September 17, 2007
Welcome!
Welcome to the Librarians' Forum blog! The Librarians' Forum board will use this space to provide information about upcoming Forum events and to solicit feedback from the University Library community.
Our Purpose:
The purpose of the Librarians' Forum is to provide for discussion of professional issues and to promote effective participation of librarians in University of Michigan, University Library affairs.The Forum will advise the University Librarian on matters that affect the academic or professional interests of the librarians in the University Library.
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Librarians' Forum Meetings
The Librarians' Forum meets monthly on the third Wednesday of the month during the academic year. Attendees are invited to mingle with colleagues and enjoy refreshments at 8:30am, while programs are scheduled for 9-10:30am. Although the organization was formed to address issues of interest to librarians, we sincerely and enthusiastically extend an open invitation to all events organized by the Forum to all other library staff.
Organizing programming for the monthly meetings is the responsibility of the current Forum Board. The Board keeps the concerns, issues and interests of librarians in mind when planning meetings and other events. Traditionally two meetings have been set aside for particular content each year. During the December meeting librarians across the system offer more personal presentations on themes such as hobbies or past careers. The May meeting is set aside to discuss the Promotion Review process for librarians going up for promotion and their supervisors.
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About Librarians' Forum
The purpose of the Librarians' Forum is to provide for discussion of professional issues and to promote effective participation of librarians in University of Michigan, University Library affairs.The Forum will advise the University Librarian on matters that affect the academic or professional interests of the librarians in the University Library.
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The Librarians' Forum Board
We welcome your input into the Librarians' Forum activities and programs. To contact us as a group, send email messages to libforumboard@ctools.umich.edu.
Also feel free to contact any of us individually, if you prefer.
Nancy Allee, Chair (term ends 2008)
Deputy Director, Health Sciences Libraries
nallee@umich.edu
Kathleen Folger, Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (term ends 2009)
Electronic Resources Officer
kfolger@umich.edu
Kevin Hawkins, Secretary (term ends 2008)
Electronic Publishing Librarian
kshawkin@umich.edu
Scott Martin, Vice-Secretary (term ends 2009)
Biological Sciences Librarian
Coordinator for Digital Initiatives in the Sciences
samarti@umich.edu
Martin Knott, Member-at-Large (term ends 2008)
Head, Cataloging Support Services
amuro@umich.edu
Donna Hayward, Member-at-Large (term ends 2008)
Information and Library Studies Librarian
dhayward@umich.edu
Deborah DeGeorge, Member-at-Large (term ends 2009)
Rare- and Special-Collections Cataloger
dsd@umich.edu
Renoir Gaither, Member-at-Large (term ends 2009)
Public Services Librarian
renny@umich.edu
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Introduction to Scott Martin
Scott Martin has been with the University Library since 2005. He is the Biological Sciences and Museums Librarian for the Shapiro Science Library, and serves as Coordinator for Digital Initiatives in the Sciences. Scott also sits on the mBlog Working Group, the Aleph OPAC Working Group, and the Core E-resources Team. In his previous career, Scott worked as a researcher for Pharmacia & Upjohn (now Pfizer) in Kalamazoo.
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Introduction to Renoir Gaither
Renoir Gaither has been a public services librarian at the Shapiro Undergraduate Library since 1997. He is the coordinator of the Peer Information Counseling Program. He is also an active member of the Curriculum Planning Committee for the undergraduate level class "Digital Research: Critical Concepts and Strategies," also known as UC170. Renoir joined the Librarian's Forum in Fall 2007.
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Introduction to Martin Knott
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Introduction to Deb DeGeorge
Deb DeGeorge has been with the university library since 2005; she is also an SI alumna (1998) and worked numerous jobs within the library system while a student. She is the principal cataloger for rare materials, particularly those printed before 1800. Deb also sits on MDRC (Metadata Resources and Description Committee) and the Rules Committee of SACUA. She joined Librarians' Forum in 2007.
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Introduction to Kevin Hawkins
Kevin Hawkins is electronic publishing librarian at the Scholarly Publishing Office and secretary of the Librarians' Forum. At SPO he oversees conversion of content from various formats into XML and documents nearly everything that the office does. For the Forum Board he likewise keeps track of details and takes minutes of meetings.
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Introduction to Kathleen Folger
Kathleen has been with the University Library since 1995. She began her career at the Undergraduate Library and then moved to the Grad as the Economics & Public Policy Librarian. She is currently the Electronic Resources Officer, responsible for helping coordinate the selection, acquisition and management of the library's electronic resources.
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Introduction to Nancy Allee
In her role as deputy director of the Health Sciences Libraries, Nancy Allee provides leadership for the day-to-day operations of the Health Sciences Libraries (HSL) at the University of Michigan and works with the director and other team coordinators to plan, implement, and evaluate services and programs across all HSL locations. She has extensive information services and technology project management experience and has managed a variety of training programs for faculty, staff, and students as well as outreach projects for public health professionals. She has served as project director for several National Library of Medicine (NLM) funded projects, including an NLM Internet Access to Digital Libraries grant, the MI-INFO (Michigan Informatics) subcontract, and the Public Health Information and Data Tutorials project.
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Past Librarians' Forum programs
Take a look at Librarians' Forum programming from past years.
2006-2007
http://www.lib.umich.edu/staff/forum/public/times2006.html
2005-2006
http://www.lib.umich.edu/staff/forum/public/times2005.html
2004-2005
http://www.lib.umich.edu/staff/forum/public/times2004.html
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Introduction to Donna Hayward
My official title is Information Studies Librarian. I select materials for the Graduate Library in the subject areas related to information studies. In addition I spend a lot of my time spreading the word about library services and resources to SI students, faculty and staff. Some other activities I may be engaged in at any given moment include, management of the Information and Reference Center at the Graduate Library, coordination of student internships, management of Information Studies and Juvenile Literature collections, and hiring, training and supervising reference student assistants and ULAs.
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September 14, 2007
Subscribe to the Librarians' Forum Google Calendar
Stay up-to-date with events organized by the Librarians' Forum! Subscribe to our Google calendar and LF events will be available from your own Google calendar.
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September 13, 2007
Upcoming meetings - calendar
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