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ALA Legislative Days In Washington by Chris Bradley

embers of Connecticut's delega­ tion to the ALA/Washington Office's annual Legislative Days, May 3-4, met with Representatives Rosa DeLauro, Chris Shays, and Rob Simmons to seek support for the nation's libraries. They also saw aides in the offices ofRepresentatives John Larson and Nancy Johnson Connecticut's delegation to ALA/Washington's Legislative Days, May 3·4. and Senator Joe Lieberman. From left: Peter Ciparelli, co·chair, CLA Legislative Committee; Michael The delegation asked the state's Golrick, member, ALA Executive Board; Chris Bradley, president, CLA; elected officials to support the Congressman Chris Shays; Alice Knapp, president-elect, CLA; Les Kozerowitz, past president, CLA; and Ken Wiggin, state librarian. j ay johnston, CLA's President's recommended increase in representative to the A LA Council, was also a member 0/the delegation. LSTA funding, (inspired by his wife!). Congressman Simmons 8 d was an early sponsor of an in­ hnp:/Icla.u con n. u recipients for Head Start early creased LST A appropriation for literacy projects. FY 2005-2006, which, if ap­ Our delegation felt optimistic proved by Congress, will net about LST A since the increase is already in the President's bud­ Connecticut hundreds of thou­ Obversion: Intellectual Freedom ...... 2 sands of dollars in additional fed­ Looking At Books: The Bug ...... 2 get and all Congress has to do is eral funding. President: In Celebration of support his budget. This is easier Other important issues dis­ Good Writing ...... 3 than asking them to add to it in CLA Executive Board Highlights ...... 4 cussed were the increase for the the appropriations process (as it Membership as a Staff Government Printing Office, is on the state level as well.) Development Initiative ...... 4 Connecticut's elected officials are copyright, and an increase in Treasures: w.w. Bunnell Library ...... 5 funding for school libraries un­ To the Editor Regarding Treasures ..... 6 supportive of library funding, der the No Child Left Behind CLA Conference 2006 ...... 7 and also of our concerns about Act. Also on the agenda was the Connecticard Is In Trouble ...... 8 the USA Patriot Act. We asked Technology: Pests in the Network .. .. . 9 them to support the SAFE re-authorization of Head Start CLA Publications Awards ...... 10 amendments to that act, which this year. We asked that the re­ Exhibit: The Great Fl ood of 1955 ..... 11 authorized language include People ...... 12 would allow public libraries to public libraries as potential grant abide by the law but still pro­ Periodicals Department tect their patrons' privacy .• Hilton C. Buley Library Southern CT State University New Haven, CT 06515 Intellectual Freedom and the First Amendment

As director of three academic libraries Joined together under have no problem with exceeding the limits of "fair use" copying or the umbrella of the University of Connecticut's Tri-Campus, I head a uploading similar information produced by their colleagues when team of library practitioners who serve students, staff, and faculty classroom needs arise. at three campuses-Greater Hartford, Torrington and Waterbury. To address issues like the aforementioned, Dr. Edna McBreen, We receive strong support from our administrators and users who heads up the Tri-Campus, earlier this year convened ameeting although that does not in any way make us immune from the on freedom of speech in an academic setting. All Tri-Campus faculty controversies of the day.The academic community provides anumber William Uricchio and slaff were invited to attend and a large number turned out. A of service challenges and, as I am sure you are aware, issues panel of speakers made brief presentations, which were followed related to freedom of speech are in the upper echelon of difficulty. by an open discussion led by Connecticut's new state historian, Professor Recent events involvingtwo academics, Ward Churchill from the University Walter Woodward. of Colorado, Boulder, and lawrence Summers of Harvard, point to the yin yang By virtue of my management position, and perhaps because I've been situation that seems to permeate academic culture at the moment. Churchill's faculty known to spout off on these issues from time to time, I was invited to make a colleagues are ferociously defending his light to make statements that many in the presentation on behalf of the campus libraries. What follows is aslightly longer general public find offensive.Summers' detractors,many of them faculty members, version of what I had to say. are seeking to punish him for saying things that they find equally disturbing. Freedom of Speech - An Academic library Context Another sensi tive situation involves the cloudy issues surrounding access "Freedom of Speech" extends to a number of issues gathered together under the to information. Many of the same faculty authors who depend on publishing in heading of what the library profession is fond of calling "intellectual freedom:' professional journals to share their research and advance their careers, and Included are freedoms to print, to disseminate, to read, to own, to produce, to watch, who look forward to receiving royalties for their copyrighted efforts, seem to Continued on page 7 The Bug by Ellen Ullman (Nan A. Telesel Ooubleday, 2003)

Sometime In the 1980's, about the time powerful rules are not the product of careful that the '286 chip was being introduced to the planning or rational thought. Many rules computer world, I was attending a computer result from carelessness, arrogance, class with a number of other librarians from misunderstanding, time pressure, and southeastern Connecticl.lt. One week, our technological limitations. homework was to develop aspreadsheet that The dot.com bubble is about to burst when we could use for a library-related purpose, we meet Berta Walton, a successful woman like budget administration, inventory, calculating who has risen through the ranks of the payroll for part-time staff, etc. I diligently software industry. An unremarkable exchange planned my spreadsheet on scrap paper, with an immigration official at an airport drafting and re-drafting columns and rows, pushes Berta 's thoughts back to 1984 and to checking and double-checking formulas and her first computer industry job. It is a time labels. Then, I typed up my creation, entered when the now familiar mouse and graphic my values, and let the program crank out the final numbers. user interface are just beginning to be employed . A fugitive The spreadsheet looked great until I checked the math. One from the academic world of literature, Berta's IT career began cell was incorrect. I went over the formulas. 1 reviewed my with the position of software tester for a start-up called class notes and handouts. Even after several nights of searching, Telligensia. Berta's function was to run pre-release versions LOOKING AT Icould not find where Ihad gone wrong. Nor could my instructor. of company software and report problemsto the programmers He contacted the software company .The problem was aknown, who were responsible for the "bugs" in the code. Like all but rarely seen software bug. The combination of values and testers, her status was low. formulas that I entered would inevitably result in nonsense. All Programmers resent having their work picked apart by would be correct in the next release! I still resent it when a menials who could not perform the simplest of programming computer program betrays my trust. What kind of people functions. Resolving bugs is tedious and keeps them behind write programs that don't work? schedule, but programmers recognize that debugging is part Ellen Ullman, herself acomputer programmer for over two of the job. Most bugs are minor issues that programmers decades, brings us a novel that peeks inside the process of track down one step at a time-except for a bug labeled U1­ writing software and provides insight into the people who 1017. Berta finds the bug, the 10171h problem discovered in write it. Throughout her book, Ullman reminds us that the the user interface, and reports it to the responsible world of computers is not the same world in which we humans programmer, Ethan Levin. As usual, he ignores her and continues live. The computer world, comprised as it is of hardware, working until he can find time to tackle the bug.The first sign operating systems, and application software, is a creation of of serious trouble is Ethan's inability to replicate the problem man. It is bound by rules that may just as easily ignore our encountered by Berta. He arrogantly chastises the messenger human needs as address them. Often, the computer world's Continued on page 3

