Marylène Altieri, curator of books and printed materials at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, gave a talk entitled “Designs for Cooking: A Visual Banquet from the Schlesinger Library” on January 7 to the Society of Printers, at Boston’s Club of Odd Volumes.  Her presentation was a visual survey of Schlesinger’s outstanding culinary collection, featuring examples of printing and design from its holdings of books, periodicals, pamphlets, menus, ’zines, and ephemera issued over the last four centuries in America and Europe.

Sarah Bertino, seasonal temporary staff member since 2003 at the Harvard Depository, Harvard University Library, and a senior in biochemistry at Hamilton College, recently traveled to Washington, DC, to present her research at Neuroscience 2008, the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Bertino’s research compared DNA from rats and several insects to determine evolutionary relatedness and also focused on determining where and when the gene encoding TBhR protein is expressed in Apis mellifera (the honeybee). For more information,visit  http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?id=14852.

Ann Cullen, curriculum services specialist in Knowledge and Library Services at Harvard Business School, is co-author of a new book on conducting research in the area of private equity finance. Researching Private Equity, by Sylvia James and Ann Cullen, published by Alert Publications, is a collection of definitive articles on all aspects of finding information on private equity financing. It also contains an extensive source guide to a wide range of materials, from books that tell the stories of deals to a detailed list of information sources and services used to support the private equity sector. For more information, see http://www.alertpub.com/publications/businesstitles.html.

Susan Fliss, associate librarian for research, teaching, and learning in the Harvard College Library, recently gave a presentation entitled “Pensionnaires dans deux patries: Franco-American Girls in New England and Quebec Boarding Schools.” The presentation was given in Quebec City in mid-November at a joint conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and the American Council for Quebec Studies.

Carrie Kent, research librarian in Research Services, Widener Library, HCL, gave a paper entitled “The SL Academic Library as a Question” in Second Life at the American Library Association Virtual Communities and Libraries Membership Interest Group's first ALA SLymposium, held in the virtual world of Second Life on ALA Island on November 8. The SLymposium offered a look at what all types of library-related organizations are doing in Second Life. The day-long symposium was simulcast at http://www.rielradio.org.