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Suzanne Durham (second from right), head of special collections at Ingram Library, and fellow Georgia archivists met with Gov. Sonny Perdue as he signed a Proclamation for "Georgia Archives Month," which takes place every October.

Kudos

Diane Fulkerson, assistant professor and instructional services librarian for the Ingram Library, has been chosen to participate in the 2009 American Library Association’s Emerging Leaders program.

During her participation in the EL program, Fulkerson will travel to Denver in January for the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting and then to Chicago in July to present a project at the 2009 Annual ALA Conference. Participants chosen will take part in all aspects of the program and have the opportunity to serve on various committees, taskforces or workgroups upon completion of the program.

The EL program, currently in its third year, enables more than 100 librarians from across the country to participate in project planning workgroups and allow them to serve the profession in a leadership capacity.

Fulkerson received sponsorship from the Georgia Library Association and will continue to receive support from the association throughout her duration in the program. For more information about the ALA or the EL program, visit www.ala.org.

Dr. Sunil Hazari, assistant professor of Mangement and Business Systems, and Dr. Alexa North, professor of management, wrote and had published in the Journal of Applied Research and Business Instruction their article, "Assessment Challenges for Business Education in Changing Times."

Hazari and North also presented a paper,"Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? Student Perceptions of Wiki Technology" at the 73rd Annual Convention of Association of Business Communication Conference held at Lake Tahoe last month.

Clint Samples and Dave Collins, both assistant professors of art, each received Honorable Mention at the 22nd Annual National Juried Arts Exhibition at the Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville. UWG alum Nariesa Pauly, who graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art degree last May, was also honored for her work.

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Campus Talk

Institutional Research and Planning is pleased to announce Lounceny Kaba as the new Institutional Research Analyst I. Lounceny’s major is Computer Science and he will graduate from West Georgia in December. The graduate will maintain the IRP website to provide easy access to institutional data across campus and externally; facilitate the development of an interactive Fact Book and assist other staff in designing and conducting web surveys and reports.

Please join us in welcoming him to campus.

World War II veteran Edward LaPorta will speak at Ingram Library on Thursday, November 20, at 11:00 a.m. His program is in conjunction with the photographic exhibit, “Images of Small Town Americans in World War II,” which is on display at the Library through December 12.
LaPorta, an immigrant from Italy, was one of only 20 men in his company of 220 to survive the Invasion of North Africa. Taken prisoner by the Germans, he was confined to camps in Italy and Germany for the remainder of the war. For further information, contact Catherine Hendricks at 9-5337 or chendric@westga.edu.

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