HSLS Staff News
Renae Barger is the new Reference librarian & Document Delivery coordinator, with dual responsibilities as a reference librarian and for oversight of all aspects of document delivery services and the membership program. She has been an HSLS reference librarian since 2003. Prior to that, she was a Health Sciences Library and Informatics trainee for 2002-03. She has worked as a medical technologist and Hematology Section supervisor at Clarion Hospital. Barger earned an undergraduate degree in medical technology and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh.
Falk Library circulation specialist Carrie Croll received an MLIS degree from the University of Pittsburgh in August 2004. She also holds a BA in Archaeology/Classical Civilization, with a minor in Latin from Pitt.
Gosia Fort has been appointed head of Bibliographic Services, and is now responsible for day-to-day activities in HSLS Technical Services. She has served as HSLS cataloging and database management librarian since 1999. She received her Master of Library Science and Doctor of Humanities degrees from the Uniwersytet Lodzki (Lodz, Poland), where she also held an associate professorship in Library Science. In 1993 she came to the U.S. as a Kosciuszko Fellow, and she has held cataloging and management positions in the University Library System, and at Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Ammon Ripple has been promoted to head of Reference Services. His repsonsibilities include oversight of reference services at Falk and WPIC libraries, library instruction, and the school liaison program. He will serve as Web editor, and as a member of the Web committee. Ripple will also supervise the Document Delivery coordinator. He has been HSLS Document Delivery librarian & Reference Services coordinator since 1999. Prior to that, he was Reference/Public Services librarian at Pitt’s Information Sciences Library. Ripple is currently adjunct faculty in the School of Information Sciences. He received his undergraduate degree from St. Francis College, and MLS degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
Liping Song has been appointed Electronic Resources Cataloging and Access librarian. She is responsible for managing metadata and user access for the HSLS electronic collection. Song has been the Circulation and Electronic Access librarian for HSLS since 2003. She has held librarian positions in cataloging and serials at Harvard University, Wheelock College, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She received her MLIS from Simmons College, and holds a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, and a Master of Arts in English and American Literature from Yunnan Normal University (Kunming, China).
HSLS staff raised money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation by participating in the ninth annual Lee National Denim Day. In exchange for donations, staff news, October 2004 members were permitted to wear blue jeans to work on October 8.
PUBLICATIONS
Jonathon Erlen, history of medicine librarian, published "Recent dissertations in the history of medicine" in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2004, 59(4): 588-590.
Gosia Fort, head of Bibliographic Services, reviewed Knowledge organization and classification in international information retrieval (Nancy J. Williamson, Clare Beghtol, editors), New York: Haworth Information Press, 2004, in Doody’s Review Service (available online for subscribers at www.doody.com). As a member of the Standards Committee of the Medical Library Association Technical Services Section, Fort reviews drafts of National Information Standards Organization (NISO) documents. She recently completed reviews of ISO/DIS 10161, Information and documentation - Interlibrary loan application protocol specification. Pt.1 and ISO/CD 3166-1 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. Pt. 1: Country names.
