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Tim Binga, Library
Director at the Center for Inquiry, conducted a tour of the research
center (Spring, 2003)
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Michelle Pava,
School Media Specialist for West Seneca’s West Elementary School.
In the Summer of 2002, she volunteered for the World Library Partnership
in South Africa and shared her experiences with us (Fall, 2002) (For
information about the World Library Partnership visit http://worldlibraries.org)
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Christopher Kelly,
Director of the Karpleles Manuscript Library Museum, discussed the Karpleles'
philosophy of document management and their educational outreach programs
(Fall, 2001)
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William Loos,
Curator of the Rare Book Room, Buffalo and Erie county Public Library, shared
some of his amazing and amusing experiences with everyone (Fall, 2000)
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Leonard Robinson,
a Roycroft artisan specializing in old-world book binding and restoration
techniques, gave a tour of his workshop (Spring, 2000)
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Steven Daly
and David LoTempio,
proprietors of Seeley & Kane’s Cards & Comics, shared their
enthusiasm for graphic novels with everyone (Fall, 1999)
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Mia Boynton
spoke on "Folk Art and Popular Culture in Erie County" at the
Fall, 1990 initiate dinner
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Betsy Sywetz,
then director of the Western New York Library Resources Council and president
of the New York Library Association, was the guest speaker at the Fall,
1996 initiate dinner
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James Finamore,
a founding member of the Buffalo Free-Net, spoke about community networks
at the Fall, 1995 initiate dinner
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Patricia Beckett
and Patricia Monahan
gave a tour of the Buffalo & Erie county Public Library’s Special
Collections Department (Summer, 1995)
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Mary Ghikas,
then executive director of the Western New York Library Resources Council,
was the guest speaker at the Fall, 1993 initiate dinner
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Sabina Arcisz,
a professor from the Department of Library and Information Science of the
Jagiellonian University (Crakow, Poland), discussed the state of libraries
in Poland at a Spring, 1993 dinner meeting
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Kari Horowicz
of the G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library at the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, presented "A Glimpse of Artists’ Books" and a tour
of the Clifton Hall Library (Summer, 1993)
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William Loos,
Curator of the Rare Book Room, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, discussed
being Mark Twain, and his role in rescuing the "missing half"
of Huckleberry Finn manuscript from the auction block (Summer, 1992)
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Virginia Bartos
of the Buffalo Historical Society, provided a slide show presentation of
the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo at the turn of the century as part
of the Initiate dinner, Fall, 1992
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Judith Adams
of the Lockwood Library (University at Buffalo), presented a program entitled
"Getting Published" as part of the Summer, 1991 meeting
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Dorothy Woodson,
a subject specialist in African-American Studies at Lockwood Library (University at Buffalo), described her experiences in Swaziland as an ALA visiting fellow
at the Fall, 1991 initiate dinner
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Donald Goralski
conducted a toured of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
(NCEER) and the Earthquake Information Services Division as part of a Spring,
1990 meeting
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Winthrop Huntington Rice,
III, presented a program entitled "Generation
of Instructional & Informational Materials: From Print to Hypermedia"
at a Fall, 1990 program cosponsored by the Western New York Library Resources
Council and Beta Phi Mu
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Shaun Hardy
of the Buffalo Museum of Science spoke about some of the treasures found
in the Science Museum’s library at the Fall, 1988 initiate dinner
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Ellen Schultz
spoke of the life and writings of Beatrix Potter at the Fall, 1987 initiate
dinner
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Janet Wailey
conducted a tour of the Biblical Library and Research Institute as part
of a Fall, 1987 meeting
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Marianne Goldstein,
a European language bibliographer at Lockwood Library, presented a slide
show entitled "A Librarian Visits Russia" as part of the 1985
initiate dinner
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Betty Keehn
of the Genealogical Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, presented a program about tracing family roots at a Spring, 1986
meeting
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John Ellison
of the School of Information Studies, presented a slide show talk about
his experiences as a Fulbright scholar in Jamaica and the Caribbean at the
Fall, 1986 initiate dinner
