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Virginia Stout
attended Reaching Forward, South, a conference
for library support staff, in Springfield. She attended
sessions on "Body Language," "How to Have a
Safe Library," and "What's New and Growing with OCLC."
Janet Wilkinson
participated in Cool, Customizable PR at Lincoln Trail
Libraries System. This was a hands-on workshop that
introduced participants to "Project 12," a resource
that libraries can use to customize a variety of public
relations products.
Nancy Bode, Rena Moore,
Janet Wilkinson, Anna Maria Watkin, and Cliff Bishop
attended Applying
for ILCSO Membership: Meeting for Prospective Members at
the University of Illinois. It included an overview and
demonstration of the ILCSO (Illinois Library Computer Systems
Organization) consortium, an integrated library system shared
by Illinois academic and research libraries.
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Lori
Sprague attended one day of the Big Ten Printing and
Copyright Conference at Purdue University. She
attended sessions on copyright, including "Copyright 101:
The Basics of Copyright."
Raeann
Dossett and Anna Maria Watkin, along with Parkland
faculty from other departments, attended the Eighth Annual
Learning Communities and Collaboration Conference, Student
Learning and Engagement, in Indianapolis.
Anna Maria and Raeann attended sessions on "Including
the Librarian in the Learning Community" and
"Assignments and Assessments that Promote Deep Learning
in Learning Communities," as well as other topics.
Rena
Moore and Lori Sprague attended the Student
Employment Workshop, sponsored by Parkland's Career
Center.
Anna
Maria Watkin attended a personnel management workshop
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Ester
Burke grew up in Danville and has lived in the Champaign
area "off and on" since 1981. She comes to
Parkland Library from the Illinois Natural History Survey
library. She is the library liaison to the
Social Sciences & Human Services department. Ester occupies her time away from Parkland with
her two children, pre-schoolers Alexandra and Brendan, and her
husband, Vincent Trauth, a part-time music instructor here at
Parkland.
Sarah
Stewman considers Oak Park, Illinois, her hometown, but
has made Champaign-Urbana home since 1992. She graduated
from the U of I's Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, and her most recent employment was
teaching English in China where her husband was working.
Her son Isaiah was born during that year abroad. Sarah's
interests include gardening and playing the harp.
