Archived Articles — Archive for August 2007
August 28, 2007
By Vince McCoy
Russell Maylone, Curator of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections for the past 37 years, long-time member of Caxton Club of Chicago, and respected Chicago area bibliophile, may be the last person you’d expect to have had a vagabond youth. But one summer when he was a college student at Syracuse University, he and a buddy decided to jump freight cars out to the west coast. They were able to get all the way from Rochester, New York to Kankakee, Illinois for free by riding the rails. In Kankakee they were able to hitch a ride further west to Twin Falls, Idaho. They were two college boys on a quest to reach Washington State, where Russell had a vague promise of a summer job at a small lumber company now known as the International Paper Company. Russell had no idea what the actual job would be, but the opportunity for a cross-country adventure was just too good to pass up. The job turned out to be deep in the forest making telephone poles. Russell loved the work, and he loved the Pacific Northwest. He returned to Washington State the following summer to work for Weyerhaeuser as a choker setter up on Mount St. Helens.
August 13, 2007
Podcasting offers a new and fabulous way that you can promote the services and resources your department offers. Want to see how fabulous? Watch this podcast about the history of the Wildcats, produced by University Archives. If you like what you see, you'll want to attend the Podcast Workshop on Wednesday, September 12 at 10 am in the Forum Room to find out how your department can start producing fabulous promotional podcasts of your own!
View on YouTube (above: click on the left arrow twice and wait for loading), or download the mp4 version (below: may not work if you don't yet have the right software installed on your computer):
Recently, African American Studies Librarian Kathleen E. Bethel has enjoyed a few accomplishments. She won the Department of African American Studies’s Outstanding Affiliate Award for her service and commitment. She was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, an association of libraries, universities, and other archival institutions with major holdings of materials that document the African American and African diasporic experiences, with a specific focus on Chicago. In addition to this, biographical entries by Kathleen are published in Notable Black American Men: Book II (Thomson Gale, 2007). Kathleen was also surprised to learn recently of her inclusion in the 2006 and 2007 editions of Who’s Who in America and the 2006-2007 edition of Who's Who of American Women. Congratulations, Kathleen, on these successes!
Denise Shorey
Head of Reference
Lindsay King, Daytime Reading Room Supervisor in the Art Collection, has been awarded an Illinois State Library Training Grant. The Illinois State Library gives up to 15 grants per year to MLIS students in Illinois who agree to work in an Illinois library for two full-time years within the first three years after graduation. The $7,500 grants are awarded by the Illinois State Library and the Secretary of State through federal funding under the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), based on students' academic records, a written statement, letters of recommendation, and an interview with a panel of representatives from Illinois libraries.
Lindsay was in Champaign from July 19 to July 28 getting oriented in the University of Illinois's LEEP program, which is conducted mainly online but starts with 10 days on campus meeting with other participants and learning to use the required technology. "It was a really intense 10 days," she says, "but overall a very positive beginning." Resource Sharing's Megan Zellner and the Multimedia Center's Stacey Atkins are also in the LEEP program.
More information on the grants, including application instructions, is on the Secretary of State's website:
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/what_we_do/scholarships.html
The Circulation Department is thrilled to welcome Robin Ortenberg as our new Circulation Services Assistant! Robin has worked at Northwestern University Library since her freshman year as a student assistant in the Interlibrary Loan department, and has recently added Library Privileges to her many areas of expertise.
