The Library Art Committee is beginning to install digital reproductions from Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian in the administrative hallway. The originals are photogravure prints that were published between 1907 – 1930 in text volumes and portfolios, containing 2,226 images of Native American life. Fewer than 300 sets were published. A complete original set is housed in the Northwestern University Library's McCormick Library of Special Collections.

Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian Sarah Pritchard is profiled in the August 2008 issue of The Caxtonian, the journal of Chicago's book-collecting society, the Caxton Club (see page 11).

Following her late July/early August visit to Evanston, new Qatar Library Director Gillian Westera headed off to her new assignment. She sends this update from the desert:

Greg MacAyeal recently joined the Music Library as Assistant Head. Greg comes to Northwestern from Roosevelt University, where he has been Director of the Performing Arts Library since 2002. Prior to his work at Roosevelt, Greg was Fine Arts Librarian and Library Events Coordinator at Augustana College from 1998 to 2002. As Assistant Head of Northwestern's Music Library, Greg will have a wide array of responsibilities, including managing all public-services operations, serving as the primary music librarian for reference and instruction, and participating in collection development.

Tomoko Shibuya joined the Music Library as Music Cataloger in early August. Since 2003, Tomoko has worked at the New York Public Library, first in the Wilson Processing Unit (2003-2004) and then in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound (2004-2008). In the Music Library, she will be responsible for cataloging scores, sound recordings, and other materials.

Laura Fu recently joined the ARC department as a Library Assistant. She has a TV background, having received her BA in Video Production and German from Hofstra University in 2002. Her resume includes work at "The O'Reilly Factor" and on Batman: The Dark Knight. She worked as a director and producer with Sinclair Broadcast Group before becoming their sole news tape archivist. Originally from Holland, Michigan, she moved to Chicago two years ago.

Walter Netsch, architect of the Main Library, as well as many other prominent and radically unconventional buildings around the country, died on June 15 at his home in Chicago. He was a lifetime member of the Board of Governors, and the Board had hoped to thank and honor him in person at the May 15 Deering Society Recognition Dinner by presenting him with its 2008 Deering Family Award. By then his health was too fragile to allow him to attend, however, and the award was accepted on his behalf by University President Henry Bienen.

Dan Zellner, multimedia service specialist in the Library’s Digital Collections department, has been awarded the 2008-2009 Alice Berline Kaplan Humanities Institute Library Fellowship. Dan, who has been deeply involved in Chicago’s improv comedy scene for many years, plans to investigate “The Future of Improv” in the context of new digital media, including audio, video, computer programs and virtual spaces.

When Technical Support Consultant Vince McCoy attended the LGBT Resource Center's Spring Awards Reception and Lavender Graduation on May 28, he wasn't expecting to receive an award himself. But at the ceremony, the center announced the creation of a brand-new award: "The Vince McCoy Honorary Leadership Award."

As food and gas prices have soared, foreclosures have multiplied, and extreme weather has displaced families around the Midwest, more and more people have been turning to food pantries for help. That means the pantries need more help. From July 21 through July 25, NULSA will be collecting donations for the Greater Chicago Food Depository
as part of its One City, One Food Drive campaign.

Assistant Archivist Allen Streicker earned his sixth NU Service Excellence certificate in ten years by helping members of Delta Gamma sorority track down information on three early fraternity presidents whose photos were missing from the gallery of presidents in their executive offices.

Please welcome Mariann Burright to the library. Mariann, who is a member of the Academic Liaison Services Department, joined the Library on July 2 as Scholarly Communication Librarian, with liaison and selection responsibilities for Life Sciences and Environmental
Studies.

Naomi Wolfson recently joined the Circulation Department as our new Stacks Management Evening Supervisor. Naomi holds a BA from University of Illinois at Chicago with a major in History and a minor in Art History. She is currently enrolled in College of Lake County LTA program (Certificate of Library Technical Assistant). Before accepting the position in Stacks Management, Naomi worked in Deerfield Public Library and New Trier Federal Credit Union bank.

Gwen Persons has joined the Transportation Library as a Library Assistant. She is primarily responsible for indexing in the TranWeb database, the Transportation Library's index of transportation and law enforcement periodicals. In addition, she uploads the same records to Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS), the national transportation index at the Transportation Research Board.