DC/SLA Chapter Notes -July/August 2003

By Susan Fifer Canby, sfiferca@ngs.org

July-August 2003 Volume 62 No. 6

Dear Colleagues:

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President’s Corner

Thank you for this opportunity to be your President for a year.

Going to NYC for SLA is always exciting, but add 7,000 librarians and you have a stimulating time. At the meeting there was lots of buzz about leadership, new roles for librarians, digital libraries, whether we'd change our name (no), selling the DC headquarters building (yes, to buy a more modern facility in the DC area) and to learn about the new executive director, Janice R. LaChance (we all look forward to working with her starting in July).

It was great to see so many of you from Washington in NYC and be reminded again of the leadership we contribute to SLA, our profession, and our organizations. Anne Caputo, Chris Olson and Mark Stencel taught five pre-conference learning sessions. Sue O'Neill Johnson, Eileen Abels, Liz Wallach and Cynthia Holt facilitated roundtables or officiated. Peter Young, Nancy Minter, Justin Murray, Gary Price, Victoria Harriston, Sylvia Piggott, Sarah Stevens, Liz White, Lee Strickland, Donna Scheeder, Karen Eggert, Iris Anderson, Lynne McCay, Lyle Minter, Anne Caputo, Benita Vassallo, Laura Gordon-Murnane, Greta OberBeauchesne and I spoke at various sessions.

Others of us reported or asked questions or made other contributions. Led by Diane Schnurrpusch, the Military librarians elbowed their way to the ropes to be interviewed on NBC's Today show and later passed out birthday cake to our colleagues. Kitty Scott oganized a successful reception and tour of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. I was interested to learn that two of our own, Daille Pettit and Lyle Minter, will be running for national office (President-Elect and Director, respectively) in the spring, so let's plan to support them! None of this would be possible without our generous conference sponsors who provided so much support: CAS, Dialog, and Factiva.

The officers and committee chairs are all in place for 2003-2004, but we always have need of more minds and hands. If you have an interest in organizing a dine-around, helping at the Sousa Middle School, or developing a program, please get in touch with Vice President, Sheryl Rosenthal,at srosenthal@usnews.com who is in the midst of planning programs that are bound to be stimulating for this next year. Participating in SLA means you have a chance to develop some leadership or organizational skills you might not be able to on the job, introduces you to other leaders in our community, and is a way to keep learning.

Last year 311 of our members (30% of our membership) attended at least one meeting. This program year, we'd like to see each of you at least once. If you have been waiting for the right time to become active, this is it! Please make it YOUR goal to attend at least one meeting AND to bring a colleague to a meeting.

Inside this issue: President’s Corner

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Do you Dewey? DDC 22!

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Research Tip of the Month: 3, 9 Searching By Format Joint Spring Workshop: Ownership of Media

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One-Dot Shopping

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Chapter Board of Directors 8 Award Chapter Member of the Year Award

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Sousa Successes and Challenges

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Member News

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Scholarship Award Winners 10 Welcome New Members!

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Special points of interest: Check out the new products and services from:

Leadership • Develop best practices and leadership within our chapter. (Susan Fifer Canby and all) • Track finances effectively for best use of the budget. (Erin Clougherty)

American Health Line Capcon Dialog InfoCurrent Library Associates PTFS, Inc. Research Solutions

Communication • Enhance our website with lively up-to-date information and provide archival perspec-

Check us out on the Web http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/

As for your Board's goals, this year we are going to pursue the following:

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tive. (Cassandra Shieh, Donna Scheeder, Judy Grosberg, Anne Caputo) Broaden the scope of Chapter Notes newsletter with best practices content. (Cynthia Holt, Georgeann Higgins)

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• Membership • Continue to track metrics and offer diverse programming to engage as many of us as possible. (Sheryl Rosenthal, Barbara FolensbeeMoore, Alphonse Vinh) • Survey our chapter and update our strategic plan. (Joan Gervino and team).

