Ruth Carter, Head, Archives Service Center and Curator of Historical Collections 

• NISO Standards Development Committee (attended meetings in Washington, D.C. in April, August, and December)
• Pennsylvania State Historical Records Advisory Board (attended meetings in Harrisburg in September and December)
• University of Pittsburgh. Senate Commonwealth Relations Committee, Chair 1996-1997 and 1997-1998.
• University of Pittsburgh. Provosts Ad Hoc Committee to Institute an E-mail/V-Mail Privacy Policy
• Board of Trustees, Northern Tier Regional Library Association (Pine and Richland Townships)

• Contributor: Navigating the Sea of Information. (Video Production) University of Pittsburgh, 1997

Ray Anne Lockard, Head, Frick Fine Arts Library 

Acquired the following rare books for the library collection: 

• Lodovico' Domenichi's LA NOBILITA DELLE DONNE (1st ed., Venice, 1549)
• Giovanni Pietro Bellori and Pietro Santi Bartoli's LA PITTURE ANTICHE DEL SEPOLCRO DE NASONII NELLO VIA FLAMINIA (1st ed., Roma, 1680)
• Leonardo Agostini's GEMMAE ET SCULPTURAE ANTIQUE DEPICTAE.... (2nd Latin ed., 1694)

Hosted a visit by Friends of the Frick Art Reference Library in New York (many of whom were descendents of Henry Clay Frick), May 11, 1997 - spoke on this building, the cloister, the Nicholas Lochoff frescoes and the Library. 

Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh - Architecture Committtee: Writing the chapter on Ralph Adams Cram for a book on the history of the church. (Forthcoming) 

Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh - Historical Commission: 

• Planned tours and keynote dinner for National Conference of Church Historians and Archivists, Pittsburgh, June 1997

• Planned 1997-98 lecture series: The Rev. Arnold Klukas, "The Episcopal Church and Gothic Architecture in the Diocesis of Pittsburgh," Kenneth Stiles, "The Glory of God as Seen in Stained Glass at Calvary Episcopal Church," Dr. Richard Tobias, "Trollope, Austen and Broughton: The Aleric in British Fiction," Dr. Donald Franklin, "Music for Ascension."

Lisa A. Mitten, Social Sciences Bibliographer/Head, Collections Services Department 
 

• Editing a special issue on children's literature about Indians for SAIL - Studies in American Indian Literatures (Fall 1998?)

• Agreed to serve as Book Review Editor for Native American book reviews for COUNTERPOISE, the new journal from ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table, July 1998.

• Serving as a consultant since about 1990 or so with Carnegie Museum of Natural History for the urban Indian section of the new Alcoa Hall of American Indians, to open in June 1998.

• Completed a three year term as President, American Indian Library Association (July 1994 - June 1997)

• My web page of Native American Sites has been chosen as a resource on the Discovery Channel's "American Frontiers - How the West Was Lost" web site (http://school.discovery.com/spring97/programs/howthewestwaslost/resources.html) and as one of ALA's 700+ Great Web Sites under "Peoples Past and Present Part I (http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/people.html#d)

• I am currently serving on the ALA Spectrum Award Jury reviewing minority applications for the new Spectrum Scholarships for library school.

Susan Neuman, Head, Business Library 
 

• Served as Chair of the ULS Peer Review Committee 1996/1997
• Served as elected representative from Professional Schools and ULS to University Senate: 1995-
• Serve as Member, Senate Educational Policies Committee, 1995 -

Sachie Noguchi, Japanese Bibliographer & Japan Information Center Coordinator 

By July, I have finished inputting thirteen titles of Noh play texts in Japanese and SGML tagging of these based on TEI interpretation. These texts are added to the Japanese Text Initiative web site with other texts. The new additions were announced nationally and Internationally in December through various postings. Asian Studies WWW Announcements rated the site as five stars. (Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778 URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html) Now the site has 27 texts with online interactive search function and the parallel views of Japanese and English translation of the texts. (URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese). 

