he City College Library, the Department of Music, and The Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts at CCNY presented the CCNY Student Jazz Ensemble and the Faculty Jazz Ensemble in concert on February 8 and 10 during club hours.

The student ensemble played compositions by Distinguished Professor Ron Carter and other African American jazz composers—Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Sonny Rollins.

Just A Closer Walk With Thee, the well-known spiritual, arranged and played by Professor Carter on double bass, was his special ode to Black History Month. The faculty's program featured Carter's compositions including, Blues for D.P., Friends, Bom Dia, Opus One Point Five, N.Y. Slick, and Receipt, Please.

If you missed the live concerts, go to the Music Library, Shepard 160, and listen to them on tape.

The City College Library is happy to welcome Hector R. Perez-Gilbe as its first full-time government documents librarian.  Up to this point, the position had been a half-time slot, filled by various library faculty members responsible for other areas as well.  With the burgeoning number of documents now received in print, microform, and electronic formats, the library decided that the task of organizing, cataloging, and publicizing these valuable materials needed full-time attention.

Mr. Perez comes to our library with extensive experience working with government documents at all levels. Starting in 1990 when he began his library career at the University of Puerto Rico's Mayaguez campus through his recent position at Florida International University's North Campus Library, he has spent seven-plus years directly involved with both the technical and  public service aspects of federal, state, and local documents.

In addition to his expertise with government documents, Mr. Perez offers general reference service experience, earned most recently at Barry University in Florida where he also conducted library instruction and created and maintained Web pages for various subject areas.

A native of Puerto Rico, Mr. Perez earned his BS from the university there, later receiving his master's in library and information science from the University of South Florida.  Happy to be up north where much of his family now lives, he is eager to be part of CityÕs academic community, and plans to make the library's collection of documents a more integral part of that community's life.

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