The Maine Attraction:
Putting Best Practices into Practice
June 17, 2005
York County Community
College, Wells, ME
| Speaker
Biographies |
Arlene Bielefield
Arlene Bielefield will
be giving a presentation of the basics of copyright law geared toward
resource sharing librarians. Her topics include Fair Use, print and
electronic resources, reserves, interlibrary loan, the Internet,
and distance education requirements.
Arlene Bielefield is Chairperson
of the Department of Information and Library Science at Southern
Connecticut State University. A member of the Committee on Legislation
(COL) of the American Library Association, she chairs the COL Subcommittee
on Intellectual Property.
Professor Bielefield is the author, with
Lawrence Cheeseman, of a number of books for Neal-Schuman including
two on copyright and is presently finishing the manuscript on a new
edition of a copyright book. She has been a public library director
twice as well as being the head of the Connecticut State Library
Patron Services for 10 years. |
Cathy Kellum
Cathy Kellum is
Product Manager, WorldCat Resource Sharing Services at OCLC Online
Computer Library Center, Inc. in Dublin, Ohio. Her responsibilities
encompass design and implementation, support, infrastructure, maintenance,
and overall quality and service level for OCLC interlibrary loan
and union listing products and services. 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 from the University of North Alabama , as well as
an M.L.S degree from the University of Alabama. |
Lars Leon
Lars Leon is the Head of Access Services and Resource Sharing
at the University of Kansas Libraries. He has participated in a
variety of service activities from local participation in working
groups in the KU Libraries, at the state level in the Kansas Library
Association Interlibrary Loan Roundtable, the Greater Western Library
Alliance (GWLA), various ALA committees including RUSA MOUSS Interlibrary
Loan Committee, the new RUSA STARS Vendor Relations and International
ILL Committees. He also currently the ALA representative to the
IFLA Document Delivery and Interlending Committee.
His research
and service interests, focusing on interlibrary loan best practices
and global resource sharing, have led him to give a variety of presentations
and workshops at the Long Island Resource Council, ARL ILL Conference
in Ann Arbor, Texas Library Association, TexShares Interlibrary Loan
Workshop, Colorado ILL Conference, Kansas Library Association Interlibrary
Loan Roundtable, Northwest ILL Conference, and at international conferences
in Bulgaria. Lars coordinated an effort by some GWLA ILL Librarians
to write a major article on group best practices that will be published
in Portal and has published in Interlending and Document Supply. |
Barbara Preece
Barbara Preece received
her M.A. in Library Science from the University of
Minnesota. She began her professional career at the Shawnee Library
System
(IL) where she served as Coordinator of Technical and Automation
Systems.
She held a number of positions at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
including Head, Access Services and Acting Associate Dean of Technical
and
Automated Services. She served as editor of Library Administration
and
Management and has written extensively on resource sharing in collaborative
environments. Barbara served on ALA's ILL Committee and was active
in
consortial activities in GWLA (Great Western Library Alliance) and
ILCSO
(Illinois Computer Systems Organization). Barbara was recently selected
to
participate in the UCLA Senior Fellow program. She is the Executive
Director of the Boston Library Consortium, Inc. (BLC) an association
of 19
academic and research libraries located throughout New England. |
June 14, 2005
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