New Electronic Resources Librarians

The NCSU Libraries has appointed Selden D. Lamoureux as Electronic Resources Librarian, effective August 18, 2008, and Kristen M. Blake as Electronic Resources Librarian, effective July 1, 2009, in the Acquisitions Department.

Selden Lamoureux brings extensive experience in the management of electronic resources from her previous position as Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been responsible for negotiating licenses, ordering and maintaining access to electronic resources, and contributing to the development of an electronic resource management system. She has applied her knowledge of the publishing industry and of libraries to the analysis and interpretation of business models for library acquisitions. Her commitment to mentoring the next generation of librarians led to her appointment as adjunct instructor at UNC's School of Information and Library Science, teaching Serials/E-Resources Management at the School of Information and Library Science, advising on Masters Papers, and supervising numerous Field Experiences for graduate students.

A leader at the regional and national level, she has served the American Library Association/Association for Library Collections and Technical Services as Chair of both the Collection Development and Electronic Resources Committee and the Research Libraries Serials Section Discussion Group. As a member of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Shared E-Resources Understanding Work Group, she helped create the framework that offers publishers and libraries an alternative to the often-burdensome process of bilateral negotiation of a formal license agreement. She is member and past chair of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) Electronic Resources Committee and a frequent presenter at local and national conferences on issues in electronic resources management.

Lamoureux holds the M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the M.A in Education, East Carolina University; and the B.A. in Anthropology, Boston University.

Kristen Blake, currently an NCSU Libraries Fellow, will become Electronic Resources Librarian upon completion of her Fellowship. She joined the NCSU Libraries as a Fellow with experience in science library public and technical services. Through her current assignment in Metadata and Cataloging and her project in Acquisitions she has developed advanced metadata for the Libraries' electronic resources management tools, including E-Matrix and the SFX link resolver, examined and evaluated workflows, and described and cataloged continuing and electronic resources. She has focused on data projects that make electronic resources available within all of the Libraries' public service tools.

In the second year of her Fellowship she will continue her work with electronic resources in the Acquisitions Department and add to her understanding of digital collections with an assignment in Collection Management. As more and more materials are acquired in digital format, the addition of this second position of Electronic Resources Librarian in the NCSU Libraries will support the growing need to provide effective and timely management of these resources.

Blake was co-presenter of "The Name Game: Creating Organization Name Authority Within an ERM" at the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference this year. She is a member of the American Library Association. Blake earned the M. S. in Library and Information Science and the Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries, Syracuse University, where she was awarded a merit-based graduate assistantship at the School of Information. She holds the B.A. in English and Journalism, Lehigh University.