Annual Report 1999 - 2000
Personnel Accomplishments
Publications
Bender, Robert (Special Collections). "John Pope" and "Daniel Harris Reynolds"(biographical sketches) in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Ed., Nancy Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 226-227, 239-240, respectively.
Candido, Anne Marie (Assistant to the Director). "Fabricating and Prefabricating Language: Troubling Trends in Libraries," Journal of Academic Librarianship 25:6 (Nov/Dec 1999): 433-438.
Chism, Stephen J. (Reference). "Lessie Stringfellow Read" (biographical sketch) in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Ed., Nancy Williams. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 223-224.
Compton, Ellen (Special Collections). "Marion Blanche Hanks Elliott" and "Charles Morrow Wilson" (biographical sketches) in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Ed., Nancy Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 92-94, 308-309, respectively.
Dabrishus, Michael (Head of Special Collections/Acting Head of Development). "The Documentary Heritage of the Central High Crisis: A Bibliographic Essay" in Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: An Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation. Ed., Elizabeth Jacoway and C. Fred Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999: 153-161.
__________. "Mary Dengler Hudgins,"and "William Grant Still" (biographical sketches) in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Ed., Nancy Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 145-146, 276-278, respectively.
Gupta, Usha (Head of Periodicals Room) with Lutishoor Salisbury (Reference) "INSPEC on FirstSearch: Tutorial for Effective Searching," Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship 1:2 (October 1999). Internet: http://www.icaap.org/SouthernLibrarianship/
Jones, J. Wayne (Special Collections). "Herman Dierks," "Augustus Hill Garland," and "Robert Edward Lee Wilson" (biographical sketches) in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Ed., Nancy Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 83-84, 118-119, 309-310, respectively.
Kolmes, Jennifer (Head of Cataloging). "Notes on the A. Cavaillé-Coll Tribute." En Chamade (December, 1999): 3-4.
Kulczak, Deb (Cataloging). "Name Authority Work for OCLC Copy Cataloging: Is It Worth the Effort?" Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 28:1 (1999): 69-81.
Lewis, Todd E. (Special Collections). "Benjamin Marcus Bogard," "Harmon Liveright Remmel," and "John Marshall Robinson" (biographical sketches) in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Ed., Nancy Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 30-31, 238-239, 242-244, respectively.
McCraw, Cassandra (Special Collections). "Sophia Sawyer," (biographical sketch) in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Edited by Nancy Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 256-257.
Parker-Gibson, Necia (Reference). "Reference and Media: Instruction by Any Means Necessary,"The Reference Librarian 65 (Summer 1999): 61-78; also published in Reference Services and Media. Ed. Martha Merrill. New York: Haworth Press, 1999: 61-78.
__________. "Students, Learning, and the Library" in Teaching Assistant Teaching Enhancement Web (TATEW), sponsored by the Teaching and Faculty Support Center, 2000. Internet: http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/tatew/RL.html.
Parsch, Janet (Head of Technical Services and Systems). "Arkansas Chapter Councilor Report." Arkansas Libraries (August 1999): 28-30. "Keeping Council: Chapter Seeks New Counselor [sic]." Arkansas Libraries (April 2000): 27-28; "Arkansas Chapter Councilor Report." Arkansas Libraries (April 2000): 31-33.
Salisbury, Lutishoor. (with Usha Gupta) "INSPEC on FirstSearch: Tutorial for Effective Searching," Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship 1:2 (October 1999). Internet: http://www.icaap.org/SouthernLibrarianship/; "What the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Service Means to Me," in What the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Service Means to Me: A Collection of Essays. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1999:. 202.
Simpson, Ethel. "Alice French" and "Ruth McEnery Stuart" (biographical sketches) in Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Ed., Nancy Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 111-113, 219-281, respectively.
Reviews
Conway, Cheryl (Cataloging). Review of Information Management for the Intelligent Organization: The Art of Scanning the Environment, 2nd ed., by Chun Wei Choo, in Serials Review 25, no. 3 (1999): 113-115.
__________. Review of Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains by Susan Elderkin. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000, in Library Journal (June 1, 2000): 196.
Juhl, Beth (Head of Reference). Review of "Roman Military Sites in Britain." http://www.morgue. demon.co.uk/ in Choice 36: 11/12 (July/August 1999): 1929.
