NCSU Libraries Focus Online
Volume 27 number 1 - Fall 2006
New Library Personnel and NCSU Libraries Fellows
New Personnel
David Goldsmith
David Goldsmith is the NCSU Libraries' new associate director
for materials management, effective September 11, 2006. In this
position, he assumes administrative responsibility for the functions
of finance and business, acquisitions, cataloging, and access services.
He will create a cohesive program that ensures effective processes
to procure, house, organize, and deliver library materials and
that enhances related services for students, faculty, and other
library users. The assignment of the Libraries' Finance and Business
Department to Materials Management will allow Jeanne Hammer, with
the revised title of assistant director for capital management
and external relations, to focus on the Libraries' major capital
management projects: renovation of the D. H. Hill Library and planning
for and construction of a new library on Centennial Campus.
Goldsmith most recently served as interim assistant director for
management services, providing leadership for Finance and Business
and for Access and Delivery Services. Goldsmith also has served
the NCSU Libraries as head of Acquisitions, as assistant head of
Collection Management and of Distance Learning Services, and as
collections librarian for Distance Learning Services. Before joining
NC State, he was head of the Resource Development Department at
Florida International University. He holds an M.L.S. from Florida
State University and a B.S. in zoology from the University of Florida.
An active member of the American Library Association, Goldsmith
served as member-at-large of the Association for Library Collections
and Technical Services (ALCTS) and is past chair of the ALCTS Leadership
in Library Acquisitions Award Jury. Goldsmith was selected as an
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Libraries Leadership
Fellow for 2005-2006.
Greg Raschke
Greg Raschke has been appointed associate director for collections
and scholarly communication, effective September 11, 2006. He administers
programs to develop, manage, and preserve the Libraries' collection
of more than 3.6 million volumes. Raschke's responsibilities encompass
planning for digital collections, including the digitization of
special and unique collections of value to scholars and researchers.
In addition, Raschke leads the Libraries' partnerships in developing
new and sustainable channels for scholarly communication.
Raschke most recently served as interim associate director for
collection management, organization, and preservation for the Libraries.
He also served as assistant head of Collection Management at NC
State; as head of the Spahr Engineering Library at University of
Kansas; and as head of Technical Resources and Information Consultant
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds an M.S.L.I.S.
and a B.A. in history and political science from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Raschke is chair of the Association for Library Collections and
Technical Services (ALCTS)/Library and Information Technology Association
(LITA) Electronic Resource Management Interest Group and past chair
of the Awards Committee of the American Society for Engineering
Education: Engineering Libraries Division. Recent professional
activities include a presentations on "Library Collections
of the Future" at the Librarians Association of UNC-Chapel
Hill Conference in 2006 and a presentation on "Who Moved My
E-Journal? Electronic Resources and Organizational Change," at
the 2006 Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference.
Suzanne Weiner
Suzanne Weiner became the NCSU Libraries' associate vice provost
for library advancement on September 11, 2006. She leads and coordinates
the Libraries' ambitious agenda for fund-raising by providing leadership
for private-giving initiatives, Friends of the Library, alumni
relations, and donor stewardship. Major initiatives will include
exceeding the goal for the Capital Campaign currently underway
and developing support for the new library planned for the university's
Centennial Campus. Weiner will continue to serve in the key role
of head of Collection Management.
Weiner, in her previous role as assistant vice provost for strategic
initiatives, directed the Libraries' fund-raising program for D.
H. Hill Library renovations, including the initiative for naming
opportunities in the renovated space. She helped plan and implement
the "Name a Brick" program and the "Carousel of
Knowledge," a unique Capital Campaign event involving students
from across campus. Weiner joined the NCSU Libraries as head of
its Burlington Textiles Library and Engineering Services and, in
2001, was appointed head of Collection Management. Her previous
experience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology included appointments
as assistant engineering and science librarian and as education
coordinator for the MIT Center for Innovation in Product Development.
She holds an M.L.S. and a B.A. in environmental studies from the
State University of New York at Buffalo. With a strong record of
university service, Weiner was elected secretary of the faculty
between 2003 and 2005. She serves on the Council of Athletics and
represents NCSU on the UNC Faculty Assembly. Together with co-author
Honora Nerz, their paper "Information Competencies: A Strategic
Approach" received recognition as Best Overall Paper at the
2001 Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education
Annual Conference. In 2005 Weiner was named a UCLA Senior Fellow.
