Winter is almost over, hard as it is to believe. Sun-shine and blue skies, and a time of reawakening. Plans are almost completed for our 2004 Spring Conference and we hope that you consider coming out to the Roycroft Inn on April 30, to be with all of your WNY/O ACRL friends and colleagues. It is a good time to awaken from your winter’s work and to be refreshed with new ideas, conversations, and food, in a great setting for spring. Our theme for this conference is “Marketing Services, Managing Time: What They Didn’t Tell Us in Library School.” We will be discussing organizing and optimizing your workflow, ways to get the important stuff done, how to deal with the threat of burnout, and more. In addition, there are poster presentations and of course, the environment is conducive to opening up to the positive things in our work and careers. The Roycroft is world famous and East Aurora in spring should be a nice location. Please consider attending. Also note, that there will be limited attendance so register as early as you can. Speaking of getting in-volved and keeping informed, the WNY/O ACRL discussion list is the place to go to be in touch with your colleagues in between meetings. You can talk to others about upcoming events, activities, trends in libraries, or anything else that comes up. For infor-mation on how you can subscribe, go to our Chapter website: http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl/news.html and follow the instructions. As a reminder too, consider asking your fellow work-ers to consider joining. It is a great way to see the

Message from the President...

Message from the President 1-2

Report on National ACRL Activities 2

News 2

Spring 2004 Conference Announcement 3-6

Spring 2004 Conference Registration Form 7

Call for Nominations 9

Treasurer’s Reports 10-11

Fall 2003 Conference Report 12

Meet Your Board Members 13

Contacts 14

Inside this issue:

WNY/O ACRL Newsletter

A C R L W E S T E R N N E W Y O R K / O N T A R I O , I N C .

Spring 2004

field of academic librarianship and to be a part of one of the largest regional chapters in ACRL. Our position across two countries gives us a unique op-portunity to view things from a number of different experiences, and this helps us in our professional ac-tivities as well as in our careers. Finally, please consider participating in the Chapter in a more direct way by nomination to the Board of Directors. We have activities great and small and the most important requirements are enthusiasm

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and a willingness to work with a great bunch of peo-ple. Board meetings and activities open you up to new perspectives, give you experience that will help you work into state and national organizations, and also it is a lively and fun group to be in. Please think about this; ask a Board member to describe the organization and how things work, and give it a try. Contact Nancy Warren, Nominations Chair, 716-881-8116, e-mail: warrenn@dyc.edu or speak to any of the officers to nominate someone or to nominate yourself.

Message from the President (cont.)...

Report on National ACRL Activities...

As we all fumble through copyright handbooks, the internet, and various other sources for the “proper” use of electronic reserves, it is good to know that the ACRL has put together a Statement on Fair Use and Electronic Reserves Systems. It is by no means perfect since government regulations have a habit of chang-ing, but it does go far to make our lives a little easier when dealing with the long-distance internet copyright issue and e-reserves. On another note, the ACRL launched a new “information literacy” web site last November (http://www.acrl.org/infolit). Take a look at what they’ve developed. You should also know that one of this year’s regional RBDB projects will center around the creation of a multi-institutional, inter-active refer-ence/research tutorial for freshmen. One component of the project will be developed and evaluated this year. A final note, ACRL is developing its strategic plan to guide the association toward 2010. For my part, I’d like to see a strong push toward partnership building and further sharing of resources through consortia and other alliances. That’s all for now. Ilona Middleton Medaille College Library

If you have any questions, comments, ideas for confer-ences, or any other thoughts or needs, please feel free to contact us. This is your organization and it is here to serve you. See you in April!

David J. Bertuca President

News...

The James A. Gibson Library at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, has recently opened a state-of-the-art e-classroom. The room was developed in col-laboration with the University’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies and will serve as a shared resource for both the Library and the Cen-tre. Roughly 1300 square feet in size, it was designed as a flexible teaching and learning space to accommo-date different teaching strategies and unexpected learning interactions. The e-classroom includes modu-lar, mobile tables rather than fixed desks, and a wire-less network to support the use of laptops and other portable devices. It is equipped with 30 14” converti-ble Acer Tablet PCs, and includes an instructor’s con-sole that features a Sympodium tablet from Smart Technologies, and an integrated Crestron control unit. Careful attention was given to aesthetics, ambi-ence, lighting and other such details to make the e-classroom a comfortable and inviting space for teach-ing and learning. We are very proud of our beautiful new facility and welcome inquiries and visitors. For more information, please contact me (905-688-5550, Ext. 3226; Margaret.Grove@brocku.ca) or Carol Wu (905-688-5550, Ext. 3266; cwu@brocku.ca). Margaret Grove University Librarian Brock University

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Spring 2004 Conference...

