To our members, Welcome to our Spring 2003 Newsletter. We are looking forward to an active and exciting year for our Chapter. I would like to thank all of you who attended and participated in our Fall 2002 Conference, Active Learning and Library Instruction: A Workshop, which was held at the Lodge at Woodcliff in Rochester, New York. My thanks to our speak-ers Dr. Tom Sheeran of Niagara University and Dr. Jeff Liles and Kim Davies of SUNY Geneseo. Judging from the feed-back that we received, those who attended felt it was a stimu-lating and thought-provoking day. I would like to thank our Program Chairs, Linda Lowry and Michelle LaVoie, for all their efforts in organizing this event. Unfortunately, the Fall Conference was not a day without some problems. Several attendees noted that there seemed to be a lack of service on the part of the Lodge. Certain ameni-ties, such as soda and snacks that we had contracted for, were conspicuously absent. Please be aware that board members were just as unhappy about the lapses in service and that the Lodge was made aware of your complaints. For the Board, a successful conference is not just about good speakers and presentations. It is also about providing a comfortable envi-ronment in which attendees can enjoy the presentations as well as interact with their colleagues. In this issue of our newsletter, you will find an announcement for our Spring Conference, PDAs and Portals: Technologies and Interfaces Transforming Academic Libraries, which will be held on Friday May 2nd at the Buffalo Conference Center in Buffalo, New York. It promises to be an interesting day with speakers such as Megan Fox from Simmons Col-lege, who will discuss “PDAs in Academic Libraries: We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Palms”, Mary Jackson from the Association of Research Libraries in Washington, DC, who will talk about “Portals in Research Libraries: Improving Collection Access”, and Alan Darnell from the University of Toronto Library, whose topic is “Scholars Portal: An Infor-mation Infrastructure for Ontario”. We are pleased to be back in the Buffalo area again and I look forward to seeing all of you there.

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Message from the President 1

N ews 2

People on the Move 2

Fall 2002 Conference Report and Facts 3

S pring 2003 Conference & Registration 4-6, 7

Fall 2002 Conference S cholarsh ip Winner Profiles 6

R unning for Offices 9

Call for R eviewers 9

N ote from the Editor 9

T reasurer’s R eport 10

Meet Your Board Mem bers 11

Contacts 12

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I am also sorry to report that Wendy Hubley has tendered her resignation as Membership and Promotion Chair. Wendy joined the Board in 2000 as Vice Programs Chair and then as Programs Chair. A heartfelt thanks from the Board for her contributions and hard work. My thanks also to Carol Wu and Samantha Gust for their work on the newsletter and the Chapter’s web page respectively. For additional information and updates please be sure to check out the Chapter’s website at http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl See you all at the Spring Conference. Jonathan Coe President

January 2003 on behalf of the University at Buffalo, which contracted with RoweCom for 3,500 journal titles worth $1.3 million. In the meantime, as their money remains tied up in litigation, many libraries are forced to cancel journal subscriptions in the middle of the academic year. It is fortunate that many of the publishers, sympathetic to the situation, have offered grace periods to libraries, continuing to ship journals while the insti-tutions scramble to determine how to recover their losses. More information on this situation may be found on a site cre-ated by the Special Libraries Association. See the divine/Faxon Information Portal at URL: http://www.sla.org/content/interactive/infolinks/tellme/divine.cfm 1 © 2003 Chicago Tribune Submitted by Brenda Battleson University at Buffalo

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“Divine Looted Company : Creditors Allege Millions Taken From RoweCom.”1 This was the headline of a January 29, 2003 Chicago Tribune article by Rob Kaiser and it pretty well sums up exactly what divine—dubbed the “Enron of the library world”—has done to the journal subscription vendor RoweCom (formerly Faxon) and also to the corporate and academic libraries who contract with them. For those unfamiliar with the situation, RoweCom is/was a major subscription agent that contracted with larger academic, corporate and research libraries. Institutions would prepay for journal subscriptions by issuing checks to RoweCom who would then pay the individual publishers. This system, preva-lent in library acquisitions, has always been beneficial in that it has afforded libraries an opportunity to take advantage of discounts while placing the burden of timely distribution, or-dering and claims on the vendor. Dealing with a few vendors who then work with the hundreds of journal publishers has historically proven to be efficient and cost-effective for li-brary acquisitions departments. Unfortunately, while libraries were conducting “business as usual” with RoweCom, both parties were unaware that the parent company, divine, Inc., was “diverting” the payments that RoweCom was making to the publishers on behalf of their clients. As a result, publishers have not been paid, sub-scriptions are being interrupted and the money paid by the libraries is tied up in divine’s bankruptcy proceedings. In es-sence, RoweCom, even the publishers, are as much victims in this fiasco as the libraries they serviced.

