Awards and Grants
Stanton Biddle (Baruch) was named 2010 Achievement in Library Diversity Research Honoree by the ALA Council Committee on Diversity and the ALA Office for Diversity. The award recognizes Stanton’s publications and presentations on the history and culture of underrepresented populations, his serving as editor of the proceedings of the first two National Conferences of African American Librarians, and his lifetime membership in ALA’s Black Caucus. He received his award at the ALA National Convention in Washington, DC, on June 27.
Robin Brown (Borough of Manhattan) is a co-investigator on “A Proposal of a Study of the Effectiveness and Pedagogical Issues Using an Electronic Textbook in Developmental Reading Courses” with Professor Michelle Martin (Developmental Skills, Borough of Manhattan). The grant was funded through the recent e-textbook iniative from Central.
Kanu Nagra (Borough of Manhattan), along with Sidney Eng and Margaret Karrass, received a CUNY E-books Grant for “A Study of the Effectiveness and Pedagogy Using Bundled Electronic Textbooks in Mathematics Classes.”
Exhibitions
Daisy Dominguez and Sara Aponte (City) curated “Latinos in the U.S.: Presente!” The exhibit, which ran from February 8 to June 10 in the Cohen Library Atrium, documented the migratory landscape of the United States from a Latino perspective.
Janet Butler Munch (Lehman) received a New York Council for the Humanities Grant to support the public events associated with the Library’s hosting of the American Library Association traveling exhibit “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation” from March 18- April 30.
Suzanna Simor and Alexandra de Luise (Queens), director and curator respectively of the Queens College Art Center, put on two exhibitions this spring: Crystal Clear, sculpture and prints by Claire Lieberman (March 11-April 30), and IllusionAllusion, the sculpture of Susan Sills (May 6-June 30), with related gallery receptions, talks and events.
Professional Involvement
Jill Cirasella (Brooklyn) co-organized the Science, Technology, & Engineering Library Leaders in Action (STELLA) Unconference at the University of Denver on January 8 and 9. She also helped plan OpenSciNY, a one-day conference on open access publishing, freely accessible science tools, and open notebook efforts held at NYU on May 14.
Madeline Cohen (Lehman) serves on the Board of Directors of Nylink through 2012.
Robert Farrell (Lehman) co-chaired the panel “The Will to Be Deceived: Collective Acceptance of Passing” and presented the paper “Divine Decisions: The Homeric Hymn to Dionysus” at the Comparative Literature Association conference in New Orleans in April.
Kachuen Gee (Lehman) assisted University Librarian Curtis Kendrick and Lehman Chief Librarian Kenneth Schlesinger in bringing the CUNY-Shanghai Library Faculty Exchange Program to successful fruition. In April she hosted and interpreted for a visiting delegation from China’s Jiaying University. She also organized an Asian-Pacific Heritage Month program with prominent Chinese-American women politicians on behalf of the Lehman Women’s Studies Committee.
Jennifer King (Lehman) was facilitator for the “Science Librarianship and Web 2.0 Session” at the Science, Technology, and Engineering Library Leaders in Action! (STELLA) Unconference at the University of Denver in January.
Louise Klusek (Baruch) and Mehmet Genc of Baruch’s management department were the project leads on an online simulation game, “Industry Islands.” The game teaches business students how to use Porter’s Five Forces model to analyze an industry. Students play the role of an industry consultant and offer analysis of the brewery industry.
Janet Butler Munch (Lehman) served on a faculty search committee for the Vice President of Administration and received a service award from the Division of Academic Affairs for directing the Web project Childhood in the Bronx.
Kenneth Schlesinger (Lehman) served on the search committee for Lehman’s Vice President of Information Technology.
Maura Smale (City Tech) has joined the editorial board of Communications in Information Literacy.
Chip Stewart (City) was named chair of the CUNY Statistics Task Force. Other members of the task force are Dean Bryan (OLS), Larry McCue (OLS), Nancy Macomber (Law), Bonnie Nelson (John Jay), Steve Ovadia (LaGuardia), Shamiana Pond (OLS), Sharon Swacker (City Tech), and Susan Vaughn (Brooklyn).