwin S. Clay III
Judith K. Sutton
1997 — Robert G. Anthony Jr.
James V. Carmichael Jr.
Jane Bliss Downs
Robert S. Martin
1998 — Martha Harris Davis
Barbara Semonche
1999 — June Fulton
Joe Hewitt
Duncan Smith
2000 – Marshall Keys
2001 – Charles Bryan Lowry
Bernie Todd Smith
2002 – Joan Durrance
Angela B. Ruffin ( Ph. D., 1989), head of the
National Network of Libraries of Medicine Office at the
National Library of Medicine, is the school’s 34th
recipient of its Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Ruffin was presented her award at the school’s
winter commencement ceremony in Wilson Library.
She also served as the
ceremony’s keynote speaker.
Ruffin graduated from SILS
in December 1989. Her
dissertation was titled “ School
Library Media Specialists and
Instructional Development
Activities: An Analysis of Time
Spent in Instructional Consult-ing
with Teachers.” In addition
to her SILS degree, Ruffin earned her bachelor’s degree
from Spelman College, an MSLS from Clark- Atlanta
University ( formerly Atlanta University) and an Ed. M.
in educational psychology from Boston University.
Prior to joining the NLM staff in 2000, Ruffin
taught at several schools of library and information
science and served as media coordinator for the
Durham City Schools. She has 10 years of successful
experience coordinating outreach programs for the NN/
LM Office, starting with the first round of Grateful Med
outreach projects in 1990.
The SILS Distinguished Alumnus Award, first
presented in 1981, recognizes alumni who have
demonstrated outstanding professional library or
information science achievements at national, state or
local levels, or who have provided outstanding service to
SILS or its Alumni Association. ❑
Past Recipients
Dr. Angela Ruffin
to the Elfreda Chatman Fund for Books and
Research. The fund provided two $ 100 gift
certificates to the Bull’s Head bookstore for
graduate students, and this year’s winners were
Nicolae Harsanyi and Lisa Stronski. The
fund also provides a $ 50 certificate for an
undergraduate student, but it’s clear that we
need to get the word out to undergraduates, as
none attended. Graduate student Martha
Preddie graciously accepted the $ 50 certificate.
Congratulations to this year’s recipients.
Thanks to all of you for coming out and
mingling with new students, faculty and fellow
alums. In an effort to encourage alumni
attendance at the reception and to thank all who
were able to contribute food, the board held a
special alumni drawing for another Bull’s Head
gift certificate. Congratulations to Evelyn
Poole- Kober, our first- ever winner of the
board- sponsored gift.
This past year, our annual membership
announcement went out as part of the SILS
newsletter. Many thanks to all new and
returning members who sent in their dues. For
those who might have missed it, you still have
the opportunity to become a member or renew
your membership. If you’re not quite sure if
you are paid up for this year, send me a note
( lamours@ email. unc. edu) and I’ll be happy to
let you know.
I’d also like to extend an open invitation to
call, write or stop by Davis Library and talk to
me about any ideas you might have for making
this a better, stronger Alumni Association.
Thanks for all your support. ❑
President’s Message
Continued from page 14
16
Library digitization expert Kevin Cherry
( MSLS ’ 95) cannot get enough of UNC- Chapel
Hill.
After receiving a bachelor of science in
biology from the university in 1988, Cherry
returned to Chapel Hill to get a master’s in
history in 1993 and a master’s in library science
in 1995. And now, after two years as project
manager of North Carolina ECHO ( Exploring
Cultural Heritage Online), Cherry is applying to
enter the Ph. D. program at SILS in the spring.
Throughout his education and work
experience, Cherry said he has appreciated
libraries and the preservation of special
collections in North Carolina. Although he
values the role of computers, he said the state’s
special collections themselves – ranging from
World War II memorabilia to the papers of
longtime state political leader Terry Sanford –
drive his interest in the field.
“ I’m not a ‘ techie,’” the Denver, N. C.,
native said. “ I’m a pack rat for the common
good.”
The turning point in Cherry’s career came
about four years ago during his stint as history
librarian at Rowan County Public Library.
Cherry was appointed to the Access to Special
Collections Working Group ( ASCWG), a 15-
person committee under the North Carolina
State Library Commission.
