Election results will be announced at the annual ILUG business meeting in Anaheim on Saturday, July 11, 1998.

Experience

Associate Director for Technical Services, Lillian Goldman Library at Yale Law School

My library career spans 26 years at Yale Law School during which I have performed all technical services functions and have assumed increased responsibility for the organization and management of technical services until I now hold the title of Associate Director. The technical services staff numbers 4 professionals and 12 clerical assistants. I also spent two years as chief of this large library's administrative services and one year as the weekend circulation librarian.

Major accomplishments: Conversion of manual acquisitions, serials control and binding functions to INNOVACQ., 1983. -- Migration from INNOVACQ to INNOPAC, 1988. -- Retrospective conversion of 200,000 titles. -- Development of technical services workstation. -- Reorganization of technical services division to perform whole book processing by acquisitions staff. -- Planned reclassification of collection to Library of Congress by 1999-- work in progress.

Education

1986 -- MBA, University of New Haven
1975 -- MLS, Beta Phi Mu Southern Connecticut State College (now University)
1970 -- BA, Albertus Magnus College

Publications

• "INNOVACQ Fiscal Control Module at Yale Law Library," 13 Serials Librarian, 21 (September 1987)
• "Managing an INNOVACQ Conversion Project," 14 Serials Librarian, 41 (July 1988).
• "Managing Technological Change in Technical Services," 1 Trends in Law Library Management and Technology, 5 (February 1988).
• Humor: "After the Computer System Arrives," 8 Law Librarian of New England News 71 (September 1987) -- "The Case of the Frisky Setter or, Memoirs of the Future." 26 Serials Librarian 41 (1995) -- "The Case of the Scented Secretary" with Jo-Anne Giammattei. Wilson Library Bulletin (April 1991) -- "More Stuff We Never Learned in Library School," 11 Law Librarians of New England News 18 (March 1990) -- "Things We Never Learned in Library School," with Jo-Anne Giammattei Law Librarians of New England News, 102 (December 1988).

Professional Presentations

• "Upside Down and Inside Out: Organizational Change in Law Libraries," Co-Coordinator and Moderator of panel presented to 1997 Annual meeting of AALL, Baltimore.
• "Diogenes and Reclassification at Yale Law School" Presentation to RLIN Forum Held at American Library Association Annual Meeting, New York, July 1996 and at AALL Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, July 1996.
• "Introduction to Innovative's authority control module" Presentation to IUG Second Annual Meeting, Columbus. Oh, 1994.
• "An Introduction to LOTUS 1-2-3 for Librarians." Presentation to Law Librarians of New England. Hartford, CT October 1986, and Connecticut Library Association College and University Section, New Haven, November 1987.
• "Active Learning Techniques", Coordinated a one-day workshop for the 1994 annual meeting of AALL, Seattle.

Statement

As law librarians begin to look at their INNOPACS as quality service tools, thus amplifying the usual OPAC inventory and index functions, ILUG will be more important than ever to the dialog and mutual assistance that are the hallmarks of the profession. Through ILUG we have two formal ways to share ideas, innovations and suggestions for improving INNOPAC products-- the workshop at AALL and the luncheon at IUG. ILUG is also an effective way to communicate with III concerning issues of importance to the law library community. I think the ILUG is large enough and mature enough now that we might consider expanding our function. I would like to see ILUG explore a mentor program for new users and the possibility of using video conferencing to provide distance learning experiences for those who can't get to programs at IUG.

Employment

1995-date -- Technical Services Librarian, Mercer University Law Library
1990-1995 -- Catalog Librarian, Mercer University Law Library

Education

1987 -- B.A., Bob Jones University
1990 -- M.S. Library and Information Studies, Florida State University

Professional Activities

American Association of Law Libraries, Member, 1990-
» TS-SIS Cataloging and Classification Committee, 1995-96
» TS-SIS Exchange of Duplicates Committee, 1996-
» OBS-SIS Local Systems Committee, 1996-97
» OBS-SIS Education Committee, 1996-97
» OBS-SIS Secretary-Treasurer, 1997-

Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, Member 1990-
» Scholarship Committee, 1994-95
» Government Relations Committee, 1995-96
» Education and Public Relations, 1997-98

Innovative User Group, Member, 1994-
Innovative Law User Group, Member 1994-

Statement

Law libraries have played a significant role as "partners" in the developing, testing and implementation of the Innovative software and approved hardware. Building upon that partnership, we should address issues and concerns to improve functionality and services of the system. We can utilize the collective wisdom of the ILUG to share ideas and insights in how to implement technological advances and protect existing investments. Additionally, we need to be more involved with the educational planning at the Annual Conference to insure that our special needs be met.