Elections 2010
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
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Member at Large
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Nominees
Aimee Fifarek
Scottsdale Public Library (AZ)
Library Type: Public
My name is Aimee Fifarek and I would like to serve as IUG's Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. I am the Senior Manager for Technologies & Content at Scottsdale Public Library in Arizona where I oversee the Systems, Collection Development and Technical Services departments. I started at Scottsdale in 2003 as the Head of the Systems department and was promoted to my current management role two years ago. Before that I was the Systems Librarian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for 6 years. I am currently finishing the 2nd Year of my elected position as Member at Large, Co-Coordinating the Enhancements process, and prior to that I served a Functional Expert in Circulation for a year.
IUG is one of the most successful organizations that I have ever been a part of - mainly because it includes so many people who are willing to share their time and expertise. Whether it is on the listserv or at the conferences, there is always someone who is willing to lend a hand, share an idea, or help you solve a problem. IUG has certainly has played a vital role in my professional life, and I feel it is important to contribute all I can to its continued success.
My professional history and experience on the Steering Committee have helped me to develop the organizational and political skills that the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect needs to effectively lead the IUG. It is my hope that you agree and will give me the opportunity to serve in this capacity.
Joe Reimers
Notre Dame Kresge Law Library (IN)
Library Type: Law/Academic
I have been the Technology Support Specialist at the Notre Dame Kresge Law Library since 2002, and prior to that spent several years in the information technology department at the St. Joseph County Public Library in Indiana. My job requires familiarity with all aspects of the Millennium system and with other related products and technologies, along with plenty of interaction with both Innovative and the IUG. For the past two years, I’ve had the opportunity to serve as a Member-at-Large on the IUG Steering Committee, sharing responsibility for the re-designed IUG Clearinghouse. I had the privilege to work with some amazing people during this time, and would love the opportunity to continue contributing to this valuable and important organization.
Sheryl Bissen
Grinnell College Libraries (IA)
Library Type: Academic
I am the Library Systems Support Technician at the Grinnell College Libraries in Grinnell, IA. Grinnell College is a small residential private liberal arts college in central Iowa with app. 1650 students. We implemented Innovative Interfaces in 1989 and I have been involved with supporting it since that time. I have responsibility for all the load profile work and most of the data loads into and out of our Millennium system. I also provide first line support for 116 public and staff desktop machines, staff training and assist with project implementation.
I have been heavily involved in the Iowa Library Association and served as its President in 2007. One of my major accomplishments that year was planning the annual conference which had both record breaking attendance and profit. Planning a major conference involves an incredible amount of time, effort and team work and I would be happy to do whatever I can to help with IUG.
The 2010 IUG Conference in Chicago will be the 14th IUG Conference I have attended. The quality of programming and networking opportunities at IUG are unmatched. The knowledge and expertise of the IUG community through the listserv and Clearinghouse have been invaluable to me. I am a firm believer in the value of the Innovative Users Group and I would welcome the opportunity to contribute back to this incredible organization by serving as a Member at Large.
Kimberly Boldt
St. Norbert College Library, Wisconsin
Library Type: Academic
Kimberly has been working as Systems Librarian at the Miriam B. & James J. Mulva Library (formerly the Todd Wehr Library) on the St. Norbert College campus in Wisconsin since 2007. She began using Innovative in 1998 as Technical Trainer at St. Norbert, then served as Reference & Information Services Librarian for the next 7 years, in which she used the WebPac extensively to assist and instruct students and aid faculty with their research. In her current position as Systems Librarian, she is responsible for creating and maintaining web pages, administering Millennium, performing upgrades, troubleshooting issues, and any thing else Innovative within the Innopac, WebPac, Circulation, Acquisitions, Serials, and Cataloging modules. Kimberly has provided service to IUG in the past as a Forum Recorder, and currently as an Enhancements FE for the WebPac and web page editor for several of the 2010 Local Arrangements pages.
I hope to further serve my colleagues around the world by working with IUG as a member at large.
Glenn Bunton
Old Dominion University Libraries (VA)
Library Type: Academic
I have been Head of Systems Development with the Old Dominion University Libraries for the past ten years. ODU is a large tier 3 teaching and research institution located in Norfolk, Virginia. The University Libraries combined collections total over 3.2 million items including over1 million monograph volumes, 20,000 journals and other serial publications, over 2 million microform units and over 68,000 maps, computer data files, audiovisual, audio, film, and cartographic materials. The ODU Libraries have been Innovative Interfaces Incorporated customers since 1995.
