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Penny Mandziara

Penny Mandziara started her library career as a circulation clerk at the Bensenville Public Library, and received her LTA certification from College of DuPage. Ms. Mandziara is currently the Library/School Liaison for Bensenville, and has appeared on several Soaring to Excellence programs, and was the host of an informative video “What Every Parent Needs to Know About the Worldwide Web.”

Penny participated in the following teleconferences:

Bringing Order to the Chaos: Using Search Engines Efficiently

Library Support Staff Soar to Great Heights: How Library Workers Give Back

 

 

Edward Martinez

Edward Martinez is the Public Access Librarian at El Camino College in Torrance, California, as well as the editor of Library Mosaics, the magazine for library support staff. He received his MLS from Berkeley, and his background includes several support staff positions and public and community college library work in Hawaii. Martinez is editor for Library Mosaics, the magazine for library support staff. He is nationally known as a champion of the support staff movement.

Ed participated in the following teleconferences:

It Takes a Vision

Support Staff: Invisible People

 

 

Michael McColgin

Michael McColgin is the Conservation Officer with the State of Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, State Capital History and Archives Division. Mr. McColgin is also the Vice President/President-Elect of the Society of Southwest Archivists, and well-known for his expertise in conserving paper documents and disaster recovery. He has numerous publications concerning disaster prevention, planning, and recovery; as well as preserving paper and photographs.

Michael participated in the following teleconference:

Disaster Planning

 

 

Sarah McCord

Sarah McCord is the Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian at the Washington State University Health Sciences Library in Pullman, Washington, and an Affiliate Faculty Instructor in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Washington in Seattle. Sarah was also Chair of the Medical Library Association Pharmacy and Drug Information Section in 2004. Her current research interests include improving health information literacy though instuction and the appropriate use of technology, and improving access to current health care information for health care providers serving migrant and seasonal worker communities.

Sarah participated in the following teleconference:

New Tools for Enhancing Digital Reference

 

 

Rob McGee

Rob McGee holds graduate degrees in both library and computing science and has been at the forefront of library automation since 1965. He produced system requirements, system designs, technical plans, and library automation while at the University of Chicago. Mr. McGee founded RMG Consultants, Inc., a consulting firm that helps libraries plan, procure, and implement automated systems.

Rob participated in the following teleconference:

Technology and the Library User

 

 

Howard F. McGinn

Howard F. McGinn, Ph.D., MBA, is Dean of University Libraries at Seton Hall University. Before that he was Dean of Libraries at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Emporia (KS) Public Library, City Librarian of New Haven, CT, and State Librarian of North Carolina. In a previous life he was General Manager of a New York Times Company subsidiary, and the National Media Sales Manager, J.B. Lippincott Publishing Company.

Howard participated in the following teleconference:

Library Marketing: Tips & Techniques

 

 

Susan McGlamery

Susan McGlamery is the Reference Coordinator for the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System, a consortium of 40 public libraries located in Los Angeles and Orange County. She has an extensive history of managing reference services in legal, corporate and public library environments.

Susan participated in the following teleconference:

Reference Services: Virtual, Digital, and In-Library - a New Model for Effective Delivery

 

 

Chandra McKenzie

Chandra McKenzie is a SUNY Buffalo and Rochester Institute of Technology alumna with dual Master’s Degrees in Instructional Technology and Library Science. Ms. McKenzie served as Associate Director of RIT’s Wallace Library for fourteen years. She was named Assistant Provost and Director of RIT Libraries in 2001.

Chandra participated in the following teleconference:

Library Transformation:  Making it Happen

 

William Miller

William Miller has directed libraries in Ohio and Florida for more than 20 years, and has published several articles in Library Issues: Briefings for Faculty and Administrators on the importance of the library as a place. He believes passionately that electronic resources merely enhance the status and importance of the library, both as a place and as a resource, and observes that people of all walks of life intuitively understand why libraries exist and what their missions and values are.

William participated in the following teleconference:

Library as Place: Where People Want to Be 

 

 

Paul Mills

Paul Mills is the Manager of Technical Services with the Prairie Area Library System in Shorewood, Illinois. His interests include security and protecting public access computers in libraries (using both software and public policies), blogging, and RSS Feeds.

