Staff Milestones
Library staff members keep their edge through involvement in a wide variety of
professional activities. Here’s a mere sampling of what library folks do besides the
day-to-day running of a major research facility and collection.
President Clinton appointed Nick Burckel to a second 4-year term on the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission; he was also appointed to the Editorial
Board of a new journal, Portal: Libraries and the Academy. Bruce Cole and Dennis
Higgins participated in the WAMI (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) Awards show and took
home the Library’s special WAMI Award. Bill Gagliani published book reviews in
BookLovers, BookPage, Cemetery Dance, and The Chiaroscuro
and short stories in The Grimoire and More Monsters from Memphis. John Jentz
published an article in the journal Studies in American Political Development and
was awarded a grant from Marquette’s Mellon endowment to plan an information literacy
component for the Logic core course. Jim Lowrey presented at the annual Wisconsin
Association of Academic Librarians (WAAL) conference. Julie O’Keeffe
co-chaired the WAAL conference. Phil Runkel spoke on the Catholic Worker archives
at the European Catholic Worker gathering in Hamburg. Susan Sponberg was elected to
the Board of Directors of the American Theological Library Association. Susan
Stawicki-Vrobel presented papers at the NMU Sports and Society Conference and the Ohio
Academy of History. Rose Trupiano presented a paper at the Wisconsin Library
Association Annual Conference, and a workshop to the Waukesha County Federated Library
System. Jean Zanoni was elected Chair of the Wisconsin Library Association,
Technical Services Division, and spoke at the WAAL conference.