My participation as a member of the IUG Steering Committee would bring a well-rounded combination of technology, public service, and management experience having been a reference librarian, systems/technology librarian and head of two library technology departments in my career. I also have experience in both the specialized environment of the academic medical library as well as the general academic library as well as experience with three different integrated library systems. As Head of Systems Development for the Old Dominion University Libraries, I bring the perspective of an institution that is comparable to so many others throughout the country - a highly functional academic library with limited economic and personnel resources seeking to optimize our III integrated library system investment to most effectively meet the needs of our diverse user population.
Kristen Costello
University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries
Library Type: Academic
I am the Systems Librarian at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries. In addition to its main library, UNLV has three branch libraries (Architecture, Music and Education) and a Law Library. UNLV shares the Innovative Oracle system with three other institutions - the College of Southern Nevada, Nevada State College, and the Desert Research Institute. I serve as the central resource for the shared Innovative system. I coordinate, troubleshoot and monitor all support calls for all modules (circulation, cataloging, serials, and acquisitions) as well as additional Innovative products (Encore, Link+, ASRS system) and third-party products (3M's RFID technology for circulation, inventory and self-check). I am responsible for installing Innovative system software updates and coordinating patches. I write expect scripts to automate processes as well as educate staff on the Millennium Scheduler/Task Builder product. I lead workshops on various modules, i.e., Create Lists in Millennium, Running Notices in Millennium, Maintaining the Calendar in Millennium, Statistics vs Web Management Reports. I have been at UNLV since September 2006.
I previously worked at Drexel University's Hagerty Library from July 1998 to August 2006. While at Drexel, I coordinated the implementation of Innovative's Millennium Oracle system (cataloging, circulation, serials, acquisitions, and inter-library loan modules) with data migration from DRA.
I hold an MS from Drexel University and a BA from the State University of New York at Fredonia. I also spent one year abroad at Trier University in Germany.
I'm very excited about becoming more active in the Innovative Users Group.
Richard Guajardo
University of Houston Libraries (TX)
Library Type: Academic
Richard Guajardo is currently Head of the Integrated Library System at the University of Houston Libraries.
Previously, I was Head of Cataloging & Electronic Access at the UH Libraries. Earlier, at the University of Houston’s O’Quinn Law Library, I was Head of Technical Services. I am familiar with most of the Millennium modules. I have attended numerous IUG meetings since the 3rd Annual meeting in 1995.
I have been involved in various activities with IUG beginning as a volunteer for the registration desk and helping to prepare the IUG conference bags when the meeting was held in Houston. In the past, I have volunteered to be a reporter for several IUG forums such as Load Profiling, and Customer Services Desk. I served as moderator of several IUG forums, PromptCat, Systems Managers, and Oracle Users. I also has presented sessions at IUG on WebBridge, Indexing/Form Genre Access, and Research Pro. I am currently the Functional Expert for Encore enhancements, and previously I was a Functional Expert for Patron Functions in the WebOPAC. Also, I was on the planning committee of the Houston Area Innovative Users Group.
I look forward to continuing to serve in IUG as opportunities present themselves. The annual IUG meetings are gatherings that have helped me gain a much greater knowledge level of the system than perhaps I could have obtained otherwise. Formal training by III staff held in conjunction with the annual conference is also a valuable resource. I think collaboration with my colleagues at IUG meetings over the years has also been an extremely valuable part of my ability to stay informed with developing trends in the integrated library system.
John Hammer
San Antonio College Library (TX)
Library Type: Academic
Currently I am at the Library of San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX, as the Automation Librarian. I have been in that position for about 10 years. Previously I was Cataloger and Head of Technical Services here and at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA. I've been at San Antonio College for 13 years. In addition, I've done tours of duty in Collection Development, Reference, and Bibliographic Instruction.
One of the reasons I would like to be a member is that I can represent those of us in much smaller and two-year college libraries. In addition, I would like to see Regional Groups become active in more areas, especially in Texas where we have many III libraries that could benefit from the sharing of ideas. It would also be nice to have IUG meet in San Antonio.
