Abeyta, Kateri
| Kateri Abeyta IT Manager Denver Public Library |
Kateri Abeyta is the Manager of the IT Department for the Denver Public Library System. She began her career in technology as a web developer in 1997 and experienced the excitement and disappointment of the dotcom boom and bust. She began her career at the Denver Public Library as an application developer focused on web technologies in 2001 and became the department manager in 2008.She has been involved in branch renovation projects where technology improvements were prevalent including extensive renovations at the Central Library to build a Community Technology Center. The Central Library renovation project was awarded the Colorado Library Project of the Year in 2011. She is on the design teams of the 3 new branch libraries, one of which opened in 2011 and has been awarded the Colorado Library of the Year. She is very passionate about libraries and technology and believes strongly in collaboration and teamwork to make things happen.
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| Stephen Abram VP, Strategic Partnerships and Markets Gale Cengage Learning |
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Stephen Abram, MLS is Vice President, strategic partnerships and markets for Gale Cengage Learning. He has been VP Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute. He is an SLA Fellow and the past president of the Ontario Library Association, SLA and the Canadian Library Association. In June 2003 he was awarded SLA’s John Cotton Dana Award. He received the AIIP Roger Summit Award in 2009 and Outstanding Teacher Award from the U of Toronto iSchool oin 2010. He is the author of Out Front with Stephen Abram and Stephen’s Lighthouse blog.
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| Louise E Alcorn Reference Technology Librarian West Des Moines (Iowa) Public Library Executive Board Member, Iowa Library Assn |
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Louise Alcorn has been the Reference Technology Librarian and webmistress at the West Des Moines Public Library since 1996. She has created and presented classes for the State Library of Iowa, including the Libraries on the Prairie initiative in the summers of 2006 and 2007, as well as several classes each year on technology and library topics for the Iowa Library Service Areas and the Ontario Library Association’s Education Institute. She has presented at the Iowa Library Association (2007, 2008), the American Library Association Annual (2008), Internet Librarian (2009, 2010) and Computers in Libraries (2010) on library technology topics.
Louise earned her MILS at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She also has a B.A. in American Studies from Grinnell College. She was a student research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago through the ACM/GLCA Humanities at the Newberry Program in the fall of 1990, assisting in the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project. While at the University of Michigan, she was president of the Information and Library Studies Student Association (1995) and participated in the original Internet Public Library Project [ http://www.ipl.org ].
Louise participated in the second Iowa Library Leadership Institute in August of 2006. She is active in the Iowa Library Association, formerly serving as Chair of the Public Relations Committee (2008) and current chair of the Information Technology Forum (2008-2011). She has been a member of the steering committee for the new (Midwest) Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN. In 2009, Louise was elected to the Executive Board of the Iowa Library Association for a 3-year term.
Books: Wireless Networking: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians with Maryellen Mott Allen for Neal-Schuman, 2006. Neal-Schuman Directory of Management Software for Public Access Computers with Michael Sauers for Neal-Schuman, 2003. Other writing: 2-3 pieces per year for Catalyst, newsletter of the Iowa Library Association. She has also been published in Web Junction’s Technology Resources [ http://www.webjunction.org ] and in Info Career Trends at LISjobs.com. Louise also blogs on technology topics at the MaintainIT Project [ maintainitproject.org ].
Louise’s blog, The Librarian’s Rant, is in rest mode, and thus you can find her on FriendFeed and Twitter. Her cats have been banned from blogging.
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| Patricia F. Anderson Emerging Technologies Librarian Taubman Health Sciences Libraries |
Patricia (PF) Anderson is the Emerging Technologies Librarian for the Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. She has been active in online healthcare communities virtually as long as they have existed, from HealthWeb to HCSM, via Twitter and Second Life, and much more. In these roles, Patricia has served as the senior author of the Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding Health Information on the Web, the founder of the SLHealthy wiki collecting healthcare communities and spaces in virtual worlds, and provided project oversight for the Plain Language Medical Dictionary app.
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| Susan Ariew University Librarian for Education University of South Florida |
Susan Ariew has been a faculty member at the USF Tampa Library since January of 2005. Before that, she came from Virginia Tech where she worked as the College Librarian for Education & Human Development. She has spent much of her professional life as an academic librarian, first at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, at the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago, and then at Virginia Tech. She has also spent several years teaching English, writing, and composition at the high school and collegiate levels. Her research and publication interests include academic librarians’ status, collaborative relationships between librarians and academic faculty, diversity resources for teachers, innovative technologies as they relate to library instruction, and assessment tools for evaluating library instruction and student learning.
Comment On This ArticleBalsamo, Deborah
| Deborah Balsamo National Program Manager EPA National Library Network U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
As the National Program Manager for EPA’s Library Network, Deborah Balsamo has the responsibility for coordinating the operations, overseeing the implementation of policies and procedures, and leading the strategic directions of EPA’s libraries. A professional librarian for over 13 years, Deborah has worked in various positions at EPA since 1998. Deborah holds a BA from Florida Atlantic University and earned her Master of Science in Library Science degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of Beta Phi Mu International Library and Information Studies Honor Society, the American Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association.
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