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<strong>FOOD</strong><br />
<strong>FOR</strong><br />
<strong>THOUGHT</strong><br />
NEWSLETTER OF THE <strong>FOOD</strong>, AGRICULTURE, & NUTRITION DIVISION OF THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION<br />
Volume 33, Number 1 ISSN: 0198-0246 Pre-conference 2002<br />
As I write this, the 2002<br />
Conference is only 45 days away.<br />
Yikes!! So many details, so little time.<br />
I hope that many of you have already<br />
made or are currently in the process<br />
of making arrangements to attend.<br />
You can register online at http://<br />
www.<strong>sla</strong>.<strong>org</strong>/Documents/<br />
losangeles5.htm and utilize the online<br />
Conference Planner to help you keep<br />
track of your schedule so you don’t<br />
miss any FAN events! You’ll find the<br />
complete listing of FAN programs and<br />
activities in this issue of Food for<br />
Thought, along with the sponsoring<br />
vendors. FAN is very fortunate to<br />
have a number of sponsors who<br />
faithfully support us year after year.<br />
And each year our vendor relations<br />
committee works very hard to secure<br />
new sponsors as well. But as financial<br />
support for conference sponsorships<br />
often fluctuates from year to year due<br />
to budget cuts and other difficulties<br />
and as several divisions may be<br />
competing for the same sponsorship<br />
dollars, we are truly grateful that the<br />
following vendors have chosen to<br />
provide support for FAN activities:<br />
American Chemical Society, BIOSIS,<br />
CABI, CISTI (Canada Institute for<br />
Scientific and Technical Information),<br />
The Dialog Corporation, Elsevier<br />
Science, IFIS (International Food<br />
Information Service), ISI (Institute for<br />
Scientific Information), Nerac, Inc.,<br />
and Ovid Technologies. Please join<br />
me in thanking them for their financial<br />
From the Executive Chef<br />
By Anita Ezzo<br />
(ezzoa@msu.edu)<br />
support — without which we could not<br />
offer the programming that we do —<br />
and be sure to take the opportunity to<br />
talk to their representatives in the<br />
Exhibit Hall. Let them know that you<br />
are a FAN member and that you<br />
appreciate their support of the FAN<br />
Division — especially when you<br />
patronize their products and services!<br />
Now a few words about the<br />
conference schedule (O.K., more than<br />
a few). Those of you in FAN<br />
leadership roles (i.e. incoming Chair<br />
and Chair-Elect, incoming or current<br />
Committee Chairs) are encouraged to<br />
participate in SLA’s Leadership<br />
Development Institute on Sunday, June<br />
9 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. as well<br />
as the Officer Forums that afternoon<br />
from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. While the<br />
morning session will more generally<br />
address roles and responsibilities and<br />
key leadership skills, the Forums will<br />
provide an opportunity for discussion<br />
of topics more specifically related to<br />
an individual’s responsibilities (or<br />
future responsibilities). There are<br />
Forums for archivists, public relations<br />
chairs, bulletin editors, fund-raising<br />
chairs, discussion list owners,<br />
membership chairs, treasurers, and<br />
webmasters. You can read the details<br />
at http://www.<strong>sla</strong>.<strong>org</strong>/content/Events/<br />
conference/2002annual/whatsnew/<br />
ldrday/index.cfm.<br />
The conference really begins for<br />
FAN with the 2001/02 Board/<br />
Committee meeting on Sunday from<br />
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3:30-5:00 p.m. You don’t have to be<br />
a Board or Committee member to<br />
attend this meeting — all FAN<br />
members are encouraged to<br />
participate in their Division<br />
governance and welcome to volunteer<br />
as well. After all, the theme of this<br />
Conference is “Putting Knowledge to<br />
Work” — might as well get right down<br />
to business on the first day! The<br />
Board meeting will be followed by<br />
FAN’s annual New Members and<br />
Student Reception from 5:00-6:30<br />
p.m. Party time! Please stop by to<br />
enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres, greet<br />
familiar colleagues, and extend a warm<br />
welcome to our newest members and<br />
students. FAN’s annual Business<br />
Meeting and Breakfast will begin<br />
bright and early (7:00 a.m.!) on<br />
Monday morning. Since this our only<br />
general business meeting, I urge all of<br />
you to attend (Please note that, due to<br />
ISI’s generous sponsorship, there is a<br />
$10 refund available to those attending<br />
the breakfast meeting). We will be<br />
electing new officers and announcing<br />
the recipients of the Kathi Kohli<br />
Memorial Award, sponsored by the<br />
Cargill Information Center, and the<br />
Fan Distinguished Member Award ,<br />
sponsored by IFIS. If you have issues<br />
or concerns you would like to bring<br />
before the membership, please let me<br />
know beforehand, so I can place them<br />
on the agenda. At the meeting, we’ll<br />
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In This Issue:<br />
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be soliciting reporters for each of our programs for the<br />
post-conference issue of Food for Thought, so you can<br />
begin thinking now of how you might make a contribution<br />
in this area.<br />
The Conference Opening General Session with a keynote<br />
address by Peter Drucker will follow the breakfast/<br />
business meeting; then at 11:30, FAN is sponsoring a<br />
program on food marketing in cooperation with the<br />
Advertising & Marketing Division. Entitled From<br />
Applebee’s to Zabar’s this session will explore the newest<br />
trends in food marketing and the free and fee-based tools<br />
available to monitor the trends. At 3:30 you’ll have an<br />
opportunity to discover Wazzup With Organics?, as you<br />
learn more about the history and phenomenal growth of<br />
the <strong>org</strong>anics industry and the obstacles and opportunities<br />
affecting its future. On Tuesday, June 11, we’ve<br />
scheduled a 9:30 a.m. session on Dietary Supplements<br />
and Functional Foods (another fast-growing market<br />
segment), a program jointly sponsored by the Biomedical<br />
& Life Sciences Division. Afterwards, take a break for<br />
lunch and a visit to the Exhibit Hall (don’t f<strong>org</strong>et to greet<br />
and thank our sponsoring vendors!); then join us from 3:30<br />
to 5:00 p.m. for our annual Vendor Update to learn about<br />
the latest enhancements, products and services from<br />
vendors of food, agriculture, and nutrition information.<br />
Wednesday, June 12 will begin bright and early again<br />
(7:00 a.m.) with a 2002/03 FAN Board/Committee<br />
meeting. Once again, you don’t have to be a Board or<br />
Committee member to attend this meeting. SLA’s Closing<br />
Session and Annual Business Meeting with Doris Kearns<br />
Goodwin will be held from 9:00-11:30 a.m. The revision<br />
of the SLA Bylaws will be on the agenda for this meeting,<br />
so attendance is important since those present will<br />
determine whether the proposed bylaws document goes<br />
From the Executive Chef 1<br />
FAN Welcomes New Members 3<br />
Annual Conference Events 4<br />
2001 FAN Field Trip Photos 6<br />
FAN FANs: Annual Conference Sponsors 8<br />
HAACP 9<br />
SLA-FAN Discussion List : A Primer for Use 10<br />
Library Tour: The New ACES Library at UIUC 12<br />
Biotechnology Column 14<br />
2002/02 FAN Officer Slate and Biographies 16<br />
Board of Directors/Committee Members 18<br />
Food for Thought publication information 20<br />
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forward as a mail ballot to the full voting membership.<br />
