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Dr. Jennifer Weil Arns is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Doctoral Studies at the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, where she teaches classes related to public libraries, research methods, organization and communication theory, and program planning and evaluation. She holds an A.B. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University, an M.L.S. from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of California at Berkeley, an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Ph. D. from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests focus on the creation of knowledge in public and private settings. jarns@gwm.sc.edu
Todd Barlow manages the Solutions Usability department at SAS. He is responsible for the usability of SAS software, establishing usability engineering practices, and defining the role of usability in development processes. Prior to working at SAS, he worked as a consultant designing and evaluating interfaces for consumer electronics, weapon systems, and telecommunication software. He holds a B.S.I.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a B.A. from the University of Maryland, an M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute, and a Ph.D. in psychology from North Carolina State University. todd.barlow@sas.com
JJ Bauer is the Visual Resources Curator for the Art Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is on the undergraduate faculty in the department, where she teaches classes in modern decorative arts, architecture and film. She has a Ph.D. in Art History from UNC-Chapel Hill and an M.A. in Art History from Pennsylvania State University.
Ron Bergquist earned his Ph.D. in Information and Library Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. As a graduate teaching fellow from 2000-2006, he has taught INLS200 (040): Retrieving and Analyzing Information, INLS261 (050): Tools for Information Literacy, and INLS 843 (341): Seminar in Public Libraries. He has a B.A. in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin , an M.A. in Middle East Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, CA , an M.S.L.S. from SILS, and is a Colonel (retired) in the U.S. Air Force. His dissertation was about public libraries in North Carolina, but his research interests also include information visualization, visual language, user-centered design, and public library policy. http://www.unc.edu/~bergr.
Dr. Michel Bézy is Program Director at IBM. With more than two decades of software marketing and emerging technology strategy experience at IBM, he has been helping IBM and enterprise executives developing strategies for the commercialization of new and innovative technologies.
He is currently responsible for the commercialization strategy and the delivery of cloud solutions for enterprises. Prior to his current position, he was business development manager in IBM Research, strategy manager for IBM Autonomic Computing technology and IBM WebSphere platform and the marketing manager for IBM Digital Library.
For three years, he was the managing director of a library automation software company delivering solutions to more than one hundred large corporations and libraries in the world. Prior to joining IBM, he was Research Assistant at the Université Catholique of Louvain in Belgium and Professor at the National University of Congo.
Michel Bézy has a degree of Engineering in Applied Mathematics from the Université Catholique of Louvain, a Master Degree in Sciences from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the Université Catholique of Louvain.
Matthew S. Brody is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources at UNC at Chapel Hill. He is responsible for managing the University's EPA non-faculty human resources program and also serves as principal deputy to the University's Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to his current position, he served as Assistant Provost for Academic Personnel at UNC at Chapel Hill and previously held management positions both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Duke University. He holds a B.S. in information systems management and an M.S. in Management from the University of Maryland University College. He also holds a current certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). matt_brody@unc.edu
Jeff Campbell is the Integrated Library System Administrator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jeff's interests include emerging trends and technologies in Integrated Library Systems, facetted discovery tools and the Open Source ILS movement. Jeff is very active regionally and nationally in Integrated Library System user groups and current serves on the Innovative Users Group Steering Committee and is the Secretary/Treasurer of the South Eastern Innovative Users Group. Jeff completed his MLS at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in 1997 and his MIS at NCCU in 2002. jcampbell@unc.edu
Robert Capra recently completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech where he was a member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and worked as a Senior Member of Technical Staff for SBC Labs (recently merged with AT&T) in the area of voice user interfaces. His research interests are in the areas of human-computer interaction, electronic information management, finding and refinding information, and voice user interfaces. Capra is currently researching information interfaces and personal information management at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill. http://people.cs.vt.edu/~rcapra/
Scott Childs is an Assistant Director for Research and User Services and Clinical Assistant Professor of Law. He holds a B.S. from Auburn University, a J.D. from the University of Alabama and an M.L.S. from Florida State University. He served as head of reference at the Louisiana State University Law Center Library before coming to UNC at Chapel Hill in 2001. Childs' interests include legal reference work and teaching legal research. He taught legal research to first-year law students at Cornell and LSU and is actively engaged in teaching the Advanced Legal Research and Advanced Legal Research & Writing classes at the School of Law. schilds@email.unc.edu
