Faculty Recognition Day May 5, 2010

Faculty Recognition Day May 5, 2010

Professional Accomplishments of ULS Faculty Librarians 2009-2010

Presented by the ULS Faculty Affairs Committee:Robin Kear, Sachie Kobayashi, Melissa Mallon, Tracey Olanyk, Brenda Salem

Kimberly M. Bailey

Systems/Reference Librarian, Hanley Library (Bradford

Campus)

Conferences Attended (Kim Bailey)

• NW PaLA Workshop (Erie, PA, July 31, 2009)

• WPWV/ACRL Fall 2009 (Edinboro University, Sept.24, 2009)

• PaLA Annual Conference (Harrisburg, PA Oct. 20, 2009)

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Kim Bailey)

• "Staff development budget $0; Travel budget $0; In house training . . . Priceless” (2009 PaLA Annual Conference )• This poster session gave libraries ideas on

how to educate staff without the expense. Included a brochure of training ideas, ways on how to get staff to attend, where to hold sessions, and benefits achieved.

Publications (Kim Bailey)

• Bailey, K. M. & Little, M. (2010, March). Library self-guided tour. Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia ACRL Chapter Newsletter, 1(2), 3.• Recapped Hanley Library's "Library Self-Guided

Tour" activity that helps students learn about the library.

• Bailey, K. M. (2009). Cell phone etiquette. Library Journal, 134(14), 10.• Opinion piece about cell phone use in the library.

Other Activities (Kim Bailey)

• Evaluation of FCI McKean Prison leisure library

John Barnett

Assistant Director,PALCI: Pennsylvania Academic

Library Consortium, Inc.

Conferences Attended (John Barnett)

• ALA Annual Conference (2009)• Pennsylvania Academic Library Annual

Conference (2009)• Western Pennsylvania West Virginia

Chapter/ACRL spring conference and fall meeting (2009)

• ALA Midwinter Meeting (2010)

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures(John Barnett)

• "Defining and Digitizing a Common/Wealth: Building Pennsylvania's Digital Library--Audiences, Topics, Materials, and Priorities" (WPWVC-ACRL spring conference, June 2009)

• Poster session and presentation: "Defining and Digitizing a Common/Wealth: Building Pennsylvania's Digital Library--Audiences, Topics, Materials, and Priorities" (Pennsylvania Library Association annual conference, October 2009)

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures cont.(John Barnett)

• "This is the World Calling: The Global Voices and Visions of Internet Radio and Television" (Brick & Click Academic Library Symposium, November 2009)

• "The 'SPA' Treatment: Creating a Shared Print Archive of Commonly Held (but Rarely Used) Print Journals" (WPWVC-ACRL spring conference, May 2010)

Publications (John Barnett)

• Barnett, John. "This is the World Calling: The Global Voices and Visions of Internet Radio and Television." Brick & Click Libraries: Proceedings of an Academic Library Symposium. Northwest Missouri State University. November 6, 2009.

Other Activities (John Barnett)

• Re-elected as an executive board member, Interlibrary Delivery Service (IDS) of Pennsylvania, 2010-2013.

• Awarded an LSTA grant of $25,000, administered through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, to conduct 6 disaster preparedness training sessions across Pennsylvania during 2009-2010.

Other Activities cont. (John Barnett)

• Awarded an LSTA grant of $1,000, administered by the Pennsylvania Library Association's College and Research Division, for programming on fire safety for cultural heritage collections, offered at the fall 2009 Alliance for Response-Pittsburgh meeting.

• Steering committee member, Alliance for Response-Pittsburgh.