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April 30, 2004

Roycroft Inn East Aurora, New York

Featuring

Shabiran Rahman, University of Waterloo

Helen Salmon, University of Guelph

Lisa Barnett, Ball State University

&

Liz Brauza, Erin Clarke, Lynn Magdol, Tiffany Martin and Stacey Barber from the School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo

Plus

Poster Sessions

Conference Overview In library school they taught us how to catalog anything that moves (and everything that doesn’t!) and how to answer reference questions that would drive a “normal” person crazy, but they were conspicuously quiet about our day-to-day problems. In our everyday lives we’re confronted with management issues - how to sell our services to our different clients as well as how to make the best use of our time. We’re also trying to please everyone while not becoming a burned out shell of a librarian. Please join us while we delve into dealing with these challenges at our spring conference: Marketing Services, Managing Time: What They Didn’t Tell Us In Library School on Friday, April 30th at the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, NY.

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Session OneSession OneSession One

Faculty Outreach/Marketing Libraries Shabiran Rahman: Information Services and Re-sources Management Team, University of Waterloo This presentation will explore various ways of forging links with faculty members and provide examples of both formal and informal links. Through role-playing, we will explore the expectations that faculty members have of librarians and vice versa. We will also explore where the meeting points are and what librarians can do to take the initiative and move forward. Shabiran Rahman is the Liaison Librarian for Sociol-ogy on the Information Services and Resources Man-agement Team at the University of Waterloo. She has two M.A. degrees in Sociology, one from Punjab Uni-versity and the other from the University of Waterloo, and an M.L.S. from Indiana University. Shabiran has worked in academic libraries since 1980 has and fo-cused on faculty liaison activities since 1995. Her ex-pertise is recognized by those outside of UW in the ar-eas of librarian faculty collaboration, user needs surveys in libraries, librarians working within academic depart-ments and data delivery and usage. She is the Treasurer for the Canadian Association of Public Data Users and a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) sponsored task-group examining the functional-ity of Cited Reference Searches in PsycINFO.

Session TwoSession TwoSession Two

Time Management for Librarians: Taming the Beast!

Helen Salmon: Associate Chief Librarian for User Ser-vices at the University of Guelph Library This session will provide a brief overview of basic time management concepts and techniques that have proven to be effective in libraries and other non-profit settings. Learn practical ways of managing your time so that the right work gets done in the time available for it. What are the barriers to good time management? What tools

are available to help you tame the chaos? Topics covered will include planning and prioritizing tasks, identifying time-wasters, dealing with interruptions and procrastination, managing email, organizing your workspace, and working effectively with and through others. Helen Salmon is the Associate Chief Librarian for User Services at the University of Guelph Library. She holds an M.A. in English Literature and a Mas-ter of Library Science degree, both from the Univer-sity of Western Ontario. Helen has worked as an academic librarian for the past twenty-two years, and has held a variety of management positions within reference and information services. She cur-rently manages User Services at the University of Guelph Library, which includes the departments of Information Services, Archival and Special Collec-tions, Academic Liaison, Evaluation and Analysis, and Information Resources. Her past publications include editing the Canadian section of the Interna-tional Bibliography of Theatre, reviews of young adult literature, and contributions to reference works in film studies and the social sciences.

