Library News

Kan Zheng accepts a
Student Employee of the Year Award
from the Career Center's Elaine White

Library Student Worker Receives Top Honor

During April Kan Zheng, student worker in the library’s Technical Services Department, was honored by the UTD Career Center as one of five students campuswide who received special recogniton as Student Employees of the Year. Zheng was second in the overall honors. Michael Doty, Career Center Director, made the announcement in the Galaxy Room of the Student Union. Nominees were evaluated on these qualities: reliability, quality of work, initiative, disposition/attitude, longevity, adaptability, uniqueness of contribution, and overall rating. Zheng was nominated by Debbie Montgomery, head of Cataloging.

His accomplishments included merging multiple records, implementing several shortcuts and keystrokes to improve efficiency, and finishing an urgent special project on time. He also maintained a cheerful and positive attitude.

Doolittle Raiders fill UTD Conference Center

A UTD Conference Center audience listens
to a panel discussion by members of Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders

In one of the most prestigious events ever organized by the History of Aviation Collection at McDermott Library since the appearance of the legendary Gen. Jimmy Doolittle in 1985, the Special Collections Department welcomed the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association members and guests during their 2008 annual gathering in Dallas on Saturday, April 19, 2008. As a part of the 66th anniversary of the famous Doolittle famous raid on Japan in April 1942, five surviving Raiders, widows of other Raiders and family members visited the Jimmy Doolittle Archive in Special Collections on the third floor of McDermott Library. They also attended an invitation-only luncheon in their honor that featured keynote speaker Sam Johnson, U.S. House of Representatives. In a free public forum, a capacity audience of 500 people jammed the UTD Conference Center. Richardson Mayor Steve Mitchell read a city proclamation declaring April 19 as “Doolittle Raiders Day” in Richardson. He was followed by Rep. Fred Hill, Texas House of Representatives, who presented Texas state flags that were flown over the Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2008 - the actual anniversary of the raid.

Doolittle Raiders Thomas Griffin, Richard Cole and William Bower
view the Medal of Honor presented to their leader Jimmy
Doolittle by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Doolittle
Archives are located on the 3rd Floor of McDermott Library
in Special Collections.