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Vol. 29, No. 4/Summer 2007

NOTES FROM THECHAIR / 5

Jim Hunter passesNews Division Chair toJustin Scroggs and retiresfrom Dispatch Library.

NEW OPPORTUNIESIN TECHNOLOGY / 7

Sara Wedell, looks atways to use technologyas an opportunity to pro-mote News Libraries.

LIBRARY PROFILE/ 8

Amy Disch takes alook at the library of the2007 Pulitzer Prize win-ner for editorial writing.

MEET YOURLIBRARIAN / 9

An academic librariandiscusses the importanceof information literacyfor students.

THE INSIDESTORY

BY ROBERT GOLDSTEIN

NPR MUSIC LIBRARIAN

How often have you listened toNational Public Radio and won-dered about the music played

that connects the various stories on itsshows or that somehow is the perfect musi-cal mirror of a story you’ve just heard?Where does that music come from? Theanswer is: from the NPR Music Library.Yes, you may not know that as part of itsstaff of peerless librarians, NPR also has amusic librarian and a music library contain-ing nearly 65,000 CDs.

Until a few years ago the NPR libraryexisted as two separate entities, each with adifferent mission. The Reference Libraryundertook research and handled referencerequests for reporters and also containedthe serials and book collections. TheBroadcast library archived NPR program-ming, performed audio research in supportof broadcasts and contained the music andspoken word collections. With the arrivalof new senior librarian Laura Soto-Barra in2005 that separation ended. Now, there isone NPR library with five component col-lections: programs, reference, music, spo-ken word and cultural archives. The cur-

rent library staff consists of 10 full-timelibrarians (plus some occasional temps andpart-timers), some of whom are embeddedwith specific NPR shows or desks with oth-ers attached to library collections. Amongthese 10 librarians is one music librarian,Robert Goldstein, who recently celebratedhis 15th year with the network.

In describing what sets NPR apart fromother broadcasters, a former VP of Newsonce said “most broadcasters bring ears toadvertisers, NPR brings information to cit-izens.” To keep those listeners informed and

continue that journalistic mission, NPRreporters, editors, producers and directorsrely on librarians to support them with themost accurate information and research.RIGHT NOW, not 15 minutes from now.The deadlines simply are inflexible: theshows MUST go on the air; the websiteMUST publish. Every weekday NPR pro-duces six major shows; every weekend four,plus numerous promos for upcomingshows and stories. There is also the growingpresence of the popular NPR website,npr.org, with all of its associated content.The singular feature of library work at NPRis the ubiquitous deadline environment.

As with the origins of many notableinstitutions, the factual history of the NPRmusic library is somewhat vague. But fromNPR’s beginnings in 1970 as a networkwith 90 stations, the significant role playedby music in its broadcasts clearly has grown,the product of an evolving consensus onmusic use as a crucial part of what hasbecome NPR’s on-air identity. Today, near-ly 27 million listeners tune in NPR on over860 stations.

THE NPR MUSIC LIBRARY:Notes that Help Deliver the News

Continued on page 11

Robert Goldstein in the collections of NPR’sMusic Library

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CHAIR, Jim Hunter, Columbus Dispatch, Columbus,OH, 614/461-5039,e-mail: [email protected]

CHAIR-ELECT, Justin Scroggs, Newsbank, Inc.,Naples, FL, 239/263-6004,e-mail: [email protected]

2008 Conference Planner, Ron Larson, WisconsinState Journal/The Capital Times, Madison, WI,608/252-6113, e-mail: [email protected]

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DIRECTOR-EDUCATION/PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT CHAIR, Dana Gordon,Newsweek Inc., New York, NY, 212/445-4012,e-mail: [email protected]

DIRECTOR-PUBLICATIONS, Gail Hulden, TheOregonian, Portland, OR, 503/294-5086,e-mail: [email protected]

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we knowwhere we can find information upon it.

Attribution: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted in JamesBoswell, Life of Dr. Johnson, entry, April 18, 1775 (1791)

This is a total departure from what I had originally thought about writing about forthe editor’s column for the summer issue. But I was so cheered by a discussion acouple of weeks ago on NewsLib, the news library listserv, that it provided this

inspiration. Angelika Kane, head librarian at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, posted a message on

August 9. A story was being prepared about Jane Austen and movies based on her books,pegged to the release of the film ‘Becoming Jane.’ What she wanted to know: are thereother classics authors whose works had been frequently adapted for film and TV, other thanAusten and Shakespeare?

In short order, two dozen messages blipped across the screen from other newspapers,other media, other states, other countries. Dickens, of course. What about the Brontes?Wuthering Heights...a favorite. Aristophanes? And how about Tolkien. We know yourequested classical authors, but maybe Stephen King should be in there. F. Scott Fitzgerald.Armistead Maupin. And how about a website, with such a list on it...

Granted it was an August morning and a welcome excuse to take a break from deadlinesand think about summer movies, beloved books, and favorite writers. But what was so fas-cinating was this pouring forth of knowledge, with such zeal and altruism. This was notsomething that could be readily found in any source - print or online. While the Internetaudience is getting versed in Web 2.0, news librarians have been engaged in this for adecade or more. Yet I think we too are just waking up to how powerful it is. A few yearsago, we positioned ourselves as the information destination for our news organizations.Then it was Internet expertise. Now it is time to reposition ourselves as repositories ofknowledge.

In the future, let’s move on these kinds of opportunities to gather this collective knowl-edge and present it in new and different ways, for more value to readers. I’m pleased toreport that in this instance it was included in the story as helpful context, for whichAngelika was indeed credited. (‘Hollywood Can’t Get Enough of Jane Austen,’ by BarryParis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Friday, August 10, 2007 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07222/808348-254.stm)

This sharing of knowledge benefits everyone. I’m so grateful for those who did so forthe contributions in this issue. Enjoy the rest of your summer.

