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FOOD 

FOR 

THOUGHT 

NEWSLETTER OF THE FOOD, AGRICULTURE, & NUTRITION DIVISION OF THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION 

Volume 33, Number 1 ISSN: 0198-0246 Pre-conference 2002 

As I write this, the 2002 

Conference is only 45 days away. 

Yikes!! So many details, so little time. 

I hope that many of you have already 

made or are currently in the process 

of making arrangements to attend. 

You can register online at http:// 

www.sla.org/Documents/ 

losangeles5.htm and utilize the online 

Conference Planner to help you keep 

track of your schedule so you don’t 

miss any FAN events! You’ll find the 

complete listing of FAN programs and 

activities in this issue of Food for 

Thought, along with the sponsoring 

vendors. FAN is very fortunate to 

have a number of sponsors who 

faithfully support us year after year. 

And each year our vendor relations 

committee works very hard to secure 

new sponsors as well. But as financial 

support for conference sponsorships 

often fluctuates from year to year due 

to budget cuts and other difficulties 

and as several divisions may be 

competing for the same sponsorship 

dollars, we are truly grateful that the 

following vendors have chosen to 

provide support for FAN activities: 

American Chemical Society, BIOSIS, 

CABI, CISTI (Canada Institute for 

Scientific and Technical Information), 

The Dialog Corporation, Elsevier 

Science, IFIS (International Food 

Information Service), ISI (Institute for 

Scientific Information), Nerac, Inc., 

and Ovid Technologies. Please join 

me in thanking them for their financial 

From the Executive Chef 

By Anita Ezzo 

(ezzoa@msu.edu) 

support — without which we could not 

offer the programming that we do — 

and be sure to take the opportunity to 

talk to their representatives in the 

Exhibit Hall. Let them know that you 

are a FAN member and that you 

appreciate their support of the FAN 

Division — especially when you 

patronize their products and services! 

Now a few words about the 

conference schedule (O.K., more than 

a few). Those of you in FAN 

leadership roles (i.e. incoming Chair 

and Chair-Elect, incoming or current 

Committee Chairs) are encouraged to 

participate in SLA’s Leadership 

Development Institute on Sunday, June 

9 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. as well 

as the Officer Forums that afternoon 

from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. While the 

morning session will more generally 

address roles and responsibilities and 

key leadership skills, the Forums will 

provide an opportunity for discussion 

of topics more specifically related to 

an individual’s responsibilities (or 

future responsibilities). There are 

Forums for archivists, public relations 

chairs, bulletin editors, fund-raising 

chairs, discussion list owners, 

membership chairs, treasurers, and 

webmasters. You can read the details 

at http://www.sla.org/content/Events/ 

conference/2002annual/whatsnew/ 

ldrday/index.cfm. 

The conference really begins for 

FAN with the 2001/02 Board/ 

Committee meeting on Sunday from 

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3:30-5:00 p.m. You don’t have to be 

a Board or Committee member to 

attend this meeting — all FAN 

members are encouraged to 

participate in their Division 

governance and welcome to volunteer 

as well. After all, the theme of this 

Conference is “Putting Knowledge to 

Work” — might as well get right down 

to business on the first day! The 

Board meeting will be followed by 

FAN’s annual New Members and 

Student Reception from 5:00-6:30 

p.m. Party time! Please stop by to 

enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres, greet 

familiar colleagues, and extend a warm 

welcome to our newest members and 

students. FAN’s annual Business 

Meeting and Breakfast will begin 

bright and early (7:00 a.m.!) on 

Monday morning. Since this our only 

general business meeting, I urge all of 

you to attend (Please note that, due to 

ISI’s generous sponsorship, there is a 

$10 refund available to those attending 

the breakfast meeting). We will be 

electing new officers and announcing 

the recipients of the Kathi Kohli 

Memorial Award, sponsored by the 

Cargill Information Center, and the 

Fan Distinguished Member Award , 

sponsored by IFIS. If you have issues 

or concerns you would like to bring 

before the membership, please let me 

know beforehand, so I can place them 

on the agenda. At the meeting, we’ll 

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In This Issue: 

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be soliciting reporters for each of our programs for the 

post-conference issue of Food for Thought, so you can 

begin thinking now of how you might make a contribution 

in this area. 

The Conference Opening General Session with a keynote 

address by Peter Drucker will follow the breakfast/ 

business meeting; then at 11:30, FAN is sponsoring a 

program on food marketing in cooperation with the 

Advertising & Marketing Division. Entitled From 

Applebee’s to Zabar’s this session will explore the newest 

trends in food marketing and the free and fee-based tools 

available to monitor the trends. At 3:30 you’ll have an 

opportunity to discover Wazzup With Organics?, as you 

learn more about the history and phenomenal growth of 

the organics industry and the obstacles and opportunities 

affecting its future. On Tuesday, June 11, we’ve 

scheduled a 9:30 a.m. session on Dietary Supplements 

and Functional Foods (another fast-growing market 

segment), a program jointly sponsored by the Biomedical 

& Life Sciences Division. Afterwards, take a break for 

lunch and a visit to the Exhibit Hall (don’t forget to greet 

and thank our sponsoring vendors!); then join us from 3:30 

to 5:00 p.m. for our annual Vendor Update to learn about 

the latest enhancements, products and services from 

vendors of food, agriculture, and nutrition information. 

Wednesday, June 12 will begin bright and early again 

(7:00 a.m.) with a 2002/03 FAN Board/Committee 

meeting. Once again, you don’t have to be a Board or 

Committee member to attend this meeting. SLA’s Closing 

Session and Annual Business Meeting with Doris Kearns 

Goodwin will be held from 9:00-11:30 a.m. The revision 

of the SLA Bylaws will be on the agenda for this meeting, 

so attendance is important since those present will 

determine whether the proposed bylaws document goes 

From the Executive Chef 1 

FAN Welcomes New Members 3 

Annual Conference Events 4 

2001 FAN Field Trip Photos 6 

FAN FANs: Annual Conference Sponsors 8 

HAACP 9 

SLA-FAN Discussion List : A Primer for Use 10 

Library Tour: The New ACES Library at UIUC 12 

Biotechnology Column 14 

2002/02 FAN Officer Slate and Biographies 16 

Board of Directors/Committee Members 18 

Food for Thought publication information 20 


forward as a mail ballot to the full voting membership. 