Deborah McCarthy
University of Wyoming Libraries
Library Type: Academic
I am currently the Head of Technical Services at the University of Wyoming Libraries, a position I have held for six years. UW is a medium size academic library and the Technical Services Department includes cataloging, monographic and serials acquisitions, receiving, accounting, preservation and marking, authority control, and database maintenance. UW has been on an INN-Reach system (Prospector) for four years and on Millennium and Encore for one.
Our local Millennium system has two libraries, the main campus system and the law library, and as we are also part of an INN-Reach system this gives me some insight into both the local and consortial issues that we all face with our systems. I enjoy figuring out how to get the most out of our system, and participating in IUG helps give me ideas about more efficient ways to use the system.
I am interested in serving on the IUG Steering Committee because I would like to become more involved with the Innovative Users Group and better understand the intricacies of how the committee works with conference planning, enhancement, and mediation between the users and III.
Elizabeth McCormick
Radford University McConnell Library (VA)
Library Type: Academic
I've been working at Radford University's McConnell Library, an III library, since January 2005 but have been a librarian (first in publics then in academics) since 1993. My first position at RU was as the Catalog Librarian; that position morphed into the Monographics Librarian, overseeing monographic acquisitions and cataloging and related duties. During the past five years, I've worked mainly in the cataloging and acquisitions modules but have some experience with the Serials module. I nominate myself for Member-at-Large because I'd like to become more involved in IUG and in helping to improve the Millennium system; I'm currently a Functional Expert for the Serials module, along with Ann Kolodzey and Rebecca Bealer.
Tatiana B. Miller
Medical College of Wisconsin Library
Library Type: Special/Academic
Got my MLS degree from Queens College (City University of New York) in 1998. I started my librarianship career in Milwaukee - first in law libraries (law firm, Marquette University Law School), then in the Wisconsin Technical Colleges System. In 2004 (January) started as a technical services librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In the summer of 2004, when two departments (Technical Services and ILL) were merged together as Collection Management and Resource Sharing, I became the head of this department. I was involved with the WILIUG Steering Committee since it started in 2004 as I was (and am) heavily involved with the Innovative/Millennium system, and served on that Committee on and off since 2004 as a secretary, member-at-large, and currently membership chair. I enjoyed my work on the WILIUG Steering Committee. Now I think I am ready to move on to the national level and serve on the IUG Steering Committee.
A little bit about my background. I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. I spent the first 7 years of my life in Estonia. My first Master's degree (in Education) was from St. Petersburg Pedagogical University, and I taught English at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
I lived in Havana, Cuba, for 3 years. I graduated from East Havana School of Foreign languages with a diploma in Spanish. On returning to Russia (at that time still the Soviet Union) I worked as a secretary- interpreter for Cuban Consul General in Leningrad for 5 years.
In 1989, with Gorbachev's perestroika, international travel became possible for ordinary citizens. I came to the US as an exchange professor of Russian (invited by Manhattanville College, where a friend of mine taught) and taught Russian at the college level at several colleges in Westchester County, New York.
In 1997 I decided to change my career and become a librarian. The rest is in the first paragraph of my biography.
I think I will bring to the IUG Steering Committee my very diverse international and cultural experience. I am a very outgoing person, love to travel and meet new people. I work at a special (medical) library which also is an academic library, so that would also be a good contribution to representing different libraries on IUG Steering Committee.
Christine Rigda
University of Toledo (OH)
Library Type: Academic
My professional career began as a Catalog Librarian at Youngstown State University’s Maag Library in 1993, the year the library migrated to a new system called Innopac and became members of the OhioLINK consortium. My colleagues and I had a lot of fun as well as some hair-tearing moments figuring out how things worked. I took to it so well I later became the head of Systems and Cataloging there. Although I moved on from Youngstown in 2001, I did not leave the Innovative family and held positions as a Cataloger in another academic library and as a Web development Librarian in a medical library. I eventually realized my real home is in Systems, and in 2006, I was hired as the Systems Librarian for the University Libraries at The University of Toledo where I am currently employed. I’m happy to say I’m still having fun figuring things out and pulling out less hair thanks to the IUG Annual Conference and the listserv. After attending and presenting at several conferences, I started looking for ways to contribute to the IUG and consider myself fortunate to have served as a Functional Expert (2006-2009) to deal first-hand with enhancement requests, and I am currently a member of the conference Program Committee. I would like to become even more involved in the IUG by becoming a member of the Steering Committee because it is important to me to give something back to an organization that has given me so much help and information throughout the years and to also have a hand in helping others discover how great IUG is. Thank you for considering me for the position of Member-At-Large and if elected, I will work hard to continue to make the IUG an invaluable resource.
