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Stephanie Fazenbaker Race

Stephanie Fazenbaker Race is the Assistant Director at NEFLIN, the Northeast Florida Library Information in Orange Park, Florida. She is responsible for managing several NEFLIN services, including continuing education, customized training, Union List of Serials, and courier delivery. She designs and produces marketing tools and publications. She assists the Executive Director with grant planning, budgeting, and writing. She also works with membership on various projects and oversees NEFLIN committees.

Stephanie particpated in the following teleconference:

Dancing with Change: Distance Learning Services

David Reifsnyder

David has worked professionally as a photographer, geriatric care provider, ski instructor, marketing director, corporate relations manager, graphic arts and website designer, theatrical actor and director, theatre librarian, scriptwriter, voiceover talent and teacher.  For the past five years, David has been teaching both theatre- and New Media-related classes at Wheaton College; he currently divides his time between consulting, design and theatre.

David participated in the following teleconference:

The Role of Teaching in Modern Libraries

James Rettig

James Rettig is the University Librarian at the University of Richmond. Mr. Rettig is a requested speaker at library conferences and meetings. He is a frequent contributor to the professional literature on reference topics. His column "Rettig on Reference" ran for several years on the gale.com site. In addition, Mr. Rettig has served on numerous boards and committees.

Jim participated in the following teleconference:

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

Tom Rich

Tom Rich is the Support Services Supervisor at the Warren Newport Public Library in Gurnee, Illinois. He and Tobi Oberman  are the founders of the Reaching Forward Annual Conference for Library Assistants.

Tom participated in the following teleconference:

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

Daneen Richardson

Daneen Richardson is a Reference Librarian at the Graham Hospital School of Nursing in Canton, Illinois and Coordinator of the Heart of Illinois Library Consortium. The Heart of Illinois Library Association is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to encourage cooperation and professional development for health information specialists and to promote health sciences library services and resources to information professionals, health care professionals, health educators, and the public.

Daneen participated in the following teleconference:

Building another Bridge: Equal Access to Technology for Special Populations

Ed Rivenburgh

Ed Rivenburgh is the Director of College Libraries at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Previously, he held the positions of Library Director at Finger Lakes Community College, near Rochester, NY, and Director of Instructional Media Services at Simmons College in Boston. Ed has graduate degrees from Boston University, Michigan State University, and Simmons College.

Ed participated in the following teleconference:

Library as Place: Where People Want to Be

Laura Pope Robbins

Laura Pope Robbins is Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian at Dowling College in Oakdale, New York..

Her research interests include library Web site development (including dynamic content delivery and data-driven Web sites) and copyright; and she developed the Journal Locator, a Web-assessable database that includes the holdings of all journal titles, both electronic and physical.

Laura particpated in the following teleconference:

Effective Web Design: “A Fresh Look”

Joey Rodger

Joey Rodger is the Executive Director of the Pendle Hill Peace Center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. She is the former Executive Director of the Urban Libraries Council,in Evanston, Illinois, which established a Leadership Grant in her honor in 2004. The grant provides financial assistance to a library leader for participation in a leadership development opportunity.

Joey particpated in the following teleconference:

Dancing with Change: A Reality Check

Jill Rodriguez

Jill Rodriguez is the Director of the Bensenville Community Public Library District, Bensenville, Illinois. Bensenville is a diverse community located twelve miles west of Chicago, directly adjacent to O'Hare International Airport.  Ms. Rodriguez has written and administered numerous federal and state grants to serve immigrant populations, including ESL and Family Literacy Programs, and she has been recognized throughout Illinois for her unique approach to library service. She has a passion for exemplary customer service and a devotion to intergovernmental cooperation, and she frequently addresses these topics at conferences and workshops. 

Jill participated in the following teleconference:

Serving Immigrant Populations

Jana Ronan

Jana Ronan is the Program Director for Undergraduate Library Services at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is also Co-chair of the RSS/MARS Virtual Reference Committee, and a member of the Digital Reference Education Initiative

Jana participated in the following teleconference:

Virtual Reference Services…What, Why and How?

Carrie Russell

Carrie Russell is Copyright Specialist for the Office for Information Technology Policy at the American Library Association in the Washington Office. She is author of the best-selling book, Complete Copyright (2004), and numerous articles on copyright and information policy that have appeared in such journals as Library Trends, Library Issues, Public Libraries, and Library Journal, and pens a popular monthly column "Carrie on ©" in School Library Journal.

