Library Worklife

Volume 2, No. 3 • March 2005

Support Staff

Trish Palluck Is Library Journal Paraprofessional of the Year

Trish Palluck, of the Wyoming State Library, has been enthusiastically chosen as LJ Paraprofessional of the Year. Among the many accolades she received, her colleagues say she is inspirational, genuinely caring and a sensitive trainer. She works in the automation office, and was responsible for the implementation of the statewide interlibrary loan system. She also pioneered the Paraprofessional/Support Staff Section of the Wyoming Library Association. For more information, see the March 1, 2005, issue of Library Journal.

We also applaud the other nominees: Paulette Feld, Jennifer S. Kutzik, and Lydia C. Williams.

Associates Subscribers Need to Resubscribe

Associates: The Electronic Library Support Staff Journal is an international forum for and about library support staff issues. Associates is published three times per year in March, July, and November. Associates maintains a Web site as well as issuing full text contents via e-mail to subscribers.

A disaster befell the Associates electronic mailing list last month. Wendee Eyler, the Editor of Associates, reports that when the University of California, Riverside, switched to a new electronic discussion list machine, information from all 3,600 subscribers to Associates and AssociatesWeb were lost. She was unable to make a backup of the subscribers on the old list, and had relied on the campus to safely preserve the Associates subscribers’ lists. (If you would like to read more details of the Associates subscription disaster, please go to http://associates.ucr.edu/assocdis.htm).

Wendee asks that everyone resubscribe, since the last subscriber list she has, from March 2002, is incomplete and probably out of date. Also, help her with a worldwide word-of-mouth campaign to inform subscribers of their need to resubscribe and hopefully add new subscribers as well. As permitted, Associates will also make the announcement on many of the listservs that are of interest to library staff.

If you had been a subscriber to Associates, please take a moment to subscribe. If you are new to Associates, Wendee invites you to explore the Associates web site-its current issue and archives. In July 2004, Associates celebrated ten years of publication. The Associates home page is at http://associates.ucr.edu.

Subscribing to Associates is free. Only the editor has access to the subscription lists. The subscription lists have not and will never be shared or sold to anyone.

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You may also contact Wendee directly if you have any questions. Please send an e-mail to Wendee Eyler, Editor, at rivwe@ucr.edu.

Thank you all for your past and future support of Associates.