New Year activites

With the new year we have several responsibilities that have produced new or returning individuals to help us pursue specific strategies or activities.  These individuals are working as temp SPA’s or students.  Their contributions are significant so please join me in welcoming them to our organization.  They are:

Andrea Cole has returned to SCUA to work on the processing of the Coble collection, which has now been moved to the renovated third floor.  This is an important collection of Howard Coble’s papers from his first years in office and will be joined at some point by his remaining papers once he leaves office.

Cynthia Wyrick has started part-time up in the administrative offices to support development activities with Linda Burr and help prepare for the next upcoming university wide fundraising campaign.  She will be working with donor information to identify and communicate with donors for solicitation purposes as well as cultivating potential opportunities for future donation activities.

Kristen Ross has been selected to work on the institutional repository NC DOCKS for promoting, soliciting and uploading information required to maintain and update our collection of university authored publications.  This new activity is a result of recommendations from the task force looking at the future of NC DOCKS.   She is an LIS student and will be reporting to Stephen Dew.

In the News, on the News or being the News

Our own Steve Cramer was featured this week on Fox 8, check it out!

http://www.myfox8.com/videobeta/?watchId=443c7f2e-5f75-458e-9f31-54003fef07c8

Third Diversity Residency position posted

The search for the third Diversity Resident has begun with the forming of the committee and the posting of the position on the UNCG website:  http://provost.uncg.edu/Academic/EPA_Personnel/JobLists/DetailPage.asp?s='3130'

This important position has gained momentum and support from all of your efforts and due to the success of our first two residents, Jason Alston and LaTesha Velez.  The search committee for this search has meet initially to review and tweak the position description and consists of:
Kathy Bradshaw - chair
Anna Craft
Erin Lawrimore
Danny Nanez
LaTesha Velez
Cathy Rothermel
Gerald Holmes (ex officio)
Mike Crumpton (ex officio)

The plan is to have a third resident ready to start this summer as LaTesha finishes her term.  Thanks for all of your efforts to this important program.

For more information regarding the University Libraries Diversity Initiatives including information about the first two residents, please see:  http://library.uncg.edu/info/diversity/

Irene Parsons

Irene Parsons, who graduated from Women's College in 1941, passed away last year and her planned gift to the Betty H. Carter Women Verterns Historical Project will support this project for years to come.  At the time of her death, this gift was valued at $53,876 and will produce approximately $2000 annually to use toward the Women Veterans Historical Project work and activities.

For more information about Ms. Parsons and her gift, see
http://uncgfol.blogspot.com/2009/10/irene-parsons-creates-endowed-fund-to.html