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informed Departments 03 Letters 04 Letter from FIAA President 28 Class Notes 31 Donor Appreciation 32 In Memoriam alumni news 05 Alumni Profile 06 Alumni Activities 34 Spring Reunion Faculty news 08 Events 10 Grants & Awards 12 Staffing 14 Faculty Profile 16 Faculty Research Roundup Student news 20 Events 22 Awards & Internships 25 Student Profile Feature 26 Spotlight on Institutes 2 informed | autumn 2010 14 26 Informed magazine no. 62, autumn 2010 Publications Mail Registration No. 1780182 ISSN 1913-696X Informed (Print) ISSN 1913-6978 Informed (Online) editorial Board: Judy Dunn Kathleen O’Brien Judy Donnelly ’87 editor: Kathleen O’Brien associate editor: Judy Donnelly ’87 Designer: Michael Fedecky Design cover Photo: Adeela Ahmad 10 A special thank you to the following contributors: Adeela Ahmad Jeannie An ’99 Professor Emerita Margaret Cockshutt ’49, ’64 Bisa Lovric Dean Seamus Ross Kim Silk ’98 Lina Wang Professor Emerita Nancy Williamson ’50, ’64 20
Your Letters EdiTor’s NoTE Nearly a dozen of you wrote in to express support of our moving the alumni publication online. Thank you for agreeing with our efforts to be environmentally friendly and save printing and mailing costs. If you prefer to receive the magazine in the mail, please let me know and we’ll be happy to send a colour photocopy. To the right is a lovely letter from an alumna with fascinating recollections of life at the library school in the 1940s. We love hearing about your experiences, so please write in with your stories. Kathleen o’Brien Editor Letters, comments, & address updates can be sent to: Kathleen O’Brien, Editor, Informed Magazine Faculty of Information, University of Toronto 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G6 TEL: 416.978.7184 EMAIL: kathleen.obrien@utoronto.ca www.ischool.utoronto.ca Dear Editor: Thank you so much for the print copy of Informed, which arrived a short time ago. While I am fascinated by the contemporary thrust reflected in the publication, I must admit to not understanding most of it: 2009 is a very different world from that of 1943. I was sixteen when I completed Grade 13. Disturbingly, I discovered that higher education was not available before the age of eighteen. Therefore I took a one-year business course which I disliked intensely so decided to look for another way of filling in the time remaining before reaching the elusive eighteenth birthday. There was a job available in the local public library which I was fortunate to get, and in no time I was “hooked.” A year later I discovered the existence of the Library School at the University of Toronto. Two courses were offered: after obtaining a bachelor degree, a post graduate course which led to a degree was given; and a diploma course, for suitable high school graduates who had some library experience and a recommendation from a qualified librarian. I was accepted and left my northern mining town of Timmins and headed for the BIG CITY. It was September 1942, there were nineteen of us in the class: seventeen studying for the degree, two for the diploma! We all took the same classes led by excellent profs: Winifred Barnstead was principal, Bertha Bassam taught cataloguing, Lillian Smith taught children’s literature and book collections. There were others, equally proficient, who were involved. One interesting class taught us how to write “library hand” so that the catalogue cards could be read – computers were unheard of and typewriters were at a premium. Degreed persons graduated, those who received diplomas went back to where they came from. I returned to Timmins for one year, then accepted work in Toronto. Marriage and motherhood came later but I was involved in short term projects along the way as well as being registered in U of T Extension. Ultimately, I achieved a BA and a BLSc, which led me into more interesting situations. Finally, I retired in 1987. If you have managed to get through this [letter], it will give you some idea of the strides which the profession had made over one lifetime. Although I am not currently involved in areas now beyond me, I am proud to have been part of the continuum which has brought it to the present day. Gwenville Foster Renfrew, Ontario informed | autumn 2010 3
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