CONNECTICUT LlBIUIRIES • JUNE 2005 • PAGE 2 LOOKING AT BOOKS Continued from page 2 and closes the bug file. However, UI-1 017 will not be denied. It returns sporadically, unpredictably, like a ghost, like the "Jester" in a deck of cards, and as Ethan Levin's nemesis. LlI­ 1017 places all of Telligentsia at risk, as impatient venture In Celebration of Good Writing capitalists insist on a fast return on investment. Chris BradLey Ethan Levin is an oddball even in a workplace filled with We've taken some hits lately-Arthur Miller, Hunter Thompson, Saul Bellow-all the more than tile usual set of personality peculiarities. While more reason to pay attention to good writing. Hunter Thompson never gave us aWillie Loman, Levin does not fit in at work, his home life is no more comfortable. but his writing made the heartland come alive for me as I read Fear and Loathing on IIle His long-time girlfriend Joanna resents his coolness. She campaign Trail '12 while riding across 190 in '73. Once we got past Chicago, which I learned struggles desperately to get his attention, but he is distracted is not halfway to the coast, we rode through places stranger to me than Paris or London­ by the computer world in which he makes the rules. Levin South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho. But as I was riding, I was reading, and I saw the Nixon­ even studies "Iife" through acomputer simulation, a program McGovern race as I had never seen it from Boston. Like Massachusetts' Tip O'Neil, Thompson called "The Game of Life" created by a matllematician named knew thai all politics is local. He didn't write just about the candidates and their policies. He John Horton Conway. In Conway's two-dimensional universe wrote about the people and places along 190 where the race was won or lost. of x's and o's, Levin seeks to understand life, even as he I heard Arthur Miller speak to an auditorium full of prep school kids (who had ali been ignores the living around him. coached to not mention Marilyn Monroe). He was eighty years old, but he spoke directly to While UI-1017 appears to be Ethan Levin's undoing, it those kids. He told them that none of the teachers that he had in high school thought very much paradoxically proves to be the making of Berta Walton. As of him, but when they were interviewed after he became famous, they acted like they knew experienced programmer Levin struggles mightily, then him. The kids loved it, and attention was paid. hopelessly, against "The Bug," Walton commits herself to Saul Bellow grew up and eventually settled in Chicago. He died in Boston but he lived in New learning the intricacies of writing and debugging software. As York as a young writer. He gives us the quintessential New Yorker, Moses Het7og, who suffers Levin's computer and real worlds teeter, Walton takes control on his sofa, while in the background lies "the trembling energy of the dty, asense and flavor of river of her world by applying previously unknown talents to iler water, astripe of beautifying and dramatic filth contributed by New Jersey to the sunset:' work. "The Bug;' it might be said, after destroying the careers Good writing, more than anything else, distinguishes New York as the greatest American of one Telligentsia employee after another, finally succumbs to the city. Look at the Washington Square arch. Even now, with the scaffolding finally removed, it is inevitable march of technological progress. Like my frustrating just another war memorial, the same design they've been using since the time ofTitus. But the spreadsheet problem, it is gone from the next release. arch, and its neighborhood, has magic because Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 0 Henry, Pete Read more reviews by Vince Juliano at da.uconn.edu. Hamill, and even Minnesotan Bob Dylan wrote about the Village. It is their writing, more than Tina MeruLLa, buildings and monuments, that informs what we see when we visit New York. director of Thanks to the NY Times Op-Ed page, now expanded to two, we can start every day with admissions at the good writing. We can read the good catholic girl gone bad, Maureen Dowd; the conservative gone InternationaL liberal and then back again, David Brooks; critic Frank Rich who is returning from Arts and Leisure; CoLLege of and Tom Friedman, without whom we wouldn't have ahope of understanding the Middle East. HospitaLity In his April 2 column, "The Art of Intelligence;' David Brooks wrote about the undermining Management in of writers who, between 1950 and 1965, produced books on American society and global SuffieLd, shows her affairs by relying on their knowledge of history, literature, philosophy and theology to recognize appreciation for social patterns and grasp emerging trends. Then anew group, embraced by the US government, the Library's especially the CIA, rejected this generalistlhumanist approach and sought to turn social analysis iCONN databases into ascience, much like the method of the physical sciences. Brooks writes about anew paper during the Library by Yale undergraduate Sulmaan Wasif Khan, which contrasts these two ways of looking at the reception that is heLd during orientation at the world. Khan calls the CIA estimates "bloodless compilations of data by anonymous technicians:' beginning ofeach term. IsabeL Danforth is The irony is that these pseudo scientists thought they were replacing the fuzzy old generalists director ofthe Library. with something modern and rigorous. In reality, it was the generalists who were modern and rigorous. Brooks compares Khan's conclusion to the logic in the bestseller, Blink, by New y Connecticut Libraries solicits articles, news, Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell, who also wrote The Tipping Point. Gladwell encourages g opinions, and photographs about matters of people to make decisions based on "thin-slicing;' using their own education and experience, interest to the state's library community. d ratllel' than yards of research data. Send contributions to: 1 Writer Ian McEwan, of Atonement, and now Saturday, fame, (and who gave us the hottest s David Kapp, Editor scene ever set in alibrary), wrote an Op-Ed piece, "Master of the Universe;' about Saul Bellow I­ [email protected] on April 7. He quotes this passage, also from Herzog "What it means to be a man. In a city. n Phone: (860)647-0697 In acentury. In transition. In amass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject e Fax: (860)647-7826 to tremendous controls. In acondition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical 4 Llynwood Drive hopes. In asociety that was no community and devalued the person:' Now that is good writing. s Bolton, CT 06043 n Editor's Note And speaking of good writing ... my thanks to Chris for her series of n Deadline: Second stimulating and challenging a/tides in this space during the last year. This is her last column as president of CLA, but you can reach her in /Jer capacity as Executive Director of CLC at ~r Friday of the month. [email protected]/g.