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Update and streamline the Chapter Manual. (Kristina Lively, Estelle Alexander) Contribute to our local, federal, and international communities. (Barbie Keiser, Giselle Foss, Sue O'Neill Johnson, Barbara Ferry, Kenlee Ray).

Update our Bylaws and Manual.

(Kristina Lively and Estelle Anderson) Plan career transition and employment support (Alison Ince and John Latham)

As the song goes, "See you in September!"

Do You Dewey? DDC 22!

Submitted by Suzanne Pilsk (pilsks@sil.si.edu) from the Committee on Cataloging meeting at SLA in NYC. Adapted with permission from Dewey Decimal Classification News, June 2003, copyright 2003 OCLC.

reduce the Christian bias and updating of other areas; Mathematics updated throughout to produce a useful general knowledge organization scheme for mathematics; History and geography; and various table changes.

In July 2003, OCLC will begin shipping Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 22 (DDC 22), the new print version of the Classification. The web version of the new edition will be available to WebDewey subscribers June 15, 2003. Application of DDC 22 numbers will begin at the Library of Congress on July 1, 2003. DDC 22 contains several major updates, many new numbers and topics, and a few structural changes. There is one important difference between DDC 22 and other recent editions: DDC 22 contains no complete or extensive revisions. In other words, several new developments have been added and many classes have been revised and expanded, but no schedule has been changed so fundamentally that a complete reordering has resulted. Good news for Dewey libraries!

Throughout DDC 22, there are many new numbers for a wide variety of topics. These range from new geographic provisions, e.g., the updating of administrative regions in Quebec, to new numbers throughout the DDC for emerging topics. Examples include 302.231 Digital media, 381.177 Online auctions, 394.2612 Kwanzaa, 523.24 Extrasolar systems, 621.38807 Digital television, 641.8236 Chili, 651.792 Intranets, and 658.3123 Telecommuting. DDC 22 also includes a new number for digital photography at 775, and a new number and subdivisions for Computer art at 776.

Many newly built number entries and additional terms have been added to the Relative Index to cover sought topics and provide a wider base of entry vocabulary.

Some of the changes include: Law that relate to the law of nations, human rights, and intergovernmental organizations; Medicine and health including mapping between MeSH and DDC in the web version; Computer science updating new topics, etc; Religion to

WebDewey: The June 2003 release of WebDewey includes all the content in the new DDC 22, additional content only available in the electronic version, and several interface improvements. WebDewey is a web-based version of the enhanced DDC 22 database and features: thousands of Relative Index terms and (Continued on page 3)

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Research Tip of the Month: Searching by Format Submitted by Mary Ellen Bates, mbates@batesinfo.com As someone who has been using online sources for over a quarter century (yes, they did have computers way back then!), I am continually surprised at the increasing variety of information to which we researchers have access. And now that search engines are looking beyond plain HTML and indexing PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents and Adobe Acrobat files, researchers are able to find entire categories of information that were not even on the web a few years ago.

Expert searchers have discovered that limiting a search to a particular format -- spreadsheet or PDF file, say -- can give very focused and more relevant results. For example, if you are looking for statistics on tungsten imports (yes, a real-life example), you could put the following in a search engine's search box: tungsten and import and filetype:xls Since most spreadsheets contain numeric information, odds are good that any XLS-format web pages that also have the words "tungsten" and "import" will be useful for your research.

The same principle works for other file types. I wanted to find out who has given presentations on "smart dust", an incredibly cool (Continued on page 9)

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built numbers not available in the DDC print version; Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that have been statistically mapped to Dewey numbers from records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) and intellectually mapped by DDC editors; selected mappings from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH); links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records; and quarterly database updates incorporating the latest changes to the DDC, plus new LCSH mappings, index terms, and built numbers.

German Translation! Work is underway at Die Deutsche Bibliothek on the first German translation of the DDC. The translation is based on DDC 22, and will be the first outside of the Englishlanguage standard edition to be published simultaneously in web and print versions. The Dewey editorial team worked closely with Die Deutsche Bibliothek staff in Germany and colleagues in Switzerland and Austria to improve

the geographic tables and history developments for those areas in DDC 22. The Table 2 developments for Germany and Austria in DDC 22 are a true abridgment of a fuller development that will appear in the German-language version.

