TCLC Spring Program 2010
TCLC Spring Program 2010
Friday, April 30, 9:30-3:30
Family Life Center, Malvern Retreat House, Warren Ave., Malvern, PA - directions
- Brochure (doc)
9:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM Welcome: Jeff Rollison, Immaculata University, TCLC President
10:10 AM Keynote Address: Transforming the Library: The Goucher Athenaeum
Nancy Magnuson, Goucher College, College Librarian
11:15 AM Reactor Panel: Bob Danford, Widener University; Cathy Fennell, Rosemont College; Linda McCann, Bucks County Community College; Charles Myers, University of the Sciences, Moderator
11:45 AM Breakout Sessions
- Space Transformation on a Budget: Nancy Magnuson, Goucher College
- Library Mash-ups: Transforming Data: Nicole Engard, ByWater Solutions - view slides from Nicole's presentation
- ILLiad: Transforming Resource Sharing Panel of New and Experienced ILLiad Users
12:45 PM Lunch
1:45 PM Visit the vendor tables
2:00 PM Breakout Sessions
- Catalog Transformations: Susan Cheney, St. Joseph's University; Nicole Engard, ByWater Solutions; Gregg Silvis, University of Delaware - view slides from Nicole's presentation
- Transformative Library Partnerships: James McClosky, Wilmington University; Donna Abed, Delaware Technical Community College (Wilmington Campus)
- Ergonomics for Everyone: Transformation at Your Desk: Robert Cannell, Massage Therapist
SPEAKER BIOs
Keynote, and Breakout A:
Nancy Magnuson, Goucher College
Nancy Magnuson has been college librarian at Goucher since 1987, previous librarian positions have been at Haverford College and the public libraries of Philadelphia and of King County WA. She has degrees in history and library science from the University of Washington. She serves on the management group for the Maryland Digital Library, as membership chair of the Baltimore Bibliophiles and on the steering committee for the Maryland chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She's also an active member of ALA, especially the College Libraries Section of ACRL and the Buildings and Equipment Section of LLAMA. At Goucher she has spent the last decade with the planning for and construction of the Goucher Athenaeum, the college's new signature building with the library at its core.
Reactor Panel:
Robert Danford, Widener University
Robert Danford began his career as a serials cataloger and has been head of technical services and head of audiovisual and computer services. He has been a library director for 22 years and has participated in building programs in private colleges and universities in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania. He has been with Widener University since 1996.
Catherine (Cathy) M. Lawlor-Fennell, Rosemont College
AB Marywood University (1977); Advanced study West Chester University (1978-79); MLS Drexel University (1981) Currently Executive Director of Library Services at Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, Cathy’s positions at Rosemont included part-time reference librarian, full-time systems/reference librarian, director of library services and vice president for Information Services. Cathy is currently undergoing a renovation process for an Information Commons to replace the current reference and circulation area. Demolition will begin May 17th and the renovation will be completed sometime in August. Cathy is a member of the American Library Association, PA Library Association, and the Catholic Library Association (CLA); Cathy is the past president of the Catholic Library Association; chairs the Library Exhibits Interest group of TCLC and is a board member on the Lower Providence Public Library Board. She has taught courses on children’s literature and middle school literature on the undergraduate and graduate levels. Occasionally, she gives a two-hour Children’s Literature overview to various classes in the Graduate program of Curriculum and Instruction at Rosemont College, and also reviews professional librarianship and children’s books for The Catholic Library World.
Linda McCann, Bucks County Community College
Linda McCann is Director, Library Services at Bucks County Community College. Linda has her Master’s Degree in Library Science from Catholic University in Washington, DC. She manages the staff and library resources to ensure three campus libraries run smoothly on a daily basis. Her responsibilities include recruiting, training, supervising, budgeting, scheduling, planning, and collaborating with faculty and other college departments to assess and provide appropriate resources to meet faculty and student research needs. She has researched and presented information on learning environments drawing from her experience in opening a new library at the Lower Bucks Campus extension site at the beginning of the fall 2007 semester. A new Upper Bucks Campus extension site library just opened in April 2010. In addition, she has been planning for renovations at the Newtown Campus Library. A major renovation at this location is planned to begin the end of this year.
Charles Myers, University of the Sciences
Charles Myers is the Library Director of the J. W. England Library at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He will be the moderator for the reactor panel.
