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11:37 a.m., July 1, 2008--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Publications

Gibbons Ruark, professor emeritus of English, “John Clare's Finches,” a poem in The New Republic, June 25, 2008.

Jesse Rossa, senior assistant librarian, special collections department, University of Delaware Library, “Eyes of the Poet Reading Jack Gilbert,” in The Dark Horse, The Scottish-American Poetry Magazine, winter 2007-08.

Presentations

Scott Andres, senior scientist, Thomas McKenna, associate scientist, and Changming He, associate scientist, of the Delaware Geological Survey, presented “Monitoring Water Resources and Water Availability Planning for Sustainable Future Water Supplies South of the C & D Canal,” to the Governor's Water Supply Coordinating Council, June 12, Dover

Two members of the Department of Individual and Family Studies made presentations at the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) conference, May 29-30 in Washington, D.C. Steven M. Eidelman, Robert Edelsohn Chair in Disabilities Studies, presented “Challenges and Opportunities for the Future: Research, Data, Technology and the Future,” and Nancy R. Weiss, researcher and co-director of the National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities, spoke at the session titled “Professional Formation and Training of the Next Generation of Professional Leaders.”

William Simpson, senior assistant librarian, reference department, University of Delaware Library, participated in a panel presentation, “Building and Managing a Digital Repository in DSpace,” at Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference, July 8-9, Lewisburg, Pa.

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, “Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print and Markets,” in the 2008 Colloquium of Money, Power, Print: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Financial Revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776, June 26-28, St. John's College, Newfoundland, Canada.

Service

Rebecca Knight, associate librarian, reference department, University of Delaware Library, was elected president of the Delaware Library Associates for 2008-09.