By: Lisa Ruth

Bertha Chang, NCSU Libraries Fellow, has been accepted to the Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups to be held in July 2012. The biannual week-long institute is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis.

According to their website, Institute participants “are urged to explore their strengths and professional interests to shape their careers in academic librarianship. At the conclusion of this Institute, they will have gained expertise in critical areas of librarianship, a better understanding of themselves and behaviors in complex organizations, and a long-term peer group for mutual support and networking.”

For more information about the Institute, see their website:http://www.lib.umn.edu/sed/institute.

By: libstaff

The NCSU Libraries is very pleased to announce the appointment of the 2011 – 2013 class of NCSU Libraries Fellows: Bertha Chang, Michael Kastellec, Michael Nutt, and Charlie Morris. All appointments are effective July 1, 2011, with the exception of Charlie Morris’ which will begin August 1, 2011.

The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program develops future leaders for academic libraries, with a focus on science, engineering, digital librarianship, diversity, and library management. For more than ten years, the program has attracted an impressive group of talented new graduates from universities throughout North America. NCSU Libraries Fellows are appointed for a two-year term as members of the library faculty, combining an assignment on an initiative of strategic importance with an appointment in a home department.

Bertha Chang is soon to graduate with the Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While earning her degree, Chang served as a graduate assistant at the Grainger Engineering Library where she provided reference services and selected resources in the areas of engineering and physics. She was selected by the Association of Research Libraries for participation in its Career Enhancement Program. As part of that program, she completed an internship in the summer of 2010 with the NCSU Libraries in which she developed an information literacy curriculum for students in materials science and engineering, and created video tutorials on engineering handbooks.

Before beginning her studies in Library and Information Science, Chang built a career at Applied Materials, the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductor capital equipment. She served as program manager for the PVD Metal Gate Program, and as senior engineering manger for the PVD Applications Laboratory. Chang earned the Ph.D in Ceramics and the B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and held a School of Engineering graduate fellowship at Stanford University. Her research and publications focused on processing of dielectric thin films for high-Tc superconducting device applications and characterization of their epitaxial and microstructural development.

Michael Kastellec will graduate with the Master of Library and Information Science, Technology Track, from Valdosta State University, where he was awarded an MLIS Merit Scholarship. For the past five years, Kastellec has been the computer specialist at the Oconee County Libraries in the Athens Regional Library System. As the sole IT specialist for two branch libraries, his responsibilities included support for every element of computer operations, consultation on technology budgeting, planning and policy, and at the regional level, coordination on purchasing and problem resolution. He was responsible for technology training for both patrons and staff and launched a regular series of classes on topics of interest related to technology. Additionally, he provided library services including reference, collection development, and public relations for the branch library. As member of the regional Web Development Team, he evaluated and improved the regional library system’s web pages, and is currently collaborating on a complete redesign of the regional website, with a transition to CMS architecture.

Kastellec earned the B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture from The Georgia Institute of Technology. He was co-presenter of “Making Library Websites More Usable” at the Georgia Library Association/Council of Media Organizations XXI.

Charlie Morris will earn the Master of Science in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Morris brings a rich background in instructional technology and web development to the Fellows program. Most recently, he has been the distance education and web coordinator for NC State’s College of Natural Resources. In that role he collaborates with faculty to develop and implement distance education courses and programs. He is also the web developer for MEASURE Evaluation at the Carolina Population Center where he is developing data visualizations for geographically oriented data related to orphans in Kenya. He previously served as a member of the DELTA Instructional Services team here.

Morris earned the B.S. in Business Administration and the B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Geneseo. He is the recipient of several DELTA IDEA grants, a two-time winner of the Pride of the Wolfpack, and a nominee for both the University Award for Excellence and the Gertrude Cox Award. He has presented across the state on topics relating to instructional technology, including a recent presentation at UNC CAUSE entitled “Delivering Digital Classroom Content: The Hybrid Theory of Classroom Capture,” and has served as facilitator for a Tri-IT meeting, “Instructional Technology Development and Training for Faculty.”

Michael Nutt is soon to complete the Master of Science in Information Science from UNC-CH. While pursuing his studies he has served as research assistant to the Carolina Digital Library and Archive, as well as lab assistant in IT Services at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS). He founded the Carolina Digital Story Lab, a student group that uses digital technologies to record, share, and preserve the stories of the student community, as well as wikumentary.net, a community effort to explore the intersection of wikis and documentaries. Before beginning his graduate studies, Nutt was the multimedia technician in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC-CH.