Session ThreeSession ThreeSession Three

Student Presentations from the School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo

Elisabeth M. Brauza, Erin Clarke, Lynn Magdol, Tiffany Martin and Stacey Barber

Session FourSession FourSession Four

Fanning the Flames: Strategies for Combating Burnout and Reinvigorating Instruction

Lisa Barnett: Information Services Librarian at Ball State University The repetitive nature of many tasks associated with bibliographic instruction produces tedium that can lead to burnout. The result is often ineffectual in-struction sessions that are boring for the students

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and unfulfilling for the librarians. This presenta-tion, which was originally given at LOEX ‘03, out-lines strategies including self-reflection, collaboration and evaluation that provide librarians with tools to combat burnout and reinvigorate instruction ses-sions. Lisa Barnet is an Information Services Librarian at Ball State University. She has a B.A. in History from the University of Southern Indiana, an M.A. in His-tory from Kent State University and an M.L.S. from Kent State University.

Poster SessionsPoster SessionsPoster Sessions

“Creating a Win-Win New Employee Orientation” Employee orientation plans that take into account that every institution has its own culture will help make the transition less stressful for all involved par-ties. Creating and maintaining an orientation plan that is employee-focused, diminishes the chances of later “misunderstandings.” Scott R. DiMarco: Director of Library Services at Herkimer County Community College in Herki-mer, NY.

The Hong Kong Creativity and Innovation Resources Cen-tre - An update of an international collaborative ven-ture between an academic research center in Buffalo, NY, a non-government organization in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Public Library System. Andrew Dutcher, M. S., M. L. S., teaches people to understand how to locate and evaluate electronic resources found on the Internet. Bridging the Divide Between Departments and the Li-brary: The Never Ending Struggle. Advances in technol-ogy have in many ways isolated faculty and students from librarians and physical collections, resulting in the library not being seen as a partner in meeting a department’s teaching and research goals. Find out how the University at Buffalo has begun bridging this divide through the implementation of depart-mental office hours. Cynthia Tysick is a Senior Assistant Librarian at the University at Buffalo.

A Citation Analysis of James Watson’s and Francis Crick’s Landmark 1953 Paper in Nature Describing the Chemical Structure of DNA. After an initial flurry of increasing numbers of citations (peaking in 1962 after their No-bel Prize award) there was a period of rapidly diminish-ing citations in the open scientific literature, until the mid- to late-1980s when there was a steady increase in the citation of their paper. Why? Fred Stoss is a Biological Sciences Librarian at the Science and Engineering Library, University at Buf-falo.

The Conference in Brief The Conference in Brief The Conference in Brief

8:30 – 9:30

Registration, continental breakfast, and an opportunity to view poster ses-sions

9:30 – 9:45

Opening Remarks

9:45 – 10:45

Faculty Outreach/Marketing Libraries Shabiran Rahman

10:45 -11:15

Coffee break and an opportunity to view poster sessions

11:15 -12:30

Time Management for Librarians: Taming the Beast! Helen Salmon

12:30 – 1:45

Lunch and final opportunity to view poster sessions

1:45 – 2:15

Student Presentations from the School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo Liz Brauza, Erin Clarke, Lynn Magdol, Stacey Barber and Tiffany Martin

2:15 – 3:30

Fanning the Flames: Strategies for Combat-ing Burnout and Reinvigorating Instruction Lisa Barnett.

3:30 – 3:45

Closing Remarks

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Directions:

From Buffalo / Toronto: Take Rte 190 South to the NYS Thruway (Rte 90) West. Take exit 54 to the Rte 400. Exit from Rte 400 at Rte 20A / East Aurora. Turn right off the exit onto Rte 20A, which becomes Main Street. Continue through the Village and turn left onto S. Grove St. The Inn is on the left at 40 S. Grove St.

From Rochester / Syracuse / Albany: Travel West on the NYS Thruway (Rte 90). Take exit 54 to Rte 400. Exit at Rte 20A / East Aurora. Turn right off the exit onto Rte 20A which becomes Main Street. Continue through the Village and turn left onto S. Grove St. The Inn is on the left at 40 S. Grove St.

Buffalo, NY 30 minutes Toronto, ON 2 hours Rochester, NY 1.5 hours Syracuse, NY 2.5 hours

For more information on The Roycroft Inn, go to http://www.roycroftinn.com

Important Note:Important Note:Important Note:Important Note:

Speed limit on the Speed limit on the Speed limit on the Speed limit on the 400 expressway is 55 400 expressway is 55 400 expressway is 55 400 expressway is 55 mph. Please ob-mph. Please ob-mph. Please ob-mph. Please ob-serve the limit.serve the limit.serve the limit.serve the limit.

