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Irene Hoadley, director of Sterling C. Evans Library, earns recognition as Librarian of the Year *
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By SEAN FRERKING
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Association of
[Former Students rewarded faculty
[members for excellance in academic
[achievement.
The association handed out 22
[Distinguished Achievement Awards
[for the 1989-90 school year.
Presentations consisted of a
[$4,000 check, a gold watch and a
] framed certificate for each recipient.
The former students association
[has awarded outstanding faculty
since 1955. The original cash award
Lnv&s'S&QQ. Svuce 1984, faculty mem-
1 bers have received $4,000.
The association also will select 29
teaching awards during Fall 1990.
Recipients were nominated by va-
| rious groups, faculty and students. A
36-member panel selected the win-
| ners of the achievement awards.
The recipients of the distin
guished achievement awards are
listed below in alphabetic order.
Teaching:
• Victor Arizpe, Modern and
Classical Language
• Leonard L. Berry, Marketing
• Larry D. Claborn, Veterinary
Physiology and Pharmacology
• William B. Clark, English
• Richard M. Feldman, P.E., In
dustrial Engineering
• Charles J. Glover, Chemical En
gineering
• John F. Griffiths, Meteorology
• Carlos Nick Pace, Biochemistry
and Biophysics
• William B. Smith, Statistics
Research:
• Kirk W. Brown, Soil and Crop
Sciences
• Donald J. Darensbourg, Chem
istry
• F. Russel Huson, Physics
• Larry L. Keeley, Entomology
• Don T. Phillips, P.E., Industrial
Engineering
• Ralph E. White, P.E., Chemical
Engineering
Student Relations:
• Ronald E. Sasse, Student Af
fairs
• J.Malon Southerland, Student
Services
Continuing Education:
• James M. McGrann, Agricultu
ral Economics
• Jerry M. Parsons, Agricultural
Extension Service
Staff:
• Carolyn C. Grine, College of
Veterinary Medicine
• Barbara N. Sloan, Physics
Administration:
• Vauerhn M. Bryant Jr., Anthro
P°logy.
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A&M library director earns
recognition for improvements
By KATHY COX
Of The Battalion Staff
Dr. Irene Hoadley, director of
Sterling C. Evans Library, earned
recognition as librarian of the year
by helping the library gain national
esteem for its technology.
Hoadley was recognized by the
Texas Library Association.
“This library does have a national
reputation in terms of utilizing tech
nology,” Hoadley said. “A lot of the
things we do now and take for
granted are in almost every library,
but very often we did them a little
ahead of other people and some of
our operations are more extensive.”
Hoadley, a native Texan who re
ceived her undergraduate degree
from the University of Texas, came
to A&M from a job at Ohio State
University’s library.
She has helped double Evans li
brary’s volume of works, while using
technology to make these resources
more accessible.
Hoadley said when she arrived at
A&M in 1974, she realized the li
brary did not have a background of
building book collections.
“Without that, it was obvious we
could never catch up, so we had to
find a way to make the most use of
the materials we had,” she said. “You
do that by increasing access to those
materials.”
Hoadley, who has a Ph.D. in li
brary science from the University of
Michigan, said she believes in taking
one step at a time.
“I don’t ever want to look at a job
as being a big job, because then
you’re put off doing it,” she said.
“You want to look at the things that
are ‘do-able’ ... and start in so that
the bigger jobs get narrowed down
into smaller ones.”
Hoadley’s jobs have included put
ting the library’s records into ma
chine readable format, building a
ood base of current collections,
uying microform materials for
older information and building up
the journal collections.
Hoadley said she now hopes to in
crease research materials for faculty
needs.
Hoadley helped implement the
New Online Texas A&M Informa
tion System (NOTIS) — a computer
database of all books and journal ti-
“I
I would like to see the
University make a
commitment to providing
more study space that’s
not library space.”
— Irene Hoadley,
library director
ties, BRS After Dark — a computer
search with access to millions of arti
cles, journals and books across the
country and the James and Virginia
Wiley Laser Disk Service — compact
and laser disk stored information
that can be read on a microcom
puter.
Hoadley said technology was be
coming available quickly, so she
jumped on the bandwagon.
“We jumped on in the back and
we hope we’re out in the front now,
helping to lead that parade,” she
said.
Future plans for the library in
clude expansion of both space and
technology, Hoadley said.
An addition to the library has
been approved, and Hoadley said a
committee is looking at proposals.
She said one proposal recom
mends taking over the Agriculture
Building and constructing a walkway
between it and the main library.
Vending machines could be put in
the extra building, Hoadley said,
and it could be used for group study.
“We want to keep the library cen- |
tralized, and having that building
will help us to do that,” she said.
This proposal includes building a |
new facility on the west side of cam
pus to keep up with the growth on
that part of campus, she said.
Hoadley also feels there are bet
ter, more immediate solutions for
lack of space.
“I would like to see the University
make a commitment to providing
more study space that’s not library
space,” she said. “This is very expen
sive space to use for study space.”
Students need a better place to
study, Hoadley said, a place where
they can spread out and eat and
drink.
“I’d like to see the dining halls
open in the evening so you (stu
dents) can do that,” she said.
Hoadley feels food services could
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Graduation ceremonies commence this weekend
Graduation ceremonies for the
College of Veterinary Medicine
will be at 10 a.m. Friday with
guest speaker William Jenkins of
the Louisiana State University
dean of veterinary medicine.
The Graduate College and the
colleges of Liberal Arts and Edu
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exercises at 2 p.m. Friday. The
speaker will be Secretary of Com
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Graduation for the colleges of
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