The working group’s main task was to find
a better way to discover the state’s special
collections online. After conducting a series of
Collections Inspire “ Pack Rat for the Common Good”
Alumni Profile
surveys and interviews, Cherry and the other
committee members unveiled NC ECHO, a web
portal that would hopefully link nearly 800
cultural institutions in the state.
“ The main idea was the give users a feel
for what a museum is like – all while surfing
the Internet,” Cherry said.
After NC ECHO’s launch, State Library
officials hired Cherry as full- time project
manager, a position he held for two years.
During his stay at NC ECHO, Cherry led the
organization’s partnerships with numerous
statewide cultural institutions.
Dr. Helen Tibbo, a SILS associate professor
who advised Cherry during his master’s student
days at the school, said Cherry was the perfect
choice for first- ever project director of NC ECHO.
“ NC ECHO’s goal of surveying the full
range of cultural heritage repositories in the
state and bringing their treasures to the people
of North Carolina in digital form requires a
leader who is knowledgeable about the
information world,” Tibbo said. “ Kevin did a
fabulous job of introducing the new world of
digital libraries and archives to repositories
across the state.”
After leaving NC ECHO in July 2002,
Cherry took a semester- long position as
visiting professor at East Carolina
University’s Department of Librarianship,
Educational Technology and Distance
Instruction. There he not only led online
classes, but he also travelled from Chapel
Hill ( where he lives) to Greenville several
days each week to teach in person.
Cherry said he planned to apply to enter
the Ph. D. program at SILS at the end of the
fall semester. The last time Cherry was at
SILS in 1995, he received the Dean’s
Achievement Award at graduation for his
master’s paper on managing student
organization files in university archives.
Tibbo, who advised Cherry during his
master’s paper, said she plans to advise Cherry
during his doctoral work as well.
“ I am very pleased that Kevin has applied
to the SILS Ph. D. program and look forward to
working with him on his dissertation,” Dr. Tibbo
said. “ I know Kevin will continue to serve North
Carolina cultural heritage for decades to
come.” ❑
By Robert Albright
Kevin Cherry, a 1995 graduate of SILS, played an
integral role in the development of NC ECHO ( see
story, opposite page), a web portal for digital cul-tural
heritage collections.
The UNC- CH SILS Alumni Association believes that strong ties between alumni
and the school contribute to a robust educational program. To that end, the
association supports the work of SILS and encourages alumni involvement in
the school through a variety of programs and initiatives. The Association’s
activities focus on the crucial areas of communication, recognition of
achievement and financial support.
Membership fees are used to support the work of the SILS Alumni Association
and provide you with a way to participate in the continuing life of the school
and its alumni.
Let us know whether to register you as a Life Member ( no yearly renewal
necessary!) or an Annual Member. Complete this form and a check for the
amount appropriate to the membership you choose and mail it to us to
begin your Alumni Association affiliation:
Name
Street
City State Zip
Phone Fax
E- mail
Please make check payable to UNC- CH SILS Alumni Association and send with this form to: UNC- CH SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION; CB# 3360, 100 MANNING HALL; CHAPEL HILL NC 27599- 3360.
2002- 03 Alumni Dues / Chatman Fund Contribution Form
Total amount enclosed = $
Degree: Graduation year:
❏ Life Membership. Enclosed is my check for $ 120.
❏ Annual Membership. Enclosed is my check for $ 20.
❏ Dr. Elfreda Chatman Fund for Books & Research: $ ______
17
Charles Wetzell of Gastonia nearly died after being shot in the
chest during a World War II battle. But a metal canteen hanging from
Wetzell’s neck deflected the German bullet and redirected it to his
shoulder – miraculously saving his life. A fellow American soldier
found the enemy’s gun and gave it to Wetzell as the North Carolina
native was being carried off on a stretcher.
More than 50 years later, the gun and bullet that wounded
Wetzell are on display at the American Military Museum in Gastonia,
where Wetzell serves as a volunteer and tells his personal story of
survival to museum visitors.
But if people cannot visit the museum in person, they can now
discover Wetzell’s unique war story online. Thanks to the efforts of
several SILS alumni and other state librarians, people can access
many of the state’s historical treasures through North Carolina ECHO
( Exploring Cultural Heritage Online). Administered by the State
Library of North Carolina, NC ECHO is an evolving statewide project to
provide online access to nearly 800 cultural institutions – including
Wetzell’s war museum.
