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By Susan Clark, sclark@uop.edu Lenora Berendt, Library Instruction Coordinator at Loyola University in Chicago, has designed a new course, Business Administration 200: Integrative Research Techniques. The course was approved by the university and Lenora will teach it for the first time in Spring semester 1999. Email: lberend@luc.edu Rachel Fenske, instruction coordinator at Eastern Washington University, presented a paper in June at the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Seattle. The paper, co-presented with Tim Hacker, English Instructor at EWU, was entitled "A Basic Writing Course for Students to Reflect on Expert Collaboration." Email: rfenske@ewu.edu Pixey Anne Moseley (Coordinator
of Instructional Services, Evans Library, Texas A&M University and
LIRT PR/Membership committee member) was elected 1998/1999 Chair of the
Library Instruction Round Table of the Texas Library Association. Her term
began in April 1998. She also had an article published in the Journal
of Academic Librarianship. See the full citation in the "Check
These Out" article elsewhere in this issue. E-mail: pmosley@tamu.edu
John Spencer had an article published in the July 1998 issue of Journal of Academic Librarianship: "Assessing Time Spent on Reference Questions at an Urban University Library," co-authored with Luene Dorsey of Arizona State University West. Email: spencerj@cwu.edu For the May 98 issue of The Journal
of Academic Librarianship, Julie Still (Paul Robeson Library,
Rutgers University) wrote "The Role and Image of Libraries and Librarians
in Discipline Specific Pedagogical Journals."
Carolyn Strickland has been appointed Book Coordinator for the central library and eleven branches of the Lake County Public Library in Indiana. She was previously head of the Highland Branch in Lake County. Email: cstrickl@lakeco.lib.in.us Janelle Wertzberger, a brand new member of LIRT, was appointed Reference/Instruction Librarian at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. She completed her MLIS at the University of Texas at Austin in May 1997. E-mail: jwertzbe@gettysburg.edu Do you have a new job or
a promotion? Have you published an article or given a presentation? Received
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editor: Susan Clark at sclark@uop.edu.
LIRT News, September 1998. Volume 21, number 1. To report problems, please contact the LIRT News Production editor at edwards@ufl.edu |