A recent 14-count lawsuit has been filed against divine on behalf of some of RoweCom’s clients. According to Kaiser, RoweCom’s largest creditors include the National Institutes of Health ($2.4 million claim,) Virginia Tech, ($1.6 million claim) and the 3M

Company ($1.3 million claim). Locally, the New York State Attorney General’s office filed a separate injunction in early

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Ava Ehde has left D’Youville College as head of reference and systems coordinator to become the local history and adult services librarian at the central branch of the Manatee County Public Library System on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Chris Hollister, formerly D’Youville’s reference/ILL librarian, has taken a position at the University of Buffalo, as Information Literacy Li-brarian for the Arts and Sci-ences Libraries. Debra Lucas, formerly a part-time reference librarian at D’Youville, has accepted the full-time responsibilities of reference, interlibrary loan, and BI coordinator. Nancy Warren, formerly from Central Technical Services at the University of Buffalo, has become D’Youville’s new sys-tems librarian. Michelle Zafron has just started as D’Youville’s new par-time reference librarian. She is a very recent graduate of li-brary school at the University of Buffalo.

Candice Dahl, Instruction Librarian at Brock University, was recently awarded an ACRL National Conference Scholarship to attend the 11th ACRL National Conference to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 10-13, 2003. Congratulations!

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The Fall 2002 Conference was held on Friday October 11, 2002 at the Lodge at Woodcliff in Rochester, New York. 83 attendees (11 from Canada and 72 from the United States) enjoyed three lively presentations on active learning in a workshop-style format. Dr. Thomas Sheeran from Niagara University spoke on “Active Learning and Student Engage-ment” and Dr. Jeff Liles and Kim Davies from SUNY Gene-seo gave presentations on “Becoming Teacher Designers”. Summaries of their presentations and links to handouts and powerpoint slides are now available on the Chapter website, http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl/recconf.html

Submitted by Linda Lowry Program Chair

Active Learning and Library Instruction October 11, 2002 Active Learning and Student Engagement Dr. Thomas Sheeran, Niagara University Dr. Sheeran started off the day with a presentation on how active learning can be used to stimulate student engagement. In order to encourage conference participants to acknowledge and understand the connection between these two ideas, Dr. Sheeran modeled it in his session. Participants often worked in pairs and practiced being both teachers and learners. It quickly became evident that the very act of teaching helps teachers learn their material better. This idea has implications for how librarians teach students: if we enable them to teach each other in pairs or groups, students are likely to retain and understand more than if they merely listen to a lecture by a librarian. Dr. Sheeran also noted some other important points to keep in mind when planning and delivering instruction:

• The highest level of interest among students is during the first five minutes. That is when you have to prove that you’ve got what they need.

• The best way to find out how the teacher is doing is to observe what the students are doing (i.e. when giving directions is the teacher drawing the map or the learner?).

The tips provided in this session were insightful, highly prac-tical, and well-received by participants. Becoming Teacher Designers: Parts I and II Dr. Jeff Liles and Kim Davies, SUNY Geneseo College This two-part presentation was delivered by Dr. Jeff Liles, the library instruction coordinator at Geneseo College, and his colleague Kim Davies, an instruction librarian. Dr. Liles brought participants up to date on the theoretical perspectives on teaching and learning, and explained the premise that the most effective teachers are “teacher designers” rather than “teacher consumers.” “Teacher designers” are those who not only teach, but also plan, implement and manage their instruc-tional initiatives rather than work wholly within a pre-designed framework. Further, Dr. Liles provided information on how the method of content delivery affected rates of reten-tion: students will retain less by just listening, for example, than they will if they also have an opportunity to discuss or do. Kim Davies followed this theoretical discussion with a pres-entation that demonstrated how these theories are put into practice at Geneseo College. She showed us the lesson plans,

outlines and some of the resources used for specific classes, and explained a number of focus activities that she used to stimulate student engagement at the start of a session. The basic lesson plan for classes is usually the same and in-cludes the following components:

