Slate of Candidates for SCELC Board of Directors

Adugnaw Worku

Chairman, Nelson Memorial Library, Pacific Union College

Here at Pacific Union College, the Library is considered an academic department. That is why my title is chair of library instead of library director.

I have been in my current position since 1993. Like other academic departments, the Library here conducts elections every four years to choose a leader for a four-year term. I hold three masters degrees in history, education, and library science respectively.

If you need more information about me, you may look me up in Google under Adugnaw Worku. Thanks.

Brigid Welch

Dean of the Library, University of the Pacific

Presently in transition from her position at Santa Clara University, where she was an assistant university librarian, her appointment at UOP begins June 1st.

Brigid was previously a SCELC director in her capacity as library director at Menlo College and welcomes the opportunity to serve on the board again.

Erica Bass

Chief, Library Services, Jerry L. Pettis VA Hospital

The Jerry L Pettis VA Hospital library is a small hospital medical library in Loma Linda California. The hospital library serves a vast population of medical professionals and residents in training. Four years ago the library went virtual. We have 1620 employees of which approx 120 are physicians, 400 nurses, 100 resident physicians, 250 rotating medical students, 278 rotating allied health trainees, 116 acute beds. Speciality care for behavioral health, dental, neurology, rehab and surgery. Allied health services in nutrition & food pathology, an enormous laboratory (all lab tests are done on-site), imagining (state-of-the-art imagining center including mammography), social work, Audiology and Home Healthcare Services. The research dept includes ongoing research in Hearing (toxicology studies), Mineral Metabolism, Bone density, Osteoarthritis, COPD, Fibromyalgia, Diabetes, Coronary Artery Stent Placement.

Erica Bass has a MLS from the University of Southern Mississippi and a BS in Biology from Oregon State University. She has served as Chief of Library Service at the Loma Linda VA since 2002. Before that she worked as a Biologist on a National Wildlife Refuge, and in Knowledge Management/Consulting for a Big 5 firm. She lived in Switzerland 2 years and speaks 'kitchen' German.

As a clinical Medical library Subject Matter Specialist she hopes to bring this content expertise to the board and looks forward to continuing to bringing excellent content, at economical prices to SCELC members.

Jeff Gatten

Chief Information Office / Dean of Library and Information Resources, California Institute of the Arts

The nation's first art institute to offer BFAs and MFAs in both the visual and performing arts, CalArts is dedicated to training and nurturing the next generation of professional artists, fostering brilliance and innovation within the broadest context possible. Emphasis is placed on new and experimental work and students are admitted solely on the basis of artistic ability. To encourage innovation and experimentation, CalArts' six schools--Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater--are all housed under one roof in a unique, five-story building with the equivalent of 11 acres of square footage in Valencia, California, just 30 minutes north of downtown Los Angeles.

Jeff has an M.L.S. and M.A. in Sociology, both from Kent State University. Prior to coming to CalArts in 2004, he held numerous library positions at Kent State, including reference librarian, systems librarian, and finally the Assistant Dean for Collection Management. Jeff has published numerous articles on academic library management and several reference books on popular music.

I would like to continue helping SCELC address the many fine goals outlined in the recently created "SCELC Strategic Plan."

Kevin Pischke

Library Director, William Jessup University

William Jessup University was founded in 1939 as San Jose Bible College in San Jose, CA. In 2004 the University moved to Rocklin, California, and was renamed after the original founder. WJU is the first and only private four-year university to have its main campus located in the greater Sacramento area, offering degrees in many different disciplines, including Business Administration, Christian Education, English, History, Intercultural Studies, Liberal Studies (Teacher Education), Music, Pastoral Ministry, Psychology, Public Policy and Youth Ministry. WJU also offers an adult Degree Completion Program at its campuses in Rocklin and San Jose in Counseling Psychology, Management and Ethics and Christian Leadership.

Kevin has an M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Texas and an M.A. in Christian Education from Dallas Theological Seminary. Prior to coming to WJU, Kevin served as the Collections Development Librarian at California Baptist University. Kevin also has experience working for many different types of libraries including time with Kern County Public Library, Dallas Theological Seminary Turpin Library, and the University of North Texas Dallas Campus Library.

Our institution has benefited immensely by being a member of SCELC for some time now. I would be honored to serve on the Board of Directors and help provide a voice for many of the smaller institutions like WJU.

Kimberly Douglas

University Librarian, California Institute of Technology

Kimberly Douglas became Caltech's University Librarian in January 2004 after serving as acting director of libraries since April 2003. A staff member in the Caltech Library System since 1988, Douglas first served as Head, Reader Services and most recently both as Director of the Sherman Fairchild Library for Engineering and Applied Science and Manager, Technical Information Services.

Douglas has published and given talks on digital library and journal pricing themes, has served on IEEE, ISI, and Goddard Space Flight Center Library Advisory Committees, Co-chaired the LITA IG on Electronic Publishing for a number of years and is now on the ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee.

Kim has served on the SCELC Board since 2001 and has been a leader in the parley regarding affordable journals for libraries.

Kitty Simmons

Library Director, La Sierra University

La Sierra University, part of the Seventh-day Adventist system of higher education, is a Christian coeducational institution located in Riverside, California. The University offers graduate and undergraduate curricula in applied and liberal arts and sciences, business and management, religion, and programs for professional education in fulfillment of requirements for teaching credentials. The La Sierra University Library offers a complete array of collections and services designed to support the institution's academic programs. Additional information is available from the Library's web page.

