Everett Allgood

Everett Allgood is the Serials Cataloger at the New York University Libraries. He is the Co-Chair (with Ed Jones) of the CONSER Task Force on FRBR and Continuing Resources. Everett is also the MARBI representative to the ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA). He earned a B.A. from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. He then completed a Master’s in the History of Art at Emory University in Atlanta, before earning his M.L.S. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Before joining the NYU Libraries in 1997, Everett directed a three-year retrospective cataloging project at the Brooklyn Historical Society funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Rick Block

Rick Block is Head, Original and Special Materials Cataloging at Columbia University. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University and the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science. Rick earned a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Masters degrees in Political Science and Library Science from the University of Wisconsin--Madison. Rick also teaches a one-day workshop for the Metropolitan New York Library Council on cataloging fundamentals. Rick is editor Voices of the Future, column in The Serials Librarian. The column publishes papers submitted as part of library school courses that professors recommend for publication.

Karen Calhoun

Karen Calhoun, M.L.S., M.B.A., is Associate University Librarian for Technical Services at Cornell University Library. A major contributor to the development of Cornell's Library Gateway and a frequent speaker on technical services in the digital library, Karen's recent research and operational interests have focused on the organization of electronic resources, metadata, and library staff development. Currently she leads the Cornell team that is co-developing ENCompass, a next generation system that merges electronic and digital resources with traditional library collections, with Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.

John Degon

John Degon has been at Assumption since November of 2002, first as Reference/ Electronic Services Librarian and now as Head of Reference and Instructional Services. Previously he was at Eastern Connecticut State University for two years as Reference and Instruction Librarian. John graduated from the Scholl of Library and Information Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000.

Cathy Kellum

Cathy Kellum is Consulting Product Manager in WorldCat Services/Resource Sharing at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. in Dublin, Ohio. She has worked primarily with serials and interlibrary loan during her library career spanning more than 20 years. She holds both B.S. and M.A. degrees in Education with subject-area concentrations in English, Dramatic Arts, Speech, and Psychology, as well as an M.L.S degree.

Liz Maisey

Liz Maisey is the Reference/Catalog Librarian at Assumption College. Liz has worked in libraries since 1986 when she was hired to work on the Retrospective Conversion Project for Wellesley College. While working at Wellesley College she received her JD from New England School of Law in 1993. Liz quickly returned to the library profession and received her MLS from Simmons in 1997, while working at Brandeis University Library. Liz was Senior Cataloger at Emerson College before taking her present position at Assumption College.