Academic Libraries 2005

The Information Commons:  Adapting to the Culture of Net Generation Students

 

Thursday, November 10 – Friday, November 11

Marriott Courtyard, Saratoga Springs, New York

 

This Conference is brought to you by

NY3Rs Association

Academic and Special Libraries Section of NYLA.

 

 

Speaker Biographies

 

Joan K. Lippincott

 

Joan K. Lippincott is the Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint project of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE.  Joan previously held positions in the libraries of Cornell, Georgetown, George Washington University, and SUNY at Brockport as well as the Research and Policy Analysis Division of the American Council on Education and the National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance.  She has written articles and made presentations on such topics as networked information, learning spaces, collaboration among professional groups, assessment, and teaching and learning in the networked environment.  She is on the board of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and chair of the editorial board of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ C&RL News.  Joan received her Ph.D. in higher education policy, planning, and administration from the University of Maryland, her M.L.S. from SUNY Geneseo, and an A.B. from Vassar College.

 

 

Barbara Dewey

 

Barbara I. Dewey has been Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, since August 2000. From 1987 to 2000 she held several administrative positions at the University of Iowa Libraries including Interim University Librarian. Prior to her work at Iowa she was Director of Admissions at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science, Reference and Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Northwestern University Library, and Head, Reference and Adult Services, Minnesota Valley Regional Library in Mankato, Minnesota. She is the author or editor of five books. The most recent, Leadership, Higher Education, and the Information Age, was published in 2003. She has published articles and presented papers on research library topics including digital libraries, collaborative facilities, technology, user education, fundraising, and human resources.

 

Dewey is past President of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), a consortia of 43 research university libraries in the southeast. She is chair of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Diversity Committee and the Educause Current Issues Committee.. She is on the Board of Directors for the New Media Consortium (NMC). She is also active in the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Digital Library Federation, Council on Library Resources, African Studies Association, and the Tennessee Library Association. She holds the MA in library science and the BA in anthropology and sociology from the University of Minnesota and the Public Management Certificate from Indiana University.

 

J. Brice Bible

 

Mr. J. Brice Bible has served as Chief Information Officer for The University of Tennessee since May 2003.  The Chief Information Officer is responsible for system-wide IT policy and strategy as well as direct oversight of the UT Knoxville and UT Health Science Center (Memphis) IT operations.  Prior to this position, Mr. Bible served as Assistant Vice President for Research and Information Technology.  Brice has been with UT for 15 years working in the areas of information technology, technology transfer and laser applications research and development.  He is named as co-inventor on 10 US patents in the laser technology area and has been involved in supporting the start-up of two companies based on these technologies.

 

Mr. Bible was co-author of the 1999 Statewide Assessment of IT at UT.  He is co-chair of the Cyber Infrastructure Commission for Higher Education which has recently completed the statewide optical network roadmap entitled, OneTenn - A 21st Century Cyber-infrastructure for Research and Education in Tennessee, and has authored numerous papers.  He is a Gartner/Chronicle of Higher Education panel member, serves on the NASULGC Commission on Infrastructure Technology, and is a member of the SURA IT Council.  He serves on the TNII Executive Committee and chairs the Statewide Council of IT Directors.  As Assistant Vice President for Statewide Services, Brice oversaw an upgrade of the Statewide Educational Network (EDNET), creation and implementation of the Statewide Web Services architectural plan, and consolidation of statewide network services.

 

Prior to coming to UT, Mr. Bible was responsible for engineering systems development and support at Texas Utilities in Dallas, Texas.  He managed the HP mainframe and DEC VAX minicomputer systems as well as designed and built the first local area network within the fossil fuel division.

 

Mr. Bible has a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and an MBA from UT Chattanooga.  He is originally from South Pittsburg, Tennessee, and is married with three children. 

 

Crit Stuart

 

Crit Stuart is Associate Director for Public Services at Georgia Tech Library, where he has spent his career working a variety of positions.  In the past two years Stuart has reported extensively on Georgia Tech's experiments to create compelling learning venues for students.  He states that he benefits from being "in the thick of things" by continually engaging students and staff who either use or support the learning commons.  Stuart is faculty advisor to several student organizations.  He has also created a library student advisory council with significant power and influence.  He reports that "student insight regarding learning spaces and services is consistently exceptional, making them indispensable partners when crafting a library's future."