See http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/Structure/recbylaws/ 

httpwww6596.cfm to review the proposed changes. The 

FAN Luncheon will start at 12:00 p.m. This year’s 

luncheon will feature the musical entertainment of Dr. 

Carl Winter, the Elvis of E. Coli, performing musical 

parodies of popular songs with a food science/food safety 

twist. You can get a preview at http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/ 

music.html. Don’t miss this thoroughly entertaining event 

(especially since there is a $10 refund to attendees of the 

luncheon, due to Nerac’s generous sponsorship)! And 

polish up your singing voices, as audience participation is 

encouraged, although you should probably discourage me 

from singing . . . The Agricultural Update will be held 

from 2:00-3:30 p.m. This is your opportunity to hear the 

latest news from the National Agricultural Library, the 

Canadian Agriculture Library, the FAO, USAIN, and 

AgNIC. 

I hope many of you will still be around on Thursday to 

relax and enjoy FAN’s Wine and Olives Tour. This tour 

is scheduled to run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 

features a tour and tasting at the J. Filippi Winery (http:// 

www.citivu.com/cucamonga_valley/filippi/index.html), a 

testament to Cucamonga Valley winemaking for over 

seventy-five years; shopping and lunch at Ontario Mills 

(California’s largest outlet mall: http:// 

www.ontariomills.com/); and a tour of the Graber Olive 

House (http://www.graberolives.com/), a family-operated 

olive processing plant since 1894. Food, wine, shopping 

— how can you go wrong! 

As you can tell, I am really looking forward to the Los 

Angeles Conference, when the past year and a half’s worth 

of planning will finally come to fruition! It will be great to 

see familiar FAN faces and welcome new ones into the 

FAN community. CU N LA (See you in L.A.)! 

SLA 2002 

SLA Conference Website 

http://losangeles.sla.org 

Southern California Chapter Website 

http://library.csun.edu/dhelfer/2002/welcome.html

Ms. Noelle Lowrie 

General Mills 

Library & Info Sciences 

General Mills Technology E 

330 Univ Ave SE 

Minneapolis MN 55414 

noelle.lowrie@genmills.com 

Ms. April Faulkner 

Food Marketing Inst 

Info Svc 

655 15th St NW 

Washington DC 20005 

Mr. John Mate 

Ovid Technologies 

Global Corporate Sales 

3680 Thomas Pt Rd 

Annapolis MD 21403 

john_mate@ovid.com 

Ms. Rachele E. Petrella 

122 Robert Drive, Apt. 2 

North Tonawanda, NY 14120-6455 

FAN WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS 

Ms. Barbara Stailing 

2564 Poplar St 

Halifax NV B3L 2Y8 

CANADA 

bstailing@ocean-nutrition.com 

Ms. Judith Kraatz Johnson 

SBDC Natl Info Clearinghouse 

1222North Main Ste 712 

San Antonio, TX 78212 

jkjohnson@utsa.edu 

Mr. William G. Carr 

WM Carr Associates 

2210 Wedgewood CT 

Plant City, FL 33567 

wcarr1@tampabay.rr.com 

Ms. Diana L. Dwyer 

USDA 

Natl Wildlife Research Ctr 

4101 LaPorte Ave 

Fort Collins, CO 80521-2154 

diana.l.dwyer@aphis.usda.gov 

Ms. Linda M. Hartman 

Univ of Pittsburgh 

Health Sciences Library 

200 Scaife Hall 

Pittsburgh, PA 15261 

lhartman@pitt.edu 

Ms. C. Margaret Hentz 

Dow AgroSciences 

Library 

9330 Zionsville RD 

Indianapolis, IN 46268 

mhentz@dowagro.com 


Ms. Lisa L. Sutherland 

Corporate Library Solutions 

274 Eaton St. 

Battle Creek, MI 49107

FAN Programs and Events 2002 SLA Annual Conference Los Angeles, California 

Sunday, June 9 

3:30-5:00 p.m. 

FAN 2001/02 

Board of Directors & Committee Meeting 

You don’t have to be a Board or Committee member to attend. 

Observers are always welcome and volunteers are 

greatly appreciated! 

Sunday, June 9 

5:00-6:30 p.m. 

New Members and Student Reception 

The Reception will be in the San Bernardino room of the 

Westin Bonaventure Hotel. All members are encouraged 

to attend this annual event and warmly welcome FAN’s new 

members and students! 

Monday, June 10 

7:00-8:30 a.m. 

FAN Business Meeting and Breakfast 

(*ticketed event) 

Enjoy breakfast and conversation with fellow FAN members. 

Business will include election of new officers and 

announcements of the recipients of the Kathi Kohli 

Memorial Award, sponsored by the Cargill Information 

Center, and the FAN Distinguished Member Award , 

sponsored by IFIS. 

Meeting Sponsor: 

ISI 

*Note: The advertised ticket price for this event is 

$27. Due to generous sponsorship, attendees will 

receive a $10 refund* 


11:30-1:00 p.m. 

From Applebee’s to Zabar’s: Food Marketing 

(Joint program with Advertising & Marketing Division) 

Discover the newest trends in food marketing and learn 

what tools are available to monitor the trends. The food 

expert at the Center for Marketing Intelligence will give us 

a fresh perspective from her work in packaged food, 

restaurants, and supermarkets, covering both free and fee 

resources. 

Speaker: 

Joan Leake, Center for Marketing Intelligence, IPG 

Moderator: 

Robin Feuerstein, Center for Marketing Intelligence, IPG 

Program Sponsor: 

ACS 



3:30-5:00 p.m. 

Wazzup With Organics? 

Concerns about the harmful effects of chemicals on 

agricultural products and the environment have fueled 

consumer interest in organic foods and farming. What is 

organic farming and what does “certified organic” mean? 

This session will address those FAQs and examine the 

history and growth of the U.S. organics industry and the 

obstacles and opportunities affecting its future. 