• focus activity (such as a game based on the SURVIVOR theme)

• statement of learning outcomes • modelling/demonstration • guided practice • ending the lesson - reiteration of what has been taught

The combination of material on both the theoretical and prac-tical aspects of library instruction made this a very helpful session and the speakers provided participants with a variety of ideas to try in their own instructional undertakings. Submitted by Candice Dahl Brock University

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PDAs and Portals: Technologies and Interfaces

Transforming Academic Libraries

Friday May 2, 2003 Buffalo Conference Center

Six Fountain Plaza, Buffalo, NY 14202

Conference Overview

Did you know? • According to recent reports from comScore Networks,

Inc., over 19 million Americans own a Per-sonal Digital Assistant (PDA) and, of these, 5 million use their PDA to access the Internet.

• According to the Com-puter Industry Almanac, Wireless Internet usage is projected to grow to 27.9% of American Internet users and 41.5% of Internet users worldwide by 2004. Source: Greenspan, Robyn. “Wireless surfer numbers grow”. September 6, 2002. Retrieved on February 3, 2003 from: http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/wireless/article/0,,10094_1457671,00.html

How well are academic libraries serving the needs of today’s scholars? • According to the recent OCLC White Paper on the Infor-

mation Habits of College Students, search engines such as Google and commercial web portals such as MSN are the first resources students turn to meet their information needs.

Source: “How academic librarians can influence students’ web-based information choices” OCLC White Paper on the Information Seeking Habits of College Students, June 2002. Retrieved on February 3, 2003 from: http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/pdf/printondemand/informationhabits.pdf

The Western New York / Ontario Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (WNY/O ACRL) invites you to a one-day conference that will explore the impact that new technologies, such as PDAs and handheld computing de-vices, and new interfaces, such as scholars portals, are having on academic libraries. Join us at the Buffalo Conference Cen-ter, located adjacent to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo’s theater district, to hear about these exciting developments that are transforming academic libraries across North America.

Session 1 PDAs in Academic Libraries:

We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Palms

Megan Fox Web and Electronic Resources Librarian Simmons College Libraries, Boston, MA

As more and more of our patrons and staff members arrive at the library with their PDAs in hand, it is increasingly impor-tant for librarians to understand both the possibilities and the limits of this new technology. This presentation will review exactly what a PDA is, explain differences between the many available devices, define basic PDA terms, such as sync and beam, and look at the most common PDA applications, such as calendars and address books. We will then explore the wide variety of current PDA projects in academia, and spe-cifically in academic libraries. We will look at examples of PDA compatible Web content, PDA barcode attachments and inventory management, infrared connectivity systems, and even PDA interfaces for traditional database vendors, such as OVID and Westlaw. Finally, we’ll consider the challenges this new technology presents for libraries, and what to look for in the near future. Megan Fox is currently the Web & Electronic Resources Li-brarian for the Simmons College Libraries. She manages the Libraries’ Web site and all contracts and negotiations for re-search databases. At Simmons, Megan also teaches graduate and continuing education courses for the Graduate School of Library & Information Science. Her specialties include online resources, searching the Web, and business informa-tion. Megan received her MA in Literature from Boston Col-lege in 1994 and her MLS in Library and Information Science from Simmons in 1998. She can be reached at fox@simmons.edu.

Session 2 Scholars Portal:

An Information Infrastructure for Ontario

Alan Darnell Project Manager,

Scholarly Information Resources Project University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, ON

This session will give an overview of the work being under-taken cooperatively by academic libraries in Ontario to build a portal service for integrated access to electronic journals and A&I databases across the province. The session will look at the technology, the organizational framework, current suc-cess, and some longer-term goals of the project.

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Alan Darnell is the Project Manager for the Scholarly Infor-mation Resources Project. He holds an MLS from the Faculty of Information Sciences at the University of Toronto and has worked in various system management roles at the University of Toronto Libraries and the University of Alberta Library.

