Monday, May 03, 2010

Best wishes Dale Riordan!

Dale Riordan served as our Science Librarian for 10 years. Under her leadership, science research instruction & resources grew enormously. We could always count on Dale's expertise, easy manner and terrific humor. The Library will surely miss Dale, and we wish her all the best as she enjoys the sun & fun of Florida. Please Dale, when you get a chance, send us a few bright yellow grapefruits up North!



Dale cuts a sunny cake.



Dale and Pam Snelson, College Librarian.



Perhaps the last time we'll see this wonderful mix of people all together at the same time in the same place. Roughly from left-to-right: Pam Snelson, Dale Riordan, Mike Lear, Denise Chmielewski, Renate Sachse, Andy Gulati, Scott Vine (back), Sue Wood, Jenn Buch, Mike Horn, Chuck Leayman (back), Louise Kulp, Marty Gordon (back), Nikki Rearich, Andrea Hartranft, Linda Danner, Lisa Stillwell (back), Pat Miller, Rick Thompson, Christopher Raab, Ken Siegert

Comings & Goings

Not since 1996-1997 has there been this much staff activity at the Library. As noted in a previous post, both evening supervisors Bill Coventry and Sabine Caldwell left us in late winter. And just this Spring, Dale Riordan (Science Librarian) flew off to sunny Florida to rejoin family.

Andrea Hartranft recently joined us at Martin, as our Evening Circulation Supervisor. And we just celebrated Tom Karel's 25th year with the Library. Renate Sachse (Cataloging & Circulation Librarian) was also honored, as she will be retiring at the end of June (stay tuned for pictures!).



Andrea Hartranft and Riley

Andrea will graduate with a MLS from Clarion in August. She started with an internship at the Lancaster Historical Society and was employed by the Lititz Public Library, followed by an internship at F&M. Andrea is thrilled to be working at Martin and looks forward to a fulfilling career in libraries.



Tom Karel at the Honoring Distinguished Service event.

Tom, our Collection Development Librarian and Government Documents Guru, was honored for his 25 years of service. Tom can't leave us as long as he has interesting Congressional hearings to read and share!



Marilyn Kennard

Marilyn worked for many years at Shadek-Fackenthal before moving to the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium. Marilyn will join her husband Ron in retirement after June.