BY LEIGH MONTGOMERY

THE ASIDE BAR

SUMMER 2007 NEWS LIBRARY NEWS PAGE 3

NEWS LIBRARY NEWS SUMMER 2007

BY JIM HUNTER

NOTESFROMTHECHAIR

The Dog Days of August bring aSwan Song.

The past year has been exhilarating,rewarding and horrendous. The newsindustry has changed more in the lasttwelve months than at any time in the thir-ty-plus years I have been a news librarian. Ithought the coming of text archives, imagesarchives, computer assisted reporting, andthe Internet would be more than enough,but these events pale next to the upheaval inthe news industry and con-sequently in news libraries.The News Division is begin-ning to reflect that uncer-tainty and our board mem-bers and committee chairsface even greater challengesto support our membership.News libraries are changingright before our eyes but theskills news librarians haveare more essential than ever.That’s a message we need todrive home again and again.

As tradition has it, I amabout to turn this forum-Notes from the Chair over to Chair-ElectJustin Scroggs. Coincidently, with myretirement at end of June, the ColumbusDispatch library is now led by Amy Disch,Good luck to both of you.

This seems to be a good time for me tothank many hard-working News Divisionmembers for their efforts this year and tothank new committee chairs in advance fortheir hard work to come.

Our annual conference was very success-ful—thank you to Justin Scroggs for bring-ing it home. The program was broadenough to touch everyone’s interest and thesessions were well attended. The programson genealogy/social networking were espe-cially well done (and well attended). TheNews Research 101, a program we put in tobalance the high technology CE NewsResearcher’s Tech Toolbox, was a sleeper hit.It really should be no surprise there is a

great demand for core knowledge, but wewere surprised. There’s a lesson here for ournext program planner, I expect.

Thank you to Denise Jones for a won-derful Awards Banquet. The DenverMuseum of Nature & Science was beautifuland the award recipients were terrific. DanaGordon, our Professional DevelopmentDirector, pulled off an extremely difficultprogram in the News Researcher’s TechToolbox.

Thank you, Dana,for that and thankyou again for volun-teering to continue inyour post for an addi-tional year as we tran-sition that positioninto a two person job(that pesky electioncycle again). Dana isalso planning thisyear’s Poynter seminarfor new library man-agers.

I am also proud toannounce some newcommittee chairs.

Denise Jones will become the NominatingCommittee Chair, warning me in advanceshe has an agenda to bring on young NewsDivision members. Anne Holcomb willchair our Membership Committee. Weneed an entire committee to replace AlicePepper. A special thank you is in order toAlice, who single-handedly managed ourmembership rolls and fought the good fightwith (and often against) SLA. I am also per-sonally grateful to Kee Malesky for takingon the role of News Division Archivist.That is a difficult and unsung position tofill and Kee stepped right up.

Finally, a blanket thank you to everyonewho makes this Division tick. Past Chairs,Board members, Committee Chairs, ourpublications mafia, program moderators,speakers and at last our News Divisionmembers.

❝The news indus-try has changedmore in the lasttwelve months thanat any time in thethirty-plus years Ihave been a newslibrarian.❞


CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

BY SARA WEDELL, 2007 VORMELKER-THOMAS

AWARD WINNER

When I landed in the Denver air-port, my excitement level wasat the same smile-so-hard-it-

makes-your-face-hurt level it was at when Ifirst heard that I had been named the 2007Vormelker-Thomas Award winner. Thiswas my first time in Denver, so I arrived aday before the conference began in order tosee a little of the city. I visited the DenverPublic Library and the angular, dizzyingDenver Art Museum. I also wandereddown by the state capitol building and intothe historical district, where I took a tour ofthe “Unsinkable” Molly Brown House.This was proving to be a very satisfying tripbefore the conference even began!

I had two primary goals in attending theSLA 2007 Conference: to meet the peoplebehind the posts on NewsLib and to pickup some new technology skills that I canput into practice in my future career. Alongwith learning many other things and meet-ing many other people, I did achieve bothof my initial SLA goals.

I also met a personal goal which was tosee Al Gore speak live. But, since SLA justkind of threw that one right in my path, Ican’t really take credit for “achieving” it.

Here is a short run-down of some of myfavorite SLA revelations and experiences:

You can save the planet by col-lecting conference free stuff wise-ly:

Upon seeing the exhibition floor for thefirst time, I realized that if I took every freecanvas bag available to me, I would neverhave to accept a plastic bag at the grocerystore again. So far, it has worked well andthe only downside was the challenge ofjamming them all into my carry-on lug-gage.

Strike up conversations - everyone

has some good advice:On Sunday evening in the News

Division suite, Shira Kavon introducedfirst-time attendees with the more experi-enced News Division members shematched them with in the mentorship pro-gram. I was matched with Emily Glenn,and it was an excellent fit, especially sinceshe was the Vormelker-Thomas Award win-ner in 2006. I had already been badgeringEmily with questions since she contactedme about winning the award, and now Ihad an official excuse to continue doing so.I found that having a mentor helped tobreak the ice in the News Division Suiteand helped get me on my way to feeling likea real part of the group.

Surprise! The role of news librari-ans is changing:

The first session I attended was TheFuture of News Libraries on Mondaymorning. Nora Paul, Ginny Everett andMark Hannon presented on the growingimportance of reinvention and creativityand the need for proactive librarianship intoday’s news libraries. This session essential-ly set the tone for the rest of my SLA con-ference experience by encouraging me tothink about broad interpretations and usesfor the search techniques and library prac-tices I would pick up at the conference.

Denver Post tour:The Denver Post recently opened a new

building and their library staff kindly tookus for a tour of their research center. In mylimited experience, I’ve noticed how differ-ent each news library is, so it was very inter-esting to see how they were laid out andwhat was in their collection. However, themajor point of envy had to be the sunnyrooftop pavilion overlooking the city.

Technology made easy:On Tuesday, I attended an SLA Tech

Zone session called Podcasting - MakeNoise the New Fashioned Way. On a per-sonal note, I listen to podcasts like it is myjob. My favorite public radio shows, a fairportion of my news, recent book reviewsand environmental updates all come intomy world through podcasts. I was the firstone in the room for this session. It was avery hands-on experience and the instruc-tor used his hour and a half to guide usthrough the actual process so that at the endof the period, we had recorded, shared andsubscribed to our own podcasts.