See http://www.<strong>sla</strong>.<strong>org</strong>/content/SLA/Structure/recbylaws/<br />
httpwww6596.cfm to review the proposed changes. The<br />
FAN Luncheon will start at 12:00 p.m. This year’s<br />
luncheon will feature the musical entertainment of Dr.<br />
Carl Winter, the Elvis of E. Coli, performing musical<br />
parodies of popular songs with a food science/food safety<br />
twist. You can get a preview at http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/<br />
music.html. Don’t miss this thoroughly entertaining event<br />
(especially since there is a $10 refund to attendees of the<br />
luncheon, due to Nerac’s generous sponsorship)! And<br />
polish up your singing voices, as audience participation is<br />
encouraged, although you should probably discourage me<br />
from singing . . . The Agricultural Update will be held<br />
from 2:00-3:30 p.m. This is your opportunity to hear the<br />
latest news from the National Agricultural Library, the<br />
Canadian Agriculture Library, the FAO, USAIN, and<br />
AgNIC.<br />
I hope many of you will still be around on Thursday to<br />
relax and enjoy FAN’s Wine and Olives Tour. This tour<br />
is scheduled to run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and<br />
features a tour and tasting at the J. Filippi Winery (http://<br />
www.citivu.com/cucamonga_valley/filippi/index.html), a<br />
testament to Cucamonga Valley winemaking for over<br />
seventy-five years; shopping and lunch at Ontario Mills<br />
(California’s largest outlet mall: http://<br />
www.ontariomills.com/); and a tour of the Graber Olive<br />
House (http://www.graberolives.com/), a family-operated<br />
olive processing plant since 1894. Food, wine, shopping<br />
— how can you go wrong!<br />
As you can tell, I am really looking forward to the Los<br />
Angeles Conference, when the past year and a half’s worth<br />
of planning will finally come to fruition! It will be great to<br />
see familiar FAN faces and welcome new ones into the<br />
FAN community. CU N LA (See you in L.A.)!<br />
SLA 2002<br />
SLA Conference Website<br />
http://losangeles.<strong>sla</strong>.<strong>org</strong><br />
Southern California Chapter Website<br />
http://library.csun.edu/dhelfer/2002/welcome.html
Ms. Noelle Lowrie<br />
General Mills<br />
Library & Info Sciences<br />
General Mills Technology E<br />
330 Univ Ave SE<br />
Minneapolis MN 55414<br />
noelle.lowrie@genmills.com<br />
Ms. April Faulkner<br />
Food Marketing Inst<br />
Info Svc<br />
655 15th St NW<br />
Washington DC 20005<br />
Mr. John Mate<br />
Ovid Technologies<br />
Global Corporate Sales<br />
3680 Thomas Pt Rd<br />
Annapolis MD 21403<br />
john_mate@ovid.com<br />
Ms. Rachele E. Petrella<br />
122 Robert Drive, Apt. 2<br />
North Tonawanda, NY 14120-6455<br />
FAN WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS<br />
Ms. Barbara Stailing<br />
2564 Poplar St<br />
Halifax NV B3L 2Y8<br />
CANADA<br />
bstailing@ocean-nutrition.com<br />
Ms. Judith Kraatz Johnson<br />
SBDC Natl Info Clearinghouse<br />
1222North Main Ste 712<br />
San Antonio, TX 78212<br />
jkjohnson@utsa.edu<br />
Mr. William G. Carr<br />
WM Carr Associates<br />
2210 Wedgewood CT<br />
Plant City, FL 33567<br />
wcarr1@tampabay.rr.com<br />
Ms. Diana L. Dwyer<br />
USDA<br />
Natl Wildlife Research Ctr<br />
4101 LaPorte Ave<br />
Fort Collins, CO 80521-2154<br />
diana.l.dwyer@aphis.usda.gov<br />
Ms. Linda M. Hartman<br />
Univ of Pittsburgh<br />
Health Sciences Library<br />
200 Scaife Hall<br />
Pittsburgh, PA 15261<br />
lhartman@pitt.edu<br />
Ms. C. Margaret Hentz<br />
Dow AgroSciences<br />
Library<br />
9330 Zionsville RD<br />
Indianapolis, IN 46268<br />
mhentz@dowagro.com<br />
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Ms. Lisa L. Sutherland<br />
Corporate Library Solutions<br />
274 Eaton St.<br />
Battle Creek, MI 49107
FAN Programs and Events 2002 SLA Annual Conference Los Angeles, California<br />
Sunday, June 9<br />
3:30-5:00 p.m.<br />
FAN 2001/02<br />
Board of Directors & Committee Meeting<br />
You don’t have to be a Board or Committee member to attend.<br />
Observers are always welcome and volunteers are<br />
greatly appreciated!<br />
Sunday, June 9<br />
5:00-6:30 p.m.<br />
New Members and Student Reception<br />
The Reception will be in the San Bernardino room of the<br />
Westin Bonaventure Hotel. All members are encouraged<br />
to attend this annual event and warmly welcome FAN’s new<br />
members and students!<br />
Monday, June 10<br />
7:00-8:30 a.m.<br />
FAN Business Meeting and Breakfast<br />
(*ticketed event)<br />
Enjoy breakfast and conversation with fellow FAN members.<br />
Business will include election of new officers and<br />
announcements of the recipients of the Kathi Kohli<br />
Memorial Award, sponsored by the Cargill Information<br />
Center, and the FAN Distinguished Member Award ,<br />
sponsored by IFIS.<br />
Meeting Sponsor:<br />
ISI<br />
*Note: The advertised ticket price for this event is<br />
$27. Due to generous sponsorship, attendees will<br />
receive a $10 refund*<br />
Monday, June 10<br />
11:30-1:00 p.m.<br />
From Applebee’s to Zabar’s: Food Marketing<br />
(Joint program with Advertising & Marketing Division)<br />
Discover the newest trends in food marketing and learn<br />
what tools are available to monitor the trends. The food<br />
expert at the Center for Marketing Intelligence will give us<br />
a fresh perspective from her work in packaged food,<br />
restaurants, and supermarkets, covering both free and fee<br />
resources.<br />
Speaker:<br />
Joan Leake, Center for Marketing Intelligence, IPG<br />
Moderator:<br />
Robin Feuerstein, Center for Marketing Intelligence, IPG<br />
Program Sponsor:<br />
ACS<br />
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Monday, June 10<br />
3:30-5:00 p.m.<br />
Wazzup With Organics?<br />
Concerns about the harmful effects of chemicals on<br />
agricultural products and the environment have fueled<br />
consumer interest in <strong>org</strong>anic foods and farming. What is<br />
<strong>org</strong>anic farming and what does “certified <strong>org</strong>anic” mean?<br />
This session will address those FAQs and examine the<br />
history and growth of the U.S. <strong>org</strong>anics industry and the<br />
obstacles and opportunities affecting its future.<br />
Speakers:<br />
Bill Wolf, Organic Materials Review Institute<br />
Katherine DiMatteo, Organic Trade <strong>Association</strong><br />
Moderator:<br />
Margaret Merrill<br />
Program Sponsors:<br />
CABI<br />
Elsevier<br />
Tuesday, June 11<br />
9:30-11:00 a.m.<br />
Dietary Supplements and Functional Foods<br />
(Joint program with Biomedical & Life Sciences Division)<br />
U.S. consumers spend billions each year on dietary<br />
supplements and “functional foods” in an effort to<br />
prevent disease or promote good health. This session will<br />
explore the nature of these products, issues regarding<br />
their safety and efficacy, and the U.S. government’s role<br />
in regulating them.<br />
Speaker:<br />
Dr. Joan Conway, Beltsville Human Nutrition<br />
Research Center<br />
Moderator:<br />
Anita Ezzo<br />
Program Sponsor:<br />
BIOSIS
FAN Programs and Events 2002 SLA Annual Conference Los Angeles, California<br />
Tuesday, June 11<br />
3:30-5:00 p.m.<br />
Vendor Update<br />
An opportunity to learn about the latest enhancements,<br />
products and services from vendors of food, agriculture,<br />
and nutrition information. This year’s participants include<br />
ACS, CABI, IFIS, ISI, Nerac, and Ovid Technologies.<br />
Speakers:<br />
Matthew J. Price, American Chemical Society<br />
Joseph Barrett, CABI Publishing<br />
Howard Stanbury, IFIS<br />
TBA, ISI<br />
Kevin Bouley, Nerac, Inc.<br />
Patti Corbett and John Mate, Ovid Technologies<br />
Moderators:<br />
Kara Pedersen<br />
Carolyn Speakman<br />