Kevin Cherry ( MSLS ’ 95), project manager of NC ECHO for two
years, is among several SILS alumni involved in the project to build a
statewide framework for digitizing the state’s libraries, archives and
museums. Cherry, Donna Baker ( MSLS ‘ 01) and Scott Reavis ( MSLS
‘ 00) have all contributed to the NC ECHO digitization project.
Cherry, who left NC ECHO in late July 2002 to become a guest
instructor at East Carolina University and to pursue a Ph. D. at SILS,
said NC ECHO ( www. ncecho. org) offered a portal where users could
search the state’s cultural resources in digital form via one web site.
“ The directory of cultural institutions stretches from Murphy to
Manteo,” Cherry said. “ It is truly amazing what all is out there, from
the ridiculous to the sublime.”
NC ECHO, funded by a federal Library Services and Technology
Act Grant, focuses on the concept of digitization, which uses new
technologies to provide a reasonable digital copy of rare cultural
items. Hoping to increase Internet access to the state’s specialized
resources, leaders in the library community unveiled NC ECHO in
April 2001 after nearly two years of surveying the needs of cultural
institutions.
Although NC ECHO is not the only statewide digitization
initiative in the United States, the program sets itself apart by
welcoming all state institutions – whether big or small, historical or
fine arts- related, technologically advanced or way behind in digital
times – to join the trend toward offering resources in electronic
format.
“ NC ECHO is very broad- based, and that helps bring together
collections that were split a long time ago. It also brings together
information that previously would have never been thought to be put
together,” Cherry said.
Cherry and Reavis, former project librarian of NC ECHO, have
moved on to other jobs in the library science community. But Donna
SILS Alumni Playing Important Role in NC ECHO
By Robert Albright
Baker, another SILS alumnus involved in the digitization project,
continues to work for NC ECHO as project librarian. She travels all over
the state with a digital camera in hand and visits hundreds of cultural
institutions.
“ I am truly lucky to be a recent graduate and have such an
interesting, multi- faceted first job,” Baker said. “ I am constantly
learning more about technology and cultural institutions.”
Throughout her trips across the state, Baker said the state’s
cultural caretakers appreciated the benefits of electronically copying
historical documents and items.
“ Whether or not people are motivated to digitize or not after our
visit, they often come away from the meeting with a new way to think
about their collection,” Baker said.”
Aside from linking nearly 800 state cultural institutions online,
the NC ECHO Web portal also provides links to the 180 special
online collections in the state, including UNC- Chapel Hill’s
Documenting the American South and East Carolina’s North
Carolina Periodicals Index.
Whether someone is working on an elementary school project or
a dissertation, that person can visit NC ECHO’s web site for help in
finding a wide range of research materials housed in North Carolina’s
museums and libraries.
In addition to offering a connective web portal, NC ECHO has also
identified standards for digitization, established a continuing education
program to teach special collection skills and awarded funds to
organizations pursuing digitization projects.
NC ECHO, winner of the 2001 Outstanding Library Program Award
from Solinet, will continue to build its digital collection in the future,
Cherry said. As a result, accounts like Wetzell’s near- death experience
will be added regularly.
“ NC ECHO is an organizing principle, and for years to come it will
act as an information center, a guide and portal for the state’s many
digitization projects,” he said. “ There are some excellent resources out
there.” ❑
Former NC ECHO project director and SILS alumnus Kevin Cherry ( back
row, with bow tie) hosted the NC ECHO Digitization Institute at Manning
Hall in the spring.
Project’s Goal is to Digitize
State’s Cultural Treasures
18
In Memoriam
Death notices are provided by the UNC- CH General Alumni
Association ( GAA). Dates in parentheses indicate class year.
Notify the GAA Records Department with death announce-ments
at PO Box 660; Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
What’s Happening with SILS Alumni
Christel L. McCanless ( MSLS ’ 66) co-authored
Faberge Eggs: A Retrospective
Encyclopedia ( 2001) with Will Lowes. McCanless
is a library consultant and independent researcher
and is active with the Art Reference Library of the
Huntsville Museum of Art and the Research
Institute of Paper Technology in Boston.
