Staff Accomplishments

Julie S. Alexander served as a member of the Council of Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Affiliates of the American Library Association (ALA); and on the LAMA Human Resources Section’s Publications Committee. She served on the College and University Libraries’ Division of the Texas Library Association, where she was also a Councilor. As a member of the Texas Library Association (TLA) she served on the Administration Round Table and was a representative to the Council of LAMA Affiliates. She was a member of the ALA LAMA Cultural Diversity Committee that was awarded the first LAMA Recognition of Group Achievement Award for outstanding teamwork in support of the goals of LAMA.

Noel Anderson was appointed Head of the Library Committee, Arlington Classics Academy.

Ruthie Brock served on the Executive Committee of the Arlington Public Library Foundation Board.

Carol Byrne was a member of the TLA Reference Round Table Web Committee and wrote brief articles for the College of Business Administration CoBA Newsletter.

Beverly Carver earned her Web Site Developer Certificate through UTA Continuing Education, and was asked to serve on the Wittenborn Awards Committee of the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Mary Castle served as secretary/treasurer for the TLA Acquisitions and Collection Development Round Table and was a Councilor for the same group.

Michael Doran presented a session at the national Voyager Users Group meeting.

Maggie Dwyer earned her Web Site Developer Certificate through UTA Continuing Education. She reviewed books for Western American Literature (WLA) and Studies in American Indian Literature (SAIL) and presented scholarly papers at the North American Interdisciplinary Conference of Environment and Community at Weber State and at the SW Popular Culture Association conference in Albuquerque.

Laura Elston earned her Associates of Applied Science degree from McLennan County College in Fall, 1999.

Jill Emery wrote articles for the North American Serials Group Newsletter, including a preconference overview and the NASIG 2000 Proceedings article on Data Warehousing. She served as chair of the TLA Serials Round Table, and was on the group’s nominating committee. At the Annual TLA Conference she served as a panelist on a program on out-of-print books.

Rhonda Fuhrmann was co-editor of the TLA New Members Round Table Newsletter.

Mary Jo Handke served on the membership committee of the ALA Science and Technology Section.

Ann Hodges served as editor of Descriptive Notes, the newsletter of the Descriptive Section of the Society of American Archivists.

Ramona Holmes was awarded a fellowship for a Certificate of Advanced Study to the School of Library and Information Sciences at UNT. The program area for the fellowship was Digital Image Management.

Karen Hopkins attended SouthCentral-Voyager Users Group Meeting (SC-VUGM) at which she moderated three panels to do with online catalogs, reserve material circulation, and Voyager report writing. She was the chair of the TLA Texas Group of Catalogers and Classifiers Roundtable.

Leveta Hord was co-chair of the Program Planning Committee for the second annual SC-VUGM, at which she also moderated three panels. As a member of TLA she served as a Councilor, centennial representative, and as chair of the nominating committee.

Helen Hough contributed a chapter in Burns and Grove's most recent The Practice of Nursing Research: Conduct, Critique and Utilization, fourth edition, edited by Nancy Burns and Susan K. Grove. She created a web based database to assist in locating full-text tests and measures in health, psychology, education, marketing, and management called “Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests Available in Compilation Volumes.

Marie Irwin completed an AMIGOS fellowship, “Teaming Computing and Library Professionals to Support Distance Learning Students.”

Bobbie Stevens Johnson was invited by Dr. Ruth E. Cox of Sam Houston State University to travel to China as a participant in the People to People Ambassador Program. She worked on the Steering Committee of the "Expanding Your Horizons" program, which is geared to interest junior high girls in math and science. EYH is sponsored by UTA'S Women's Studies Program. Johnson’s published work included “Education Since 1960,” in Dr. Charles Funkhouser’s Education in Texas. She worked with Dr. Luann Frank on the Female Principle, an international conference held at UTA in spring 1999.

Ruthie Brock (left), Sarah Jones, Julie Alexander, and Mary Castle enjoyed informal librarian networking at a Friends of the Libraries meeting.

Sarah Jones chaired the Voyager Reports Task Force and participated in the TexShare ILL Workshop, where she served as table talk facilitator.

Carolyn Kadri served as moderator for the session “Finding the Way: Access to Cartographic Collections” at the ALA mid-winter conference.