Speakers: 

Bill Wolf, Organic Materials Review Institute 

Katherine DiMatteo, Organic Trade Association 

Moderator: 

Margaret Merrill 

Program Sponsors: 

CABI 

Elsevier 

Tuesday, June 11 

9:30-11:00 a.m. 

Dietary Supplements and Functional Foods 

(Joint program with Biomedical & Life Sciences Division) 

U.S. consumers spend billions each year on dietary 

supplements and “functional foods” in an effort to 

prevent disease or promote good health. This session will 

explore the nature of these products, issues regarding 

their safety and efficacy, and the U.S. government’s role 

in regulating them. 

Speaker: 

Dr. Joan Conway, Beltsville Human Nutrition 

Research Center 

Moderator: 

Anita Ezzo 


BIOSIS

FAN Programs and Events 2002 SLA Annual Conference Los Angeles, California 

Tuesday, June 11 

3:30-5:00 p.m. 

Vendor Update 

An opportunity to learn about the latest enhancements, 

products and services from vendors of food, agriculture, 

and nutrition information. This year’s participants include 

ACS, CABI, IFIS, ISI, Nerac, and Ovid Technologies. 

Speakers: 

Matthew J. Price, American Chemical Society 

Joseph Barrett, CABI Publishing 

Howard Stanbury, IFIS 

TBA, ISI 

Kevin Bouley, Nerac, Inc. 

Patti Corbett and John Mate, Ovid Technologies 

Moderators: 

Kara Pedersen 

Carolyn Speakman 



Wednesday, June 12 

7:00-8:30 a.m. 

FAN 2002/03 

Board of Directors & Committee Meeting 

You don’t have to be a Board or Committee member to 

attend. Observers are always welcome and volunteers 

are greatly appreciated! 

Meeting Sponsor: 

ACS 


12:00-1:30 p.m. 

FAN Luncheon 

(*ticketed event) 

You won’t want to miss this luncheon, featuring the 

musical entertainment of Dr. Carl Winter, the “Elvis of E. 

Coli,” performing musical parodies of popular songs with 

a food science/food safety twist! You can get a preview 

at http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html. Expect to be 

thoroughly entertained! 

Speaker: 

Dr. Carl Winter, Director, Foodsafe Program, University 

of California, Davis 


Nerac, Inc. 

*Note: The advertised ticket price for this event is 

$39. Due to generous sponsorship, attendees will 

receive a $10 refund* 


2:00-3:30 p.m. 

Agricultural Update 

New initiatives and current issues of the National 

Agricultural Library (NAL), the Canadian Agricultural 

Library (CAL), the Food and Agriculture Organization of 

the United Nations (FAO), the United States Agricultural 

Information Network (USAIN), and AgNIC will be 

featured. 

Speakers: 

Maria Pisa, NAL 

Lorna Adcock, Saskatoon Research Centre, CAL 

Jean-Philippe Decraene, FAO 

Lutishoor Salisbury, University of Arkansas for USAIN 

Maria Pisa, NAL for AgNIC 

Moderator: 

Catherine Jeanjean 

Program Sponsors: 

Dialog 

CISTI 

Thursday, June 13 

10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. 

Wine and Olives Tour 

(ticketed event) 

Join the FAN Division for a tour and tasting at the J. Filippi 

Winery in the heart of the Cucamonga Valley, shopping 

and lunch on your own at Ontario Mills (California’s largest 

outlet mall), and a tour of the Graber Olive House (a 

family-operated olive processing plant since 1894) that 

includes a small museum of historic photos and equipment 

and a gift shop where you can sample and purchase olives, 

oils, dried fruits, nuts, candies and other goodies and gifts. 


IFIS 

SLA-LA 2002 Conference Web Site: 

http://library.csun.edu/dhelfer/2002/welcome.html 

SLA-LA 2002 Conference Discussion List: 

send an email to: lists@lists.sla.org 

leave the blank subject line 

message: subscribe sla-la2002 [your name] 

Food For Thought Vol. 33 No. 1 Page 5

FAN 2001 Conference Field Trip 

Photography: Heather Sherman Selection and Captioning: Valerie Perry ( vperry@pop.uky.edu ) 

The 2001 FAN Field Trip of the Texas Hill Country included 

stops at the Johnson City and Fredricksburg. In Johnson City 

the group toured the Johnson Family Ranch. In Fredricksburg 

the group visited Friedhelm's Bavarian Inn, the Becker 

Vineyards, and the Fredricksburg Herb Farm. Tour participants 

included members of the FAN, Sci-Tech, Environmental and 

Social Sciences Divisions. 

Visiting one of the former residences on the 

LBJ Ranch ( above ) 

The schoolhouse was one of the original 

buildings on the LBJ Ranch ( below ) 


A park ranger conducted 

our tour and provided 

lots of interesting facts 

about LBJ and his life on 

the ranch ( left ) 

The Johnson family cemetery is located at the ranch ( above ) 

Many farm animals live on this working ranch. ( below ) 

The LBJ Ranch is quite large and provides many 

beautiful landscape scences in the Texas Hill 

Country ( left )

We enjoyed a jager schnitzel luncheon at Friedhelm's Bavarian Inn 

followed by shopping in historic Fredricksburg. The local ice cream 

parlour was a popular stop for many ( above ) 


The property of Becker 

Vineyards was as beautiful 

as the wine was flavorful 

( left ) 

Becker Vineyards invited tour participants to sample 

several of its outstanding wines. Fine wines, fresh herbs, 

and related gifts available for purchase ( above ) 

The Fredricksburg Herb Farm provided a relaxing ending to a full 

day of activities. Participants had the opportunity to stroll through 

the beautiful and sweetly-scented gardens ( above ) 

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FAN 2001 Field Trip Photos 

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Another beautiful scene illustrating the peace and 

solitude of the herb garden ( above ) 

The gift shop at the herb farm 

sold many products derived 

from the organically-grown 

herbs and flowers including 

soaps, candles, and colognes 

( above ) 

Our unofficial photographer, Heather Sherman, posed 

next to one of the many pieces of statuary ( above ) 


FAN FANS! 