Sheila Devaney has a B.A. in English from the University at Albany, State University of New York; an M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and an MLS from North Carolina Central University. She is currently the MBA Career Resource Center Manager at Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC at Chapel Hill. Prior to working at Kenan-Flagler, she was the Journalism & Media Studies Librarian and a Reference & Instruction Librarian for seven years at the University of Georgia. She also serves on the local board of Special Libraries Association and works on several committees for SLA on the national level. Her research interests include virtual reference, humanities and social science reference services, Library 2.0 technologies, distance education, and mass media and culture. sheila_devaney@unc.edu
Beth Doyle is the Collections Conservator for the Duke University Libraries. She is responsible for managing the library's conservation lab, training and overseeing the conservation technicians, students, and volunteers, and serving on the library disaster response team. She also performs conservation treatments on both general and rare materials. Prior to this position, Doyle was the Conservator for Special Projects at the Harvard University Library Weissman Preservation Center. She is a past co-chair of the ALA-ALCTS Physical Quality and Treatment Discussion Group and teaches workshops for the Triangle Research Library Network and the Southeast Library Network. Doyle holds a B.A. in photography from the University of Dayton (Ohio), and an M.L.I.S. and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Library and Archives Preservation from the University of Texas at Austin. b.doyle@duke.edu
Joel Dunn holds a B.S. in business administration and an M.S. in computer science from UNC at Chapel Hill. He is currently Associate Vice Chancellor for Administrative Systems at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In that role, he directs application development for enterprise-level systems as well as the enterprise data management team. Prior to this, he was a member of UNC at Chapel Hill's staff for over 20 years, as a programmer, manager, and eventually executive director of UNC at Chapel Hill's Administrative Information Systems department. Dunn also worked for MCNC as Director of Data Center Services. j_dunn@uncg.edu or joel_dunn@unc.edu
David G. Ernsthausen is the Faculty Teaching and Research Support Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School. He consults and instructs faculty and students in the selection and efficient use of resources that are most likely to provide useful information for their research and instruction needs. He also guest lectures for classes in the MBA and Bachelors degree programs on library and research resources available to students at UNC at Chapel Hill. David has worked at the Kenan-Flagler Business School since 1997. Prior to 1997 he worked for 7 years as a reference librarian in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. David has an MBA from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University and a Master of Library Science degree from Indiana University. David_Ernsthausen@unc.edu
Serena Fenton has a M.S.I.S. from SILS, an M.A. in architecture from the University of Washington and a B.A. in art education from Western Washington University. Fenton joined the UNC at Chapel Hill faculty in January 2003, after three years as senior information designer and web programmer for ibiblio.org. Her teaching areas include visual communication, graphic design and digital/web media. Fenton has more than 20 years of experience in design, visual communication and fine art. She worked in the studios of Milton Glaser, and Pasanella and Klein and ran her own architectural firm. Recent publications include A Case Study In The Organizational Development Of A Digital Library: SunSITE - MetaLab - Ibiblio; The Problem of Access in Contributor-Run Digital Libraries (co-authored with M. Efron and P. Jones) and Information Archeology. Her research interests include visual communication, digital storytelling and gaming theory. http://www.ibiblio.org/fents. sfenton@unc.edu
Heather Gendron is the Art Librarian at UNC Chapel Hill's Sloane Art Library. Prior to coming to UNC, she was Head of the Art and Architecture Library at Virginia Tech. She has also worked for the American Craft Council and the Metropolitan Museum of Art research libraries. She has served on the Board of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) and is currently Chair of the ARLIS/NA Education Sub-Committee. Her scholarly interests include the professional development and education of art information professionals, and the information needs of professional artists and designers. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Purchase College and an MLIS from The University of Texas at Austin. hgendron@email.unc.edu
Lew Hassell holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Information Science from Drexel University. Lew has taught at various colleges and universities in the areas of database management, systems analysis and design, Web development, and information assurance, among others. He has published in the area of linguistics philosophy as applied to IS. Before getting his Ph.D. Lew was a professional systems developer. lhassell@email.unc.edu
J. William Hays is the Network Manager for the computer science department. In addition to providing network support, he also is experienced in workgroup server and database administration and desktop support under a variety of operating systems. He received a B.S. in biology from the College of William and Mary in 1983 and an M.A. in comparative literature from UNC at Chapel Hill in 1986. bil_hays@unc.edu
Joni Keller has worked with Jim Gogan in UNC's ITS-Networking group since 1997. She is a native of Chapel Hill, and has been part of UNC since 1988. Dr. Keller received her B.S. Physics from UNC in 1991, M.S. Physics from Penn State in 1993, and Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering in 2004 on "Network Service Management: Preparing the Internet for Telemedicine."