September: I, in collaboration with Peter Zhou, Head of the East Asian Library, organized, wrote, and submitted to the Japan World Exposition Commemorative Fund a grant proposal of the total project budget of $300,000 to purchase Japanese language materials for the Japanese studies collection of the East Asian Library. 

October 10: In collaboration with Y. Koda, former Japanese Information Specialist, Japan Information Center, I selected and invited Mrs. Beate Sirota Gordon for the JIC lecture series. She was a member of the Allied Forces drafting team of the Japanese constitution and implemented the womens bill of rights in it. She is the author of the book, Only Woman in the Room (Kodansha International, 1997). The title of her talk was Present at the Creation: the Bill of Rights for Women in the Constitution of Japan. The lecture was well attended (full house) by not only people from Pitt campus but students from other universities, and general public. 

As a member, representing CEAL, of the National Coordinating Committee on Japanese Libraries, I attended the NCC January 1997 meeting in Berkeley, California and reported the activities of the Committee, serving as a member of the two selecting task forces: trainees for the Japan Foundation and National Diet Library Senior Japanese Librarians and the National Center for Scientific Information System. Also as a member of the Subcommittee on Japan Foundation Library Support Advisory Subcommittee of the NCC, she read and evaluated fifty four applications for the program and attended the Subcommittee meeting which took place right after the NCC January meeting. 

As a representative of a participating library, I attended the meeting of the AAU/ARL/NCC Japanese Periodical Project taking place at the ARL Headquarters in Washington, DC in March. 

Ammon Ripple, Reference/Public Services Librarian, Information Sciences Library 

Volunteer Librarian and Website Developer. Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force. 1995- 
Coordinate web development, including online newsletters and events information. Select and evaluate HIV/AIDS related web resources to be linked from the PATF site. Helped to develop a subject heading list for indexing library materials. Review online resources for the agency newsletter. Perform database searches for PATF staff, clients, and volunteers. Website is located at http://trfn.clpgh.org/patf . 

Volunteer Librarian and Website Developer. Pittsburgh PFLAG. 1997- 
Responsible for designing and maintaining the website for the Pittsburgh chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). Cataloged the library collection and developed a system for circulating materials. Select new materials for the library collection. Website (including library catalog) is located at http://trfn.clpgh.org/pflagpgh . 

Karen Rondestvedt, Slavic Bibliographer 

Spent 3 1/2 weeks in Poland and Slovakia in May-June on library business. Visited 12 libraries with which Pitt has book exchanges. In Poland also attended the Warsaw International Book Fair, began a new book exchange with the Warsaw School of Economics and assessed needs of library of North American Studies Center at Lodz University. In Slovakia sought and received permission from the Slovak National Library to export the library of Prof. Jozef Orlovsky, a 2000-volume collection on Slovak philology, which his grandson will sell to Pitt to enhance our Slovak holdings. 

After six and a half years of work, cataloging on the Alliance College Polish Collection has reached approximately 13,670 titles. Most of the credit for this accomplishment belongs to those who have actually done the cataloging, but I have overseen the project, written grant applications, participated in fund-raising and publicity events, etc. 

Agnes C. Wen, Public Services Librarian, East Asian Library 

• Head Librarian, Semester at Sea, Fall, 1997
• Chinese Nationality Room Committee Member.
• Pittsburgh Folk Festival, Chinese Program Committee Chair.

Phil Wilkin, Social Sciences Bibliographer (History, Medieval Studies, Political Science, West European Studies, Environment/Geography) 
 

• administer Web site - WWW Virtual Library: West European Studies Home Page
• serve on editorial board of EIA Review, a journal published by the European Information Association, Manchester, UK.
• serve as Resources Advisor to the Curriculum Development Grant selection committee for the European Community Studies Association.
• serve on group to form a Social Sciences Discussion Group within ACRL/ALA.

Peter Zhou, Head, East Asian Library 

Recent appointments: 

• Adjunct Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
• Reviewer, U.S.-China Cooperative Research Program, Henry Luce Foundation, New York