HSLS Staff News
WELCOME
Yi-Bu Chen was appointed assistantinformation specialist in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Dr. Chen completed the HSLS Library and Bioinformatics Traineeship Program in August 2005. He has a PhD in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been a post-doc research associate and a visiting scientist at Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and took courses toward a degree in library and information sciences while at Rutgers. Dr. Chen will share the expanding teaching and consultation responsibilities of the HSLS Information Service in Molecular Biology & Genetics.
Leslie Czechowski was appointed HSLS curator of manuscripts. She will oversee a two-year project involving a special collection of historical documents. Ms. Czechowski most recently served as archivist at the University of Minnesota Libraries, for which she organized the Minnesota Orchestra Archives and led the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Implementation Project. Previously she held positions at Grinnell College and Northwestern Health Sciences University. She earned MA degrees from both the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa, and a BA degree from the University of Arizona.
NEWS
Gosia Fort, head of Bibliographic Services, is a member of the Standards Committee of the Medical Library Association Technical Services Section for which she reviews drafts of National Information Standards Organization (NISO) documents. She recently reviewed standards in progress, including: Registration for Open Digital Right Language Version 1.1; NISO Z39.84-200X Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier; ISO/DIS 21047 Information and documentation - International Standard Text Code (ISTC); and ANSI/NISO Z39.19-200X Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies.