________. Review of Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Ed. G.W. Bowerstock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1999, in Choice 37:8 (April 2000): 1430.
Parker-Gibson, Necia. Review of Details of Flesh by Cortney Davis. Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, 1977, in Women in Libraries 28 (December 1999): 10.
__________.Review of Raw Air by Cheryl Boyce Taylor in Women in Libraries 28 (December 1999): 10.
__________.Review of Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keefe's Journey with Emily Carr by Kate Brai. Victoria, B.C.: Polestar, 1998, in Women in Libraries 28 (December 1999): 14.
__________. Review of Beauty and the Breast: The Cost of Living by Louise Lazur, Lily Ann Nielsen, and Catherine Stadem, and photographs by Bob Hewitt in Women in Libraries 28 (December 1999): 14.
Outside Presentations / Sessions Chaired
Alberta Bailey (Head of Public Services) with Lutishoor Salisbury. Overview of library support for distance education for ACTA (Arkansas Consortia for Teachers of Agriculture) Meeting. Fayetteville, June 26.
Andrea Cantrell (Head of Research Services/Special Collections). Presentation. "Just What IS a Primary Source?" Northwest Arkansas Education Service Cooperative Workshop for Teachers. Springdale, Arkansas, September 27.
__________. Session chair. "Still Unanswered Questions: Use of Archives–What Do We Really Know?" 28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Southwest Archivists, Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 19.
Kinne Colpitts (Reference) with Elizabeth McKee (Reference). Presentation. "New FirstSearch," Arkansas Library Association Annual Meeting, Little Rock, October 10-11.
Bryan Davidson (Electronic Projects Librarian). Presentations. Three sessions at the Arkansas Library Association Annual Meeting, October 10-11: "From Cyberspace to Your Place," with Peggy Morrison, UAMS; "Developing a Model for Electronic Document Delivery Using Ariel," with Alison Levene (Head of Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery); "UMI's ProQuest Direct and WilsonSelect: Content Analysis," with Lutishoor Salisbury.
Deb Kulczak (with Lora Lennertz, Head of Circulation/Audiovisual). Presentation. "Armageddon Nervous: Disaster Planning for the New Millennium," Arkansas Library Association Annual Meeting, Little Rock, October 10-11.
Alison Levene (with Kathleen Barta, Nursing). Paper. "Development of a Scale for Assessing Research-based Practice in BSN Graduates," Seventh National Research Utilization Conference.
Janet Parsch (Head of Technical Services and Systems), with Juana Young (Acting Director), gave several presentations of the proposed Arkansas Digital Library to state legislators, educators, and information technology groups in Little Rock.
Sherryl Robinson (Circulation). Presentation. "Are You Listening: Customer Service and the Art of Listening," Arkansas Library Paraprofessional Roundtable, Annual Spring Conference, Hot Springs, May.
Lutishoor Salisbury. Presentation. "UofA Internet Resources and Databases in Support of Teaching and Learning" (Technology Panel), University Teaching and Faculty Support Center Teaching Camp, Fairfield Bay, Arkansas, July 16-20.
Ethel Simpson. Paper. "The Art of Solitude: John Gould Fletcher's Poetry and Prose," accompanied by slides from the Leslie Edwards collection in the Special Collections Division. Conference at the Little Rock Public Library commemorating the fiftieth year since the death of John Gould Fletcher, June 16-17.
Exhibits
Andrea Cantrell. "Changes in Communications Technology: Examples from the Collections of the Special Collections Division." Mounted in the Robert L. Morris and Elizabeth M. Walker Reading Room for the visit of groups of elementary school-aged students from the University-sponsored E-Camps, June.
Todd Lewis. An exhibit taken from the papers of Elsijane Trimble Roy, who was the first woman judge in Arkansas, the first woman appointed to the state Supreme Court, and the first woman federal judge in Arkansas, Helen Robson Walton Reading Room, August.
Ethel Simpson. "Recorded Resources in Special Collections," November. Mounted in conjunction with the announcement of the Arkansas Center for Oral and Visual History, Helen Robson Walton Reading Room, November.
__________. "Daisy Bates Memorial Tribute." Exhibit of papers and books Mrs. Bates donated to the University Libraries, as well as recent scholarly and general books dealing with the Little Rock school desegregation crisis, Helen Robson Walton Reading Room, November.
