Applause!

A Newsletter Applauding Recent LSU Libraries Faculty Accomplishments

Issue no. 5.

May, 2003

William Armstrong

Elected President of Louisiana/Southern Mississippi Chapter of SLA..

Kelly Blessinger

Blessinger, Kelly, contributor. The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Volume 6, Social Sciences. Temecula, CA: The Best Books, Inc., 2003. Forthcoming

President Elect, Louisiana and Southern Mississippi Chapter of the Special Libraries Association
Honors and Awards Committee, Geography and Map Division of the Special Libraries Association

Jennifer Cargill

Jennifer is completing her term on OCLC Members Council in May. She is completing her term on the Association of Southeastern Libraries [ASERL] Board of Directors. She continues to serve on ALA's Committee on Accreditation.

One of Jennifer's books is listed in the Winter 2003 issue of Library Administration & Management as one of the twenty most highly cited works published in the library literature. The title selection was developed using citation analysis.

Marilyn Christianson

ALA Science & Technology Section Continuing Education Committee - 2003 - .

Nancy Colyar

ALA Literacy and Outreach Services Advisory, Office for (OLOS) - Literacy Assembly - representative from LITA 2003-2004
LITA Web Coordinating Committee - liaison from Publications Committee 2003-2004
LITA Web Policy Task Force 2003-2004

Tom Diamond

Library Administration and Management Association. Public Relations and Marketing Section/Education and Training Committee, 2002-2004.

"Beyond the Desk: Outreach Services at the LSU Libraries," at the ACRL/LA 2002 Conference, with Linda Smith Griffin, Paul Kelsey, and Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen.

Corrigan, Andy; Tom Diamond; and J.B. Hill. “Electronic Reference Service Trends Among Louisiana Academic Libraries.” Louisiana Libraries 65, no. 1 (Summer 2002): 3-12.

Aimee Fifarek

Approved by the Board of Supervisors for promotion with tenure to the rank of Associate Librarian.

Linda Smith Griffin

"Beyond the Desk: Outreach Services at the LSU Libraries," at the ACRL/LA 2002 Conference, with Tom Diamond, Paul Kelsey, and Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen.

University

Faculty Admissions Committee, March 2003
Enrollment Management, Action Plan Committee for Early Alert/Degree Tracking, February 2003-
Library Faculty Senator, August 2002
Faculty Senate Committee on Student Recruitment and Retention, August 2002

National

ALCTS Education Committee, 2003
ALCTS-Serial Section, Education Committee, 2003
ALCTS- Serial Section, First Step Award Committee, 2003

Paul Kelsey

Kelsey, Paul and Tom Diamond. "Establishing a Core List of Journals for Forestry: A Citation Analysis from Faculty at Southern Universities." College & Research Libraries. Forthcoming.

"Establishing a Core List of Journals for Forestry: A Citation Analysis from Faculty at Southern Universities," presented at the 2003 USAIN (United States Agricultural Information Network) Conference, Contributed Papers Session, Champaign, Illinois, April 26, 2003.

Sigrid Kelsey

HTML workshop given to St. Aloysius and St. Joseph Academy teachers. April 1, 2003.

Sheila Lee

Lee, Sheila and Linda Schneider, comp. “Louisiana Newspaper Project Parish/Chronological Index.” Special Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA., Dec. 2002. Also available online: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/lnp/chronindex.pdf
_____ and Matt Mullenix, ed. "The WebIndex of the Louisiana Newspaper Project." [Online]. Special Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA. [cited Feb. 2003] http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/lnp/webindex.html

Sandy Mooney

Elected Vice-chair/Chair-elect of ARTS section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Michael Russo

Appointed to the Management of Instructional Services Committee within the Instruction Section of ACRL.

Elaine Smyth

Elected Vice-chair/Chair-elect of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Barbara Wittkopf

ALA Conference Coordinating Team 2003, Toronto, Adjunct Member for ACRL
ACRL President's Program Committee 2003, Toronto
Faculty Senate Improvement of Instruction Committee
Library Faculty Policy Committee
Information Literacy Task Force

Workshop Presentation, "Everyone Who Makes It Has a Mentor," University of New Orleans Librarians, May 7, 2003, UNO.
"How to Break into the World of Library Publishing." Louisiana Library Association, Gonzales, April, 2003.
"Mentoring in ARL Libraries" Fall 1998 and Fall 2002, ACRL Louisiana, Natchitoches, October, 2002.
Participant, first annual Faculty Learning Conversations, THE Forum (Teaching in Higher Education), Baton Rouge, April, 2003.

Wittkopf, Barbara. "Resource Sharing in Louisiana." Resource Sharing & Information Networks 16.1 (2002): 103-120.