• Program committee member, Western Pennsylvania West Virginia Chapter, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

Michael Bolam

Metadata Librarian,Digital Research Library

Conferences Attended (Mike Bolam)

• ALA Annual Conference 2009

• ALA Committees:• Co-Chair - LITA Digital Library Technology Interest Group• Member - LITA Membership Development Committee

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Mike Bolam)

•Poster Session - "Library Science Education and the Metadata Librarian" (ALA Annual 2009)

•Presentation - Discovery Tools for Archival Collections: Getting the Most Out of Your Metadata (MARAC 2010)

Other Activities (Mike Bolam)

• Member - Western PA/West Virginia Chapter ACRL Web Committee

• Grant Reviewer – Pennsylvania LSTA Digitization Grants

• Reviewer - International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

Promotions & Tenure (Mike Bolam)

• Promoted to Librarian III, February 2010

James P. CassaroHead, Theodore M. Finney Music

Library & Frick Fine Arts Library

Conferences Attended (Jim Cassaro)

• Atlantic Chapter, Music Library Association, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), 2-10 July 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Vice-President and chair of its Programme Committee)

• Atlantic Chapter, Music Library Association, Gettysburg College, 25-26 September 2009, Gettysburg, PA

Conferences Attended, cont. (Jim Cassaro)

• American Musicological Society, Philadelphia, 12-15 November 2009 (incoming chair of its Committee on Career-Related Issues)

• Music Library Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA, 18-25 March 2010 (MLA Development Officer; chair, Development Committee; editor of Notes)

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Jim Cassaro)

•"Winning Approval: The Ins and Outs of Music Score Approval Plans"

•MLA annual meeting, San Diego, CA, 22 March 2010.•Considers the issues surrounding the implementation of an approval plan for music scores.

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures, cont. (Jim Cassaro)

•Paper given on a session entitled "Score Approval Plans: Are They Still Useful in Challenging Economic Times?"

Publications (Jim Cassaro)

• "Anna Bolena: Seductress, Golddigger, Pawn," in Temporada d'Opera, 2010-2011 (Barcelona: Amics del Teatro Liceu, [forthcoming])• A comprehensive program note on Gaetano Donizetti's

opera, Anna Bolena, based on the life of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's ill-fated second wife; includes musical examples.

Other Activities (Jim Cassaro)

• Appointed IAML representative to the Grove Advisory Board

• Juror, annual art awards for the Persad Center's "Celebrate Life, Celebrate Art" fundraising event

• Juror, Schneider Award, annual Studio Arts exhibition, University Art Gallery

• ULS Peer Review Committee, 2009-2011• Taught Music 2111, Principles of Research and

Music Bibliography," Fall 2009

Other Activities, cont. (Jim Cassaro)

• Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Christopher T. Ruth, Contemporary Psychology and Robert Schumann's Late Dramatic Music (2008- )

• Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Mary Ober, L'ecriture chantee: Multimodality in Gabriel Faure's Melodies (2008- )

• Member, M.A. Thesis Committee, James Moore, The Hard Bop Trumpet Style of Donald Byrd and its Place within the Lineage of Jazz Trumpet (University of Pittsburgh, Jazz Studies, 2010)

• Persad Center, Board of Directors (Co-chair, Development Committee, 2009- )

• Calvary Episcopal Church Choir (Member)

Danielle Colbert-Lewis Reference and Instruction Librarian,

Hillman Library

Conferences Attended (Danielle Colbert-Lewis)

• American Library Association Annual Conference (2009, Chicago)

Publications (Danielle Colbert-Lewis)

• Colbert-Lewis, D. (2009). JURN. Reference Reviews, 23(7), 7-8.

• Colbert-Lewis, D. (2010). Scholarpedia. Reference Reviews, 24(2).

Other Activities (Danielle Colbert-Lewis)

• Northland Public Library Foundation, Governance Chair Committee

• Member, University Senate, Student Affairs Committee

• Secretary, University Library System, Faculty Assembly

• University of Pittsburgh, University Club Library Committee

• ALA RUSA/RSS Ethical and Legal Issues Discussion Group Co-Chair

Patricia M. DuckDirector, Millstein Library (Greensburg Campus)

Coordinator, Regional ULS Libraries

Conferences Attended (Pat Duck)

