Archived Articles — Archive for October 2004

As you will note, the Library’s staff newsletter has had a little face-lift (defined by Merriam-Webster’s as an “alteration, restoration, or restyling intended especially to modernize”). The much-needed face work was completed by Steve DiDomenico, Mary Bradley, and members of the IT staff, who created a new blog and a fresh look for the newsletter. Mary Bradley is the winner of the newsletter-naming contest and will soon be sipping cappuccino in the Plaza Café. Mary won $25 in Plaza Café coupons for submitting the winning name for the newsletter, Libstaff Links.

Continue reading for more on the staff newsletter and the Library's new graphic identity program.

Thanks to staff throughout the Library, our fall publications are now in the hands of students, faculty, and donors.

A lecture by Claudia Swan, Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University

Welcome to D.J. Hoek, who brings expertise and enthusiasm to Northwestern's Music Library. D.J. received his master's degree in library science from Indiana University in December 1998. He also holds master of music degrees in theory and in composition from Bowling Green State University (1996).

Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies Librarian, has recently participated in a number of professional events focused on libraries and African American studies.

Peter Devlin and Florence Heady have received Service Excellence Awards for helping to implement Northwestern's new Electronic Time Entry System.

Northwestern University Library and the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences have, for the past several years, co-sponsored a program to train all incoming doctoral students in humanities disciplines; in 2004, the program was expanded to include both the humanities and the social sciences.

The Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program (ICCMP) has funded in full a proposal submitted by a group of Illinois academic libraries--prominently including Northwestern's Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies--to improve state holdings of monographs in non-Western Philosophy and Religion.

British collector Humphrey Winterton visited Northwestern University Library on October 1 to view the collection of East African photographs he recently sold to the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies.

The September 2004 issue of National Geographic France features a six-page story on Edward S. Curtis and his photographs recording traditional American Indian culture and customs. The article, titled “Il était une fois l’Amérique…,” is illustrated with four Curtis photographs provided by the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections.

The MARC Department is thrilled to welcome Catherine Grove as its new assistant head.

Lloyd Davidson, from SEL, will be opening the conference and delivering the Plenary Address at the American College of Toxicology meetings in Palm Springs, California, on November 8. The title of his presentation will be "Digitization and its Consequence: Revolutionary Changes in Scholarly and Social Communication and in Scientific Research." A preview of this talk was presented on October 8 to the BMBCB faculty.