The next day, I sat in on the “Podcastingthe Librarian Way” session where panelmembers gave some great breakdowns onthe process of identifying your audienceand developing appropriate and relevantcontent for podcasts. This session, alongwith the Tech Zone instruction, formed aperfect intersection where I learned boththe technology and how to use it effective-ly.

Learning from the past:The News Division Awards Banquet was

held at the Denver Museum of Nature &Science, which was a great setting with abeautiful view. Emily Glenn gave me a verykind introduction, and I was very honoredto be accepting the Vormelker-ThomasAward before so many accomplished mem-bers of the news library field. I am verythankful to Proquest and the NewsDivision for making my trip to SLA possi-ble. It was very inspiring for a newcomerlike myself to hear the speeches of fellowhonorees, whose career dedication andrepeated successes clearly showed theirimportance to the field of news librarian-ship. This banquet was an unexpectedopportunity for me to learn more about ofthe history of the career and the NewsDivision itself, and it was truly enjoyable.

Things to do in Denver when you are aFirst-time SLA Attendee



PEOPLE

BY JENNIFER O’NEILL

Jim Hunter, Library Director at TheColumbus Dispatch since 1974, retiredon June 15th.

This is the message that was posted onthe newsroom blog on Jim’s last day:

Today is Jim Hunter’s last day as leaderof the Dispatch library, and to mark theoccasion, I’d like to share a story.

Rose Vormelker, a legend among newslibrarians, was doing consulting work forthe Dispatch in the early 1970s and helpedJim get his job here when she recommend-ed the paper hire a librarian.

Jim was interviewed, but the editor hadsome doubts about hiring him, so he askedRose what Jim knew about newspapers.“Not a damn thing,” Rose replied, “buthe’ll find out!”

And he did. We’ll miss you, Jim. All thebest in your retirement.”

Jim is going to remain with the Dispatchon a consulting basis for various projectsand will continue lurking on NewsLib.

Amy Disch became library director atThe Columbus Dispatch on July 30th, suc-ceeding recently retired news library legendJim Hunter. Amy joined the Dispatch inSeptember 2005 as a news researcher andhad previously worked in the library of theWisconsin State Journal and The CapitalTimes in her hometown of Madison,Wisconsin.

“I’m very honored to be following inJim’s huge footsteps and I have a lot tolearn, but fortunately I have three wonder-ful colleagues, Linda Deitch, Victor Blackand Susan Stonick, to ease the transition.”

Amy also let me know that DaisyMaxwell retired as the Chief Librarian atThe Fayetteville Observer in Fayetteville,North Carolina.

During a special presentation at Daisy’sretirement ceremony on March 29, 2007,the library was renamed the “Daisy D.Maxwell Library” in her honor.

The library’s new plaque reads:“Daisy D. Maxwell LibraryChief Librarian 1978-2007In honor of our ever-resourceful, standard-

setting researcher, history detective and localarchivist.”

Lea Iadarola started working at CNN’sWashington, DC bureau as a NewsLibrarian on July 2. She went to CNNfrom the St. Petersburg Times in Florida,where she was a News Archivist. Her for-mer boss, Tim Rozgonyi says he is not par-ticularly happy to have lost her. ButFlorida’s loss is Washington’s gain.

Kathryn Pease has a temporary assign-ment at Walt Disney World as a ResearchField Operations Manager. She has heldvarious positions in Disney’s researchdepartment since leaving news librarian-ship.

On January 14, 2007 Martha Reaganwas promoted to Photo/Research Librarianat the Boston Herald. Her previous positionwas Research Librarian.

Jim Oberman had a job change recent-ly. He was the director of research at TimeMagazine and in June took on a new job asresearch manager at Russell Reynolds


Jim Hunter, Library Director at The ColumbusDispatch since 1974, at his farewell party.


TECHNOLOGY

Technology as a Tool for News Library PromotionBY SARA WEDELL

The growing influence of digitalmedia and online communicationis taking its toll on news libraries

and newspapers alike. Traditional newslibrary users are more search-savvy thanever and are switching to search engines fortheir speed and the digital archive for itsconvenience. Traditional newspaper readersare turning to online editions for the variedofferings there: multimedia displays, fre-quent updates and links to more informa-tion. While the use of technology in thecreation and dissemination of news contenthas created problems for news libraries andnewspapers, these same technologies alsoprovide them with positive opportunitiesfor reinvention.

Recent research by Deborah Barreaucomparing news librarians embedded witha team of journalists on the newsroom floorand news librarians working out of a tradi-tional news library, shows that theseresearchers are valued about the same

1.

While location doesn’t appear to have a sig-nificant effect, perhaps improved access tolibrarians through technology will. Instantmessaging is quicker than email and asaddictive as Google, and it allows reportersto connect with librarians without necessar-ily breaking the workflow. Institutinginstant messaging in the newsroom wouldmake news librarians as easily accessible as adesktop resource.

Intranets and wikis are rapidly becom-ing more common as tools to improve andincrease newsroom communication. Theyare also prime opportunities for newslibrary use in the creation of resource direc-tories and research guides. Easy-to-use wikisoftware is available free on the Internet andcan be used to develop dynamic newsroominformation resources. A reporter inBarreau’s study2 emphasized the value ofnews librarians in introducing newresources into the newsroom. A wiki can

help a news library advertise the discoveryof relevant resources, it can also aid ininstructing staff in their use. A news libraryblog could function in a similar fashion, byusing its updates as opportunities to offersearch tips or guidance for new resources.

Consumer expectations for a news orga-nization’s output continues to rise andlibrarians can help attend to that issue. Theonline magazine Slate’s Explainer column isa good example of a news resource usingtheir research capacity to feed an audience’sappetite for news information beyond thebasic delivery of facts. News librarians

often come across more information on atopic than actually makes it into thereporter’s story. In the story itself, there arethe constant constraints of scope and space.In an online version of the paper, there isunlimited space.