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES • JUNE 2005 • PAGE 3 Membership as a Staff Development Initiative Meeting of 5/ 5/ 2005 by John Chrastka Mystic a Noank Library upport staff have significant opportunities for professional development through member­ Introductions Chris Bradley introduced Pam Najarian, who will be replacing Karen Zoller as ship in library associations. Membership has CLA's administrative assistant. Pam will take up her duties on July 1. traditionally been a way to make essential President Chris Bradley and fellow librarians traveled to Washington, DC, May 3-4 for connections that benefit one's work and personal ALA Legislative Days. (See page 1) The CLAlCLC contract will be presented at the June life. However, many support staff do not meeting. consider association membership as a regular Treasurer The checking account balance as of March 31 was $49,918, and the investment part of their career development . With account balance stood at $107,726. encouragement from progressive directors and CLASS Afall conference is scheduled for Friday, October 28 at Naugatuck Valley Community department heads, support staff can begin to see College. association membership as a vital, natural Conference 2005 Mary Ann Rupel1 reported that total allendance for the conference component of their professional journey. was 1037, including alarge number of walk-in registrations. For the first time in mallY years, Membership is an often overlooked staff Tuesday and Wednesday registrations showed an equal number of allendees. The main complaint this year was parking. She also reported that CLA and NELA have purchased a development area. Studies have consistently portable sound system for future use. Anita Barney distributed the conference evaluation shown that feelings of "connection" motivate staff summaries. The only unanimous 5.0 went to speaker Donna Jo Napoli. Included in these to perform better at work, have lower absentee evaluations were suggestions and topics for next year's conference. The final report for rates, and stronger personal identification with the conference 2005 will be given at the August board meeting. success of projects. Look for ways to encourage Conference 2006 Betsy Bray, Anita Barney and Rob Gallucci will be visiting Mountainside your support staff to make connections with in Wallingford, site of next year's conference, following the board meeting. The 2006 committee others in their field by joining a library is planning to put the conference announcement on tile website and do away with a cosily association. Demonstrate that you believe in mailing. Apost card will be mailed to the membership with this information. The contract for your staff by identifying ways they can personally Hartford, site of the 2007 conference, is about ready for signing. contribute to a library association as a member. Connecticut State Ubrary Sharon Brettschneider reported that the Task Force for Review CLA has an active special interest section­ of the Connecticut General Statutes is preparing recommendations that will be presented to CLASS-for support staff. The section sponsors the Advisory Council at its June meeting. The CT Public Library Statistical Profile 2003/04 has a full-day conference for support staff each fall been printed and sent to every public library. Connecticard: reimbursement checks to public and honors outstanding staff with awards at the libraries for Connecticard loans were sent out in April. The State Library will apply for another annual conference in the spring. Gates grant. The 2004 Governor's Summer Reading Challenge Partnership Awards were ALA recently lowered membership dues for presented to libraries in Lyme, Farmington and Clinton. Twenty-six LSTA grant applications support staff to $35/ year, making membership totaling $421,838 were submilled and are being reviewed. in the national organization very accessible. Development Mary Etter asked board members what services they are currenlly receiving ALA offers distance education and skills from the CLA office. Responses included: receiving member lists as needed, drafts of building workshops, support staff conferences, minutes when requested, management of monthly board meetings including distribution of and opportunities for committee work. minutes and agenda, conference registration and billing to libraries for conference attendance, Information about support staff participation can forwarding financial reimbursements to either the treasurer or bookkeeper, and keeping the be found at www.ala.org/ssirt along with master calendar for section programs. Board members were asked what other services they would like to see, as well as whether any changes should be instituted. Everyone felt information about specialty divisions and round that the office runs smoothly and no changes are needed at this time. tables at www.ala.org/membership. Friends of Connecticut Libraries The FOCL annual meeting and 25"1 anniversary will be Membership can also be used as a staff held on June 4 at the State Library. Gina Barreca will be the guest speaker. Ken Wiggin has appreciation technique. Consider gifting a yearly made several nominations from Connecticut for the ALA National Advocacy Award, including membership in ALA or your state association for Friends of CT Ubraries, Governor Rell, and amajor donor from the Greenwich Public Library. an employment anniversary. Offer membership Legislative Ken Wiggin stated that the "Confidentiality of Library Records" House Bill # as a prize during National Library Workers Day 6801 is on the calendar and everyone is reminded to speak to his or her legislators for or a staff appreciation day. You can encourage your support. CLA lobbyist Barry Williams spoke 10 the Legislative Commillee about talking to the board or friends group to provide membership govemor this summer in regard to support for Connecticard. ALA Legislative Day in as a non-salary benefit for key employees. Any Washington: The CLA delegation spoke to more legis'lators than ever before. They talked efforts to encourage support staff in their career with Rob Simmons, Rosa DiLauro and ChriS Shays as well as to an aide in Senator Lieberman's development will return dividends to your office. It was a most successful day. library through a well motivated, better Membership Total membership is 1,017. informed, and more connected staff.• NELA Successful NELLS applicants have been notified, and Kris Jacobi was pleased to John Chrastka is Manager /01' Membership announce that eight of the 26 are from Connecticut. NELA 2005 will be held October 16-18 Development, American Library Association. in Worcester, MA.

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES • JUNE 2005 • PAGE 4 w.w. BUNNELL LIBRARY CONNECTICUT HORTICULTU RAL SOCIETY ROCKY HILL

