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**CANDIDATES FOR VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT**
Robert B. Freeborn
 Music/AV Cataloging Librarian
The Pennsylvania State University

Background information:
 In his present position, Robert is responsible for the original cataloging of most audiovisual materials (scores, sound and video recordings, kits, artifacts and realia) for all campuses throughout the Penn State University Libraries.  He also acts as the faculty resource librarian for the Music/AV Cataloging Team in the Technical Services Department at Penn State.  Robert is also Penn State's primary selector for collection resources pertaining to the area of Military Studies.  Previously, he was the Nonbook Cataloger/Preservation Librarian at the University of Mississippi.

OLAC activities:
 Cataloging Policy Committee (CAPC): intern (1999-2000), full member (2001-2003)
Millennium Committee: member (1999-2000)
CAPC Subcommittee on Authority Tools: member (1999-2000)
CAPC Additions to Personal Names Task Force: member (2001-2002)
CAPC Chapter 9 Task Force: member (2001-2002)
CAPC DVD Cataloging Task Force: Chair (2001-2002)
CAPC Conventional Terminology Task Force: Chair (2001- )
CAPC Expert Panel Task Force: member (2003- )
Poster Session presenter, 1998 OLAC Conference, Charlotte, NC
Program Committee, 2000 OLAC/MOUG Conference, Seattle, Wash.
Workshop Presenter, 2002 OLAC Conference, St. Paul, Minn.
NACO AV Funnel Project: independent contributor (2002- )

Other music/AV activities:
 Music Library Association (MLA): Authorities Subcommittee, member (2000- )
MLA: OLAC Liaison (1998-2002)
MLA: Atlantic Chapter, Communications Coordinator (2000- )
Poster Session Presenter, 2003 MLA Conference, Austin, Tex.
Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG): OLAC Liaison (2002- )
Presenter, 2003 MOUG Conference, Austin, Tex.
SIRSI Music Users Group: Moderator (2002- )

Articles:
1. Freeborn, Robert.  "Motion Picture Films."  Mississippi Libraries 61 (3): 71-73 (1997).
2. Freeborn, Robert.  "Cataloging of the Weird: Further Examples for the 3D Perplexed." MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship 6 (2) (Fall 1999).
<http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v6n2/freeborn.html>.
3. Freeborn, Robert.  "Retrospective Conversion Cataloging of Audiovisual Materials at Penn State University's Education Library." MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship 7 (1) (Spring 2000).
<http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v7n1/freeborn.html>.
4. Freeborn, Robert.  "Cataloging MP3s: the Sound of Things to Come?"  MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship 7 (2) (Fall 2000).
<http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v7n2/freebornmp3.html>.
5. Freeborn, Robert.  "Cataloging Non-Music Sound Recordings."  Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 31 (2): 37-51 (2001). [Also appears in The Audiovisual Cataloging Current.  Ed. Sandra K. Roe.  New York: Haworth Press Inc., 2001.]
6. Freeborn, Robert, and Rebecca Mugridge.  "The Reorganization of Monographic Cataloging Processes at Penn State University Libraries."  Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 26: 35-45 (2002).
7. Freeborn, Robert.  "Confronting the Dark Side of the Beat: A Guide to Creating a Heavy Metal Music Collection."  Will be published in Music Reference Services Quarterly 8 (2).
8. Freeborn, Robert, and Rebecca Mugridge.  "Mergers in Acquisitions: Implementing FastCat Processes in Academic Libraries."  Will be published in 2001 Charleston Conference Proceedings.

Reviews:
 1. Freeborn, Robert. "5 Orchestral Pieces by Arnold Schoenberg." MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, 1999.
<http://wings.buffalo.edu/mcjreview/929540472.html>.
2. Freeborn, Robert. "Bread Day." MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, 1999. <http://wings.buffalo.edu/mcjreview/939852700.html>.
3. Freeborn, Robert. "God's Rock: Building a Business." MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, 1999.
<http://wings.buffalo.edu/mcjreview/944680290.html>.
4. Freeborn, Robert. "Andre’s Lives." MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, 2000. <http://wings.buffalo.edu/mcjreview/949614637.html>.
5. Freeborn, Robert. "Two Thousand Years: the History of Christianity." MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, 2000.
<http://wings.buffalo.edu/mcjreview/956925800.html>.
6. Freeborn, Robert. "Our Nation: a Korean Punk Rock Community." Educational Media Reviews Online, 2002.
<http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/emroDetail.asp?Number=887>.

Presentations:
1. "To Merge Or Not To Merge: Experiences with the Re-engineering of Technical Service Processes for Monographs". ALCTS PreOrder-PreCatalog Searching Discussion Group. ALA Annual Conference. Chicago, Ill., July 8, 2000. (Presenter and co-author with Nancy Weinreb.)
2. “The Art of Cat Herding: Penn State’s System Migration". ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Discussion Group. ALA Annual Conference. San Francisco, Calif., June 16, 2001. (Author and presenter).
3. "Mergers in Acquisitions: Implementing FastCat". 21st Annual Charleston Conference. Charleston, SC, Nov. 2, 2001. (Presenter and co-author with Rebecca Mugridge.)
4. "The Revised Chapter 9 - What Copy Catalogers Need To Know". ALCTS CCS Copy Cataloging Discussion Group. ALA Midwinter Conference. New Orleans, La., Jan. 21, 2002. (Co-author and co-presenter with Gene Kinnaly, Rebecca Lubas and Steven Miller.)
5. "AACR2 Revisions and Electronic Resources: Chapters 9 and 12". ALCTS Electronic Resources Discussion Group. ALA Annual Conference. Atlanta, Ga., June 15, 2002. (Co-author and co-presenter with Rebecca Lubas, Steven Miller and Steve Shadle.)
6. "The Revised Chapter 9  What Copy Catalogers Need To Know". Technical Services Round Table. Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Annual Conference. Independence, Ohio, Nov. 1, 2002. (Presenter and co-author with Gene Kinnaly, Rebecca Lubas and Steven Miller.)

