Category Archives: Vol. 30 No. 2 (June 2012)

Brian Hickam, Benedictine University My time as President of the Academic Library Association of Ohio is coming to an end this summer. At the executive board’s annual retreat I’ll welcome Sue Polanka as our new President and transition into Past-president, … Continue reading →

Sue Polanka, Wright State University The 2012 ALAO Conference planning is going very well thanks to a very active committee. The conference will be held on Friday, October 26, 2012 at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio. Our theme is … Continue reading →

Former ALAO President-Elect Erica Lilly passed away on May 22. Erica was most recently Head of the Chemistry/Physics Library at Kent State University and had worked previously in positions at Kent State and Miami. Erica had published in Electronic Library, … Continue reading →

Alison Ricker, Oberlin College Two ALAO representatives, Alison Ricker and Stephanie Bange, joined the Ohio contingent at ALA’s National Library Legislative Day (NLLD) this year. We thank ALAO for supporting each of us with a Legislative Advocate Travel Award. The … Continue reading →

Distance Learning Interest Group Kathleen Pickens-French, Miami University Hamilton ALAO’s Distance Learning Interest Group (DLIG) Spring Workshop, “INOV8: Strategies & Models for Distance Library Services”, was held on May 11th at Miami University’s Voice of America Learning Center in West … Continue reading →

Bowling Green State University Joshua Vossler is the new Coordinator of Library Instruction in the Library Teaching and Learning Department of the University Libraries. Joshua comes to BGSU from Costal Carolina University where, as the Information Literacy/Reference Librarian, he developed … Continue reading →