October 22, 2008
2008/09 Forum Board
The members of the Librarians' Forum Board for 2008/09 are:
Kathleen Folger, Chair
Martin Knott, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Scott Martin, Secretary
Ken Varnum, Vice-Secretary
Deb DeGeorge, Member-at-Large (Term ends 2009)
Renoir Gaither, Member-at-Large (Term ends 2009)
Loyd Mbabu, Member-at-Large (Term ends 2010)
Jeff Pearson, Member-at-Large (Terms ends 2010)
If you have questions or comments for the Board, feel free to contact any of us individually, or send us an email
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September 17, 2007
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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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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