Library Staff News

Access Services staff members Doris Breen and Marty Yutsey opted for the 1997 Early Retirement Incentive Program but continued to provide transition support through the end of April 1998. We're grateful for their many years of capable and dedicated service to the library and to the university. We wish them the best in retirement.

Jean Cardinale has joined the Dodd Research Center staff as part-time facilities coordinator. Formerly, she was office manager for the Farmington River Watershed Association, where she was responsible for planning meetings and coordinating a wide variety of public programs.

Katherine Fuller is the new administrative services specialist in Research & Information Services. Ms. Fuller has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Keene State College. Formerly, she was a department supervisor at Barnes & Noble, Enfield, and receptionist for Business Quarters in Hartford. She has worked as a volunteer at the Noah Webster House and at the Wadsworth Atheneum Auerbach Art Library, and as a researcher at the Peterborough Historical Society (NH) and the Historical Society of Cheshire County (NH).

Don Gilstrap will join the staff of the Jeremy Richard Library in Stamford in mid-June as the reference/CITI liaison librarian. Mr. Gilstrap comes to UConn with many years of experience in technology and its applications. Most recently, he has been an instruction/reference librarian at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, where he taught library instruction in their electronic classroom and team-taught a credit course in Information Research Strategies.

Nancy Romanello is the new access services assistant/student supervisor at the Jeremy Richard Library in Stamford. She has assumed the duties formerly performed by retiree angela Yorwerth. Ms. Romanello comes to the library from the Fairfield University Library, where she was interlibrary loan supervisor.

Tracey Rudnick, currently music librarian at Southwest Texas State University, will join the Cookson Music Library staff in June as the new music librarian/liaison to Dramatic Arts. She will succeed Dorothy Bognar, who retired after 30 years of service to the university. Ms. Rudnick 'has a Master of Library and Information Science degree and a Master of Musicology degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA degree in Music from the University of California at Davis. She has worked as a reference librarian, a music cataloger, and as a project manager for web page development. At South-west Texas State University's Music Library, she has been responsible for reference, instruction, outreach, collection development, adrninistration of the library and management of the Music Department microcomputer lab.

Astrid Terman is the new circulation system applications librarian in Acess Services. Ms. Terman has a BA in history from City College in New York and an MLS from Queens College, NY. She has worked as a reference librarian in a variety of academic and public libraries and as a program analyst and systems specialist for Aetna. Most recently she was employed by the ECSU library, where she she worked in circulation and interlibrary loan, and created web pages. She will be a member of the team charged to procure and implement a new integrated library system.

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