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College & Research Libraries News

Current BI Liaison Activity: Can You Help?

Carolyn Kirkendall Project LOEX

Compilations of press kits in all discipline areas continue to be one of the top priorities for the Liaison Project. Thanks to all of you who have donated materials to represent your local BI programs! I would like to collect a comprehensive variety of pathfinders and guides to the literature in all possible subject areas and still could use 25 to 30 copies of appropriate handouts. Your continued assistance is very much needed and appreciated.

In addition to the broad disciplines, our Project also needs to collect materials representing these subject areas: anthropology, engineering, health sciences (especially nursing and medicine), philosophy, and women’s studies. Can you help?

Furthermore, we also need your contributions for general press kits, including samples from a wide variety of BI programs to illustrate and promote the potential instructional role that academic libraries can and do play on many campuses. Therefore, donations of general guides for library research and term paper topics, as well as copies of publicity and promotional materials sent to teaching faculty, would be very helpful to include. I’m convinced that a promotional packet of good BI samples, accompanied by reprints of articles explaining how the library’s instructional services can facilitate quality teaching, is the most effective concrete method for publicizing our mission.

Efforts continue to find speaking opportunities for librarians at meetings and conventions of other professional associations. I’d be delighted to hear from any ACRL members who are involved with the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S., from Canadian librarians who will attend the Learned Societies Conference this fall, and from any librarian who also holds membership in the American Psychological Association.

Recent related activity includes the copresentation of a paper by Deborah A. Sommer of the University of North Carolina-Wilmington’s Randall Library at the spring Conference on College Composition and Communication on “Teaching the Research Paper.” One of the BI liaison exhibits was tailored for display at the recent Kansas City and Columbus regional meetings of the American Sociological Association. This month, Beth Sibley of UCLA will participate as chair of the Librarians’ Task Force of the National Women’s Studies Association on a panel, “The Librarian’s Role as Educator in Women’s Studies” at the NWSA Convention later this month. Watch for our exhibit in the small press section at the summer

ALA meeting. If you’d like to help staff our display, please write.

Finally, I’d like to hear from any ACRL members who are also members of other associations, to keep me informed of liaison possibilities—Carolyn Kirkendall, LOEX Clearinghouse, Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. ■■

ACRL HAS NEW DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Cathleen J. Krzyminski has been appointed deputy executive director of the Association of College and Research Libraries effective June 23. She replaces Donna Harlan, who has been filling the position on an interim basis. Krzyminski has been director of the Library Media Center at Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, since 1979.

Prior to serving as its director, from 1974 to 1979 Krzyminski was the library’s supervisor of the Cataloging Department as well as assistant professor and coordinator of the Library Science Department. At that time she collaborated with other faculty members to institute a new curriculum of library and information science.

Krzyminski holds a master’s degree in library science and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin (1973-1974). Earlier, she had studied journalism at Marquette University for three years, and served as Peace Corps volunteer in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. She worked there from 1969 to 1972 teaching home economics and English as a second language to elementary and secondary school students.

Currently president of the executive board of the Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Krzyminski is also secretary of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, and an active member of the Council of Wisconsin Librarians and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. ■ ■

Cathleen J. Krzyminski