The resources and skills developed bynews librarians are often worthy of greaterattention. For instance, the WashingtonPost’s in-house database on congressionalvoting records, a resource commonly usedfor news research, is available to the public.3

This is a demonstration of the relevanceand importance of the work accomplishedby news researchers. As news organizationsseek to retain readers by adding premiumcontent to supplement their online publi-cations, news librarians should see anopportunity to showcase their abilities.

Another example of combining existingresources with technology is the DetroitNews Photo Store. The Detroit News

library department uses the paper’s exten-sive photo collection and 132-year historyto create photo collections of historicDetroit events.4 Available collections show-case everything from classic photos ofsports legends to the city’s history as asmuggling point during Prohibition. Thissort of digital content attracts a range ofusers from history buffs to sports fans tomusic lovers, and gives all of them anoption to buy reprints. By using this avail-able technology to display an existingunique information resource, these newslibrarians are not only supporting use with-in their audience, they are creating revenuefor their organization.

By now, technology of all kinds is firm-ly entrenched in the newsroom and thenews library. Both of these places are alsoexperiencing a need for rejuvenation andreinvention for continued survival. Fortheir part, news libraries must use whatthey have in abundance, resourcefulness,creativity and determination, and combineit with the emerging opportunities affordedby technology to meet the needs of achanging industry.

Sara Wedell was the recipient of the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award from the Special LibrariesAssociation News Division and ProQuest for thisessay, which provided her with the opportunity toattend the SLA Conference in Denver this past June.Please see her next essay about her experiencesthere.

1 Barreau, Deborah (2005). “Integration of infor-mation professionals in the newsroom: Twoorganizational models for research services.”Library & Information Research 27 p. 341.

2 Barreau, Deborah, p. 341.

3 Howell, Deborah (2006). “The Post’s UnsungSleuths.” The Washington Post. July 2, 2006.

4 Detroit News Photo Store. Available at:http://info.detnews.com/photostore/index.cfmLast visited: March 18, 2007.

❝Consumer expectations

for a news organization’s

output continues to rise

and librarians can help

attend to that issue.❞


LIBRARY PROFILE

When the 2007 Pulitzer Prize foreditorial writing was awardedto the New York Daily News for

its “compassionate and compelling editori-als on behalf of Ground Zero workers1,” thenewspaper’s library shared in the accom-plishment. “Although we did not get pub-lished recognition,” says librarian EllenLocker, “we were acknowledged andthanked profusely for our contribution.”

The New York Daily News, which firstpublished in 1919, has a library whose col-lections include “over 20 million clips,1,500 books and only a handful of newspa-per and magazine subscriptions.” Lockersays staff began “archiving text in 1995,”and archiving photos “around the sametime.” She adds that at present, the library’smicrofilm collection has yet to be digitized.

The library has a staff of eight, whichincludes Head Librarian Faigi Rosenthal,Deputy Head Librarian Peter Edlemanand librarians Ellen Locker, ScottBrowne, Shirley Wong, Scott Widener,Dawn Jackson and James Converson.Locker says that “research and archiving”are the staff ’s primary duties and that“everyone is expected to do everything.”

The library is open seven days a week,with hours of 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdayand 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Locker saysa typical day begins with the librarians get-ting the day’s papers organized, stored andready for users, microfilm and binding.They then share the work of archiving sto-ries in their internal text database,DocCenter, with the goal of completing thearchiving and sending the stories to variousvendors by midday. Locker says that thepaper’s editors and reporters start asking forresearch via walk-ins, phone calls and e-

mail at any time, so juggling multiple tasksis a necessity.

Locker, who earned her Master ofScience in Library and Information Sciencefrom Simmons College in Boston, beganher news library career working with thephoto collection at a smaller newspaper,where she gradually transitioned into doingresearch. “I attended Simmons Collegealmost 15 years ago,” she says, and “a lothas changed.” The Internet wasn’t an issueat the time, but Locker says that learningabout print sources helped her to developthe skill of evaluating the reliability andvalidity of information. Locker adds thatanyone wanting to work in the Daily Newslibrary would need “an MLS degree andthree years of experience, preferably in amedia library.” An applicant would alsoneed to demonstrate “teamwork, attentionto detail and the ability to work in a fastpaced environment, as well as a sixth sensefor news and a sense of humor.”

In addition to the praise received afterthis year’s Pulitzer win, (“What’s a bettermarketing tool?” asks Locker), the libraryalso publicizes its services through the pub-lication of “a periodic newsletter, the cre-ation of spreadsheets on various topics andthe monthly publication of front pagePDFs.

Anticipated projects in the library’sfuture include the implementation of afully automated text archive with less inputfrom librarians, microfilm digitization andthe archiving of Web pages and other mul-timedia content.

1 http://www.pulitzer.org

Supporting the ‘Hometown Newspaper’and the Town is New York City…The Daily News Library

BY AMY DISCH

NLN FEATURE


Meet your Librarian - again, and again and again!BY AIMÉE DECHAMBEAU

As an academic librarian, I feelstrongly that information literacyinstruction is imperative for stu-

dents, and that information literacyinstruction is most effective when com-bined with discipline-specific work. Theestablishment of a new journalism programat Stony Brook University, with a fresh cur-riculum and the desire to be the NewsLiteracy Resource for campus, offered aunique opportunity for the kind of closecollaboration librarians always seek to havewith faculty. News literacy and informationliteracy are so intimately related that a part-nership between the new program and thelibrary is a natural fit.

The following case-study briefly high-lights some of the ways in which the libraryhas become an integral part of the new pro-gram’s curriculum.

The School of Journalism recently estab-lished at Stony Brook is the first under-graduate School of Journalism in New YorkState’s public university system. The mis-sion of the program is to educate both thenext generation of journalists and newsconsumers in a time of information—anddisinformation—overload. The plan is tofoster both a core of well-trained and inde-pendent-minded journalists operating inthe public interest, and an audience of dis-criminating and discerning consumers ofnews. Toward this end, the school not onlyis geared to train the next generation ofnews reporters, editors and managers, but isalso the home for an innovative educationprogram in news literacy designed to pro-duce skilled news consumers.