Breakout Sessions B and D
Nicole Engard, ByWater Solutions
Nicole C. Engard is the Director of Open Source Education at ByWater Solutions. In addition to her daily responsibilities, Nicole has been published in several library journals and keeps the library community up to date on web technologies via her website "What I Learned Today..." (HYPERLINK www.web2learning.net www.web2learning.net). In 2007, Nicole was named one of Library Journal's Movers & Shakers and in 2009 she was the editor of “Library Mashups,” a book published by Information Today, Inc. She is also the Documentation Manager for the Koha ILS. Nicole C. Engard, editor of "Library Mashups: Exploring new ways to deliver library data", will explain what mashups are, how they can be used and share examples from libraries around the world. Attendees will learn what tools to use to mash up library data with content from the web to reach more patrons. Examples include using maps to enhance library data, using Flickr for digital collections and creating library websites with data from several information sources. Nicole will have copies of her book for sale, and she will sign them for you.
Breakout Session C
Carla Sands, Immaculata University
Carla Sands has been at Immaculata's Gabriele Library for 12 years, providing interlibrary and reference services. She is the current ILLIG chair and have held that position in the past. She is also a member of the TCLC Grants Committee and served three years on the TCLC Program Committee.
David Perry, Bryn Athyn College
David Perry is Assistant Librarian at Bryn Athyn College and is responsible for interlibrary loan; he also does cataloging, reference, information literacy, circulation, and whatever else needs to be done (one of the joys of a small library! :-) ) He received his BA from University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and his MLS from Drexel University in 2007.
Linda Verlinghieri, Widener University
I started my library career volunteering at my children's school library in 1985, when they were manually entering all their books into a database for the first time. In 1987, I added a part-time job at the public library to my volunteer duties. I started working in the Interlibrary Loan Department at Widener University in 1998 as an ILL assistant and accepted the job as supervisor in 2007. Some of the things I enjoy most about interlibrary loan are working with the faculty and students and getting to see some of the interesting topics that they are researching. There's always something interesting happening in ILL!
Breakout Session D
Susan Cheney, St Joseph’s University
Susan L. Cheney is the ILS Administrator/Catalog Librarian for Saint Joseph's University. She was involved in both the systems migration from GEAC to Millennium and the setup of AquaBrowser.
Gregg Silvis, University of Delaware
Gregg Silvis is the Assistant Director for Library Computing Systems at the University of Delaware Library. He has served as President of the PALINET Board of Trustees, is currently a member of the OCLC Global Council, and has spoken widely on library technology issues.
Nicole Engard, ByWater Solutions – see above
Breakout Session E
James McCloskey, Wilmington University
Education: MLS, University of Maryland 1988; BA, University of Delaware, 1980 Current Position: Library Director – Wilmington University (2006 – Present) Previous Positions: Head of Public Services, Widener University; Head of Document Delivery, UP Biomedical Library; Senior Librarian, State of Delaware; Information Specialist, BIOSIS Professional Memberships: ALA; ACRL; ACRL-DVC; Delaware Library Association;Diamond State Reading Association Activities: Current TCLC Vice-President/President-Elect; TCLC Executive Committee; Chair, TCLC Distance Learning Interest Group ACRL EBSS Committee member; ACRL College Libraries Section Program Planning Committee; HSLC ILL Task Force; Board Member, Friends of the Cecil County Public Library; Several publications in professional library journals
Donna Abed, Delaware Technical & Community College, Wilmington Campus
As one of the Head Librarians of the four Delaware Technical & Community College campuses, Donna participated in the start-up of a statewide library catalog in 2006. She has worked at the College for 36 years and spent her entire career in community college libraries.
Breakout Session F
Robert Cannell, Massage Therapist, self-employed
As part of my multi-faceted career history, I began performing volunteer massage for bike riders in Multiple Sclerosis Bike-a-Thons in 1993 around the Philadelphia area. Many of my clients decided I had the requisite skills and intuition, so I began studying Massage Therapy in 1994, obtaining my certification in March 1995. I soon found employment working in 2 chiropractors offices and a beauty salon. In 1997, I started as full-time massage therapist at Weston Fitness Center in Bala Cynwyd. I continued there thru various managements and ownerships until around 2003, when I struck out on my own. In my current massage practice, I am a true independent contractor traveling to client's homes. I am also employed at Steve's Sew and Vac in King of Prussia where I perform sales and service duties, as well as teaching a variety of sewing classes. If that's not enough, I own and operate a contract embroidery business which I run out of my home. I structure my presentation as lecture/demo with audience participation in various gentle movements and exercises. With appropriate caution, these can be followed by virtually any person in reasonably good health. Most of the movements and exercises can be done while seated, although a few do require standing. Even the standing ones can be modified as needed. I use an open forum so audience members can ask questions as I go along, or wait for a short Q+A session at the end.