John Moorman ( MSLS ’ 72) received his
Ph. D. degree in library and information science
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign in May. His dissertation was titled
“ Combined School Public Libraries in the United
States: Three Comparative Case Studies.” He is
director of the Williamsburg ( Va.) Regional
Library.
Dav Robertson ( MSLS ’ 75) has been
elected chapter chair- elect for the Special Libraries
Association. He is director of the NIEHS library
in Research Triangle Park.
Martha M. Smith ( MSLS ’ 79) has been
appointed to the faculty at Drexel University’s
College of Information Science and Technology
( IST). She will be responsible for providing
leadership and coordination for the college’s
online M. S. program.
Hugh J. Treacy ( MSLS ’ 79) is associate
director of the Whittier Law School Library in
Costa Mesa, Calif. He is also treasurer of the
Orange County Library Association.
Eleanor I. Cook ( MSLS ’ 82) married
Joseph R. Balint Jr. on March 7, 2000. She is
serials coordinator at Appalachian State University
and is president of the North American Serials
Interest Group for 2002- 2003.
Laura Davidson ( MSLS ’ 82) became dean
of library information services at Meredith College
in Raleigh on July 1. She previously served as
head of information services at Georgia Southern
University’s Henderson Library.
Gerald Holmes ( MSLS ’ 84) participated
on the panel for the program “ Your Article Has
Been Accepted…” during the fifth National
Conference of African American Librarians in Fort
Lauderdale, Aug. 13- 15. Holmes, an assistant
reference librarian at Jackson Library at UNC-Greensboro,
also served on the volunteers sub-committee
for the Association of College and
Research Libraries’ ( ACRL) 11th National
Conference in Charlotte in April.
Susan Janet Towe ( MSLS ’ 94) is the
Public Services Librarian at Northern Marianas
College in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.
Andrew Koebrick ( MSLS ’ 95) ran as a
Green Party candidate for secretary of state of
Minnesota.
Sharlene Harris ( MSLS ’ 96) is director of
libraries for the Government of the Virgin Islands.
Jane Ibl ( MSLS ’ 96) is senior research
specialist at Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
in San Francisco. She has also served as chair of
the Professional Development Committee of the San
Andreas Chapter of SLA for the past three years.
Doug McGee ( MSLS ’ 96) is engineering
librarian at Nimitz Library at the U. S. Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Lynn W. Zimmerman ( MSLS ’ 96) received
a PhD in curriculum and teaching with a
concentration in the cultural foundations of
education from UNC- Greensboro in May. She is
assistant professor of multicultural education at
Purdue University- Calumet in Hammond, Ind.
Evelyn M. Poole- Kober ( MSLS ’ 97)
attended the 12th annual SAIL ( Southeast Affiliate
of IAMSLIC) conference at the Virginia Institute of
Marine Science in May. She was elected SAIL
representative to IAMSLIC ( International Aquatic
and Marine Science Librarians and Information
Centers). She also served on the Task Force on
Online Library, which was formed by the Air &
Waste Management Association ( AWMA).
Poole- Kober also attended the Fifth Annual
Meeting of the Atmospheric Science Librarians
International ( ASLI), which was held in
conjunction with the 82th Annual Meeting of the
American Meteorological Society, in Orlando in
January. As the 2000 ASLI chair, Evelyn serves on
the ASLI executive board and is also membership
chair.
Steven Case ( MSLS ’ 98) married Sue
Brown on August 8. The couple resides in
Chapel Hill.
Ralph Kaplan ( MSLS ’ 98) received the Al
Maresh Memorial Award in August at the
international conference of the Correctional
Education Association in Portland, Ore. He
received the award for his web- based work for the
Correctional Education Association. Kaplan is a
systems librarian for NC LIVE, North Carolina’s
virtual library.
Robin Hollingsworth ( MSLS ’ 99),
director of the Sampson- Clinton Public Library
System, and Joey Williford, a pharmacist with
Eckerd Drug and Newton Grove Drug Company,
were married July 27.
Renee McMannen ( MSLS ’ 99) married
Keith Beard on April 20. She is employed in the
information management organization at
GlaxoSmithKline in Research Triangle Park.