Our teaching collaboration began inearly 2006 with an experimental arrange-ment between the library and the AdvancedNews Reporting and Writing class (nowcalled News II: Beat Reporting) - anarrangement that was initiated by the Deanof the School of Journalism, Howard

Schneider. The journalist teaching thiscourse, Barbara Selvin, and I discussed hercourse syllabus, text and expectations anddecided to concentrate on integratinginformation literacy skills into five labmodules. These modules covered specifictypes of information: biographical, demo-graphic, legal and court, business, andschool districts, budgets and related localinformation. For each of the five modules,I provided targeted instruction, supplemen-

tary materials and any extra help as needed.Skills taught in these modules were testedon the mid-term exam.

The initial student outcomes werepromising and at the end of the experimentSelvin recommended to Schneider that wenot only continue with the modules inNews II, but that we also develop a relatedcurriculum for the prerequisite journalismclasses. Specifically, she recommended thefollowing progression:❖ 101: News Literacy - basic searching, eval-

uation and information use skills.❖ 110: News I: Basic News Reporting and

Writing - intermediate search skills,specifically in Lexis-Nexis products andthe open web.

❖ 210: News II: Beat Reporting - advancedsearch skills for topic specific areas such asbusiness, government, law and education.

Selvin and I team-taught the five mod-ules in News II for two more semesters fol-

lowing the experiment, and she now teach-es the majority of the modules alone withupdates to the materials and one or twoclass visits from me. Based on her recom-mendations after the initial experiment, Ialso appear regularly in the News Literacyand News I classes. In the lower-level class-es, we work on the above information liter-acy components during a single class periodrather than as a series of modules. Teachinginformation literacy components over sev-eral levels of courses permits us to increasethe complexity of the tasks assigned bybuilding on good basic skills developed andpracticed in previous sessions. There areelective courses in which professors alsorequest library and information instructionsessions, and so we are now in the positionof teaching a variety of information skills tothe same students twice, and often threetimes, each semester. Students get to meettheir librarian again, and again and again.

A brief survey of the literature revealsthat student research improves when jour-nalism faculty incorporate information lit-eracy instruction into their courses.Anecdotally, our results at Stony Brooksupport this. Repeated exposure to libraryand other information resources allows thestudents to continually build and practicesearch and retrieval skills. It also enables usto introduce them to a sequence of increas-ingly sophisticated information tools at themost relevant points in their courses.Identifying the obvious parallels betweeninformation literacy and news literacy pro-vided a natural springboard for collabora-tion while the freshness of the curriculumprovided a perfect incubator for integratedinformation literacy instruction.

Aimée deChambeau ([email protected]) is the Electronic Resources Librarian andLibrarian for the School of Journalism at StonyBrook University, and an SLA News Division mem-ber. She encourages feedback about the types ofinformation skills News Librarians would like to seein young journalists.

❝A brief survey of the lit-erature reveals that stu-dent research improveswhen journalism facultyincorporate informationliteracy instruction intotheir courses.❞


IN MEMORIAM

Associates, an executive recruiting firm.Palmer Yale, Manager of Digital

Content, introduced himself to theNewsLib listserv in August: “I am thenewly hired Manager of Digital Contentfor the newly created Fox BusinessNetwork (FBN) in New York City. I’ll bestarting my new position on August 13th.The network will go to air in October.

“I’ve worked in the library at CNN inNew York for the past three years, and Imay have met some of you in the NewsDivision suite at SLA in Denver in June.

“I just wanted to say hi. I’m also hopingto post a few library positions in the nearfuture.”

Judy Hicks became the head librarianat the Peoria Journal Star in February ofthis year. She is a life-long resident ofPeoria, and a librarian since January 1987.Before that time, she was a telemarketer atthe Journal Star selling the newspaper whileattending Illinois State University inNormal, Illinois, graduating with a B.S. inCommunications.

PEOPLEContinued from page 6

BY DAVID CAPPOLI

SLA PRESIDENT-ELECT

It was in January 1984 when AnnSausedo toured me around the expan-sive second floor of the Los Angeles

Herald Examiner building on SouthBroadway in Downtown L.A. I had recent-ly arrived from New Jersey and Ann wasinterviewing me for the Night Librarianposition within the Her-Ex’s EditorialLibrary. With a hint of ink in the air fromthe nearby presses and background musiccoming from yells of deadlines and the con-stant tapping of writers on their keyboards,she talked about how reporters and editorsstill occasionally referred to the library asthe “morgue.” A name she never cared for.“We’re not morticians, are we?” she notedsomewhat sarcastically.

Prior to coming to the Her-Ex, Ann wasa news librarian with the Stockton (Ca.)Record and then the Washington Times, andshe saw the editorial library as an integralpart of the newspaper, rather than a placewhere brittle, faded stories gathered dust,and saw no use until an obituary needed tobe written. She viewed the library as theplace where stories could take root, andwhere librarians were vital to producingwell-researched editorial content.

Steering me through rows of file cabinetscontaining thousands of published stories,Ann stopped and fingered through a box ofnewly-indexed articles, with headings suchas “Crimes - Arson,” “Bradley, Tom - Staff,”and “Football - L.A. Raiders,” all the whileexplaining the process of “marking up”multiple copies of each day’s editions so thatstories could be found in a variety of ways.

While explaining procedures, she talkedof the excitement of being in the news busi-ness and the librarian’s role in supportingthe integrity of the newspaper. It was anexcitement that she never lost, and a focuson integrity that never wavered. Thoughshe worked the skies on the DC3s of

California Central Airlines for a short peri-od of time, and oversaw a video library afterthe closing of the Her-Ex in 1989, Ann’slove was in newspapers.