Robert D. Farrell
The NCSU Libraries appointed Robert D. Farrell as director of
Finance and Business on September 1, 2006. Farrell manages Finance
and Business operations, provides strategic budget analysis and
forecasts, leverages the use of information technology to support
administrative decision making, and develops initiatives and methodologies
to make effective use of resources. Farrell is responsible for
fiscal management of the Libraries'budget of $25 million, comprised
of state, auxiliary, grant, and endowment funds.
As team leader and senior analyst with PricewaterhouseCoopers
L.L.P., Farrell directed large-scale system implementations for
major corporations such as Limited Brands and Staples. His projects
required analysis of the complete spectrum of business requirements
for clients and the development of business processes for management
systems implementation. He also held the position of GIS programmer
analyst for the Mecklenburg County Health Department. Farrell joined
the NCSU Libraries as its geospatial initiatives librarian for
the North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project, a partner
project of the Library of Congress National Digital Information
Infrastructure Preservation Program.
Farrell holds an M.B.A. with a concentration in logistics and
transportation from the University of Tennessee and an M.A. in
geography with a concentration in location analysis and urban studies
from UNC-Charlotte. He was an instructor and doctoral candidate
in geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He
graduated summa cum laude from NC State with a B.S. in
statistics.
Hilary M. Davis
Hilary M. Davis was appointed collection manager of physical sciences,
engineering, and data analysis at the NCSU Libraries effective
June 1, 2006. Davis develops and manages collections in all subject
areas in the physical sciences and in selected engineering subjects.
She also analyzes data to support planning, budgeting, and policy
development and to respond to accreditation reviews and statistical
surveys.
Davis joined the Libraries in February 2005 as an NCSU Libraries
Fellow in Collection Management, serving as a subject specialist
for faculty and students of the College of Physical and Mathematical
Sciences. As a Fellow, she made significant contributions to the
planning and development of a digital repository. Before joining
NCSU, Davis worked as a library assistant for engineering at Washington
University. She also helped in the design and maintenance of the
Angiosperm Phylogeny Web site hosted by the Missouri Botanical
Garden. She served as a graduate teaching assistant and research
assistant with the Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St.
Louis (UMSL), and as a chemistry laboratory teaching assistant
and tutor with the Department of Chemistry, Guilford College.
Davis holds and M.L.S. from the University of Missouri-Columbia
and an M.S. in biology from UMSL. She earned a B.S. in biology
with honors (minors in geology and chemistry) from Guilford College.
She is the recipient of numerous academic scholarships and honors,
including the Ronald G. Bohley Scholarship from the Missouri Library
Association. She is active in several professional organizations.
Emily J. Lynema
Emily J. Lynema became systems librarian for digital projects
on July 1, 2006. Under the direction of the head of Information
Technology, Lynema is responsible for managing library software
implementations. She provides expertise on technical aspects such
as data acquisition and user interface design and acts as liaison
between library departments and systems programming staff in the
development and application of current and emerging technologies.
Lynema joined the Libraries in August 2005 as an NCSU Libraries
Fellow, with a departmental assignment in Research and Information
Services and a project assignment supporting Information Technology's
deployment of Endeca as the search interface for the library catalog.
She earned an M.S. in information from the University of Michigan,
where she received many academic awards, including the Karen Horny,
the Mary Louise Meder, and the Kenneth E. Vance scholarships. She
received a B.S. in computer science from Hope College, where she
received the Computer Science Senior Prize and the Sigma Xi Senior
Research Award and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
During her graduate studies, Lynema served as an intern at the
University of Michigan Libraries and also worked as an information
systems intern for Gordon Food Service, Inc. While working as content
manager for the National Technology Assistance Project, she wrote
several publications and guides to Web sites and software. She
is active professionally.
NCSU Libraries Fellows Class of 2006-2008
The NCSU Libraries Fellows Class of 2006-2008 consists of Lisa
Boxill, effective September 1, 2006; Janelle Joseph, effective
July 1, 2006; Jim Ruth, effective July 1, 2006; and Markus Wust,
effective October 1, 2006. The Fellows Program develops future
leaders for academic libraries, with a focus on science, engineering,
and digital librarianship; and on library management. Now in its
eighth year, the program continues to attract a diverse and impressive
group of talented new graduates from universities throughout North
America. NCSU Libraries Fellows are appointed for a two-year term
as members of the library faculty, combining a project assignment
on an initiative of strategic importance with a half-time appointment
in a home department.
Lisa Boxill received an M.S.L.S. from UNC-Chapel
Hill, where she was awarded the SEALL Scholarship for Library School
students. Boxill holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A.
with honors in philosophy and American studies from UNC-Chapel
Hill, where she was a Pogue Scholar. Her home department assignment
is in the Special Collections Research Center. She has two complementary
project assignments: license review and analysis for E-Matrix and
copyright assessment for digitized collections.