At this writing, springtime In Connecticut seems an elusive In 1963, the father (so to speak) of the library as it exists dream. Potted plants are shifted inside and outside and back today, former president Dr. Walls Willard Bunnell, donated again, their travels coinciding suggestively with the evening space on Brick Walk Lane in Farmington to serve as its home, weather report. Burgeoning leaves and buds, though, undeniably and a library committee headed by Jean Goodwin prepared proclaim the inevitability of that most welcome of seasons, the space and cataloged the books by author. Following the and many in the state might enjoy enduring the wait browsing death of Dr. Bunnell, his wife Elsa donated his books to the acolledion devoted to things that grow from the soil. library, and her generosity has been matched by other Housed in a deceptively humble office building at 2433 members' bequests in the years since. Main Street in Rocky Hill, the WW Bunnell Library of the The collection was again moved in 1968, this time to the Connecticut Horticultural Society holds a remarkable University of Hartford, and in 1985 to the Old Academy concentration of works on plants, cultivation, and gardening­ Museum in Wethersfield. It has been housed (finally, one might in aword, horticulture-that may well offer edifying diversion say) in CHS's own facility in Rocky Hill since 1997, where its to the frustrated planter. approximately 2000 titles are well organized and easily Earl Roy The sOciety began in 1887, was incorporated as the Hartford accessible. County Horticultural Society in 1889, and assumed its present Works Ilere range from the SCientific to the popular. Both name two years later. Its earliest rosters feature redoubtable historians of horticulture and its practitioners will be pleased Yankee names well known to Connedicut natives, such as to discover seminal works by the field's best-known luminaries, Hale, Webster, Russell, Atwood, and Deming, which later were such as the twelve-volume Luther Burbank.' His MetiJods and supplemented by others from across the ethnic spedrum as Discoveries and Their Practical Application (New York Luther immigrant farmers became aware of the institution. Today, the Burbank Press, 1914-15), written by the man himself, and 800-member Connedicut Horticultural SOCiety has an adive The Rose in America (New York: Macmillan aCo.) by J Horace and diverse membership. The group sponsors awide-ranging McFarland, the "dean of American rosarians :' As might be travel program, garden tours, plant audions, workshops, and expeded, beautiful color plates adorn Colour in My Garden, by frequent guest speakers, and publishes anewsletter ten times Louise Beebe Wilder (Garden City : a year. Doubleday, Page Et Co., 1918) and Details of the earliest years of the library are shrouded by Gertrude Jekyll's Colour intiJe Flower the mists of time, but it certainly began with the colledion of Garden (London: Country Life, 1908), 1" &'0, Ur • • ~-.;a. the first female member, Annie Lorenz, whose library was the latter book also including folded purchased by Mrs. E. K. Root for the society. In the following garden plans. Jekyll supplies notes for .... ou-. __ years, the coiledion was both scattered and nomadic, occupying George S. Elgood's drawings in an -_.,;...... shelf space in members' homes, in the basement of the impressive folio work that includes fifty Connecticut Historical Society, at Trinity College, and at the tllen color plates, Some English Gardens, 3rd Children'S Museum in West Hartford. Continued on page 6

Plate/rom North American Wildflowers, Luther Burbank: His Methods by Mary Vaux Walcott and Discoveries ...

Plate from /rom Some English Gardens, by Gertrude Jekyll & George S. Elgood

The Rose in America, by j. Horace McFarland

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES· JUNE 2005 • PAGE 5 TREASURES Continued [rom page 5 To the Editor Regarding Treasures ed. (London: Longmans, Green a Co., 1905), and Walter P. Wright's Alpine Flowers and Rock Gardens, 3rd ed. (London: he series of articles published under the heading of "Treasures" George Allen a Unwin, 1924) will inspire even the least by Earl Roy that has appeared in Connecticut Libraries since romantic reader to contemplate booking anight to Switzerland. January 2003 has brought cheers from staffers at LDA Publishers, the One of the oldest books here is Walter Nicol's The Gardener's publishers of the OJJicial DirecLOI), ojCormeclicut Libraries and Media Kalendar; or, Monthly Directory of Operations in Every Branch Centers, for two reasons. First, as a featured series, it will attract of Horticulture, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and attention and second it affirms a position we took back in 1972 when Co., 1812), in which Nicol explains that, contrary to acatalog we first proposed the DirecLOry to the CLSU directors. At that time, or didionary, "the Kalendar has this particular advantage over locating and indexing special collections was high on our list of every other book, that it exhibits, at aglance, the business or duty of the Gardener at every moment"-presumably, alas, priorities. Those were the days before the Internet and locating and for horticulturists in Scotland. publishing special collections had greater significance on information The library has more than historically interesting works to retrieval. Nevertheless, a need still exists for locating new and unusual offer, though, including a complete reference colledion with collections that enhance opportunities for reference for both esoteric volumes devoted to cadi and succulents, vegetable gardening, and popular subject fields. Interestingly enough, in the thirty-two years herbs, orchids, house plants, medicinal plants, gardens of just since we have published, new collections continue to surface. Rarely about every imaginable culture and country,annuals, perennials, have libraries eliminated entries, and many colleagues still think Bonsai, landscaping, and so on. Encyclopedic publications include locating collections is important enough to inform us about their the four-volume New Royal Horticultural Society DictionalY of discovery. Gardening (New York: Stockton Press, 1992), Thomas H Tracking down special collections is a learning experience that has Everett's ten-volume Encyclopedia of Horticulture (New York: its challenges. The point at issue may lie in the way data is collected. Garland Publishing, 1981), and An Illustrated Flora of the At update time, librarians are pointedly asked to check their special Northern United States, Canada, and the British Possessions, collections for new additions and revisions. But, even with sixteen 2nd ed. rev. and enlarged, in three volumes, by Nathaniel Lord pages of listings indexed under almost 1000 categories, there are Britton and Addison Brown (New York: New York Botanical collections that still remain elusive, which the series has made clear. Garden, 1936). More narrowly focused books include Wild Even though librarians are reminded to check their special collections Flowers: Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Full-Color Illustrations list for comprehensiveness, unfortunately it is not always done. with Complete Descriptive Text (New York: Macmillan Co., Consequently there exist collections that continue to remain 1934), by Homer D. House, Fred C. Galle's Azaleas, rev. and undiscovered and hidden away. We can only guess why some enlarged ed. (Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1987), and collections never surface even though they would add a new dimension Fern Grower's Manual, rev. and expanded ed. (Portland, Oregon: of information on a subject. Perhaps it is a subjective reaction relating Timber Press, 2001), by Barbara Joe Hoshizaki and Robbin C. to the qualitative differences between collections. In any case, there Moran. Possibly the most physically impressive title available are still collections that need to be found and added to our listings. here is North American Wildflowers (Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1925) by Mary Vaux Walcott, aleather­ We value the "Treasures" series as a great opportunity for alerting bound set of five folio volumes in which hundreds of color librarians that publishing their special collections is important and of plates, each opposed by aleaf of descriptive text, are exhibited. great benefit to Connecticut libraries. We have anecdotal confirmation The library has several CD-ROMs and VHS tapes, and a to support that fact. For example, school librarians and media notable example of the latter is the six-tape set, Gardens of specialists tell us that using the Directory to locate special collections the World(Pasadena: Perennial Produdions, 1993). Periodicals has made it possible for students to have access to specialized are no longer colleded, but several old serial runs are available, collections and esoteric subjects that they otherwise would not have including the Magazine of Horticulture (Boston: Hovey a Co.; been aware. Not only is this exchange a valuable learning experience 1838-42, 1845, 1847-50, 1852-58, 1861-63), Cultivator for students to appreciate the range of libraries and make contact with (Albany : L. Tucker; 1844-48, 1850-52), and American Rose other librarians, but it is also a testament to the value of networking. Annual (Harrisburg, Pa.: American Rose Society; no.1-50). That is why LDA is so pleased by the series highlighted in your The colledion is LC-classed and cataloged by subjed and newsletter and the admonition that "Ignorance of these troves of author on cards, and currently there are no concrete plans to information and history amounts to inaccessibility ... " We too believe build an online catalog. According to Bonnie McLachlan, who that it is not only a great loss for the library users but for the profession staffs the library and office, materials (except for reference as well when those treasures reside in a literary "potters field." Our works) Circulate only to CHS members, though the public is goal from the outset has been to track down every unique collection welcome to use the colledion on-site. Photocopies are available and make it public. Accordingly, we would like offer you our resources for anominal fee. The CHS Web site is at www.dhort.org, and and to join with you in this effort to locate every special collection in a list of new books is maintained on the library's page at Connecticut and index it for use by librarians and the public. Nothing www.dhort.orgllibrary.htm. The library and office are open would please us more than having a much-expanded list of special Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 11 :00 to 4: 00. collections gathered in time for the next edition.• Earl Roy is Catalog Librarian for the Map Collection, History Elaine Sprance, Editor, LDA Publishers 8 Social Sciences Team, Yale University Library.