Rich Murray ( MSLS ’ 99) is catalog
librarian for Spanish and Portuguese languages
at Duke University. He is also the 2002- 2003 chair
of the Shirley Olofson Memorial Award committee
of the American Library Association’s New
Members Round Table and was appointed to the
Subcommittee on Recruitment of the Association
of College & Research Libraries’ Western
European Studies Section.
Naomi V. Tuttle ( MSLS ’ 99), formerly
health sciences librarian at Shenandoah
University in Winchester, Va., is now a library
media specialist at Park View High School in
Sterling, Va. She will also be working on her
teacher certification and M. Ed. with a specializa-tion
in reading.
Jessie Clegg Griffin ( ABLS ’ 32) Jan. 28, 1993
Evelyn Day Mullen ( ABLS ’ 32) Nov. 5, 2001
Eleanor Robinson Pearsall ( ABLS ’ 33) July 19, 2002
John Wesley Dudley ( ABLS ’ 35) Dec. 28, 2001
Sarah Bowling Holland ( ABLS ’ 38) Oct. 6, 1999
Eleanor Smith Godfrey ( ABLS ’ 39) July 4, 2002
Nancy Wilson Levy ( ABLS ’ 40) Jan. 7, 2002
Ruth Johnston Davis ( BSLS ’ 42) Dec. 26, 2001
Lunelle Geer Archer ( BSLS ’ 43) May 13, 2002
Elizabeth Henderson Wood ( BSLS ’ 43) Aug. 4, 2000
Eleanor Smith Alexander ( BSLS ’ 44) Jan. 4, 2001
E. Lucille Higgs ( BSLS ’ 44) Dec. 26, 2000
William Edward Ticknor ( BSLS ’ 47) Nov. 24, 1999
Ethel Collins Wakefield ( BSLS ’ 48) Aug. 27, 2002
Marian Sanner ( BSLS ’ 49) March 28, 1997
Clyde Joseph Miller ( BSLS ’ 50) Jan. 14, 1997
Flora Susan Lockridge ( BSLS ’ 52) Dec. 20, 2000
John Wesley Pinkerton, Jr. ( BSLS ’ 56) March 3, 2002
Peter Kudrik ( MSLS ’ 58) April 9, 1991
Eunice Paige Drum ( MSLS ’ 66) June 10, 2002
Margaret Brown Hunnicutt ( MSLS ’ 68) May 8, 2002
J. Marshall Bullock ( MSLS ’ 88) Aug. 20, 2002
Continued on facing page
19
Heidi J. Dressler ( MSLS ’ 00) is a
librarian and archivist at Rush- Presbyterian- St.
Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, Ill.
Winifred Fordham ( MSLS ’ 00) is
assistant preservation librarian at Wilson Library
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mihoko Hosoi ( MSLS ’ 00) is public
services librarian at Cornell University in Ithaca,
N. Y.
Jennie Radovsky ( MSLS ’ 00) is branch
manager of the Baron F. Black Homework/
Learning Center, which is part of the Norfolk
Public Library System, in Norfolk, Va. The
learning center is designed to serve the needs of
the community’s children and young adults.
Alison Gilchrest ( MSIS ’ 01) is research
associate with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s
Department of Paintings Conservation in New
York City.
C. L. Quillen ( MSLS ’ 01) is a librarian at
the Camden County Library System’s South
County Regional Branch Library in Atco, N. J.
Anna Van Scoyoc ( MSLS ’ 01) is reference
and instructional technology librarian at the
University of Georgia.
Dr. Debra J. Slone, ( Ph. D. ’ 01), has
joined the faculty of the School of Library &
Information Studies at Clark Atlanta University in
Atlanta, GA. Slone’s dissertation appeared in Vol.
53, No. 13 of the Journal of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology ( JASIST).
Paulina Vinyard ( MSLS ’ 01) married
Andrew Harper on Aug. 4, 2001. The couple now
resides in Houston, where Paulina is the serials
librarian at the University of Houston.
