People and Libraries in the News

Margaret Cirillo, Medical Librarian at The Kingston Hospital, is now fulltime and she is busy meeting needs of students and residents as well as hospital staff.

Dr. Robert Yeager Health Center (Rockland County) is now staffed by Librarian, Miriam Gurowsky, as well as longtime assistant David Stein.

Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson plans to refurbish its library under the care of Community Health staffer, Lori Brave-Valentin and she was welcomed by hospital librarians at a recent meeting.

Mary Jo Russell is responsible for the appearance of a full page feature "New (York) Renovations" reporting changes at four of the region's hospital libraries in the January issue of MLA's National Network Newsletter.

Mount Saint Mary College Cultural Center and Curtin Memorial Library proudly present acclaimed author Larry Beinhart. Mr. Beinhart is best known for his book American Hero that became the 1997 film Wag the Dog. In his newest publication, The Librarian, Beinhart gives us what the New York Times called "cynical, barely fictionalized political reporting." The event will take place on Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 4 p.m. in the Villa Library. Free admission. Refreshments will be served. For further information, please call 845-569-3179.

Jamie Kennelley, a Master's degree candidate at Long Island University, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, will be interning at the Lougheed Library, St. Thomas Aquinas College in spring 2005. Jamie will be providing reference service, assisting library staff with collection analysis, and helping to enhance the library’s web page.

The librarians at St. Thomas Aquinas College will be reaching out to students in a new way. On four occasions in February and March, 2005, Reference librarians will be stationed in the student dining hall from 12:30-2:30 p.m. to answer reference questions, using electronic information resources, and to assist students with online research. The librarians will be using wireless laptop computers to provide this new service.

An article by Cheryl Felmlee, Director of Library Services, Alliance Theological Seminary appeared in the Vol. 6 (2) 2004 issue of the Journal of Religious & Theological Information. The article is “Women Directors in Small Theological Libraries: a Case Study.”

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