Nutt holds the B.A. in Communication Studies and the Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from the School of Social Work, UNC-CH. His honors include selection as the Michael Hooker Fellow in Applied Networking, as a Scholar in the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory Scholars Program, and as a recipient of the James C. Lampley Award for Excellence in Multimedia. He has been an exhibitor at the Carrboro Flicker Festival and at the Johnston Center Multimedia Festival and  presented a paper, “The Story Economy,” at the Community Informatics Resource Network Conference in Prato, Italy, in November, 2008.

By: libstaff

The NCSU Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of the NCSU Libraries Fellows, 2010 – 2012: Brian Norberg and Adam Rogers, effective July 1, 2010, and L. Hill Taylor, effective August 2, 2010.

The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program develops future leaders for academic libraries, with a focus on science, engineering, and digital librarianship, on diversity, and on library management. For more than ten years, the program has attracted an impressive group of talented new graduates from universities throughout North America. NCSU Libraries Fellows are appointed for a two-year term as members of the library faculty, combining a project assignment on an initiative of strategic importance with a half-time appointment in a home department.

Brian Norberg is soon to graduate with the Master of Library Science (Digital Library Specialization) from the Indiana University at Bloomington. While in graduate school, Norberg has worked on a number of projects relating to digital librarianship. As an e-text editor for the Digital Library Program, he has created workflows, written XSL transformation documents, and developed a subject and genre taxonomy to improve browsing and searching functions for the Victorian Women Writers Project and the Indiana Authors Project. He also worked on the Victorian Women Writers Project as both an intern and library assistant; encoding documents, identifying user needs, and training other students and assistants. He has held internships with the Indiana Magazine of History and the Swinburne Project, encoding documents for web delivery. During the summer of 2009, Norberg was a Junior Fellow Intern at the Library of Congress, where he worked with the Network Development staff, catalogers, reference specialists, and Division Chiefs to develop an XML database for searching bibliographic records of the Library’s special collections. He has served as an adjunct faculty member teaching Literature and Composition classes at Argosy University, Triton College, and Morton College. Norberg holds the Master of Arts in English Literature from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and the Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Adam Rogers will complete the Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), where he has held a variety of positions. In the Park Library of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, he provided discipline-specific reference, taught RefWorks classes, adapted instructional materials for distance students, and contributed to monograph and serial cataloging projects. In the UNC-CH Libraries’ Southern Folklife Collection he conducted a mass audio digitization project on the Eno River Festival, cataloged over two thousand 45rpm records, and reformatted metadata for the Soundings public radio collection. He was a graduate assistant in the Music Library where he digitized and cataloged materials for the 19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project. Rogers is a field experience intern at Davis Library, collaborating on special projects with the Reference Librarian for Emerging Technologies. He served as the Vice-President of the UNC Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and is a founding member of the UNC Chapter of the Progressive Librarians Guild. He earned the Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and English from University of Virginia.

L. Hill Taylor will earn the Master of Science in Library Science from UNC-CH. He was a recipient of a Carnegie Tuitional Fellowship at the UNC-CH School of Information and Library Science. In this Fellowship he explored, developed, and implemented digital technologies for the provision of instructional services, library instruction and reference, produced a monthly podcast, and participated in the selection and acquisition of library materials. Taylor completed internships at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and at Duke University Libraries in Data Services/GIS. He currently serves as a Lecturer at UNC-CH in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, where he teaches classes in Information Literacy, New Media, and Interdisciplinary Research Methods. Taylor has also taught courses at the University of District Columbia and North Carolina State University on topics including Composition and Rhetoric, Interdisciplinary Research Methods, and Technical Writing. Taylor holds the Doctor of Philosophy from UNC-CH in Educational & Instructional Technology, a Cultural Studies Certificate from UNC-CH, the Master of Arts in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and the Bachelor of Arts in Management, with a concentration in Marketing and a minor in English, from North Carolina State University.

By: libstaff

The NCSU Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of Adrienne Lai as a NCSU Libraries Fellow, effective January 15, 2010.

As an NCSU Libraries Fellow, Adrienne Lai will enter a program that develops future leaders for academic libraries, with a focus on science, engineering, and digital librarianship, on diversity, and on library management. Lai’s home department will be in the Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center. In her Fellows project she will support major initiatives to inform and educate users and build private support for the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, scheduled for completion in 2012.