In 2005 Boxill was named an Association of Research Libraries
(ARL) Academy Fellow. The ARL Academy is a partnership between
ARL and three library and information science schools. Supported
by funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS),
the academy recruits and prepares M.L.I.S. students with graduate
degrees in other disciplines for careers in academic and research
librarianship. Her fellowship included a 240-hour assignment at
Duke Law Library. She has also served as a faculty research assistant
and graduate assistant in the UNC-Chapel Hill Katherine R. Everett
Law Library. Previously, Boxill served as a law clerk at Dechert
L.L.P. in New York City and an extern-in-chambers to the chief
judge of the U.S. district court for the Central District of California
in Los Angeles. At Harvard Law School, she served as deputy editor-in-chief
for the Blackletter Law Journal and was secretary of the
Black Law Student Association.
Janelle Joseph received an M.A. in information
resources and library science from the University of Arizona, where
she also earned a B.S. in agricultural economics with concentration
on international trade and development. Her undergraduate program
included an internship in the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service in Washington, D.C. Her home department in the NCSU Libraries
is Collection Management, and her project assignment supports planning
for the opening of the Learning Commons and the delivery and assessment
of services in that environment.
As a graduate student, Joseph received a Knowledge River Scholarship,
an IMLS-funded initiative at the University of Arizona that prepares
information professionals to address the library and information
needs and perspectives of Hispanics and Native Americans. The Knowledge
River program includes a graduate assistantship, which Joseph completed
in the Main Library of the University of Arizona Libraries. Among
her accomplishments in that role were the creation of a comprehensive
bibliography of the publications of the U.S. Department of Labor's
Women's Bureau and the identification and acquisition of documents
concerning tribal water rights. Joseph's background includes development
experience as a prospect research coordinator and paraprofessional
library experience in interlibrary loan at the University of Arizona.
She is a member of the American Library Association, the American
Association of Law Libraries, and the American Indian Library Association.
James Ruth received an M.S.L.S. in May 2006 from
UNC-Chapel Hill. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering with
a minor in economics from Duke University. Ruth's home department
in the NCSU Libraries is Research and Information Services, where
he serves as part of the Engineering Services Team. His project
assignment involves helping the Libraries' development staff in
fund-raising activities for the Libraries' Capital Campaign.
In 2004 Ruth, a Carolina Academic Library Association Fellow (CALA),
was assigned to the Brauer Math Physics Library of UNC-Chapel Hill.
The CALA program provides a practice-based supplement to academic
coursework that introduces graduate students to key issues in academic
librarianship and the culture of the profession. His responsibilities
included reference and Web services; a preservation project for
the library's general and special collections; and collection management,
including selection of materials for the physics collection. As
an undergraduate, Ruth completed engineering internships with Creative
Pultrusions, Inc., and JLG Industries. He also worked as a student
assistant and a library paraprofessional in the Vesic Library for
Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics at Duke University. Ruth
served as committee secretary for Chapel Hill's Librarians Association
conference planning committee and attended the Association of Research
Libraries Management Skills Institute. As an undergraduate, he
received the Kevin Deford Gorter Award for his work as founder
of and fund-raiser for the Duke Waterski Team, the second-highest-funded
sports club at the university.
Markus Wust is one of the first graduates of
a new Inter-faculty Combined Degree program for the Master of Library
and Information Studies and the Master of Arts in humanities computing
at the University of Alberta. Wust also holds an M.A. in German
literature from the University of Georgia and is completing the
requirements for a Ph.D. in German languages, literatures, and
linguistics at the University of Alberta. His undergraduate degree
in North American literature and history is from the Friedrich-Alexander
University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is the recipient
of several scholarships and awards, including the Province of Alberta
Graduate Scholarship. Wust's home department at the NCSU Libraries
is Digital Library Initiatives. His project assignment is in the
Special Collections Research Center supporting the Libraries' expanding
digitization program.
Wust served as graduate assistant in the School of Library and
Information Studies, designing a new school Web site and providing
technology instruction to new students. He worked as research assistant
for the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) and as technology
mentor for the Technology Edge for Arts Students Project at the
University of Alberta. For the past four years, Wust served as
assistant editor for Seminar, the literary journal of
the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. He has
been a language instructor, published articles and book reviews,
made numerous conference presentations on topics in humanities
computing and in German literature, and helped plan the School
of Library and Information Studies Professional Development Day
and the fifth annual Humanities Computing Graduate Student Conference.
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