What are the Blackwell Librarians up to this summer?

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that the librarians at Blackwell work all summer even though we are university faculty. Although we'd love to lounge on the beach all summer, it's a great time of the year for us to catch up on projects that we're too busy to tackle during the school year. We thought we'd take a few moments to share what we're up to this summer!

Susan Brazer, Science Librarian, is collaborating with the Chemistry Department to create an i-Tunes University site for a Chemistry class.

Stephanie Fridie, Reference and Instruction Librarian, is adding entries to the Faculty Scholarship Database this summer. She also plans to read book reviews and check lists of recommended books to see which titles are needed to support curricula in the areas of Nursing, Health Sciences, and Psychology. She reminds us that SU faculty and others may recommend books for the library through the new online form!

Kathryn Kalmanson, Head of Research Services, will be writing collection policies, weeding collections, ordering new books, creating new web pages and working on the library's fall newsletter. On the home front, Kathryn is planning to tend her vegetable garden, grow some unusual plants, and do some painting and wallpapering!

Krista Knapp, Reference and Instruction Librarian, is co-facilitating an online course with Dr. Mullins in the CMAT Department. She is also hard at work updating web-based tutorials to feature the new library website. Krista and her colleagues Mandy and Michelle will present their poster "Faculty Scholarship Database: Ingenuity through Collaboration" at the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago next month. After she goes to Chicago, she and her family are headed out to beautiful Colorado Springs to visit breathtaking sites such as Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak!

Michelle Oleson, Web/Digital Services Librarian, is attending the ALA Conference in Chicago as well. She designed the poster that she, Mandy and Krista are presenting. When she's not creating and editing web pages and tending to the library's technology issues, she plans to enjoy as much "staycation" time in Salisbury as possible. However, she will take a short jaunt to see Tori Amos in Minneapolis in August and will attend a sci fi convention in Atlanta at the end of the summer.