Speakers

Kristin Antelman is Associate Director for the Digital Library at NCSU Libraries. Prior to joining NCSU, she worked at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library and the University of Delaware. She received her MLS from the University of Chicago in 1998. She is the author of "Identifying the Serial Work as a Bibliographic Entity," Library Resources & Technical Services (2004).

Beth Bernhardt is the Electronic Journals / Document Delivery Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has her graduate degree in Library Science from the University of South Carolina. She is responsible for providing electronic journal access to all faculty, staff and students at the University. Beth has nineteen years of experience working in academic libraries.

Karen Calhoun is Senior Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Technical Services at Cornell University Library. A major contributor to the development of the Library's information discovery systems, she served as project manager of Cornell's implementations of metasearch and reference linking, and she sponsored the implementation of Cornell's e-resource management system. She also served as lead investigator of an integrated framework for Cornell's rich array of digital collections. Ms. Calhoun's recent research into the future of the catalog and its integration into other discovery systems was sponsored by the Library of Congress. Her other current research interests include new organizational and service models for academic research libraries; integrating access to electronic, digital, and print resources; and managing organizational transitions. Ms. Calhoun's undergraduate degree is from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She holds an M.S. in library and information science from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from Franklin University. Before joining the Cornell library staff ten years ago, she worked for eleven years at OCLC, Inc. Her first professional library job was as a cataloger at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Jeff Campbell is the Millennium Integrated Library System Administrator at UNC Chapel Hill. Jeff also servers as an Adjunct Faculty at NCCU School of Library and Information Sciences where he teaches Database Systems and Computers in Libraries.

Marilyn Carney spent 28 years in the allied health profession, then attended UNC Chapel Hill SILS and graduated with her MSLS in December 2000. She is currently working at Wake Technical Community College as Serials Librarian. She is a member of ANCHASL, NCLA and NASIG, and a new member of the North Carolina Serials Conference conference planning committee.

Leslie Covington is E-journal Accounts Manager for EBSCO Information Service's Southeast Regional Office, which serves customers in 9 states. In this role, Leslie works with customers and staff within the regional office to help determine best practices for e-journal and e-journal package procedures. She coordinates ongoing e-journal training for office staff as well as for new Customer Service hires. Leslie has worked at EBSCO since 1998, and previously served as a customer service representative for customers in the Carolinas. She attended the University of Montevallo (Montevallo, Ala.) and resides in Birmingham, Alabama.

Barb Dietsch, of the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, holds the position of Serials Coordinator for the EPA Library in Research Triangle Park, NC. She has almost twenty years of serials, acquisitions, and reference work in academic and special libraries. She also spent a number of years conducting ecological research for the University of Georgia and the University of South Carolina.

Yvette Diven is Director of Serials Product Development at ProQuest CSA and a frequent participant and presenter at serials conferences and industry meetings. Her focus is on developing products and services for library professionals and other information users, to enhance serials search, discovery, and use. Yvette is a member of the Project TRANSFER Advisory Board and of the ISSN Standards Revision Working Group (ISO/TC46/SC9/WG5).

Carol Hixson earned her M.S. in Information Studies from Drexel University. She has been a librarian for more than twenty years, working at various ARL institutions such as Indiana, UCLA, and the University of Oregon. During her seven years at Oregon, she engineered the transformation of the Catalog Dept. into the department of Metadata and Digital Library Services and oversaw the creation and growth of the University's institutional repository. She is now the University Librarian at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan and is in the process of bringing up the province's first institutional repository.

Sandy Hurd has extensive experience in the library industry, and has always enjoyed attending the North Carolina conference. She is director of strategic markets at Innovative Interfaces where she has worked since 2003. Prior to that, Sandy was senior manager of library information services at Northern Light Technology. Sandy's previous work life includes management positions at EBSCO Subscription Services and the H. W. Wilson Company. Sandy has served on the editorial board of Serials Review since 1996 and was involved for many years with SISAC and ICEDIS. She recently coordinated Taiga Forum: Shifting Boundaries, and is doing the same for Taiga 2

Holly A. Johnson is Head of Collection Services at Howard County Library in Columbia, Maryland where she has managed that department since 1984. She supervises the cataloging and processing staff and is the AquaBrowser project manager. Holly was a presenter for the ALCTS Forum on the "New" Catalog at the Annual ALA Conference in New Orleans in June 2006. Holly received her MSLS from Case Western Reserve University as well as an MA in Musicology.

