Georgia Tech Library Congratulations! Give From the Heart

Georgia Tech Library
Staff Newsletter
Issue 39 | Oct 2004
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the following staff members who were recognized at the
Staff Training Awards Program, Office of Organizational Development, on
September 15, 2004. The completion of the certificate programs represents a
good deal of work, beyond their normal job duties, on each individual’s part.
Office Professional Certificate (OPC)
The Office Professional Certificate Program is designed to develop the specific
competencies for a successful Office Professional. This program broadens
communication skills for front line professionals; focuses on essential
interpersonal skills that are necessary to be successful in the workplace; and
includes advanced level training in managing priorities and working with
others.
The following staff members were awarded the Office Professional Certificate: Gail
Ajayi, Jacqueline Boyd, Joyce Craft, Lucy Grosko, Felecia Henderson, Stephanie Morris,
Windy Scott, and Anna-Marie Soper-O’Rourke.
Supervisory Development Certificate (SDC)
This program focuses on increasing supervisory confidence. Supervisory
concepts and practical dilemmas are discussed during the program. The
participants are prospective or entry to mid-level supervisors at Georgia Tech.
Please congratulate: Darius Cobbs, Carol Feagan, Felecia Henderson, Richard
Holland, Cheryl Parker, and Patty Phipps.
Management Development Certificate
This program focuses on broadening knowledge and skills essential to
successful management and leadership. This program is (cont'd on page 5)
Your Reporters
Administration
KATHY TOMAJKO
Architecture
KEVIN QUICK
Archives
KIRK HENDERSON
Circulation
RICHARD HOLLAND
ICM
KAREN MANNING
Information Delivery
GLENNA BARNEY
Information Procurement
JEANNIE DOWNEY
Information Services
MARY AXFORD
LWC
TONY GILMER
OCTOBER Birthdays
OCTOBER 5
Vincent Thorpe
OCTOBER 12
Beth Thomas
OCTOBER 27
Heather Chritton
OCTOBER 30
Andrew Dietz
Give From the Heart
The Library’s 2005 Charitable Campaign was kicked off
on Friday, September 24, with light refreshments and a
short presentation by representatives from United
Way. You should have received your pledge packet by
Monday, September 27.
If you have any questions about the campaign or your
pledge materials, please contact either Jackie Boyd
(Information Procurement) or Patty Phipps (ICM).
Please give your completed pledge cards to Jackie or
Patty no later than Friday, November 12.
“Make a World of Difference — Give from the Heart”
Mailroom
JAMIL HOLLOWAY
Security
GREGORY CRAWFORD
Special Formats
& Maps
VINCENT THORPE
Systems
BETH THOMAS

Administration
The 2003-04 Library Department and Division annual reports are available on the Library intranet.
You should be able to access them at: http://intranet.library.gatech.edu/info/03_04.htm. Please
contact Kathy Tomajko if you have any questions.
Digital Initiatives
Please welcome Karen Smith to the Digital Initiatives Department and the Library. Karen worked at
IPST from 1995 until the end of August cataloging and creating metadata and working with the IPST
digital collections among other duties. She also spent two years before that with SOLINET working
on mass conversion of card catalogs to MARC records. We are happy to have Karen here to
contribute to our digital programs. Please look for Karen's photograph in next month's conneXus.
Information Services
Brian Matthews has been hired for the Distance Learning position and will start in November. Watch
conneXus for more information about him.
Special Formats & Maps
Alicia Dawn Sibley, oldest granddaughter of Cathe Cannon, has been selected as “The Student Most
Likely to Succeed” in the senior class of Williams S. Hutchings Career High School, Macon, Georgia.
Jenita Billups has departed the Library for a position at AirTran Airways. Jenita’s last day at the
library was September 15, 2004. Congratulations on her career move.
Congratulations to Joyce Craft, who received the OPC (Office of Professional Certificate) award on
September 15. 2004. Way to go, Joyce!
Vincent Thorpe will be celebrating his special day October 5, 2004. Join our department in wishing
him a Happy Birthday!
Systems
Over the next couple of weeks, you may notice a few changes on the Library Intranet (http://
intranet.library.gatech.edu). These are the result of a new database implementation that runs the
intranet and are intended to make the intranet more useful and customizable.
The organization of content and navigation are pretty much the same so you shouldn’t have any
problems locating information, but some of the file names have changed and as a result, bookmarks
may become outdated or break altogether.
In the coming months, we will be working on reorganizing the content and reworking the
navigation. We will also be adding new applications that will enhance the day-to-day business of
the Library. Please bear with us as the Intranet evolves into a more useful tool.
- Ross Singer & Heather Chritton

