Library Associates Newsletter Summer 2001- NEWSLETTER 60

IN THIS ISSUE   Artemis Kirk Named University Librarian   Their Country's Call   Lynd Ward   SFS Alumna Endows First Library Scholar   The Associates Win Award Thanks to My Friends!   Graduates Honored   Infrequently Asked Questions   A Note of Appreciation

Artemis Kirk Named University Librarian We are pleased to welcome Artemis G. Kirk as Georgetown University's new University Librarian. Kirk will assume leadership of Georgetown University's main campus libraries, which include Lauinger Library, Blommer Science Library, the University Art Collection, and the Classroom and Education Technology Service, effective August 27, 2001. Kirk will be responsible for guiding the libraries through the final two years of the "Georgetown Forever" capital campaign, for bringing to fruition plans for the digital library and ensuring that information resources are available for faculty, staff, and students of the Georgetown community. "In Artemis, Georgetown is getting an experienced and wise library administrator," says Susan K. Martin of her successor. "I have known Artemis for many years - and even hired her husband at Harvard, before he was her husband! In addition to trading geographic locations, she and I have been talking regularly about issues relating to the Georgetown University library, in order to ensure as smooth a transition as possible. I know that members of the Library Associates join me in enthusiastically welcoming her to Georgetown." "I am very pleased that Artemis has decided to join Georgetown," said Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J, who appointed her in June before stepping down as University President. "I was impressed with Artemis's extensive experience in leading and developing libraries, appreciation of the central role of our library in the University's mission, collaborative style, record of building resource-sharing relationships among institutions, and keen understanding of the role of technology in academic life and the progress of research libraries." Director of University Libraries for the University of Rhode Island since 1998 and an active information services consultant, Kirk has nearly 30 years of experience in library administration. She has been Assistant Director of Libraries for Collections and Budget at the University of Miami; Director of Libraries and Co-Director of Information Technology for Simmons College in Boston, where she also taught library science; Head Librarian for Pine Manor College; and Assistant Librarian for Hellenic College. She has also been a fellow with the U.S. Information Agency and American Library Association, advising the public library system in Hong Kong. Kirk is a member of the OCLC Users' Council and the board of directors of the Rhode Island Higher Education Library Information Network (HELIN). She was appointed by Rhode Island's governor to the state's Library Board, and is actively involved in the Association of College and Research Libraries, nationally and in New England. Kirk holds a bachelor's degree in music from Vassar College; a master's degree in library and information science from Simmons College; and a master's degree in music from Harvard University.