People: May 2005 Archives

As another academic year ends it's time to appreciate and praise the work of the hundreds of student assistants who work for us in all of our libraries and make it possible to do everything we need to do to serve our Temple community.

There are students working in our libraries every hour we're open. In the case of many of the branch libraries student assistants keep the libraries open on evenings and weekends. In Paley Library students work in every department. They performs tasks as varied as answering phones during staff lunch hours; delivering important documents to the Provost's Office; delivering mail; helping ship items going to the bindery; staffing the help desk and installing software and hardware in the Systems and Technology department; working in the current periodicals,government documents, and micromaterials unit, including staffing the ground floor desk, processing government documents, and refiling micromaterials. With our special collections, including rare books and Urban Archives, students help with many projects to make these collections accessible to our users. In the Access Services areas of Paley - circulation/reserve, interlibrary loans, and the stacks - student assistants make it possible for us to offer such critical services as e-reserves, and PALCI E-ZBorrow, activities where we rely heavily on students to do processing and scanning. In the stacks, students shelve thousands of books a week and are involved in year-round shifting projects. In interlibrary loans, students are processing and filling requests and wrapping hundreds of books a day to be shipped to libraries all over the country.

Thank you to all our student assistants. We couldn't do it without you.

--Penelope Myers

Staff Recognition Awards were presented to three library staff members on May 24th during a special Temple Libraries luncheon hosted by Larry Alford, Vice Provost for Libraries.

Award recipients (from left to right) were Royce Sargeant, Assistant Director of the Health Sciences Center Libraries; William H. Stout, supervisor of the lending side of Paley Library's Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan unit; and Ethel Fiderer, Assistant Cataloger in the Law Library.

The entire Library Staff congratulates all 2005 graduates, especially our own Library Student Assistants. We all wish them well in finding jobs and even more for a full and happy life! The list is long; and I hope complete. These Student Assistants have helped to a great degree the successful and smooth operation of the entire library system.
We thank them again! And we will miss them!

From Access Services:

Interlibrary Loan: Levi Obonyo, PhD -- Mass Communication

All these are getting their Bachelor's degrees:

Circulation/Reserve:
Mabana Bamba--Journalism/PR/Advertising
Jessica Joh--Art History
Lindsay Keating--English

Interlibrary Loan:
Robert Baker--American Studies
Patrick McDonald--French/Spanish

Stacks:
Jeff Cafaro--Film and Media Arts
Kristin Kelly--Film and Media Arts
Katherine Westbrook--Broadcasting Telecommunications Mass Media
Stefanie Martoccio--Accounting

Ambler Library:
Rebecca Weide--CLA

Biology Library:
Wazha Mathanjane

Chemistry Library:
Cori O'Brien

Library Systems & Technology:
Emmanuel Dierisseau--Fox School of Business and Management/MIS

Mathematical Sciences Library:
Abbas Haji

Physics Library:
YiFan Huang

Reference and Instructional Services:
Lisa Hayes--School of Communications and Theater
Shirley Pegues--CLA
Autumn Raniere--School of Communications and Theater

Tyler Library:
Courtney Zeigler
Jason R. Miller
Chiayu Mao

Urban Archives:
Allistair Alves--CLA/Sociology
Kyanna Barlow--School of Social Work/Social Administration
John Pettit--SCAT/Film and Media Arts

--Al Vara