• ALA Conference Chicago Summer 2009

• ALA Committees:• ACRL Committee on the Status of Academic Librarians• ACRL/CLS Communications Committee - Newsletter editor• ACRL/ULS Campus Administration and Leadership

Discussion Group• Regional Campus Libraries Discussion Group (Chair)

Other Activities (Pat Duck)

• UPG Judicial Board Committee• Friends of the Millstein Library• Pitt-Greensburg Familes E-Mail

Connection• Reviewed resumes for SIS

students

Hiroyuki GoodJapanese Bibliographer, East Asian Library

www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/eal

Conferences Attended (Hiro Good)

• Annual meeting of Japanese Company Histories Group, Chair NCC 3D Conference• member of facilitators Annual Meeting

of Council of East Asian Libraries• committee member of Committee of

Japanese Materials Annual Conference of Association of Asian Studies

Publications (Hiro Good)

• Good, Hiroyuki N. (2009) 米国大学図書館における GIS サービスの動向－過去のアンケート

調査の比較とピッツバーグ大学図書館の現状から [Trend of GIS services in US Academic

Libraries –from comparison of past surveys and current situation of the University of Pittsburgh]. 情報の科学と技術 [Journal of Information Science and Technology Association], v.59 (no.11). pp. 539-544. • http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/2717/

http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/2717/

Jeanann Haas Head, Special Collections & Preservation

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Jeanann Haas)

•Pitt Institute: Audubon Society, presented along with Edward Galloway and Michael Dabrishus, March 4, 2010.

•We described the collection and current preservation and digitization efforts of the Birds of America, printed between 1827 and 1838

Other Activities (Jeanann Haas)

• I assisted with the planning and attended the workshop titled, “Managing and Preserving Archival Collections” This one day workshop was sponsored by the ULS and the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts.

• I participated in the Disney "Keys to Excellence" Institute sponsored by Pitt's Business Center for Executive Education of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

Other Activities, cont. (Jeanann Haas)

• I served as a member of the “Connecting to Collections: Pennsylvania Statewide Preservation Planning” committee and participated in a meeting in Harrisburg to discuss this statewide initiative. We brainstormed about how to create an implementation plan for a statewide initiative given the current economic climate.

Other Activities, cont. (Jeanann Haas)

• I serve as a Member of the Alliance for Response task force to set up meetings and discussions between cultural institutions and emergency responders in Pittsburgh. Alliance for Response is a national program on cultural heritage and disaster management. The Pittsburgh forum has offered several meetings to discuss disaster planning, insurance, mold, fire safety and included a table top exercise.

Kate JoransonReference /Public Services Librarian,

Business Library

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Kate Joranson)

• “ARTstor: See What's in Store” (March 2010, Gumberg Library, Duquesne University)• Presented by Kate Joranson, Emily

Cantin and Allison Brungard.

Publications (Kate Joranson)

• Joranson, K. and Wider, E. 2009. "Librarians on the case: Helping students prepare for job interviews in an uncertain economy" C&RL News. 70: 404-407.

Other Activities (Kate Joranson)

• Special Libraries Association, Pittsburgh Chapter Publication Award (2009)

Robin KearReference and Instruction Librarian,

Hillman Library

Conferences Attended (Robin Kear)

• ALA Annual Conference (July 2009 Chicago)

• ALA Midwinter Meeting (January 2010 Boston)

• ALA Committees:• Co-chair International Relations

Round Table (IRRT) International Exchanges Committee

• Round Table Representative to the ALA Website Advisory Committee

• Intern for the ACRL Instruction Section Awards Committee

• Member of the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) Web Advisory Committee

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Robin Kear)

•Peer-Reviewed Presentation Accepted: "Internal Information Literacy Development: A Train-the-Trainers Program" WPWVC/ACRL Conference, Indiana, PA (May 2010)

• Co-presenting with Melissa Mallon on the information literacy workshops we present for ULS colleagues.

