Staff News
| Nancy Adams was invited to review science and technology reference books for Booklist, an American Libraries Association publication. In March, she presented two sessions on "Trademark Basics" to attendees at the Home-Based Business Conference in Belfast and attended the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program Seminar in Washington, DC. She presented another session on patent and trademark information to attendees at a Washington County Cooperative Extension Office seminar in April. Since the beginning of the academic year Nancy has presented seventeen instructional sessions on literature searching to students in civil, chemical, and spatial information engineering, engineering technology, and computer science. |
| Jim Bird conducted twenty-two library instruction sessions this semester. He has been promoting his Research Guides and Internet Subject Guides both on and off campus. As a result, several Maine state agencies and a number of University programs and departments have added links from their own Web sites to seven of his guides. Jim will teach the Fogler Library LBR 200 course, "Information Literacy," in the Fall 2000 semester. He is currently working on a paper examining the accuracy of cited references in entomological literature, and recently visited the Ernst Mayr Library at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, to finish collecting data for his research. He continues to serve on the Field's Pond Stewardship Committee. |
| Nancy Curtis will attend the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia this June. She has compiled and continues to expand a collection of "information for authors" pages for astronomy journals that has been added to the AstroWeb Consortium database and the WWW Virtual Library: Astronomy and Astrophysics. She continues to serve as Secretary/Treasurer of the Maine Academic and Research Libraries Section of the Maine Libraries Association, regional representative to the Health Science Libraries and Information Consortium of Maine, and book reviewer for Library Journal. Nancy has focused on conducting library instruction sessions for large introductory classes this semester, and she created a Web site to complement her lecture for one class. She staffed the phone bank during the Maine Public Radio pledge drive in April and she will be volunteering during the July pledge drive as well. |
Sci-Lites 9(2)
Science & Engineering Center
Sci-Lites is edited by Nancy
R. Curtis, Science & Engineering Librarian
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