JUNE/JULY 2011
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Director's Corner
SIL staff are known for their service, but not always for research. That's why I'm so happy about the IFLA Award
for best research paper, mentioned below. IFLA is an international association, which makes this award even more
prestigious. Congratulations to Grace, Bianca and Erin, along with their colleague Becky Morin for this effort,
above and beyond their routine duties!
— Nancy E. Gwinn, Director
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2011 IFLA Award Goes to SIL Staff
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L-R, Erin Thomas, Bianca Crowley, and Grace Costantino
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SIL's
Biodiversity Heritage Library
(BHL) librarians Grace Costantino, Bianca Crowley and Erin Thomas, along with Rebecca Morin of the
California Academy of Sciences,
were awarded the De Gruyter Saur
International Federation of Library Associations
(IFLA) Research Paper Award for 2011. Their paper, titled
Heeding the Call: User Feedback Management and the Digital Library,
uses the collaborative BHL project to demonstrate how users' views and feedback can be captured and integrated in order to improve
the quality and breadth of large digitization projects. Bianca Crowley will represent the authors and attend the President's Lunch at the
Annual IFLA World Library and Information Congress
in San Juan, Puerto Rico in August.
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Welcome Gilbert Borrego and Sue Graves!
Gilbert is the new Library Technician for the
Biodiversity Heritage Library
project at the
Smithsonian Libraries.
He is responsible for the identification, preparation, pagination and quality control inspection of material to be digitized for BHL.
He also helps to administer and post items for the
BHL and the
Libraries'
Facebook pages. Born and raised in El Paso, TX, Gilbert graduated with a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in anthropology from
Stanford University.
He has worked as a professional archaeologist, a museum preparator, and most recently as an Interlibrary Loan Supervisor for
Virginia Tech.
He and his wife, Maura, live in Arlington, Va.
Sue Graves has joined the Metadata Unit in the Technical Services Department of the Libraries. She comes to the Smithsonian with a
history of technical services experience in law, academic and public libraries and a brief contract stint involving the historic shelf list at the
Government Printing Office. Sue graduated from the
University of Vermont with a major in English and a minor in French and has dabbled with graduate studies in
English and Library Science. Sue's position includes work with the
Smithsonian Research Online, the
Smithsonian Research Information System (SIRIS) and developing projects using
Drupal.
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SIL Participates in OCLC Research Partnership Meetings
Georgetown University hosted the
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
Research Library Partnership meetings
on June 8-10, which provided stimulating discussions on the future of libraries. Several SIL staff attended in person or watched
George Oates,
our SIL research associate, on a live feed speaking about Looking at Data Consumption. Other notable talks included The
"Futures" of Publishing by Brian O'Leary and The Future of Higher Education and the Global University by Ben Wildavsky.
Each speaker roused conversation on services, collections, staffing and collaboration. The conference plenary papers are available on the
OCLC site.
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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L-R, Brian Soldo and David Kaufmann
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The Smithsonian Libraries has welcomed 16 interns this summer. These interns are working in various posts all over our
20 locations. We look forward to updating you with stories and pictures in upcoming editions!
Chloe Barnett
Heather Bohle
Maria Burke
Alice Doolittle
Stephanie Fletcher
Margaret Hagerty
David Kaufmann
Mary Kavanagh
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Joshua Kitlas
Cynthia Orozco
Samantha Schubert
Brian Soldo
Donald Stankavage
LaShawntay Tinker
Simon Underwood
Natalia White
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