Adis Beesting (Education Librarian) has completed her three-year appointment as the co-chair of the American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) & Association of College & Research Libraries' (ACRL) Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy and ACRL's Information Literacy Advisory Committee. She continues to serve as a member of ACRL's Education & Behavioral Sciences Section Conference Program Planning Committee and recently has been appointed to ACRL's Appointments Committee.

Lauren Christos (Reference Librarian) moderated a panel at the 26th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association in Augusta, Georgia on the topic of "Infantuation: Childhood, Youth & Nineteenth-Century Culture." She was also nominated to be chair of the Intellectual Freedom Roundtable Committee of the American Library Association (ALA), and co-authored an article in the IFRT Report on "Intellectual Freedom in Libraries." She is a member of the Florida Library Association's Intellectual Freedom committee, 2005-2007.

Gail Clement (Head, Digital Collections Center) presented a workshop at the Dade County Library Association Annual Library Fair, held at Carlos Albizu University, March 16, 2005. The program, entitled, "How Digital Libraries Build Community: The Confluence of Bits, Bytes and Everyday People," drew participants from public, academic, government and special libraries across the region. She also recently released the "Everglades Online Thesaurus: a Standard Vocabulary for the South Florida Environment." This thesaurus was developed with support from the Department of Interior's Critical Ecosystems Studies Initiative (CESI), the US Geological Survey's Place Based Studies Program, and the Center for Environmental Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

Antonie B. Downs (Exec. Associate Director of Libraries) visited Louisiana Tech University as a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission of Colleges reaffirmation committee.

Sarah J. Hammill (Distance Learning Librarian) completed a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building. She was selected to chair the Electronic Resources Committee of ACRL Distance Learning Section, and to chair the Research & Statistics Committee of the Reference Services Section of ALA.

Dan Hardin (Music Librarian) was appointed to the graduate faculty and will continue to teach the graduate music bibliography course and serve on thesis committees. He was also appointed a non-teaching fellow in the Honors College. In April, he performed with the FIU School of Music's Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band in a concert in memory of Miguel Salvador, a piano faculty member, who died in July, 2004.

Nancy Hershoff (Head, Bibliographic Control) was a recipient of the SEFLIN 2004 Vista Award for Training Administrators. She was also appointed to the American Library Association's Chapter Relations Standing Committee, as a member, for a two-year term, 2005-2007. At the 2005 ALA Midwinter Conference in Boston, she was invited by the Steering Committee for the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color to join its Publicity Subcommittee and help prepare for the conference, which is to be held October 11-15, 2006 in Dallas, Texas. She was also appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Library and Information Science. In addition, she was asked to serve as a member of the Finance Committee and the Membership Committee of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) for a one-year term.

Amy Kane (Reference Librarian) was recently appointed to the liaison committee of LIRT. She will be coordinating with other divisions of ALA whose activities relate to library instruction, in order to identify opportunities for collaboration and to keep LIRT members informed of library instruction happenings in the organization-at-large.

Scott Kass (Head, Reader Services) was appointed a teaching Fellow of the Honors College.

Catherine Marsicek (Latin American and Caribbean Information Services Librarian) presented the "Andean Amazon GIS Web Portal" at the 50th Annual Conference of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials in April 2005. She also chaired a DLOC (Digital Library of the Caribbean) meeting at the 35th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) in June 2005. She received a scholarship from the SEFLIN International Conference Participation Program to attend that ACURIL meeting.

Sherry Mosley (Head, Government Documents Department, University Park) attended the Florida Library Association April convention in Jacksonville, where she was a panel member for the Government Documents Interest Group's program, "It's in the Way That You Use Them - Government Documents." She also attended the spring meeting of the Depository Library Conference, held in Albuquerque, April 17-20, 2005.

John Radencich (Serials Cataloger), Sue Wartzok (Head, Cataloging Department), and Elaine Winske (Authorities & Database Maintenance Librarian) participated in the review of the draft of AACR3, part 1. Feedback from this review process changed the direction of the revision to AACR2 to the extent that it now has a new name: Resource Description and Access (RDA). Access to the draft was limited and FIU was able to participate in the review process through the ALA Government Documents Roundtable Cataloging Committee and the Committee's liaison to the ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access.