Staff News
| Jim Bird is writing a paper, tentatively titled "Do Peer-Reviewed Papers Result from Conference Abstracts of Biennial Marine Mammal Meetings?", for submission to Science & Technology Libraries or Aquatic Mammals. He serves on a committee planning an electronic journal for food technology education. He gave two presentations to international students this semester, introducing them to a variety of library resources in the sciences, and also conducted library instruction classes in a broad range of subject areas. Jim concentrated on collection development in the marine sciences this semester, selecting books and conference proceedings for purchase using targeted grant money. He continues his work on the Fields Pond Stewardship Committee, Maine Audubon Society. |
| Nancy Curtis will attend the Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association this June in Indianapolis. She is organizing a program on transgenic organisms for the 1999 Annual Conference. Among her campus service activities, she taught nearly forty seventh and eighth grade girls how to make their own Web pages at the "Expanding Your Horizons" conference in March. She co-taught the second semester of the Fogler information literacy pilot course with Mel Johnson of the Reference Department. Nancy staffed the Orono Municipal Building shelter during the first few days of Ice Storm '98, and she looks forward to returning to the relative calm of answering telephones during MPR pledge breaks. |
| Marianne Ryan Kapfer attended the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference in New Orleans this January, where she presented a report on the United Nations Depository Library Program to the International Documents Task Force. In March she attended the XXI Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL) Seminar in Washington, D.C. as the Maine PTDL representative. Also in March, she presented a session at the Creating Marketable Intellectual Property seminar, sponsored by the Center for Technology Transfer, in Portland. Marianne will conduct a workshop on patent and trademark searching at the second annual Mid-Coast Home-Based Business Conference in Belfast in May. She is a participant in the Inventors' Assistance Initiative, coordinated by the Maine Science and Technology Foundation. |
| Michael White, currently a Fellowship Librarian in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, recently conducted staff training at the New Haven Public Library and Hartford Public Library, the two newest libraries in the PTDL network. Later this spring he will conduct similar programs in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Little Rock, and Fort Lauderdale. In March, he presented "Trademark Basics," and participated in a panel discussion about PTDL Web-based services, at the annual PTDL Seminar in Washington, D.C. |
Sci-Lites 7(2)
Science & Engineering Center
Sci-Lites is edited by Nancy
R. Curtis, Science & Engineering Librarian
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