Session 3 Portals in Research

Libraries: Improving Collection Access

Mary E. Jackson

Senior Program Officer for Access Services

Association of Research Libraries, Washington,

DC The Scholars Portal Project is one of several initiatives to in-tegrate portals into research libraries. An initiative of seven members of the Association of Research Libraries, the Project seeks to advance the concept of a collective research library presence on the web. The Scholars Portal is envisioned as a suite of Web-based services that will connect the higher edu-cation community as directly as possible with quality infor-mation resources that contribute to the teaching and learning process and that advance research. Functions includes in the Scholars Portal include discovery (search tools); capture (harvesting and delivery tools); manipulation (text-processing and citation-management tools); distribution (contribution and publication tools); and consultation (access to virtual refer-ence services and electronic scholarly communities). Other ARL member institutions are implementing portals with similar functionality. This presentation will provide an update on the current status of the Scholars Portal Project and summarize activities in other ARL libraries. Mary E. Jackson is the Senior Program Officer for Access Services for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in Washington, DC. In that position she serves as Project Man-ager for the Scholars Portal Project and coordinates the AAU/ARL/NCC Japan Journal Access Project. Mary serves as Principal Investigator for the 2002 Assessing ILL/DD Ser-vices Study and coordinated the 1997 ARL Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Performance Measures Study. Mary is an internationally recognized authority on interlibrary loan, document delivery, and resource sharing issues. She has written extensively on these topics; is regularly called upon as a consultant to libraries, consortia, and networks; and had given presentations and workshops in the U.S., Canada, and over 15 other countries. She is a member of IFLA’s Govern-

ing Board and Professional Committee and chairs the IFLA Standing Committee on Document Delivery and Interlending. She serves on the Editorial Board of Interlending and Docu-ment Supply. Her major publications include Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Products: An Overview of Cur-rent Features and Functionality, Measuring the Performance of Interlibrary Loan Operations in North American Research and College Libraries, and Uses of Document Delivery Ser-vices. Prior to her affiliation with ARL, Mary managed the Interli-brary Loan Department and served in other positions at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, Penn-sylvania. Mary was awarded a BA degree from Carroll Col-lege in Waukesha, Wisconsin and a MLS from Drexel Uni-versity in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The Conference in Brief: 8:15-9:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks 9:30-10:45 PDAs in Academic Libraries: We’ve got the Whole World in Our Palms Megan Fox, Simmons College Libraries 10:45-11:15 Coffee/Refreshment Break 11:15-12:30 Scholars Portal: An Information Infrastructure for Ontario Alan Darnell, Univ. of Toronto Libraries 12:30-1:45 Catered Lunch 1:45-3:00 Portals in Research Libraries: Improving Collection Access Mary E. Jackson, ARL 3:00-3:15 Closing Remarks Conference Site – Directions and Accommodations Buffalo Conference Center Six Fountain Plaza – Plaza Level Buffalo, NY 14202 Tel: 716-855-4800 http://www.buffaloconferencecenter.com The Buffalo Conference Center is adjacent to the Hyatt Re-gency Hotel in the heart of Buffalo’s financial and theater dis-trict. Accommodations for conference attendees for the eve-ning of Thursday, May 1, 2003 are available at the special rate of US$90/night. Please make your own reservations by calling the Hyatt Re-gency Hotel’s Reservations Desk at: 1-800-633-7313 or 716-856-1234.

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Driving Directions From the East: I-90 West to Exit #51 W (Rt. 33 West).

The expressway will end and place you on Goodell Street West. Bear to the left onto Pearl Street (Rt.5 West). Hyatt is past the 3rd light on the left side.

From the West: I-90 East to 190 North.

Exit at Niagara Street and turn right (heading south). Turn left onto W. Huron Street and follow to Pearl Street. Turn right onto Pearl Street. Hyatt will be on the immediate left side.

From the North: 190 South. Exit at Niagara Street and turn

right (heading South). Turn left onto W. Huron Street and follow to Pearl Street. Turn right onto Pearl Street. Hyatt will be on the immediate left side.

A detailed map is available online at: http://www.buffaloconferencecenter.com/location.html

Parking Parking will be validated in the following ramps: 1. Augsperger Ramp Located on Pearl between W. Huron and Chippewa.

