Professional Activities

Irene Herold, (Mason Library) presented on two panels at the recent Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries Annual conference, Staff Development on a Shoestring, in Hanover, N.H. Her first presentation, We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, was for the diversity panel and was based upon work Mason Library staff did with Dottie Morris, chief diversity officer, last spring. Herold described the work the staff did and showed two illustrative clips from the films Ethnic Notions and The House We Live In (both of which are available in VHS format from Mason Library’s media collection). The second panel was on mentoring, and Herold’s talk was When You Need More Than Ruby Slippers. Herold’s Ph.D. coursework and dissertation is focusing on mentoring and leadership, and her talk not only drew on this work, but also on her experience establishing a state-wide mentoring and job-shadowing program for the NHCUC Libraries Committee, which is now in its seventh year. The Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries Annual conference, while sponsored by biomedical libraries, does not focus on biomedical topics, but rather on topics of general interest to academic librarians.

José Manuel Lezcano (Music) premiered his Diarios Suite for guitar, flute, and bassoon at the International Flute Festival in Quito, Ecuador (June 3). He premiered his Canciones de Lluvia for guitar and soprano, and played a solo recital at the Barcelona Festival of Song (July 1, 2); performed with his trio at the St. Gauden’s Summer Series, “Bach to Bachianas,” in Cornish, NH, (Aug. 2); and presented a solo recital and lectured on “The Guitar and the Devil: Music, Magic, and Ritual in the Andes,” at the SUNY-Plattsburgh Guitar Festival (Oct. 2,3).