On July 25, 2007, my dear friend andlibrary mentor, Ann Sausedo, passed awayafter a long battle with ovarian cancer inMorro Bay, California. Ann was a memberof the SLA Southern California Chapter fora number of years while she was theDirector of the L.A. Herald Examiner’sEditorial Library, and she was a long-timemember of SLA’s News Division, contribut-ing to a number of conference programsand division publications.

Ann showed me the value of my SLAmembership by introducing me to the sup-port that other news libraries gave to oneanother. She also illustrated the significanceof attending the annual conference so thatwe could learn more from our peers in otherdivisions.

Ann Elizabeth Bertram Sausedo wasborn in Douglas, Arizona, to Eugene andBertha Bertram in November 1929, andgrew up in Stockton, Calif. She survived byher daughter, Robin Marie (Terence)Roche; granddaughter, Corina Roche; son-in-law, Terence Roche; sister-in-law, JoanBertram; and many nieces and nephews.She will be missed dearly.

If you wish to honor Ann’s memory,donations are welcomed to the HospicePartners of the Central Coast -http://www.hospicepartners.org/hpotcc/index.html

An obituary for Ann was published inthe San Luis Obispo Tribune on 7/29/2007 -http://www.legacy.com/SANLUISOBIS-PO/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=91666970

David Cappoli is the President-elect of the SouthernCalifornia Chapter, Special Libraries Association,http://www.sla-scc.org/

Ann Sausedo, 1929-2007

In conclusion:Attending SLA 2007 was extremely

valuable to me in terms of lessons I learnedand skills I gained. But as a first-timeattendee, I found that perhaps the mostvaluable aspect of the experience was get-ting to know people in the field who sowillingly share their knowledge and experi-ences. My conversations with AnneHolcomb, Kee Malesky, Amy Disch andBarbara Semonche helped to positivelyimpact my outlook on the field and myexpectations for my own future in it.Thanks again to ProQuest and the NewsDivision for your generous sponsorship ofthe Vormelker-Thomas Award!

Things to do in Denverwhen you are aFirst-time SLA AttendeeContinued from page 5


The music librarian’s responsibilitiesembrace a wide range of activities. Chiefamong them are providing music consulta-tion and support for NPR broadcasts andnpr.org and developing NPR musicresources, including growing the music col-lection and creating internal music guidesand tools. Recent stats show the musiclibrary responding to over 1500 musicquestions in 2006....and on a pace for morethis year; projected 2007 circulation is 6500CDs.

NPR library currently uses a heavily cus-tomized version of Basis Techlib. The musiclibrarian supervises music cataloging andmaintains the integrity of the musicdatabase. Because of NPR’s unique musicneeds recordings are cataloged not just tothe album level but to the individual songlevel with information on every performer,instrument played, year recorded, etc. foreach song. For example, someone may wantthe 1938 Benny Goodman recording withboth Harry James and Lester Young playingthat was arranged by Fletcher Henderson.To date, commercially available databasesdo not provide the rich metadata requiredby NPR music users; only original cata-loging can accomplish this level of detail.Addressing this issue is one of many chal-lenges for NPR’s planned content manage-ment system when implemented later thisyear.

Other activities involve participation inNPR’s ongoing company-wide new contentmanagement system focusing on issuesrelating to consolidating and digitizingcompany music assets. The music librariansits on an intra-divisional committee con-cerned with improving NPR’s music cover-age. He provides support to the newly-formed Music Unit in NPR Digital Media,

for example selecting music for numerousweb slide shows. With the senior librarianhe initiated and supervises a new project tocatalog the raw audio from NPR’s 30 yearsof cultural archives for potential repurpos-ing as web content. And of course there ismusic training year-round for new compa-ny employees.

The music library has been extremelyfortunate in the many talented libraryschool interns chosen to spend a semesterabsorbing the NPR experience. With a staffof one, the music library depends on thesemotivated interns to maintain its high stan-dards of service.

The NPR music library remains a busyplace, more often resembling a restaurant atdinner rush than the familiar stereotype ofthe staid, orderly library. As the musiclibrarian simultaneously fills the roles ofmaitre d’, chef and waiter and the phonerings and emailsarrive requestingreservations theonly difference isthat patrons arethere not for finefood, but music.

Even when ashow is on-the-air,it is not unusual forthe director to callthe music librarywith a last-secondrequest for music,perhaps even for astory on-the-air atthat moment!Several years ago,All Things Consideredaired a story fromFlorida on anescaped, originally-presumed male butnow identified asfemale, manatee.With the story live,

on-the-air, the director called the musiclibrary in need of music to end the segment.“Oh, and we need it in a minute and a-half” he added before hanging up. With notime for deliberation, instinct, training andserendipity took control. As if in a trance,the music librarian moved to the USPopular music section, found the just-acquired 101 Strings Plays Great AmericanComposers with their version of “I EnjoyBeing a Girl” (from the musical FlowerDrum Song) and raced to the control roomdelivering the song with seconds to spare.Though it had been a close thing, onceagain the music librarian had fulfilled hispersonal motto: “For God’s sake, at least doone creative thing a day.” He could relaxmomentarily....until the phone rang again.

NLN FEATURE

The NPR Music Library:Notes that Help Deliverthe NewsContinued from page 1


Annual Business Meeting Minutes Monday, June 4, 2007 Colorado Convention Center,Denver, Colorado

IN ATTENDANCENews Division Executive Board members: Jim Hunter, Chair;Justin Scroggs, Chair-Elect;Ron Larson, Program Planner;Denise Jones, Past-Chair;Peter Johnson, Treasurer;Amy Disch, Secretary;Other members and guests.

CALL TO ORDER Chair Jim Hunter called the meeting to

order at 4:08 p.m. Jim welcomed all the attendees to this

year’s conference and offered thanks to Chair-Elect Justin Scroggs, who planned this year’sDivision programming, Director-Education/Professional Development Dana Gordon forthis year’s CE Course, News Researcher’s TechToolbox 2007: Turning Data into Stories andDenise Jones, Past-Chair, who planned thisyear’s awards banquet at the Denver Museumof Nature & Science.