Entrance from either Pearl or Franklin. 2. ProPark/Key Tower Located on Pearl between Chippewa and W. Huron.

Entrance from Pearl. 3. Convention Center Ramp Located on Pearl between W. Huron and Court.

Entrance from either Pearl or Franklin. 4. Ellicot Parking Lot Located on Pearl between W. Huron and W. Mohawk

(next to Hyatt). 5. Buffalo Civic Auto Ramp Located on Pearl and Court (across from Main Place

Mall). 6. E. Mohawk Ramp Located on Washington and E. Mohawk. Public Transit The closest NFTA Metro Rail stop is Fountain Plaza. Park & Ride lots are available at both the South Campus and Lasalle Stations. For more information, consult the NFTA web site at: http://www.nfta.com/metro/

begun a new position at the University of Rochester libraries as reference librarian/political science bibliographer. I’m thrilled about my new position and am greatly enjoying get-ting to know the library, my new librarian colleagues, the campus, and the city of Rochester. I’m a recent MLS gradu-ate from Syracuse University, where I also did graduate stud-ies in the social sciences. My library experience includes freelance archival research at Syracuse University Special Collections, an internship at SUNY-ESF Moon Library, and a one-year position with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Library Program. I like to think of myself as a person of wide-ranging interests. One at the top of the list is library in-struction, especially efforts to make the political process and legislative research both accessible and interesting. In addi-tion, I enjoy database and web design, online searching tools, questions of scholarly communication and copyright, and is-sues of how librarianship can effectively strengthen the aca-demic community. Last but not least, I’m an avid frequenter of thrift shops.” Submitted by Linda Lowry Program Chair

Student Scholarship Profiles At the Fall 2002 Conference, two student attendees were awarded conference scholarships of $40 each. The scholar-ship winners were: Michelle Munski and Ann Marshall. I contacted them recently to get updates on their current situa-tions. Michelle Munski is currently enrolled in UB’s LIS program. She began her studies in January 2002 and hopes to complete the MLS program by August 2003. She is currently working as a full-time elementary school librarian at the Fyle Elemen-tary School in the Rush-Henrietta School District in Roches-ter, New York. Michelle writes: “I have used what was pre-sented in the conference to complete one of my participation activities for my field experience class at UB. Students en-joyed working in ‘Survivor’-style groups to practice OPAC searching. They wore headbands to identify their tribes as they worked cooperatively to complete the scavenger hunt searches. This activity was done with fifth graders at a Roch-ester City School District elementary school.” Ann Marshall writes: “It was a pleasure to be able to attend my first WNY/O ACRL conference this past fall. I’ve just

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Registration Form - Western New York / Ontario ACRL Chapter Spring Conference 2003 (Please Print) Name: ________________________________Work Phone: _____________________ Institution:______________________________________________________________ Work Address: __________________________________________________________ City: _____________________ State/Prov.____________ Postal /Zip Code: _________ E-mail Address: _________________________ Chapter Member? _____ Yes _____ No (Email required if you want confirmation.) Fees (includes continental breakfast, breaks and hot buffet lunch) $90 (CDN)____ for Canadian ACRL WNY/O chapter members or ___ library support staff. $70 (US) ____ for American ACRL WNY/O chapter members, or ___library support staff. $105 (CDN) ____ for Canadian non-members $85 (US)____ for U.S. non-members $40 (US or CDN)____ for U.S. or Canadian full-time library school students Membership for ACRL Western New York Ontario is $10.00 per year (Canadian at par) and $7.00 for ACRL National members (Canadian at par). If you are currently not a member, the cost of membership may be added on to your registration check. All memberships expire as of August 31st each year. If you did not pay your membership for this year, please take the time to do so now. Check here ____ if you are paying membership dues now. Check here ____ if you wish to donate $1 toward our Library School Student Conference Scholarship. One or two scholarships are usually awarded at each Conference. Total amount of check: $ __________ Receipts will be available the day of the conference. We do not send confirmations by mail. Registration deadline: Friday April 25, 2003 NOTE: DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 80 PAID REGISTRATIONS RECEIVED. Please make checks payable to: Western New York/Ontario ACRL Please mail checks and forms to: Brenda L. Battleson Phone: 716-645-2305 Acquisitions Department Fax: 716-645-5955 University at Buffalo Email: blb@acsu.buffalo.edu 134 Lockwood Library Bldg. Buffalo, NY 14260

