Power of Tuesday: Presenter Bios
Creating New SUNY Collaborative Collection Models (#1)
Deborah Curry is the Coordinator, Collection Development/Acquisitions at Penfield Library, SUNY Oswego. She is also Chair of SUNYONE Collection Operations Group (a SAC ILLPOD pilot) and a member, C4D Group (Collection Development/Acquisitions Librarians from the four-year SUNYs).
Cyril Oberlander is the Associate Director of Milne Library at the SUNY College at Geneseo since January 2008. Prior to that, he was the Director of Interlibrary Services at the University of Virginia Library 2005-2008; and Head of Interlibrary Loan at Portland State University from 1996-2005; and before that served as the Assistant Supervisor and the Staff Trainer for Access Services.
E-Resources: Beyond SUNYConnect (#2)
John Schumacher is the Electronic Resources Coordinator for SUNYConnect. During that tenure (2005- ), the program’s licensed databases have increased significantly with a reduction in costs. With SUNY’s Office of Library and Information Services since 1991, John has been involved in many other aspects of SUNY-wide library automation – campus consultation, software implementation, training and training development, data migration, public relations and communications. Before SUNY, John worked at a medical library and other special libraries, and did database design and testing for a major database provider.
Merryll S. Penson has served as Executive Director for Library Services, Office of Instructional and Information Technology, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) since October 2000. Responsibilities include GALILEO, Georgia’s Virtual Library available statewide and GIL (GALILEO Interconnected Libraries) the library automation system for the 35 USG institutions. Merryll served for three years as Associate University Librarian for Public Services, University of Georgia; 13 years as Director, Library, Columbus State University; for 9 year served in several roles including Associate University Librarian for Collection Management, Virginia Commonwealth University. She has served twice on the SOLINET Board of Directors, and served on OCLC Users Council and was President in 1997-98. She has been active in professional associations including ALA and GLA. She served as Chair of RACL (Regents Academic Committee on Libraries - the USG library Directors) and helped to write the original GALILEO proposal and to foster implementation as well as leading the efforts for selection and implementation for GIL. She was recipient of the Georgia Library Association Nix-Jones Award in 1997. She was selected as a UCLA Senior Fellow in 1999. She has been active in community affairs, serving on several community boards, including the Georgia Humanities Council. She currently serves on the UGA Press Editorial Advisory Board. She has a B.A. from Grinnell College; M.S.L.S., Atlanta University; and an M.B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Phi Mu.
The Future of the Academic Librarian (#3)
Logan Rath is the Digital Services Librarian at The College at Brockport. He also serves as the current President of SUNYLA.
Pamela Flinton is the Head of Access Services at the College at Oneonta. She has been involved with the IDS Mentor program from its inception.
Dagobert Soergel is Professor and Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo since 2009, Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, 1970 – 2010, and Professore Onorario, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, University of Trento since 2007. He has been working in the area of classification (taxonomy, ontologies) and thesauri both practically and theoretically for over 40 years. He is the author of the still-standard text- and handbook Indexing Languages and Thesauri. Construction and Maintenance (Wiley 1974) and of Organizing Information (Academic Press 1985), which received the American Society of Information Science Best Book Award, and more than 100 papers and presentations in the area of classification / ontologies (including their development and change over time) and more broadly in information science. He has written about the future of digital libraries (http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v04/i04/Soergel/) and led the editing team for the EU-funded DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries response to the EU call for online consultation. In 1997 Dr. Soergel received the highest award of the American Society for Information Science, the Award of Merit and in 2009 the Contributions to Information Science (CISTA) Award of the Los Angeles Chapter of ASIST.
SUNY Libraries as Community Partners (#4)
Carey Hatch is Assistant Provost at SUNY System Administration. His responsibilities include management of three University-wide Academic Programs: the Office of Library & Information Services which supports and coordinates a variety of cooperative library programs within SUNY, including the SUNYConnect initiative; the SUNY Learning Network (SLN) one of the world’s leading providers of online learning that partners with SUNY campuses to provide support in the areas of pedagogy, technology, student and faculty support and marketing services; and the SUNY Center for Professional Development which creates and delivers customized programs for skill and knowledge development in various technical, and teaching and learning areas. Carey was appointed in spring 2010 as co-chair of the Chancellor’s Working Group on Library Access.
Dr. Richard Winant, Director of the Medical Research Library at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has long been involved in library initiatives across SUNY. A member of the SUNY Council of Library Directors (SCLD) since 1991, Rick has served on the SCLD Executive Board in various capacities, most recently as the 2009/2010 Chair. He has also been actively involved in SUNYConnect as member and Chair of the SUNYConnect Advisory Council (SAC). Rick was appointed in spring 2010 as co-chair of the Chancellor’s Working Group on Library Access.
Capitalizing on Expertise Across SUNY: Cataloging & Digitial Initiatives (#5)
Maryruth Glogowski, a SUNY librarian for 35 years, is the Associate Vice President for Library & Instructional Technology at Buffalo State College. She currently chairs the SUNY Council of Library Directors. She has served as the SUNY representative on the Nylink Council and as an alternate to OCLC Members Council. She has also chaired the Board of Directors of the Western New York Library Resources Council.
Sandy Card is currently the Head of Cataloging Services at Binghamton University. During her 25 years at Binghamton she has worked in both the Cataloging and Systems offices.
Elizabeth Brown is the Scholarly Communications and Library Grants Officer at Binghamton University Libraries. This position creates campus services and programming on all areas of scholarship including intellectual property, open access, digital repository policies, and legislative initiatives. She was previously the Science Library Coordinator and a Science Reference Librarian / Bibliographer and has been at Binghamton since 1998. She currently serves as subject liaison for Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Mathematical Sciences and Materials Science. Elizabeth received a BA in Chemistry from the University of Virginia, an MS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MLIS in Librarianship from the University of Texas at Austin. She is active in the Special Libraries Association and the American Chemical Society, serving as 2007 President of the Upstate New York Chapter of SLA and 2009 Chair of the Binghamton Local Section of the ACS.
Mark Ludwig leads a small team of UB Library systems professionals charged with design, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise library systems. These systems include our Bison library management system which is based on the ExLibris' Aleph product. We administer a proxy server that makes hundreds of licensed information products available to the UB community. We also run a group of servers that provide web services for the Libraries' website. Additionally, we run an instance of DSpace to build repository collections (UBIR) and an instance of ContentDM to house a variety of digital collections known as UBdigit. Mark studied Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at RIT. He holds a BA in History and Sociology from SUNY Buffalo, an MLS from SUNY Buffalo and an MA from Christ the King Seminary.