Other Activities

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

• Vice-President/President-Elect of the Music Library Association
• Elected as ULS representative to University Faculty Assembly
• Sang for the Regional American Guild of Organists convention here in Pittsburgh, June 1999.
• Sang at the opening session of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Pittsburgh, July 1999

Jean Ann Croft
Preservation Librarian

• Written and received NEH grant funding to complete a project to microfilm Bolivian monographs from the Eduardo Lozano Latin American Collection - 5/99-5/01
• Co-Chair of the Oakland Library Consortium/Preservation Working Group
• Member of Pittsburgh Bibliophile Advisory Council

Elizabeth Evans
Instruction Librarian

• Elected Vice President of ULS Faculty Assembly
• Elected to Faculty Senate Library Committee
• Elected to Faculty Senate Educational Policies Committee
• Appointed Intern to Research & Scholarship Committee of ACRL Instruction Section
• 16 hours of gift wrapping for SIDS at Pittsburgh Airport just before Christmas. I learned all sorts of nice ways to wrap different sized boxes and stick on bows.

Michael Ford
Reference Librarian

• Elected to Faculty Senate Computer Usage Committee
• Selected to fill vacated seat on ULS Faculty Affairs Committee

William Gentz
Personnel Librarian

• Co-Chair 1998-99, ACRL Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers.
• Member in LAMA PAS Economic Status and Staff Welfare Committee.

Edythe Gilbreath
Reference Librarian

• Volunteer at local school library
• Helping reorganize and run a library in a small Catholic school.

Marian Hampton
Instruction Librarian

• Elected to Faculty Senate Student Affairs Committee

Ray Anne Lockard
Head, Frick Fine Arts Library

• Local Arrangements Co-Chair for 28th Annual ARLIS/NA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 16-22, 2000.
  • Negotiated with Carnegie Museum of Art to donate space in their Music Hall for the Convocation, obtained space in the Music Hall Foyer for the party sponsored by Ars Libri, a rare book dealer in Boston, and to have all galleries open until midnight for our group. She was also instrumental in the programming of the conference, and chose excellent Pittsburgh speakers: Dr. Frank Toker, University of Pittsburgh, keynote speaker at the Membership Luncheon; Richard Armstrong, Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art; and Dr. Thomas Sokolowski, Director of The Andy Warhol Museum.
  • Tour leader with Dr. Ann Sutherland Harris during Spring Break trip to London for undergraduate art history majors, March 4-11, 2000; lectured on Medieval painting in the National Gallery, London; also led a tour of three churches by Christopher Wren. The group attended three plays, visited other museum collections, and made a side trip to Cambridge.

  • Juried the Annual Studio Arts Department Exhibition and awarded three A. J. Schneider Art Prizes in April, 2000. Jury members included Dr. Paul Glabicki, Dept. Chair, and Carole Hoffman in Rush Miller's place. The works by three students are now on view in the A. J. Scheinder Reading Room of Hillman Library.

Lance Lugar
Head, Physics and Mathematics Libraries

• Member of the Faculty Senate Admissions and Student Aid Committee

Susan Neuman
Head, Business Library

• ULS Representative to the University Faculty Assembly
• Member of Faculty Senate Educational Policies Committee

• Advisory Board. Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries. 3rd and 4th editions. Publisher Gale Group.

• Member Dun & Bradstreet Library Advisory Board.

Sachie Noguchi
Japanese Bibliographer and Coordinator of the Japan Information Center

• Chair (2001-), National Coordinated Committee on Japanese Library Resources .

• Chair, CEAL Committee on Japanese Materials
  • Organized and conducted The CEAL Japanese Studies Librarian Training Workshop 1999, March 13- 14 at Harvard University, during AAS Boston meeting. The Workshop included nine courses covered a diverse range of topics, reflecting the multi-faceted training needs of our rapidly changing field.
  • Instructor of "Acquisition of Library Materials on Japanese Studies : from Using the Web for Selection to Used Book Vendors in Japan." To implement this workshop, the necessary fund about $10,000 was raised from the AAS/NEAC, University of Pittsburgh, and the Japanese dealers and publishers.
  • Participated in the NCC (National Coordinated Committee on Japanese Library Resources) meetings (September at Duke University and January in Berkeley) and activities including the membership of the Japan Foundation Library Program Advisory Subcommittee and the Nomination Subcommittee. I also worked as a selector of the candidates for the Japan Foundation/National Diet Library Japanese Librarian Training Workshop 1999.

• Proposal to the National Coordinating Committee on Japanese Library Resources Multi-Volume Set Project for Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan (reprint for Meiji 43-Taisho 1, Showa 2-7/8, 11-21-nenban) in 20 vols. ¥271,845 ($2,343.52) and funded $1,171.76.

