A monthly look at life in the UK Libraries

August/September 2006

Exceptional Merit Recipients 2006
by Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Dean of Libraries
The Libraries are pleased to recognize 16 faculty and staff members who consistently
exceeded expectations in the past year. The recipients are:
Jay Baker - Supported the technical infrastructure for numerous additional projects
including the SFX server, the National Digital Newspaper Project, and the iArchives
software.
Rick Brewer - Identified and pursued a way
to support an expressed desire by faculty
and students for more information, training
and support for wireless PDA devices.
Laura Davison - Identified and pursued a
way to support an expressed desire by
faculty and students for more information,
training and support for wireless PDA
devices.
Esther Edwards - Provided administrative
support for Development, the Library
Associates, and other Dean’s Office activities
while continuing her primary assignment in L to R: Judy Fugate, Sherree Osborne, Janet
Layman, Sharon McGuire, and Cindy Parker.
Special Collections and Digital Programs.
Jason Flahardy - Contributed in an unprecedented way to working through procedures,
policies, standards and best practices that will bring consistency to archival work in SCDP
e.g. designed and implemented an accessioning procedure to identify collections,
researched and documented provenance and created collection level records, solved long
existing problems of collection management in Archives and enabled access to previously
unknown materials.
Judy Fugate - Provided outstanding assistance in the transition to new management of the
materials budget including helping her colleagues sort through complex budget issues and
tackling a subject analysis project to identify what percent of the journal titles in two
subject areas were available in electronic form developing a methodology which can be
used by other academic liaisons.
Beth Kraemer - Tackled the Herculean task of creating a php / mysql database for our
website as well as extending our involvement with the LOCKSS project to include beta
tests for government documents and electronic theses and dissertations.
Janet Layman - Took outstanding initiative to learn new cataloging skills and bringing a
public services perspective to the work of making materials accessible to the library’s
patrons.
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