Staff News
| Nancy Adams co-authored "Health Sciences Information Tools 2000: A Cooperative Health Sciences Library/Public School Information Literacy Program for Medical Assistant Students," which appeared in the October 1998 issue of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. The article details an award-winning program, for which she designed the curriculum and served as lead instructor. She organized and facilitated "Patent Information for Engineers," a presentation at Fogler Library by representatives from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), on October 30. Nancy also attended several local training sessions offered by the USPTO on providing patent and trademark information services. |
| Jim Bird is preparing a manuscript entitled "Do Peer-Reviewed Papers Result from Meeting Abstracts of the Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals?" for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. He compiled "Information Resources in Aquaculture," an eleven-page bibliography of print and electronic resources, for the Northeast Aquaculture Conference and Expo held in November at the Samoset Resort. Along with Nancy Curtis, Mel Johnson, Nancy Lewis, and Joyce Rumery of Fogler Library, he submitted a proposal for a poster presentation about Fogler's information literacy course to the 27th LOEX Library Instruction Conference. September and October are very busy months for library instruction, and Jim conducted forty sessions ranging from classes for first-year students to graduate student seminars. He is a member of the Orono Public Library Building Committee and continues his work with the Fields Pond Stewardship Committee. |
| Nancy Curtis was elected to serve as a regional representative for the Health Science Libraries and Information Consortium of Maine. She was also re-elected to serve another term as Secretary/Treasurer of the Maine Academic and Research Libraries Section of the Maine Library Association. She reviews books in genetics and molecular biology for Library Journal. Nancy continues to staff the phone bank during Maine Public Radio pledge breaks. |
| Michael White and Marianne Ryan Kapfer have both departed Maine for positions in the Washington, D.C. area. Michael has accepted a position as a librarian in the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, while Marianne is the new Head of the Government Documents/Maps Unit at McKeldin Library, University of Maryland at College Park. We wish them well in their new endeavors. |
Sci-Lites 8(1)
Science & Engineering Center
Sci-Lites is edited by Nancy
R. Curtis, Science & Engineering Librarian
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