__________. Exhibit of recent acquisitions for the Arkansas Collection, Robert L. Morris and Elizabeth M. Walker Reading Room, January.
__________. Exhibit of selected issues owned by the Libraries of the Curtis's Botanical Magazine, the oldest continuously published illustrated magazine in the world, Robert L. Morris and Elizabeth M. Walker Reading Room, May.
__________. "Diaries: The Researchers' Buried Treasure." An exhibit of diaries, journals, and other personal narrative writings owned by the Libraries on the occasion the annual meeting of the Society of Southwest Archivists, Robert L. Morris and Elizabeth M. Walker Reading Room, May.
__________. "Larry Obsitnik Photo Archives." Exhibit of photographs from the recently processed collection of Larry Obsitnik, a prize-winning photo-journalist of the staff of the Arkansas Gazette, in conjunction with a reception of the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting, Helen Robson Walton Reading Room, May.
Awards
Doris Cleek received a University Service Award for twenty years of service to the University.
Jo Grippe (Library Accountant) received a University Service Award for twenty years of service to the University.
Jennifer Kolmes received a University Service Award for ten years of service to the University.
Deb Kulczak was awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of associate librarian/associate professor. She also received a University Service Award for ten years of service to the University.
Lora Lennertz was nominated for honorary membership as Friend of the Arts in the Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity. She was also named Adjunct Professor of Music in the spring.
Mullins Library faculty and staff won a Bronze Certificate for their contributions to the United Way.
Sherryl Robinson received a University Service Award for ten years of service to the University.
Nancy Webb (then Head of Government Documents) won a contest prize valued at $25,000 for the Libraries at the June 26 meeting of the American Library Association in New Orleans. The Congressional Information Service awarded the prize, and Ms. Webb chose a combination of United States serial set microfilms of the 30th-33rd Congress and Executive Branch and serial set indices to enhance accessibility to government documents.
Outreach / Performances / Creative Work / Citations
Andrea Cantrell served as Judge of senior papers for History Day, Regional Competition in March.
Steve Chism's (Reference) work on palindromes was cited in the recent publications Sit on a Potato, Otis! (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999) and I Love me, vol I: ...Palindrome Encyclopedia (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1998).
Michael Dabrishus volunteered for the KUAFA (National Public Radio) fundraiser.
Donna Daniels (Reference) continued to serve on the Board of the Humane Society of the Ozarks.
Mikey King (Cataloging) volunteered for the KUAF (National Pupblic Radio) fall and spring fundraisers.
Jennifer Kolmes performed as member organist at the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists program, "Pipes, Wind, Music, and You: Celebrating the King of Instruments," May 21 at United Lutheran Church, Bella Vista, Arkansas. Also played the piano or organ for eleven services in area churches.
Deb Kulczak volunteered for the KUAF spring fundraiser.
Lora Lennertz taught a seminar in music bibliography (MUHS 5973) at the U of A in the fall semester. She also performed on the french horn in several concerts in the following musical groups: Arkansas Winds, University of Arkansas Music Camp, Arts Center of the Ozarks ( "Once Upon a Mattress"), North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Aeolian Wind Quintet, the University of Arkansas Brass Choir, Bella Vista Community Choir and Orchestra, and the North Arkansas Symphony Brass Quintet. On a tenor horn she performed numerous concerts throughout the year in the Ozarks Mountain Brass Band. She also sang in the University of Arkansas Concert Choir.
Karen Myers (Reference) performed as a member of the chorus in the Northwest Arkansas Symphony Chorus production of Carmina Burana in April.
Necia Parker-Gibson contributed twelve poems to the joint show "A Family Affair" at the Walton Arts Center in January.
Janet Parsch served as Board member on the Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Washington County and as Board member for the Foundation of International Exchange of Students, as well as co-chair of the Foundation's Outreach and Development Committee. She also performed as a member of a seven-member a cappella choral group.
Campus Committees / Activities / Positions Held
Alberta Bailey. Library representative, Faculty Senate; Member, Faculty Senate Subcommittees, Compensation for Part-time Faculty and Benefits for Part-time Faculty; Member, Registration and Class Scheduling Coordinating Committee; First Year Experience Partner; Member, First Year Experience Assessment Committee; Campus Information Advisory Committee.
