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Speaker Biographies:
Mark Caprio
Mark Caprio, eScholarship Program Manager, has been at Boston College
for the last 5 years supporting
eLearning, eTeaching and eScholarship
initiatives. He co-chaired the Collaborative Center Design Committee
and the Information Commons Design Committee at Boston College, which
developed a plan to provide facilities
and staff support for the preparation
of multimedia publications incorporating library and other learning
resources. In his current position he is responsible for developing
campus wide rollout of eScholarship@BC,
including the development of
polices and procedures within the library to support eScholarship@BC,
outreach
and marketing, user support and training, and coordination
and support for developing new eScholarship
communities.
Michèle Valerie Cloonan
Michele has been a library school educator for fifteen years. Before becoming
dean at Simmons, she was
associate professor and chair of the Dept. of Information Studies at UCLA.
As a librarian, Michele worked in
two areas: preservation and rare books.
She worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and in libraries at Trinity
College, Dublin, University of Illinois at Chicago, Brown University,
and Smith College.
Brinley Franklin
Brinley Franklin is Vice Provost for Libraries at the University of Connecticut.
He also serves as a consulting
associate for several international management-consulting
firms, specializing in library cost, user and
management studies.
Brinley earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Library Science degrees
from the University of Maryland, College
Park and a Master of Business
Administration degree in Information Systems Management from The George
Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Brinley currently serves on the Management Council and
Board of Directors of the Boston Library Consortium
and is Chair of
the NELINET Board of
Directors in 200¬2005.
He is an elected member of the IFLA Standing Committee on Statistics
and Evaluation, and serves on the
National Center for Education Statistics
Academic Libraries Advisory Committee, the Association of Colleges and
Research Libraries Statistics Committee, the LOCKSS Board of Directors
and the Harvard/ACRL Leadership
Institute Advisory Committee.
Brinley also chairs the Association of Research Libraries’ Statistics
and Measurement Committee, speaks on a
variety of topics related to library
management, and publishes internationally in the fields of library management
and performance assessment.
Carol Gordon
Carol is Head of the Pickering Educational Resources Library at the School
of Education, Boston University and
an Associate Professor in the School
of Education. She has served as a school library media specialist, academic
librarian, and library administrator for more than 25
years in elementary, middle, high school, and university
libraries in
public and private
schools. She was also certified as a 7-12 English/Language Arts teacher
and has
taught in secondary and adult education. Carol holds a master's
degree in Education and in Library Information
Science and a doctorate
in Education and has authored a book, Information Literacy in Action.
She is co-author
of a forthcoming book on privacy and has authored
several articles. Carol is President of the New England
Educational
Media Association
and has served on the Executive Board and the Executive Committee
of the
American Association of School Librarians. She also served on
the
advisory board for Boston Public School
Libraries and the Center for
International Scholarship for School Library Research, Rutgers University
School of
Communications and Information Science. Dr. Gordon is the
Principal Investigator for a Boston University
Instructional Technology
Grant to develop an electronic tutorial on information searching in
digitized indexes
and full-text databases. Her current research focuses
on effective methods of information literacy instruction
and the use
of Bayesian statistics and the Theory of Expected Information in qualitative
research.
Frances Maloy
Frances Maloy is the Leader, Access Services Division, Emory University.
Maloy joined the General Libraries of
Emory University in 1992 as the
Head, Circulation and Access Services Department. In 1999, she led the
libraries'
organizational redesign effort for 3 years. Frances was appointed
Leader, Access Services in 2001. Prior to
working at Emory University,
she spent 10 years at Hamilton College, where she was an Assistant Reference
Librarian from 1982 – 1983 and was then promoted to Director of
Public Services, 1983 – 1992.
Maloy has been active in both ALA and ACRL. She is currently serving
as the 2004-2005 ACRL President. She
was the ACRL liaison to the ALA Committee
on Professional Ethics from 1997-2003 and was the first Chair of the
ACRL
Committee on Ethics from 2000-2003. Maloy was a Director at Large of the
ACRL Board of Directors from
1993-1997.