• Proposal submitted to the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies for Nihon Byobue Shusei. (18 vols. published in 1977-81 and currently out of print, used book price ¥750,000 / $6,542.06); received funding of $5,000.

• Reported about the Japanese collection and the Japan Information Center to the Japanese business community at the Breakfast briefing May 12 which was organized by the Asian Studies Program for fund raising purpose.

• Went to Japan to purchase five high quality reproductions of Japanese masterpiece works on literature and science for the Japanese Nationality Room which opened on July 25.

Teaching:
Japanese Studies in EAS 2005/29198 Sources and methods in East Asian studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Fall 1999.

Keiko Okuhara
Japanese Cataloger

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

Ann Ronchetti
Bibliographer, English, Comparative Literature and Performing Arts

• Member of Faculty Senate University Press Committee

Karen Rondestvedt
Slavic Bibliographer

• Secretary of Slavic & East European Microform Project (SEEMP), one of area studies projects associated with CRL.

• Member of Internet Committee of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).

• Owner of REESWeb, large Web guide to Web resources in Russian & East European Studies.

• Center for Russian and East European Studies faculty small grant of $700 for set-up and one-year subscription to home DSL line to facilitate work on REESWeb, February 2000.

David L. Rosenberg
Archivist, UE Archives and Labor Collections

• Board of Directors, African-American Jazz Preservation Society of Pittsburgh Oral History Project

• Exhibit: "African-American Musicians Union Local 471," Hillman Library Lobby Cases, during Black History month, February, 1999.

• Advisory Board, National Council of Jewish Women Oral History Project

• Advisory Board, Battle of Homestead Foundation

• Initiated and obtained gift moneys from several labor organizations to fund Pittsburgh-Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy Project, first stage of which is development of a Labor History/Archives web site.

• Featured in "Labor Archives Tells City's History," by David R. Eltz, Labor Day color photo and feature in Pittsburgh Tribune Review, B-1, September 3, 1999.

Deane Root
Director, Center for American Music Collection

• Elected to be FAS Humanities representative to the University Faculty Assembly

Deborah Rougeux
Faculty Librarian, Archives

• Elected to Faculty Senate Commonwealth Relations Committee

Dennis Smith
Reference Librarian

• Elected to Faculty Senate Bylaws and Procedures Committee

Kate Thomes
Head, Engineering Library

• Helped design a survey for engineering faculty across the country to assess their experiences with specific engineering journals. This project is part of an ongoing effort by the Engineering Library Division of the American Society of Engineering Education to identify specific journals or subject areas for potential SPARC alternatives.

Agnes Wen
East Asian Public Services Librarian

• Trainer for Teacher's Workshop on East Asian Resources for the Asian Studies Outreach Program

• Chinese Nationality Room Committee Member and Scholarship Selection Panelist at the University of Pittsburgh

Phil Wilkin
Social Sciences Bibliographer

• Serve on editorial board of "European Information: the journal of the European Information Association," published in Manchester, UK.

• Serve on Advisory Board for Center for West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

• Along with Toni Carbo, Dean of IS, and Martin Weiss, Telecommunications Professor, am choosing subject matter and participants for conference on Information Technology in the European Union and the US. Conference to be held spring, 2001.

• My website "WWW Virtual Library: West European Studies www.pitt.edu/~wwwes is now collaborating with "EuroInternet" eiop.or.at/euroint/ in order to avoid duplication of effort on providing links to web sources on the European Union.

Pearl Woolridge
Head, African American Collection

• Elected to Faculty Senate Community Relations Committee

Eve Wider
Reference Librarian

• Member of American Library Association (ALA)
  • Reference and User Services (RUSA) -- Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)
    • BRASS 2000 Program Planning Committee June 1998-July 2000,
    • BRASS Business Reference Sources Committee July 1999-June 2001
• Member of Special Library Association (SLA) Business and Finance Division and Pittsburgh Chapter

• Faculty Advisor for University of Pittsburgh Student Group, January 2000-present.

• Co-coordinator of Amnesty International Pittsburgh Chapter, November 1999-present.

• Bookstore volunteer at Bryn Mawr/Vassar Bookstore, Oakland, November 1997-present.

Kara Gruszewski
Reference Librarian

Association of College & Research Libraries

• Appointed to the Instruction Section PreConference Program Planning 2001 Task Force

Peter Zhou
Head, East Asian Collection

• Grant for Librarian Training at the University of Pittsburgh from the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia 1999-2000, 2000-2001.

• Grant for First Sino-US Syposium on Library Education in China from the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, 2000 (in conjunction with Chinese Ministry of Education).

• Taught EAS 2005/29198: Sources and Methods in East Asian Studies for the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Fall 1999.