Program Sponsor:<br />
Ovid Technologies<br />
Wednesday, June 12<br />
7:00-8:30 a.m.<br />
FAN 2002/03<br />
Board of Directors & Committee Meeting<br />
You don’t have to be a Board or Committee member to<br />
attend. Observers are always welcome and volunteers<br />
are greatly appreciated!<br />
Meeting Sponsor:<br />
ACS<br />
Wednesday, June 12<br />
12:00-1:30 p.m.<br />
FAN Luncheon<br />
(*ticketed event)<br />
You won’t want to miss this luncheon, featuring the<br />
musical entertainment of Dr. Carl Winter, the “Elvis of E.<br />
Coli,” performing musical parodies of popular songs with<br />
a food science/food safety twist! You can get a preview<br />
at http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html. Expect to be<br />
thoroughly entertained!<br />
Speaker:<br />
Dr. Carl Winter, Director, Foodsafe Program, University<br />
of California, Davis<br />
Program Sponsor:<br />
Nerac, Inc.<br />
*Note: The advertised ticket price for this event is<br />
$39. Due to generous sponsorship, attendees will<br />
receive a $10 refund*<br />
Wednesday, June 12<br />
2:00-3:30 p.m.<br />
Agricultural Update<br />
New initiatives and current issues of the National<br />
Agricultural Library (NAL), the Canadian Agricultural<br />
Library (CAL), the Food and Agriculture Organization of<br />
the United Nations (FAO), the United States Agricultural<br />
Information Network (USAIN), and AgNIC will be<br />
featured.<br />
Speakers:<br />
Maria Pisa, NAL<br />
Lorna Adcock, Saskatoon Research Centre, CAL<br />
Jean-Philippe Decraene, FAO<br />
Lutishoor Salisbury, University of Arkansas for USAIN<br />
Maria Pisa, NAL for AgNIC<br />
Moderator:<br />
Catherine Jeanjean<br />
Program Sponsors:<br />
Dialog<br />
CISTI<br />
Thursday, June 13<br />
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.<br />
Wine and Olives Tour<br />
(ticketed event)<br />
Join the FAN Division for a tour and tasting at the J. Filippi<br />
Winery in the heart of the Cucamonga Valley, shopping<br />
and lunch on your own at Ontario Mills (California’s largest<br />
outlet mall), and a tour of the Graber Olive House (a<br />
family-operated olive processing plant since 1894) that<br />
includes a small museum of historic photos and equipment<br />
and a gift shop where you can sample and purchase olives,<br />
oils, dried fruits, nuts, candies and other goodies and gifts.<br />
Program Sponsor:<br />
IFIS<br />
SLA-LA 2002 Conference Web Site:<br />
http://library.csun.edu/dhelfer/2002/welcome.html<br />
SLA-LA 2002 Conference Discussion List:<br />
send an email to: lists@lists.<strong>sla</strong>.<strong>org</strong><br />
leave the blank subject line<br />
message: subscribe <strong>sla</strong>-la2002 [your name]<br />
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FAN 2001 Conference Field Trip<br />
Photography: Heather Sherman Selection and Captioning: Valerie Perry ( vperry@pop.uky.edu )<br />
The 2001 FAN Field Trip of the Texas Hill Country included<br />
stops at the Johnson City and Fredricksburg. In Johnson City<br />
the group toured the Johnson Family Ranch. In Fredricksburg<br />
the group visited Friedhelm's Bavarian Inn, the Becker<br />
Vineyards, and the Fredricksburg Herb Farm. Tour participants<br />
included members of the FAN, Sci-Tech, Environmental and<br />
Social Sciences Divisions.<br />
Visiting one of the former residences on the<br />
LBJ Ranch ( above )<br />
The schoolhouse was one of the original<br />
buildings on the LBJ Ranch ( below )<br />
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A park ranger conducted<br />
our tour and provided<br />
lots of interesting facts<br />
about LBJ and his life on<br />
the ranch ( left )<br />
The Johnson family cemetery is located at the ranch ( above )<br />
Many farm animals live on this working ranch. ( below )<br />
The LBJ Ranch is quite large and provides many<br />
beautiful landscape scences in the Texas Hill<br />
Country ( left )
We enjoyed a jager schnitzel luncheon at Friedhelm's Bavarian Inn<br />
followed by shopping in historic Fredricksburg. The local ice cream<br />
parlour was a popular stop for many ( above )<br />
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The property of Becker<br />
Vineyards was as beautiful<br />
as the wine was flavorful<br />
( left )<br />
Becker Vineyards invited tour participants to sample<br />
several of its outstanding wines. Fine wines, fresh herbs,<br />
and related gifts available for purchase ( above )<br />
The Fredricksburg Herb Farm provided a relaxing ending to a full<br />
day of activities. Participants had the opportunity to stroll through<br />
the beautiful and sweetly-scented gardens ( above )<br />
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FAN 2001 Field Trip Photos<br />
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Another beautiful scene illustrating the peace and<br />
solitude of the herb garden ( above )<br />
The gift shop at the herb farm<br />
sold many products derived<br />
from the <strong>org</strong>anically-grown<br />
herbs and flowers including<br />
soaps, candles, and colognes<br />
( above )<br />
Our unofficial photographer, Heather Sherman, posed<br />
next to one of the many pieces of statuary ( above )<br />
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FAN FANS!<br />
We thank the following <strong>org</strong>anizations<br />
for sponsoring this year’s events:<br />
American Chemical Society<br />
http://www.acs.<strong>org</strong><br />
BIOSIS<br />
http://www.biosis.<strong>org</strong><br />
CABI<br />
http://www.cabi.<strong>org</strong><br />
CISTI<br />
(Canada Institute for Scientific<br />
and Technical Information)<br />
http://www.cisti.<strong>org</strong><br />
The Dialog Corporation<br />
http://www.dialog.com<br />
Elsevier Science<br />
http://www.elsevier.nl<br />
IFIS<br />
(International Food Information Service)<br />
http://www.ifis.<strong>org</strong><br />
ISI<br />
(Institute for Scientific Information)<br />
http://www.isinet.com<br />
Nerac, Inc.<br />
http://www.nerac.com<br />
Ovid Technologies<br />
http://www.ovid.com
The acronym HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control<br />
Point) has come into prominence in the last few years in<br />
relationship to the regulations of meat, poultry, seafood,<br />
and juice. The purpose of HACCP is to ensure the<br />
production of safe foods. It was first deployed in the<br />
manufacture of food for the U.S. space program in the<br />
late 1960’s. Development of a food quality assurance<br />
program and the training of FDA personnel in Hazard<br />
Analysis techniques, by the Pillsbury Company’s Research<br />
and Development Department was published in 1973.<br />
HACCP has been endorsed by the National Academy of<br />
Sciences, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (an<br />
international food standard-setting <strong>org</strong>anization), and the<br />
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological<br />
Criteria for Foods ( http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/<br />
nacmcfp.html ).<br />
HACCP regulations for the seafood industry were<br />
introduced in 1995, for meat and poultry industry in 1998<br />
and for the juice industry in January, 2001. The U.S. Food<br />
and Drug Administration now is considering developing<br />
regulations that would establish HACCP as the food safety<br />
standard throughout other areas of the food industry,<br />
including both domestic and imported food products.<br />
HACCP involves seven principles: The following<br />
description of the seven principles is from the FDA<br />
Backgrounder ( http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/<br />
bghaccp.html )<br />
Analyze hazards . Potential hazards associated with a<br />
food and measures to control those hazards are identified.<br />
The hazard could be biological, such as a microbe;<br />