Don Batson (Reference). Member, Transit and Parking Committee; Member, ROTC Programs.
Anne Marie Candido. Committee Assistant, Search Committee for Dean of Libraries.
Steve Chism. Member. Faculty Panel for Undergraduate Complaints.
Kinne Colpitts (Reference). Member. Health and Occupational Safety Council.
Cheryl Conway. Member, Campus Climate Committee.
Michael Dabrishus. Member, Advisory Committee for Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies; Member, Advisory Committee for Arkansas Center for Oral and Visual History; Member, Search Committee for Dean of Libraries.
Donna Daniels. Member, Traffic Appeals Committee.
Jan Dixon (Reference). Worked with students in a CAST seminar assessing the campus master plan and traffic patterns.
Jo Grippe. Member, Financial Advisory Committee; Substitute member (for Juana Young), Human Resources Advisory Group.
Beth Juhl. Member, Committee on Committees; Member (representing library faculty), Search Committee for Dean of Libraries.
Mikey King. Chapter Secretary for the Guerdon Nichols Chapter, AAUP.
Jennifer Kolmes. Vice-chair, Faculty Athletics Committee; Member, All-University Judicial board.
Deb Kulczak. Chair, Health and Occupational Safety Council; Member, Emergency Preparedness Council.
Lora Lennertz. Member, Public Safety Committee.
Alison Levene. Member, HPER Advisory Committee; Member, Health Center Advisory Committee.
Elizabeth McKee. Participant, First Year Experience; Co-ordinator, Faculty/Staff Giving; Library coordinator, Welcome Weeks.
Janet Parsch. Member, Computing Activities Council; Member, Campus Distance Learning Committee.
Necia Parker-Gibson. Member, Artists and Concerts Committee.
Lutishoor Salisbury. Vice-Chair, Faculty Grievance Panel; Member, Traffic Appeals; Member, International Programs and Services, Faculty Subcommittee.
Ethel Simpson. Member, ad hoc committee on Historical Markers;
Young, Juana. Member, Search Committee for Dean of Libraries.
Outside Professional Committees / Positions Held
Alberta Bailey. Member, AMIGOS Training Advisory Committee; Member, UA System Distance Education Task Force.
Beth Juhl. Member, ALA Advisory Board for Guide to Reference Books, 12th edition.
Jennifer Kolmes. Chair, Resources & Technical Services Division, Arkansas Library Association
Deb Kulczak. Secretary, Resources & Technical Services Division of the Arkansas Library Association; Member, Conference Committee, Arkansas Library Association.
Lora Lennertz. Member, U of A System Task Force on Distance Education (Subgroup for Circulation and ILL Issues).
Elizabeth McKee. University of Arkansas representative. Resource Arkansas.
Necia Parker-Gibson. Chair, Arkansas Library Association, Reference Division; Member, Arkansas Library Association, Program Planning Committee; Member, AAUP, Guerdon Nichols Chapter, Committee W.
Janet Parsch. Grant reviewer, Amigos Bibliographic Services Fellowship Program; co-chair, ARKLink Consortium of Arkansas Academic Libraries; Arkansas Chapter Councilor, Council of the American Library Association.
Sherryl Robinson Member, Conference Committee, Arkansas Library Association; Appointed co-chair of the 2000 Conference Committee.
Lutishoor Salisbury. Chair, Public Relations Committee of the Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition Division of the Special Libraries Association; Director, USAIN Executive Board, Program Planning Committee, USAIN 2001 Conference; Member, USAIN ‘99 Conference Planning Committee; Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Agriculture and Food Information.
Juana Young. Member, Professional Development Committee, ACRL.
Personnel Changes
Jennifer Kolmes resigned in June as head of the Cataloging Department to accept a position as librarian at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. She is to be succeeded by Cheryl Conway, currently serials cataloger, beginning in July 2000.
Nancy Webb retired in January after twenty-five years as head of the Government Documents Department.
Rhonda Williams-Henry resigned from her position as monographs cataloger to pursue a law degree at the University of Arkansas. She was succeeded by Kathryn Kluttz, who was hired from the University of Texas in June.
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