Library Office Notes

Lisa Romero has been appointed Communications Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration.  Lisa has been Acting Communications Librarian since fall 1997.  Prior to that, she was Assistant Undergraduate Librarian with responsibilities for periodicals, reserves, and cataloging.   Lisa has a B.A. degree from Illinois State University and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from UIUC.

Since Lisa's appointment as Acting Communications Librarian, she has undertaken several innovative projects, including publicizing the advertising collections in that Library.   Her exhibits, Web site, and other efforts have garnered a great deal of enthusiastic feedback.  We are delighted that she will continue these and her other service, research and publication activities at the UIUC Library.

Congratulations, Lisa!

(Nancy O'Brien)

Mary Schneider Laskowski has been appointed UGL Catalog Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Library Administration.  Mary received her M.S. in Library Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1998.  She worked in the Mathematics Library as a graduate assistant and a student assistant in the Health Sciences Library.   Mary comes to the UIUC Library after working as an Instructional Library Media Specialist at Valders High School in Valders, Wisconsin.

Please join me in welcoming Mary to the UGL staff.

(Joyce C. Wright)