MEET THE CANDIDATES
Candidate for Vice President/President Elect
Pat Loghry
Associate Librarian/ Audio Visual Cataloger
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
Background Information
Pat Loghry is the Audio-Visual Cataloging Librarian at the University of Notre Dame where she serves as the cataloger for most audio-visual materials and some sound recordings. She is also part of the May Institute Planning Team. The Institute is a three day training session for all library staff members. In addition, she serves as the mentor for many of the staff who are new librarians as well as for library school students. She has a writing group made up of these folks and the purpose is to help them get their first poster session, first presentation and first publication. Prior to Notre Dame, Pat was the Serials Acquisitions librarian at the University of Nevada-Reno and the Serials Section librarian at the University of Texas-El Paso. Pat has been active in OLAC since 2002. She holds her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her spare time she volunteers with the South Bend Center for the Homeless where she works with children in the Family Library.
Professional Affiliations
American Library Association 1994-
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
Chair, ALCTS Acquisitions Section, Education Committee - 2008
Member, ALCTS CMDS, Nominating Committee 2007-
Member, ALCTS Acquisitions Section, Education Committee - 2005-2007
Collection Management and Development Section (CMDS) -
Member at Large 2004-2007
Member, Collection Development and Electronic Media Committee 2005-
Member, ALCTS Education Committee 2000
Serials Section - Member at Large 2002-2005
Chair, Collection Development and Electronic Media Committee 1999-
Member, Collection Development and Electronic Media Committee 1998- 1999, 2006-07
Member, Serials Section, Acquisitions Committee 1998-2002
Member task force writing Dictionary of Electronic Serials Terms 1998-
Member task force CMDS New Chairs Orientation - 2000-2002
North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) 1995-2005
Program Planning Committee 2002-2005
Continuing Education Committee 1998-2002
Co-chair NASIG Mentoring Program 1998-2002
NASIG mentor 1996-2004
OLAC 2004-
Selected Publications
"Education and Electronic Resources: How Are Electronic Resources Influencing the Evolution of Library and Information Science Education" (written as group project for writing group) book chapter to be published in early 2008. In Electronic Resources Librarians: The Human Element of the Digital Information Age.
"Licensing Issues From Workflow to Challenges". - Solicited paper (Refereed) presented as part of the program From Innovations in E-Journals Management at ALA Annual 6/25/05 to be published as an ALCTS publication in 2008
Serials Acquisitions Glossary, 3rd edition, revised, 2005. Available at www.ala.org/ala/alctscontent/alctspubsbucket/webpublications/alctsserials/serialsacquisiti/05_serials_glossary.pdf.
Library of Congress White Paper – "Selection Criteria for Traditional and Electronic Resources". 2004. at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/selection_criteria.pdf.
"To Use or Not to Use: the Benefits and Challenges of Using a Subscription Agent for Electronic Journals", a book chapter in E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends and Technicalities, 2004.
"The ALEPH Serials Control Application". with Helen E Gbala, in Serials Review, 27: no 1: (2001). (Refereed)
"Managing Selection and Implementation of Electronic Products: One Tiny Step in Organization, One Giant Step for the University of Nevada, Reno". with Amy Shannon, in Serials Review, 26: no. 3: (2000). (Refereed)
Presentations
"Empowering Your Own". Paper presented at the Indiana Library Federation Annual Meeting, 2007.
"Copyright and You". Poster session at May Institute 2007.
"Copyright and the IDR." - Part of IDR update workshop, University of Notre Dame, 9/14/2006, 10/16/2006, 10/17/2006
"Licensing Issues From Workflow to Challenges". - Solicited paper presented as part of the program From Innovations in E-Journals Management at ALA Annual 6/25/05.
Copyright in the Electronic Age, Faculty workshop, University Libraries of Notre Dame, 11/17/2004.
"ETDs". - Solicited paper presented to the Networked Resources and Metadata Committee, ALA Annual Conference 6/27/2004.
"The Cost of Providing Electronic Resources: Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?" Paper presented at the NASIG Annual Meeting, 2000, San Diego, CA.
"The People Costs of Providing Electronic Resources". Poster Session presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference, 2000, Chicago, IL.
Candidates For Secretary
Paige Andrew
Maps Cataloging Librarian
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
Background Information
I am the faculty Maps Cataloging Librarian at the Pennsylvania State University (since 1995), with duties related primarily to creating bibliographic records for all types of cartographic materials for our several map collections, housed at both the main University Park campus as well as at other campuses scattered throughout Pennsylvania. Previous to this position I was the Maps/Nonbook cataloger at the University of Georgia (1986-1995), where I undertook to "learn the trade" and also got my start in serving professional organizations in many capacities.
Besides membership in OLAC and ALA (MAGERT and ALCTS), I was a long-time member of the Geography and Map Division of the Special Libraries Association, and belong also to several other mostly map-related organizations such as NACIS, the Western Association of Map Libraries (WAML), the North East Map Organization (NEMO), and the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA) where I have served in positions such as Chair, President, Captain NEMO, Treasuree, and as a member, and often chair or co-chair, of committees.
Since my primary work responsibility is cataloging maps, it is natural that my research and publications fall primarily into that same realm. I am the author of Cataloging Sheet Maps, the Basics; co-edited with my friend and mentor Mary Lynette Larsgaard Maps and Related Cartographic Materials: Cataloging, Classification and Bibliographic Control and the special double theme issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly that it was derived from; have several articles published in refereed and non-refereed journals, and currently am enjoying being co-editor (again, with Mary) of The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries: advances in geospatial information, collections and archives. In addition, I've presented (mostly) or co-presented (occasionally) over two dozen map cataloging workshops to other library professionals in the United States and Canada since 1993.
I hold a BA in Geography from Western Washington University (1983) and my MLS is from the University of Washington (1986).
Statement of Interest
I am interested in running for the position of Secretary for OLAC, Inc. as a means of becoming more active in a leadership role for the organization, and because I have experience in this role with other similar-sized and larger organizations, such as the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). I also have obtained through the years, and by combination of being both a good speller and editing mine and others' work, a set of skills related to the needs of the position, most notably as a newsletter editor far in the past and more recently as the co-editor of a book, editor of a major journal, and also as an author. I feel I provide a service to OLAC that will help carry its functions forward into the future and do so with a high level of quality. In addition, since I have commitments that require me to attend future ALA Midwinter and Annual conferences for at least the next couple of years, it is a role I can easily fold into that attendance since OLAC meets at these conferences as well.
Nathan B. Putnam
Special Formats Cataloging Librarian
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
Background Information
Since January 2007, Nathan has been the Special Formats Cataloging Librarian at George Mason University where he catalogs video recordings, audio CD's, computer software, electronic databases and books, electronic theses, maps, and various microforms. Before working at GMU (and while working towards an MLIS), he worked at Michigan State University where for over 4 years his job duties ranged from database maintenance/clean up to interlibrary loan to copy cataloging PDF's and print items with supplementary materials.
Statement of Interest
I am currently the secretary for GMU's Librarians' Council, a group that promotes professional activities of the librarians at GMU and acts in an advisory capacity to the University Librarian. I found that that through this opportunity I have a greater understanding of the organization. I feel the same would happen as secretary of OLAC. My goal is to gain a greater understanding of OLAC and the profession in general.
Professional Memberships
Potomac Technical Processing Librarians (PTPL) May 2007-
OLAC, January 2007-
ALCTS, January 2006-
ALA, January 2004-
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