Dewey Cutter Software: Library staff may download Dewey Cutter Software from the Dewey web site at www.oclc. org/dewey/products/index.htm#cutter.

This software program automatically provides cutter numbers from the OCLC Four-Figure Cutter Tables upon input of text. The OCLC Four-Figure Cutter Tables are revised and expanded versions of the Cutter Three-Figure Author Table and the Cutter-Sanborn Three-Figure Author Table and are compatible with the existing two-figure or three-figure schemes. The software works with Windows 95, 98, NT, XP, and 2000.

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Questions, comments, or requests for information on the Dewey Decimal Classification may be directed to dewey@loc.gov or through radiated mail service (meaning a long delay): Dewey Editorial Office Library of Congress Decimal Classification Division 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4330 Phone: 202-707-5265 Fax: 202-707-0279

This was a quick and dirty review of what is happening. For more details and information on Dewey products, please see the web site: http://www.oclc.org/

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Joint Spring Workshop 2003: Ownership of Media Submitted by Laura Hjerpe, JSW DC/ SLA Liaison, Laura.Hjerpe@uspto.gov If the tone of last year’s Joint Spring Workshop (JSW) was like “Washington Week in Review,” then this year’s workshop, whose theme was Ownership of Media, could be described as resembling the “McLaughlin Group.” Organized by DCLA, DC-SLA, FLICC and LLSDC, the event was held April 25, 2003, in the Mumford Room in the Madison building of the Library of Congress with approximately 80 librarians and other interested professionals attending.

The first speaker was Sivah Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian, media scholar and author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity and The Anarchist in the Library: How Peer to Peer Networks are Transforming Politics, Culture and Information. Throughout his speech, Vaidhyanathan touched on ethics – just because one can do something with technology, should one do it? He also gave a thumbnail history of the pre-millennial copyright regulation system, which created “a few people who are rich and many exercise powers as creators and consumers” and developed a dynamic media system during the 1990s with the demise of magnetic tape and the rise of optical media. The thrust of Vaidhyanathan’s argument was that a new era might have arrived in which copyright does not work or will not work the way it used to. He also talked about the “binary” model of controlling access to digital materials. “There is no middle to this system - it is either controlled or piped, regulated or free and anarchic.

It is built on an off-on switch - not rich, smooth, playful. Culture is a process, not a product,” he concluded.

The second speaker, Jesse M. Feder, Special Legal Advisor to the Register of Copyrights of the Library of Congress, gave a briefing on pending copyright legislation. The two pieces of legislation that he described as “having legs” pertained to broadcast flags, an effort to control what can be

done with content once received from a device, and Copyright Arbitration Panel (CARP) reforms.

The third speaker, Allan Robert Adler, Vice President for Legal and Governmental Affairs in the Washington, D.C. office of the Association of American Publishers, discussed how technology has created the necessity of legislation such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). “Posting on a Web site is very different from distributing photocopies,” he said. Adler also discussed the problem of finding balance between accommodating fair use and protecting intellectual property and the interests of the different groups touched by the publishing industry.

“We’ve all been striving for balance but balance is in the eye of the beholder.”

Publishers may not be needed if publications can be effectively distributed with the push of a button. Libraries may not be needed if publishers are so in tune with the market that they can pinpoint a consumer’s exact information need. He stressed that both publishers and libraries are looking for new business models that will assuage fears and take advantage of the markets.

During the panel discussion, all three speakers debated the issues with abandon, almost forgetting the presence of the audience. “We all care deeply about the principles of copyright. The concern is that although debate and compromise exist, but I am concerned that it matters less and less,” said Vaidhyanathan, who began the discussion. He expressed a concern that influence would shift from Washington to Seattle and from content to technology.

