Promotions in Yale University Library, July 2003

[Alice Prochaska <alice.prochaska@YALE.EDU>]

     I am delighted to announce that the following
people have been promoted as a result of the annual promotion review
process:

Librarian I to II
Steven Bernstein, Catalog Department
Mary Caldera, Manuscript & Archives
Mark Engsberg, Law Library
Todd Gilman, Research Services and Collections
Stephen Jones, Beinecke Rare Book Library
Pamela Mann, Research Services and Collections
Abraham Parrish, Research Services and Collections
Earl Roy, Catalog Department
Keiko Suzuki, East Asia Collection

Librarian II to III
Kathleen Bauer, Medical Library
Eric Friede, Divinity Library
Julie Linden, Social Science Library & Information Services
David Walls, Preservation Department
Jennifer Weintraub, Electronic Collection

Librarian III to IV
Charles Greenberg, Medical Library
Robert Killheffer, Catalog Department
Nanette Stahl, Judaica Collection
Patricia Thurston, Catalog Department

Librarian IV to V
Joanne Rudof, Fortunoff Video Archives

     As always, a highly talented crop of applicants
came forward. I read accounts of some extraordinary achievements.
National expertise in new applications of digital technology, important
contributions to faculty liaison, exceptional productivity in cataloging,
negotiating resource licenses and mapping federal data into the Orbis
catalog, are all examples of the sort of work that newly promoted Yale
librarians have contributed to the Library's progress. Administrative
skills of a high order figure in some of the recommendations for
promotion, bringing together diverse parts of the Library system to
achieve, for example, cooperative cataloging goals. Implementation of
Voyager in complex administrative situations figures in more than one
recommendation. Others have excelled in collection development and the
promotion of rare materials which otherwise would be little known. There
is testimony to the organization of important international conferences
of scholars both on the Yale campus and elsewhere. Personal initiatives
in promoting the library profession and membership of professional bodies
at regional, national, and international level are a common theme.
Several candidates have a record of distinguished work with the greater
New Haven community. Numerous innovations in technological and
administrative processes are recorded.

     I would like to extend my congratulations to all
the successful candidates for promotion, and also my thanks to all the
members of the Promotion Review Committee, chaired this year by Paul
Stuehrenberg. The committee did its work with meticulous fairness and
careful attention to the Library's rigorous criteria for promotion. I
salute their devotion to this difficult and time-consuming task. And I
also salute the accomplishments of Yale's talented, innovative, and
dedicated librarians. Congratulations on these well-earned
promotions.

Alice