Carrie participated in the following teleconferences:

Making Copyright Work for Your Library

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

Gary Sarpy

Gary Sarpy is a Chicago native, born on the north side.  Gary has worked in the English education field since 2000 and in the Latino community since 2002. His past volunteerism includes the Chicago Leadership Cooperative, the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, and Chicago University's Technology Camp for Children at Risk. Gary currently holds the position of Adult Education Coordinator at Gads Hill Center,  a not-for-profit, community based organization located in the heart of Chicago's predominantly Hispanic Pilsen neighborhood in the Lower West Side community.  Gary is responsible for designing ESL program (English as a Second Language) curriculum for over 150 adult learners annually.  His Adult Volunteer Literacy program, as sponsored by the Secretary of the state of Illinois, Jesse White, Literacy Office, is exclusively staffed by volunteer ESL tutors. Gary is also currently completing his B.S. in English Education at Chicago's Roosevelt University. 

Gary participated in the following teleconference:

Serving Immigrant Populations

Aaron Schmidt

Aaron Schmidt is the author of the weblog walkingpaper.org where we writes about library technology and library usability.  As webmaster of the Thomas Ford Memorial Library, he uses weblog software to manage the library's website. He has presented internationally on the topic of library technologies, including instant messaging, weblogs, and information gadgets. He was selected as a 2005 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

Aaron participated in the following teleconference:

Best New Technologies: Keeping Up with the Storm

Greg Schmidt

Greg Schmidt works in the Binding and Receiving Department at Auburn University Libraries in Auburn, Georgia. He is also the Library Employees Advisory Group (LEAC) Chairperson. [update]

Greg participated in the following teleconference:

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

Jim Schmidt

Jim Schmidt is a Professor of Library Science at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. His research interests include intellectual freedom, intellectual property rights, instructional technology, and standards.

Jim particpated in the following teleconference:

Dancing with Change: A Reality Check

John D. Shank

John received his Masters from Drexel's School of Library and Information Science.  Since entering the field in 1996 he has worked in various capacities at several academic institutions, including: Montgomery County Community College, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College.  Currently, he is the Instructional Design Librarian and newly appointed director of the Center for Learning Technologies for Pennsylvania State University’s, Berks-Lehigh Valley College.  He has assisted over 80 full- and part-time Penn State faculty and librarians in adopting ANGEL courseware in their instruction.  John has presented numerous faculty development workshops at various universities and colleges, given presentations at regional and national conferences, and has been an invited Presenter about and co-authored articles on the topic of integrating library services into courseware.

John participated in the following teleconference:

The Role of Teaching in Modern Libraries 

Arlene Farber Sirkin

Arlene Farber Sirkin has an MLS from Columbia University and an MBA from the Wharton School. She has given seminars for and consulted with information professionals throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. She is currently president of Washington Resource Consulting Group, Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland, and a member of the American Society of Association Executives.

Arlene participated in the following teleconferences:

Communication in the Library: Up, Down and All Around

Successful Team Building

Bernie Sloan

Bernie Sloan is Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting, in Urbana, Illinois. His research interests include reference services in the digital library,and issues in library science education.

Bernie particpated in the following teleconference:

Dancing with Change: Distance Learning Services

John Small

John Small is Assistant Professor of Library Services and the Electronic Resources Librarian at The Kirkpatrick Library, Central Missouri State University. He has been active in technology issues in libraries since coming to CMSU in 1993. John has an MALIS and an ABD in Information Systems. He is responsible for technology initiatives in the 3-year-old state of the art Kirkpatrick Library, and has lectured on technology related issues nationally and internationally.

John participated in the following teleconference:

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

Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville is the former Director of the Miami-Dade Public Library System in Miami, Florida, and President of the American Library Association in 1996 - 1997. 

Mary particpated in the following teleconference:

Dancing with Change: Library as Knowledge Creator and Publisher

Jared M. Spool

Jared Spool is a software developer and programmer, and the founder of User Interface Engineering. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Tufts University Gordon Institute in Medford, Massachusetts, and teaches seminars on product usability. His memberships include SIGCHI, the Usability Professionals Association, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the IEEE. Jared is a recognized authority on user interface design and human factors in computing.

Jared participated in the following teleconference:

Effective Web Design

Cynthia Stout

Cynthia Stout is a  Social Studies curriculum content specialist and participant in the Library of Congress American Memory Fellows Institute.

Cynthia Participated in:

Digital Treasures for Teaching and Learning

Tracy Strobel

Tracy Strobel is the Web Applications Supervisor at the Cleveland Public Library where, among other things, she coordinates the KnowItNow online live reference service for the CLEVNET Library Consortium.

Tracy participated in the following teleconference:

Virtual Reference Services…What, Why and How?

Lorelle Swader

Lorelle Swader is the Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment Director (HRDR) at the American Library Association. She is also the Library Instructional Round Table (LIRT) Liaison Officer, and a Steering Committee member the 3rd Congress on Professional Education (COPE III).

Lorelle participated in the following teleconferences:

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

A Professional Toolkit: Tools for Advancement

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