Jim also thanked all the sponsors support-ing the Division’s programming and remind-ed attendees to pay their $25 suite fee toTreasurer Peter Johnson.

He reminded everyone attending theTuesday night banquet to meet at Lobby B,which faces Welton Street, at 5:30 p.m. tocatch the bus to the museum. Everyone wasreminded to remember their banquet ticketsas they will be collected as you load the bus.

Jim called for a Nomination CommitteeChair to oversee the September elections.There will be openings for Treasurer, ChairElect Elect and Director-Education/Profess-ional Development. Anyone interested inthese positions should contact Jim.

Dana Gordon has agreed to serve an addi-tional year as Director-Education/Professional Development.

Jim addressed the current situation in thenews business and how it is affecting Divisionmembership. The Division will have to lookat items such as the cost of the suite (fewernights may be an option), News Library Newsand the Web site. Justin Scroggs and RonLarson will look at expenses and explore vari-ous options.

He also emphasized that the Web siteneeds to become more of a virtual organiza-tion for the benefit of people who are unableto attend conferences.

EXECUTIVE BOARD REPORTS

TREASURER - PETER JOHNSON

As of April 30, 2007 the Division had achecking account balance of $41,159.19. Anoutstanding deposit of $3,340.00 represent-ing two vendor sponsorships and severalchecks for tickets to the June 2007 awardsbanquet brings the account total to$44,499.19 and outstanding checks totaling$3,832.40 reduce that balance to $40,666.79.

This balance includes $1,325.93 held onbehalf of the Florida News Group and$4,687.47 designated for the C.B. HaydenFellowship for an actual balance of uncom-mitted funds of $34,653.39.

In April 2007, the Division received itsannual membership allotment from SLA inthe amount of $7,788.00. The allotment iscomputed at $12.00 per division member asof December 31 each year, which calculates toa Division membership of 649. Although theallotment does not include new 2007 mem-bers who were processed in 2006, memberswho have selected the Division as an extraunit are included in the total. Respectfully submitted, Peter Johnson Treasurer, News Division

MEMBERSHIP CHAIR - ALICE PEPPER The Numbers

As of May 31, 2007, we have 621 mem-bers.

• 530 are in the standard membership category

• 72 are students

• The rest are retired or corporate members

• 130 people have joined our division in the last12 months - around 50 students and 80 regu-lar members. But compared to last year, we’re down

about 40 members - so while we gained 130,we really lost 170.

I made a list of everyone who left in 2006(which isn’t easy because SLA HQ doesn’tcompile that information) for Jim Hunter.There were 164 people on the list. There wasno way to tell who lost their jobs or justdropped out.

Thirty (30) of the 164 didn’t have a busi-ness address so they appeared to be students.

Welcome We continued sending an e-mail greeting

to new members with links to our Web siteand membership directory, and highlightingthe Vormelker-Thomas Award for students asappropriate.

Membership directory I conducted an informal survey on

NewsLib about the need for a separate NewsDivision membership directory. The 30responses favored a Division directory. A fewfound the SLA online database version satis-factory. But more people indicated they print-ed out our PDF version and used it regularly.

Linda Paschal at NewsBank started com-piling the fabulous geographical index to theNews Division directory a few weeks ago.The directory should go online on our “mem-bers only” Web site soon.

We are dropping the Bylaws section fromthe directory, since that will be replaced bySLA’s “standard practices” procedures. The listof library and journalism associations isalready on our Web site, so those pages aregoing away too.

Thank you again NewsBank presidentDan Jones for sponsoring this invaluabletool.





Conference mentorship Shira Kavon is playing matchmaker for

mentor-mentee couples at the Denver confer-ence.

Shira reports there are five mentor/ menteecouples this year, totaling 10 participants,which includes 3 men and 7 women.

Conclusion Thank you to committee members Shira

Kavon, Anne Holcomb and Amy Disch. Wealways welcome new volunteers to the com-mittee. Respectfully submitted, Alice Pepper News Division Membership Chair

CHAIR-ELECT - JUSTIN SCROGGS

Justin welcomed attendees to the confer-ence and reminded us about this evening’stour of the Denver Post and the Silent Auctionlater this evening in the suite. He also offeredthanks to speakers and moderators and toDivision sponsors, including Factiva,LexisNexis, NewsBank, Dialog, CopyrightClearance Center and ProQuest.

PROGRAM PLANNER - RON LARSON

Ron spoke of next year’s SLA conference,which will be held June 15-18 in Seattle,Washington. The theme for the conference is“Breaking Rules, Building Bridges.” Ronattended a planning meeting in January at themidwinter meeting and also had a meetingSaturday and again on Wednesday here inDenver. If you have ideas for the conference,please contact Ron.

Ron says there are 10 slots including theBusiness meeting and 2-4 sessions must beshared with other divisions.

SECRETARY - AMY DISCH

Amy had nothing to report.

DIRECTOR-EDUCATION/PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT CHAIR - DANA GORDON

Dana thanked speakers Derek Willis,

Mike Meiners, Jeremy Milarsky and JaimiDowdell, who participated by phone, fortheir participation in the CE course.

She announced that the Division will besponsoring an event at Poynter, October 9-12, 2007 titled “I’m a new manager, nowwhat?”

Dana sought ideas for next year’s CE andsuggested a possible topic of management ofmultimedia. She added that sponsorshipopportunities are available.

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR - GAIL HULDEN

News Library NewsLeigh Montgomery of the Christian

Science Monitor is the current managing edi-tor of News Library News. Leigh reports thefollowing:

“News Library News is being published as aquarterly publication in electronic format,posted on the SLA News Division site andcirculated on the NewsLib listserv. It contin-ues to have a range of features on newslibraries, applications, columns and shortitems on people and developments in the pro-fession.

