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PHD POSTER WINS TOP PRIZE
Eyhab Al-Masri, a PhD candidate in the Department of Computing and Information Science, won the best poster award at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference held in Banff in May. His poster was titled “Crawling Multiple UDDI Business Registries.”
INSECT BOOK CREATES A BUZZ
Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity, a book released last summer by Prof. Steve Marshall, Environmental Biology, has won the 2006 Science in Society Journalism Award in the general book category. The book was also selected as one of the best reference books of 2006 by Library Journal; as one of the 2007 outstanding reference sources compiled by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association (ALA); as one of the 2006 outstanding academic titles by the ALA's Choice magazine; and as a 2006 editors' choice reference source by Booklist, also published by the ALA.
STAR GRYPHON JUMPER REPRESENTS CANADA
Neb Zachariah, star triple jumper with the Guelph Gryphons, has been selected to represent Canada June 8 at the 2007 Harry Jerome International Track Classic in Vancouver. The event is a qualifier for this year's world track-and-field championships in Osaka, Japan.
LIBRARIANS GIVE TALKS
Several U of G librarians gave presentations at the Canadian Library Association Conference in St. John's, N.L., in May. Catherine Steeves and Helen Salmon discussed “Creating a Positive Organizational Culture.” Lorne Bruce presented “Public Library Bills in the Province of Canada, 1852-1866.” “Learning From Chatting: How Our Virtual Reference Questions Are Giving Us Answers” was the topic of Pascal Lupien and Lorna Rourke. MLIS co-op student Carol Perry also spoke on “Does Privacy Place Limits on Collaboration?” Librarians M.J. D'Elia and Robin Bergart presented a conference session on “Critical Inquiry: Students' Perceptions of the Relevance of Information Literacy” at York University last month.