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College & University Libraries Division |
Spring 2008 |
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Texas Digital Library 2nd Annual Texas Conference
The
Texas Digital Library will host the 2nd Annual Texas Conference on Digital
Libraries (TCDL) June 4-6, 2008, on the campus of UT Austin. Registration is
free and open to anyone with an interest in digital libraries. However, space
will be limited. Check the TDL website for more information as it becomes
available.
http://conferences.tdl.org/tcdl. Last year's presentations are available
here:
http://repositories.tdl.org/handle/ By Kathy Weimer, Texas A & M University CULD Elections 2007-2008 - Slate of CandidatesThe Nominating Committee consisted of Cary Sowell from Austin Community College, Leora Kemp from University of North Texas, Dallas and Jeffrey Levy from University of North Texas. The following candidates have agreed to run for the positions of Vice Chair/Chair Elect and Secretary/Treasurer. The ballot is being sent out in the CULD print newsletter and is due back on March 31, 2008. Candidates for Vice-Chair/Chair Elect: Steven Ring
Steven has been the Web
Management Librarian at the University of Houston-Downtown since 2003. He
previously worked as Reference Librarian at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette, where he also chaired the Bayou Bijou International Film Series. In
2005 Mr. Ring attended the Tall Texans Leadership Development Institute as a
CULD member. Within TLA, he currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer of CULD
(2007/2008), as Treasurer of District 8 (2006/2007-2007/2008), and as a member
of the Professional Recruitment and Retention Committee (2006/2007-2008/2009).
He has also served as a member of the CULD Information and Membership Committee
(2005/2006-2007/2008). Steven has presented on technology topics at the TLA
Annual Conference, the District 8 Fall Meeting, and at an in-house conference
for the Houston Independent School District. Statement of Issues: I believe college and university librarians need strong professional networks at the local and regional level in order to have an effective voice in policy making, to define new programs that can effectively take root in our local communities, and to more widely disseminate ideas that come from our national and international networks. If elected, I will work with CULD to strengthen the division and to facilitate active participation.
Mary J. McCoy I have been a librarian for 18+ years. I worked 10 years as a Librarian at a Christian PreK-12 school. I have been at Lamar State College-Orange for 8 years. I have an MLS from Sam Houston State University and a MLIS in Digital Imaging Management from the University of North Texas. I worked seven years as the Media/Reference/Archivist librarian which means a multitude of different things-all of them ever-changing. I recently was appointed as the Interim Library Director. I served as chair of District 8 and the Community/Junior College Discussion Group and as a member of the Texas Media Awards Committee and as secretary/treasurer of Media and Related Technologies Roundtable. I am currently councilor for District 8. I was published in the December 2005 issue of the Texas Library Journal “The Forces of Nature or Dancing with the Three Ladies.” I did reviews for the e-journal Christian Library Journal for two years. I love free review copies! Working in TLA is rewarding because everyone is willing to help-we believe in what we do. Librarians are amazing! Statement of Issues: All libraries are ever changing and this includes the academic library as we struggle to stay ahead of the technology curve. Academic libraries are as varied as the schools we serve. Through professional organizations like TLA, CULD and CJCDG librarians help each other provide the best services, programs and collections to our students. Believing in what we do is what makes librarianship so exciting and being a part of a professional organization of like minded people is fantastic Candidates for Secretary/Treasurer Frances A. May Frances A. May is Coordinator of User Education at the University of North Texas Libraries, a position she has held since 2000. Prior to that, she was Public Service Librarian and webmaster of the Internet Gateway at Tarrant County College South Campus for five years. She attended Project LEAD, the IMLS grant supported workshop for distance learning librarians, and participated in the Program Track of the ACRL Regional Immersion in 2006. She has frequently presented at TLA, most recently a preconference on distance learning with Leora Kemp, and at LOEX, ACRL, Online Educa Berlin, and the eLiteracy Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. In TLA, she is a member of CULD, LIRT, and the Reference Round Table, and was on the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2002 Conference, and the Conference Programming Committee for the 2006 and the 2008 Conference. Ms. May has developed and taught a course in Adult Materials and Reading Interests for the UNT School of Library and Information Sciences since Fall of 2004.
Statement of Issues: The education of our students in finding information in order to equip them for life long learning is one of the most important components of our work as academic librarians. I believe that an information literate society is a free society, and that what students learn about how to find and evaluate information and use the library is one of the most important abilities they will take with them from their college education. To meet this important objective, TLA and CULD need to continue offering opportunities for interaction among academic libraries and librarians to learn from one another through its conference and other learning activities. More attention should be given to outreach to new librarians, both in order to attract them to the field of academic librarianship, and foster diversity in the field and the association. Providing ways for them to grow professionally and personally can only help them and strengthen the profession. CULD’s emphasis on high quality education, professional development, and offering guidance on how to publish professionally are other ways to improve the profession and the individual. It’s also important that CULD recognize and meet the needs of its members to keep abreast of technology and its many applications for the academic library, and to use it in engaging members in the organization’s activities. Kathy Fair Kathy Fair has been the director of the Randolph C. Watson Library at Kilgore College for the past seven years. She has worked for over 25 years in Academic Libraries from the ARL research libraries to community colleges in four states. She received her MLS from the University of Alabama.
Kathy is a 2004 TALL Texan and has been active in TLA for seven years on various committees. She is a past chair of the Community and Junior College Library Division and currently serves on the Leadership Committee. She is a member of the TexShare Advisory Board. As well as TLA, Kathy is also a member of ALA and ACRL.
Statement of Issues: Libraries live in a climate of change. Changes in technology, policy and political power can be daunting to individual libraries but when we work together, libraries create a powerful synergy. Cooperative arrangements such as TexShare allow us resources that we would never be able to have on our own and opportunities to educate ourselves at conferences such as TLA or workshops at a regional level make us stronger both as individuals and as a collective unit. If elected, I will continue to work for more cooperative arrangements for Texas libraries.
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