Anne Klinefelter is Director of the UNC at Chapel Hill Law Library and Clinical Assistant Professor of Law at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Law. She holds B.A., M.L.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Alabama. Prior to coming to UNC, she worked in law libraries at the University of Miami and Boston University. anne_klinefelter@unc.edu
Thomas R. Kochtanek is Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to joining the Missouri faculty, Dr. Kochtanek was a lecturer at Case Western Reserve University, where he received his Ph.D. in library and information science. He has also completed post-doctoral work in medical information systems at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Kochtanek has taught a course on the applications of technology in libraries at UNC at Chapel Hill each summer since 1989. He has published and presented numerous papers in the areas of library information systems, information storage and retrieval, digital libraries and asynchronous learning networks. kochtanekt@missouri.edu
Miha Kovac is currently associate professor at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is author of a book on Slovene book publishing and numerous articles on book studies that were published in different international journals. He worked has a consultant to textbook publishers in Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro. In 2004 and 2003, together with Mojca K. Sebart, he published a series of articles on textbook publishing in former communist countries in Slovene and in international journals. In April 2004, he participated as a textbook specialist in the World Bank Mission in Georgia (former Soviet Union). Among his topics of interests: local and global politics and media policy in transition countries. In 2006, he started to edit Slovene edition of National Geographic Magazine.
Tamika Barnes McCollough has a B.A. in Biology from UNC at Chapel Hill and a MLS from North Carolina Central University. She is currently director of the EPA Library in Research Triangle Park, NC. Previously she was head of reference and information literacy at North Carolina A&T State University and the Engineering Services Librarian at North Carolina State University. She holds elected positions at both the local and national level of SLA and works on several committees for ACRL and ALA. tbmccollough@gmail.com
Charles B. McNamara is the Curator of Rare Books for the Academic Affairs Library. Previously he was the Associate Rare Book Librarian and Curator of the Arthur Dean Collections of French History and Literature at Cornell University and Rare Books Cataloger for the University of Rochester Libraries. Professor McNamara has an M.S.L.S. from Columbia University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in French and European history from Fordham University. He is active in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL, and is the editor of Bookmark and the Hanes Lecture Series. cbmcnama@email.unc.edu
Bill Meyers is a long-time computer enthusiast and recovering software developer. He has worked primarily in language processing and computer security, where he co-holds two US patents, but enjoys any interesting technology. He also plays homemade music with friends and practices and teaches Tai Chi. billmeyers2003@yahoo.com
Erik Mitchell, is the IT Development Librarian at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. His work includes integrated library system management, digital library development, and information literacy instruction. He holds a MLIS from the University of South Carolina, a BA from Lenoir-Rhyne College and is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his work at Wake Forest University, Erik worked at Pfeiffer University in reference, systems, and serials. Erik’s research interests include information management and organization, uses of digital libraries in collaborative scholarship, metadata-driven information systems, and popular uses of metadata and digital libraries in knowledge management.
