The Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at Phillips Academy, Andover is pleased to announce that we have hired Michael Blake as our new Associate Director for Instructional Services. Michael brings to Andover his experience in many different library settings: Harvard University's Countway Library of Medicine and its Cabot Science Library, consortium libraries in hospitals and special libraries in consulting firms, as well as in public libraries. He also brings his abiding interests in dance and in the natural world. He is engaged in a long-term project compiling a bibliography on fly-fishing. It's a recreational as well as a scholarly interest. Working primarily in the world of the natural sciences, his focus has been on teaching students how to identify and to make effective use of resources and how to analyze opportunities for research. In his recent decade of work at Harvard's Cabot Science Library, he has helped many students find their way though the scientific literature. Michael looks forward to meeting and working with all members of the NMRLS community.
Our next Program Planners Meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 2:00 p.m. at the Hamilton Wenham Library in Hamilton. Our topic will be publicizing your library programs. We will also talk about web calendars. We will save some time to share ideas and talk about successful programs that we've held, so please bring along some visuals if you have them. Thank you to Julie Preston (978-468-5577) for hosting the meeting. Hope to see you all on January 13! Directions to Hamilton-Wenham Library at http://www.hwlibrary.org/hours_directions.htm.
The Program Planners Group meets 4 times a year to share resources and ideas with library staff who design and run adult and intergenerational programs. If you can't attend our next meeting but would like to be included on our "Program Planners Group" mailing list, email Kathy Cryan-Hicks at the Chelmsford Public Library kcryanhic@mailserv.mvlc.lib.ma.us. |
Donna Beales, Lowell General Hospital Health Science Library, will be a contributor for the next Chicken Soup for the Soul volume to come out, "Chicken Soup Stories to Inspire the Body and Soul" (January 2004 release date). She'd be interested in doing local library signings and/or author's talks for library groups.
Dora St. Martin will be the new Director at the Pollard Library in Lowell as of the 22nd of December.
Mary Ann Blair, circulation librarian at the Winthrop Public Library is retiring from the library December 31, 2003.
