Molly White
mwhite@mail.utexas.edu

Christina Birdie, India Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India was honored in New York as a recipient of SLA's Diversity Leadership Development Award for the year 2003. This award is for members from multicultural backgrounds who display excellent leadership abilities in the profession and demonstrate a willingness to develop and strive for leadership opportunities within the Association. Christina has been elected as one of the Directors of the Asian Chapter. In other news, Christina's library is one of the participants in the "Million Book Project" which is an international collaborative digital library project between Carnegie Mellon University and libraries in India to scan and digitize 1 million book from every field that are either in public domain or out of print.

Ruth Kneale, National Solar Observatory, has been invited to speak about the image of librarians to the Libraries, Archives, and Popular Culture Research Area of the Popular Culture Association at their 2004 Annual Meeting. Ruth will also present the next phase of image research year in Nashville at the annual SLA meeting. And, while not making any presentations, she'll be stalking the rooms at Internet Librarian in Monterey, November, 3-5, 2003, shoring up the idea that librarians can be webmasters, too.

Dorothy McGarry received the ALA Map and Geography Roundtable Honors Award for 2003 at the ALA conference in Toronto in June.

Kris Fowler, has assumed the position of Collections Coordinator for Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Minnesota Library, in addition to her continuing responsibility as the Mathematics Librarian.

Laurel Kristick has been recently promoted to Associate Professor and granted indefinite tenure at Oregon State University.

James Manasco has a new position. As of July 1, he is the Coordinator of Liaison Activities for the Kornhauser Health Sciences Library at the University of Louisville. "I have no intentions of leaving PAM, even though I seem to keep moving further and further away from the subject areas. Too much fun!" James is the current chair of the Sci-Tech Division.

Antoinette Beiser reported on grants to the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. She has received grants totaling $4,600 from the Southwestern Foundation for Education and Historical Preservation and from the Raymond Educational foundation to be used for the preservation of historical observation materials. Included are log books documenting research at the Observatory from 1894 through the 1950s, copybooks dating from the late 1800s, and a small collection of rare books that belonged to Percival Lowell. the items will be chemically stabilized, interleaved with acid-free paper, and stored in acid-free storage containers. The earliest logbooks will be digitized and available for searching at a href="http://www.lowell.edu/Research/library.

Peggy Dominy presented a poster at the Chemistry Division's poster session at the June SLA meeting in New York. "It's Alive!" Using a Traveling Exhibition to Reinvigorate the Relationship between the Library, the Community, the Sciences, and the Humanities" discussed a successful effort of librarians at Drexel University's Hagerty Library to secure the traveling exhibition Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. The librarians used the project to market the library by soliciting likely participants and contributors, forging relationships with area scholars, representing the library at a variety of on and off-site events, thereby reaffirming and expanding the library's role as a center for social and intellectual activity. Peggy co-presented with Jennifer Lee Baldwin.

Dana Roth notes that he presented at the IATUL meeting at Linda Hall Library in the summer of 2002 "Differential Pricing and Exchange Rate Profits." The full text is available at http://caltechlib.library.caltech.edu/archive/00000044/.