As an example, he described the Palika Bazaar in New Delhi, India as the place to see pirated materials in India and the place to get material. “In India on a $100 a week salary, buyers don’t think about copyright. There is enough to eat but not enough to buy books,” he said, explaining the appeal of this black market. Another operation he described was the Madipur Colony, an apartment complex where music and movies are digitally acquired. Vaidhyanathan concluded his argument by saying that DMCA was not stopping piracy and that the people DMCA was supposed to hurt

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are doing well, pointing out, “Gnutella & Napster are not stopped.”

Adler said in response, “I resent the ad hominem nature of the debate. It points to the lawlessness as a failure of DMCA. …

You have if anything an overreaching faith in governmental regulations. What the U.S. government has been trying to do is to get the Indian government to adopt DMCA-like policies.” Vaidhyanathan rejoined, “It is ridiculous to think that if India adopted DMCA, it would make a difference.” Feder promptly pointed out that copyright legislation has been very effective in Hong Kong driving piracy underground.

One question from the audience, which sparked discussion, was whether downloading songs from the Internet was really impacting the market and that maybe it served as a means of advertisement. Adler responded that children are capable of creating professional-quality CDs that can impact the market. Vaidhyanathan said “We’ve all taped an album we’ve later bought. There are a variety of ways to use these systems – (Continued on page 6)

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some more ethical than others – out of print, rat cult items, whether Eminem stuff is worth buying.”

Offering a historical perspective, Feder said that in developing countries, publishing industries must be protected in order for them to thrive. The U.S. was one of the most pirated countries until the 20th century when a string of copyright laws were adopted.

All three speakers agreed that the library was an appropriate place to teach about ethical use of content from the Internet and acknowledged the difficulty of this task. Feder affirmed that most people would agree that it is wrong to steal from a grocery store but there is something of an intangible aspect about intellectual property.

As to what will happen 15 years from now, the only panelist to hazard a guess was Feder, who predicted that one might be able to read newspapers from PDA by then.

Committee members who contributed to this year’s workshop were Patrick Oberholtzer (Chair, DCLA), Lee Marie Wisel (DCLA), Laura Hjerpe (DC-SLA), Dave Packard (FLICC), and Carla Evans (LLSDC).

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Another Successful “One-Dot Shopping: Best International Business Websites” Program – Focus on NAFTA Submitted by Iris W. Anderson, IAnderson@imf.org For those of you who were unable to attend the SLA Annual Conference in New York City this year, we wanted to share the valuable resources that were uncovered by our three expert researchers for this year’s presentations. For this program, we aimed to uncover the best and most useful, mostly free websites that meet high standards for accuracy, authority, currency, usability, and depth.

All presentations and handouts will be posted to the Social Science Division’s website (http://www.sla.org/division/dsoc/).

Congratulations to our presenters who did such an excellent job!

Covering the best international business sites for Canada: Greta OberBeauchesne, Research Librarian, Joint World Bank-IMF Library, Washington, D.C. Covering the best international business sites for the United States: Kerry Prendergast, Manager, Information Resources, NBC Information Center, New York.

Covering the best international business sites for Mexico: Benita Weber Vassallo, Chief of Library Services, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. Many thanks to our co-sponsor, the Business & Finance Division, and also to DIALOG for their program funding.

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Washington DC Chapter Board of Directors Award, 2003 Mandy Baldridge has been a member of the DC Chapter of SLA since 1985. She has served in many leadership positions, including two terms as Second Vice President, Director, and for many yeas as Chair of the Hospitality Committee. She has been a speaker on many programs and workshops, both locally and at the SLA annual conference. In addition, she has actively encouraged the Northern Virginia Information Specialists Group, the Consulting Section of SLA's Library Management Divisions, and the Law Librarians' Society of DC. She was instrumental in securing InfoCurrent (then TeleSec) as a sponsor of a generous annual student scholarship that helped many in our Chapter pursue their professional credentials.

