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| Matthew Beacom Matthew Beacom is an electronic resources cataloger at Yale University. He received his MLS from the University of Maryland in 1989. From 1989 to 1995, he cataloged books and pamphlets for the Rare Book Team at Yale. Matthew is a member-at-large of ALCTS CCS Executive Committee and a past member of CC:DA. He is currently the ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (JSC) and a member of the Format Variation Working Group. |
| Donald Beagle Donald Beagle, Library Director at Belmont Abbey College, NC, has 20 years of library management experience in both public and academic library systems. Don's articles on the Information Commons and virtual learning environments have appeared in journals such as College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and Information Technology & Libraries. His works are widely cited and quoted internationally, with references to his publications appearing in articles, bibliographies, and at sites as varied as the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the Online Books Evaluation Project at Columbia University, and the Australian Library and Information Association. His current research and consulting interests include the Information Commons as a new model for service delivery strategic alignment planning and assessment, web-enhanced library instruction, the role of geodemographics in service definition, and sociotechnical networking in support of scholarly communications. His career has included diverse roles as director of a rural county library, main branch head in a large urban system, associate director of a university library, head of an Information Commons, and director of a private college library. He has also taught through the Office of Continuing Education at Duke University. Since receiving his A.M.L.S. at The University of Michigan in 1977, where he won a Hopwood Writing Award, Don's career has been marked by technological and service innovation. In the 80's, he introduced desktop publishing on one of the first library-purchased Macintoshes in the US. In 1989, his Hypercard stack, "Search Key," was distributed by OCLC Microcomputing as a prototype graphical user interface for ILL. Shortly after the introduction of the World Wide Web, Don received an Apple Library of Tomorrow Grant to create the Charleston Multimedia Project, showcased at the 1996 National Community Networking Conference in Taos, NM. At Belmont Abbey College, Don is beta testing the first installation of a VisualNet visualization OPAC in the United States. |
| Cindy Cunningham Cindy Cunningham worked for several years as a newspaper reporter in Palo Alto, California, and in the Seattle area in Washington State before going to library school at the University of Washington. She served two years at the Library of Congress, as an intern and as a Congressional reference librarian. Cindy then worked at the University of Washington Libraries, as a reference librarian and anthropology and African Studies selector. She worked for a year at the university's law library as the Circulation Manager and then did a little over two years as Associate Director for Reference and Information Services at Kitsap Regional Library. Amazon recruited her in January 1998 where she has served as Browse Program Manager, Director of Catalog Operations, Manager of Catalog Systems, and now U.S. Catalog Librarian and Merchandising Systems Program Manager. She recently finished a 4-year term as VP and President of the Washington Library Association and has also served as president of her graduate school's alumni association. She is also currently serving as one of two U.S. representatives to the International Onix Steering Committee. |
| Rebecca Guenther Rebecca Guenther is Senior Networking and Standards Specialist in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, where she has worked since 1989. She received a B.A. in History from Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin and an M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College, Boston, Mass. Her current responsibilities include work on national and international library automation standards, including MARC bibliographic, authority, classification, holdings, and community information formats, and MARC code lists for languages, countries, and geographic areas. In addition she is active in developing XML standards for bibliographic description. Rebecca has been involved in discussions on metadata and the treatment of digital information resources in MARC 21 since the early 1990s and maintains a number of mappings between various metadata schemes. Current activities also include: Rotating chair of the ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee for language codes; Member of the National Information Standards Organization's (NISO) Standards Development Committee; Chair of the Dublin Core Libraries Working Group; Member of the Dublin Core Usage Board; Vice-chair of the Open Ebook Forum's Metadata and Identifiers Working Group; Member of the OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group; Member of the LC Metadata Policy Group; NISO liaison to Committee AZ to develop a standard for networked reference; Database administrator for LC's internal Library of Congress Classification database. Her former positions include: section head of the National Union Catalog Control Section in the Catalog Management and Publication Division and Senior Cataloger, German Language Section, Shared Cataloging Division, as well as Cataloger at the National Library of Medicine. Rebecca is a member of the American Library Association and its Library and Information Technology Association (LITA). |
| Marty Withrow Marty Withrow has been with OCLC for over 18 years. His current position as Director of Product Development in the Cataloging and Metadata Services Division involves overseeing the marketing implementation and software development activities for Connexion, PromptCat, and PRISM including Passport, CatME (English and Spanish), CJK, and Arabic interfaces. While at OCLC he has held various other positions ranging from QA test analyst and Systems/Programmer Analyst and management positions within Quality Assurance and software development areas. Marty holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky and an M.B.A. from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. |
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