Maritime Librarians presented at 2012 SUNYLA and ALA Conferences

Maritime Librarians were featured presenters at the 44th Annual SUNY Librarians Association Conference held at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City on June 6-8, 2012 and at the American Library Association Annual Conference held at the Hyatt Regency in Anaheim, California on June 21-26, 2012.

Constantia Constantinou (Library Director and Department Chair) and Elizabeth Berilla (Reference, Instruction, and Outreach Librarian) presented sessions on various topics at the SUNYLA Conference . Kimmy Szeto (Cataloging and Metadata Librarian) presented at the ALA Conference. Ms. Constantinou’s first presentation, Breakfast with the Distinguished Librarians, was addressed to the morning gathering of all attendees where she led an intense discussion on the path to becoming a distinguished librarian - a topic that’s very much related to her recent accomplishment of becoming the fifth SUNY Distinguished Librarian. Ms. Constantinou then followed up with another breakout session, Transcending Boundaries to Increase Cultural Understanding Between Countries, where she gave an account of her impressive work as a Fulbright Scholar.

Ms. Berilla’s presentation, Anchors en Vogue: The Institutional Archives and Identity of Maritime College and the Stephen B. Luce Library, focused on the Library archives and the various efforts undertaken to enhance preservation and access.

Mr. Szeto’s presentation, RDA in RDF: Transitioning to the FRBR Catalog and the Semantic Web, was delivered to a nationwide group of library catalogers where he discussed the future of cataloging with the application of new standards and programming codes.