NCSU Libraries Fellows 2002-2004
We are pleased to announce the appointment of the 2002-2004 NCSU Libraries Fellows: Kelsey X, effective 8 July 2002, and Anna Dahlstein, effective 5 August 2002, and Monica I. Lopez, effective 27 August 2002.
Each year, the NC State University Libraries recruits top graduates with demonstrated potential for academic library careers in science, engineering, and digital librarianship, and library management. The NCSU Fellows program offers a two-year appointment that facilitates both expertise in a functional area and opportunity to contribute to innovative initiatives of strategic importance. The program provides the Fellow a twenty-hour per week assignment in a “home department,” where he or she is a fully integrated member of the professional staff, performing entry-level librarian assignments. The Fellow is also assigned twenty hours per week to a project in an area outside the home department
Fellow Kelsey X’s home department will be Digital Library Initiatives. X’s project assignment in Preservation is to work with staff throughout the Libraries to identify and prioritize electronic resources for preservation. He will also research current best practices for digital preservation and work with a team of librarians to develop appropriate guidelines and strategies for preserving access to digital collections.
X will receive the M.S.I. in Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan in the summer of 2002. He also holds the M.S. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Oregon and the B.A. in English from Yale University. Among his academic achievements, X was awarded the Miranda Lee Pao Memorial Scholarship and the Joseph Rounds Fund for Excellence in Librarianship Scholarship at the University of Michigan. He co-authored “Getting answers to natural language queries on the web,” an article that was accepted for publication by the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Since January 2002, he has served as a graduate student representative on the University of Michigan Library Council (a group charged with advising the Director of the University Library).
X brings to the NC State University Libraries a rich variety of work experience. Directed field experiences in University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service included assignments supporting transition to fully integrated use of XML tools. He also worked as a programming and conversion assistant with the School of Information's Internet Public Library and as a reference assistant in the Government Documents Center at the Graduate Library. And, in Fall 2001, he was a teaching assistant for Psychology 112, Introduction to Psychology as a Natural Science (Mind and Brain).
Fellow Anna Dahlstein's home assignment will be in the Research and Information Services Department. In her project assignment in External Relations and Administration she will assist in the development of the Libraries’ marketing programs and will support research on strategic library-wide initiatives. As a resource staff to key committees, she may conduct background research, write summaries and reports, and prepare presentations on such initiatives as planning for a new state-of the-art library facility.
Anna has the A.B. in General Studies (Cum Laude) from Harvard University, with a concentration in Government. She will receive the M.A. in Library and information Studies in July 2002. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dahlstein was awarded the SLIS fellowship from the Friedman Fund in recognition of [her] academic record, experience, background and potential for future professional success,“ and at Harvard she earned the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Merit Award and Harvard College Scholarship for academic achievement of high distinction.
Dahlstein comes highly qualified for her home and project assignments. After completing her Bachelor's degree, Dahlstein returned to Buenos Aires and worked in a number of positions in the publishing industry, including stints as a researcher, writer, author, and as a News Editor for the Buenos Aires Herald. Previous experience in the library field include appointments as librarian in the University Communications department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at the Swedish Association in Buenos Aires, Argentina . Among the places that Dahlstein has called home are Rome, Moscow, Nairobi, Quito, Stockholm and Boston. She is fluent in Swedish, English, and Spanish.
Monica I. Lopez's home department is Research and Information Services. Her project is to help implement an expanded program of curriculum integrated instruction to support courses in textiles and engineering.
Lopez’s undergraduate and graduate degrees both come from Florida institutions. She holds a B.A. in Spanish education from Florida State University and an M.A.L.I.S. from the University of South Florida. She is a recipient of the American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship, a major initiative in librarianship designed to develop a representative workforce that reflects the communities served by libraries.
Previously, Lopez worked in the University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library. As a teaching assistant, she conducted basic, advanced, and course-specific classes and created specialized user aids for library instruction. In 2001 she served as a graduate assistant in the Reference Department, staffing the reference desk and conducting bibliographic instruction. Her responsibilities also included assisting unaffiliated users through the library’s fee-based service Call/USF and creating displays to promote library user awareness. In addition to library work, Lopez has experience as a student teacher of high school Spanish.