chemical, such as a toxin; or physical, such as ground<br />
glass or metal fragments.<br />
Identify critical control points. These are points in<br />
a food’s production—from its raw state through processing<br />
and shipping to consumption by the consumer—at which<br />
the potential hazard can be controlled or eliminated.<br />
Examples are cooking, cooling, packaging, and metal<br />
detection.<br />
Establish preventive measures with critical limits<br />
for each control point. For a cooked food, for example,<br />
this might include setting the minimum cooking temperature<br />
and time required to ensure the elimination of any harmful<br />
microbes.<br />
HACCP<br />
By Carolyn Speakman<br />
( cspeakman@attbi.com )<br />
Establish procedures to monitor the critical<br />
control points. Such procedures might include<br />
determining how and by whom cooking time and<br />
temperature should be monitored.<br />
Establish corrective actions to be taken when<br />
monitoring shows that a critical limit has not been<br />
met—for example, reprocessing or disposing of food if<br />
the minimum cooking temperature is not met.<br />
Establish procedures to verify that the system is<br />
working properly—for example, testing time-andtemperature<br />
recording devices to verify that a cooking<br />
unit is working properly.<br />
Establish effective recordkeeping to document<br />
the HACCP system. This would include records of<br />
hazards and their control methods, the monitoring of safety<br />
requirements and action taken to correct potential<br />
problems. Each of these principles must be backed by<br />
sound scientific knowledge: for example, published<br />
microbiological studies on time and temperature factors<br />
for controlling foodborne pathogens.<br />
Information about HACCP is readily available on the<br />
web:<br />
The FDA maintains several sites related to HACCP, and<br />
these can be accessed through a HACCP Contents page<br />
( http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/haccp.html ).<br />
UC Davis maintains a Seafood Network information site<br />
( http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/home.htm ) which contains<br />
model HACCP plans and worksheets.<br />
Information on HACCP for meat and poultry is available<br />
through the USDA‘s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s<br />
site Pathogen Reduction/HACCP & HACCP<br />
Implementation ( http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/haccp/<br />
imphaccp.htm )<br />
NAL maintains a USDA/FDA HACCP training program<br />
and resources database at ( http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/<br />
foodborne/haccp/index.shtml ).<br />
The National Center for Food Safety & Technology is<br />
preparing a juice HACCP curriculum and offering Juice<br />
HACCP Training. ( http://www.ncfst.iit.edu/juice/<br />
jhtraining.html )<br />
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br />
Dedicates New Agricultural, Consumer &<br />
Environmental Sciences Library – Part I<br />
By Robert S. (Pat) Allen<br />
(allen2@uiuc.edu )<br />
Imagine a library... No room for public study space.<br />
Poorly heated and ventilated. Books lying on the floor due<br />
to overcrowding on the shelves. Staff located outside the<br />
library due to lack of work space in the library. No room<br />
for expanding telecommunications. Electrical system<br />
tapped out and breaking acceptable codes. Three floors<br />
but no elevator. A large portion of the collection in<br />
temporary remote storage. The list goes on . . .<br />
Well, if you had ever visited the old Agricultural,<br />
Consumer and Environmental Sciences Library at the<br />
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign you do not<br />
have to use your imagination. You can use your memory.<br />
We had to work with all those difficulties and more. The<br />
old Agriculture Library at UIUC was first put into it’s<br />
location in 226 Mumford Hall back in approximately 1927.<br />
It was meant at that time to be a temporary facility. The<br />
library remained in that temporary facility for 74 years. It<br />
is amazing the amount of service that universities can<br />
squeeze out of temporary facilities sometimes.<br />
The Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental<br />
Sciences (ACES) Library at UIUC serves the College of<br />
Food For Thought Vol. 33 No. 1 Page 12<br />
ACES. This college is fairly new in terms of its name. It<br />
had previously existed as the College of Agriculture and<br />
College of Home Economics. These two groups were<br />
merged in 1995 when the College of ACES was formed.<br />
A group of faculty in environmental science was added to<br />
the college roster at that time and the new college was<br />
complete. The new college is composed of the departments<br />
of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Animal<br />
Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Crop Science, Food<br />
Science and Human Nutrition, Human and Community<br />
Development, Natural Resources and Environmental<br />
Sciences, and the graduate division of Nutritional Sciences.<br />
The ACES College is also the home of University of Illinois<br />
Extension, which has university staff members scattered<br />
in all counties across the state.<br />
When the two aforementioned colleges merged into<br />
the ACES College, it was decided that the two libraries<br />
serving those old colleges would merge. The Agriculture<br />
Library and the Home Economics Library became the new<br />
ACES Library. Plans had been ongoing for some time to<br />
build a new library - remember, this was to be a temporary<br />
facility. To give an idea of the length of time that planning<br />
for a new library had been underway, I can remember<br />
delivering blueprints and entertaining prospective donors<br />
way back in 1986 when I was a graduate assistant in the<br />
old Agriculture Library. Carol Boast was the Agriculture<br />
Librarian at that time. During that period, a development
campaign was under way from the Agricultural College to<br />
secure funds to build a new library.<br />
I moved into my current position as ACES Librarian<br />
in the fall of 1997. At that time, 11 million dollars had<br />
been raised from private donors for building the new ACES<br />
Library. One million dollars had been made available from<br />
the state of Illinois for planning. The decision by the state<br />
to provide the remaining 11 million dollars to complete the<br />
building had not been made. It was at times questionable<br />
whether the state would come through with the money.<br />
But, in the winter of 1997 the Illinois Governor made a trip<br />
to UIUC with a big check in hand. It actually was a big<br />
check, maybe 4 feet in length. It was just like the lottery<br />
winners get!<br />
So, the funds for the new ACES Library were in place.<br />
The money was coming half from a group of private donors<br />
and half from the state. Planning was well under way.<br />
The main architects on the job were Woollen, Molzan and<br />
Partners, from Indianapolis. They had previously completed<br />
the new Grainger Engineering Library at UIUC, so they<br />
were a known and respected commodity on campus. Some<br />
of you may have visited the Grainger Library and know of<br />
it’s beauty and functionality. We hoped for similar results<br />
with the new ACES Library.<br />
A lengthy program statement had been completed prior<br />
to hiring the architects, and this detailed all the library and<br />
campus needs for the new building. This building would<br />
be more than just a library. It would also house the ACES<br />
College student computer lab and computer instructional<br />
labs. There would also be a number of “fancy conference<br />
rooms”. It would house the offices responsible for alumni<br />
