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Sister Joella Cunnane, Archivist for the Sisters of Mercy, would like to announce that Fordham University Press has just released Women of Faith: The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly. This history traces more than 160 years of the Sisters of Mercy in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin from three perspectives: community, spirituality, and ministry, within three time periods. If you have any questions regarding this endeavor feel free to contact Malachy McCarthy (mccarthym
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Patricia Carroll hangs a poster of St. Jerome,
patron of librarians and archivists, in her new office at the Catholic Library
Association.
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Patricia Carroll, Vice President of CARA, has
joined the staff of the Catholic Library Association in Chicago. Working with
Interim Executive Director Malachy McCarthy, Patricia’s role is to provide
service and support to individual members, local Chapters and Sections of the
Association. Currently Patricia is working on major projects like coordinating
arrangements for CLA’s Annual Convention to be held in Pittsburgh, April 22 to
24 and streamlining the distribution of CLA’s quarterly publication Catholic Library World. Future projects include preparing for the
Introductory Archives Workshop for Religious Communities which will be offered
in June and designing outreach strategies for new and renewing members of the
Association.
Patricia
earned her MLIS at Dominican University in River Forest, IL and previously
worked at the Cenacle Archives in Chicago and the McGreal Center for Dominican
Historical Studies in River Forest.
If you have news that you would like to share with the CARA membership, please send it to Jerice Barrios (cenacle.archives@gmail.com).
