LAST SUNYLA CONFERENCE OF THE CENTURY! JUNE 15-19, 1999 In This Special Issue: New Members News from the Campuses Employment Opportunities Conference highlights Page 2 Page 3 Start on Page 15 Page 20 and much more... *STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION Conference Edition, June 1999 ISSN: 0731-7893 http://www.albany.edu/library/sunyla/ Volume 29, Number 5 the SUNY Librarians Association 4. To encourage indi- Outgoing Presidents (SUNYLA). Membership in SUNYLA is vidual and collec- open to any one employed in any SUNY tive professional Message: library. We have over 400 members development. from all across New York State. The 5. To provide an orga- Library Access for main objectives of SUNYLA are: nizational frame- the Next Century work for profes- 1. To be a strong and vital force in the sional interaction general educational mission of the among those inter- Written Testimony of Wilfred State University of New York ested in the quality of librarianship Drew, President of the SUNY through high quality library service. in the State University of New York. Librarians Association. 2. To further develop the principles and 6. To cooperate with similar organiza- standards of librarianship in the tions on local, state, and national My name is Wilfred Drew. I am an asso- State University of New York. levels to achieve these goals. ciate librarian at SUNY Morrisville Col- 3. To advance the professional status lege of Agriculture and Technology and of librarians of the State University Please see Testimony, page 13 am currently serving as the President of of New York. From Our President-Elect: Alphabet Soup and Opportunity Mark A. Smith, Incoming SUNYLA President We love our acronyms, dont we? We As I sit down to write this column, I look to my very first SUNYLA council meet- love our ALA, NYLA NYLINK, OCLC, across the room and spy my trusty, ing just a few short years ago. It was SCLD, SLSC, etc. And, of course, we crumpled, crusty, well worn, 3-hole, col- there on that sticky, humid afternoon wait with bated breath for the good lege ruled notebook page that is never in Morrisville that this document was efforts of LAIP, LASG, OLIS and SLAM far from my reach. The smudged, nearly born. A few weeks later I had my to help select our new SUNY-wide illegible text is littered with corrections first opportunity to meet with the LMS. We are champions for all acro- and additions and filled with hurried SUNY FACT committee as the new nyms that contain an L for Library, scratchings in the margins. It has served SUNYLA liaison, and quickly found and rightfully so. me well on numerous occasions. Inter- estingly, its origins can be traced directly Please see Alphabet Soup, page 9 SUNYLA Newsletter, Conference Edition, June 1999/Volume 29, Number 5 page 2 The Drum Roll Please... We have our 400th Member and Were Excited! The Membership Development Com- SUNY librarians at Stony Brook on vari- mention being near her two nieces). mittee is elated to welcome our 400th ous projects for the Council, she was en- She is enjoying her new position in member, Susana Tejada. Weve asked thusiastic about joining SUNYLA imme- Lockwood Library, especially selec- her boss, Judy Adams-Volpe, to diately upon her appointment at Buffalo. tion of art materials. She finds the write a few words of introduction online catalogs of major art librar- about her Susana grew up in Los Angeles, received ies, such as the Avery at Columbia, her B.A. from New York University, and Harvard, Cornell and Michigan, to be Susana Tejada began her appoint- her MILS from the University of Michi- very useful in selecting and identify- ment in February as Reference Librar- gan. In addition, she studied for a year ing materials in specific areas. Hope- ian and Subject Specialist for Art and at the New York University in Paris. Her fully, everyone will meet Susana at Art History at Lockwood Memorial Li- library experience includes special col- our Annual Conference at Adirondack brary, University at Buffalo. Previously lections, archives, public relations and CC. she was the Program Manager of the outreach. At the New York Public Li- Documentary Heritage Program at the brary she worked with the Feminist Paci- - Judy Adams-Volpe Long Island Library Resources Coun- fist Movement Archives. Despite hav- Director cil, where she was engaged in docu- ing lived in the big cities on each coast, Lockwood Library menting the work of Long Island art- Susana likes Buffalo, particularly the University at Buffalo ists. Since she enjoyed working with sane and uncrowded driving (not to New Members Add Spice to SUNYLA!!! This year SUNYLA has been working dili- Deborah A. Curry, Chair motivated by the ever present challenge gently to increase its membership base. Membership