Anne L. Morisseau is the Associate Director of Business Integration at Bristol-Myers Squibb, supervising a team of information professionals who provide communication and learning solutions, perform information needs assessment activities and monitor information needs across the enterprise. Previously, she was the manager of Information Education at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), leading a team of information professionals who provide instructor-led training and e-learning on information management products and services for knowledge workers in the organization. She has also been an Information Analyst for Glaxo Wellcome in the Commercial Information Area where she provided information expertise on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, genetics and intellectual property. In addition, she was also the product manager for two key desktop information systems. Previously, Ms. Morisseau was a Training Consultant at The Dialog Corporation for eight years. She has also served as an independent consultant in the information industry, an adjunct faculty member of Catholic University of America in the School of Library and Information Science and as Chair of the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division of the Special Library Association. Ms. Morisseau's areas of expertise include pharmaceutical and medical information, intellectual property and instructional design.anne.morisseau@bms.com
Rita Moss is Business/Economics Librarian and Head of the Reference Desk Section in Davis Library. In this position she conducts research for faulty and students as well as business people outside the university system. As Head of the Desk section she hires and trains graduate students, supervises professional subject librarians and schedules all desk coverage. Rita has both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of North Wales, United Kingdom as well as an MSLS from UNC at Chapel Hill. Rita is active in ALA, this year chairing the Academic BRASS Committee, is a member of the AFL-CIO Advisory Committee and the Endowment Committee of NCLA. She is also an advisory board member for Princeton University Press. Rita teaches several one day workshops on Business Resources each year for SoliNet. She contributes bi-monthly articles to the Gale Business Newsletter and is the author of Strauss's Handbook of Business Information (2004). moss@email.unc.edu
Tommy Nixon is a Humanities Reference Librarian in the Davis Library Reference Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He, along with two former colleagues, was responsible for the Literature section of the eleventh edition of the Guide to Reference Books . Before returning to Carolina, Tommy worked in Reference in Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. He received an A.B. in English and M.L.S. from UNC at Chapel Hill. tommy_nixon@unc.edu
Lisa Norberg is the Coordinator of Instructional Services for the Academic Affairs Library at UNC at Chapel Hill. She received her M.L.S. from Indiana University and is working on an M.Ed. in Training and Development. Before coming to UNC, she served as the Public Affairs Librarian for George Mason University and Public Affairs/Government Information Librarian at Pennsylvania State University's Capital College. She is active in ALA and has published and presented papers on information access, reusable learning objects and instructional design. lnorberg@email.unc.edu
Darby Orcutt is Senior Collection Manager for Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries, where he oversees the management of collections in all formats across the Humanities & Social Sciences subject areas, as well as collections-related data analysis and reporting across all subject areas. He holds an M.A. in Communication Studies from UNC at Chapel Hill and an M.S.L.S. from SILS, and has worked as a library vendor and an antiquarian book scout. He actively publishes and presents in the fields of library science and communication studies, teaches in NCSU's Department of Philosophy & Religion and University Honors Program, and has previously taught at SILS and in UNC at Chapel Hill's Department of Communication Studies. darby_orcutt@ncsu.edu
Ruth Ann Palmquist has taught Information Resources and also Research Methods at UNC at Chapel Hill. She holds an M.A. in library science from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in information transfer from Syracuse University. rpalmquist@cox.net
Pam Pease has an M.A. in Illustration from Syracuse University and a B.S. in Design from the University of Cincinnati . She has more than twenty years experience in interdisplinary design, and seven years experience in the field of children's literature. Pease is the author of several interactive books for children and adults, a frequent workshop presenter at schools and museums, and the founder of Paintbox Press. Research interests include visual literacy and artistic collaboration. ppease@paintboxpress.com
Greg Raschke is the Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the NCSU Libraries where he leads and administers programs to develop, manage, and preserve the Libraries' collection of more than 3.6 million volumes. His responsibilities include planning for digital collections, including the digitization of special and unique collections of value to scholars and researchers. He also leads the Libraries' partnerships in developing new and sustainable channels for scholarly communication. He holds the MS in Library and Information Science and the BA in History and Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published and presented on diverse topics such as the future of research library collections, electronic resources and organizational change, and recruitment practices in academic libraries. greg_raschke@ncsu.edu
Susan Rathbun-Grubb, is a Research Scientist at the Institute on Aging where she works on the Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science projects. Dr. Rathbun-Grubb received her PhD (Leaving Librarianship: A Study of the Determinants and Consequences of Occupational Turnover) from the UNC School of Information and Library Science in 2009. Her research focuses on career satisfaction, turnover, retention, and workforce aging in the library and information science field, and other areas of research interest include the organization of information, cataloging, and personal information management. While at UNC she was named a Future Faculty Fellow and received the Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship. A Beta Phi Mu member, she has worked in academic, public, and school libraries, as well as the health information technology industry. She earned her MSLS from the UNC School of Information and Library Science and a MAT and AB from Duke University.