WNY/O ACRL Spring 2004 Conference Registration Form

Please PrintName: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Fees (includes continental breakfast and hot buffet lunch)

CN$90 for Canadian WNY/O ACRL chapter members or library support staff US $65 for American WNY/O ACRL chapter members or library support staff CN $105 for Canadian non-members US $80 for U.S. non-members CN $35 for Canadian full-time library school students US $25 for U.S. full-time library school students US $40 or CN $55 for attendees presenting a poster session

Membership for WNY/O ACRL is $10.00 per year (Canadian at par) and $7.00 for ACRL National members (Canadian at par).

If you are currently not a member, the cost of membership may be added on to your registration check. All memberships expire as of

August 31st each year. If you did not pay your membership for this year, please take the time to do so now.

Check here ____ if you are paying membership dues now.

Check here ____ if you wish to donate $1 toward our Library School Student Conference Scholarship. Two scholarships are to be awarded at the conference.

Total amount of check: $ __________ Receipts will be available the day of the conference. We do not send confirmations by mail.

Registration deadline: April 23, 2004 Please make checks payable to: Western New York/Ontario ACRL

Please mail checks and forms to: Brenda L. Battleson Acquisitions Department 134 Lockwood Library Building University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 Phone: 716-645-2305; Fax: 716-645-5955 E-Mail: blb@acsu.buffalo.edu

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Call for participation

For Program Proposal Form and further

information, visit:

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/12thnatconf/12thnational.htm

Have you signed up for the new WNY/O ACRL Have you signed up for the new WNY/O ACRL Have you signed up for the new WNY/O ACRL Have you signed up for the new WNY/O ACRL Listserv?Listserv?Listserv?Listserv?

For more details, go to:For more details, go to:For more details, go to:For more details, go to: http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl/news.html

Call for Nominations...

The following WNY/O ACRL board positions are up for election for 2004:

*The candidate must be an ACRL member before taking office. **Limited to NYS members. Duties and responsibilities

See http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl/bylaws.html

Representation Please note that currently, all elected members are from the Western New York region. We would like to encourage representation from the Ontario region.

Nominations To nominate yourself or a colleague, please send the title of the position and the name of the person you are nominating to the email address or postal address listed below.

Nancy Warren, Nominations Chair warrenn@dyc.edu

Nancy Warren Systems Librarian

Montante Family Library D’Youville College 320 Porter Avenue Buffalo, NY 14201

Nominees must be a member of WNY/O ACRL before taking office.

Nominations are due by March 26, 2004.

Questions?? If you have questions or need further information, please call Nancy Warren, Nominations Chair, at 716-881-8116.

Position Term LengthVice President/President Elect* 1 YearSecretary 2 Years

Treasurer** 2 YearsVice Programs Chair 1 YearNominations Chair 1 YearCouncilor 1 1 YearCouncilor 2 1 Year

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Treasurer’s Reports...

January 2004

Spring Conference 2003(Tentatively Final)**

Subcategory Total

IncomeDonations

Conf. Scholar. - Can. Exch. (0.69) Conf. Scholar. 24.00

Total Donations 23.31Spring Conf Inc 03 Registration-Can. Exch. (321.88) Registration 4,475.00

Registration refund (140.00)Total Spring Conf Inc 03 4,013.12

Total Income 4,036.43

ExpensesSpring Conf Inc 03 *

Accommodations/expenses 3,750.10Honoraria/expenses 1,291.52Supplies 124.39

Total Expenses 5,166.01

Grand Total (1,129.58)

* No scholarships were awarded as no students were in attendance.** Income does not include two outstanding registrations at $70.00 ea.