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES' JUNE 2005 • PAGE 6 OBVERSION We must remember, as Marshall McLuhan famously did not say, the Internet is the medium Continued [rom page 2 and not the message. How we deal with its content and how its content impacts us is the to reproduce, to upload, to download and to share. Using this biggest professional challenge to responsible free speech we have yet encountered. expanded definition Ihave identified many of the services that are Free and responsible speech, as embodied by open intellectual discourse, is the cornerstone either directly or indirectly provided by libraries. For this reason, of higher education. Librarians have been centrally involved in efforts to assure that such there is no stronger core issue in academic libraries than the discourse not only continues but flourishes by working to make the resources upon which it is many freedoms associated with intellectual freedom. based readily available to all seekers. That said, the world of intellectual freedom in our nation Through the decades academic librarians have struggled to changed abit on September 11,2001 . By virtue of aspects of the Patriot Act, parts of which my sometimes purchase, sometimes gain access to, a world of profeSSion's leaders have assailed, and other forces at work in our society, who gains access infomlation provided in paper, non-print and digital fOmlats. These to what information is threatened by additional limitations. efforts are designed to meet curricular needs but to do so in ways The Association of Research Libraries, had this to say in response to certain post "9111 " that achieve abalance. We need to assure that legitimate researdl events: is available addressing the mulliple sides of issues, whether "As stated so eloquently by Abraham Lincoln in a letter to an old friend in tIIinois during the current, historic, humanistic, scientific or social. final days of the Civil War, 'Freedom is not some arbitrary right that is bestowed upon us Some of the most powerful barriers to intellectual freedom because of the virtuous nature of our national character. It is aright we must protect and defend derive not from overt efforts to stop free speech but from in both times of promise and peril if we are to remain in the future what we are in the present­ some very basic needs. For example, we, like you, are vexed afree and honorable people: by the limitations of copyright. Authors, creators, and producers As our nation and, indeed, the world move forward during this time of mourning and should be justly rewarded for their efforts, but at the same recovery, libraries continue to serve a diverse array of communities across our nation with time libraries need to efficiently, effectively and reasonably information and library services that celebrate the freedom of speech and access to information make their products available to students and researchers, that we all embrace. By maintaining, on adaily basis, the balance between access to information including those with limited means. And like you, we have for all, ... libraries continue to be cultural and living symbols for the freedoms that we enjoy," limited funds so we must carefully select what we buy and (See http://www.arl.org/info/frn/otherlstatement.html) what we gain access to because we cannot afford to build an As library practitioners, our quest to embrace, enjoy and protect Intellectual Freedom is omnibus warehouse of every idea, opinion and fact. I hate to aided by the glow of the First Amendment. It is a "lamp unto our feet;'to borrow aphrase from say it, but this is a necessary form of economic censorShip, if asometimes banned book known as the Bible. you will, practiced by every library, everywhere. William Uricchio is Director of the University of Connecticut Tri-Campus Libraries. Philosophically speaking, we champion intellectual freedom both personally and professionally. Our most prominent professional organization, the American Library Association, has CLA Conference 2006 a "Library Bill of Rights:' Its latest edition, in part, says this: And Now For Something Different I Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, infomlation, and enlightenment of all people If you think the 2005 annual conference in urban New Haven was of the community the library serves. Materials should not great, just wait until next year. The 2006 conference will be held in the be excluded because of the origin, background, or views count1y, at Mountainside in Wallingford. That facility has been of those contributing to their creation. renovated and reinvented as a corporate retreat center. If you consider crystal chandeliers and cloth towels in the ladies' room essential to a II Libraries should provide materials and information conference, you'll be disappointed_ But if the idea of a casual, dress­ presenting all pOints of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed down conference in a beautiful wooded setting appeals to you, you're because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval. in luck. Mountainside is close to the center of the state, right off 1-91, with free outdoor parking for two thousand cars, so we anticipate no I say "philosophically" because, as mentioned earlier, free complaints about parking in 2006! You can preview the location at speech is burdened by some practical limitations. It is also www.mountainsideweb.com. burdened by responsibilities. Just as one cannot shout Fire! in The Public Library Association will hold its national conference in a crowded auditorium, one cannot and should not expect to Boston in March 2006, so we decided to move the CLA conference to libel, slander or defame others or to intentionally proffer bad May_ Pull out your 2006 calendar, and circle May 9-10, with at least or slanted information under the guise of some self-appointed one pre-conference scheduled for May 8. or otherwise false authority without paying a price, whether it be legally, politically, institutionally or even collegially enforced. We want to thank the following companies that sponsored the The Internet, with its lack of controls of any kind and with awards ceremony and the swashbuckling mentality of some its participants, reminds coffees at the 2005 CLA me of the worst of the Wild West-shoot first and aim later. Its conference: Thomson Gale, false wealth of fool's gold is astounding Librarians struggle to Donohue Group, EBSCO, create order out of chaos, to replace ignorance with discernment, and Baker and Taylor. We to substitute aconnoisseur's knowledgeable appreciation of fine hope to see them-and you­ wine for the flood of a fire hose aimed at one's face. Whether the at Mountainside in 2006. Internet remains the greatest open communications tool in history A nita Barney and Betsy or whether it devolves into an open cesspool of irresponsible Bray, col~rerence co-chain speecll, free or otherwise, remains to be seen.

