News-Bites
 

California members Susan Clark (University of the Pacific, sclark@uop.edu) and Linda Goff  (California State University, Sacramento, ljgoff@csus.edu) both started semester-long sabbaticals on January 26, 1998.  Susan plans to research and write on assessment of library instruction while Linda plans to write instructional web pages.  Both will be back to work in June.
 

Susan Clark also wrote "Reference Sources on the Internet:  Geography and International Studies" for the Reference Librarian (no. 57, 1997).  E-mail: sclark@uop.edu
 

For the same issue of the Reference Librarian, Rachel Fenske, Instruction Librarian, Eastern Washington University, wrote "Career and Employment Resources on the Internet."  E-mail:  rfenske@ewu.edu
 

As a result of a building renovation, Kari Lucas, Undergraduate Librarian, UC San Diego, will be working 10-12 hours per week at UCSD's Biomedical Library in the capacity of Instruction Coordinator and reference librarian until July 1998 when she will tranfer to full-time status and remain at the Biomedical Library until the reopening of the renovated Undergraduate Library in 2000.  E-mail: klucas@ucsd.edu
 
 

Sylvia Nicholas-Moin, Reference Librarian at Northwestern University's Health Sciences Library, wrote a short biography, "Sofia Simmonds," for Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary (Greenwood Publishing, 1997).  E-mail: s-nicholas@nwu.edu
 
 
Ru Story-Huffman, Public Services Librarian, Cumberland College, whose first book, Nursery Rhyme Time, was published by Highsmith in 1996, has signed a contract with Highsmith to author two new books on using award-winning children's literature and the Internet. The first book will appear in Summer 1998.  E-mail: rshuff@cc.cumber.edu
 

Do you have a new job or a promotion? Have you published an article or given a presentation? Received an award from grateful patrons or high officialdom?  Send your own news or notes about fellow LIRT members to the editor:  David  Sherwood, Reinert/Alumni Library, Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178, E-mail:  davids@creighton.edu.


LIRT News, March 1998. Volume 20, number 3.
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