We thank the following organizations 

for sponsoring this year’s events: 

American Chemical Society 

http://www.acs.org 

BIOSIS 

http://www.biosis.org 

CABI 

http://www.cabi.org 

CISTI 

(Canada Institute for Scientific 

and Technical Information) 

http://www.cisti.org 

The Dialog Corporation 

http://www.dialog.com 

Elsevier Science 

http://www.elsevier.nl 

IFIS 

(International Food Information Service) 

http://www.ifis.org 

ISI 

(Institute for Scientific Information) 

http://www.isinet.com 

Nerac, Inc. 

http://www.nerac.com 


http://www.ovid.com

The acronym HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control 

Point) has come into prominence in the last few years in 

relationship to the regulations of meat, poultry, seafood, 

and juice. The purpose of HACCP is to ensure the 

production of safe foods. It was first deployed in the 

manufacture of food for the U.S. space program in the 

late 1960’s. Development of a food quality assurance 

program and the training of FDA personnel in Hazard 

Analysis techniques, by the Pillsbury Company’s Research 

and Development Department was published in 1973. 

HACCP has been endorsed by the National Academy of 

Sciences, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (an 

international food standard-setting organization), and the 

National Advisory Committee on Microbiological 

Criteria for Foods ( http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/ 

nacmcfp.html ). 

HACCP regulations for the seafood industry were 

introduced in 1995, for meat and poultry industry in 1998 

and for the juice industry in January, 2001. The U.S. Food 

and Drug Administration now is considering developing 

regulations that would establish HACCP as the food safety 

standard throughout other areas of the food industry, 

including both domestic and imported food products. 

HACCP involves seven principles: The following 

description of the seven principles is from the FDA 

Backgrounder ( http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/ 

bghaccp.html ) 

Analyze hazards . Potential hazards associated with a 

food and measures to control those hazards are identified. 

The hazard could be biological, such as a microbe; 

chemical, such as a toxin; or physical, such as ground 

glass or metal fragments. 

Identify critical control points. These are points in 

a food’s production—from its raw state through processing 

and shipping to consumption by the consumer—at which 

the potential hazard can be controlled or eliminated. 

Examples are cooking, cooling, packaging, and metal 

detection. 

Establish preventive measures with critical limits 

for each control point. For a cooked food, for example, 

this might include setting the minimum cooking temperature 

and time required to ensure the elimination of any harmful 

microbes. 

HACCP 

By Carolyn Speakman 

( cspeakman@attbi.com ) 

Establish procedures to monitor the critical 

control points. Such procedures might include 

determining how and by whom cooking time and 

temperature should be monitored. 

Establish corrective actions to be taken when 

monitoring shows that a critical limit has not been 

met—for example, reprocessing or disposing of food if 

the minimum cooking temperature is not met. 

Establish procedures to verify that the system is 

working properly—for example, testing time-andtemperature 

recording devices to verify that a cooking 

unit is working properly. 

Establish effective recordkeeping to document 

the HACCP system. This would include records of 

hazards and their control methods, the monitoring of safety 

requirements and action taken to correct potential 

problems. Each of these principles must be backed by 

sound scientific knowledge: for example, published 

microbiological studies on time and temperature factors 

for controlling foodborne pathogens. 

Information about HACCP is readily available on the 

web: 

The FDA maintains several sites related to HACCP, and 

these can be accessed through a HACCP Contents page 

( http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/haccp.html ). 

UC Davis maintains a Seafood Network information site 

( http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/home.htm ) which contains 

model HACCP plans and worksheets. 

Information on HACCP for meat and poultry is available 

through the USDA‘s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s 

site Pathogen Reduction/HACCP & HACCP 

Implementation ( http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/haccp/ 

imphaccp.htm ) 

NAL maintains a USDA/FDA HACCP training program 

and resources database at ( http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/ 

foodborne/haccp/index.shtml ). 

The National Center for Food Safety & Technology is 

preparing a juice HACCP curriculum and offering Juice 

HACCP Training. ( http://www.ncfst.iit.edu/juice/ 

jhtraining.html ) 


Editor's Note: Everyone is accustomed to the familiar 

reminder about the SLA-FAN Discussion List in each 

issue of FFT. We're pleased to respond to requests 

to include a brief history and primer for use. 

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When you receive a response, 

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Moderator: Pat Wilson (pwilson@pop.uky.edu) 

SLA-FAN: 

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The SLA-FAN discussion list was started in 1994 as a 

way for FAN members to communicate electronically 

with each other. You can communicate with all the 

members on the list with one e-mail message. 

We use the list to keep everyone up-to-date on FAN 

activities, SLA information, and now as a means of letting 

everyone know that the most recent issue of Food for 

Thought is available. It is also used as a discussion 

forum and as a tool to help each other. 

In 2001 we started moderating the list because of 

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Dedicates New Agricultural, Consumer & 

Environmental Sciences Library – Part I 

By Robert S. (Pat) Allen 

(allen2@uiuc.edu ) 

Imagine a library... No room for public study space. 

Poorly heated and ventilated. Books lying on the floor due 

to overcrowding on the shelves. Staff located outside the 

library due to lack of work space in the library. No room 

for expanding telecommunications. Electrical system 

tapped out and breaking acceptable codes. Three floors 

but no elevator. A large portion of the collection in 

temporary remote storage. The list goes on . . . 

Well, if you had ever visited the old Agricultural, 

Consumer and Environmental Sciences Library at the 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign you do not 

have to use your imagination. You can use your memory. 

We had to work with all those difficulties and more. The 

old Agriculture Library at UIUC was first put into it’s 

location in 226 Mumford Hall back in approximately 1927. 

It was meant at that time to be a temporary facility. The 

library remained in that temporary facility for 74 years. It 

is amazing the amount of service that universities can 

squeeze out of temporary facilities sometimes. 

The Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental 

Sciences (ACES) Library at UIUC serves the College of 


ACES. This college is fairly new in terms of its name. It 

had previously existed as the College of Agriculture and 

College of Home Economics. These two groups were 

merged in 1995 when the College of ACES was formed. 

A group of faculty in environmental science was added to 

the college roster at that time and the new college was 

complete. The new college is composed of the departments 

of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Animal 

Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Crop Science, Food 

Science and Human Nutrition, Human and Community 

Development, Natural Resources and Environmental 

Sciences, and the graduate division of Nutritional Sciences. 