Publications (Robin Kear)

• Book Reviews for Choice• Globalization and Security: an Encyclopedia (December

2009) • Second edition of Historical Dictionary of International

Organizations (February 2010)

Other Activities (Robin Kear)

• WPWVC/ACRL Program Committee• ULS Faculty Affairs Committee• University Senate Admissions & Financial Aid

Committee• Jury member for the selection of ten Grassroots

Programs to be included in the ALA 2010 Annual Conference in Washington DC

• Guest speaker in San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Fall 2009 class LIBR 281: International and Comparative Librarianship

Promotions & Tenure (Robin Kear)

• I passed my first 3-year review (February 2010)

Faye LeibowitzGeneral Languages Catalog Librarian,

Catalog Management Unit (Thomas Blvd)

Publications (Faye Leibowitz)

• Selected for the position of co-editor of the Balance Point column in Serials Review, an Elsevier journal, effective with vol. 37, no. 1 (Nov. 2010)

• Serials Review, issued quarterly, is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal for the international serials community. The "Balance Point" has traditionally served as a forum for multiple authors who work in areas related to serials and who present different viewpoints about current issues and controversial topics related to serials.

Ray Anne LockardBibliographer (Fine Arts),

Frick Fine Arts Library

Conferences Attended (Ray Anne Lockard)

• Art Libraries Society of North America (April 2010, Boston)• Chaired session: "Promoting Print

Collections to Draw E-Patrons into the Library”

• Member of Standards Committee, 2008+

Publications (Ray Anne Lockard)

•Book Review for Art Documentation

• "Madness and Modernity: mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900" (Lund Humphries, 2009) (January 2010)

•Book Reviews for Choice

• "A History of Paris in Painting" (Abbeville Press, 2009) (October 2009)

• "Painting Today" (Phaidon, 2009)

• "Drawing on Art: Duchamp & Company" (University of Minnesota, 2010).

Other Activities (Ray Anne Lockard)

• Organizer and chair of national art exhibition and auction which was a fund-raiser for National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, San Diego, July 2009. Raised $8,000 for NAMI.

• Delivered art slide lecture to Friends of the

Beaver Area Memorial Library, "Words to Be Looked At" (April 2010)

Melissa MallonLibrary Instruction Coordinator,

Owen Library (Johnstown Campus)

Conferences Attended (Melissa Mallon)

• LOEX (April 2010, Dearborn, MI)

• Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter of ACRL (June 2009, Buckhannon, WV)

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Melissa Mallon)

•"Learning By Doing: Building Information Literacy Theory with Practice" LOEX Conference, Dearborn, MI (April 2010)

• Presented on library research modules embedded into Blackboard which were created for freshmen seminar class.

•Accepted: "Internal Information Literacy Development: A Train-the-Trainers Program" WP/WVC ACRL Conference, Indiana, PA (May 2010)

• Co-presenting with Robin Kear on the information literacy workshops we present for ULS colleagues.

Publications (Melissa Mallon)

•Book Reviews for Library Journal

• "The Invisible Gorilla" (4/15/10)• "Being Wrong" (3/15/10)• "Crazy Like Us" (11/27/09)• "Mean Mothers" (9/18/09)• "Hope in the Age of Anxiety"

(8/7/09)• "The Anatomy of Evil" and

"Cruelty" (6/26/10)

•Web Site Reviews for Public Services Quarterly

• "Authentic Assessment Toolbox" (6.1, 2010)

• "Information Literacy & Writing Assessment" (6.1, 2010)

• "ALA Connect" (5.4, 2009)• "The Researching Librarian"

(5.3, 2009)

Publications, cont. (Melissa Mallon)

• "Armchair Analysis: Filleting Fictional Affiliations ala PsycINFO." in Library Instruction Cookbook. Eds. Doug Cook and Ryan Sittler. Chicago: ACRL, 2009. 154-55.

• "Fostering Lifelong Learning: Successful Staff

Development Programs." in Library Worklife. Online. 6.7 (July 2009).

• "Where Originality Meets Productivity: What Every Library

Employee Needs to Keep In and On Their Desk." in Library Worklife. Online. 6.6 (June 2009).