relations and also the group responsible for hosting<br />
corporate interviews and scholarships for the ACES<br />
College. In addition to all the current ADA type compliance<br />
issues the university wanted, this building was also intended<br />
to be a showplace building that would serve as the visually<br />
striking terminal point for a long expanse of green space<br />
(quadrangle) on campus.<br />
For the next three years there would be many meetings<br />
with architects. A group of faculty and staff from the<br />
ACES College worked with librarians and architects to<br />
fine tune the plans. Various versions of the building were<br />
presented. Construction began and the building was<br />
substantially complete in 2001. Library collections and<br />
services were moved into the new building in the summer<br />
of 2001, and the building was dedicated in October, 2001.<br />
Part II of this article in the next Food For Thought will<br />
show blueprints and photos of the interior of the building,<br />
and the internal workings and space of the new library<br />
will be discussed.<br />
Stay tuned . . .<br />
Newly opened Funk Library of Agricultural,<br />
Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the<br />
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<br />
Photo by David Riecks.<br />
Food For Thought Vol. 33 No. 1 Page 13
BIOTECHNOLOGY COLUMN<br />
By Kevin Adams<br />
( Kadams@esr.cri.nz )<br />
Greetings once again. Just when you thought you had<br />
time to contemplate the next column along comes an e-mail<br />
from the editor asking can I have another one by x date.<br />
Mmm seems this should be a little easier. However as you<br />
all realise the web does not stand still for anyone and there<br />
are always resources to be found.<br />
This issues column is based on the twin themes of “its<br />
amazing what you discover you have bookmarked” and the<br />
fact that I have just finished reading Gary Price and Chris<br />
Sharmen’s excellent book, The Invisible Web.<br />
I am not sure about the rest of you but in the beginning<br />
of my web days I was very diligent in creating folders, and<br />
filing my bookmarks in those folders. Of course in the days<br />
of Netscape 4x (my bias is showing here) you could stick<br />
them in folders and then alphabetise them by hitting a<br />
command. Now however this is gone. But I digress, the point<br />
is that between the e-mails alerts I receive, postings from email<br />
groups I belong to and my own searching of the web I<br />
now have a long list of websites that I have not bookmarked.<br />
Thus when I troll through them trying to find something<br />
else that I know I bookmarked at one time it is always a<br />
surprise to find what it is I have bookmarked. Of course<br />
they are then usually f<strong>org</strong>otten until the next time I do such<br />
a troll. So here are some of these little surprises. As I say<br />
these websites are in no particular category but are very<br />
useful.<br />
A great deal of work in the biotechnology area is being<br />
done in Europe these days and the European Federation<br />
of Biotechnology website at ( http://efbweb.<strong>org</strong>/public/<br />
pubview.htm ) is a good site to begin with in trying to find<br />
information on what is happening in Europe. There are links<br />
to publications, conferences and topics of interest. There is<br />
a list of useful weblinks for both Europe and the world. They<br />
also have a number of sections and task forces that focus<br />
on individual topics.<br />
The issue of transgenic crops has been in the news<br />
recently with the decision of Nature magazine to disavow<br />
the article on contamination of Mexican corn crops. At<br />
Colorado State they have an useful website on this topic<br />
entitled Transgenic Crops: An introduction and Resource<br />
Guide ( http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/<br />
TransgenicCrops/ ) Here you will find a list of familiar topics<br />
with resources and links and a good introduction to the topic.<br />
You can also receive updates to this site by signing up for email<br />
alerts.<br />
Last time I mentioned the Office of the Gene Regulator<br />
in Australia. Another government initiative is Biotechnology<br />
Australia ( http://www.biotechnology.gov.au/ ) This has three<br />
major parts to it, all of which are excellent sources of<br />
information on Australia. There is the Australian<br />
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Biotechnology Advisory Council, a section devoted to the<br />
National Biotechnology Strategy and something which is<br />
relatively new is the Biotechnology Centre of Excellence.<br />
There is also a link to the Australian Biotechnology<br />
Directory which is as its name suggests is the a directory<br />
of institutions and companies undertaking research in the<br />
biotechnology area. One section that it has provided may<br />
be of interest to those seeking resources for school. They<br />
have created a link for biotechnology online school<br />
resources.<br />
There has been a great deal of discussion between<br />
the U.S. and Europe over the issue of biotechnology and<br />
GMO’s in the past year or so. While it is an older resource<br />
than others the website of the European Union (EU) &<br />
the U.S. - The EU-US Biotechnology Consultative<br />
Forum ( http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/us/<br />
biotech/biotech.htm ) which was held in 2000 is a very<br />
useful site to have with regards to the ongoing discussions<br />
between the EU and the U.S. While the forum may have<br />
been in Dec 2000 the website is kept current as this is an<br />
issue that will continue to be ongoing. There is a pdf file<br />
of the forums final report. While it is part of the wider<br />
website kept by the European Union on relations with the<br />
U.S. it is worth visiting for the report.<br />
While websites provided by groups representing<br />
various industry sectors need to be viewed with caution<br />
the International Food Policy Research Institute ( http:/<br />
/www.ifpri.cgiar.<strong>org</strong>/ ) is well worth a look. While<br />
concerned with a wide variety of issues in the food area it<br />
has some very useful publications on biotechnology and<br />
genetically modified foods. Another very useful site in this<br />
vein is that provided by the Biotechnology Industry<br />
<strong>Association</strong> at its Guide to Biotechnology website ( http:/<br />
/www.bio.<strong>org</strong>/er/ ) Here you will find both a pdf version<br />
of the guide and also the guide divided up into various<br />
chapters which can be viewed separately. The directory<br />
is full of very useful explanations of terms that appear in<br />
the biotechnology jargon and useful resources. At present<br />
it is the 2001 issue that is on this website but it appears as<br />
if it is updated every year.<br />
Of course the major world <strong>org</strong>anisations have set up<br />
websites to put forward their points of view. One of these<br />
is the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the U.N. Two<br />
of these are very useful. One is the Biotechnology in<br />
Food and Agriculture website ( http://www.fao.<strong>org</strong>/<br />
biotech/index_glossary.asp ) As with the directory website<br />
I mentioned above it is an searchable glossary of<br />
biotechnology terms. This site also contains the statement<br />
from FAO on biotechnology and a link to FAO documents.<br />
The other site that has been set up is to the Food and<br />
Nutrition Division of FAO’s work on Biotechnology (<br />
http://www.fao.<strong>org</strong>/es/ESN/gm/biotec-e.htm ) This<br />
contains documents relating to the joint consultation expert<br />
process on the safety and nutritional aspects of GM foods.
