Archived Articles — Archive for May 2006

On May 17, a crew from WTTW-TV was in the Library filming an interview with composer John Adams and a tour of the Library’s “Nixon in China” exhibit, guided by exhibit curator and government information department head Beth Clausen. Adams wrote the music for the opera Nixon in China, which is currently making its Chicago debut at the Chicago Opera Theater. He has also composed such highly acclaimed works as The Death of Klinghoffer and On the Transmigration of Souls, a piece commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. As the first recipient of the University’s Nemmer’s Prize in Music Composition, he is just completing a two-year residency at Northwestern.

The University Archives made the front page of the Wall Street Journal on May 12, 2006. An article on Kristin Bergfeld, a "professional declutterer," mentioned the 22 cartons of material Bergfeld found in a New York apartment last year and donated to the Archives.

Lorell Butler has joined the Library as Receiving Room Supervisor.

With only 15 days left before the annual International Pot Luck Dinner, NULSA offers some helpful tips on how to dazzle and delight your hungry colleagues.

With the arrival of Mary Kay Costello, the Library welcomes a new Director of Development who is equally at home in the worlds of fund-raising and library science. During eight years with Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, most recently as Director of Prospect Management, Mary Kay worked closely with its Board of Directors on both the strategic and technical aspects of donor identification and development.

Catalog department Head Andrea Stamm has been selected the 2006-2007 Library Fellow at Northwestern’s Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities.

Transportation Library Head Roberto Sarmiento is one of three special librarians featured in the cover story of the April 2006 issue of The Illinois Library Association’s Reporter magazine.