Library News

Library Co-hosts 3rd Faculty Author Reception

Thirty-six faculty members were recently honored at the 3rd Annual University of Texas at Dallas Faculty Author Reception.

The honorees were recognized for published and creative works from the past year.

The recognized faculty included UT Dallas President David E. Daniel, who published Waste Containment Facilities: Guidance for Construction Quality Assurance and Construction Quality Control of Liner and Cover Systems with Robert M. Koerner.

More than 100 faculty members, McDermott Library staff and guests attended the reception in the McDermott Suite on the fourth level of the library. The honored faculty were greeted by special gallery of framed mini-posters of themselves with their published work.

The reception is sponsored by Executive Vice President and Provost Hobson Wildenthal and Dean of Libraries Larry D. Sall.

“In three short years we have seen this program grow in spirit and participation on the part of our faculty,” said Dr. Sall. “McDermott Library is pleased to be a part of this proud new tradition at UT Dallas.”

In addition, as part of the library’s “Achieving Tenure: Celebrating Books” program, faculty members who have been redesignated from assistant professor without tenure to associate professor with tenure have the opportunity to select a book that has been meaningful to them, either professionally or personally, to be added to the library collection.

The library identifies the selection with a bookplate noting the faculty member and the year that member achieved tenure.

Professor Shelley Lane with her poster

Professor Dave Edmunds and John Wayne

Chess Instructor Alexey Root

John Hansen (left), head of the Electrical Engineering Department,
newly-tenured faculty member Hlaing Minn (center) ,
and Dean of Libraries Larry D. Sall

Social Network "Facebook" added

McDermott Library has added the social networking site "Facebook" as one of the many methods for patrons to communicate with with staff. Patrons merely need to establish a free Facebook account at www.facebook.com.

Oct. 30, 2008 Library Lecture Cancelled

UTD Professor Diandra Leslie-Pelecky's lecture
"NASCAR: The Science of Speed"
has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for the Spring 2009 semester.

Special Collections Department
receives Conservation Bookshelf award

Special Collections staff gather around new conservation materials
awarded to the department form ILMS Connecting
to Collections Bookshelf - Carole Thomas, Paul Oelkrug, Patrizia
Nava, Erin Powell, and Thomas Allen.

Treasured objects and artifacts held by McDermott Library's Special Collections Department will be preserved for future generations with help from the IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, a core set of conservation books, DVDs, and online resources donated by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the primary source of federal funding of the nation's museums and libraries. IMLS and its cooperator, the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), will award a total of 3,000 free sets of the IMLS Bookshelf by the end of 2009.

Paul Oelkrug, Coordinator for Special Collections, said the department is being awarded this set of resources based on an application describing the needs and plans for care of its collections. The department has three primary collections - The History of Aviation Collection, the Wineburgh Philatelic Research Library, and the Belsterling Botanical Collection. The IMLS Bookshelf focuses on collections typically found in history or art museums and in libraries' special collections. It addresses such topics as the philosophy and ethics of collecting, collections management and planning, emergency preparedness, and culturally specific conservation issues.

The IMLS Bookshelf is a crucial component of Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action, a conservation initiative that the Institute launched in 2006. IMLS began the initiative in response to a 2005 study by Heritage Preservation documenting the dire state of the nation's collections. The multi-faceted, multi-year initiative aims to answer the needs of America's collections.

IMLS information is available at www.imls.gov.