 

 

Suzanne Thorin

 

As University Librarian and Dean of the Library at Syracuse University, Suzanne Thorin is responsible for providing outstanding services to the university’s faculty and students in the areas of library information technology, collections, access, facilities, and advancement.  A member of the Chancellor’s Cabinet, Suzanne works in collaboration with other academic officers across campus.

 

Before coming to Syracuse University in October 2005, Suzanne served for nine years as the Ruth Lilly University Dean of Libraries and Associate Vice President for Digital Libraries at Indiana University.  During her tenure at Indiana University (IU), she began and nurtured the Digital Library Program (DLP), a partnership of the IU Libraries, University Information Technologies Services, the School of Library and Information Science, and the School of Informatics.  She also created a nationally recognized Information Commons, began a digital repository for faculty work, took steps to integrate digital library services with instructional technology, including Sakai, and planned a Research Commons for faculty members’ research needs.

 

Dean Thorin’s research includes documenting the history of digital library development in the United States and how the differences in ways that scholars work are influencing their use of technology.  She co-authored with Daniel Greenstein, The Digital Library: A Biography (http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub109/pub109.pdf), and she was instrumental in planning a recent ARL conference entitled, Scholarly Tribes and Tribulations: How Tradition and Technology are Driving Disciplinary Change (http://www.arl.org/scomm/disciplines.html), which explored the differences among the disciplines. Her paper, “Global Changes in Scholarly Communication” (http://www.arl.org/scomm/disciplines/Thorin.pdf), was a major resource for this conference and is being published by Springer.

 

She holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from North Park University in Chicago and master’s degrees in music history and literature and in library science from the University of Michigan.  Thorin was a member of the Library of Congress staff for more than 16 years.  At the Library of Congress, she served as Chief of Staff to the Librarian of Congress and as the official U.S. representative, appointed by the White House, for the G-7 electronic libraries project, one of eleven G-7 pilot projects for the Global Information Society.  She was also responsible for the Library’s National Digital Library Program.

 

         Barbra Buckner Higginbotham

          Since 1985 Barbra Higginbotham has been the director of the Library at Brooklyn College, where she also teaches in the English Department.  In the fall, 1994, she assumed the additional responsibility of academic computing and the title Executive Director of Academic Information Technologies.  Before coming to Brooklyn, she served for eight years in the Columbia University Libraries.  She holds an undergraduate degree in English literature from Centenary college of Louisiana, and a masters and a doctorate in library science from Columbia University.

 

          Dr. Higginbotham is a former President of LITA, the Library Information and Technology Association, an organization of 6,000 librarians working in the area of information technology.  She has served a member of the American Library Association’s governing body, the ALA Council, and as a member of METRO's Board of Trustees. 

 

          Dr. Higginbotham was the author and principal investigator for a 1997-1999 TIIAP grant ($650,000), which was used to build Learning Cafés in four inner-city Brooklyn high schools and to deliver a Web-based curriculum to students in these institutions. Similarly, she was the author and principal investigator of a major FIPSE grant which explored faculty training and development for teaching with technology.  Her research interests include technology and preservation, and she writes, lectures, and does grant reviews in both fields.

 

          Dr. Higginbotham's most recent books include The Preservation Program Blueprint (ALA Books, 2001), Access Versus Asserts: A Comprehensive Resource Sharing Manual for Academic Librarians (ALA Books, 1993); Advances in Preservation and Access, Volumes 1 and 2 (Knowledge Industries, 1995; Meckler, 1992); and Our Past Preserved:  A History of American Library Preservation, 1875-1910 (G.K. Hall, 1990).

 

          Dr. Higginbotham lives in Manhattan with her husband Hal, who is also an educator.  She is a pianist, and an avid traveler and film goer.

 

 

 

Maureen Lindstrom

 

Maureen Lindstrom was appointed Assistant Director for Information Commons in September 2004.  She has worked in Butler Library as the Distance Education Librarian, Electronic Services Librarian, and as Head of Circulation. She is currently responsible for the continuing development of the Information Commons, an area in the library which provides the campus community with a full range of services and assistance including computer training classes for faculty and staff, research assistance, circulation and reserve, hardware and software support, ID cards, bus passes, printing and photocopying, library instruction, interlibrary loan and special services. Maureen holds a B.A. from SUNY Binghamton and an M.L.S. from the University at Buffalo. She has also served as a visiting lecturer at the School of Informatics at U.B.