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UC berkeley bloggers, BOTM for June, 2007
Jim Church is the International and Foreign Documents Librarian and Librarian for Development Economics at the University of California Berkeley. He began his career with international documents as the UN and European Union Collection Assistant at Princeton University, later serving for one year as Economics Librarian at Yale University, and four years as State, Local and International Documents Librarian at the University of California, San Diego. Jim served for one year as the international documents column editor for the Journal of Government Information. He is currently the International Documents Columnist for Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) Journal DttP, and an international documents panel judge for the GODORT notable documents panel. Harrison Dekker is currently the Coordinator of Data Services for the Doe/Moffitt Libraries at UC Berkeley. In addition to providing data services, he is actively involved in broader library technology initiatives. Prior to his arrival at Berkeley, Harrison worked as a programmer analyst for a Chapel Hill-based management consulting firm and for the North Carolina State Data Center. His library experience includes stints with the State Library of North Carolina, IBM, and the University of North Carolina. Tim Dennis, a recent graduate of Berkeley's School of Information with over 10 years of experience in research libraries, specializes in user services technology support for the UC Berkeley Government Information unit. He has extensive experience in government information reference services, statistical/data services consultation, and documents processing. Recent activities include: creation of the library's first informational weblog, GovBlog, the IM reference service, GovChat, the unit's Government Information wiki, and is currently leading the unit in a user-centered redesign of the website. Glenn Gillespie is a Reference and Government Information Specialist in Doe/Moffitt Reference Services Department. His primary responsibilities are three-fold. He has oversight of documents operations, provides technical support and is responsible for post-cataloging processing of all material coming into or going out of the Government Reference collection. Glenn devotes a significant portion of his time to reference service through regular duty at Doe and Moffitt Reference desks. Glenn possesses substantial reference experience, with significant knowledge of congressional and federal resources and publications. Susana Hinojosa is currently the UC Berkeley selector for California/US State, and Latin American government publications. In addition to the government documents collection development, Susana's responsibilities and areas of expertise include reference/research and instructional services. She is an active participant in the Government Document unit's development of innovative services which include chat reference, email reference and a GovBlog. From October 2004 through May 2006, Susana was also the primary selector for the library's Spanish and Portuguese collection. Jesse Silva is currently the Federal Documents and Political Science Librarian at Berkeley. Originally from the Los Angeles area, Jesse traded the smog for the redwood trees of UC Santa Cruz where he earned a BA in Community Studies. While working in the University Library, he discovered government documents and a twisted love affair was born. Soon he entered the MLIS program at San Jose State, moved to San Francisco, and took a job cataloging government documents at the SJSU/San Jose Public joint-library. He did this at the same time he co-authored a book on legal executions in California. After a very brief job with Innovative Interfaces (which had nothing to do with gov docs and everything to do with teaching libraries how to use the Innovative software), Jesse is very excited to be working with and learning from the library staff at Berkeley. When he is not in the library, you can find Jesse enjoying everything about living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Continue reading
Angie Cope, BOTM for May, 2007
From Angie:
I am a Senior Academic Librarian at the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. My duties include collection development, cataloging maps, atlases and digital data and assisting with reference and outreach. I have been at my current map library for almost six years and worked at a map and government depository library for 3 years as an undergrad student. I have a Geography B.S. and a Resource Planning M.S. from Southwest Missouri State University and an M.L.I.S. from UW-Milwaukee.Continue reading
Newkirk Barnes, BOTM for April, 2007
Newkirk Barnes is an Assistant Professor and Government Documents Librarian at the Mitchell Memorial Library at Mississippi State University (MSU). She also serves as the Library Liaison to the MSU Departments of Communication and Foreign Languages. Her research interests include legal research instruction and reference services for non-law students, the effects of Internet migration on public access to U.S. government publications, and outreach programs in academic libraries. Barnes earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from Tulane University in 2003, graduating magna cum laude. She earned her Master of Library and Information Studies degree from The University of Alabama in 2004. Barnes joined the faculty of the MSU Libraries in 2005 as an Assistant Professor/Reference Librarian. Continue reading
Gary Price, BOTM for March, 2007
** Note: Bio reproduced from Gary's site, ResourceShelf ** Gary Price is a librarian and the Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com. Gary is the founder and chief editor/compiler of ResourceShelf (http://www.resourceshelf.com). This daily electronic newsletter is where he and the ResourceShelf team post news and other new resources of interest to the online researcher. He is also the founder and a contributor to DocuTicker (http://www.docuticker.com). This is another daily update with direct links to a variety of new reports from goverment agencies, think tanks, ngo’s, universities, and other groups. Both of these sites and services are independent of his work at Ask.com. A native of the Chicago area, he earned his Masters of Library and Information Science degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He also holds a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. From August 2004 through January 2006, Gary was the News Editor of Search Engine Watch. He is a frequent speaker at professional and trade conferences, a contributor to Searcher magazine and the co-author (with Chris Sherman) of The Invisible Web, published by CyberAge Books. Price has also compiled several well-known web research tools including Price’s List of Lists and direct search. These and other compilations have been mentioned in numerous publications including The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Gary was awarded the 2004/2005 Distinguished Alumnus of the Award from the Wayne State Library and Information Science Program. In June 2004 he was the co-recipient of the Agnes Henbry Award from the News Division of the Special Libraries Association and in the summer of 2002 he received the Innovations in Technology Award from the Special Libraries Association From February 1995 through April 2001 Price worked as a Reference Librarian at The George Washington University. He is based in suburban Washington D.C. Gary can be contacted at gary.price AT resourceshelf DOT com Continue reading
Shinjoung Yeo
ShinJoung Yeo is a PhD student and Fellow in the Information in Society program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Prior to returning to school, she was Coordinator for Reference and Outreach Services in the Stanford University Library, and also serves as Bibliographer for Communication in the Social Sciences Resource Group.
Shinjoung is a founding member of Radical Reference, a collective of volunteer library workers who use their professional skills to answer information needs from the general public, independent journalists, and activists. She was named 2005 Library Journal Mover & Shaker with her husband James R. Jacobs. She holds both a bachelors (1999) and masters (2002) degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Oregon. She previously worked as a reference librarian at the University of California at San Diego and the San Diego Community College District Libraries, and as a news reporter for Korean-American Television in Los Angeles. In September of 2007 she and James took the Internet Archive's Bookmobile on a tour of Northern California, bringing a demonstration of print-on-demand and online library services to communities that do not have easy access to a wide variety of printed materials.
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