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES • JUNE 2005 • PAGE 7 (onnecticard onnecticard is the most popular and A special subcommittee of the CLA heavily used state-funded library program Legislative Committee, chaired by Les Connedicut's In Connecticut. For 31 years, it has provided Kozerowitz, met to plan strategies for achieving Most Popular equity of access to library materials to all state increased funding for Connecticard. The residents. Last year, local public libraries loaned committee wrote a Connecticard fact sheet titled Library Service Is 4,654,118 items, valued at $138 million, to non­ Connecticard: Providing Equity 0/ Access to In Trouble residents. Unfortunately, the program is in Connecticut Citizens that was distributed to jeopardy because some of the libraries legislators. They also developed a FAQ to help experiencing extensive non-resident use feel that the library community in their advocacy efforts by Sharon they can no longer provide the service when state wi th legislators. (See below.) Brettschneider and reimbursement for it is so low. Over the last In addition, the committee felt that it was Les Kozerowitz five years, Connecticard use has increased by important to build a grass roots demand for the 20% while funding for it has declined by 7%. funding. Most patrons don't know that their A recent study commissioned by the State ability to borrow from libraries other than their Library found that it costs an average of $1.05 local library depends on a state-funded program. to circulate an item to a non-resident. (See One of the methods the Legislative Committee the full report at ct.webjunction.orgl has suggested for educating patrons is for do/DisplayConrent?id = 8223.) The current libraries to hand out a bookmark to every non­ reimbursement rate is approximately $.14. If resident patron. (See the sidebar.) The bookmark libraries were to be reimbursed at the $1.05 rate, briefly explains the program and asks them to Connecticard would need $4 .9 million to be contact their legislator. CLA plans to print fully funded. Current funding is $676,028. multiple copies of the bookmark for distribution During the 2005 legislative session, the to libraries, and a printable version will also be Connecticut Library Association made available on the CLA website.• Connecticard its top priority and requested an Sharon Brettschneider is Director 0/ CSL's STOP! increase in support to $1,352,056 for FY 2006 as Libra ry Development Division; Les Kozerowitz is

Before you read . watch or the first step in a multiple year phase-in to full Past President 0/CLA and Director 0/the Norwalk listen to the item you have funding. As of this writing, the program will not Public Library. just borrowed . did you know receIve an Increase. that.

As a non-resident of this (onnecticard FAQ town you are able to use this library because of a state- Why not charge non-residents to use other support for services to non-residents-and non­ funded Connecticard libraries? One of the guiding principles of taxpayers. If these libraries withdraw from program? public libraries in the United States is the Connecticard they will refuse to lend to non­

It costs this library $1 .05 for provision of free and open access to materi.als residents and their own residents would be every item you borrow. and and services. Wi e are fortunate in Connecticut refused service in other towns. In order to the State reimburses that this principle has been broadened through obtain the needed item they will return to their onty14¢? the Connecticard program to allow access to hometown library and request the items

Please contact your local all public libraries in Connecticut. This through interlibrary loan-a very expensive legislators and tell them how program provides equity of access to every alternative costing from $15-$20 per loan. important this program is to citizen in Connecticut. If libraries impose fees, How long has Connecticard been in you - and to please support only wealthier families will be able to afford existence? How has it been funded in the increased funding for Connecticard. to use libraries. In other states without a similar past? Connecticard beg~lD in January of 1974. reciprocal borrowing program, it is common In its initial year it was funded at $300,000. for towns to charge $100 for non-residents to 395,686 loans were made that first year. At that use the library. In Connecticut, families often time reimbursement was provided for net use many libraries; this would not be possible loans only. By the 1980's funding had increased except for the wealthiest families if each to $408,000 but use had increased to 1.7 million. individual library charged these fees. In 1982 the reimbursement formula was What will happen if Connecticard changed to split reimbursement with one-half funding is not increased? Some public reimbursing all loans and one-half reimbursing libraries that are lending the most to for net loans. The program saw modest non-residents are facing pressure from increases until a high of $726,028 in FY 2001. their municipalities to withdraw from In FY 05 funding had decreased to $676,028. Connecticard. Since state funding is so low Loans have skyrocketed to 4,515,884. their towns argue that they are using local tax Continued on page 11