Fall Conference 2003(Interim Report)

Subcategory Total

Income Donations 2003-04

Conf. Scholar. - Can. exch. (0.28)Student Conf. Scholarship 27.00

Total Donations 2003-04 26.72Fall Conf Inc 03

Refund (65.00)Registration 4,577.93Registration Can. Exch. (261.43)

Total Fall Conf Inc 03 4,251.50

Total Income Categories 4,278.22

ExpensesFall Conf 03

Accommodations/expenses 2,976.79Scholarship awarded 51.38Scholarship awarded exch. 1.39Supplies 62.87Total Fall Conf 03 3,092.43

Total Expense Categories 3,092.43

Grand Total 1,185.79

Income vs. Spending9/1/2003 Through 1/31/2004

Subcategory Total

IncomeDonations 2003-04

Conf. Scholar. - Can. exch. (0.28)Student Conf. Scholarship 27.00

Total Donations 2003-04 26.72Fall Conf Inc 03

Refund (65.00)Registration 4,577.93Registration Can. Exchange (261.43)

Total Fall Conf Inc 03 4,251.50Membership 2003-04

Can. Exch. (35.02)Dues 721.00

Total Memb. 2003-04 685.98

Total Income 4,964.20

ExpensesBank Charges ATM fee 2.00

Total Bank Charges 2.00Board Meetings 79.06Fall Conf 03

Accommodations/expenses 2,976.79Scholarship awarded 51.38

Scholarship awarded exch. 1.39Supplies 62.87

Total Fall Conf 03 3,092.43Newsletter

Postage 48.44Printing 166.88

Total Newsletter 215.32Spring Conf 04

Accommodations 200.00Total Spring Conf 04 200.00

Total Expenses 3,588.81

Grand Total 1,375.39

Membership Income - 2003/20049/1/2003 Through 1/31/2004

Subcategory Total

IncomeMembership 2003-04

Can. Exch. (35.02)Dues 721.00Total Memb. 2003-04 685.98

Total Income Categories 685.98

Grand Total 685.98

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Final Report – Fiscal Year 2002/2003

Income vs. Spending9/1/2002 Through 8/31/2003

Subcategory Total

IncomeDonations

Conf. Scholar. - Can. Exch. (2.71)Student Conf. Scholarship 42.00Total Donations 39.29

Fall Conf Inc 02Refund (210.00)Registration 6,025.00Registration Can. Exch. (361.64)Scholarship awarded (40.00)Total Fall Conf Inc 02 5,413.36

Fall Conf Inc 03Registration 80.00Total Fall Conf Inc 03 80.00

Membership 2002-2003Canadian Exch. (57.41)Dues 1,037.00

Total Membership 979.59Membership 2003-04

Can. Exch. (3.45)Dues 17.00Total Membership 2003-04 13.55

Spring Conf Inc 03Can. Exch. (321.88)Registration 4,475.00Registration refund (140.00)

Total Spring Conf Inc 03 4,013.12Total Income 10,538.91

ExpensesBank Charges

Chargeback fee 10.00Total Bank Charges 10.00

Board Meetings 232.15Fall Conf 02

Accommodations 4,062.60Honoraria 150.00Mileage 42.00Supplies 90.00

Total Fall Conf 02 4,344.60Fall Conf 03

Accommodations/expenses 680.32 Total Fall Conf 03 680.32Newsletter

Postage 100.24Printing 533.68

Total Newsletter 633.92Spring Conf 02

GST Reimburs. (63.16) Total Spring Conf 02 (63.16)Spring Conf 03

Accommodations/expenses 3,750.10Honoraria/expenses 1,291.52Scholarship 80.00Supplies 124.39

Total Spring Conf 03 5,246.01Total Expenses 11,083.84

Grand Total (544.93)

Fall Conference 2002

Subcategory Total

IncomeDonations

Conf. Scholar. - Can. Exch. (2.02)Student Conf. Scholarship 19.00

Total Donations 16.98Fall Conf Inc 02

Refund (210.00)Registration 6,025.00Registration Can. Exch. (361.64)Scholarship (40.00)Total Fall Conf Inc 02 5,413.36

Total Income 5,430.34

ExpensesFall Conf 02

Accommodations 4,062.60Honoraria 150.00Mileage 42.00Supplies 90.00Total Fall Conf 02 4,344.60

Total Expenses 4,344.60

Grand Total 1,085.74

Spring Conference 2003

Subcategory Total

IncomeDonations

Conf. Scholar. - Can. Exch. (0.69)Student Conf. Scholarship 25.00

Total Donations 24.31Spring Conf Inc 03

Can. Exch. (321.88)Registration 4,475.00Registration refund (140.00)

Total Spring Conf Inc 03 4,013.12Total Income 4,037.43

ExpensesSpring Conf 03

Accommodations 3,750.10Honoraria 1,291.52Supplies 124.39Total Spring Conf 03 5,166.01

Total Expenses 5,166.01

Grand Total (1,128.58)

Net Worth

As of 8/31/2003

AssetsBank and Cash Accounts 5,958.42

Total Assets 5,958.42

Net Worth 5,958.42

Fall 2003 Conference Report...