Lai brings a rich background in teaching, writing, and art to librarianship. Before pursuing graduate studies in archives and library science, she served on the faculty of the Emily Carr Institute and at the Maryland Institute College of Art, teaching courses in art history, studio art, photography and critical theory. As a graduate student she held several graduate assistant and intern positions in library, archives, and museum settings. Lai designed workflows for a large-scale digitization project at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, and she developed programs and workshops for topics related to social networking and digital media for the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Her interests span a wide range of research library initiatives, including the transformation of library space, the collection, creation, and sustainability of digital resources, and the role of outreach and instruction in special collections. Lai recently completed an eight-week internship in the NCSU Libraries as part of the Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Program.

With an active record of publications and presentations in art and art history, Lai has begun writing and presenting on topics in library and information studies, co-authoring “Web 2.0 in Action,” in Wired West, 2009. Lai was recently awarded the Joint Master of Archival Studies/Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia. She holds the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, with a Graduate Emphasis in Asian American Studies, from the University of California, Irvine, and the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design.

By: admin

The NCSU Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of the NCSU Libraries Fellows, 2009–2011: Joyce C. Chapman, effective August 17, 2009, and David N. Woodbury, effective July 6, 2009.

The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program develops future leaders for academic libraries, with a focus on science, engineering, and digital librarianship, on diversity, and on library management. Now in its tenth year, the program continues to attract an impressive group of talented new graduates from universities throughout North America. NCSU Libraries Fellows are appointed for a two-year term as members of the library faculty, combining a project assignment on an initiative of strategic importance with a half-time appointment in a home department.

Joyce Chapman will complete the Master of Science in Information Science from UNC-CH. While in graduate school, Chapman has worked on a variety of projects for the Southern Historical Collection. She is currently leading a project to redesign the online display of finding aids, oversee the migration of finding aids, and conduct usability studies. Working with both the Southern Historical Collection and Southern Oral History Program, she directed a migration project of the oral history collection into CONTENTdm. She is currently leading comparative mass digitization testing as a research assistant for the Carolina Digital Library and Archives, where she also encoded digital image metadata. She completed a field experience at the Minnesota Historical Society, where she directed a style sheet redesign project, assisted in migration of finding aids, and wrote best practice guidelines. Before attending graduate school, Chapman taught internationally in Japan and Nicaragua, and within the United States in New Orleans, Louisiana and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She earned the Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and German summa cum laude from UNC-CH, where she was awarded the UNC Chancellor’s Award in Germanic Languages and Literature, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

David Woodbury will earn the Master of Science in Information Science from UNC-CH. He is currently a research assistant and project manager in the Metadata Research Center at the School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH. He is responsible for managing promotion, recruitment, and administrative activities for Bot 2.0, a National Science Foundation funded project aimed at retaining student interest in biological and botanical sciences and addressing the lack of diversity in the student population pursuing the botanical sciences. He is responsible for organizing sessions on botany, technology, and research for underrepresented undergraduate students. He also writes web and promotional materials and has co-written grant proposals. Before beginning graduate school, Woodbury worked in the Higher Education Division at John Wiley & Sons Publishers. He held a variety of sales and marketing positions, including National Product Consultant and Marketing Manager, in which he served as the national sales representative for college textbooks and electronic products in mathematics, physics, accounting, and management. Woodbury holds the Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Kansas, where he was a member of the Honors program.

By: admin

Join us at the Veterinary Medicine Library to wish a fond farewell to Beverly Godwin and Emily Mazure. Beverly, morning person extraordinaire, is leaving VML to join the Access & Delivery Services staff at the D.H. Library on main campus. Her last day at VML is Monday, March 23. Emily Mazure has completed her NCSU Libraries Fellowship and is joining the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.

By: admin

The NCSU Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily J. Lynema as Associate Head of Information Technology, effective immediately.

Lynema, who has been serving in the role of Interim Associate Head, will share responsibility for managing the department that develops, implements, and supports advanced information systems for the Libraries. She will supervise the Core Information Systems development group, and serve as lead product manager for enterprise applications and services related to the discovery, management, and delivery of core bibliographic metadata and content. She will also manage the lifecycle of supported products by setting priorities for development activities and ensuring production-level support for new products and services.

