Archived Articles — Archive for March 2008

Don’t worry—it just takes one click to find out. A short video on Kevin is featured in “24@NU,” a joint web project from The Daily Northwestern and North by Northwestern that investigates what various individuals around the campus are doing, hour-by-hour, throughout a typical day.

An exhibit in the New Book Alcove displays a small selection of books from the gift of the late Frank Keith Underbrink.

I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Geoffrey Swindells as Head of the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department.Geoffrey has been the Head of the Government Documents Department and Federal Depository Librarian at the University of Missouri since 1999. Prior to that, he held the positions of Librarian and Documents Access Librarian at Missouri.

Bill Parod joined the NUL staff on March 3rd as a Repository Developer. Along with Steve DiDomenico, Bill will be a chief developer of our Digital Repository. Bill has been with Northwestern since 1988 and was most recently an Architect for
Scholarly Technologies with Academic Technologies.

The InfoCommons is very happy to have Michelle Oh as our new IC Evening Supervisor. Michelle joined the InfoCommons staff in the Fall of 2007, and is working on her MLS degree at Dominican University. She previously worked at the social service agency Action for Children and received her BA in Human Development and Family Studies from the University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Colin Gillespie has joined the Circulation Services Department as the new morning exit assistant. Colin graduated from NU in 2006 with a B.A. in English and then spent nine months in Turkey teaching English. Other experiences include: attending the Institute for the International Education of Students in Dublin, working on an organic farm in Siena, Italy, and being employed as a woodworker in Honolulu.

The University Librarian has named a committee to organize the recruitment and selection of a new Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology.

A search committee for the Social Science Coordinator position has been formed. Committee members are Harriet Lightman (chair), Scott Garton, Mary Kay Geary, Lucy Lyons, and Peter Devlin (ex officio).