The ACES College is also the home of University of Illinois 

Extension, which has university staff members scattered 

in all counties across the state. 

When the two aforementioned colleges merged into 

the ACES College, it was decided that the two libraries 

serving those old colleges would merge. The Agriculture 

Library and the Home Economics Library became the new 

ACES Library. Plans had been ongoing for some time to 

build a new library - remember, this was to be a temporary 

facility. To give an idea of the length of time that planning 

for a new library had been underway, I can remember 

delivering blueprints and entertaining prospective donors 

way back in 1986 when I was a graduate assistant in the 

old Agriculture Library. Carol Boast was the Agriculture 

Librarian at that time. During that period, a development

campaign was under way from the Agricultural College to 

secure funds to build a new library. 

I moved into my current position as ACES Librarian 

in the fall of 1997. At that time, 11 million dollars had 

been raised from private donors for building the new ACES 

Library. One million dollars had been made available from 

the state of Illinois for planning. The decision by the state 

to provide the remaining 11 million dollars to complete the 

building had not been made. It was at times questionable 

whether the state would come through with the money. 

But, in the winter of 1997 the Illinois Governor made a trip 

to UIUC with a big check in hand. It actually was a big 

check, maybe 4 feet in length. It was just like the lottery 

winners get! 

So, the funds for the new ACES Library were in place. 

The money was coming half from a group of private donors 

and half from the state. Planning was well under way. 

The main architects on the job were Woollen, Molzan and 

Partners, from Indianapolis. They had previously completed 

the new Grainger Engineering Library at UIUC, so they 

were a known and respected commodity on campus. Some 

of you may have visited the Grainger Library and know of 

it’s beauty and functionality. We hoped for similar results 

with the new ACES Library. 

A lengthy program statement had been completed prior 

to hiring the architects, and this detailed all the library and 

campus needs for the new building. This building would 

be more than just a library. It would also house the ACES 

College student computer lab and computer instructional 

labs. There would also be a number of “fancy conference 

rooms”. It would house the offices responsible for alumni 

relations and also the group responsible for hosting 

corporate interviews and scholarships for the ACES 

College. In addition to all the current ADA type compliance 

issues the university wanted, this building was also intended 

to be a showplace building that would serve as the visually 

striking terminal point for a long expanse of green space 

(quadrangle) on campus. 

For the next three years there would be many meetings 

with architects. A group of faculty and staff from the 

ACES College worked with librarians and architects to 

fine tune the plans. Various versions of the building were 

presented. Construction began and the building was 

substantially complete in 2001. Library collections and 

services were moved into the new building in the summer 

of 2001, and the building was dedicated in October, 2001. 

Part II of this article in the next Food For Thought will 

show blueprints and photos of the interior of the building, 

and the internal workings and space of the new library 

will be discussed. 

Stay tuned . . . 

Newly opened Funk Library of Agricultural, 

Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the 

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

Photo by David Riecks. 


BIOTECHNOLOGY COLUMN 

By Kevin Adams 

( Kadams@esr.cri.nz ) 

Greetings once again. Just when you thought you had 

time to contemplate the next column along comes an e-mail 

from the editor asking can I have another one by x date. 

Mmm seems this should be a little easier. However as you 

all realise the web does not stand still for anyone and there 

are always resources to be found. 

This issues column is based on the twin themes of “its 

amazing what you discover you have bookmarked” and the 

fact that I have just finished reading Gary Price and Chris 

Sharmen’s excellent book, The Invisible Web. 

I am not sure about the rest of you but in the beginning 

of my web days I was very diligent in creating folders, and 

filing my bookmarks in those folders. Of course in the days 

of Netscape 4x (my bias is showing here) you could stick 

them in folders and then alphabetise them by hitting a 

command. Now however this is gone. But I digress, the point 

is that between the e-mails alerts I receive, postings from email 

groups I belong to and my own searching of the web I 

now have a long list of websites that I have not bookmarked. 

Thus when I troll through them trying to find something 

else that I know I bookmarked at one time it is always a 

surprise to find what it is I have bookmarked. Of course 

they are then usually forgotten until the next time I do such 

a troll. So here are some of these little surprises. As I say 

these websites are in no particular category but are very 

useful. 

A great deal of work in the biotechnology area is being 

done in Europe these days and the European Federation 

of Biotechnology website at ( http://efbweb.org/public/ 

pubview.htm ) is a good site to begin with in trying to find 

information on what is happening in Europe. There are links 

to publications, conferences and topics of interest. There is 

a list of useful weblinks for both Europe and the world. They 

also have a number of sections and task forces that focus 

on individual topics. 

The issue of transgenic crops has been in the news 

recently with the decision of Nature magazine to disavow 

the article on contamination of Mexican corn crops. At 

Colorado State they have an useful website on this topic 

entitled Transgenic Crops: An introduction and Resource 

Guide ( http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/ 

TransgenicCrops/ ) Here you will find a list of familiar topics 

with resources and links and a good introduction to the topic. 

You can also receive updates to this site by signing up for email 

alerts. 

Last time I mentioned the Office of the Gene Regulator 

in Australia. Another government initiative is Biotechnology 

Australia ( http://www.biotechnology.gov.au/ ) This has three 

major parts to it, all of which are excellent sources of 

information on Australia. There is the Australian 


Biotechnology Advisory Council, a section devoted to the 

National Biotechnology Strategy and something which is 

relatively new is the Biotechnology Centre of Excellence. 

There is also a link to the Australian Biotechnology 

Directory which is as its name suggests is the a directory 

of institutions and companies undertaking research in the 

biotechnology area. One section that it has provided may 

be of interest to those seeking resources for school. They 

have created a link for biotechnology online school 

resources. 

There has been a great deal of discussion between 

the U.S. and Europe over the issue of biotechnology and 

GMO’s in the past year or so. While it is an older resource 

than others the website of the European Union (EU) & 

the U.S. - The EU-US Biotechnology Consultative 

Forum ( http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/us/ 

biotech/biotech.htm ) which was held in 2000 is a very 

useful site to have with regards to the ongoing discussions 

between the EU and the U.S. While the forum may have 

been in Dec 2000 the website is kept current as this is an 

issue that will continue to be ongoing. There is a pdf file 

of the forums final report. While it is part of the wider 

website kept by the European Union on relations with the 

U.S. it is worth visiting for the report. 

