The latest email blast from ACRL included the news that LES’s own Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Humanities Librarian at Miami University, has been named to the 2010 class of “Emerging Leaders.” Read all about it in ALA’s press release. Congratulations, Arianne!
Back in July we happily announced the publication of a new 
book from ACRL, Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment, edited and featuring contributions by a number of LES members. Well, my library finally received a copy and I’m very impressed so far. So I’m giving myself the assignment of reading my way through the whole book, and I plan to write posts about each of the chapters as I do so. I’ll tag them “Teaching Literary Research” and include the cover image so they will be easy to locate.
The blog team is always looking for volunteers, so if you’d like to contribute by reading and writing about a chapter just let me know via the comments box. If you volunteer early you can have your pick of chapters!
I’m looking forward to diving into the book. Congratulations again to the LES members on this achievement!
It’s time for another edition of BiblioNotes! The editor would like your articles/news for the Fall 2009 issue by Friday, September 25th, 2009. Some ideas for items of interest:
If you are a new LES member, you can send a brief bio with your interests for our “New Member Spotlight.” If you are retiring, let your colleagues know about your future plans or share a fond memory of LES.
We are also looking for columns that incorporate “Tech Tips” or “Active Learning Tips,” as well as MLA news and issues.
Most newsletter items are about a half page to two (at most) in length. Please email the editor and let her know if you will be sending something, so she can plan accordingly. Thanks and we look forward to your submissions!
Brand-new from ACRL publications is Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment, edited by LES’s
own Steven Harris (University of New Mexico) and Kathleen Johnson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). This book also features essays by LES members Laura Taddeo (University at Buffalo, see the previous post), Dan Coffey (Iowa State) and Meg Meiman (Delaware).
Teaching Literary Research is “a collection of essays that explores the relationship between information literacy and literary research. English professors and librarians provide perspectives on this relationship through presentations of best practices in teaching students from first year undergraduate through graduate levels.”
This promises to be a valuable resource for all of us who do library instruction. Congratulations to everyone involved in this great project!
Attention all LES members, new and old. Please plan to join us for the New Members Discussion Group on July 12th from 3:30 to 5:30 in the Palmer House State Ballroom for engaging discussion and genial conversation about our shared work as literature bibliographers. Are you new to the profession? Bring your questions and queries. Are you a seasoned veteran? Come share your wisdom, tried and true strategies, or, maybe even learn something new. At the New Members Discussion Group we talk about what you want to talk about. Coping with change at your library? Managing a controversial collection? Just been asked to become the new Digital Humanities Librarian? Together we can share what we know to address these challenges. Come share your questions and experience.
If you have suggestions for topics you would like us to be sure and discuss, please drop a note to either Frank or Arianne, and we will weave them into the conversation.
And if you can’t make it to Annual, please feel free to post your thoughts in the comments of this post.See you there!
Co-chairs, Frank Gravier (gravier@ucsc.edu) & Arianne Hartsell-Gundy (hartsea@muohio.edu)
LES Member and 2008-2009 LES Chair Karen Munro was chosen for the “Member of the Week” section of the ACRL Web site last week:
http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/2009/05/18/member-of-the-week-karen-munro/
Interestingly, they don’t mention her current responsibilities with LES, but the write-up includes a nice picture and short Q&A with Karen. Where will Karen go from here? No one knows for sure, but read those TV listings closely when the networks announce their fall schedules…