Jean Ann Croft
Preservation Librarian

• Awarded NEH grant of $219, 388 to preservation microfilm acidic and rare Bolivian materials from the Eduardo Lozano Latin American Collection.

• Semester at Sea Librarian - Fall 1998

• OLC Preservation Fair 1999 - worked on committee to help organize the fair and was an exhibitor of Preservation materials with Robert Burton. The fair brought in 1,200 people to the Carnegie Museum.

Ray Anne Lockard, Head, Frick Fine Arts Library

• Member of Selection Committee for ART FOR AIDS AUCTION, June 1998

• Initiated and organized art and architecture tours for the National Episcopal Church History and Archives Conference June 1998

• Initiated and organized art and architecture lectures for the 1997-1998 lecture series of the Episcopal Diocese

Susan Neuman, Head, Business Library

• Advisory Board Member for Dun & Bradstreet Publications
• Member, University Senate Educational Policies Committee
• Elected Representative, University Senate

Sachie Noguchi, Japanese Bibliographer & Japan Information Center Coordinator

• As a member (liaison of the AAS Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) ) to the National Coordinated Committee on Japanese Libraries (NCC), attended NCC's January and September meetings. Reported on CEAL and Committee on Japanese Materials activities.

• As a member of the NCC Japan Foundation Library Support Advisory Subcommittee, attended its meeting; reviewed 44 fund proposals and made recommendations to the Foundation.

 
In June, business travel to Japan -- among other regular library related activities, the following took place during this time:

• Visited National Diet Library in Tokyo and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. Negotiated to send personnel to have presentations for the mini-seminar on Japanese image/graphic databases portion of the Committee on Japanese Materials during the AAS annual meeting in Boston, MA in 1999, and to send instructors for electronic library session in the CEAL Japanese Studies Librarian Training Workshop held at Harvard University on March 13th and 14th in 1999. Negotiations were successful, both sent their personnel to the AAS Boston meeting and to the Workshop.

• Visited the Japan Art Institute and pursuaded the Institute to send a set of its publication (still in press), Nihon Bijutsuin Hyakunenshi = A hundred year history of the Japan Art Institute.  When completed, it will be 26 thick volumes and an indispensable resource for the research on modern Japanese art history, but not for sale.

• Visited the Nippon Zaidan to discussed about the possibility of funding for the Workshop as well as the Japan Informaton Center.

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

• Peer Review: I successfully passed my three-year review and was promoted to Librarian II.

• 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 .

• I was named a "United Way Good Neighbor" at the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force Volunteer Recognition Dinner on February 23, 1998 for putting in over 100 volunteer hours working on the library's collection and the PATF website during the previous year.

Karen Rondestvedt, Slavic Bibliographer

Grants received:

• With Alan P. Pollard (University of Michigan) and Cathy Zeljak (George Washington University), $24,560 from Slavic and East European Microfilming Project to film Russian regional newspapers for the consortium, April 1998. Films housed at Center for Research Libraries.

• International Research & Exchanges Board, Short Term Travel Grant of $1075+airfare to present paper "Russian-American Book and Serials Exchanges Viewed from the United States" in Russian at International Seminar of Slavic Department Librarians, State Public Historical Library, Moscow, Russia, October 1998.

• Editor of journal Slavic & East European Information Resources, to be published by The Haworth Press, 1999- (Cover date Spring 2000- )

• Promoted to Librarian IV

Kate Thomes
Head, Bevier Engineering Library

• Peer Review: Received Expectation of Continuing Employment, October 1998.

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

• Conducted a workshop for Asian Studies Outreach Program.

• University of Pittsburgh, Nationality Room Scholarship Committee: scholarship selection panelist. We have selected two outstanding students for study abroad scholarships for the summer of 1998.

Eve Wider
Reference/Public Services Librarian, Business Library

• Volunteer at Bryn Mawr-Vasser Bookstore

Peter Zhou 
Head, East Asian Library

• Received a National Leadership Grant Award from The Federal Institute for Museum and Library Services for Pitt's Gateway Service Center of Chinese Academic Journal Publications, $189,215. 

• Served as a member of Advisory Board, Asian Studies Program, 1998. 

• National Reviewer for Luce Foundation's US-China Cooperative Program in 1998. Reviewed proposals submitted by research institutions such as Harvard, UC-Berkeley, University of Michigan, UCLA, University of  Chicago, Duke University, Columbia University.

• External Reviewer for one faculty promotion to Associate Professor tenured rank at Baruch College, the City University of New York, 1998.