In addition, she has served the profession and many of us here with her expert career planning advice, her guidance and encouragement, and her support of information service paraprofessionals, whom she recognizes as a vital and valuable part of the information center staff. Her career at InfoCurrent grew out of the belief in the special skills and abilities of librarians and her vision of how that expertise could match unspoken corporate needs. Her vision has led to the formation of the most successful library temporary placement agency in the region.

For her active leadership and participation in the Washington DC Chapter of SLA, for her innovative identification of new employment opportunities for special librarians, and her tireless efforts to place information professionals of all levels, we award Mandy Baldridge the Chapter's Board of Directors Award for 2003.

Kenlee Ray, an outgoing Director of the Chapter's Board of Directors, this year initiated a Community Project in support of the John Philip Sousa Middle School. The stated purpose of the Community Outreach Project is to "give members a chance to use their resources and skills to enrich and provide support for a library or media center serving the public. Members get an opportunity to learn more about a segment of the local community that they may not always encounter." Perhaps that was never truer than in this year's effort.

At the outset of the project, the school’s library was woefully out of date. Most of its books had copyright dates ranging from 1967 to 1975, and the library provided just four computers, one printer, and limited access to the Internet.

Kenlee raised funds from Chapter members, garnered support from vendors and local area companies and organizations, and planned a great fundraising party. To improve the school's library, she organized volunteer support and contributed her own time for needed weeding of materials and the addition of useful new publications to the collection.

For her outstanding community outreach work, we award Kenlee Ray the Chapter's Board of Directors Award for 2003.

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Chapter Member of the Year Karen Huffman has been a member of the DC Chapter of SLA since joining as a student member in 1999. During the ensuing four years she has not only been a very active member, but a tireless promoter of the Washington, DC Chapter through her activities as Organizing Chair of the Young Professionals Group. She has coordinated numerous social and professional activities, ranging from happy hours to DC tours to Scrabble tournaments; she has developed a web site to showcase this exciting new group; and she maintained ties with student chapters at both Catholic University and the University of Maryland. She has served as a member of the SLA Student and Academic Relations Committee, and her success in formulating this new group brought much acclaim at the 2003 Winter Meeting of SLA. For her enthusiastic efforts to boost Chapter membership through the active engagement of young professionals, we present Karen Huffman with the Washington DC Chapter SLA Member of the Year Award for 2003.

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Sousa Successes and Challenges: Update on DC/SLA Community Outreach Project Submitted by Kenlee Ray, KenleeR@aol. com As the school year came to a close, it was nice to walk along the library shelves at the Sousa Middle School, our current community outreach project, and see all the new books donated by DC/ SLA members and their friends. Since the majority of the DC public school libraries receive only up to $1,000 from their local school allocation, DC/SLA contributions and donations have made a noticeable difference at Sousa this year.

DC public schools are facing tremendous funding problems and the school library programs are at risk. Below is an excerpt from my testimony at the DC Council hearing on the 2004 DC Public School Budget on March 25, 2003:

funding of school libraries is very uneven across the school system. However, I doubt that even the best funded of the DC school libraries begin to compare with those found in the Fairfax and Montgomery school systems. In order to improve school libraries in DCPS, I believe the following steps need to be taken: •

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“Although volunteer help and money can help to improve conditions in DC school libraries, it cannot substitute for funding from the school budget. I realize that

Each school library should be run by a professional school librarian who will not be pulled from the library to serve as a substitute teacher. A fulltime librarian will be able to provide library and research instruction that supports the school curricula -- a crucial element in improving the quality of DC schools.

Funds should be earmarked specifically for school library materials.

Unless this is done, collections will continue to be substandard as there is too much competition for funds from other school programs and services.

Another use of this search-by-format technique is in finding position papers and opinion pieces, by limiting a search to PDF or RTF formats, since many white papers are "published" in a format that retains the letterhead, graphics and so on of the original.

