Conferences Attended

April 1, 2001 - March 31, 2002

Michael Bolam, Librarian, Information Sciences Library

ALA Annual Conference-San Francisco

ALA Midwinter Meeting-New Orleans

WPWV ACRL-Fundamentals of Academic Librarians
 

Aaron Brenner, Digital Projects Librarian

Digital Library Federation, Fall Forum 2001, Pittsburgh, PA
 

Brenda Carter, Slavic Languages Team Leader

American Library Association Annual Conference, San
Francisco, June 2001

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Annual Conference, Crystal City, VA, November 2001
 

James P. Cassaro, Head, Theodore M. Finney Music Library

American Library Association annual conference, San
Francisco, CA, June 15-19, 2001: As MLA President, attended ALA Affiliates meeting; introduced at ALA Council meeting as MLA President; attended ACRL Arts Committee meetings.

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), Perigeux, France, July 8-13, 2001: Met with the Board of IAML-US to help in the planning for the 2002 IAML meeting in Berkeley, CA.

American Musicological Society annual meeting in Atlanta, GA, Nov. 15-18, 2001: Met with the AMS President, Jessie Ann Owens on potential joint projects (music journal titles in JSTOR; RILM; RISM) and fundraising efforts between AMS and the Music Library Association.

Music Library Association 72nd annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 18-22, 2002: as President of MLA responsible for chairing the Board of Directors meetings, and the annual membership business meeting, among other duties.
 

Kate Colligan, Associate Archivist, Archives Service Center

Attended Society of American Archivists Conference Aug 2001, participatedin Women's Collections Roundtable and became Co-chair.
 

Nancy Cook, Systems/Reference Librarian (Bradford)

Attended Computers in Libraries 2002, March 13-15,
2002, Washington, D.C.
 

Sarah Bess Cranstoun, Assistant Archivist

Society of American Archivists 2001 Conference

Mid Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Fall 2001

Mid Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Spring 2002
 

Michael Ford, Acting Head, Langley Library

LOEX, May 4-5, 2001, Ypsilanti, MI
 

Marietta Frank, Reference/Bibliographic Instruction Librarian, Bradford

Children's Literature Association Conference, June 6-10, 2001--seved on Conference Paper Selection Committee.
 

Ed Galloway, Coordinator, Digital Research Library

Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 2001.  Appointed to SAA's Task Force on Electronic Publishing
 

Marian C. Hampton, Reference/Instruction Librarian

ALA Annual Conference, San Francisco, June 2001.
 -- ACRL Instruction Section, Communication Committee
 

Wendy Mann-Eliot, Coordinator, Government Publications

ALA Annual and Midwinter
 

Miriam Meislik, Associate Archivist/Photograph Curator

Society of American Archivists-Named Chair of the Visual Materials Section
 

Rush G. Miller, Hillman University Librarian

ARL (twice) -- several committees, including chair of E-Metrics Project

ALA  (Twice)

Various workshops/institutes
 

Danianne Mizzy, Public Services Librarian

ALA Annual, San Francisco, June 2001

Member MARS Best Free Websites Committee

Member, RUSA/MARS Preconference Planning Committee "Digital Reference @ Your Library"

Organizer, WPWVC/ACRL "Fundamentals of Academic
Librarianship"
 

Susan Neuman, Head Business Library

ALA Annual Conference

ALA Midwinter Meeting
 

Sachie Noguchi, Japanese Bibliographer

CULCON XX: the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange, its 20th Meeting, Los Angeles, May 10-11, 2001

Annual conference of the European Association of Japanese Resources Specilists, Bratislava, Slovakia, Sept. 26-29, 2001

Computer Kokubun (Japanese literature) at the Natinal Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo, Dec. 7, 2001

The International Conference on the Enhancement of Information Availability for Scholarly Resources in Japanese Studies, Tokyo and Kyoto, Dec. 12-22, 2001
 

Keiko Okuhara

North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC), April 5, 2002, Washington, DC.

Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL), April 3-7, 2002, Washington, DC.

Consortial Licensing Task Force of the NCC (2000-2001)
I composed a tutorial for one of the Japanese online databases for researchers and scholars of Japanese Studies.  This tutorial has been mounted on the web site  (http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/easian/askeasl/askEASLguides.html)as a joint project of AskEASL  guide (http://askvrd.org/askeasl/mainpage.asp) which is a part of CEAL library instruction. Also, activities and outcomes of the Consortial Licensing Task Force are reported to the Winter issue, 2001 of the Asian Studies Newsletter and February 2002 issue of the Journal of East Asian Libraries.
 

Daniel M. Pennell, Bibliographer for Russian, East European, and Germanic Studies

Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Crystal City, Virginia, November 2001

"American-Romanian Relations: Years of Turmoil and Triumph 1940-2000", Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2001
 

Deane L. Root, Director, Center for American Music; Fletcher Hodges Jr. Curator

Society for American Music annual meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, March 6-10, 2002. Chaired session on "Screening American Music";  participated in meetings of SAM Development Committee and Education Policies Committee; and chaired Nominating Committee

Music Library Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, February 21, 2002. Delivered keynote paper on panel titled "Ongoing Challenges in Identifying American Music Resources: A Gleam in Father RAMH’s Eye?"

American Musicological Society annual meeting, Atlanta, November 17, 2001.  AMS representative to US-RILM Joint Coordinating Committee
 

Dr. David L. Rosenberg, Archivist UE Archives and Labor Collections

Briefing Session by NSF and other Government
Agencies on Grant Opportunities, Alexandria,
VA, March 19, 2001

Symposium on Confiscated Jewish Property
during WWII at US Holocaust Memorial Museum,
Washington, D.C., March 20-22, 2001

Midwest Archives Conference, Minneapolis, MN,
May 2-4, 2002
 

Dennis Smith, Head, GSPIA/Economics Library

ALA Conference, San Francisco, June 2001

ALA Midwinter Conference, New Orleans, January 2002

Member, RUSA Business Reference and Services Section Education Committee.
 

Kate Thomes, Head, Bevier Engineering Library

ASEE Annual, Albuquerque, June 2001

ALA Mid-winter, New Orleans, Jan. 2002.  Attended the ACRL/SPARC Forum in my capacity as ELD/SPARC Liaison (Engineering Libraries Division - of ASEE - liaison to/with SPARC.
 

Tom Twiss, Government Information Librarian

Federal Depository Libraries Fall Conference, Washington DC, October 14-17, 2001
 

Agnes Wen, Public Services Librarian, East Asian Library

Annual conference, Association for Asian Studies, Council on East Asian Libraries
 

Eve Wider, Reference Area Supervisor

ALA Conference, San Francisco, June 2001

ALA Midwinter Conference, New Orleans, January 2002

Reference and User Services  (RUSA) - Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)
--Member BRASS Business Reference Sources Committee
--BRASS Representative to RUSA Access to Information Committee