While websites provided by groups representing 

various industry sectors need to be viewed with caution 

the International Food Policy Research Institute ( http:/ 

/www.ifpri.cgiar.org/ ) is well worth a look. While 

concerned with a wide variety of issues in the food area it 

has some very useful publications on biotechnology and 

genetically modified foods. Another very useful site in this 

vein is that provided by the Biotechnology Industry 

Association at its Guide to Biotechnology website ( http:/ 

/www.bio.org/er/ ) Here you will find both a pdf version 

of the guide and also the guide divided up into various 

chapters which can be viewed separately. The directory 

is full of very useful explanations of terms that appear in 

the biotechnology jargon and useful resources. At present 

it is the 2001 issue that is on this website but it appears as 

if it is updated every year. 

Of course the major world organisations have set up 

websites to put forward their points of view. One of these 

is the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the U.N. Two 

of these are very useful. One is the Biotechnology in 

Food and Agriculture website ( http://www.fao.org/ 

biotech/index_glossary.asp ) As with the directory website 

I mentioned above it is an searchable glossary of 

biotechnology terms. This site also contains the statement 

from FAO on biotechnology and a link to FAO documents. 

The other site that has been set up is to the Food and 

Nutrition Division of FAO’s work on Biotechnology ( 

http://www.fao.org/es/ESN/gm/biotec-e.htm ) This 

contains documents relating to the joint consultation expert 

process on the safety and nutritional aspects of GM foods.

This again contains mostly historical information however 

as we all know this information can be just as important 

as that which is up to date. There are reports of the 1996, 

2000 and 2001 sessions of this expert consultation 

committee. If you want more up to date information from 

Codex on biotechnology please look at the Codex 

Alimentarius Commission Recent Meeting Reports 

website at ( http://www.codexalimentarius.net/ 

Reports.htm ) there you will find the latest reports from 

various committees on biotechnology. 

The Food Biotechnology Communications Network 

( http://www.foodbiotech.org/ ) is a Canadian based 

website that states that it “searches out credible, current 

and evidence-based information about biotechnology and 

food and makes it easily accessible to Canadians....” It is 

a searchable website that gathers together information 

from a number of other websites. Another government 

that has put together a website is the U.K. governments 

Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology 

Commission at ( http://www.aebc.gov.uk/ ) Like some of 

the bodies that I mentioned in my last column this has 

been set up to advise the U.K. government on 

“biotechnology issues affecting agriculture and the 

environment.” They have a number of useful reports on 

the website. 

MITS Announces 

Lastly, as I mentioned at the beginning of the column 

I have just finished reading Gary Price and Chris Sharmen’s 

excellent book, The Invisible Web. One of the things that 

many of the websites I have mentioned have in common 

is that a great deal of the information, especially the 

glossaries and any of the searchable sections of the website 

would not be visible via the search engines we all use. 

Another site that this is particularly applicable to is a 

section of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology 

( http://pewagbiotech.org/ ) This website has a very 

valuable resource which is a searchable database of the 

U.S. states and what legislation has either been passed or 

is pending in the State Houses. The descriptions of the 

bills are very brief but it does give you the state, the no. of 

the bill and its title. Also there are various topics assigned 

to the bills to reflect what they were principally on. Again 

if you were searching for this information you may find 

the website but you would not be able to garner much 

detail. So look out for these types of resources as they 

are invaluable. 

Anyway that its for another column. As I stated in my 

first one, I am only one person and while I do a lot of 

trolling etc. this division is made up of lots of very talented 

people. So if you have a resource you would like to 

contribute I am only to happy to include it. Till next time, 

or alternatively if I see you at SLA. 

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Chair-Elect, Pat Allen 

( allen2@uiuc.edu ) 

First things first - my real name is Robert Stanton 

Allen. I am an Associate Professor of Library 

Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana- 

Champaign. My position at UIUC is Head of the 

Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences 

Library (ACES Library). I have been here at UIUC for 

a little over 4 years. Prior to that I was an Associate 

Professor at Purdue University and was Head of the 

Physics Library, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Library, 

and the Map Collection. I was at Purdue for 

approximately 8 years. 

I have both a BS and MS in Geology. I worked for 

a number of years as a petroleum geologist in Oklahoma 

and southern Illinois and southern Indiana. I earned my 

MS in Library and Information Science from the 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I was 

employed as a Graduate Assistant in the Agriculture 

Library. My first position out of the GSLIS program at 

UIUC was at Louisiana State University, where I had 

many duties. I mainly worked at the central reference 

desk and was liaison to the physical sciences, engineering, 

and environmental sciences. 

I have been active in SLA for quite some time. I 

was President of the Indiana Chapter, Treasurer of the 

PAM Division, Chair of the Geography and Map Division, 

editor of the GMD Bulletin, and have recently been 

becoming active as Director of the FAN Division. I have 

really enjoyed being part of the FAN Division, and look 

forward to making further contributions. 

My current position at UIUC is quite demanding at 

times. The ACES Library is the primary library for 

serving the Land Grant portion of the University, which 

is known as the ACES College. The ACES College is 

divided into 7 departments - Agricultural and Consumer 

Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Sciences, 

Crop Sciences, Food Science and Human Nutrition, 

Human and Community Development, and Natural 

Resource and Environmental Science. The state 

Extension efforts are also part of the ACES College, and 

Illinois has a large number of extension professionals 

scattered across the state. 

I spend most of my spare time with my family - wife 

Becky, daughter Tess and son Grant. The kids are aged 

6 and 7. I am currently coaching my son's soccer team. 

I also try to work in exercise, and am active in sports 

and fishing. 

2002/2003 FAN Officer Slate and Biographies 


Secretary , Valerie Estes Perry 

( vperry@pop.uky.edu ) 

Education 

-BS in English University of Kentucky 1988 

-MS in Library Science University of Kentucky 1994 

Current Position 

-Public Services Librarian, Agricultural Information 

Center, UK since March 1998 

-Primary responsibilities include coordinating reference 

services, including e-mail requests from website and 

instruction for College of Agriculture undergraduate & 

graduate students and faculty and staff (including offcampus 

personnel located in the county extension 

offices). 