NLN currently has one paid advertiser,EOS, a repeat client for this year. We also hada paid ad from Military PERISCOPE in thewinter issue. Jim Hunter suggested that moreattention be put on this area from thePublications division, not only to support thecost of the publication, which at this point isfor the page designer, but hoped that wecould have more advertisers promoting theirconference activities `to not only cover thecost of News Library News but pay for theconference.’ He also suggested a BusinessDevelopment team.”

Leigh has made some calls in an effort todevelop the advertising and has circulated ourfee schedule to businesses she thought mightbe interested in reaching our group.

News Division Membership Directory Alice Pepper of the Detroit Free Press is

Membership Chair. She reports that the 2007 News Division

membership directory will be published in

late May or early June in a .PDF version andposted online for SLA News Division mem-bers only.

With a notice sent to the NewsLib mailinglist, Alice reminded News Division membersto update their own membership informationon the SLA Web site. Alice then arranged forLinda Paschal at NewsBank to obtain adownload of the News Division membershiprecords from SLA. Linda then organized thegeographic index and formatted the informa-tion and a NewsBank staffer did the finalword-processing.

In March 2007, Alice sent an informalsurvey via the NewsLib listserv to Divisionmembers asking if they thought the member-ship directory was useful and valuable in itscurrent .PDF format. She received 33responses with 19 folks advising they used the.PDF version with most printing out a hardcopy. Seven suggested they’d prefer to go backto the print copy but five were happy with theonline only version. Four responded that theyuse SLA’s online directory, but the rest want-ed to retain the News Division-specific direc-tory.

NewsLib listserv

Carolyn Edds of the St. Petersburg Times isthe NewsLib listserv administrator. She wasselected as the successor to former administra-tor Barbara Semonche.

From previous annual reports written byBarbara Semonche, NewsLib subscribers, asof May 31, 2007, number 1,112. Number ofsubscribers for previous years:

2006 report: 1,139 2005 report: 1,1102004 report: 1,227 Information about NewsLib was moved to

the News Division’s Web site and is availableat:

http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/NewsLib/newsliblyris.html

The number of messages posted weekly toNewsLib is about 50, and more than 99% ofNewsLib messages are successfully posted onthe first attempt.

Annual Business MeetingMinutes Continued from previous page


SLA News Division Web site Amy Disch of The Columbus Dispatch is

the Web mistress. Amy has been keeping the Web site entire-

ly up to date with the SLA conference doings.She has posted and re-posted several times aweek - if not daily - with the pertinent infor-mation that any attendee would need for asuccessful conference.

For the last several years, there has been aninterest in redesigning the Web site and alsopossibly relocating it if it becomes necessary.Leigh Poitinger, past Director of Publications,along with a team of dedicated news librari-ans, did some solid groundwork during andafter the 2006 SLA conference in Baltimore.They completed a content organization chartof the Web, defined the site’s users, came upwith a list of what they thought were the mostuseful site areas, considered what new tech-nologies should be available and even cameup with a list of sites comparable to ours inaudience and content that would be the bestmodels to emulate.

This year, we have formed a committee often, some from last year’s committee and sev-eral new folks that will take the work fromlast year and build on it. We hope to holdtwo meetings during this conference, the firstbeing on Sunday, June 3 and the secondwhenever we can fit it in. The purpose of thefirst meeting will be to discuss what the 2006committee came up with, and to look at threeSLA and similar sites that redesigned theirWeb sites during the last year. The secondwill be to decide what remaining work needsto be done, and parsing out that work, inanticipation of launching a redesign by latefall.

Amy and I will be attending the businessmeeting of the SLA DBIO division onTuesday morning where they will profile theirnew redesign to their members. They antici-pate on going live with it in August. I havehad several interviews with Claudia Lascar

who oversaw their redesign committee whoprovided some extremely valuable informa-tion.

I understand that this redesign is of toppriority to the executive board and will see ifwe can’t get some real progress during thenext six months. Respectfully submitted, Gail Hulden News Division Publications Director

ARCHIVES - TERESA LEONARD

Teresa Leonard was not present, but itwas reported that she is no longer interestedin being Archives Chair, so the Division isseeking a new archivist.

BROADCAST - KEE MALESKY

Kee Malesky had nothing to report.

WEBMASTER - AMY DISCH

Amy Disch thanked everyone for gettingtheir presentations to her and says she willhave most if not all the presentations postedon the Division’s Web site by the end of theweek. She also stated that her term ends at theconclusion of the 2008 conference and any-one interested in the position should let heror Jim Hunter know.

SMALL LIBRARIES - ANNE HOLCOMB

Anne Holcomb was not present and therewas nothing to report.

NEW BUSINESS Jim Hunter moved that we accept any new

business. The motion was seconded andapproved.

OLD BUSINESS Jim Hunter asked for any old business. Barbara Semonche mentioned the

archives at the University of North Carolinaand says she has an inventory of thosearchives on a spreadsheet.

A motion was made to adjourn and themeeting ended. Respectfully submitted, Amy Disch News Division Secretary

PAGE 14 NEWS LIBRARY NEWS SUMMER 2007

Annual Business MeetingMinutes Continued from page 13


“This seminar went above my expecta-tions . . . It is an honor to be invited toPoynter.”

“Exceeded expections! It was a uniqueopportunity to train & plan for thefuture.”

“I learned a lot and met a lot of reallygreat people I’ll keep in touch with.”

These are just some of the com-ments attendees made about last year’ssession, and once again we are pleasedto offer a seminar in partnership withthe Poynter Institute in sunny St.Petersburg, Florida. The program willfocus on the concerns of new man-agers of news research departments,with seminars on:

• leadership • coaching and staffing issues • juggling the many hats and roles of

today’s news research center • positioning news research in the

newsroom • technology management • managing for the futureThis is a unique opportunity to

learn from the pros both within ourdivision, and at the Institute.

Dates: Sunday, March 2 - WednesdayMarch 5, 2008

Location: Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg,FL

Cost: Final fees for the program have notbeen determined, but those planning toattend should budget for round trip trans-portation to St. Petersburg, lodging at$100/night, some meals, and a programcost of $100.

Look for program updates andapplication info on Newslib.

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