Awards and Grants

CUNY librarians ranked 23rd nationally in the number of papers of research and professional practice published in the leading journals for subject-specialist librarians during 2000-2010.  These results appeared in a study analyzing author affiliations of over 2,000 papers published in the eleven most-cited journals in special librarianship subject areas.

Rebecca Arzola (Lehman) received a Faculty Recognition Award from Lehman for organizing her library’s Reading and Discussion Series.

Ben Chitty (Queens) was received an Unsung Hero award from New York State United Teachers in recognition of his health and safety activism.

Dorothea J. Coiffe (Borough of Manhattan) received a 2011 PSC-CUNY Grant for “Moving Image Websites for Undergraduate Education: An Annotated Webliography.”

Daisy V. Dominguez (City) won a Japanese studies video collection development grant from the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, in December 2009 and a film festival programming grant from the Japan Foundation in January 2011. CCNY Libraries’ Cherry Blossom Film Festival ran April 28 – May 5, 2011 in the Cohen Library Archives Reading Room.

Frank Donnelly, Harold Gee, Gerry Jiao, Louise Klusek, Rita Orsmby, Sandra Roff, and Christopher Tuthill (Baruch) were honored during Baruch College’s Ninth Annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship and Creative Achievement on March 31.

Beth Evans (Brooklyn) and Beth Posner (Graduate Center) have been selected as delegates in the CUNY-Shanghai Library Faculty Exchange Program.  The Screening Committee’s members are Ewa Dzurak (Staten Island), Kachuen Gee (Lehman), Wilma Jones (Staten Island), Songqian Lu (City Tech), Kenneth Schlesinger (Lehman), Robert Shaddy (Queens), and Zuwang Shen (Bronx).

Rita Ormsby (Baruch) received the President’s Award from the Special Libraries Association–New York Chapter on October 7.

Seamus Scanlon (City) won Fish Publishing’s One-Page Story Prize for “The Long Wet Grass” and Gemini Magazine’s Short Story Contest for “My Beautiful, Brash, Beastly Belfast.”  He also organized a staged reading of “Dancing at Lunacy” at the Cell Theater on May 22.

Cynthia Tobar (Graduate Center) received a PSC-CUNY enhanced grant for “Grassroots Organizing and Working-Class Feminist Activism at Welfare Rights Initiative: A Digital Oral History Archive Project.”

Exhibitions

Philip Barnett, Ching-Jung Chen, Judy Connorton, Daisy V. Dominguez, Rob Laurich, and Chip Stewart (City) curated the exhibit “Göbekli Tepe: Reinterpreting the Early History of Man” in the Cohen Library Atrium March 28-June 10.  The exhibit dealt with an archaeological dig in a remote part of southeastern Turkey that questions assumptions about early man.

Professional Involvement

Rebecca Arzola (Lehman) produced a special veterans issue of Government Information Focus.

Kachuen Gee (Lehman) organized a lecture on Chinese palace painting at the Flushing branch of Queens Library for the Chinese American Librarians Association, Northeast Chapter.

Michael Handis and Cynthia Tobar (Graduate Center) organized the “Digital Preservation for Libraries and Archives” session on March 31 and “Introducing the Newly Re-designed OCLC CONTENTdm” session on May 16 for the Metro Digitization Special Interest Group.

Mariana Regalado (Brooklyn) has been appointed to the Institutional Review Board at Brooklyn College.

Kenneth Schlesinger (Lehman) wrote a strategic plan for the formulation of the library-archive at the Steve Biko Centre in Ginsberg Township, South Africa.  Kenneth participated in planning this facility as a Senior Fulbright Specialist.

Di Su (York), serving as a faculty mentor in the CUNY-Shanghai Exchange Program, hosted a visiting librarian from Shanghai Normal University during May 2-June 13.

Cynthia Tobar (Graduate Center) organized ” An Introduction to EAC-CPF: Archival Authority Control,” a March 7 workshop for the Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Lucinda Zoe (Hostos) has joined CUNY’s Office of Administrative Affairs to serve as Special Advisor to the Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost.  After being Hostos’ chief librarian, Lucinda served as interim provost for two years.  Acting Chief Librarian Lisa Tappeinir returned to her position as head of technical services and was replaced by Madeline Ford, who took a leave of absence from Medgar Evers.

Several CUNY librarians were involved in hosting the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Scholarly Communication 101: Starting with the Basics.  Madeline Cohen (Lehman) and Bronwen Densmore (City College) were co-chairs of the enterprise.  Also participating were Monica Berger (City Tech), John Carey (Hunter), Jill Cirasella (Brooklyn), Beth Evans (Brooklyn), Regina Kelly Houghteling (City), Anne Leonard (City Tech), Brian Lym (Hunter), Shamiana Pond (OLS), Maura Smale (City Tech), Sarah Laleman Ward (Hunter), and Lucinda Zoe (CUNY Office of Administrative Affairs).

In the News

Douglas Cox (Law) was quoted in a November11, 2010 MSNBC article, ” CIA Faces Second Probe Over Video Destruction.”

Adelaide Soto and Alevtina Verbovetskaya (Lehman) were featured in “Check It Out! e-Books” in the spring issue of CUNY Matters.