News & Notes
Submitted by Margaret Howe-Soper, mhowesoper@hbs.edu 

Please share your information with Margaret in preparation for the next issue. Send news of new jobs, promotions, awards, presentations, publications or other professional activities. Your colleagues will be interested to hear about you, so please don’t be shy!   

Jessica Baumgart wrote an article about RSS feeds that appears in the Winter 2004 issue of News Library News, the newsletter of the SLA News Division. The article is available online at: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/nln/nln04/nln262.pdf   

Tom Clark, of Sun Microsystems, has been nominated to be Secretary of SLA’s Information Technology Division for the year 2004-2005.

Raytheon’s first Metadata Architect is Christine Connors.  She’ll be developing metadata schemas, taxonomies and thesauri, governance documents, and policies for the cataloguing and classification of all types of information throughout the company.  Christine used to work at the IDS Research Library in Tewksbury.

Dartmouth College has named John Crane as Interim Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College after the resignation of Richard Lucier, who went to Dartmouth in 2000, from the California Digital Library.

Congratulations are in order for Paul Crosby. Since June, 2003, he has been working as the Reference/Assistant Librarian at FM Global’s Engineering and Research facility in Norwood. FM Global is a large property insurer, specializing in risk management.  Paul was formerly employed at KPMG LLP in Boston.

Heather Denny is now the MIT libraries’ Communication Coordinator, effective 1/26/04. Heather replaced Ruth Seidman who retired in June 2003. 

Claire Gosselin has joined the staff of Horn Library at Babson College as Cataloging Librarian. She formerly worked at Pine Manor College.

Millie Gonzalez has been hired as a part-time library specialist at AstraZeneca, where she will taking on acquisition, serial, and cataloging responsibilities. On weekends, Millie also works as a reference librarian at Massachusetts Bay Community College and Framingham State College.

Arlyne Jackson, Head of the Frederick S. Pardee Management Library, Boston University, has become a member of the Editorial Review Board for Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship.

In November 2003, Maureen Kimball joined Raytheon as Technical Librarian in the Research Library in Marlborough, MA.  She previously served as Integrated Library Systems Specialist at Inmagic, Inc. and Special Programs and Services Coordinator for PALINET (OCLC Regional Network and Library Consortium for the mid-Atlantic area).

Diane Klaiber has been appointed the Executive Manager of the Massachusetts Library Association. She was the former Executive Director of the New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO), and previously worked for Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies in New Jersey.  To see what the Association can do for you, please go to their website at www.masslib.org.  Diane can be reached at 508-428-5865 or malibraries@comcast.net.

Vicary Maxant became the proud grandmother of Jeremy Wendell Simon on November 29^th.  Everyone is fine, and Vickie spent two weeks at Christmas helping her daughter with home and baby. Congratulations!

Barbara Mento (Virtual Data Center) and Brendan Rapple (Collection Development Librarian), both of Boston College, have co-authored SP274 Data Mining and Data Warehousing, published in fall 2003. SPEC kits are published by the Association of Research Libraries, Office of Leadership and Management Services in support of best library practices for library needs. The Executive summary is available at http://www.arl.org/spec/SPEC274WebBook.pdf. Barbara is a Past-President of the Boston Chapter.

Linda Schuller Wolf recently assumed the position of Librarian at the Simmons College of Management. Linda received her MLS from Simmons in 2001 and was recently a reference librarian at the Belmont Public Library.

Ruth Seidman, a Past President of both SLA and our Chapter, has been named
an SLA Hall of Fame winner by Cindy Hill. See this release:
http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/pressroom/pressrelease/2004pressrelease/pr2405.cfm

Tony Stankus, Science Librarian at Holy Cross, has published a professional article on a personal subject. His paper, “Supporting Volunteers in Their Personal War on Obesity with Reliable Information from Widely Available Health Science Journals," will appear shortly in the ALA's Reference & User Services Quarterly, volume 43, number 3, pages 7-20, Spring 2004 issue. This paper reviews a vast amount of published information and highlights vetted print and electronic information sources on the opposing Atkins and Ornish Diets; Enrollment Diet Plans like Weight Watchers and their competition with Curves; and a comparison of the swift progress being made with surgery as opposed to the slow market for prescription diet drugs. (Owing to a belief in participatory journalism, to a certain extent, he actually followed the published advice and lost 150 pounds in 15 months, through recommended dieting and exercise.)  [For those of us who have fought our personal battles of the bulge, “nice going, Tony!”]

Congratulations to the following people at Fidelity Management & Research (FMR Co.) Investment Information Services: Ellen Callahan has been promoted to Director, Investment Information Services; Leah Lomond to Industry Content Analyst; and   Claudette Newhall to InfoCenter Collections/Systems Manager.

MIT has some new hires, including Lisa Sweeney, now Head of GIS Services and Stefano Mazzocchi, who is a Research Scientist with the Digital Library Research Group.  

Don’t forget that March 26^th is Simmons College GSLIS Alumni Day.  Speakers will include Steve Krug, Clifford Lynch, and AJ Anderson.  For more information and to register, see http://alumnet.simmons.edu/ and click on “Especially for GSLIS Alumnae/I”

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