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES • JUNE 2005 • PAGE 8 "Bugs" go back to the earliest days of computers. In 1947 customers were without telephone service for two days as a a moth was found inside Harvard's Mark II computer. The result of sork damage. engineers removed the bug and thus performecl the first One solution that has been tried is to coat cables with "debugging." The moth, pinned into their log book, is now on pepper spray to discomage rodents from chewing. Creating exhibit at the American History Museum of the Smithsonian secure rooms to house network components may sound good, Institute (See americanhistory.sLedu/colledions/comphisU but it is very difficult to do. One exterminating firm put bait objects/bug.htm) stations with rodent poison under the flooring. They also had Pests in the Unfortullately, that moth was not the last pest that has to inClude deodorizer in case dead rodents were not found and been found in acomputer. We no longer have computers that removed immediately. Network take up entire rooms, but we have networks that extend The best way to keep rodents out of data centers is to through entire buildings and among many buildings.What can eliminate the items they need : food, water, and safe space. get into them? In 1987, asquirrel was responsible for causing That means no snack food, no eating or drinking in that space. a major power outage when it shorted out the main power A splash of sweetened coffee provides sugar for feed at the University of Houston in Texas. Nothing was left of a hungry critter. Once a creature has gained access to the poor critter except for a bit of its tail and paw. your center, even armored cables may not protect your In another tall Texas tale,fire ants became anuisance becal1se cables accord,ing to an article in Network World they chewed on the insulation at the Superconducting (www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050905widemet.html) Supercollider projed. They favored some types of insulation If YOI1 have cabling that runs between buildings, set it up so and could strip wires bare In just a few minutes. that no rodent can jump onto it from apart of the building or a Isabel Danforth According to Doug Percival, from 1993 throu gh 1995, tree or pole. This makes sense to all of us who have ever tried Technology Columnist PETA fought to stop AT&T from using pocket gophers, to keep squirrels away from bird feeders . Outside cables may otherwise known as prairie do gs, to test cable stren gth. need anmoring to proted them in any case. (a rticl es .ani ma Icon cerns . org /a r- voices / arch ive l Wired news reported in Odober 2001 that one company pocket..gopher.html) Apparently, Ann kept these animals in that manufadmes boards had created them with a special small cages and had them chewingon cables much of the time. insed repellant called Core coat-R, acockroach repellant. They As far back as 1988, the US Department of Agriculture coat the circuit boards with the material to proted them. These tested how wen pocket gophers could chew cables .They have boards become components in also done some testing of squirrels in the Northeast and the avariety o~ devices. Tesla PC rockchuck, which is awestern cousin of the woodchuck. (Wall (tes la-pc . com / abou II Street Journal, Jan 14, 1988) warranties.htm) has a Now that we can document the damage that insects and disclaimer in their warranty rodents can cause to networks, the question is: What can we that says that they cannot be do to prevent that damage? The Fiber Optic Association, an responsible for damage "i nternational non-profit professional society for the fiber optic caused by fadors beyond their induslly;' has a FAQ available that points out that there are control such as: "'Damage really no standardS for terms such as "rodent resistance;' caused by insects, rodents, or "rodent proof;' or "rodent protedion:' They note that the phrase other animals (including pets) ; "rodent proof" is currently used only by makers of dudwork. and /or their feedin g, other Rodents do not chew on cables for food but do so because adivities or by-products." they need to keep wearin g down their teeth. If they do not All in all, there doesn't seem A m erican engineers have been calling small chew, then their teeth get too ton g and prevent them from to be any way to completely flaws in machines "bugs "for over a century. eating. guard your computers and Thomas Edison ta lked about bugs in electrical Telcordia su ggests that cabling of all sorts be proteded network from live intruders. circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers with enough covering to make them at least two to four inches However, building them were built during the ea rly 19405, people working thick. This should keep rodents from getting their mouths secure and sealed, keeping out on them f ound bugs in both tbe hardware of the around the cable. Today we use fiber-optic cables that serve food, and using appropriate machines and in the programs that ran them. In more people than the older copper wire; therefore, one cable materials may all help keep 1947, enginee1'5 w orking on tbe Mark If computer being broken has a much larger impad than it used to have. your space safe. at Harvard University f ound a m oth stuck in one Buildings can be very secure and keep most critters outside, Isabel Danfortll is Dir­ of the components. They taped the insect in their but in Sweden they discovered that it took an opening only two ector of LibralY Services, logbook and labeled it "first actual case of bug centimeters wide to allow rodents they called "sorks" into International College of hem· gfi oun.d"Tl1 oe w ord" 5 b". ug an d. "d eb" ug soon nelworks owned by TeliaSonera, a telcom carrier. Over 4000 Hospitality Management, became a standard part of the language of Suffield. computer program m ers.

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES - JUNE 2005 • PAGE 9 Connecticut Library Association OFFICERS CLA Publications Awards President Chris Bradley [email protected] Contest Winners Past President Les Kozerowitz [email protected] VPIPresident Elect 2005 Alice Knapp [email protected] Treasurer Jan Fisher Annual Report Program Flyer [email protected] Westport Public Library The Ferguson Library, Stamford ALA Representative Jay Johnston Director: Maxine Bleiweis Director: Ernest A. DiMattia, Jr. [email protected] Designers: Maxine Bleiweis Designer: Barbara Aronica-Buck NELA Representative Judy Renaccia KrisJacobi [email protected] Joan Hume Poster Region 1 Representative Canton Library Vacant Bibliography Director: Kathy Cockcroft Region 2 Representative Betsy Bray New Canaan Library Designer: Katie Perry bb [email protected] t.us Director: David Bryant Region 3 Representative Designers: David Bryant Promotional Item Francine Aloisa Phebe Kirkham Richmond Library, Marlborough [email protected] Region 4 Representative Tom Kucharik Director: Nancy Wood Bernadette Baldino Designer: Harold Wood [email protected] Bookmark Region 5 Representative T racy RalstOn The Ferguson Library, Stamford Thematic Project [email protected] Director: Ernest A. DiMattia, J r. Sacred Heart University Region 6 Representative Designer: Barbara Aronica-Buck Ryan Matura Library, Fairfield Theresa Conley Director: Dennis C. Benamati [email protected] Brochure Designers: Greg Golda CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES The Ferguson Library, Stamford Kim Macomber The newsletter is published eleven times each year. Director: Ernest A. DiMattia, J r. Subscriptions: $35 in North Designer: Barbara Aronica-Buck Website America; $40 elsewhere Levi E. Coe Library, Middlefield ISSN 0010-616X. Newsletter Director: Mary K. Dattilo EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Greenwich Library Designer: Jon Frechette Barbara Bailey Chair Carol Abatelli Spotlight Director: Mario Gonzalez Isabel Danforth Technology Designers: Staff Vince Juliano Looking at Books David Kapp Editor Earl Roy Treasures Groton Public Library celebrated National Library Week by Judy Smith Webmaster inviting community leaders to be photographed reading their William Uriccho Obversions favorite book on a REA D poster. Using the A LA REA D CD, CLA OFFICE . ~ library staffproduced 13" x 18.5" posters ofthe superintendent of Administrative Assistant schools, popular teachers, the police chief, youth officers, town Ka re n Zoller [email protected] council members, and the mayor. Other politicians who (phone) 860-465-5006 participated included state representatives and Senator Joseph (fax) 860-465-5004 'd·~..~ t . ~ Lieberman, shown here with a copy ofThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Posters featuring members ofthe Teen Volunteer Club ~ -'.. ~ . and a Little League coach were also created. ..J ---- The library invited the public to get involved by entering a contest explaining why they should be shown on a READ poster. READ The lucky child, teen and adult winners were invited in for a photograph session and given a copy oftheir poster. Thirty posters were produced and displayed in the library for the month ofApril.