Other Activities (Melissa Mallon)

• ULS Faculty Affairs Committee• ACRL Instruction Section, Professional Education

Committee • WPWVC/ACRL, Membership Committee • ALA NMRT Online Discussion Forum Committee• ALA NMRT Scholarship, Research, & Writing

Committee

Martha MantillaLibrarian, Latin American Studies and Eduardo

Lozano Collection

Other Activities (Martha Mantilla)• Instrumental in having the

Bolivian Studies Journal transferred from the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign to the University of Pittsburgh. • Martha and Elizabeth

Monasterios, the Chair of the Hispanic Department, are now co-editor of the journal.

• Bolivian Studies is an open access journal published through the ULS.

• Focus and Scope• The BSJ is an international

peer-reviewed journal that addresses growing scholarly interest in the understanding of past and present Bolivian cultural and historical processes. It responds to the need for debate about the meaning of canonical interpretations of culture and history and promotes innovative and interdisciplinary research to meet the challenges that Bolivia is facing in the new millennium.

http://bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/bsj

http://bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/bsj

Susan NeumanHead, Reference and Instruction

(Hillman Library)

Conferences Attended (Susan Neuman)

• American Library Association Annual Conference (2009, Chicago)

• American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (2010, Boston)• Member of ACRL Academic Library Trends

and Statistics Survey Advisory Board• Member of RUSA Membership Committee

Other Activities (Susan Neuman)

• Member, University Senate Plant Utilization and Planning Committee

Tracey Olanyk

Head, Acquisitions Management Unit (Thomas Blvd)

Conferences Attended (Tracey Olanyk)

• ALA Annual Conference (2009, Chicago)• ALCTS- AS Publishing Committee

Other Activities (Tracey Olanyk)

• Chair Program Committee - WPWVC ACRL

• Secretary - University Plant Utilization and Planning Committee

• Faculty Affairs Committee of the ULS Faculty Assembly

• Voyager Acquisitions Production Coordinator

Other Activities, cont. (Tracey Olanyk)

• Chair Staff Development Working Group

• Disaster response team

• Member of ALA

• Member Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter ACRL

Promotions & Tenure (Tracey Olanyk)

• Promoted to Librarian II (October 2009)

Carlos Peña Assistant Music Librarian,

Theodore M. Finney Music Library

Songs for male voices from the Polish Singers Alliance of America Collection.

Conferences Attended (Carlos Peña)

• Music Library Association Atlantic Chapter (Gettysburg, PA September 2009)

• Music Library Association (San Diego,

CA, March 2010)• Member of Subject Access Subcommittee of the

Bibliographic Control Committee • Member of Outreach Committee

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Carlos Peña)

• "Implementing AquaBrowser at the University of Pittsburgh" presented at Music Library Association Atlantic Chapter meeting (Gettysburg College, September 2009) • This presentation explored the processes and

issues associated with our implementation of the next-generation OPAC, with an eye toward retrieval of music materials.

Other Activities (Carlos Peña)

• Co-instructor for Humanities Resources and Services (LIS 2543), School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2009

• Guest lecturer in Advanced Cataloging, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010

Deane RootDirector,

Center for American Music

Conferences Attended (Deane Root)

• American Musicological Society (Philadelphia, November 10-14)

• Society for American Music (Ottawa, March 17-21)

• Stephen Foster and American Cultural History Symposium (University of Pittsburgh, April 23-24)

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Deane Root)

• American Musicological Society, November 13, "Grove Music Online Open Forum”• 90-minute presentation on the editorial principles, and Q&A.

• Society for American Music, March 18, "Using Dvorak and American Song to Infuse the Arts into the Classroom: NEH Teacher-Training Workshops," paper and panel• 40-minute talk on the history, rationale, structure, and

national usage of "Voices Across Time"

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures cont.(Deane Root)

• Symposium on Foster, Pittsburgh, April 23, "How Foster's Music Reached Its Public”• 40-minute research talk with illustrations from the

Center's collection about how audiences during Foster's lifetime encountered the music in theater, concert hall, homes, places of business, and during daily life within the US and around the world.