Terrell Russell is a Ph.D. student at SILS and has B.S. degrees in both computer engineering and information technology and service organizations. He also has his M.S. in computer networking. All three are from North Carolina State University. His research interests revolve around identity, social tagging and folksonomy, and cognitive authority and expertise. http://sils.unc.edu/people/phd.html#russell
Jacquie Samples is the Continuing & Electronic Resources Librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries (Raleigh, NC) where she leads the Continuing & Electronic Resources section of the Metadata & Cataloging Department. Samples has also worked in the Acquisitions department at NC State as well as several staff positions at the University of Iowa. Samples has been active in ALA for several years, most notably serving on the MARC advisory committee (MARBI) from 2004-2008. She was also a program participant in the ALA Emerging Institute in 2008. Beginning in 2009, Samples will be a web course instructor for two Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) online classes, “Fundamentals of Electronic Resource Acquisitions” and “Fundamentals of Cataloging.” She holds her B.S. from SUNY College at Brockport (with a major in English) and her M.A. in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa. She can be contacted by email at jacquie_samples@ncsu.edu
Connie Schardt is the Education Coordinator at the Medical Center Library at Duke University. She is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, and holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.L.S. from San Jose State University. She has created several web-based tutorials to support the teaching of evidence-based medicine that are used by academic libraries across the country. She has published and presented number papers and workshops on hospital library standards, the JCAHO accreditation process, evidence-based medicine and distance education. schar005@mc.duke.edu
Pam Sessoms is the Electronic Reference Services Librarian in the Reference Department of Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her professional interests include virtual reference services and assistive technologies for library users with visual disabilities. She has a BA and an MLS from UNC at Chapel Hill and has been with the Reference Department since 1994. pam@unc.edu
Tim Shearer is the Coordinator of Web Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this role he manages the application development team in the systems department. His responsibilities include hiring and supervision, project management, communication, coordination across departments and libraries, and playing a leadership role in setting priorities, finding and implementing solutions, and driving innovation. He completed his MSLS at UNC in 1997. His primary interest is in information systems infrastructure. He is also interested in technology as it serves both the public and staff as users. sheat@ils.unc.edu
Erin Stalberg is Head of Metadata & Cataloging at North Carolina State University Libraries (Raleigh, NC) where she leads a department responsible for the cataloging of materials of all formats and in all languages, both in MARC and in non-MARC schema. She has held previous positions as Head of Cataloging Services at the University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville, VA) and at Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia, PA). Stalberg also served as the Librarian for Semester at Sea (spring 2007 voyage), a "unique international studies program which introduces undergraduate students to global and comparative studies by focusing on structural and societal places in the world today" (http://www.semesteratsea.org/). Stalberg currently chairs the Metadata Interest Group, part of the American Library Association (ALA), Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), and she serves as webmaster for the Women's Studies Section of ALA, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She is also a trainer for the Library of Congress/ALCTS program "Metadata Standards & Applications", in the series Cataloging for the 21st Century. She presents regularly on issues of cataloging management, integration of metadata initiatives into traditional cataloging departments, and training of support staff in non-MARC metadata creation. She holds her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College (with a major in Spanish) and her MLS from Drexel University. She can be contacted by email at erin_stalberg@ncsu.edu.
Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student in SILS and holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies social software, online social networks, and digital identity.
Larry Taylor, has a BS in Intermediate Education from Appalachian State University in 1974 and a MSIS from UNC at Chapel Hill in 2007. Mr. Taylor taught for several years in Australia and North Carolina before pursuing his interest in computing at Duke Medical Center, Digital Equipment Corporation and MCI. He is actively involved in planning and building the virtual UNC campus in the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life. uskala@email.unc.edu
Matthew Turi is the Manuscripts Reference Librarian in the Manuscripts Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to UNC, he worked for the North Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board. His scholarly interest focuses on scholarly use of manuscript and archival materials. He holds an MSLS from SILS. turi@email.unc.edu
Michael Van Fossen is the State/International Documents Librarian at UNC at Chapel Hill's Davis Library. Previously, he was a Cataloger of State Publications at the State Library of North Carolina. Van Fossen received his B.A. in political science from UNC-Greensboro and an M.S.L.S. from SILS. He is a contributing indexer to the Hispanic American Periodicals Index and edits an annual column in the Journal of Government Information. He is on the editorial board of North Carolina Libraries and is active in the North Carolina Library Association. mike_vanfossen@unc.edu
Rebecca Vargha, SILS Librarian.
Meredith Weiss is the Associate Dean of Administration, Finance, and Information Technology at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Law and a Ph.D. student at SILS. She holds a B.S. in Human Resources from the University of Delaware and M.B.A. and M.I.S. degrees from North Carolina Central University. Her research interests include information technology management and leadership, evidence-based management, computer-mediated communication, user interface design, information system development and evaluation, and business intelligence systems.
Teaching Assistants
Laura Christopherson
Rachael Clemens
Lori Eakin
Alice Etim
Carolyn Hank
Dana Hanson-Baldauf
Weimao Ke
Ericka Patillo
Chirag Shah
Laura Sheble
Cassidy Sugimoto
Hollie White