At the state and regional library association level, Maloy
has been active in interlibrary cooperation. She was a
member of the
University Center
of Atlanta, Georgia Consortium, Interlibrary Use Committee for Circulation
from
1992 – 2001. While at Hamilton College Maloy was also active
in the Central New York Resource Council. She is
also a member of the
Organizational Change Alliance in Atlanta, GA since 1994.
Maloy’s publications include “Creativity as a leadership
strategy in times of change”, College and Research
Libraries News,
September, 2005 and “Defending the freedom to read: a reflection
of personal values and
censorship,” College and Research Libraries
News, March 1998. She received her Masters of Library Science
from the
State University of New York at Albany in 1982 and a Bachelor of History
from St. Lawrence University
in 1980.
Barbara Mann
Barb Mann has served as the Coordinator for the Information Literacy Program,
USM Libraries, University of
Southern Maine since June 2004. Before
coming to USM, she served as the Information Commons Coordinator
for
Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University (Atlanta). Ms. Mann presented
a paper for the Library
Administration and Management Association's
Buildings and Equipment Section (June 2002) as part of a panel
discussion
entitled The Information Commons: Building Design and Service Planning
for Effective Implementation.
Linda Plunket
Linda is the Training and Development Coordinator for the Libraries at
Boston University. She has also recently
been the Co-Head of the Pickering
Educational Resources Library in the School of Education at Boston
University.
She has a Master's degree in Library and Information Science and a Master's
in Oceanography. She
has been the Library's Website Administrator since
the inception of the Library's website. Linda chairs the Web
Committee,
the group within the Library which oversees the development of the website.
She is a member of the
Library's Steering Committee and spends much
of her time on system-wide planning initiatives.
Linda also serves on the Steering Committee of the Teaching and Learning
with Technology Roundtable at
Boston University, which is a campus-wide
group of faculty, staff researchers, and instructors who share a
common
goal of improving teaching and learning by using information technology.
John Schlinke
John Schlinke, Architecture/Art Librarian at Roger Williams University,
is a registered architect who has worked
with architectural practices
in Cleveland, Detroit, New York City, and Washington, D.C. and taught
for the
Architecture Department at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
He is an active member of the RWU
Library’s instruction team and
facilities planning group.
Roy Tennant
Roy Tennant is User Services Architect for the California Digital Library.
He is the owner of the Web4Lib and
XML4Lib electronic discussions, and
the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter
published every month since 1990. His books include Managing the Digital
Library (2004), XML in Libraries
(2002), Practical HTML: A Self-Paced
Tutorial (1996), and Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional
Handbook (1993). Roy has written a monthly column on digital libraries
for Library Journal since 1997 and has
written numerous articles in
other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library
Association's
LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication
for Continuing Education.
Susan Wishinsky
Susan has worked in the Boston University Libraries since 1982, most recently
as Political Science, International
Relations, and Geography Bibliographer,
and as a member of the Library Web Committee. She has a Master's
degree
in Library and Information Science and a Master's in English Literature.
Susan has created numerous
guides, maps, and forms in use on the Boston
University Libraries site, including a Virtual
Tour of Mugar Library.
ShowMe reflects both Susan's
extensive experience in reference and bibliographic instruction as well
as her
technical expertise in using Dreamweaver, Fireworks and JavaScript.
In her spare time Susan has done free-lance
website design work and
consultation, including a site for the Workmen's Circle in Boston.
Rachel Zyirek
Rachel Zyirek works as the Undergraduate Instruction Librarian at Babson
College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
She spent five years at Babson
as a Reference Librarian before her change in responsibilities occurred
this fall.
She received her BA in History from UMass Boston in 1993
and her MLIS from Simmons College in 1998. She
currently applied and
was accepted into the Lynch School of Education at Boston College for
a Master’s
Degree in Developmental and Educational Psychology.
Rachel’s primary interests include learning styles
theory, cognition
and the effects of technology.