Publications (Deane Root)

• Critical Report on the music, in Emily's Songbook (tentative title), co-edited with Mark Slobin, Katherine Preston, James Kimball; accepted for publication in Oral Traditions Series, A-R Editions, currently being copyedited; forthcoming, 2011• details of publication history, manuscript markings,

and other features of the 46 pieces of sheet music in the volume.

Publications cont. (Deane Root)

• "Performing Foster," accepted, edited, and revised as Chapter 12 in Music, American Made: Essays in Honor of John Graziano, ed. John Koegel (Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, expected 2010)• extended version of my Foster presentation for the

April symposium.

Other Activities (Deane Root)

• Appointed Editor in Chief, Grove Music, Oxford University Press: one day a week, deciding editorial principles, working with international board, editors of two print projects, and staff.

• "Root Music Award" given by Gateway to the Arts (of which I'm past president), March 26, to a teacher using "Voices Across Time," with performers selected by Calliope: puts teaching performers into the teacher's school for a special performance.

• Received $13,000 to hold symposium on Foster with international scholars, in conjunction with PICT premiere of play Beautiful Dreamers. Provided numerous radio and press interviews.

Other Activities cont. (Deane Root)

• Appointed to Society for American Music strategic planning committee

• Treasurer, Calliope--Pittsburgh Folk Music Society

• Member of Council, College of General Studies

• Member of Standing Tenure Review Committee, School of Arts & Sciences

Brenda SalemLatin American Languages

Cataloging Librarian (Thomas Blvd)

Other Activities (Brenda Salem)

• Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee of the ULS Faculty Assembly

• Indexer for the Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI) online database

• Member of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)

• Member of The National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking (REFORMA)

Tom Twiss Government Information Librarian

(Hillman Library)

Federal Depository Library Program logo

Conferences Attended (Tom Twiss)

• ALA Annual & Midwinter Conferences• GODORT: Education Committee, International Documents

Task Force• SRRT: Action Council, Web manager for International

Responsibilities Task Force http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/ • Spring 2009 Meeting, Western Pennsylvania/

West Virginia ACRL• National Convention, American Association for

the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/

Publications/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Tom Twiss)

• With Michael Ford, presented “Staff Training at the University of Pittsburgh: Content and Delivery” at Spring 2009 meeting of the Western Pennsylvania/ West Virginia Chapter of the ACRL.

• Presented paper, “Trotsky’s Analysis of

Stalinism,” at a panel discussion of “Did Leninism Lead to Stalinism?” National Convention of the AAASS, November 2009.

Publications (Tom Twiss)

• Book review with Paul LeBlanc, "Revolutionary Betrayed: Trotsky and His Biographer," International Socialist Review, forthcoming. Reviews Trotsky, A Biography by Robert Service.

Other Activities (Tom Twiss)

• Created, with Eve Wider, Rachel Masilamani, and Joe Hurley, a webpage, "Alternative Resources on the G-20" for the Pittsburgh People's Summit. http://www.peoplessummit.com/page/alternative-resources.

• Pitt Faculty Senate, Senate Education Committee

http://www.peoplessummit.com/page/alternative-resources

http://www.peoplessummit.com/page/alternative-resources

Hong XuHead, East Asian Library (Hillman)


Conferences Attended (Hong Xu)

• ALA Annual Conference and CALA (Chinese American Library Association) Annual Conferences (July 2009)

• ASIST Annual Meeting in Vancouver (November 2009)

• AAS/CEAL (Association for Asian Studies/ Council for East Asian Libraries Annual Meeting and OCLC CJK User Group Annual Meeting (March 2010)

Conferences Attended, cont. (Hong Xu)

• East Asian Library co-sponsored Symposium:"Collection Development, Research and Service on Chinese Studies” held by National Library of China. Beijing, September 7-10, 2009.• Moderated: "Resources and information services in Chinese

Studies" Panel session at the symposium international conference on Chinese Studies Resources and Services in Beijing and moderated one session of the conference.