Kathy Setter
Indianhead Federated Library System/MORE Consortium (WI)
Library Type: Consortium
I am a Project Manager for the MORE consortium of the Indianhead Federated Library System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. MORE has 48 public libraries as members. My work involves all staff training in Cataloging, Circulation and Serials along with database maintenance and quality control. I work extensively in cataloging with create lists, global update, rapid update and headings reports. I have taken load profile training and Millennium Makeover training. I am the first line of defense for questions and problems dealing with the day-to-day operations of our libraries. We have been a Millennium customer since 1999 and I have been involved with the installation and growth of our system since contract negotiations. Our database currently has 534,000 bib records, 1,625,000 items and 217,000 patrons. Prior to working with the consortium full time I was the library director of our smallest public library where I did it all because there was only me, so I have an understanding of all aspects of public library work.
I have been attending IUG since 2000 and have greatly appreciated the knowledge, experience and contacts gained there. I see the IUG as a very valuable resource and want to continue that excellence. I was a cataloging FE for four years; I have been a moderator for the cataloging and training forums at IUG in past years and will be again this year, as well as presenting programs last year and this year. It would be my pleasure to serve on the IUG Steering Committee and contribute in all ways that I am able to this vital community, as our greatest resource is each other.
Sarah Simpson
Tulsa City-County Library (OK)
Library Type: Public
I first became involved with Millennium when we implemented the Interlibrary Loan module. It really enhanced our workflow, and I would like to see continued changes to that module to enhance the functionality further. Since moving back into Technical Services, I have become responsible for the Cataloging, Serials, and Acquisitions modules, and manage the implementation of new functionality and training of staff to make the best use of that functionality. I use Millennium regularly for cataloging, batch processing, reporting, and collection management projects, and have been through load table training which has allowed us to make some great efficiency changes in our processes. I am very excited at the continued potential our Innovative systems have for improving our workflow, making things work better for us and our users, and offering great new functionality that will make our catalogs and libraries even better.
As a Member-at-Large, I would work hard to be a good advocate for member libraries as we communicate with Innovative about future development and improved functionality. I also believe it is important that public libraries continue to have a voice on the Steering Committee, because, though we share many of the same concerns, we also have our own unique issues. I believe the great value in the Innovative Users group is in the participation of its members. I rely on the IUG listserv, conferences, and the Clearinghouse to help me figure out how we can best use our system. I would love the opportunity to give something back to the Users Group by serving as a Member-at-Large.
Caralee Witteveen-Lane
Thomas M. Cooley Law School Library (MI)
Library Type: Law/Academic
I have been working in libraries for over 14 years in a variety of different capacities. I am currently the Head of Circulation at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to my responsibilities as a reference librarian, I also manage all access service and collection maintenance issues. Recently I was appointed to the Library Board at the Grand Rapids Public Library.
I have worked in public, academic, and school libraries. I have worked in Public Services (both Reference and Circulation) and Technical Services, and I have even driven a bookmobile. I love everything library and would love to carry on this enthusiasm to an organization such as IUG that I find highly relevant to the library world.
I attended my first IUG annual conference last year and was impressed with the depth of programming and its applicability to the workplace. I heard this same sentiment from every person that I met throughout the conference. I have since decided that I wanted to contribute to this organization in some manner someday. Due to the large number of law schools represented in IUG, and the fact that we are losing Joe Reimers our current law library representative, I encourage you to consider casting your vote my way.
Victor Zuniga
Westerville Public Library
Library Type: Public
Since joining the Westerville Public Library in 2005 as their Webmaster, Victor Zuniga is responsible for regularly refreshing the library’s online presence and translating user and staff technological needs into functional web-based solutions. He oversees the Westerville Public Library Classic Catalog, Discovery Search (Encore), and the INN-REACH catalog (SearchOhio) connecting libraries across the state of Ohio to enhance the request and delivery of materials for patrons. Victor is also actively involved with the Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group (ELGIUG).
As a strong advocate for collaboration, Zuniga believes the IUG community plays an important role in the necessary exchange of ideas to enhance and improve collective knowledge of key modules provided by Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Should he be elected as a Member-at-Large to the Steering committee, he would take the role as an opportunity to facilitate further collaboration, seek innovation in the service of user experience, and give back to the IUG community for the many lessons it has taught him.