Professional Activities 

- FAN (Vendor Relations Chair last year and assisting 

this year, Vendor Update moderator) 

-SLA/KY Chapter (Secretary & various committees) 

- USAIN (Interest Group Co-confiner, 2001 Conference 

Steering Committee, conference speaker & moderator) 

- KY Library Association (Member Services Chair, 

Listserv Co-Manager, Dues Review Subcommittee Chair, 

and various committees) 

Family 

- two adorable children, Stephen and Matthew, who are 

already learning the important values of sharing and 

diplomacy. My husband, Peter, is Department of 

Mathematics Chair at UK. I have no time for hobbies, 

unless you count flying a kite, visiting zoos and playing 

with Thomas the Tank Engine with my kids.... 

Director, Sue Schultz 

( sue@fb.com ) 

I currently serves as Director of Library Resources 

for the American Farm Bureau Federation, a nonprofit 

general membership organization where I have been for 

the last 23 years. My responsibilities include reference, 

collection maintenance and currently being a solo doing 

everything. 

My involvement in FAN includes positions as 

secretary, director and chairperson of the government 

relations, long range planning, bylaws and name change 

committees. In 1998, I was honored to receive the 

Distinguished Member Award from FAN. I am a graduate 

of Rosary College (Dominican University). In addition to 

the above I am also the mother of two boys and will be 

relocating to Jacksonville, Florida with my husband and 

children. Career changes and adventures await us.

Director, Catherine Anne Jeanjean 

( cajeanje@lib.ksu.edu ) 

I am the Life Sciences Librarian at Kansas State 

University in Manhattan, Kansas. My current 

responsibilities include liaison, bibliographic instruction and 

reference services for the Love Science Library and the 

departments of Biology, Entomology, Human Nutrition and 

Kinesiology. In addition, I undertake collection 

development for these departments and the department 

of Animal Science. My other interests include assessment 

and virtual reference. 

I am a recent graduate (May 2000) and obtained this 

position right out of library school. I received my MLS 

from the University of Western Ontario in London, 

Ontario. (This means I get to tell people that I’m from 

London but now live in Manhattan.) My two 

undergraduate degrees are in Biology and Home 

Economics. 

Adjusting to life in the US took a little longer than I 

had originally anticipated, especially since my immediate 

family is still in Canada. (My brother works for the 

Toronto International Film Festival.) I had never been to 

Kansas before, didn’t know a soul in the state, but I 

packed right up and drove down. Apart from being 

detained at the border, having my car stolen and dealing 

with tornadoes, it has been mostly smooth sailing since 

then. 

As someone new to librarianship and new to the US, 

I have really appreciated the programing, continuing 

education and member support offered by library 

associations. In addition to SLA, I am an active member 

of the Kansas Library Association and for the past year 

served as the Secretary of the KLA New Members’ 

Round Table; next year I shall be co-chair. 

I am very honoured to have been asked to serve as 

a Director for this Division. FAN provides excellent 

programing and support to its members and I am excited 

to be involved in continuing this tradition. 

2002/2003 Nominating Committee 

Linda Maddux 

( lmaddux@willamette.edu ) 

Dana E. Smith 

( dana.Smith@pioneer.com ) 

Alice Marksberry 

( alice@caer.uky.edu ) 


Chair 

Anita Ezzo 

100 Library 

Michigan State University 

East Lansing, MI 48824-1048 

Tel: 517-353-9184 

Fax: 517-432-8050 

ezzoa@msu.edu 

Chair Elect 

Lutishoor Salisbury (Luti) 

University of Arkansas Libraries 

Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201 

Tel: 501-575-8418 

Fax: 501-575-4592 

lsalisbu@mail.uark.edu 

Past Chair 


National Center for Food Safety &Technology 

11T Moffett Campus 

6502 S. Archer 

Summit, IL 60501 

Tel: 708-563-8160 

Fax: 708-563-8164 

speakman@iit.edu 

Secretary 

Sharon Fujitani 

CA Polytechnic State University 

Library Reference Department 

San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 

Tel: 805-756-1105 

Fax: 805-756-1415 

sfujitan@calpoly.edu 

Treasurer 

Mary Louise Pusch 

Cargill Inc. 

Information Center. 

PO Box 5670 

Minneapolis, MN 55440-5670 

Tel: 952-742-6788 

Fax: 952-742-6062 

mary-louise_pusch@cargill.com 

Director 

Kevin Adams 

Institute of Environmental Science & Research 

27 Creyhe Road 

PO Box 29-181 

Christchurch, New Zealand 

Tel: 64-3-351-6019 

Fax: 64-3-351-0010 

Kadams@esr.cri.nz 

Director 

Robert Allen (Pat) 

University of Illinois Library 

1301 W. Gregory 

Mumford Hall MC 710 

Urbana, IL 61801 

Tel: 217-244-2245 

Fax: 217-333-0558 

allen2@uiuc.edu 

FAN Division Board of Directors/Committees 

Bulletin Editor 

Heather K Moberly 

102 McElroy Hall 

Oklahoma State University 

Stillwater, OK 74078 

Tel: 405-744-6655 

Fax: 405-744-5609 

moberlh@okstate.edu 

Bulletin Ad Manager 

Peter A. Sidney 

Cargill Inc 

Info Crt 

Box 5670 


Tel: 952-742-5224 

Fax: 952-742-6062 

peter_sidney@cargill.com 

Archivist 

Amy Paster 

The Pennsylvania State University 

Life Sciences Library 

408 Paterno Library 

University Park, PA 16802-1811 

Tel: 814-876-3708 

Fax: 814-863-9684 

alp4@psu.edu 

Membership/Directory Committee 

Anne S. Hurst (Chair) 

University of Georgia Libraries 

Science Library 

Athens, GA 30602-7412 

Tel: 706-542-0155 

Fax: 706-542-7907 

ahurst@arches.uga.edu 

Catherine Jeanjean 

Kansas State University 

126 Hale Library 

Manhattan, KS 66506-1200 

Tel: 785-532-7414 

Fax: 785-532-6144 

cajeanje@lib.ksu.edu 

Fan Web Page Committee 

Susan Hocker (Chair) 

