Maurice York was appointed associate head of Information Technology
at the NCSU Libraries on March 5, 2007. York shares responsibility
for managing the department that develops, implements, and supports
advanced information systems for the Libraries. He leads the
work of systems librarians for digital projects and oversees
integrated library systems (ILS) and technical operations as
well as the help desk. In addition, York will serve as the department's
primary liaison to the Digital Library Initiatives Department.
York previously worked at Emory University, where he served
as team leader for circulation and electronic-learning services.
With a staff of eleven, he planned and led programmatic developments,
including the implementation of ReservesDirect, a fully featured,
integrated electronic-reserves system for which he was project
manager and interface designer. As a member of the EUCLID Steering
Committee, he participated in the planning and execution of numerous
ILS enhancements and automation projects. York actively contributed
to the redesign of the library's Web presence and cofounded the
New Technologies Think Tank, a joint library-information technology
group of developers and designers.
York earned an M.S.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. in multidisciplinary studies from
Bard College. His publications and presentations on use of information
technologies in libraries are wide ranging. He is active in the
profession and served as chair of the Library and Information
Technology Association’s Emerging Technologies Interest
Group.
New TRLN Director--Mona C. Couts
Mona C. Couts has been appointed director of the Triangle Research
Libraries Network (TRLN), effective immediately. Couts leads
the efforts of TRLN, a collaborative organization of Duke University,
North Carolina Central University, NC State University, and UNC-Chapel
Hill, to develop a comprehensive, interconnected set of information
resources and services benefiting students, staff, and faculty
at each member institution. In the next five years, TRLN will
endeavor to build large-scale digital collections, provide interactive
user services and new tools to "search TRLN," create
an efficient and permanent archive of print and electronic scholarly
content, lead a national copyright education initiative, develop
a large-scale data storage and analysis capability, and develop
library leaders for the digital future.
Since 1998 Couts has been program officer at TRLN, where she
coordinated human resources and information technology services,
activities, and projects and programs of the ten libraries of
the four-university network. She served as liaison for technology
and human resources to the TRLN Executive Committee and Council
of Directors and managed budget planning in program areas. In
January 2002 she was appointed co-coordinator of TRLN. Couts
formerly held a number of increasingly responsible positions
at the Health Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill, most recently
as assistant director for technology and resources management.
She earned a B.A. in library science from the University of
Florida and an M.S. in librarianship from Emory University. Couts
speaks frequently in national forums on a number of topics related
to consortial organizations, including writing and responding
to grants and RFPS, license review and negotiation, and resource
sharing and document delivery.
