February 24, 2005
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LEADING LIBRARIANS: Four UW librarians have been selected to participate in what their boss, Director of Libraries Lizabeth Wilson, calls highly competitive national leadership programs. Cynthia Fugate, director of the UW Bothell Library, and Neil Rambo, associate director of the Health Sciences Libraries, are Research Library Leadership Fellows and will participate in an 18-month program designed to prepare the next generation of directors of very large research libraries. Gordon Aamot, head of the Architecture, Arts and Business Libraries, will join 15 academic library leaders in the 2005 Senior Fellows Program, a leadership residency program held every two summers at UCLA. And Jennifer Ward, head of Web Services, was selected for the Frye Leadership Institute, which aims to develop creative leaders for higher education.
HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHT: Associate Professor of History Nikhil Singh’s book, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, has won the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, given annually to the best book on any historical aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States, from the nation’s founding to the present. It will be given at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in April.
PARK ‘N READ: On Saturday, March 5 you can view nature and books at the same time, when the Washington Park Arboretum offers its annual Arbor-Read-Em used book sale. The event is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Graham Visitors Center, and you’ll like the prices — starting at a quarter for children’s books, 75 cents for paperbacks and $2 for hardcovers. You’ll pay a little more for collectibles and special titles. Proceeds benefit the Arboretum.
MEMORIAL MAKER: Staten Island has its own memorial to victims of the 9-11 attacks, designed by a UW alum. Masayuki Sono, who graduated from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, emblazoned profiles of the islanders lost on 9” by 11” granite plaques to create a memorial called Postcards. Families of the victims were then presented with “reverse cuts” of the plaques — the stone outlines from which the original profiles were cut.
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