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES· JUNE 2005 • PAGE 10 Dodd Research Center Exhibit Recalls The Great Flood of 7955

A current exhibit of photographs and documents from the Connecticut Business and Railroad History collections in Archives 11 Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Resea rch Center records the impact of Tile Great Flood of 1955 on the infrastructure and industry of tile state and illustrates the companies' efforts to rebuild and restore service to their customers. In the space of less than aweek in mid-August 1955, hurricanes Connie and Diane blustered through southern New England as they were winding down into tropical storms. Arriving toward the end of a wetter-than-usual summer, the combined storms dropped over 20 inches of rain on the region , leaving record levels of flooding and widespread havoc in their wake . Many Connecticut rivers, particularly the Housatonic, Naugatuck, Still, Quinebaug, Mad, and Farmington, overflowed their banks as never before; towns and cities in Litchfiel d and Hartford counties were particularly hard hit. The downtowns of many cities were devastated, including State Librarian Ken Wiggin and Director 0/ Winsted where the downtown was completely washed away. Property damage mounted into CSL's Library Development Division Sharon the tensof millions of dollars .Almost 100 people were killed, an estimated 4700 were injured, Brettschneider were special guests at the recent and countless others were left homeless. celebration honoring the 1J(Y" anniversary o/the Industrial damage to businesses with factories located on the rivers was considerable. The Stratford Library Association. Theassociation American Brass Company sustained over $15,000,000 in damage to its Waterbury, Ansonia, was formed in 1885 and chartered by the State and Torrington plants. Southem New England Telephone Company, which served all of Connecticut, Legislature in March 1895 to provide free library was faced with submerged equ ipment and thousandsof downed lines. The destruction wreaked service to the residents o/Stratford. The week 0/ on its mills was the direct cause of the Wauregan-Quinebaug Texti le Company's demise in March 28, 2005 was declared "Stratford Library 1958. A nniversary Week" in the town, and a new video The New Haven Railroad, the predominant railroad line of southern New England, was highlighting the history o/the libra?y, its already suffering financial hardship from the effects of post-war America 's growing reliance on programs and services, and several residents the automobi le and airplane discussing what the library means to them was travel. It found itself hard­ produced and shown at a public reception. A pressed to come up with the series anniversary-related events, begun during 0/ financial resources to rebuild the week, will continue thro ughout the year. the seventy miles of track and Karen S. Bowles is Director o/the Library, and Maria Ferrera is President 0/the Library Board. dozens of railroadbridges that were sha\lered by the storms. (ONNECT.CARD FAD After the flood took out abridge Continued from page 8 west of Putnam, the railroad ended service between What are the savings with Connecticard? Willimantic and Pomfret. If libraries or patrons themselves had to purchase The Great Flood of 7955, the items borrowed under Connecticard it would prepared by Laura Katz Smith cost them over $130 million. A study indicated and Kevin Saucier, is on display that encouraging residents to use Connecticard in the Dodd Researcll Center to obtain materials is a very cost effective Gallery on UConn 's Storrs Downtown Winsted 'was destroyed in the Flood strategy .• campus /llrougll August 79. 0/1955.

Joelle Pauporte (inset, right), a mother ·with advanced breast cancer, recently founded "Light One Little Candle, "an organization dedicated to helping the families 0/cancer patients find comfort through reading together. Joelle is pictured here with Jane E. Breen/rom the Bishops Corner Branch 0/the West Hart/ord Public Library. The library recently hosted the kick-oil event to help launch Joe/Ie's organization, and has now collected over 1000 new children's books/or the Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center in Hartford, as well as other cancer centers nationwide. Nearly 5000 books have been collected nationally. Fo r more in/ormation on how you or your library might help "Light One Little Candle," please contact Jane Breen at 860-236-5446, or visit www. lightonelittlecandle.org.

CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES • JUNE 2005 • PAGE 11 Ralph Arcarl will retire on June Gayle Bogel, library media Tony Hopkins hasjoi ned UConn's Tri-campus 30 from his pos iti on as sp eci ali st at Sa muel Sta pl es Libraries as Waterbury team leader and liaison associa te vice pres iden t for Elementary School in Easton, has to the RN to MSN nursing program and the aca demic resources an d been awarded an Institute of sciences . services and di rector of the Museumand library Services grant Tzu-Hng Kao is a new lyman Maynard StoweUbrary Ralph to participate in the distance Gayle serials cataloger in Archives a at the UConn Heal th Ce nter Arcan independent interdisciplinary PhD Bagel Sp ecial Coll ections at the where he has worked for 30 program in library and information Thomas J. Dodd Research years. Under his direction the UCHC library science at the University of North Texas . She is one Center. developed Healthnet, the Connectinlt Consumer of 10 librarians chosen nationally for the program. Pamela Kaufman, rurrently Tzujing Health In formation progra m; EFT S, an Gayle earned her MLS at SCS U in 2000 and Is the enrolled in the graduate library Kao interlibrary loan billing service for health sciences former assistant diredor/children 's librari an at and informatio n science libraries in the US, Canada and Mexico with Easton Public Libra ry. program at SCSU, is the recipient of the first 1030 partldpants ; and served as the Regional Ann Shaw Burgan has announced her intention Fa irfield Library Adm inistrators Group Medical Libra ry for New England from 1991 to to retire from her position as head of Hebron 's scholarship. Pamela worked as a volu nteer in 200 1 in the National Network of Libraries of Douglas Library. the Green Farms Academy Li brary for six years Medicine. The UCHC libra ry was extenSively leslie Burger, recently elected and now works as a substitute at the New renovated in 2004 as an informationcommons as presi den t-elect of AL A and Canaa n Library reference desk once a month. and was dedicated in May 2005. di recto r of the Princeton (NJ) At SCSU she is preparing for a career in adult Ralph earned his MS LS at Drexel and holds Library since 1999, bega n her and YA reference service. an MA in political science from Trinity College library career as a page in the Jerri lynch, who served as a librari an in and a PhD In higher education from UConn. As Bridgeport Public Li brary.In 1974, Leslie several Connedicut public libraries and was an assistant professor in the UCHCCo mmunity the BPL hired her to develop a Burger formerly the head of CS t:s film service, died on Medicine Department, he taught thehistory of com munity infonnation and referral April 22, medidneel ective coursein the School of Medicine. service. Following that, she held Sarah Catherine Mindel Healso taughtthecourse in medicallibrarianship several pOSitions at the Connecticut State L1bra ry­ has joined the staff of UConn's LSTAcoo rdinator, diredorof plan ning and research, at SCS U. Babbidge library as map and and diredor of network services-before leaving Ralph served two terms as president of the geospatial data librarian and CT to become adevelopment consultant for the NJ Capitol Region Library Council and co-chaired liaison to the Department of State library. Learn more about her career since the ClA annual conference in 1999. He was Geography. then at burgerforala.blogs.com/about.html Sarah honored as CLA's librarian of the Year in 1987 JeSSica ROgOl is the new Mindel Tammy Eustis is the new director of the and received the Rogers Award for Information adu lt services librarian for Killingworth Library, andlauren Davis is thenew Technology from theM ed ical Library Association Monroe PublicLibrary. assistant librarian there. in 2003.

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