Development of improving herself. "I truly enjoy all We have been fortunate to have several Committee of the work I do - 'Far and away the new members. I would especially like best prize that life offers is the chance to thank the SUNYLA delegates who to work hard at work worth doing'." have worked enthusiastically persuad- MEET JANE VEROSTEK... {Theodore Roosevelt, 9/7/1903} ing librarians to join our organization. The Membership Development Commit- One of our new members is Jane. M. Jane received her MLS from Syracuse tee created a new brochure this year Verostek. Jane has settled in at University in 1996. Previous to this that will hopefully make their job a little Franklin Moon Library at the SUNY Col- she assisted at several Syracuse librar- easier in the future. lege of Environmental Science & For- ies: Onondaga County Public Central estry. It seems ESF must have adver- Branch, the ERIC Clearinghouse on In- We hope you will join us in welcoming tised for a "wonder librarian" as Jane is formation and Technology, Barclay Law our new colleagues into our Association, busily doing it all. She’s teaching a Library, and her home library of Moon. make them welcome and then put them course for students on how to use a to work helping us make this a stronger myriad of the library's online systems She is active in the New York Library organization. The Membership Develop- including Cambridge and Dialog@Carl. Association and the Eastern New York ment Committee thought it would be She is also involved in providing refer- chapter of ACRL. Jane's avocation is great if we could highlight a few of our ence service, assisting with ILL requests photography and spends endless hours new members. If you happen to see the and creating original cataloging. searching for that ultimate photo to en- name tag of any one of these new mem- ter in the NY State Fair bers, please give them a warm recep- At work she is motivated by the callenge tion. of learning new things and is further Please see New Members, page 10 SUNYLA Newsletter, Conference Edition, June 1999/Volume 29, Number 5 page 3 In the fall and spring, Jennifer Chillrud BINGHAMTON UNIV. News from taught the two-credit Library Research Methods course. Bernard J. Mulligan [email protected] Colleen Smith taught a one-credit the Campuses Internet Mastery course during the win- Staff News: ter session. Linda Whang, has been appointed Reference Librarian for Engineering and Applied Science, Her term starts 7/8/99. ADIRONDACK CC Rachelle Moore, has been granted Joyce Miller ALBANY UNIV. sabbatical leave from 5/10/99 to 8/10/ [email protected] Nancy Stanfill 99 and 5/10/2000 to 8/10/2000; Cheryl [email protected] McKee has also been granted sabbati- Staff News: cal leave from 7/1/99 to 6/30/2000. Teresa Ronning has assumed the job ALFRED CERAMICS of Library Director upon the departure BROCKPORT STATE of Director of Learning Resources Connie Mark Smith Bakker in October. The Learning Re- [email protected] Julie Wash source Center was divided this year into [email protected] the Library and Academic Technology units. The Media Viewing Room remains ALFRED TECHNICAL Staff News: with the Library. Academic Technology now oversees academic computing and Barbara Griel Jonathan Coe applied and received a multimedia classroom support. [email protected] grant for $744 to attend the 1999 Fed- eral Depository Library Conference held Catalog Librarian Colleen Smith was Staff News: in Bethesda, MD in April 1999. named a Dewey Fellow by the Academic and Special Library Section (ASLS) of Suzanne Wood, Acquisitions & Tech- Jennifer Quigley received a UUP In- NYLA. ASLS sponsored her trip to NYLA nical Services Librarian, will be retiring dividual Development grant for $600 to this fall. She also on the ASLS member- on June 15th. attend the SUNY ACRL Immersion Pro- ship committee. gram in Plattsburgh, NY. In addition, Barbara Griel received the Chancelors Jennifer reorganized the college ar- Library Director Teresa Ronning is the Award for Excellence in Librarianship and chives which included assigning new program chair for ENY/ACRL for 1998- was promoted to Librarian. Barbara also record group numbers and creating a 99 and will be the president for 1999- received a PDQWL grant to attend the new finding guide. 2000. She gave a presentation on the ACRL SUNY Immersion Program, July ENY/ACRL conferences at the ACRL 31-August 5 in Plattsburgh. Julie Wash has received a promotion Chapters Council meeting at the ALA to Senior Assistant Librarian, effective conference in Philadelphia. Ellen Ehrig received a PDQWL grant September 1, 1999. Julie also received to attend the 9th National ACRL meet- an Academic Affairs Travel Grant to at- Reference and Instruction Librarian ing in Detroit, MI.