On October 17, 2003, the Western New York/Ontario Chapter of ACRL held its annual fall conference at the, always popular, White Oaks Inn which is located on the outskirts of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. A gath-ering of seventy five Canadian and American librarians came together to hear speakers Phyllis Wright, Stewart Brower and Jeff Liles present their views on the Current State of Information Literacy. At the end of the day the speakers, lunch and the White Oaks Inn were all given high marks. The following is a synopsis of the individual presentations.

A Shared Repository of Information Literacy Teaching/Learning Tools

Phyllis Wright, Brock University

Phyllis began the conference with the findings of a study charged with determining whether there is sufficient inter-est and need in Ontario for a centrally located, shared re-pository of information literacy teaching/learning tools. Many libraries are creating their own sets of tutorials/guides and this study aimed to avoid any unnecessary du-plication of efforts by identifying key materials that can be shared amongst libraries. Ms. Wright addressed the pros and cons of shared resources and discussed models that were being evaluated such as the Scholars Portal at the University of Toronto. Teaching the Millennials: One Cynical Gen-Xer’s View

Stewart Brower, University at Buffalo

How to teach in order to fully engage this latest generation of students was the focus of Stewart’s spirited presenta-tion. Mr. Brower began by discussing the various genera-tions as we know them:

Silent (1925 – 1942) – Introspective and intellectual Boomers (1943 – 1960) – Obsessed with TV, civil rights and personal growth Gen X (1961 – 1980) – Cynical latch-key kids Millennials (post 1981) – A coddled generation with cell phones

He went on to discuss other aspects of the Millennials such as their belief that it is more important to get some-thing quickly than to get it right and that the way a thing looks is more important than what it says. This generation likes being a part of groups, they are conservative and they

have a deep trust in authority and therefore it does not occur to them to question the prevailing wisdom. So how do we build a better BI for these students? It is essential to integrate critical thinking into assignments and teach evaluative skills. Busy work is a killer for this group so avoiding it is an absolute and they DON’T care about Boolean, they want to see the big picture. Considering the influence of video games, interactivity is critical – they need to get into groups and work on assignments. Mr. Brower ended by stressing subject centered learning; that there is no one “right” way to do a search, but that there are better and more appropriate ways; that it’s im-portant to save time by doing something right the first time; and the difference between the “deep web” over the general internet.

Assessment and Information Literacy Dr. Jeff Liles, SUNY Geneseo

Assessment as a long term activity was the focus of Jeff’s interactive presentation. Dr. Liles stressed that the scien-tific method is an important part of the process. Using a guitar as a prop, the process of teaching, evaluating and revising instruction were all brought to light in a clear and friendly way. Dr. Liles provided a variety of handouts that discussed indirect vs. direct assessment and formative vs. summative assessment. The major concept Dr. Liles tried to present was that as-sessment is essential for us to know what the students actu-ally learned rather than what we intended for them to learn. That the process is not an evaluation of instructors or students is a big thing for people to accept. Powerpoint presentations from each session are still avail-able for viewing on our chapter’s web site. http://www.niagara.edu/library/acrl/recconf.html

Submitted by Nicki Lerczak Genesee Community College & Jonathan Coe Niagara University Library

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Meet Your Board Members...

Ilona Middleton Vice-President/President Elect I am the Library Director at Medaille College in Buf-falo, New York. I have held that position for the past 21 years and am currently a tenured, full professor at that institution. As I like to say, given the changes in librarianship these many years, “They never told me about this in library school”! I have been involved in starting the first library con-sortia in the western New York region. I continue to work closely with the Western New York Library Re-sources Council (WNYLRC) in the development of new consortial projects and services. I am a member of the Buffalo School Library Board, Resource Shar-ing Committee and Regional Automation Commit-tee as well as serving as Vice-President/President Elect of the Western New York/Ontario Association of College and Research Libraries. I serve on Medaille committees such as the Faculty Handbook Revision committee and the Compensation Committee. On the “lighter” side, I am an artist, erstwhile writer and a pretty good cook. A note of advice from me reads, “If you want people to come to your committee meetings, promise them food…it works every time”!

