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Matthew Thomas has been appointed to a non-renewable replacement appointment as a Public Services Librarian in Bracken Health Sciences Library until June 30, 2008. He has been working at Bracken on term appointments since September 2005. Before coming to Queen’s, Matthew was employed by the Queen’s Borough Public Library, New York City, initially as a librarian in the Social Sciences Division, then as a CyberLibrarian in the Cyber Centre and finally, as the supervisor of the Cyber Centre.  Matthew is a graduate of the University of Waterloo (B.A., Philosophy, 1999) and he obtained his MLIS from the University of Western Ontario in 2000.

David Burke has been appointed Research and Instruction Librarian until April 30, 2008. He will act as library liaison to the departments of French Studies, Languages & Linguistics, German, Italian, Spanish and Latin American Studies. He will also provide reference services, participate in collection development and management activities and provide library instruction. David has a B.A. in History (Carleton University), a B.Ed. (University of British Columbia), an M.A. in Latin American Studies (London School of Economics), a Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Applied Information Technology (Information Technology Institute) and an MLIS (University of British Columbia). Prior to pursuing a library career, David taught high school in British Columbia. He has been a reference librarian at the University of New Brunswick Library, Saint John campus. Most recently, he has worked as Corporate Records Manager for the City of Saint John, where he designed, developed and implemented the roll-out of a records management solution for the city. His work for the City of Saint John includes the development and delivery of records access instructional programs and reference services, and the implementation of a program to digitize Council minutes.

Lesley Wilde has been appointed to the position of Continuing Teacher Education Reference Librarian in the Education Library. This is a two-year, non-renewable appointment until August 31, 2009. Lesley holds a B.A. Honours (History), a B.Ed., and an M.A. (History) from the University of Toronto. She received her MLIS from the University of British Columbia. Lesley is an experienced Ontario secondary school teacher and Ontario curriculum writer. Since acquiring her MLIS, she has been the Head of Library at the Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School in Aurora. In this position, Lesley used her consultative skills to develop and implement a user friendly website focused to meet students’ and teachers’ information needs.

Ellen Symons

Rick Stapleton starts his position as Archivist Librarian on November 5, 2007.  He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1985 with a Master of Archival Studies. His other degrees include B.A. (1981, history) from Acadia University, a Master of Divinity (1997) from Regis College, University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Education (2001) from Brock University. Prior to his appointment in 1996 as an archivist at the Archives of Ontario, Rick worked at a number of other archives and institutions: St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver (1985), United Church of Canada Archives, Vancouver(1985-6), United Church of Canada Archives, Toronto (1986-9), the University of Toronto Archives (1989-93), and Upper Canada College (1993-6, with shared work at two other archives in the Toronto vicinity). At the Archives of Ontario, he has held a number of senior positions in reference services and collection development and management. His experience, supervision of staff, and participation in outreach programs and professional organizations is extensive: Chair of the Archives of Ontario’s Communications Co-ordination Team, a member of the Graphic Materials Working Group of the Bureau of Canadian Archivists’ Planning Committe on Descriptive Standards, etc. In 2000 he received the Amethyst Award (Ontario Public Service) and in 2003 the VOICE Award for Customer Service Excellence (Management Board Secretariat of the Government of Ontario).

Only two weeks to the deadline! Please consider nominating an outstanding librarian for the OCULA Award.

Deadline: November 15th

The nomination form for the OCULA Award is now available at:
http://accessola.com/ocula/bins/content_page.asp?cid=451-452

The purpose of the OCULA Award is to recognize an individual member of the library profession in Ontario who has made an outstanding contribution to academic or research librarianship and library development.

Candidates are expected to have:

• demonstrated notable service to the academic community through contributions to professional organizations, publications and/or research
• served as models for their profession and as examples of dedication, and to have demonstrated consistently high service standards and innovative approaches to issues
• participated actively in work to achieve the goals of their employing library and its institution.

The recipient of the OCULA Award is expected to be or to have been a member of the Ontario Library Association.

Cynthia Mckeich
Past President OCULA