NCSU Libraries Focus Online
Volume 25 number 1 - Fall 2004
New Library Personnel--February through June 2004
Jeanne M. Hammer
Jeanne M. Hammer joined the NCSU Libraries as assistant director for finance
and administration on June 1, 2004. Hammer provides leadership for the Libraries'
planning, finance and business, facilities, external relations, and grant-seeking
activities. In this key role, Hammer works closely with library administration
to implement the strategic vision of the research library for the twenty-first
century.
Hammer's career in higher education spans more than twenty-three years. Her
substantial knowledge of the issues and changing needs facing academic research
libraries, coupled with her extensive senior library management experience
with the University of Virginia Library, renders her eminently prepared for
this position. At the University of Virginia Library, Hammer held positions
in the areas of planning, finances, and facilities management and was budget
director and coordinator of capital projects. She served as liaison between
the library and the administrative units of the university that fall under
the jurisdiction of the provost and the vice president for business and finance.
In this capacity, she managed the annual and capital outlay budget preparation,
with oversight for an annual operating budget in excess of $21 million. Hammer
also managed the library's capital outlay projects with responsibility for
major renovations and new construction.
She began her career at the University of Virginia as the Department of Biology's
research administrator and later became budget director for the School of Engineering
and Applied Science. She began her tenure with the University of Virginia Library
in 1988, serving first as budget and development director and later as development
director.
Hammer received an M.B.A. from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration at the University of Virginia and a B.A. in anthropology from
the College of William and Mary.
Todd J. Kosmerick
Todd J. Kosmerick became university archivist at the NCSU Libraries on February
13, 2004. He is part of a vital Special Collections Research Center engaged
in implementing new technologies to provide access to primary research materials
and unique resources. As university archivist, Kosmerick oversees all activities
related to building and managing the University Archives collections and leads
outreach efforts to university administrators, faculty, and staff.
Kosmerick is an accomplished archivist whose professional experience in archival
and manuscript collections spans more than fourteen years. He began his career
as an Archival Fellow of the George Meany Memorial Archives, the institutional
archives of the AFL-CIO, and he later became the collection's archivist. Starting
in 1992, he worked at the Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma, first
as archivist, then as assistant curator. In the latter position, he handled
archives operations, budget, and staff supervision while managing outreach
projects.
In addition to an extensive record of professional service and publications,
Kosmerick serves on the nominating and publications committees of the Society
of Southwest Archivists and as chair of the Congressional Papers Roundtable
of the Society of American Archivists. In 2000 he co-edited the International
Biographical Directory of National Archivists, Documentalists, and Librarians
Kosmerick completed a dual master's program at the University of Maryland
and received both an M.L.S. and an M.A. in history. He holds a B.A. with high
distinction in English from the University of Michigan.
Monica I. Lopez
Monica I. Lopez was appointed librarian for professional development and diversity
initiatives on June 1, 2004. As part of the Office of Personnel Services, she
provides leadership for the Libraries' training and development and diversity
programs. Lopez plans diversity initiatives focused on attracting and developing
diverse individuals for library and information science careers in both librarian
and support staff roles. She also conducts outreach efforts to attract individuals
from diverse backgrounds to the field.
Lopez previously worked as an NCSU Libraries Fellow in both the Research and
Information Services Department and the Burlington Textiles Library. She provided
instruction and developed subject guides in Research and Information Services
while implementing the curriculum-integrated instruction program to support
courses in textiles and engineering for the university community. At the University
of South Florida (USF), Lopez received an Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS) Teaching Assistantship to conduct course-specific classes to create
specialized user aids for library instruction. Before that, she was a graduate
assistant in the USF Library.
Lopez earned an M.A. in library and information science from USF and a B.A.
in Spanish education from Florida State University. She received the American
Library Association's Spectrum Scholarship, and in 2003 she was accepted into
the highly selective Association of College and Research Libraries' Institute
for Information Literacy Immersion Program. Lopez is active professionally
and is a member of REFORMA, the national association to promote library and
information services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking population.
Terry Hill
Terry Hill became collection manager for the social sciences at the NCSU Libraries
on June 1, 2004. Hill joins a department committed to anticipating and responding
to users' needs by developing the Libraries' rich electronic and print collections.
He serves as the primary collection manager in the subject areas of management,
economics, political science, public administration, and law.
Hill formerly worked as a collection development intern at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Working closely with the social sciences bibliographer, he acquired a broad
understanding of the evaluation and selection process for materials collected
by an academic research library. As part of his internship, Hill helped to
develop a collection development policy and to create an opening-day collection
for the Sonja Hayes Stone Center for the Black Culture and History Library.
Hill earlier served a two-year graduate assistantship as a Carolina academic
library associate in the Serials and Electronic Resources Department at the
Davis Library.
Hill was president of the Student Chapter of the American Library Association
at UNC-Chapel Hill and is active in professional organizations. He received
the Association of College and Research Libraries National Conference Scholarship
in 2003 and the Margaret Kalp Fellowship for 2002-2003.
He earned a B.S. in sociology with a minor in music and an M.A. in political
science from Appalachian State University. He received an M.S.L.S. from UNC-Chapel
Hill in May 2004.
Leslie S. Van Deusen
The NCSU Libraries appointed Leslie S. Van Deusen as systems librarian for
NC LIVE (North Carolina Libraries for Virtual Education) on March 22, 2004.
Van Deusen is one of NC LIVE's help desk librarians, and she visits member
libraries through its outreach program. She also serves as a liaison between
the librarians and staff of affiliated libraries and the NC LIVE technical
staff. She works with vendors to manage requests from affiliated libraries
for customized vendor resources, and she prepares documentation and communications
for affiliated libraries.
Van Deusen worked for several years with Amazon.com, beginning as a customer
service representative. She later became a project manager and served as liaison
to software development engineers and customer service managers.
Previously, Van Deusen worked for the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
Information Institute of Syracuse, New York. Sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Education, GEM is an educational search engine that is part of the Educational
Digital Libraries Initiative. She also served as technical services assistant
at the Barclay Law Library, Syracuse University. She received an M.S.L.I.S.
from Syracuse UniversityÕs School of Information Studies and a B.A.
in history from the University of Vermont.
NC LIVE is a unique public-private partnership involving more than 200 North
Carolina libraries, including all of the state's public libraries and those
of its community colleges, public universities, and private colleges and universities.
These libraries each serve as a gateway to the total library resources in the
state that are available to all the people of the state through traditional
and nontraditional means. NC LIVE is supported by the North Carolina General
Assembly and citizens of North Carolina.
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