Suzette Hino Councilor I have been the Coordinator of Public Services and Library Instruction at McGrath Library, Hilbert Col-lege since 1999, where I also have taught in the Social Sciences (Psychology) Department. Prior to being hired at Hilbert, I worked in Reference, Cataloging and Interlibrary Loan for over eight years at Niagara University from where I also earned my M.S. Ed. I have been employed by the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library in several capacities on and off for 25 years now (counting “page time” - present), currently as a substitute at the Hamburg Public Libraries.

I am the Past-President and current Secretary of the Catholic Library Association Western New York Chapter. Keeping in mind I have a four year old son and the time that might be left over in the day, I enjoy cooking and animals (but not really cooking animals), am a volunteer for the Hamburg, Eden Animal Res-cue Team (H.E.A.R.T.) and am entering the field of thanatology. I enjoy tremendously what I do; the Execu-tive Board of the WNY/O ACRL is known for its fun and productivity and I am proud to have been elected to serve. I hope to serve in the same or different ca-pacity on the Board in the new term.

Brenda L. Battleson Treasurer I am an Instructional Support Technician (AKA a technical services librarian) in the Acquisitions De-partment, Central Technical Services of the Univer-sity Libraries, University at Buffalo (just TRY to fit that on a business card.) My responsibilities include serials processing and receipts as well as maintenance of the microfiche titles received through the U.S. Fed-eral Depository Library Program. I coordinate vari-ous digitization projects, including the Govt. Docu-ments Pamphlet and Brochure Scanning project and a UB Libraries exhibit-related web site on the Pan-American Exposition. In addition, I supervise special project and practicum students from UB’s School of Informatics, Department of Library and Information Studies. My research interests include website usabil-ity testing, network analysis, bibliometrics and the use of weblink analysis as a means of determining website credibility. I am a full-time doctoral student in UB’s School of Informatics and while I have numerous hobbies and interests--local history and architecture, music, esp. classical and early jazz, double-stuff oreos, gardening, old musty-smelling book stores, and sleep--I presently spend the little spare time I have reading, which simply drives home the point that I know abso-lutely nothing : --Cheers!!

Jill Church, Membership and Promotions Chair & ArchivistD’Youville College Library320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201churchj@dyc.edu, 716-881-7618

Nancy Warren, Nominations ChairD’Youville College Library320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201warrenn@dyc.edu, 716-881-8116

Samantha Gust, WebmasterNiagara University LibraryLewiston Road, Lewiston, NY 14109gust@niagara.edu, 716-286-8031

James Bondra, CouncilorGannett Center Library, Ithaca CollegeDanby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850jbondra@ithaca.edu, 607-274-1962

Suzette M. Hino, CouncilorMcGrath Library, Hilbert College5200 South Park Avenue, Hamburg, NY 14075shino@hilbert.edu, 716-649-7900 x360

Carol Wu, Newsletter EditorBrock University Library500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1cwu@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x3266

David J. Bertuca, PresidentArts and Sciences Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo225 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-2200dbertuca@buffalo.edu, 716-645-2947 x229

Illona Middleton, Vice President/President ElectMedaille College Library18 Agassiz Circle, Buffalo, NY 14214Imiddleton@medaille.edu, 716-884-3281 x167

Jonathan Coe, Past President & Programs ChairNiagara University LibraryLewiston Road, Lewiston, NY 14109jcoe@niagara.edu, 716-286-8005

Brenda Battleson, TreasurerAcquisitions Dept., SUNY at Buffalo134 Lockwood Library, Buffalo, NY 14260-2210blb@buffalo.edu, 716-645-2305

Marianne Foley, SecretaryE.H. Butler Library, Buffalo State College1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222foleym@buffalostate.edu, 716-878-6301

Nicki Lerczak, Vice Programs ChairGenesee Community CollegeOne College Road, Batavia, NY 14020-9704njlerczak@genesee.edu, 585-343-0055 x6418

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