Antoinette Nelson completed a post-MLS one-year internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Eskind Biomedical Library.

Margaret Oerter designed and set up exhibits in the Architecture and Fine Arts Library. These were “Dr. Ebensberger and Schola Cantorum of Texas” and “Dr. Varner and World Music.”

Rachel Robbins was appointed to the Voyager Management Information Task Force and completed an AMIGOS fellowship, “Teaming Computing and Library Professionals to Support Distance Learning Students.”

Bob Samson co-presented a session with Michael Stapleton at SC-VUGM and also presented a session at the national Voyager Users Group meeting.

Gerald Saxon, with William Taylor of the University of California at Berkeley, completed the annotating and editing of George Wilkins Kendall’s Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition for the Library of Texas Series. Saxon also served as co-principal investigator (with Richard Francaviglia, director of UTA’s Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography) on a $200,000 grant from the Houston Endowment, Inc., for a project entitled “Cartographic Connections.” The purpose of the project is to develop ways to help teachers and students use historic maps in the K-12 classroom. He reviewed a book for the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, the oldest learned journal in Texas. He continues to serve on the executive boards of the Texas Oral History Association, the Book Club of Texas, and the Tarrant County Historical Society. He also chairs the Archives Committee for the Texas State Historical Association.

Dwyane Schrag curated two exhibits in the Minority Cultures Collection, with the assistance of Donna Andrews and Anne Mitchell. These were for Black History Month and Asian American Month.

Jean Sherwin was a Benbrook District Library Trustee and an executive board member of American Legion, Post 297.

Michael Stapleton successfully completed the required training and testing for the Citrix Certified Administrator certification and completed three examinations toward the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification. He co-presented a session at the regional Voyager Users Group meeting.

Mitch Stephanovich was active with the ALA Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT), serving as Executive Board President, the Steering Committee President, and served as the Organization and By-Laws Committee chair. Mitch wrote the President’s columns for the LIRT News for 1999-2000. He was a member of the Advisory Group for the Institute for Information Literacy.

Terry Wang served on the ALA Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee and was an Administration Round Table Councilor with TLA.

Tom Wilding was Past President and member of the Executive Committee and Board for American Library Association’s Library Administration and Management Association; Chair, Strategic Planning Implementation Committee for LAMA; Chair, Select Committee to hear accreditation review; Member, 2001 Annual Conference Planning Team. He was a speaker at the Asian/Pacific American Library Association (APALA) Organizational meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, on the responsibilities for promoting diversity.

He was a member of the IFLA Standing Committee for the Management and Marketing Section; Chair of the Marketing in Academic Libraries Discussion Group. He was a speaker at the Satellite Program on Marketing in Haifa, Israel, in August 2000, where he spoke about Fundraising in Academic Libraries.

As a member of the Texas Library Association (TLA) he was a member of the College and University Library Division of the Legislative Committee. Wilding was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Amigos Library Services, and was on the UT System Advisory Committee on Library Affairs as Vice-Chair. He was chair of the University of North Texas School of Library and Information Science Advisory Board and was adjunct faculty at Texas Woman's University.

Tommie Wingfield had a very busy year. Her publications and presentations included “TexShare: A Texas Library Resource Sharing Program” at Educause in Long Beach, California. She was on the panel of “Distance Learning Abroad – Challenges and Solutions to Distance Learning Library Services to Foreign Countries” at the ALA Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Distance Learning Interest Group in Chicago Illinois. Wingfield was a panel member on the presentation “Distance Learning Library Services: ACRL Guidelines: Context, Content, Connections” at TLA in Houston, Texas, in April 2000, and was on two panels “Like Finding Needles in a Haystack, But Not as Painful: Electronic Resources and User Awareness” for Small Group Sessions at the Amigos meeting in Dallas in May 2000.

Wingfield participated in the Amigos Fellowship: “Teaming Computing and Library Professionals to Support Distance Learning Students: Looking at the University of Texas System Institutions.” Her other professional activities included serving as co-chair and program planning for the ALA Library Information Technology Association Section, Distance Learning Interest Group, and as chair of the TexShare Electronic Information Working Group, which recommended databases for academic and public libraries in Texas.