This again contains mostly historical information however<br />
as we all know this information can be just as important<br />
as that which is up to date. There are reports of the 1996,<br />
2000 and 2001 sessions of this expert consultation<br />
committee. If you want more up to date information from<br />
Codex on biotechnology please look at the Codex<br />
Alimentarius Commission Recent Meeting Reports<br />
website at ( http://www.codexalimentarius.net/<br />
Reports.htm ) there you will find the latest reports from<br />
various committees on biotechnology.<br />
The Food Biotechnology Communications Network<br />
( http://www.foodbiotech.<strong>org</strong>/ ) is a Canadian based<br />
website that states that it “searches out credible, current<br />
and evidence-based information about biotechnology and<br />
food and makes it easily accessible to Canadians....” It is<br />
a searchable website that gathers together information<br />
from a number of other websites. Another government<br />
that has put together a website is the U.K. governments<br />
Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology<br />
Commission at ( http://www.aebc.gov.uk/ ) Like some of<br />
the bodies that I mentioned in my last column this has<br />
been set up to advise the U.K. government on<br />
“biotechnology issues affecting agriculture and the<br />
environment.” They have a number of useful reports on<br />
the website.<br />
MITS Announces<br />
Lastly, as I mentioned at the beginning of the column<br />
I have just finished reading Gary Price and Chris Sharmen’s<br />
excellent book, The Invisible Web. One of the things that<br />
many of the websites I have mentioned have in common<br />
is that a great deal of the information, especially the<br />
glossaries and any of the searchable sections of the website<br />
would not be visible via the search engines we all use.<br />
Another site that this is particularly applicable to is a<br />
section of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology<br />
( http://pewagbiotech.<strong>org</strong>/ ) This website has a very<br />
valuable resource which is a searchable database of the<br />
U.S. states and what legi<strong>sla</strong>tion has either been passed or<br />
is pending in the State Houses. The descriptions of the<br />
bills are very brief but it does give you the state, the no. of<br />
the bill and its title. Also there are various topics assigned<br />
to the bills to reflect what they were principally on. Again<br />
if you were searching for this information you may find<br />
the website but you would not be able to garner much<br />
detail. So look out for these types of resources as they<br />
are invaluable.<br />
Anyway that its for another column. As I stated in my<br />
first one, I am only one person and while I do a lot of<br />
trolling etc. this division is made up of lots of very talented<br />
people. So if you have a resource you would like to<br />
contribute I am only to happy to include it. Till next time,<br />
or alternatively if I see you at SLA.<br />
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Chair-Elect, Pat Allen<br />
( allen2@uiuc.edu )<br />
First things first - my real name is Robert Stanton<br />
Allen. I am an Associate Professor of Library<br />
Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-<br />
Champaign. My position at UIUC is Head of the<br />
Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences<br />
Library (ACES Library). I have been here at UIUC for<br />
a little over 4 years. Prior to that I was an Associate<br />
Professor at Purdue University and was Head of the<br />
Physics Library, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Library,<br />
and the Map Collection. I was at Purdue for<br />
approximately 8 years.<br />
I have both a BS and MS in Geology. I worked for<br />
a number of years as a petroleum geologist in Oklahoma<br />
and southern Illinois and southern Indiana. I earned my<br />
MS in Library and Information Science from the<br />
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I was<br />
employed as a Graduate Assistant in the Agriculture<br />
Library. My first position out of the GSLIS program at<br />
UIUC was at Louisiana State University, where I had<br />
many duties. I mainly worked at the central reference<br />
desk and was liaison to the physical sciences, engineering,<br />
and environmental sciences.<br />
I have been active in SLA for quite some time. I<br />
was President of the Indiana Chapter, Treasurer of the<br />
PAM Division, Chair of the Geography and Map Division,<br />
editor of the GMD Bulletin, and have recently been<br />
becoming active as Director of the FAN Division. I have<br />
really enjoyed being part of the FAN Division, and look<br />
forward to making further contributions.<br />
My current position at UIUC is quite demanding at<br />
times. The ACES Library is the primary library for<br />
serving the Land Grant portion of the University, which<br />
is known as the ACES College. The ACES College is<br />
divided into 7 departments - Agricultural and Consumer<br />
Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Sciences,<br />
Crop Sciences, Food Science and Human Nutrition,<br />
Human and Community Development, and Natural<br />
Resource and Environmental Science. The state<br />
Extension efforts are also part of the ACES College, and<br />
Illinois has a large number of extension professionals<br />
scattered across the state.<br />
I spend most of my spare time with my family - wife<br />
Becky, daughter Tess and son Grant. The kids are aged<br />
6 and 7. I am currently coaching my son's soccer team.<br />
I also try to work in exercise, and am active in sports<br />
and fishing.<br />
2002/2003 FAN Officer Slate and Biographies<br />
Food For Thought Vol. 33 No. 1 Page 16<br />
Secretary , Valerie Estes Perry<br />
( vperry@pop.uky.edu )<br />
Education<br />
-BS in English University of Kentucky 1988<br />
-MS in Library Science University of Kentucky 1994<br />
Current Position<br />
-Public Services Librarian, Agricultural Information<br />
Center, UK since March 1998<br />
-Primary responsibilities include coordinating reference<br />
services, including e-mail requests from website and<br />
instruction for College of Agriculture undergraduate &<br />
graduate students and faculty and staff (including offcampus<br />
personnel located in the county extension<br />
offices).<br />
Professional Activities<br />
- FAN (Vendor Relations Chair last year and assisting<br />
this year, Vendor Update moderator)<br />
-SLA/KY Chapter (Secretary & various committees)<br />
- USAIN (Interest Group Co-confiner, 2001 Conference<br />
Steering Committee, conference speaker & moderator)<br />
- KY Library <strong>Association</strong> (Member Services Chair,<br />
Listserv Co-Manager, Dues Review Subcommittee Chair,<br />
and various committees)<br />
Family<br />
- two adorable children, Stephen and Matthew, who are<br />
already learning the important values of sharing and<br />
diplomacy. My husband, Peter, is Department of<br />
Mathematics Chair at UK. I have no time for hobbies,<br />
unless you count flying a kite, visiting zoos and playing<br />
with Thomas the Tank Engine with my kids....<br />
Director, Sue Schultz<br />
( sue@fb.com )<br />
I currently serves as Director of Library Resources<br />
for the American Farm Bureau Federation, a nonprofit<br />
general membership <strong>org</strong>anization where I have been for<br />
the last 23 years. My responsibilities include reference,<br />
collection maintenance and currently being a solo doing<br />
everything.<br />
My involvement in FAN includes positions as<br />
secretary, director and chairperson of the government<br />
relations, long range planning, bylaws and name change<br />
committees. In 1998, I was honored to receive the<br />
Distinguished Member Award from FAN. I am a graduate<br />
of Rosary College (Dominican University). In addition to<br />
the above I am also the mother of two boys and will be<br />
relocating to Jacksonville, Florida with my husband and<br />
children. Career changes and adventures await us.