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No te fro m the Edito r... Thank you all for reading this issue of the newsletter. I am interested in getting your comment or suggestions about how to improve this newsletter in the future. If you would like to contribute articles or ideas to future issues, please con-tact me directly at cwu@brocku.ca. Carol Wu Newsletter Editor

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WNY/O ACRL Treasurer’s Report ( 9/1/2002 – 2/6/2003 current reports)

Fall 2002 Conference Report final Subcategory Total Income Donations Student Conf. Scholarship 18.00 Conf. Scholar. - Can. Exch. (2.02) Total Donations 15.98 Fall Conf Income 02 Registration 6,025.00 Registration Can. Exchange (361.64) Refund (210.00) Scholarships (2)* (40.00) Total Fall Conf Inc 02 5,413.36 Total Income 5,429.34 Expenses Fall Conf Expenses 02 Accomodations 4,062.60 Honoraria 150.00 Mileage 42.00 Supplies 90.00 Total Fall Conf 02 4,344.60 Total Expenses 4,344.60 Grand Total 1,084.74

Membership Income - 2002/2003 9/1/2002 Through 2/6/2003 Subcategory Total Dues 768.00 Canadian Exch (43.26) Total Income 724.73 Grand Total 724.74

Net Worth Account Total as of 9/1/2002 2/1/2003 Assets Bank and Cash Accounts 6,503.35 7,849.25 Total Assets 6,503.35 7,849.25 Net Worth 6,503.35 7,849.25

Income vs. Spending 9/1/2002 Through 1/6/2003 Subcategory Total Income Donations Student Conf. Scholarship 18.00 Conf. Scholar. - Can. Exch. (2.02) Total Donations 15.98 Fall Conf Inc 02 Registration 6,025.00 Registration Can. Exchange (361.64) Scholarships (2)* (40.00) Refund (210.00) Total Fall Conf Inc 02 5,413.36 Membership Dues 768.00 Canadian Exch (36.60) Total Membership 731.40 Total Income 6,160.74 Expenses Bank Charges chargeback fee 10.00 Total Bank Charges 10.00 Board Meeting 81.05 Fall Conf 02 Accomodations 4,062.60 Honoraria 150.00 mileage 42.00 Supplies 90.00 Total Fall Conf 02 4,344.60 Newsletter 376.80 Office Expenses Postage 55.55 Total Office Expenses 55.55 Spring Conf 02 GST Reimburs. (63.16) Total Spring Conf 02 (63.16) Total Expenses 4,824.84 Grand Total 1,355.90

* Two scholarships at $40.00 each were awarded at the 2002 fall conference. In one case, the member’s check was simply returned—thus, it is not reflected in the report.

In the Fall issue of the newsletter, you were introduced to some Board members. Here are the rest of the group: David J. Bertuca Vice President/President Elect I have held a number of library positions. In 2002, I became the Web Site Administrator for the Arts and Sciences Librar-ies, University Libraries, University at Buffalo. I oversee, design, and maintain the ASL Web site and coordinate Web activities with the University Libraries Web site. Prior to 2002, I was the Web site Manager at the Science and Engi-neering Library. I developed and maintained the SEL Web site; assisted with map reference, microcomputer develop-ment activities, as well as with visual design projects in SEL. I was the Map Cataloger (and monograph cataloger) from 1992 to 2003, performing original and derived cataloging of maps and charts for the Map Collection, and original catalog-ing and monographs for the General Libraries collections. From 1991 to 1992, I was the Canadian Documents Cataloger cataloging Canadian Government Documents in serials and monograph formats. From 1986 to 1991, I was the Head, Se-rials Management Section, Central Technical Services, at the University Libraries, University at Buffalo. I supervised a staff in a variety of tasks, including: Retrospective conversion and cataloging of serials (original and derived), Classification of the Periodical collections, Union List of Serials, inventory of bound periodicals to create and maintain holdings records for serials in OCLC and for the BISON Catalog, classification of UB microfilm periodical and newspaper collection. I received my M.L.S. cum laude from the School of Informa-tion and Library Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984; and B.S. cum laude from the School of Graphic Arts and Photography, Rochester Institute of Tech-nology in 1977. Jill Church Councillor I have been the head of the Periodicals Department at D’You-ville College in Buffalo since 1991. Over the years I have been involved with automating the library, building collec-tions for new programs from scratch, and planning and imple-menting a move into a new facility. It’s hard to believe what can fall under “other duties as assigned” on a job description! I have held several positions on the Executive Board since 1993, including Membership Chair, Nominations Chair, Sec-retary (for 2 terms) and Councillor. I have enjoyed the time I have spent with this group. My husband and I have two sons,

