Teleconference Participants T - Z
Library Learning Network
Nancy Tessman
Nancy Tessman has been a member of the staff at the Salt Lake City Public Library since 1976 and has served as Director since 1996. The award-winning Main Library opened in 2003 and now serves close to 3 million people annually. In 2006, the Salt Lake City Public Library was recognized as Library Journal's Library of the Year.
Nancy participated in the following teleconference:
Library Transformation: Making it Happen
Marc Thomas
Marc Thomas is the Information Services Manager at the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC), working in its Research and Forecasting Department. He provides data assistance and demographic trends analysis to local governments in the 6-county Northeastern Illinois region, to his co-workers, and to the public at large. He serves as his agency's point person for the collection and dissemination of census results to the data user community. He is also in charge of maintaining the data resources pages on the NIPC web site. After graduating from Indiana State University with a degree in history, Mr. Thomas worked for the State Employment Service in both Indiana and Illinois. He joined NIPC in 1986. An admitted chocoholic, Mr. Thomas currently lives on Chicago's west side, a mere block away from the Mars candy factory on Oak Park Avenue.
Marc participated in the following teleconference:
Joe Thompson
Joe Thompson is the Statewide Project Coordinator of the Maryland AskUsNow! service, and a participant in the 24/7 Reference Cooperative since January 2003. He is also Co-chair of the Reference Services Section/Machine-Assisted Reference Section (RSS/MARS) Virtual Reference Committee of the American Library Association. In addition to providing and managed virtual reference services, Joe also is a presenter at numerous conferences and teleconferences.
Joe participated in the following teleconference:
Preparing for the Future of Digital Reference
Leslie F. Trainer
Leslie F. Trainer has served as a Resource Center Teacher at Highcrest Middle School in the Willmette, Illinois School District.
Leslie participated in the following teleconference:
Dancing with Change: Developing Leadership for Change
Edward J. Valauskas
Edward Valauskas is the Follett Chair at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. He teaches classes on the history of the book, information policy, the Internet, and scholarly communication. Edward is also Senior Editor of First Monday, an Internet-only journal about the Internet. He has written a large number of articles and several books on computing and the Internet.
Edward participated in the following teleconference:
Making Copyright Work for Your Library
Linda Wallace
Linda Wallace is co-founder of Library Communication Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm based in Chicago, and former director of the American Library Association’s Public Information Office. She is the author of “Libraries, Mission and Marketing: Writing Mission Statements That Work” (ALA Editions, 2003) and has written and edited many publications, including ALA’s @ your library toolkits for public, school and academic libraries. In a previous life, she served as community relations coordinator for the Midwestern Michigan Library Cooperative, where she received two John Cotton Dana Awards for Library Public Relations. A journalism graduate of Ohio University, Wallace has a working knowledge of the media from her days as a newspaper reporter.
Linda participated in the following teleconference:
Library Marketing: Tips & Techniques
Carolyn Walz
Carolyn Walz has worked at the Estherville, IA, Public Library for forty-four years. For the past thirty-four years, she has been the Library Director. A community advocate, Carolyn has served on Boards of various community organizations, is active in her church, received the Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame Award for Emmet County in 1991, and was Estherville Citizen of the Year in 1995. In 1993 through 1995, Carolyn oversaw a successful referendum, capital fund-raising, the move out of an old Carnegie building, a library building project, and finally a move back into the newly renovated Carnegie building. As Library Director, Carolyn has hosted Hispanic Hospitality Night, cooperates with the local school in an Early Books program for young Hispanic children, and hosts a weekly Mixer Club social time for middle school students. Carolyn serves as "Team Mom" for the Iowa Lakes Community College Women's Basketball Team, and she and her husband John are both sports enthusiasts who frequently travel with the college teams. Each year on September 11, Carolyn keeps her library open for the entire 24-hours in recognitionof the extraordinary power of libraries and as a symbol of everything antithetical to terrorism, hatred, bigotry, and fanatacism. Carolyn is thrilled to represent Iowa libraries in this Soaring to Excellence teleconference.
Carolyn participated in the following teleconference:
Kelly Watson
Kelly received her Masters of Library Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has been an Adult Services Librarian for the Bensenville Community Public Library in Bensenville, Illinois since 1999. There she serves as both reference librarian and web developer. For the past five years she has also been an instructor for the Library Technical Assistant program at College of DuPage. Recently Kelly taught a class for the staff at the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt.
Kelly participated in the following teleconferences:
Reference Tools for the Information Age: Consumer Medical Resources
Paula Watson
Paula Watson is Director of Electronic Information Services and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include contributions of women to the public library movement.