Director, Catherine Anne Jeanjean<br />
( cajeanje@lib.ksu.edu )<br />
I am the Life Sciences Librarian at Kansas State<br />
University in Manhattan, Kansas. My current<br />
responsibilities include liaison, bibliographic instruction and<br />
reference services for the Love Science Library and the<br />
departments of Biology, Entomology, Human Nutrition and<br />
Kinesiology. In addition, I undertake collection<br />
development for these departments and the department<br />
of Animal Science. My other interests include assessment<br />
and virtual reference.<br />
I am a recent graduate (May 2000) and obtained this<br />
position right out of library school. I received my MLS<br />
from the University of Western Ontario in London,<br />
Ontario. (This means I get to tell people that I’m from<br />
London but now live in Manhattan.) My two<br />
undergraduate degrees are in Biology and Home<br />
Economics.<br />
Adjusting to life in the US took a little longer than I<br />
had originally anticipated, especially since my immediate<br />
family is still in Canada. (My brother works for the<br />
Toronto International Film Festival.) I had never been to<br />
Kansas before, didn’t know a soul in the state, but I<br />
packed right up and drove down. Apart from being<br />
detained at the border, having my car stolen and dealing<br />
with tornadoes, it has been mostly smooth sailing since<br />
then.<br />
As someone new to librarianship and new to the US,<br />
I have really appreciated the programing, continuing<br />
education and member support offered by library<br />
associations. In addition to SLA, I am an active member<br />
of the Kansas Library <strong>Association</strong> and for the past year<br />
served as the Secretary of the KLA New Members’<br />
Round Table; next year I shall be co-chair.<br />
I am very honoured to have been asked to serve as<br />
a Director for this Division. FAN provides excellent<br />
programing and support to its members and I am excited<br />
to be involved in continuing this tradition.<br />
2002/2003 Nominating Committee<br />
Linda Maddux<br />
( lmaddux@willamette.edu )<br />
Dana E. Smith<br />
( dana.Smith@pioneer.com )<br />
Alice Marksberry<br />
( alice@caer.uky.edu )<br />
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Chair<br />
Anita Ezzo<br />
100 Library<br />
Michigan State University<br />
East Lansing, MI 48824-1048<br />
Tel: 517-353-9184<br />
Fax: 517-432-8050<br />
ezzoa@msu.edu<br />
Chair Elect<br />
Lutishoor Salisbury (Luti)<br />
University of Arkansas <strong>Libraries</strong><br />
Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201<br />
Tel: 501-575-8418<br />
Fax: 501-575-4592<br />
lsalisbu@mail.uark.edu<br />
Past Chair<br />
Carolyn Speakman<br />
National Center for Food Safety &Technology<br />
11T Moffett Campus<br />
6502 S. Archer<br />
Summit, IL 60501<br />
Tel: 708-563-8160<br />
Fax: 708-563-8164<br />
speakman@iit.edu<br />
Secretary<br />
Sharon Fujitani<br />
CA Polytechnic State University<br />
Library Reference Department<br />
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407<br />
Tel: 805-756-1105<br />
Fax: 805-756-1415<br />
sfujitan@calpoly.edu<br />
Treasurer<br />
Mary Louise Pusch<br />
Cargill Inc.<br />
Information Center.<br />
PO Box 5670<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55440-5670<br />
Tel: 952-742-6788<br />
Fax: 952-742-6062<br />
mary-louise_pusch@cargill.com<br />
Director<br />
Kevin Adams<br />
Institute of Environmental Science & Research<br />
27 Creyhe Road<br />
PO Box 29-181<br />
Christchurch, New Zealand<br />
Tel: 64-3-351-6019<br />
Fax: 64-3-351-0010<br />
Kadams@esr.cri.nz<br />
Director<br />
Robert Allen (Pat)<br />
University of Illinois Library<br />
1301 W. Gregory<br />
Mumford Hall MC 710<br />
Urbana, IL 61801<br />
Tel: 217-244-2245<br />
Fax: 217-333-0558<br />
allen2@uiuc.edu<br />
FAN Division Board of Directors/Committees<br />
Bulletin Editor<br />
Heather K Moberly<br />
102 McElroy Hall<br />
Oklahoma State University<br />
Stillwater, OK 74078<br />
Tel: 405-744-6655<br />
Fax: 405-744-5609<br />
moberlh@okstate.edu<br />
Bulletin Ad Manager<br />
Peter A. Sidney<br />
Cargill Inc<br />
Info Crt<br />
Box 5670<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55440-5670<br />
Tel: 952-742-5224<br />
Fax: 952-742-6062<br />
peter_sidney@cargill.com<br />
Archivist<br />
Amy Paster<br />
The Pennsylvania State University<br />
Life Sciences Library<br />
408 Paterno Library<br />
University Park, PA 16802-1811<br />
Tel: 814-876-3708<br />
Fax: 814-863-9684<br />
alp4@psu.edu<br />
Membership/Directory Committee<br />
Anne S. Hurst (Chair)<br />
University of Ge<strong>org</strong>ia <strong>Libraries</strong><br />
Science Library<br />
Athens, GA 30602-7412<br />
Tel: 706-542-0155<br />
Fax: 706-542-7907<br />
ahurst@arches.uga.edu<br />
Catherine Jeanjean<br />
Kansas State University<br />
126 Hale Library<br />
Manhattan, KS 66506-1200<br />
Tel: 785-532-7414<br />
Fax: 785-532-6144<br />
cajeanje@lib.ksu.edu<br />
Fan Web Page Committee<br />
Susan Hocker (Chair)<br />
Brill Science Library<br />
Miami University<br />
Oxford, OH 45056<br />
Tel: 513-529-7206<br />
Fax: 513-529-1736<br />
shocker@lib.muohio.edu<br />
Kevin Adams<br />
Institute of Environmental Science & Research<br />
27 Creyhe Road<br />
PO Box 29-181<br />
Christchurch, New Zealand<br />
Tel: 64-3-351-6019<br />
Fax: 64-3-351-0010<br />
Kadams@esr.cri.nz<br />
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Jean-Philippe Decraene<br />
Food & Agriculture Organ. of the UN<br />
Sales and Marketing Group<br />
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla<br />
00100 Rome Italy<br />
Tel: 39-065705-2689<br />
Fax: 39-065705-3360<br />
JeanPhilippe.Decreane@fao.<strong>org</strong><br />
Duncan McClusky<br />
College of Agric & Environ Sci<br />
Campus at Tifton-Library<br />
PO Box 748<br />
