NCSU Libraries Focus Online
Volume 27 number 2 - Winter 2007
New Library Personnel: Mary Chimato
Mary Chimato became head of the NCSU Libraries’ Access and
Delivery Services on January 2, 2007. Chimato provides leadership
for key public services that enable users to access the many resources
of the Libraries. She manages circulation, reserves, current periodicals,
interlibrary loan and document delivery, stack maintenance, and
media services. She will also lead efforts to explore new service
models and exploit emerging technologies to enhance services for
students, faculty, and other researchers.
Chimato brings a strong background of leadership and management
from her previous position as head of access services for the Health
Sciences Center Library, State University of New York at Stony
Brook. There she developed and implemented an electronic reserves
system and contributed to the redesign of the library Web site,
incorporating popular Internet tools such as podcasts, blogs, and
wikis. Her public services background also includes experience
as a reference librarian in Drexel University’s Florence
A. Moore Library of Medicine and teaching experience in formal
library instruction programs, including informatics instruction
and support for evidence-based practice in nursing.
She is a member of the Medical Library Association and is active
in several regional professional associations. She has served as
a panelist and co-presenter on a variety of topics in the field
of access services and is coauthor of “Building Community
Relationships: How the Library Can Make it Happen,” published
in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship in 2006. Chimato
holds an M.S. in library and information science and an M.S. in
information systems from Drexel University, with a B.A. in history
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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