New Faces: Crystal Renfro...
Please welcome Crystal Renfro to the Library as an
Information Services Librarian. Crystal is a new graduate from
Southern Connecticut State University’s MLS program. She is
a career change librarian. Prior to becoming a librarian, she
was an Associate Actuary and provided quality assurance on
the mathematical calculations of life insurance plans. In her
last position, she managed a group of mathematicians who
helped verify the accuracy of computer programs created to
calculate premiums, cash values, and other mathematical
values on new life insurance plans. Crystal has a second
Master’s Degree in Actuarial Science from Georgia State
University.
Crystal has a long time love of the work librarians do, and in
fact, worked in her high school library throughout her time
there, as well as working for a Library for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped in college. She just completed an
internship at the University of Connecticut’s Health Sciences
Library. She is excited to be returning to the world of the librarian and feels that academia suits her personality
particularly well. She will be the subject librarian for ISYE and Mathematics.
Crystal and her two bichon frise dogs have settled into a lovely home in Lawrenceville. Joy (12 years) and McGyver
(11 years) are particularly enjoying their new fenced-in back yard. McGyver is a rescue that Crystal adopted from a
nationwide Bichon Rescue Organization called Small Paws. (www.smallpawsrescue.org). Crystal has been an
active foster parent of several bichons with this organization over the past several years and expects to be
receiving a new foster dog soon.
In addition to her involvement with bichons, Crystal has a number of other hobbies including ballroom dancing,
scrapbooking, weight lifting and of course, reading. She just learned how to swim this past winter and looks
forward to finding an indoor pool near her home to keep up her practice.
and Ray Bedner
Please welcome to the Information Services Department Ray
Bedner, who joins the GT Library after several years at the William
R. Haselton Library of the Institute of Paper Science and
Technology. His previous library service includes the reserve unit
at Emory University’s Candler Library, as well as research
assistance at the Pathology Education and Research Foundation,
based at the University of Pittsburgh.
Originally from Western Pennsylvania, Ray grew up within a short
drive of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, and as a result, caught
the architecture appreciation “bug” early on. He continues to
enjoy visiting noteworthy structures, and seeks them out
wherever his travels take him. His best-loved favorite to date:
SOM/Chicago’s brutalist 1965 Mauna Kea Beach Hotel.

Staff Profile: Joey Fones
Position: Library Assistant
Years at Georgia Tech: One.
Education/Previous Positions: I formerly worked as a
Library Assistant of ILL at Auburn university for 2 and a
half years while I went to school part time, majoring in
History (I grew up next door to the Chickamauga
Battlefield, so it was almost destined). After a year off
from school, I am back to taking classes at Georgia
Perimeter College.
Favorite aspect of job: Interaction with the customers.
They ensure that no two days are ever the same.
Hometown: Chattanooga, TN
Hobbies: Reading and cooking. I also love baseball,
SEC football, running, and hiking/backpacking. I don’t
get to spend as much time outdoors as I used to, but
its still my favorite hobby.
Joey Fones and Alison Faupel, on the bench at
the Atlanta Botanical Garden where they got
engaged.
Personal: I just got married to Alison Faupel, an Emory graduate student, in August. We are closing on our
first house October 1 st , and we like to blame all of this on our dog Taj (as in the musician Taj Mahal), a 5 year
old retired racing Greyhound. We got him in April, and that’s when the talk of the house really got serious
(we suddenly felt cramped in a 550 square foot apartment).
People may be surprised to know...That most days I drink 2-3 pots of coffee, and still manage to get to
sleep most nights by 10 (I’m such an old man).
Good books you’ve recently read: Life of Pi, by Yann Martell; Garden of Eden by E. Hemingway; Dress Your
Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris. I would highly recommend all three.
Favorite recent music: I’ve been a big fan of Damien Rice since I heard him on NPR about 18 months ago. I
also have been listening to a lot of easy going blues like Keb’ Mo, the ultimate coffee shop bluesman Chris
Smither, and of course Taj Mahal.

Fond Farewells
Jenita Billups
Jeannette Landers
Douglas King
Book Club
News
The Library Book
Club will meet
next on
Wednesday,
October 20,
2004 from noon
to 1pm in the
Wilby Room.
We’ll be
discussing Toni
Morrison’s Song
of Solomon, “a
powerful,
sensual, and
poetic
exploration of
four
generations of a
family
mistakenly
named Dead.“
—Amazon
New Offering From Digital Initiatives
The Digital Initiatives, Systems, and Archives
Departments worked together to create the online
presentation of Edward Emerson Barnard’s
Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky
Way. This renowned 19 th and early 20 th century
astronomer specialized in wide-field astronomical
photography. The two-volume book includes 50 of his
photographs of the Milky Way, focusing specifically on
349 dark objects. Each dark object is cataloged and
notated extensively in this publication. Each
photograph has a corresponding chart mapping out
the dark and light objects, a table of its relevant
scientific data and descriptive text. Our project took
the photograph and the chart and combined them to
make a new image that literally maps the sky. This site
presents all these components with their
corresponding Barnard photograph with the added
benefit of a searchable database as well as user guides,
histories and background information.
Please take a look;
we hope you like
it!
www.library.gatech.-
edu/barnard
Library Facts
There are over 117,000
libraries in the United
States.
The Library of Congress is
the largest in the country
with over 28,000,000
volumes.
Reference librarians in
U. S. libraries answer
about 7,000,000
questions weekly.
Federal spending on
libraries is about 54 cents
per person annually.
95% of public libraries in
the U. S. provide internet
access to patrons.
Find out more about
America’s libraries at the
web site of the American
Library Association.
www.ala.org
(Thanks to Kathy Tomajko
and Purdue University’s
Technical Information
Service newsletter for
providing these facts).
Congratulations,
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designed for mid- to
higher-level managers at
Georgia Tech. Susan
Coleman, Catherine
Jannik, and Estella
Richardson were
awarded the
Management
Development Certificate.