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Applause!
A Newsletter Applauding Recent LSU Libraries Faculty Accomplishments
This is the first issue of this Newsletter. It will be issued occasionally, as new
material is submitted. Thanks and congratulations to all who contributed to this issue!
John Anderson
- Publications
- "Forgotten Battles, Forgotten Maps: Resources for Reconstructing Historical Topographical
Intelligence Using Army Map Service Materials" Historical Geography,
v.29, 2001. 79-91.
- "Estimating the size of a Large Map Collection, or, How I 'Lost' 200,000 Maps and
Still Kept My Job" Cartographic Perspectives, No.37, Fall 2000. 82-88.
- Presentation
- "Understanding the Balkans - Web Resources: The Good, the Bad, the Mediocre"
presented at Prof. Karl Roider's "Understanding the Balkans Institute," June 20, 2001,
LSU. To see links to these sites, click HERE.
Bill Armstrong
- Appointments/Elections
- Co-Chair of Digitization Task Force for New Members RoundTable of ALA.
- Moderator of the Physics Roundtable program for 2002 SLA annual meeting.
Steve Bensman
- Publications:
- "Urquhart's and Garfield's Laws: The British Controversy Over Their Validity"
Journal for the American Society of Information and Technology, v.52, no.9. 714-724.
Aimee Fifarek
- Publications
- "'Mind and Heart with Spirit Joined': The Buffyverse as an Information System" Slayage: The
Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, no. 3.
- "Electronic Books" Louisiana Libraries, v.63, no.1 (Summer, 200), 12-17.
- Grants
- Junior Faculty Travel Program Grant of $600 to present a paper at
"INTERNET RESEARCH 2.0:INTERconnections" in Minneapolis, MN
in October, 2001. It is the 2nd International Conference of the Association of
Internet Researchers.
Sigrid Kelsey
- Appointments/Elections
- Secretary, New Members Roundtable of ALA.
- Publications
- User Access to Services Committee, RUSA /MARS. "Users' Information-Seeking Behavior:
What Are They Really Doing? A Bibliography" Reference and User Services Quarterly,
Spring 2001 pages 240- 250. (Sigrid is on this Committee)
- Hopkins, Donna K. and Sigrid Kelsey. "Patent and Trademark Depository Library Web Pages:
A Case Study of Subject Specific Library web Pages." E-Libraries 2001 Proceedings, 49-60.
Jane Kleiner
- Appointments/Elections
- Jane was appointed to represent the LSU Libraries & potentially other
libraries in the state participating in EPSCoR projects,
2001. EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) is a joint
program of the National Science Foundation (NSF)
and several U.S. states including Louisiana. EPSCoR promotes the development
of the states' science & technology
resources through partnerships involving the state's universities,
industry, and government, and the Federal research and development enterprise.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Coordinated Collection Development in Sci-Tech Collections Working Group, 2000 -
Mark Martin
- Appointments/Elections
- Local Contact Person for Louisiana on the Membership Committee of the
Society of American Archivists.
Elisa Rasmussen
- Appointments/Elections
- Chair of the Librarians Task Force of the National Women's Studies Association.
Bill Thompson
- Hirings
- New job! Bill will be the Coordinator for Library Instruction at the
University of Western Illinois
Barbara Wittkopf
- Appointments/Elections
- ALA 2002 Conference Coordinating Program Committee
- ACRL 2003 President's Program Committee
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Additional Notes
Congratulations to Sigrid Kelsey, Bill Thompson and Mark Martin. They
were the first three to respond to this call for accomplishments! Each will receive a Uni-Ball
Roller Pen as thanks from me for "getting the ball rolling!" (please stop by my office to pick up your
prize)
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From Liane Hanson, Letters, Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, June 24, 2000.
"A correction to make now, because last week I referred to the initials PBS as an
acronym. Tom Blake [sent a letter which] read, 'An acronym is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, a word formed from the initial
letters of other words. NASA and laser are good examples of acronyms. On the other hand, an initialism, according to the
OED, is a group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter or part being pronounced
separately. CIA, FBI, IRS, NPR and PBS are all examples of initialisms.'
Hence, librarians, take note! ALA, LLA, SLA, ACRL, etc., are initialisms and not acronyms.
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