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Hong Xu)

• “Writing and Publishing Research Papers in Library and Information Science”• Presented at the Annual Meeting of Southwestern

Higher Education Library Working Committee, October 18, 2009; College of Information Management, Wuhan University. October 24, 2009.

Publications (Hong Xu)

• Xu, H. (2010). “The State of Doctoral Education on Chinese Studies in the United States: A Preliminary Quantitative Study of Doctoral Dissertations from 2004 to 2009.” In H.Zhang (Ed.), Chinese Studies in North America: Research, Teaching and Resources.( to be published by Zhonghua Shu Ju, Beijing, China) (in Chinese)

• Xu, H. (2010). “Global Resource Sharing and Information

Services: The East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh.” In P.Zhou (Ed.) , Collecting Asias: East Asian Libraries in North America, 1868-2008. 256-265. Ann Arbor, MI: the Association for Asian Studies

Other Activities (Hong Xu)

• Won "Year of the SIG" as International Paper Contest Chair of International Information Issue (SIG III), ASIST

• Editorial Board, Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences. (Taiwan) 2003 –

• Editorial Advisory Board, The Electronic Library. November, 2002 –

Other Activities, cont. (Hong Xu)

• Chair, International Paper Contest, American Society for Information Science & Technology Special Interest Group International Information Issues, 2009

• Board of Directors, Chinese American Librarians Association, 2008-2011

• Executive Director, Society for Chinese Studies Librarians, 2010-2012

Haihui ZhangChinese Bibliographer & Cataloger,

East Asian Library (Hillman)


Conferences Attended (Haihui Zhang)

• AAS/CEAL Annual Conference

Publications (Haihui Zhang)

• Accepted: Chinese Studies in North America – Research and Resources Editor-in-Chief (Zhonghua Book Company), Summer 2010

Xiuying ZouPublic Services Librarian, East Asian Library

(Hillman)


Conferences Attended (Xiuying Zou)

• Council on East Asian Libraries Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 22-26, 2010 2. • Served on CEALâ€™s Committee on

Library Technology, and provided technology support during the CEAL annual conference in March 2010.

Presentations/Poster Sessions/Lectures (Xiuying Zou)

• "Discovering East Asian Resources through Next Generation Catalogs: Enhancements and Issues" Council on East Asian Libraries (Philadelphia, March 2010)

Publications (Xiuying Zou)

• "Integration of Chinese digital resources in an English environment: status-quo and prospect", Journal of East Asian Libraries, no.148 (Jun 2009) 40-44.

Hanley Library - 1988The Hanley Library at the University

of Pittsburgh-Bradford. Opened in 1988, the T. Edward and Tullah Hanley Library is named in honor of Tullah Hanley, a Bradford philanthropist, and her late husband. In addition to serving as the library, the building houses the President's and Administrative Offices.

Source: University of Pittsburgh Archives Photographs, 1884-present, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh

Haskell Library - 1963

The Haskell Memorial Library is located at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville. Founded in 1963, the library supports the academic and research needs of a two year undergraduate curriculum.

Hillman Library - 1968Exterior view of Hillman Library.

Construction of the library began in 1964. It was dedicated September 6, 1968 and is the largest of the seventeen libraries on the University of Pittsburgh's Oakland campus.


Millstein Library - 1995A color photograph of the front entrance

into the Millstein Library in Greensburg. This 52,000 sq. ft. building was opened in April 1995. In addition to the library, the building also houses the offices of Admissions, Registrar, Business, and Audio Visual Services.


Owen Library - 1971The Owen library was built in 1970

and dedicated on June 13, 1971 in Johnstown. It was named in the late 1980s in honor of sisters Sara Jane Owen Torquato and Elvina Owen who created a generous endowment for library materials. The building was completely renovated in 2004.