Most search engines let you specify the type of document through the Advanced Search page; some search engines also allow you to include the file-type restrictor directly in the search box, if you know the syntax. For the most commonly used search engines, here is how to limit by file format: • • • •

Google: filetype:xls [or pdf, ps, doc, ppt or rtf] AllTheWeb: filetype:pdf [or flash or msword] AltaVista: filetype:pdf [no other formats supported] MSN Search: use the check-boxes in the Advanced search screen to select .pdf, xls, pdf or .doc

Obviously, limiting a search by file format will result in lower overall retrieval; the trade-off is that the web pages you do find should be more targeted to your information need.

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Now that the school library program has committed to using online library catalogs, sufficient computer technician support needs to be available to resolve network and software problems in a timely manner.

'No one ever graduated from a library, but no one ever graduated without one.'

We need to build the intellectual capital of DC, especially that of its young people."

Last week the school received $1,000 from the World Bank Community Outreach Program 2003 “Dollar for Doers” fund so it will be able to buy more books in the fall. If your employer or civic organization has a community relations program that gives grants to projects in the local community, please let me know at KenleeR@aol.com or 202-483-2423.

We will be looking for volunteers in the fall to continue putting the Sousa collection online and we'd love your help if you can volunteer during school hours.

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nanotechnology. I decided to work from the assumption that people who were giving a speech about smart dust would probably be using PowerPoint. The search syntax I used in Google was filetype:ppt "smart dust" and sure enough, I found close to 150 presentations, many of which had contact information for the presenters.

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Member News DC Chapter members Richard Huffine and Lucy Park have been selected as 2003 Quantum2 InfoStars by the Dialog Corporation. Quantum2 is a free skills development program designed by Dialog improve the effectiveness of information resource managers. The InfoStar awards are given annually to "inspiring examples of creativity and innovation" that are "enthusiastic about the future of information services." The awards were given out at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in New York on Monday, June 9th, 2003. See http://www.dialog.com/pressroom/2003/infostars_060903.shtml Nancy Minter was elected Chair-Elect of the Social Science Division at the annual SLA conference in New York. Nancy, who was Chapter President in 1999-2000, is Director of Library and Information Services at the Urban Institute.

Cynthia Holt was elected Chair-Elect of the Physics-AstronomyMathematics Division at the SLA Annual conference in New York. Cynthia has been the Chapter Notes editor for the past year.

Daille Pettit and Lyle Minter will be running for SLA Board positions, Daille for President-Elect and Lyle for Director.

Show your support for our local members in the upcoming election!

Congratulations Scholarship Award Winners!

Submitted by Anne Caputo, Anne.Caputo@factiva.com Megan McShea is the recipient of the Catherine A. Jones Memorial Scholarship. Megan is a student at the University of Maryland. She holds an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Duke University and spent a semester in the School for International Training in Zimbabwe.

Megan has an impressive array of outside interests and affiliations: she is a published poet and short story writer; a member of the steering committee of the Friends of the Baltimore Hostel; and a member of the Charm City Kitty Club.

Closer to home, in the world of information, she worked for 8 years as a library paraprofessional before entering the College of Information Studies at Maryland, working with slides, videos, and photo archives in a variety of settings. She also worked with a small arts center in the Smokey Mountains, where she developed a database and preservation procedures for the collection. She is a Graduate Assistant at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Please join me in recognizing and congratulating Megan.

Ethel Leslie is the recipient of the Infocurrent Scholarship. Ethel is also a student at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. Her background has uniquely prepared her for her intended career in medical librarianship. She holds a BFA from Towson State University in dance, and she worked for more than 10 years as a professional dancer. She also has a master’s degree in Kinesiology from Michigan State University. She worked as a library aide at Michigan State, as well as a Document Delivery Specialist. She is currently employed as Interlibrary Loan Coordinator at the Jacob Burns Law Library at George Washington University.

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Welcome New Members!

Submitted by Alphonse Vinh, avinh@npr. org Please welcome the following new members to the SLA/DC Chapter: Teresa Aquino Janice Ballo Roger Brtva Bernice Coles Kathy Davidson William Davis Laura Gordon Murnane

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