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Sandy Roe
Cataloging Coordinator, Memorial Library
Minnesota State University, Mankato

Sandy is responsible for cataloging primarily audiovisual materials and theses, serves as the Coordinator for the Cataloging Unit at MSU, and contributes to the NACO Minnesota Funnel. She has an MS in Anthropology from Minnesota State University, Mankato (2002) and an MS from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997). Sandy’s anthropology research was related to the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), and included a study of the format and content variations of this resource throughout its history. After the completion of this degree she created an OCLC Collection Set of bibliographic records for the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography (HRAF’s current product, an electronic Resource). These records became available in Feb. 2003. Sandy guest-edited The Audiovisual Cataloging Current and serves as news column editor for Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. In October 2002, she enjoyed interviewing Jean Weihs, Nancy B. Olson, and Verna Urbanski for a piece to be published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 36(1). Previously Sandy was Technical Services Librarian at Dakota State University.

OLAC activities:
OLAC/MOUG 2000 Conference Program Committee, 1999-2000
OLAC 2002 Conference Local Arrangements Committee, 2001-2002

ALA activities:
ALA ALCTS/LITA Authority Control Interest Group, 2001-2003, Ad Hoc Chair for Subjects; ALA/ALCTS/CCS/SAC Metadata & Subject Analysis Subcommittee, 1998-2001.


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**CANDIDATES FOR TREASURER**

Bobby Bothmann
Electronic Access/Catalog Librarian
Memorial Library at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU)

Bobby earned his MLIS from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee in December 2001. Primarily he serves as the cataloger for electronic and print monographs and journals and provides leadership and technical expertise for defining and providing access to electronic resources. Prior to Memorial Library, Bobby held the special formats cataloger position at the University of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities where he was responsible for cataloging training in and cataloging of cartographic materials, realia, microforms, electronic resources, sound and video- recordings and other special format media. Bobby has taught a "Basic eBook Cataloging" workshop for the past two years for the Metropolitan Library Service Agency. He is also on the steering committee for MOTSE (Minnesota Opportunities for Technical Services Excellence), a program offering the library community throughout Minnesota continuing education opportunities in the form of workshops and self-assessment guides covering the basics of library technical services. He has recently written and developed a new workshop for MOTSE on the MARC21 Format for Holdings Data. Bobby has been an active member of OLAC since the fall of 2000. He spends his spare time playing with his two dogs and working on a master’s degree in Multidisciplinary Studies.

OLAC activities:
OLAC 2002 Conference Co-Chair, and member of the planning and local arrangements committees, 2001-2002
OLAC 2002 Conference Treasurer, 2001-2002
Poster presenter at OLAC 2000
OLAC member, 2000-
NACO/AV Funnel, 2000-

Other activities:
ALA, 2000-
ALCTS, 2000-
LITA, 2002-
NASIG, 2003-
Minnesota Library Association, 2000-
MOTSE, 2001-
NACO Minnesota Funnel, 2002-

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Scott C. Markham
Cataloging Manager
Hennepin County Library (Minnetonka, Minn.)

Background information:
Scott is a generalist cataloger with varied experience across formats. Currently, he is responsible for cataloging operations at Hennepin County Library.  At Hennepin, Scott has been involved in bringing standard LC/OCLC/CONSER practices to the operations including LCSH. Scott is responsible for the overview of original cataloging; cataloger training and review. He was instrumental in the introduction of DVD cataloging and the overhaul of cataloging procedures in other AV and print formats. 

On the financial side, Scott served as Treasurer for the Minneapolis Public Library Staff Association for two terms (1996-1999) where the funds totaled $2000-$4000 dollars; and he has just completed a four-year term as Treasurer of Edina Community Lutheran Church (1999-2002) where the total funds are just under $500,000.00.  This has given him variety of fiscal experiences. 

In OLAC, Scott served on the Millennium Committee (1999-2000).  As a public librarian, he has a strong interest in increasing membership of and input from public librarians.

Career highlights:
Cataloger, monographs and serials - James Jerome Hill Reference Library, Saint Paul, Minn., 1983-1991.
Cataloger, monographs, serials, non-music sound, videorecordings, etc. - Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minn., 1991-2000. 
Cataloging Manager, all formats, training, etc. - Hennepin County Library, Minnetonka, Minn., 2000-
 
OLAC activities:
OLAC Millennium Committee Co-Chair, 1999-2000

Past volunteer activities:
Cataloger, Quatrefoil Library, Saint Paul, Minn., 1991-1996.
Treasurer for the Minneapolis Public Library Staff Association, 1996-1999
Treasurer of Edina Community Lutheran Church, 1999-2002

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