I have served as Library Director since 2003. Before that appointment, I was the Library's Technical Services Department Chair, specializing in cataloging and acquisitions, for twenty seven years. La Sierra University was one of the first OCLC California sites, and in 1976, I was involved in that early implementation. I also played an instrumental role in the Library's adoption of the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. integrated library system in 1995. Since becoming Director, I have undertaken a variety of projects including recarpeting and reupholstery throughout the building, personnel changes, and dealing with issues related to shrinking space and rising materials costs.

Having been involved with SCELC from the beginning, first as acquisitions librarian and now as Library Director, I have a keen interest in both the services and organizational support provided by our consortium. SCELC has potential for providing an even greater array of member benefits and savings. As a Board member I look forward to the opportunity to work with both the Board and SCELC leadership to achieve improvements in efficiencies and expanded services for SCELC institutions.

Laura Stalker

Avery Head of Collection Development and Reader Services, The Huntington Library

The Huntington Library is one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States in its fields of specialization. Collections include rare books and manuscripts in the areas of British and American history and literature, history of science and technology, maritime history, Renaissance exploration and cartography, and the history of books and printing. Our mission is to support doctoral-level research: every year, about 1400 scholars come from around the world to work with our collections. Since most of our readers are here to use materials that are physically on site, and have affiliations with academic institutions (several of which are SCELC members), we do not attempt to duplicate the services and support collections of an academic library. However, our SCELC membership does allow us to offer a small number of core titles in the humanities to our readers and staff. Although we realize that no one will ever come to the Huntington in order to use the resources that we obtain through SCELC, we consider them a vital element of our collection development and maintenance program.

At the Huntington I have been head of technical services (1992-1998), head of technical services and collection development (1998-2006), and head of reader services and collection development (2006-present). I have served one term on SCELC's Board of Directors (2005-2008) and am currently a member of the Program/Profession Development Advisory Committee.

As a manager in a private, independent library I am very aware of the ways in which SCELC can help those of us who lack the infrastructure usually provided by a parent institution. My special interests lie in promoting SCELC's staff development and training efforts and in exploring consortial management of collections, both physical and digital.

Mark Roosa

Dean of Libraries, Pepperdine University

Mark Roosa is Dean of Libraries at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California where he directs libraries on the Malibu campus and throughout the Los Angeles area and internationally -- library.pepperdine.edu

Prior to joining Pepperdine, Mr. Roosa was Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C where he was responsible for the activities of the Preservation Directorate's five divisions and two special programs which together provided care for more than 128 million items in a myriad of formats. Prior to moving to Washington, Mr. Roosa served as Chief Conservation Officer at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California where he directed a program to care for an extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, photographs and works on paper pertaining to American History and Literature, Western Americana and the History of Science. Before joining the Huntington, Mr. Roosa was Preservation Officer at the University of Delaware Library. During that time he co-authored, Preservation Program Models: a Study Project and Report for the Association for Research Libraries.

SCELC serves the strategic interests of today's academic and research libraries by providing economical access to e-resources that would normally be out of the reach of most individual libraries. In an environment where new products flow into the marketplace with great frequency, SCELC functions as a clearinghouse for detailed product information which helps its members select resources that best meet the teaching, research and learning of library users. As Board member I would look forward to supporting and advancing the excellent work SCELC has accomplished to date in these and in other critically important areas.

Peter Liu

Library Director, Monterey Institute of International Studies

The Monterey Institute of International Studies (www.miis.edu) was founded in 1955 focusing on promoting international understanding through the study of language and culture. The Institute library has 100,000 volumes, more than 600 print periodical and 35 newspapers subscriptions. One third of the collection is in languages other than English. The library also subscribes to over 50 online databases mainly through SCELC as well as over 400 online academic journals and 2 international digital newspaper collections.

I received an MLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and had worked as a librarian at UIUC Undergraduate Library and the University of Delaware Library. In addition, I was elected and served as Chair (2005-2006), Admin Council of the Monterey Bay Area Cooperative Library System (MOBAC), a multi-type library consortium of 20+ public, academic and special libraries. Having been actively involved with MOBAC, I understand the challenges that member libraries are facing as well as the leverage of resource sharing and economic benefits.

SCELC has been and will remain a very important partner with all the member libraries. I have had opportunities to meet many colleagues from the SCELC libraries during the past annual Internet Librarian Conferences in Monterey. It is a great honor to be nominated for SCELC Board of Directors and would be a genuine pleasure to contribute my time and energy in support of its expansion of digital collections and services to every member library and shaping SCELC's future in a meaningful way.

Steven Dunlap

Head of Technical Services, Golden Gate University

Golden Gate University's University focuses on professional practice education with bachelors, masters and doctoral programs in business administration and public administration as well as a masters degree in psychology and an ESL program. A new masters program in Health Services Management will begin in the Fall of 2008. Serving an FTE of over 2000 mostly working adult students, the University Library maintains subscriptions to over 50 commercial databases, including non-bibliographic databases supporting research in finance and economics.

Steven Dunlap received an MS from the School of Library Service of Columbia University in 1986 and re-located to San Francisco that same year. He has worked in public, special and academic libraries as both a reference as well as a technical services librarian. At Golden Gate University he worked for 9 years as Distance Education librarian before accepting a promotion to head of Technical Services in 2002. He has served on the Board of BayNet (President, 2004-05). He has also presented papers at Off-Campus Library Services Conferences organized by the University of Michigan.

I have three main areas of interest in joining the Board of SCELC: copyright/licensing issues, cost containment and the inter-operability of databases with both educational technology and federated searching. At present libraries and content providers, through our ongoing negotiations over access, cost, licensing and dis-aggregation, will shape the nature of future business relationships and licensing agreements. With continued dis-aggregation we need for databases to allow for better and easier patron searching and data retrieval. Ease of access presents one of the thorniest issues we face. Small academic libraries have a unique ability through SCELC to exert our influence in large enough numbers to accomplish our goals.