Brill Science Library 

Miami University 

Oxford, OH 45056 

Tel: 513-529-7206 

Fax: 513-529-1736 

shocker@lib.muohio.edu 

Kevin Adams 



PO Box 29-181 


Tel: 64-3-351-6019 

Fax: 64-3-351-0010 



Jean-Philippe Decraene 

Food & Agriculture Organ. of the UN 

Sales and Marketing Group 

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 

00100 Rome Italy 

Tel: 39-065705-2689 

Fax: 39-065705-3360 

JeanPhilippe.Decreane@fao.org 

Duncan McClusky 

College of Agric & Environ Sci 

Campus at Tifton-Library 

PO Box 748 

Tifton, GA 31793-0748 

Tel: 912-386-3833 

Fax: 912-386-7005 

mcclusky@tifton.cpes.peachnet.edu 

International Relations Committee 

Jean-Philippe Decraene 

Food & Agriculture Organ. of the UN 

Sales and Marketing Group 

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 

00100 Rome Italy 

Tel: 39-065705-2689 

Fax: 39-065705-3360 

JeanPhilippe.Decreane@fao.org 

Kevin Adams 



PO Box 29-181 


Tel: 64-3-351-6019 

Fax: 64-3-351-0010 


Nominating Committee 

Linda Maddux 

Willamette University 

Hatfield Library 

900 State Street 

Salem, OR 97301-3922 

Tel: 503-370-6525 

Fax: 503-370-6141 

lmaddux@willamette.edu 

Alice Marksberry 

University of Kentucky 

CAER Library 

2540 Research Park Drive 

Lexington, KY 40511-8410 

Tel: 859-257-0308 

Fax: 859-257-0302/0220 

alice@caer.uky.edu 

Dana Smith 

Information and Library Resources Group 

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. 

7300 NW 62nd. Ave. Box 1004 

Johnston, IA 50131-9410 

Tel: 515-270-4199 

Fax: 515-253-2184 

Dana.Smith@pioneer.com

Public Relations Committee 

Stacey Lazarow 

The Iams Company 

R&D Information Research Services 

PO Box 189 

6571 State Route 503 North 

Lewisburg, OH 45338 

Tel: 937-415-8920 

Fax: 937-415-5945 

stacey.lazarow@iams.com 

Procedures Manual Committee 

Pat Wilson (Chair) 


William T. Young Library 

500 South Limestone 


Tel: 859-257-0500 x2171 

Fax: 859-257-9686 

pwilson@pop.uky.edu 


National Center for Food Safety & Technology 


6502 South Archer 


Tel: 708-563-8160 

Fax: 708-563-8164 


Lutishoor Salisbury (Luti) 

University of Arkansas Libraries 

Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201 

Tel: 501-575-8418 

Fax: 501-575-4592 

lsalisbu@mail.uark.edu 

Strategic Planning Committee 

Maria A. Porta (Chair) 

Univ. of Illinois-Urbana 

Agriculture Library 

1301 W. Gregory Dr. 

Urbana, IL 61801-3681 

Tel: 217-333-7687 

Fax: 217-333-0058 

mporta@uiuc.edu 

Sharon Schwerzel 

Florida State University 

Dirac Science Library 

Tallahassee, FL 32306-4140 

Tel: 850-644-5534 

Fax: 850-644-0025 

sschwerz@mailer.fsu.edu 

Sue Schultz 

American Farm Bureau Federation 

Public Policy Division 

225 Touhy Ave. 

Park Ridge, IL 60068-5874 

Tel: 847-685-8781 

Fax: 847-685-8969 

sue@fb.com 

FAN Division Board of Directors/Committees 

Vendor Relations/Event Management 

Kara Pedersen 

Farm Bureau Management Corp. 

Library 

5400 University Avenue 

W. Des Moines, IA 50266-5950 

Tel: 515-225-5477 

Fax: 515-225-5419 

kpedersen@ifbf.org 

Valerie Perry 

Agricultural Information Center 

N24 Agriculture Science Bldg North 



Tel: 859-257-2758 

Fax: 859-323-4719 

vperry@pop.uky.edu 

Discussion List Coordinator 

Pat Wilson 


William T. Young Library 

500 South Limestone 


Tel: 859-257-0500 x2171 

Fax: 859-257-9686 

pwilson@pop.uky.edu 

Bylaws Committee 

Richard Wallace (Chair) 

A E Staley Manufacturing Co. 

Research Library 

2200 E. Eldorado Street 

Decatur, IL 62521-1578 

Tel: 217-421-3283 

Fax: 217-421-2519 

rewallace@tlna.com 

Sue Schultz 

American Farm Bureau Federation 

Public Policy Division 

225 Touhy Avenue 

Park Ridge, IL 60068-5874 

Tel: 847-685-8781 

Fax: 847-685-8969 

sue@fb.com 

Awards Committee 

Carolyn Speakman (Chair) 

National Center for Food Safety & Technology 


6502 South Archer 


Tel: 708-563-8160 

Fax: 708-563-8164 



Kevin Adams 



PO Box 29-181 


Tel: 64-3-351-6019 

Fax: 64-3-351-0010 


Robert Allen (Pat) 

Univ. of Illinois Library 

1301 West Gregory 

Mumford Hall MC 710 

Urbana, IL 61801 

Tel: 217-244-2245 

Fax: 217-333-0558 

allen2@uiuc.edu 

Amy Paster 

The Pennsylvania State University 

Life Sciences Library 

408 Paterno Library 

University Park, PA 16802-1811 

Tel: 814-876-3708 

Fax: 814-863-9684 

alp4@psu.edu 

Linda Hanrath 

William Wrigley Jr. Co. 

Library 

410 North Michigan Avenue 

Chicago, IL 60611-4211 

Tel: 312-645-3921 

Fax: 312-644-0081 

lhanrath@wrigley.com 

Los Angeles Conference Committee 

Margaret Merrill 

Virginia Tech University 

University Libraries 

PO Box 90001 

Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001 

Tel: 540-231-2322 

Fax: 540-231-7808 

mmerrill@vt.edu

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Jul 15 2002 

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Oct 15 2002 

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Dec 15 2002 

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Apr 15 2003 

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