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Selection, and Acquisition" at the ALA conference
in June and was appointed to a two-year term on
the Program Planning Committee of the Library
Information and Technology Association. His new
book, Implementing the Automated Library System,
was released by Oryx Press in December 1988.
He also published an article entitled "The Education
of Librarians in an Age of Information Technology"
in Journal of Library Administration 9 (no.4
1988):77-87....Dr. KENNETH FERSTL attended
Advisory Board meeting for RQ, the Reference and
Adult Services Division's official publication, at the
ALA conference in June. He also co-chaired
sessions of the 1989 TLA Conference Program
Committee at Annual Assembly in Austin in July, as
well as monthly meeting of the Committee during
the fall. He presented workshops on LC-MARC
Format for the South Texas Ubrary System in
Harlingen in May and in Corpus Christi in
November. In August he presented an in-service
workshop on ALA Filing Rules for librarians of the
Piano Independent School District. He also
presented workshops on Collection/Development/
Evaluation/Maintenance for the Northeast Texas
Library System at Whitewright Public Library on
October 18 and at the Tyler Public Library on
October 19. November 17-19 he attended the
conference on Classification Theory in the
Computer Age in SUNY-Albany .....Dr. NORMAN
HOWDEN presented a program on the Use of
Lotus 1-2-3 Templates in Libraries at the ALA
conference in New Orleans in June. He attended
the North Texas Online User Group meeting in
August and was appointed vice-chair of the Library
Microcomputer Template Interest Group of the
Library and Information Technology
Association .....Dr. BARBARA STEIN chaired
meeting of the Building and Equipment Section,
School Library Media Facilities Committee, Library
Administration and Management Association, at the
ALA conference in New Orleans in June. In July,
she chaired the TLA Scholarship and Research
Committee meeting at Annual Assembly in Austin.
She was a panel presenter for the program entitled
"Creating Enthusiastic Library Users" at the TLA
District 5 meeting in Mesquite in September .....Dr.
HERMAN TOTTEN gave a presentation entitled
"Accreditation vs. Certification: Which Will It Be in
the 1990's?" at the Special Libraries Association
annual conference in Denver in June, where he
also hosted the UNT alumni party held at the
conference. He chaired all sessions of ALA's
Committee on Accreditation at the ALA conference
in June and was appointed for a second year as
chair of the Committee, which accredits master's
degree programs in library education. In July, Dr.
Totten defended the American Library Association,
Committee on Accreditation application for continual
recognition at the Council of Post-Secondary
Accreditation in Washington, D.C. He presentedprograms on professional ethics to the North
Richland Hills Public Library staff in May and at the
October meeting of the TLA District 7 meeting in
Wichita Falls in October.
CLEVELAND
In August, 1988, Dr. Ana D. Cleveland joined the
SLIS faculty. Dr. Cleveland is an internationally
recognized educator in the field of health sciences
librarianship and is a certified medical librarian.
Under her leadership SLIS has placed an increased
emphasis on Biomedical Information and the School
intends to become a center of excellence in this
area.
She is not new to the Texas scene, having
served for the past eleven years with the faculty at
Texas Woman's University. She already has
numerous ex-students in library positions all over
the state and elsewhere.
Dr. Cleveland holds a B.S. degree in
mathematics from The University of Texas at
Austin, an M.S. in health sciences librarianship, and
a Ph.D. in information science from Case Western
Reserve University. Her dissertation was titled
"The Effect of Coding in Information Retrieval (A
Study of Two Searching Strategies)." The study
dealt with computer coding systems and their
relationships to indexing and searching in online
systems.
Her publications include books, chapters in
books, articles and conference proceedings.
Especially noteworthy is the co-authored
Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting (2nd edition
in press) which is being used by library schools
across the country. Other areas of publication
include information retrieval, microcomputers in
schools of library and information science, and
curriculum models for the training of librarians
serving the Spanish speaking.
Dr. Cleveland has given over forty presentations
and workshops in the United States, Mexico,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, and Senegal,
Africa. These workshops covered such areas as
legal and medical information services in public
libraries, microcomputers in the information science
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