Cristina Favretto, Head of Special Collections and University Archives, gave a talk on "Creating a Women's History Community on the Web" at the Berkshires Conference on the History of Women last July.

Robert Fikes, Jr., Reference Librarian, published "African-American Scholars of Greco-Roman Culture," in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (35), Spring 2002, and a review of Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs, by Alfred Jay Bollet, in the Journal of the National Medical Association (94), June 2002. He also was interviewed and quoted in the April 17-23 edition of The Village Voice.

Katalin Harkányi, Reference Librarian, published "Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1999)," in Technology and Culture (43), Supplement 2000. She also served as a subject and senior subject advisor for The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Science, Technology and Agriculture, vol. 1. Temecula, Calif.: The Best Books, 2002.

Patricia Knobloch and Bruce Harley, Government Publications Librarians, published "Quipu, a Vortal Dedicated to Researchers of Andean Archaeology," in The New Review of Information Networking (7), 2001.

Martha McPhail, Catalog Librarian, is serving as chair-elect of the Museums, Arts, and Humanities Division of the Special Libraries Association.

Kathryn Neal, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, was appointed to the Society of American Archivists' Program Committee for the 2003 annual conference.

Natalie Pastor, Library Graphic Artist & Instructional Resource Facilitator, received her certificate in Instructional Technology from SDSU's Department of Educational Technology in June.

Gloria Rhodes, Outreach/Community Resources Librarian, presented a paper titled "Outreach-K-12 and Beyond: A Tale of Two Campuses," at the American Library Association's 2002 annual conference. She is also serving on the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services committee and its Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners Committee, as well as the ACRL Appointments Committee.

Julie Su, Digital Resources/Serial Librarian, taught a two-day electronic serials cataloging workshop for the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program (SCCTP) last July in China, which was the first SCCTP e-serials workshop given outside of the United States.

Patrick Sullivan, Business Reference Librarian, and Laura Hudson, Electronic Systems and Services Librarian, received a CSU Community of Academic Technology Staff Technology Integration Grant for Educational Resource Sharing to explore current and potential library use of MERLOT (the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Patrick also organized and presented a pre-conference titled "Tutorial on Tutorials" at the annual California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL) Conference held at Asilomar. Additionally, he chaired a leadership meeting for CARL interest group chairs and members of the executive board.

Markel Tumlin, Reference Librarian, is serving as the co-editor of the "Balance Point" column in the journal Serials Review.