Summer
and Fall Projects
During Spring 2001, Oberlin College Library staff members developed
the following Summer Project Proposals for the diversity fellows:
Archives/Special Collections/Government
Documents Projects
Expanding and Creating
Access to Diversity Documentation
Mentor: Roland Baumann, Archives
Providing Description,
Access, and Preservation for the Oberlin College Archives Motion
Picture Film Collection
Mentor: Ken Grossi, Archives
World War II Propaganda
Collection
Mentor: Ed Vermue, Special Collections
Ohio5 WWII Poster Exhibit
Mentors: Tom Hinders, Government Documents and Mary Prophet (Denison
U.)
Cataloging Projects
Cataloging of Oberlin
Honors Papers
Mentor: John Sluk, Monographs
Cataloging of Selected
Internet Resources
Mentor: John Sluk, Monographs
Cataloging of Preservation
Photocopies
Mentor: John Sluk, Monographs
From Wade-Giles to
Pinyin: Changing the Way We Romanize Chinese in Libraries
Mentor: John Sluk, Monographs
Collection Development
Projects
Pilot Project to Improve
Diversity of Oberlin's Library Collections
Mentor: Eric Carpenter, Collection Development
The Best and the Brightest?:
Collection Development and Missing Art Books
Mentor: Barbara Prior, Art Library
Replacing Lost and Missing
Compact Discs
Mentor: Deborah Campana, Conservatory Library
Collection Management
Projects
Review of Sets and
Serials in the Oberlin College Library Split Between Storage and
the General Stacks
Mentor: Allison Gould, Circulation
Supervise Physics Readings
Room Collection Move
Mentor: Alison Ricker, Science Library
Supervise Science Collections
Move to New Science Library
Mentor: Alison Ricker, Science Library
Public Relations
or Administrative Projects
Library Web Page Special
Projects
Mentors: Alan Boyd and Ray English, Administration
Diversity Intern Program:
A Model for Other Academic Libraries (ALAO Poster Session)
Mentors: Haipeng Li, Julie Weir, and Heather Smith, Diversity
Committee
Oberlin College Library
Book Sale
Mentor: Linda Slocum, Gifts
Madison Avenue in Oberlin:
Marketing Library Resources and Services
Mentors: Megan Mitchell and Jessica Grim, Reference and Instruction
Fund Raising for the ALA
Spectrum Initiative
Mentors: Haipeng Li, Reference and Instruction and Ray English,
Administration
Student Friends of
the Library
Mentor: Ray English, Administration
Banned Books Week Library
Display
Mentor: Cynthia Comer, Reference and Instruction
Digital Library Software
Interface Evaluation
Mentor: Alan Boyd
Mudd Interior Design
Inventory
Mentor: Alan Boyd
Reference and Instruction
Projects
New Student Orientation
Evaluation
Mentor: Haipeng Li, Reference and Instruction
Free Reference Web Sites
Mentor: Cynthia Comer, Reference and Instruction
Updating Web Pages for Chemistry
Information (CHEM396) and Science Subject Guides
Mentor: Alison Ricker, Science Library
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