July 16, 2004

s.i.s. faculty, student, & alumni news

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Professor Richard J. Cox published "Back to Basics: Speaking, Writing, Reading - and Records," Records & Information Management Report 20 (May 2004): 1-13.

Professor Richard J. Cox published "Collecting 'Stuff'," Records & Information Management Report 20 (May 2004): 14-16.

Professor Richard J. Cox published "The Expanding Vision of SAA's Publications Program," Archival Outlook (May/June 2004): 16-17.

Assistant Professor Hassan Karimi and Amin Hammad of Concordia University (Eds.) published Telegeoinformatics: Location-Based Computing and Services. New York: Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., 2004.

Associate Professor Amanda Spink and Bernard J. Jansen will publish Web Searching: Public Searching of the Web as part of Kluwer Academic Publishers' Information Science and Knowledge Management Series, 2004.

STUDENT & ALUMNI NEWS

Bob Campbell, an MLS alumnus who is now on faculty in the Health Information Management program at Duquesne University, received a grant from the National Library of Medicine to work with senior citizens, libraries, and health information. For more information, see the article entitled "Guiding Older Adults Along Information Highway" on the Duquesne website:

http://www2.duq.edu/Times/ArticleBody2.cfm?Id=1372

Amy Pickett, an MLIS student, represented the University of Pittsburgh in the Student-to-Staff program at this year's American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. She was assigned to ALA Cognotes, the daily paper of the conference. Her article entitled "Taylor Branch: We Learn Through Stories" covered a talk presented by Branch, a Civil Rights historian and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. This article appeared in both the June 29, 2004, and the Annual Conference Highlights issue of ALA Cognotes, both of  which are available online at:

http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/an2004/cognotes.htm

MLIS students Molly Barra and Elizabeth DeLawder presented a program on "New Perspectives on School Outreach Programs" at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, on June 27, 2004. Along with co-presenters Georgene DeFilippo and Maria Genest of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Molly and Beth discussed "Bringing Libraries and Schools Together" (BLAST). BLAST is a collaboration between the Carnegie Library system, the Pittsburgh Public Schools, and Dr. Rita Bean of the University of Pittsburgh, to plan, implement, and evaluate curriculum-based literacy programs in K-5 classrooms. The ALA presentation, moderated by Georgene, emphasized the goals of the BLAST program.

MLIS student Jaime Blanck was awarded the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Traineeship, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine through the University of Pittsburgh Center for Biomedical Informatics. In the traineeship, Jaime will divide her time between completing the coursework required for the Biomedical Informatics Certificate Program and working at Falk Library. Congratulations to Jaime!

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-- Mason Cooley, U.S. Aphorist