Lynema joined the Libraries as an NCSU Libraries Fellow, with a departmental assignment in Research and Information Services and a project assignment on the deployment of Endeca as the search interface for the library catalog. Following her fellowship, she was appointed to the position of Systems Librarian for Digital Projects, serving as product manager and developer for the Endeca catalog, and as a leader in the Endeca implementation for the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN). For the past year she has had oversight of the integrated library system and other critical applications including E-Matrix, ReservesDirect, MetaLib and SFX.

In 2007 Lynema was recognized by Library Journal as a “Mover and Shaker” in the library profession. She was the recipient of a Forum Fellowship to attend a meeting of the Digital Library Federation in 2006. Her record of active professional engagement includes membership on the eXtensible Catalog (XC) Advisory Board and the Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee as well as several publications and presentations on integrated library systems and user discovery.

Lynema earned the Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan where she was the recipient of the Margaret Mann award. She received the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, from Hope College, where she received the Computer Science Senior Prize, the Sigma Xi Senior Research Award, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

By: admin

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced that NCSU librarian Hilary Davis has been selected to participate in the Emerging Leaders 2009 program.

This highly competitive program, now in its third year, focuses on developing professional leadership. More than one hundred librarians from across the country will receive training, undertake a project, and serve on a committee within the ALA structure. Training begins at the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver, followed by six months of online work. Participants will make a presentation at the 2009 ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago in July.

Davis develops and manages the NCSU Libraries’ collections in all subject areas in the physical sciences and in selected engineering subjects. She was recognized by Library Journal as a 2008 “Mover and Shaker” for her sophisticated use of analytics in adapting collections to meet researchers’ needs.

Davis joined NC State in February 2005 as an NCSU Libraries Fellow in Collection Management; during her Fellows appointment she made significant contributions to the planning and development of a digital repository. She holds an M.A. in library science from the University of Missouri–Columbia, an M.S. in biology from the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and a B.S. in biology with honors from Guilford College.

This is the second year in a row that an NCSU librarian has been selected for the Emerging Leaders program. Mary Chimato, Head of Access and Delivery Services, and Jacquie Samples, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, were members of the 2008 cohort.

By: admin

The NCSU Libraries has appointed Selden D. Lamoureux as Electronic Resources Librarian, effective August 18, 2008, and Kristen M. Blake as Electronic Resources Librarian, effective July 1, 2009, in the Acquisitions Department.

Selden Lamoureux brings extensive experience in the management of electronic resources from her previous position as Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been responsible for negotiating licenses, ordering and maintaining access to electronic resources, and contributing to the development of an electronic resource management system. She has applied her knowledge of the publishing industry and of libraries to the analysis and interpretation of business models for library acquisitions. Her commitment to mentoring the next generation of librarians led to her appointment as adjunct instructor at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, teaching Serials/E-Resources Management at the School of Information and Library Science, advising on Masters Papers, and supervising numerous Field Experiences for graduate students.

A leader at the regional and national level, she has served the American Library Association/Association for Library Collections and Technical Services as Chair of both the Collection Development and Electronic Resources Committee and the Research Libraries Serials Section Discussion Group. As a member of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Shared E-Resources Understanding Work Group, she helped create the framework that offers publishers and libraries an alternative to the often-burdensome process of bilateral negotiation of a formal license agreement. She is member and past chair of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) Electronic Resources Committee and a frequent presenter at local and national conferences on issues in electronic resources management.

Lamoureux holds the M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the M.A in Education, East Carolina University; and the B.A. in Anthropology, Boston University.

Kristen Blake, currently an NCSU Libraries Fellow, will become Electronic Resources Librarian upon completion of her Fellowship. She joined the NCSU Libraries as a Fellow with experience in science library public and technical services. Through her current assignment in Metadata and Cataloging and her project in Acquisitions she has developed advanced metadata for the Libraries’ electronic resources management tools, including E-Matrix and the SFX link resolver, examined and evaluated workflows, and described and cataloged continuing and electronic resources. She has focused on data projects that make electronic resources available within all of the Libraries’ public service tools.

In the second year of her Fellowship she will continue her work with electronic resources in the Acquisitions Department and add to her understanding of digital collections with an assignment in Collection Management. As more and more materials are acquired in digital format, the addition of this second position of Electronic Resources Librarian in the NCSU Libraries will support the growing need to provide effective and timely management of these resources.

Blake was co-presenter of “The Name Game: Creating Organization Name Authority Within an ERM” at the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference this year. She is a member of the American Library Association. Blake earned the M. S. in Library and Information Science and the Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries, Syracuse University, where she was awarded a merit-based graduate assistantship at the School of Information. She holds the B.A. in English and Journalism, Lehigh University.