Endrina Tay ( MSLS ’ 02) is the coordina-tor
of cataloging and metadata for the Jefferson
Library at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in
Charlottesville, Va. ❑
Renewing Ties in Taiwan ... SILS doctoral alumni Irene Owens ( far left) and Wen- Chin
Lan ( far right) joined faculty members Barbara Moran ( second from left) and Evelyn Daniel
at the International Conference on Public Libraries held in October in Taipei, Taiwan. Daniel,
Moran and Owens spoke at the conference; Lan, an August Ph. D. graduate, lives in Taipei.
got news?
Send updates to Ann Lambson at
lambson@ email. unc. edu or CB# 3360, 100
Manning Hall; Chapel Hill, NC 27599-
3360. Make sure to include your degree
and the year you received it.
In May, for the 11th consecutive year, SILS
will sponsor its “ Libraries and Librarianship:
Past, Present and Future” seminar, a two- week
trip to Oxford, England, where participants trace
the Bodleian Library’s past and chart the future
of information and library services.
The program is sponsored by SILS and the
University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library and its
Department for Continuing Education.
Participants may earn three hours of graduate
credit from SILS for attending the May 18- 31,
2003, seminar.
Registration is limited and early registra-tion
is encouraged. An online registration form
can be found at www. ils. unc. edu/ ils/
continuing_ ed/ oxford. ❑
Limited Spots Remain
For Oxford Seminar
What’s Happening
with SILS Alumni
Continued from facing page
SILS Now Offering
Online Program for
School Librarians
SILS and UNC- Chapel Hill’s School of
Education now offer online courses designed to
meet the certification requirements for lateral
entry prospective and provisionally certified
school librarians.
This new program was developed in
response to the steadily declining numbers of
licensed school library media coordinators in
the state of North Carolina since the mid- 1980s.
The need for such professionals in the state is at
an all- time high, said Professor Evelyn Daniel,
coordinator of the program at SILS.
The program is designed for people who
possess master of library science ( MLS)
degrees, but do not have 076- school library
media certification. The course offerings also
provide an excellent opportunity for prospective
students exploring a career in school library
media.
Courses are delivered via a combination of
one- to- three face- to- face weekend meetings in
Chapel Hill. The remainder of course assign-ments
and materials will be delivered via the
Internet.
Upon completion of a series of courses and
passage of the Professional Knowledge Test of
the National Teacher’s Exam, the school may
recommend students for certification.
For more information, contact Dr. Daniel
at ( 919) 962- 8062, daniel@ ils. unc. edu or visit
www. ils. unc. edu/ slmc. ❑
20
❏ One- time gift in the following amount:
❏ $ 1,000 ❏ $ 500 ❏ $ 250 ❏ $ 100 ❏ Other: $____
❏ Multiple- year pledge totalling: $ ________
$____ each year for 3 years OR
$____ each year for 5 years
The School of Information and Library Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3360, 100 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 3360
Nonprofit Organization
US Postage
PAID
Permit No. 177
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 1110
I am proud to support the nation’s top- ranked School of Information
and Library Science. Please find enclosed my gift to:
Your Gifts Do Make a Difference!
❏ Check enclosed ( payable to UNC- CH School of Info.& Library Science)
❏ Credit Card -- ❏ MasterCard ❏ VISA
Card #: _______________________
Exp. Date:__________
Authorized Signature: _______________________
❏ Appreciated securities ( contact Susan Anderson,
susank_ anderson@ unc. edu, ( 919) 962- 8189.)
NAME: ______________________________ DEGREE/ YEAR: __________________
ADDRESS:_________________________________________________________
CITY, STATE, ZIP: ____________________________________________________
TELEPHONE: ______________ E- MAIL: __________________________________
CAMPAIGN CODE
KDO
Amount of gift:
❏ The Dean’s Fund ❏ The SILS Renovation Fund
❏ Other: ____________________________
Increasing the Impact of your Gift
PLEASE RETURN TO:
Director of Development
Sch. of Info. & Library Sci.
UNC- Chapel Hill
PO Box 3360, 100 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599- 3360
For more information,
contact Shawn Jackson at ( 919)
962- 8365 or jackson@ ils. unc. edu
More than 1,000 corporations and
businesses now have programs to
match employee gifts of cash
either in whole or in part. In some
cases, gifts from spouses, directors
and retired employees are
matched. We urge you to explore
this possibility as it can double or,
in some cases, triple a gift. Ask
your employer about matching
gifts.