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exchange program with his home museum, and reviewed materials in the
Anthropology Branch Library. He used the Internet extensively to establish contact with institutions holding
Andean and Amazonian collections and to exchange information on regional U. S. studies. Mary Augusta
Thomas, Assistant Director, Management and Systems, who served as mentor to Sr. Oporto-Ordoņez, noted,
"As an expert in his field, he deepened our subject expertise [with his reports]. His enthusiasm ... was
contagious. It made us look at what we do with "new eyes," both to enhance appreciation and to recognize
difficulties." The ALA Library Fellows Program, funded by the U.S. Information Agency, has brought
librarians from other countries to U.S. libraries since 1993.
Provost J. Dennis O'Connor and Director Barbara J. Smith visited the Libraries' World Wide Web
Home Page in March when Systems Department head Tom Garnett conducted a preview of the Libraries
pilot re-publishing project. Scheduled to go online in May, the pilot project is a re-publication of John C.
Ewers's "Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment," a 1957 study published by the Bureau of American
Ethnology. Garnett also gave a demonstration of the Libraries' exhibition, Science and the Artist's Book,
and the Home Pages of several branch libraries. During the Provost's first visit to the Libraries, he met
with assistant directors and Dr. Smith over lunch.
Sherry Kelley has been appointed Head of the Cataloging Services Department where she oversees
planning and management of all cataloging and indexing activities of the 18-branch system. She came from
University of California Los Angeles Library where she was head of the University Research Library
Cataloging Department. She has worked at the Library of Congress, at Cornell University Libraries, and
taught at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. She earned her M.L.S. at Syracuse
University, her B.A. at Indiana University, and studied historical bibliography at University College, London.
She has made a number of professional presentations at national meetings, served on task forces and
advisory groups for a variety of specialized projects, and has recently been a contributing author for
Guidelines for Bibliographic Description of Interactive Multimedia.