Paul participated in the following teleconference:

Information Power:  What is it, How to Know it When You See it, How to Use it in Your Library

 

 

Mary Minow

Mary Minow is an attorney, consultant, and a former librarian and library trustee. Mary has taught library law at the San Jose State School of Library Science, and was President on the board of CALTAC, the California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners,in 2002; she now serves as its Policy Analyst. Mary is the coauthor with Tomas Lipinski of The Library's Legal Answer Book (2003), and the first recipient of the California Library Association's Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, given in 2004.

Mary particpated in the following teleconference:

Web Filtering: Policies, Software, Staff Training and CIPA

 

 

Karen Muskopf

Karen Muskopf is the Youth Services Consultant at the Illinois State Library and a member of the Preparation of Pre-professional Staff to Work with Youth Task Force.

Karen participated in the following teleconference:

Library Support Staff Soar to Great Heights: How Library Workers Give Back

 

 

James Neal

James G. Neal is currently the Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, and also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). He serves on key academic, technology, budget and policy groups at the University. Jim is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, consultant and published researcher with a focus in the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library programs, organizational change, staff turnover, and fundraising. He has worked on the editorial boards of journals in the field of academic librarianship, and has worked on copyright policy and advisory groups for universities and professional and higher education associations.

James participated in the following teleconference:

 

James also moderated the following teleconferences:

Dancing with Change: The Library as Consumer

Dancing with Change: Library as Knowledge Creator and Publisher

 

Larry R. Oberg

Larry Oberg is a former University Librarian at the Mark O. Hatfield Library at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and editor of Moveable Type. He is a long-time advocate of library support staff, and has published many insightful and frequently cited articles.

Larry participated in the following teleconference:

Information Power:  What is it, How to Know it When You See it, How to Use it in Your Library

 

 

Tobi Oberman

Tobi Oberman is the Head of Circulation Services at the Skokie Public Library. She and Tom Rich are founders of the Reaching Forward Annual Conference for Library Assistants.

Tobi participated in the following teleconference:

Library Support Staff Soar to Great Heights: How Library Workers Give Back

 

 

Allie O’Connor

Allie O’Connor is the Document Delivery Coordinator for the Freeman/Lozier Library at Bellevue University in Bellevue Nebraska.

Allie participated in the following teleconference:

Library Support Staff Soar to Great Heights: How Library Workers Give Back

 

 

Nancy O'Neill

Nancy O'Neill is the Principal Librarian of Reference Services at the Santa Monica Public Library in Santa Monica, California. Nancy has served as a member of the AskNow (California) 24/7 Reference Cooperative, QuestionPoint Global, Collaborative Digital Reference Service/QuestionPoint Advisory Board, and the AskNow Advisory Board.

Nancy participated in the following teleconference:

Virtual Reference Services…What, Why and How?

 

 

Lester Park

Lester Park is the Community Services Librarian at the Bensenville Community Public Library District located in Bensenville, Illinois, just southwest of O'Hare International Airport. Les is a  graduate of San Jose State University in San Jose, California, where he earned a BA in Political Science and a Master's Degree in Political Science and International Economics. Prior to joining the Bensenville Library, Les was the Chief Information Officer for the Chiron Corporation, a biotech company in Northern California where he was responsible for Commercial Information Technology and Information Services as well as the Corporate Library. In addition to his community outreach activities at the Library, Les serves on the Boards of the Bensenville Arts Council and the Bensenville Chamber of Commerce and Industry and supports Literacy Programs in the area. 

Lester participated in the following teleconferences:

Library Support Staff Soar to Great Heights

Serving Immigrant Populations

 

 

Josie Parker 

Josie Parker has worked in several public library systems. She is currently Director of the Ann Arbor District Library (Ann Arbor, Michigan), the president-elect of the Michigan Library Association, and a board member of the Public Library Association.

Josie participated in the following teleconference:

Library Transformation:  Making it Happen

 

Jenny Pompe

Jenny Pompe received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute, and her art incorporates textile techniques such as weaving and embroidery, as well as drawing, photography, and book making to explore issues that include religion, politics, feminism, and labor. She is currently a library assistant at the College of DuPage Library.

Jenny participated in the following teleconference:

Human Values in a Technological Age