and just had a baby girl a few months ago, so any interests and hobbies have been set aside for now! I live for sleep and escape to a quiet corner with a book. Samantha J. Gust Webmaster I am currently the Reference/Interlibrary Loan Librarian & Webmaster at Niagara University Library. Prior to joining NU in October 1999, I was one of two Cybraries Teaching Center Librarians at the University at Buffalo. Before UB, I was a Reference Librarian at the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library at East Carolina University. Yes, I left North Carolina to return home to Western New York! I hold a Master of Library Science from the University at Buf-falo (1996) and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Buffalo State College (1993). Even though I never pursued a journal-ism career, I’ve always tried to incorporate my love of writing into my library work by reviewing books and educational vid-eos, editing newsletters and creating promotional materials. I also write a column about web sites called “Siteseeing” for Internet Reference Services Quarterly. Pat Viele Archivist I am the physics and astronomy librarian at Cornell Univer-sity. Working in a medium sized unit allows me to do a vari-ety of tasks. My duties include, bibliographic instruction, ref-erence, collection development and outreach. I am happy to be involved with several programs in support of the sciences: Research Experience for Teachers, Expanding Your Horizons, and the Center for Nanobiotechnology. During my time at Cornell, I have created many displays for the library. Re-searching the history of the departments we serve has been a delight. A year ago, I joined the American Association of Physics Teachers and have presented at three of their national meet-ings. My talks are built around the topic of finding good sites on the Internet and have been well received. It has been a re-warding experience. My favorite “hobby” is my grand-daughter, Charlotte. She will have a new sister or brother this summer, so I know I will be busy. I also enjoy attending music concerts and lec-tures both at Cornell and Ithaca College.

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Linda Lowry, Program Chair Brock University Library 500 Glenridge Avenue St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 llowry@brocku.ca 905-688-5550 x4650 Michelle LaVoie, Vice Program Chair Health Sciences Library 162 Abbott Hall SUNY at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14214 lavoie@buffalo.edu 716-829-3900 Wendy Hubley, Membership and Promo-tions Chair Business & Government Pubs. Library York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 whubley@yorku.ca 416-736-5139 Marianne Foley, Secretary E.H. Butler Library Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222 foleym@buffalostate.edu 716-878-6327

Jonathan Coe, President Niagara University Library Lewiston Road Lewiston, NY 14109 jcoe@niagara.edu 716-286-8005 Carol Wu, Past President & Newsletter Editor Brock University Library 500 Glenridge Avenue St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 cwu@brocku.ca 905-688-5550 x3266 David J. Bertuca, Vice President/President Elect Arts and Sciences Libraries 225 Capen Hall SUNY at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-2200 dbertuca@buffalo.edu 716-645-2947 x229 Brenda Battleson, Treasurer Acquisitions Dept. University at Buffalo 134 Lockwood Library Buffalo, NY 14260 blb@acsu.buffalo.edu 716-645-2305

Frank Carey, Nominations Chair Marian Library Daemen College 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY 14226 fcarey@daemen.edu 716-839-8478 Pat Viele, Archivist Physical Sciences Library, Clark Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-2501 ptv1@cornell.edu 607-255-4016 Jill Church, Councillor D’Youville College Library 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201 churchj@dyc.edu 716-881-7618 Maura Matesic, Councillor Business & Government Pubs Library York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 mmatesic@yorku.ca 416-736-5139 Samantha Gust, Webmaster Niagara University Library Lewiston Road, Lewiston, NY 14109 gust@niagara.edu 716-286-8031

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