Barbara J. Dunlap
After over 34 years of distinguished service Professor Barbara Dunlap, the library's long-time Chief of Archives and Special Collections, retired effective February 1, 1999.

She began her career on September 1, 1964, doing bibliographic searching in the Acquisitions Division.  In 1965 her responsibilities were divided between acquisitions and reference work in the Humanities Reading Room. She later worked full-time in the consolidated Reference Division.  In 1978 she became the Chief of the Archives and Special Collections Division and the Collection Development Coordinator.  In the latter role she developed and edited the City College Library Collection Development Policy Manual.  She also served on numerous library and college-wide committees.

While serving as Acting Chief Librarian from November 1989 to July 1991 Professor Dunlap took long-overdue steps to make computers available to librarians and guided the library's migration from its in-house Geac system to the university-wide NOTIS system. While working here she took doctoralÑlevel courses in librarianship at Columbia University and pursued doctoral work in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

She presented papers and published several articles on Victorian literature with an emphasis on the novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge.  She was a reviewer for Library Journal and book review editor for the Journal of Human Lactation, the official journal of the International Lactation Consultant Association, of which she was a member.

In 1988 she was elected to the Academy of Certified Archivists, the newly formed certifying body of the Society of American Archivists. As CCNY's archivist she became an expert on the history of City College.  In addition to her archival interests, Professor Dunlap also excelled in the art of the exhibit.  By herself or with colleagues she mounted many  in the Archives and in the main-floor library display cases which presented some of the riches of the library's collection.

Professor Dunlap will be remembered for her dedication and commitment to the library and the college, the breadth of her knowledge and interests, her love of books and literature, and her desire to share that love and knowledge with others.

Martin W. Helgesen
mnhcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu

Sally Lyon
Associate Professor Sally Lyon joined the City College Library in 1986 as Head of the Reference Division in Cohen Library.  She brought considerable expertise to the staff in database searching and in the subject areas of anthropology, archaeology, and history.  In addition to administrative duties and reference work, Professor Lyon regularly gave bibliographic instruction, teaching classes at all levels, including those for the biomedical program.

She graduated from Boston University with a BA in history, and received her MLS from Drexel University in Philadelphia.  She worked at the Queensborough Public Library and at the Institute of Life Insurance prior to joining the staff of the Bobst library at NYU, where she also received an MA in history.

Active in college affairs, Professor Lyon served on the Faculty Senate and the Affirmative Action Committee, among other committees.  She worked on American Library Association committees in the areas of reference services and library instruction, publishing articles on online searching as an outgrowth of her committee work.  She was also active in the Association of College and Research Libraries/New York, planning and participating in programs and events.

Laurel Franklin
lifcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
 

Cohen Library now has an operational network printer in its public Internet workstation area on the main level (2nd floor).

The printer enables those using our public Internet stations and local area network databases to print their search results at 10 and 5 cents per page respectively. As only change can be used in the connected coin box, a change machine is available on that floor.

Since users are able to access CUNY+ (the university's online catalog) through the Internet stations, they can now print results from CUNY+ searches as well as from other Web searches at the network printer.

The library will investigate options to install similar Internet printing capabilities in the Architecture, Music, and Science/Engineering libraries.

Guy T. Westmoreland
guwcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu

 
 
 
 
 

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