Archived Articles — Archive for October 2006
October 16, 2006
The new exhibit in the Library’s main exhibit cases highlights a strange irony in the evolution of universities as we know them today: many attributes of college culture that are now deeply institutionalized developed not only without faculty and administration approval—but in direct opposition to their authority.
In mid-September, Stacey Austin began a dual-department internship in the Library. She will divide her time between Cataloging, where she works on monographic cataloging, and Serials, where she works on the OCLC holdings project.
Jennifer Glickstein has been promoted to the position of Evening and Saturday Circulation Supervisor.
October 2, 2006
For the past few weeks, it’s been crouched patiently against the north wall of the InfoCommons. All day long, it broadcasts a changing series of images across its 12 display screens: telescopic views of the cosmos, space-probe views of Mars, satellite images of Earth’s continents seen from space. In case you were wondering, its name is Pixzilla, and it’s hoping for passersby to stop and play.
Scott Devine, the new Head of the Preservation Department, comes to the Library from Raleigh, North Carolina, where for the past five years he has led the preservation program at the North Carolina State University Libraries. After earning an MLIS with an Advanced Certificate in Conservation Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996, he received additional training in rare book conservation at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and at the Centro del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland.
Music Library Head D.J. Hoek was the featured speaker at New Music Northwestern’s October 3 event, A Steve Reich 70th Birthday Celebration at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. D.J.’s book about the pioneer of musical minimalism, Steve Reich: A Bio-Bibliography, was published in 2002 by Greenwood Press.
Having worked two summers in the Conservation department, and full-time since last January, Karen Jutzi has now been hired as a full-time Conservation Technician. Karen earned a bachelor’s degree in applied art and design with a concentration in photography from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Sue Oldenburg is the new Electronic Resources Assistant in the Serials department. She has previously worked in serials at the Art Institute’s library, where she also learned hand book-binding and worked in conservation. During her undergraduate education at the University of Michigan, she worked for the library there in serials and circulation.
On September 15, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on a Northwestern student who is attending the University on a perpetual scholarship, as the beneficiary of a $100 investment by a many-times-great-uncle who bought the scholarship in 1866.
