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- In appreciation of her ongoing community service, TCC Librarian Dr. Karin Duran received certificates of recognition from Felipe Fuentes, California Assembly 39th District, and Richard Alarcon , Los Angeles City Council.
- Music & Media Librarian Lindsay Hansen will be presenting on “Super Project Gone Wrong: Weisses Gold and the Struggle for Intellectual Property in the GDR” at the Sixth Bi-annual International Conference on Music Since 1900.
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June 22nd, 2009, 3:45 pm
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The following Library staff members were honored at Forty-Third Annual Staff Service Awards and Excellence Recognition Event, on June 3, 2009.

Danielle Ste. Just, Access Services
Merit Award for her leadership in implementing change and enhancing customer service in Reserves, Periodicals and Microform.

Martha Moreno, Technical Services
40 Years of Service

Oviatt Library Innovative Millenium Team: Team Award for their work-flow study in Technical Services.
L-R: Delphia Williams, Gina Hsiung, Donna LaFollette, Helen Heinrich, Meredith Lyon, Eric Willis, Marivic Ghorbani, Paula Miller. (not pictured: Diane Moore)
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June 4th, 2009, 3:37 pm
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Doris Helfer, a Reference Librarian and Chair of Technical Services, was honored with the California State University, Northridge Distinguished Teaching, Counseling or Librarianship Award for 2009.
From the award description: “The principal criteria for receiving this award are (1) a record of superlative teaching, counseling or librarianship, and/or (2) the development and successful utilization of a major curriculum improvement project that advances teaching effectiveness at any educational level.”
Doris earned her B.A. in Political Science at CSUN and completed her Master of Library Science degree at Western Michigan University. She her began work as a Librarian at the Oviatt Library in 1996.
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May 18th, 2009, 4:36 pm
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Karin Durán, Eric Garcia and Mara Houdyshell’s article “From the inside out and the outside in: The Academic Library Interview Process in a Tight Economy” has been published in C&RL News. To read the article, go to:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/apr/insideout.cfm
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April 27th, 2009, 4:02 pm
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Luiz Mendes, Electronic Resources Librarian, was selected to receive a California State University, Northridge Research Fellowship for the 2009–10 academic year. He will assess faculty practices and perceptions related to the creation of learning objects and participation and contribution to the Learning Object Repository for the organization of learning objects.
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March 30th, 2009, 4:38 pm
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