Member News

 

  • Jean-Paul Vivian began his tenure as Law Librarian in Charles B. Swartwood Law Library in Elmira, on May 4. His email address is: jvivian@courts.state.ny.us

 

  • Mary Lynn Benson, SUNY Oneonta and Kornelia Tancheva, Cornell University both have been nominated to receive the 2006  SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship. Congratulations!!

 

  • Kornelia Tancheva will become Director of Collections, Reference, Instruction and Outreach in Instruction, Research and Information Services at Cornell University on July 1.

 

  • Beginning in July, Susan Frey, Assistant Director at Tompkins County Public Library, will be the new Director of the Pike County Public Library in Milford, Pennsylvania. Best Wishes, Susan!

 

  • Barbara Hornick-Lockard, Director of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Library, Corning Community College retired May 26, 2006. Cindy Maier will be Acting Director.

 

  • Kathy Long from Bourke Memorial Library, Cayuga Community College has also retired.

 

  • Tom Hickerson from Cornell has taken the job as Director of Information Resources at the University of Calgary.

 

  • Sarah Thomas, University Librarian has been reappointed as University Librarian for a five-year term, beginning July 1, 2006.

 

  • Sally Hillegas is the new Circuit Rider Librarian for Central New York Library Resources Council.

 

  • Gail Barraco is now the School Library System Director at Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Bellport, NY.

 

  • Pat Schmidt has retired as Director of the Delaware Chenango BOCES School Library System.

 

  • Diane Dolbashion, Director of the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum of Glass has been elected to the Nylink Advisory Council.

 

  • Jean Poland, Associate University Librarian of the Physical Sciences Library at Cornell has been elected to OCLC’s User Council.

 

  • Congratulations to Liz Wavle, Director of the Gannett-Tripp Library at Elmira College on receiving the Douglas Anderson Administrative Leadership Award at Elmira College. Liz is the President of both the SCRLC Board of Trustees and the Chemung County Library System Board of Trustees.