By: admin

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The NCSU Libraries has announced the appointment of the 2008-2010 NCSU Libraries Fellows, effective July 1, 2008: Cory Lown, Dan Lucas, Genya O’Gara, Andreas Orphanides, and David Zwicky.

The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program develops future leaders for academic libraries, with a focus on science, engineering, and digital librarianship; on diversity; and on library management. Now in its ninth year, the program continues to attract an impressive group of talented new graduates from universities throughout North America. NCSU Libraries Fellows are appointed for a two-year term as members of the library faculty, combining a project assignment on an initiative of strategic importance with a half-time appointment in a home department.

Cory Lown is soon to graduate with the Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), where he was awarded the Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship. He is currently a research fellow with the Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE) at UNC-CH, where he coordinates a national survey on the information seeking behavior of scientists. In addition, Lown is studying user search behavior in faceted online catalog systems by the server logs of NCSU Libraries’ Endeca-based catalog. Before attending graduate school, he worked in the private sector as a Product Search Specialist and Technical Content Editor, assessing and improving search and navigation on e-commerce websites. He holds the Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Hamilton College.

Lown will serve in Digital Library Initiatives with a project assignment, NCSU Libraries Collections: Making Data Work for Us, in Collection Management.

Daniel Lucas will complete the Master of Science in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With a background in web development and graphic design, he has been responsible for designing, developing, publishing, and editing websites in education and government settings, including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. While in graduate school, Lucas has worked for ibiblio.org, an open source software archive, where he has redesigned the website for improved functionality. He has additional experience working with several content management systems. Lucas completed the Visual Communications sequence to earn the Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication with a concentration in Computer Science from UNC-CH.

Lucas has a home department assignment in Digital Library Initiatives. In his project, New Media Initiatives, he will draw upon his background in visual communications and web development to investigate and implement new media design, services, and content in Research and Information Services.

Genya O’Gara will earn the Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently a research assistant in the Office of Scholarly Communication at Duke University Libraries. Her analysis of faculty publications at Duke is contributing to the development of a database that will provide guidance to the faculty regarding their intellectual property rights. This assignment is closely related to her research on U.S. copyright policy, including the effects of Creative Commons, Open Access, Institutional Repositories, and the concepts of Fair Use on current law. O’Gara also works as graduate assistant in the NCSU Libraries, providing reference assistance to users of the Special Collections Research Center. Before pursuing graduate education in librarianship, O’Gara held a research position with a law firm, where she led a project to analyze documents and create a database of information on water rights for the Northern Arapaho Tribe. O’Gara holds the Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Evergreen State College.

O’Gara’s home department will be Collection Management. Her project in the Special Collections Research Center, Exposing Modern Archival Collections: Documenting Kannapolis, will draw upon her experience with primary research materials.

Andreas Orphanides will receive the Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the recipient of the Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship. He is a Carolina Academic Library Associate in the Reference Department of the House Undergraduate Library, UNC-CH, where he provides library instruction and reference services. He maintains and edits the UNC-CH Libraries’ citation tutorial and designed a web-accessible iconographic map of the Undergraduate Library. Orphanides is also serving as the Software Development Intern for Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), working on the implementation of “Search TRLN,” using Endeca to enable simultaneous searching of the library catalogs of Duke, NC Central, NC State, and UNC-CH. After completing a Mathematics Teaching Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, he taught Upper School Mathematics at the Wheeler School, Providence, Rhode Island before embarking on a career in libraries. Orphanides holds the Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics with minors in English and Religion from Oberlin College.

Orphanides will have a home department in Information Technology and a project, E-Learning Resources for Teaching and Learning, in Research and Information Services.

David Zwicky will complete the Master of Arts in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the UW-Madison Libraries, he has worked in the Metadata and the Web units of the Digital Collections Center, creating metadata, managing, maintaining, and designing websites and RSS feeds, as well as preparing digital materials for web publication. As Digital Publishing Assistant for the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, he manages the day-to-day operations of the Journal of Insect Science, an online, open access journal. He completed a practicum in Library Information Literacy Instruction, where he taught information skills to undergraduate and graduate engineering students. Zwicky holds the Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

With a home assignment in the Textiles Library, Zwicky will serve Textiles and Engineering students and will use his digital library skills on his project, Data Repository Development, in Digital Library Initiatives.