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George Clark

George Clark, Environmental Research Librarian at Lamont, recently published an article, "Environmental Twitter," about the information gathering use of the social networking tool Twitter for environmental and sustainability policy efforts in the journal Environment. (October 2009)

András Riedlmayer

András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture at the FineArts Library, presented a lecture, entitled Killing Memory: Cultural Heritage under Fire in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, on October 15 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass, as part of the museum's "Monuments in Peril" series. He also took part in a joint meeting, held at The Clark, of the New England and upstate New York chapters of the Art Libraries Society (ARLIS) and the Visual Resources Association (VRA).

Last month, András was invited to speak at the 2009 Aspen Cultural Diplomacy Forum organized by the Aspen Institute and the Centro Cultural Niemeyer in Avilés, Spain, as a member of a panel of international experts on "The Protection of Cultural Property: War, Looting, and Criminal Acts."

His article, "From Yizkor Books to Weblogs: Genocide, Grassroots Documentation, and New Technologies," co-authored with Stephen Naron, was recently published as part of the volume Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory, ed. by Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander (London: Facet Publishing, 2009). (October 2009)

Robert Sennett

Robert Sennett, Bibliographer and Research Liaison for Film at the Fine Arts Library, recently gave a presentation entitled “Boston, Black & Blue: The Image of the Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Boxer”, at the Destined for Men: Visual Materials for Male Audiences 1750-1880 conference. The event took place in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and the Center for Historic American Visual Culture. (October 2009)

HCL Human Resource Services

For the second time, Harvard College Library Human Resource Services has been recognized for its use of technology to aid in the recruitment process. The department was recently recognized as the third-largest user of technology to aid in recruiting, increasing internal mobility, minority hiring, the timely closing out of jobs and the use of diversity recruitment resources as part of the Office of Human Resources' "Biggest User Initiative." The initiative was created by OHR to recognize human resource offices university-wide that showed the largest increase in technology use on a quarterly basis. The department previously was named a "Biggest User" in February 2009. (October 2009)

Amy Sloper

Assistant Film Conservator at the Harvard Film Archive Amy Sloper recently gave a presentation titled "Sex Mis-Education: The Sex Ed Film in the Moving Image Archive." The presentation was given at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles as part of the Orphans West Symposium, a conference centered around "orphan" works, or films that are outside of the mainstream and often have no known origin or copyright, or were at one point considered "lost" and without a formal repository to preserve them. These include home movies, amateur and educational films, industrial and sponsored films, experimental films, and newsreels. (June 2009)

Theresa Kelliher

Imaging Technician for Preservation & Imaging Services, has been awarded the Dean's Prize for Outstanding A.L.M. Thesis in Museum Studies for her thesis titled "Knowledge Is the New Power: The Evolution of the Public Trust and Cultural Antiquities Acquisitions in American Museums." Theresa's thesis was selected from a field of 29 graduates in the 2009 Museum Studies program, which she completed while working full time in Imaging Services. Her thesis director, museum consultant Arthur Wolf, commented, "Particularly stimulating is the application of game theory to the situation. Kelliher's questions and assumptions about the public trust are illuminating, and her attempts to align these with the actions and responsibilities of the museum field are noteworthy. [Her] survey method was audacious...and she collected valuable data...the analysis of the data is but a start that could yield significant results in related studies and publications. It is rare for this reader to want to applaud when finished with a thesis review. In this case the author brought all the strands of thought and inquiry together in a logical and lively conclusion that did invoke that response." (June 2009)