David Grzybowski, director of campus operations, has been
recertified as a facility manager by the International Facility Management Association.
The certification requires a combination of practical experience and passing an exam.
Paul Mantica, director of campus safety, has been named a housing
officer for the Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority, a volunteer position which
reviews tenant regulations and housing codes.
Maribeth Krupczak, collection development librarian, was one of
three panelists who took part in a discussion titled “Electronic Media: Collection
Development” on the impact electronic media will have on library collection policies
sponsored by the Academic and Special Libraries Section.
David A. Cotter, assistant professor of sociology, has been
awarded a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to extend ongoing
collaborative research into the micro- and macro-level determinants of gender inequality
across labor markets. He published a paper from this project titled “The Demand for
Female Labor” this month in the American Journal of Sociology. It examines the
macro-level effects of the demand for female labor on five dimensions of gender
inequality: labor market outcomes, education, family structure, political officeholding
and gender role attitudes. While strong effects of demand for female labor were found on
gender inequalities in labor market outcomes and education, only mixed effects were shown
on family status, and the demand for female labor had little or no impact on officeholding
and aggregate gender role attitudes. The NSF research focuses on gendered outcomes in the
labor market and education.
Jean Sheviak, associate professor, Schaffer Library, is a member
of the New York State Electronic Doorway Library Action Committee, which has drafted a
plan to move toward the goal of enabling all libraries to have electronic access to its
own and other resources. Sheviak also was recently elected president of the board of
trustees of the Capital District Library Council, and to a three-year term on the SCCC
Library Resources Committee.
Mary Cahill, reference librarian and head of interlibrary loan
and document delivery, and Cheryl LaGuardia of Harvard University have received the first
Janice Graham Newkirk Research Award of the Eastern New York Chapter of the Association of
College and Research Libraries in support of their research paper titled “From Buns
to Bytes: How Technology is Changing Librarians' Image” to be presented at a
joint meeting of the American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Association.
Donna Burton, government documents and reference librarian, has
had reviews published in recent issues of the Journal of Government Information.
She reviewed “Current Issues Source File,” a CD-ROM software product from
Congressional Information Service that provides indexing and access to the full text of
hard-to-find publications; and “Statistics on Crime and Punishment,” based on
government-collected statistics.