Paula particpated in the following teleconference:
Dancing with Change: A Reality Check
Ann Weeks
Ann Weeks is Professor of the Practice at the College of Information Studies of the University of Maryland in College Park. Dr. Weeks' research interests include the relationship of school library media programs to academic achievement; effective strategies for changing school library media programs; redesigning school library media centers; and the relationship between school library media programs and literacy.
Ann particpated in the following teleconference:
Dancing with Change: A Survior's Guide
Kathleen Weibel
Kathleen Weibel is the former Director of Staff Development at Chicago Public Library. She is a popular conference Presenter and an advocate for library paraprofessionals. Her workshop, I Work in a Library, but I’m Not a Librarian. Ms Weibel has also taught at the Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Kathleen participated in the following teleconferences:
Staff: The Key to Library Service
Randi Weiss
Randi Weiss is the Project Coordinator for PolyTalk, an LSTA grant-funded project to help limited-English-proficient patrons make full use of the resources of Illinois libraries through an online network of volunteer interpreters. The goal of the project is to create a network of telephone-based, volunteer interpreters to assist non-English speaking library patrons in Illinois, which is one of the most linguistically diverse states in the country. Nearly one in five Illinois residents speaks a language other than English at home. PolyTalk has the potential to eliminate communication barriers and equalize access to public resources throughout the state. For more information, visit PolyTalk.
Randi participated in the following teleconference:
Marsha Westfall
Marsha Westfall is Library Director at the Prairie Area Library System (PALS) in Peoria Heights, Illinois.
Marsha participated in the following teleconference:
Beth Filar Williams
Beth Filar Williams is a Library and Technology consultant at Southwest Library Services, Durango, Colorado.
Beth participated in:
Digital Treasures for Teaching and Learning
Janis Williams
Janis Williams is a Library Technical Assistant at Elmhurst College Library in Elmhurst, Illinois. Janice started her library career as a circulation clerk at the Bensenville Public Library. She earned her LTA certification, and is currently employed at Elmhurst College as an academic advisor. Ms. Williams has participated in past Soaring programs and has previously served on the planning committee for Reaching Forward, a regional yearly conference of library support staff in Illinois.
Janis participated in the following teleconference:
Library Support Staff Soar to Great Heights: How Library Workers Give Back
Lesley Williams
Lesley Williams Director of Information Services at the Evanston Public Library in Evanston, Illinois.
Lesley particpated in the following teleconference:
Dancing with Change: A Global Perspective - A Context for Meeting Its Challenges
Sylvia Murphy Williams
Sylvia Murphy Williams was Director of the Dundee Township Public Library until her death in 2003. She was President of the Illinois Library Association, and had served as Manager of the DePaul University Law Library in Chicago, Illinois. As Director of the Dundee Township Public Library, Sylvia expanded library services and initiated programs for a diverse population. She worked hard to improve service on a tight budget and made every penny count. Building the Spanish-language collection, hiring bilingual staff, and training staff to work more effectively with those people who don't speak English were priorities with Sylvia, and she spearheaded a Teen Café for young adults.
Sylvia particpated in the following teleconference:
Dancing with Change: A Survior's Guide
Anna Yackle
Anna Yackle received a B. A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois, and has worked in libraries for over 20 years in a wide variety of positions in law, academic, and public libraries. She is currently a Resource Sharing Consultant at the North Suburban Library System in Wheeling, Illinois.
Anna participated in the following teleconference:
Virtual Reference: A Leadership View
Elizabeth “Liz” Ybarra
Liz Ybarra is a special librarian at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois. Her role as a special librarian and part-time reference librarian in a public library setting has provided her with the knowledge to deal with all sorts of challenging patrons and situations. Using her “Doctor is In” setting, Liz reviews real-life scenarios and shares what she has learned: how to promote effective communication, win the trust of library users, and market a library’s services.
Liz 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
Elaine Yontz
Elaine Yontz, Ph.D., is the Associate Professor of Library Science at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia.
Elaine participated in the following teleconference:
Library Support Staff Soar to Great Heights: How Library Workers Give Back
Douglas Zyskowski
Douglas Zyskowski was born in Detroit and received his B.A. from Wayne State University with a double major in History and Classical Studies. He then received an M.A. in Ancient History and Classical Studies from the University of Michigan but realizing he had to make a living, he also got his MLS from U. of M. Then realizing he wasn’t well prepared for a management position, he began working on an M.B.A. at U of M. Two-thirds of his course work is completed. He has worked at the Southfield Public Library since 1971 and has been City Librarian since 1983.
Douglas participated in the following teleconference:
Library as Place: Where People Want to Be
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