Bowling Green State University

Mike Intranuovo began employment as the Records Manager/Assistant University Archivist at Bowling Green State University Libraries on May 1, 2013. Mike brings a great deal of experience in records management and archival preservation. He holds an MLS with a specialization in archives from Queens College of the City University of New York.

Bryand & Stratton College Cleveland, Downtown Campus

Joseph M. Dudley (Campus Librarian) presented “Maintenance and Development of the Library Web Portal at Bryant & Stratton College Cleveland Downtown Campus” at the TCC 2013 Worldwide Online Conference and also served as a member of the conference staff. The complete paper appears in the conference Proceedings.

Case Western Reserve University

Jodene Carrasquillo was hired as Finance and Assessment Manager, Library Planning, Budgets & Assessment team on February 25, 2013.

Arlene Sievers-Hill Collection Officer, Research Services team, retired on March 3, 2013 after 23 years at the library.

Kelvin Smith Library partnered with the University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s Pet Pals Program to sponsor four visits by therapy dogs to relieve stress for students during final exams.

This April, Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship held a colloquium that focused on how producing and supporting digital scholarship is a necessarily collaborative process and is better because of it. Speakers from Emory University, THATCamp, Research Data Alliance, College of Wooster, NITLE and the University of Cincinnati were joined by representatives from Kelvin Smith Library to share their thoughts on how collaborative processes have brought a new level of discovery and understanding in support of scholarship. For more information and to view colloquium videos, visit http://library.case.edu/ksl/colloquium/2013.html.

Five Colleges of Ohio

Ohio Five science librarians Alison Ricker (Oberlin), Moriana Garcia (Denison), and Deborah Peoples (Ohio Wesleyan) presented a panel discussion at the recent ACRL conference in Indianapolis. Their topic, “Embracing Troublesome Knowledge: Information Literacy Threshold Concepts in the Natural Sciences” was inspired by a Five Colleges of Ohio workshop at OWU last summer with Char Booth. Their panel session included discussion of theory as well as descriptions of how the incorporation and identification of threshold concepts has impacted the pedagogy of the three science librarians. The session was well attended and break out groups during the session were both lively and captivated by this new approach to information literacy. Wright State chemistry librarian Mary Ann Baker Jones and College of Wooster science librarian Rebecca Pappert assisted their colleagues by helping to moderate two of the break out groups.

Kent State University

Karen MacDonald has been named the new Business Librarian. She also serves as director of professional development in the Business and Finance division of the Special Libraries Association.

Kenneth Burhanna has been promoted to Assistant Dean for Engagement and Outreach. Previously serving as a First Year Experience Librarian and Head of Instructional Services, Ken begins service to Kent State University as the newest member of Dean James Bracken’s leadership team, Burhanna seeks to provide leadership, direction and motivation to the public service departments of the library.

Kent State University’s department of Special Collections and Archives houses the archives of the Comparative and International Education Society. The Society “was founded in 1956 to foster cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement and societal development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and practices.”
One of its co-founders was the late Dr. Gerald Read, KSU professor of education. The collection had grown to a large size since its establishment here in 1981, and processing this complex archive had become a challenge. Cara Gilgenbach, Head of Special Collections and Archives, submitted a proposal for funding to the organization, and CIES decided last year to kick-start a major processing update by providing funding ($3,000) for a student employee to work on the project. Special Collections hired KSU undergraduate history major Philip Shackelford to work on Phase I processing, which took place throughout the 2012/13 academic year. The department has also made a proposal to have the funding renewed at the same level for Phase II processing. This will enable the department to bring
the collection’s processing fully up to date.

Lakeland Community College

Lakeland Community College Library faculty have been selected to participate in the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) program “Assessment in Action (AiA): Academic Libraries and Student Success.” The library’s application was selected from a nationwide pool of 98 applicants for the program’s inaugural year. AiA is a national learning community created to facilitate collaboration among colleges and universities implementing action learning projects to document “the impact of the library on student success and contributing to assessment activities” on campus. Library faculty will partner with English faculty and staff in Institutional Research to complete a project that measures the impact of library instruction on student success. This year-long, collaborative project supports the assessment of the college’s learning outcomes from the departmental to the institutional levels.

Miami University, Miami University Hamilton and Miami University Middletown

Congratulations to librarians who received promotion and continuing contract: Stacy Brinkman, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Jacqueline Johnson, Krista McDonald, Andy Revelle, Kwabena Sekyere, Mark Shores, and Beth Tumbleson. And, an additional congratulations goes to John Burke and John Millard on their promotions to principal librarian.
Katie Gibson

has been elected as Secretary of the Western European Studies Section of ACRL

Northeast Ohio Medical University