NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 24 number 1 - Fall 2003

Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Susan K. Nutter has designated Carolyn D. Argentati as the NCSU Libraries' associate vice provost and deputy director. Nutter stated that Argentati, who had been the Donald E. Moreland Associate Director of Libraries for Public Services, retains responsibility for public services and the honorific as the Donald E. Moreland Deputy Director of Libraries.

As associate vice provost and deputy director, Argentati plays a key role in working with Nutter and other leaders within the library to develop and implement a strategic vision of the research library for the twenty-first century. Her responsibilities include directing the Libraries when Nutter is absent and standing in for her when necessary at campus, library, and development events. She also will represent the strategic vision for the library and serve as proxy for the director of Libraries when necessary.

Argentati will focus on the leadership and coordination of the internal work of the Libraries as Nutter places increased attention on the implementation of the master plan for library facilities and expands her fund-raising and advocacy work with external campus, community, and national and international association and organization constituencies. Argentati will work with senior library administrators to oversee the day-to-day activities of all programmatic areas of the Libraries.

Argentati's leadership skills, demonstrated excellence and effectiveness of performance, senior library administrative experience, science library background, successful collaboration with faculty and students, exceptional knowledge of learning technologies and the digital library environment, and stature in the profession will serve her, the library, and the university well in this key role.

Darby C. Orcutt

The NCSU Libraries appointed Darby C. Orcutt as its collection manager for the social sciences on April 1, 2003. Orcutt develops and manages the collections in assigned social sciences subject areas. He maintains client-focused relationships with faculty, researchers, and students to determine collection needs and priorities; monitors trends in scholarly communication; and anticipates use of the Libraries' collections. He also provides data analysis to help decision making in a complex environment of electronic publishing, electronic-resource development, and integrated library systems.

Orcutt joined the Libraries in 2001 as an NCSU Libraries Fellow in the Collection Management Department. His project assignment with the Research and Information Services Department involved the integration of a student tutorial into the library's orientation program. Since July 2002, he has worked solely on collection management issues in the social sciences and humanities. In the past year, Orcutt presented conference papers and taught the undergraduate course "Religious Traditions of the World" as a lecturer in NC State's Department of Philosophy and Religion.

Orcutt earned an M.S.L.S., an M.A. in communication studies, and a B.A. in speech communications and religious studies from UNC-Chapel Hill. As an undergraduate, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. As a graduate student in library science, Orcutt received both a Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship and a graduate assistantship.

Jacqueline Samples

Jacqueline Samples, who joined the NCSU Libraries as its metadata librarian on April 28, 2003, works in collaboration with the library's metadata architect to develop models for organizing information to ensure user-centered access to the Libraries' resources. She coordinates non-MARC metadata initiatives within the Cataloging Department; participates in other text, spatial and numeric, and image database projects within the Libraries; and provides expertise for the development of projects using various library-coding standards.

Samples previously worked as a serials cataloging library assistant while completing her graduate studies at the University of Iowa. In addition, she designed and documented a procedure to create dual linkage for approximately 120,000 serial and monographic analytic records.

She received the Jack E. Tillson Scholarship from the Iowa Library Association in 2001, the Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship from the North American Serials Interest Group and the Serials Industry Advisory Committee in 2000, and she is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the National English Honor Society. Samples earned an M.A. in library and information science from the University of Iowa and graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in English from the State University of New York College at Brockport.

James P. Mulvey

James P. Mulvey joined the NCSU Libraries as director of development on May 7, 2003. He is responsible for the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of major gifts. He also manages the Libraries' strategic fund-raising plan, including setting annual and campaign goals. Mulvey reports to the vice provost and director of Libraries and to NC State's associate vice chancellor for development.

During seventeen years as a development professional and consultant to nonprofits, Mulvey has established a strong record of active and engaged professional accomplishments. Most recently, he served as director of development at the Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education, where he managed the annual fund campaign, annual scholarship campaign, grant writing, and special events. Mulvey coordinated the center's $2.5 million capital campaign, directing the solicitation of major donor prospects and developing corporate gift proposals, and he managed several highly successful fund-raising events.

In addition to being a fund-raising consultant to nonprofit organizations in eastern North Carolina, Mulvey has served as senior fund-raising counsel for the Capital Consortium, Inc., and as director of development for the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh. He began his career as executive campaign director for the Community Counseling Service in New York.

Mulvey earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Virginia. He is an active community volunteer, giving his time to many charitable organizations.

Karen Williams Brown

Karen Williams Brown became the cataloging librarian for serials and electronic resources at the NCSU Libraries on June 16, 2003. Brown carries out original and complex copy cataloging, including description and subject analysis of print and electronic materials that are both serial and monographic in nature and serves as the Libraries' resident expert in serials and electronic resource cataloging.

Brown worked as a graduate assistant in the reference department at the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. In addition to providing reference services, she provided bibliographic instruction in the classroom. Last summer, she served as an intern at the Digital Library of Georgia in Athens. There she contributed to a Georgia Architecture and Landscape Design slide project for the School of Environmental Design by studying best practices and selecting metadata and image interpretation tools.

Brown worked at the NCSU Libraries from 1999 to 2002, first as a federal documents processing assistant and then as a library assistant in Cataloging. She received an M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina in 2003 and holds a B.A. in English from Old Dominion University.

Alicia Wyatt

Alicia Wyatt joined the NCSU Libraries as its serials librarian on August 11, 2003. She manages the serials acquisitions program by acquiring scholarly journals and monographic series and by administering the standing orders in print and digital formats. She formulates strategic plans for the Libraries' digital serials environment and collaborates with other library departments to facilitate licensing and tracking of digital resources.

Wyatt most recently worked as an adult services intern at the Cameron Village Public Library in Raleigh and as a Published Information Fellow at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in the Research Triangle Park. As a cataloging research assistant at UNC-Chapel Hill's Davis Library, she performed serials copy cataloging and updated serials holding information. Wyatt has also interned at the Lilly Library, Duke University.

Wyatt previously worked at the NCSU Libraries as a library assistant in Acquisitions from 1999 to 2001. She supervised the periodicals check-in and claiming section of serials acquisitions and helped maintain the department's Intranet site.

She received an M.S.L.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill in May. She graduated magna cum laude from Clemson University with a B.A. in French and history.