Tifton, GA 31793-0748<br />
Tel: 912-386-3833<br />
Fax: 912-386-7005<br />
mcclusky@tifton.cpes.peachnet.edu<br />
International Relations Committee<br />
Jean-Philippe Decraene<br />
Food & Agriculture Organ. of the UN<br />
Sales and Marketing Group<br />
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla<br />
00100 Rome Italy<br />
Tel: 39-065705-2689<br />
Fax: 39-065705-3360<br />
JeanPhilippe.Decreane@fao.<strong>org</strong><br />
Kevin Adams<br />
Institute of Environmental Science & Research<br />
27 Creyhe Road<br />
PO Box 29-181<br />
Christchurch, New Zealand<br />
Tel: 64-3-351-6019<br />
Fax: 64-3-351-0010<br />
Kadams@esr.cri.nz<br />
Nominating Committee<br />
Linda Maddux<br />
Willamette University<br />
Hatfield Library<br />
900 State Street<br />
Salem, OR 97301-3922<br />
Tel: 503-370-6525<br />
Fax: 503-370-6141<br />
lmaddux@willamette.edu<br />
Alice Marksberry<br />
University of Kentucky<br />
CAER Library<br />
2540 Research Park Drive<br />
Lexington, KY 40511-8410<br />
Tel: 859-257-0308<br />
Fax: 859-257-0302/0220<br />
alice@caer.uky.edu<br />
Dana Smith<br />
Information and Library Resources Group<br />
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.<br />
7300 NW 62nd. Ave. Box 1004<br />
Johnston, IA 50131-9410<br />
Tel: 515-270-4199<br />
Fax: 515-253-2184<br />
Dana.Smith@pioneer.com
Public Relations Committee<br />
Stacey Lazarow<br />
The Iams Company<br />
R&D Information Research Services<br />
PO Box 189<br />
6571 State Route 503 North<br />
Lewisburg, OH 45338<br />
Tel: 937-415-8920<br />
Fax: 937-415-5945<br />
stacey.lazarow@iams.com<br />
Procedures Manual Committee<br />
Pat Wilson (Chair)<br />
University of Kentucky<br />
William T. Young Library<br />
500 South Limestone<br />
Lexington, KY 40506-0456<br />
Tel: 859-257-0500 x2171<br />
Fax: 859-257-9686<br />
pwilson@pop.uky.edu<br />
Carolyn Speakman<br />
National Center for Food Safety & Technology<br />
11T Moffett Campus<br />
6502 South Archer<br />
Summit, IL 60501<br />
Tel: 708-563-8160<br />
Fax: 708-563-8164<br />
speakman@iit.edu<br />
Lutishoor Salisbury (Luti)<br />
University of Arkansas <strong>Libraries</strong><br />
Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201<br />
Tel: 501-575-8418<br />
Fax: 501-575-4592<br />
lsalisbu@mail.uark.edu<br />
Strategic Planning Committee<br />
Maria A. Porta (Chair)<br />
Univ. of Illinois-Urbana<br />
Agriculture Library<br />
1301 W. Gregory Dr.<br />
Urbana, IL 61801-3681<br />
Tel: 217-333-7687<br />
Fax: 217-333-0058<br />
mporta@uiuc.edu<br />
Sharon Schwerzel<br />
Florida State University<br />
Dirac Science Library<br />
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4140<br />
Tel: 850-644-5534<br />
Fax: 850-644-0025<br />
sschwerz@mailer.fsu.edu<br />
Sue Schultz<br />
American Farm Bureau Federation<br />
Public Policy Division<br />
225 Touhy Ave.<br />
Park Ridge, IL 60068-5874<br />
Tel: 847-685-8781<br />
Fax: 847-685-8969<br />
sue@fb.com<br />
FAN Division Board of Directors/Committees<br />
Vendor Relations/Event Management<br />
Kara Pedersen<br />
Farm Bureau Management Corp.<br />
Library<br />
5400 University Avenue<br />
W. Des Moines, IA 50266-5950<br />
Tel: 515-225-5477<br />
Fax: 515-225-5419<br />
kpedersen@ifbf.<strong>org</strong><br />
Valerie Perry<br />
Agricultural Information Center<br />
N24 Agriculture Science Bldg North<br />
University of Kentucky<br />
Lexington, KY 40546-0091<br />
Tel: 859-257-2758<br />
Fax: 859-323-4719<br />
vperry@pop.uky.edu<br />
Discussion List Coordinator<br />
Pat Wilson<br />
University of Kentucky<br />
William T. Young Library<br />
500 South Limestone<br />
Lexington, KY 40506-0456<br />
Tel: 859-257-0500 x2171<br />
Fax: 859-257-9686<br />
pwilson@pop.uky.edu<br />
Bylaws Committee<br />
Richard Wallace (Chair)<br />
A E Staley Manufacturing Co.<br />
Research Library<br />
2200 E. Eldorado Street<br />
Decatur, IL 62521-1578<br />
Tel: 217-421-3283<br />
Fax: 217-421-2519<br />
rewallace@tlna.com<br />
Sue Schultz<br />
American Farm Bureau Federation<br />
Public Policy Division<br />
225 Touhy Avenue<br />
Park Ridge, IL 60068-5874<br />
Tel: 847-685-8781<br />
Fax: 847-685-8969<br />
sue@fb.com<br />
Awards Committee<br />
Carolyn Speakman (Chair)<br />
National Center for Food Safety & Technology<br />
11T Moffett Campus<br />
6502 South Archer<br />
Summit, IL 60501<br />
Tel: 708-563-8160<br />
Fax: 708-563-8164<br />
speakman@iit.edu<br />
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Kevin Adams<br />
Institute of Environmental Science & Research<br />
27 Creyhe Road<br />
PO Box 29-181<br />
Christchurch, New Zealand<br />
Tel: 64-3-351-6019<br />
Fax: 64-3-351-0010<br />
Kadams@esr.cri.nz<br />
Robert Allen (Pat)<br />
Univ. of Illinois Library<br />
1301 West Gregory<br />
Mumford Hall MC 710<br />
Urbana, IL 61801<br />
Tel: 217-244-2245<br />
Fax: 217-333-0558<br />
allen2@uiuc.edu<br />
Amy Paster<br />
The Pennsylvania State University<br />
Life Sciences Library<br />
408 Paterno Library<br />
University Park, PA 16802-1811<br />
Tel: 814-876-3708<br />
Fax: 814-863-9684<br />
alp4@psu.edu<br />
Linda Hanrath<br />
William Wrigley Jr. Co.<br />
Library<br />
410 North Michigan Avenue<br />
Chicago, IL 60611-4211<br />
Tel: 312-645-3921<br />
Fax: 312-644-0081<br />
lhanrath@wrigley.com<br />
Los Angeles Conference Committee<br />
Margaret Merrill<br />
Virginia Tech University<br />
University <strong>Libraries</strong><br />
PO Box 90001<br />
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001<br />
Tel: 540-231-2322<br />
Fax: 540-231-7808<br />
mmerrill@vt.edu
FFT Publication Deadlines:<br />
Vol 33 No 2 (Post-Conference)<br />
Jul 15 2002<br />
Vol 33 No 3 (Fall)<br />
Oct 15 2002<br />
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Dec 15 2002<br />
Vol 34 No 1 (Pre-Conference)<br />
Apr 15 2003<br />
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