Rebecca Kemp is the Serials Supervisor Librarian at UNC Wilmington, where she manages access to online and print titles and serves on several library committees. Her research interests include cooperative JSTOR print-sharing programs, the Open Access movement, Institutional Repositories, and "next generation" library catalogs and cataloging practices.

Lea Leininger grew up in Texas. She completed undergraduate degrees in French and in the Humanities at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2003, she received her MLIS from the same institution. Since 2004 Lea has worked as a Reference Librarian and as the Liaison to Life Sciences at UNC Greensboro. One of her duties includes serving on the University Libraries Systems Advisory Committee. This group considers approaches to and concerns with online library systems (including the library catalog).

Cat Saleeby McDowell serves as Digital Projects Coordinator in the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department at UNCG. Previously an archivist at Duke, WFU, and WSSU, she currently oversees digitization initiatives, manages electronic records, and provides support for faculty e-scholarship for the University Libraries. Mrs. McDowell holds a B.A. from Duke and a M.A. in Public History/Archival Administration from North Carolina State University.

Kristin Martin is electronic resources cataloger at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working mainly with electronic monographs and integrating resources. Her research interests include access to electronic resources and the preservation of digital materials. She has also worked as the assistant archivist at the Cleveland Museum of Art, in Cleveland, Ohio, and at the State Library of North Carolina as the digital metadata manager/documents cataloger. She received her MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. Cat Saleeby McDowell serves as Digital Projects Coordinator in the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department at UNCG. Previously an archivist at Duke, WFU, and WSSU, she currently oversees digitization initiatives, manages electronic records, and supports faculty e-scholarship for the University Libraries.

Charley Pennell is currently Principal Cataloger for Metadata at the NCSU Libraries, North Carolina State University. He has enjoyed a rich and varied career in cataloging, in both the U.S. and Canada, and has served as Head of Cataloging at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Villanova University, and NC State. He began working in libraries as an undergraduate student at Earlham College in 1968, where he worked as a student assistant under BI advocates Evan Ira Farber and Tom Kirk. He holds the M.L.S. from the University of Toronto, where he studied cataloging and classification with Nancy Williamson and Margaret Cockshutt.

Regina Romano Reynolds is head of the National Serials Data Program, the U.S. ISSN center. She was a member of the ISO Working Group that has recently revised the ISSN standard. Reynolds is also co-chair of the CONSER/PCC Working Groups on the Access Level Record for Serials (now the CONSER standard record). Reynolds is LC's liaison to ALCTS Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee, consultant to the Committee to Study Serials Standards and a frequent presenter and writer on ISSN, serials standards, cataloging, and electronic resources and metadata topics. She was actively involved in the revision of AACR2 to accommodate seriality and electronic resources, and in the international harmonization of serial cataloging rules and standards. Reynolds was the 1999 winner of the Bowker/Ulrich's award for serials librarianship and won NASIG's Marcia Tuttle International Award in 2004.

Allan Scherlen is collection development librarian for the social sciences at Appalachian State University Libraries. Allan has had an active interest in scholarly communication issues, writing articles and making presentations to various groups on the open access movement and other aspects. In summer 2006 he participated in the first ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication, held at UCLA; many questions regarding OA and IRs were raised and discussed in detail. Since attending the institute, Allan has continued to work with colleagues to both develop a scholarly communication program and begin developing an institutional repository for their university community. Related to that work, Allan and other librarians at ASU who maintain an online ASU faculty publications database hope to use this database as a tool for populating an e repository.

Joseph Thomas works in Collection Development for Joyner Library, East Carolina University, and has liaison responsibilities to the English Department, Ethnic Studies Program, and Women's Studies Program. He received his MSLS from UNC-Chapel Hill in December 2002, and has worked at Joyner since. Joseph received a BA in English Education from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1992, taught for several years, and then went to UNC Greensboro for a Masters in English before attending library school. Joseph is a member of the editorial board for North Carolina Libraries, and his research interests include Cherokee printing and little magazines.

Rob Wolf was the Periodicals Supervisor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. Rob moved to North Carolina from New Jersey in 2003 to attend graduate school at the UNC at Chapel Hill, where he received his MLIS. In 2005 he became the Serials Librarian at the UNC Pembroke.