Applause!

A Newsletter Applauding Recent LSU Libraries Faculty Accomplishments

Issue no. 2. Thanks and congratulations to all who contributed!

John Anderson

John Anderson, Map Librarian, was acknowledged for his research assistance by the author of Stronger Than Custom: "John M. Anderson patiently edited every chapter when the work was young and was a rich source of friendship, support, and internet expertise almost from the very beginning." Lance Janda, Stronger Than Custom: West Point and the Admission of Women Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001), xvii.

The Geographic Information Systems Awareness Grant was rewarded for another year to the Geography and Map Division of the SLA. Co-investigator with Kelly Blessinger.

William Armstrong

Armstrong, William W. and Peggy P. Chalaron. "The Electronic Reserves Program at LSU: A Dual Study in Service and Survival." Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply 11, no.4 (2001): 1-24.

Moderator of Physics Roundtable, SLA PAM (Physics and Mathematics) Division, Los Angeles, Summer 2002.
Nominating committee, SLA Chemistry Division, 2001/02
Co-chair of Digitization Taskforce, NMRT, ALA, summer 2001
Archives standing committee of NMRT, (newly re-instated) ALA, summer 2001
Faculty Senate Committee on International Education, three yr. term beginning Fall, 2001
Chair, Public Relations, LaSoMi Regional Chapter (Louisiana, Southern Mississippi) of SLA, 2001/02.

nominated for Secretary, NMRT, ALA, 2002

Kelly Blessinger

The Geographic Information Systems Awareness Grant was rewarded for another year to the Geography and Map Division of the SLA. Co-investigator with John Anderson.

Web Administrator for the Geography and Map Division of the SLA.
Chair of the Committee on Committees for LSU Faculty Senate Standing Committees.

Jennifer Cargill

Member, OCLC Members Council [formerly Users Council]
Chair, SOLINET Members Council delegation
Member, ALA's Committee on Accreditation
Past Chair, LALINC
Member, Board of Directors, Association of Southeastern Research Libraries [ASERL]
Member, LOUIS Directors Advisory Council

Peggy Chalaron

Armstrong, William W. and Peggy P. Chalaron. "The Electronic Reserves Program at LSU: A Dual Study in Service and Survival." Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply 11, no.4 (2001): 1-24.
Chalaron, Peggy P. and Alma E. Dawson. "The Library and Information Science Collection at Louisiana State University." Louisiana Libraries 63, no4 (Spring 2001): 10-13.

Marilyn Christianson:

Christianson, Marilyn. Review of "MathDI (Mathematics Didactics Database/Mathematics Education Database)." The Charleston Advisor 3, no.2 (October 2001) (http://www.charlestonco.com)
_____. "Keep Those Vague Phrases Coming! A Response to Scott Dimarco." College & Research Libraries News 62, no. 4 (April 2001): 400-403.
_____. "The Irate Patron is Right." College & Research Libraries News 62, no. 2 (February 2001): 189-191.

Linda Smith Griffin

Griffin, Linda Smith. "Demystifying Academic Library Services through Outreach Program." Louisiana Libraries 63, no.1 (Summer 2000): p.18.

ALCTS, Serials Sections, First Step Award Committee

Paul Kelsey

Kelsey, Paul. "Information Resources for Louisiana Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography." Louisiana Libraries 64, no.1 (Summer 2001): 8-16.
_____. "Retellings." In Encyclopedia of American Children's Literature, ed. Connie Ann Kirk. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Forthcoming.
_____. "Pecos Bill." In Encyclopedia of American Children's Literature, ed. Connie Ann Kirk. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Forthcoming.
_____. "Paul Bunyan." In Encyclopedia of American Children's Literature, ed. Connie Ann Kirk. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Forthcoming.

Sigrid Kelsey

Kelsey, Sigrid. “Hilary Masters.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 244, American Short-Story Writers Since World War II, ed. Patrick Meanor and Joseph McNicholas. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001.

Kelsey, Sigrid and Deborah Lenares. “E-struction: An Electronic Instruction Program at Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans,” The Reference Librarian. Forthcoming.

Lois Kuyper-Rushing

Kuyper-Rushing, Lois. "A Formal Mentoring Program in a University Library: Components of a Successful Experiment." Journal of Academic Librarianship 27 (2001): 440-446.
_____. Review of “Schwann Online (www.schwann.com)." The Charleston Advisor : Critical Reviews of Web Products for Information Professionals 3, no.1 (July 2001). (http://www.charlestonco.com)

_____. "Music Libraries: Centralization vs. Decentralization." College & Research Libraries 63, no.2 (March 2002).

Mark Martin

Mark E. Martin will give a presentation titled, "Identifying and Dating Historical Photographic Formats," to the Baton Rouge Historical and Genealogical Society in March 2002.
Mark Martin will present a paper titled, "The Digital Peril," at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in August 2002.

Martin, Mark E. "An Eye of Silver: The Life and Rebirth of Andrew D. Lytle, Baton Rouge Photographer, 1858 - 1917," is currently under review for publication in 2002 by LSU Press .

Sandy Mooney

Appointed to the Planning Committee of the Arts Section of ACRL.

Faye Philips

Phillips, Faye. "Louisiana State University's Digital Library: A Case Study of Cooperative Ventures." Virtual Libraries in the New Millennium: SOLINET Conference Proceedings, 2001. (URL: http://www.solinet.net/presvtn/vl/vlibraries.htm

Elaine Smyth

Elaine Smyth served on a panel for NEH's Preservation and Access Division. She reviewed grant applications in the field of American history. November, 2001.

Smyth, Elaine. "The E. A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection." Plant Science Bulletin 47, no.4 (Winter 2001): 134-136.
(URL: http://www.botany.org/bsa/psb/2001/psb47-4.pdf)

Lamara Williams-Hackett

Michael Rogers, Laurinda Alcorn, Lamara Williams-Hackett. "How Do You Manage? Case Study Analysis." Library Journal 126, no.8 (May 1, 2001): 59-60.
Williams-Hackett, Lamara, Toby Lyles and Charmaine Henriques. "The Three-Year Experience: The Minority Research Residency Program at the University of Iowa Libraries," Diversity in Libraries: Academic Residency Programs, ed. by Raquel Cogell and Cindy Gruwell. Contributions to Librarianship and Information Science, no. 94. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Teaching Enhancement Fund recipient. Funds were awarded to attend the ACRL 10th National Conference in Denver, Colorado from March 15-18.

Barbara Wittkopf

Invited by the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for Distance Education to be an Instructor for the Louisiana Consortium for the Advancement of Distance Education (LaCADE) Distance Education Certificate Program.

Wittkopf, Barbara, Elizabeth Orgeron, and Trish Del Nero. "Louisiana Academic Libraries: Partnering to Enhance Distance Education." In Proceedings of the Ninth Off-campus Library Services Conference for Distance Learning. April, 2000. (Central Michigan University, 2000): 293-299. Reprinted in Journal of Library Administration 32.1/2 (2001): 439-447, and published simultaneously in Off-Campus Library Services, ed. by Anne Marie Casey (New York: Hayworth Information Press, 2001.

Invited by ALA's Nominating Committee to be a candidate for Council in the 2002 election.

Tara Zachary

Appointed to the Steering Committee of the Description Section of the Society of American Archivists.

Tara Zachary wrote and was awarded a Special Initiatives Grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts to process the records of the Louisiana Folklife Program. The grant also funds the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History's logging and indexing the Program's recordings, which are also part of the collection. The Louisiana Folklife Program, an agency within the Division of the Arts, identifies, documents, conserves, and presents the folk cultural resources of Louisiana.