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[edit] 2009 Scholarship Winners
[edit] Needs-Based Travel Grant
David Bigwood is Assistant Manager for Library Services at the Lunar and Planetary Institute Library in Houston, Texas. Attending presentations, having smaller discussions, and meeting both presenters and participants at the ER&L Conference will help David to plan digital services in his library, which has yet to implement an OpenURL resolver or an electronic resources management system.
Quinghua Xu is the Electronic Resources Coordinator at University of Wisconsin-Parkside Library in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She coordinates the selection of, and access to the UW-Parkside Library's electronic resources. She also provides reference service and serves as liaison for instruction and collection development to Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, and Nursing. Qinghua received her master's of Library and Information Science degree from Syracuse University and a master of arts in History from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and most recently was a technical services librarian at the Art Institute of California-San Diego. She is a member of ALA, SLA and CALA.
[edit] Student Scholarship
J. Coral Hess is an aspiring librarian working toward a Master's degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in August 2009. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering, and is currently an Information Assistant at Carnegie Mellon's Engineering and Science Library; she is also working on CMU's Institutional Repository and helping to organize and catalog the books and journals held by the National Aviary. Hess is interested in improving multi-database search and in working with metadata to improve users' search experience.
Angela Hand has been a copy-cataloger for four years at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and was recently promoted to Serials Supervisor/Electronic Resources Coordinator. She has worked on just about everything "serials"--including the local, the rare, the electronic, the strange, the difficult, and the belligerent. I've been privileged enough to follow some titles from their rusty leather beginnings to their final incarnation as an online-only journal. She enrolled in the Florida State MLIS program a year ago to learn more about the field and better prepare herself for the changes to come.
[edit] Honorable Mentions who will receive complimentary student registration:
Diane Gurman is a second-year graduate student in the MLIS program at UCLA. Her main interest is in copyright issues related to electronic publishing. She also has a law degree and a master's in creative writing.
Amanda Quist received her MLIS in May 2008 from San Jose State University. Upon graduation she began work as the Acquisitions Librarian for the San Diego County Public Law Library. Although her work primarily focuses on print resources, she is finding that those resources, and her library’s demand for them, are shifting as more and better electronic resources become available. She is looking forward to ER&L where she hopes to broaden her knowledge of electronic resources, gain valuable skills and insights, and meet and converse with experienced professionals who can share their wisdom!
[edit] Recent Graduate Grant
As Assistant Professor, Technical Services Librarian,
Katrina Donaghy is responsible for the cataloging, acquisitions, e-reserves, preservation, collection development and maintenance of library materials at Eureka College, Eureka IL. Ms. Donaghy earned her B.A. in English at Bryn Mawr College and her MSLIS at Drexel University. When not surrounded by books she enjoys baking, knitting, and spending time with her two kittens.
Megan Curran graduated with her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008. She currently works at Elsevier in nursing & vet journals marketing and serves on the editorial board of Elsevier LibraryConnect. She volunteers as a docent at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, and does volunteer archival, cataloguing, and reference work at the AIDS Library in Philadelphia. Megan is interested in academic library work, particularly in rare books and archives.
Regina Koury is an Electronic Resources/Reference Librarian at Idaho State University, a position she has held since September 2008. In her previous position she had worked as an Electronic Resources Assistant at the University of Southern California. At ISU Regina is a point person for e-resources troubleshooting and a member of Database Evaluation & Selection Committee. She received her MLIS from University of Pittsburgh in April 2008. In her free time she enjoys reading, trying new foods, camping and fishing with her family and friends.
[edit] Developing Nation Conference Presenter Award
Ahmad Shaheen has ten years of experience conducting reference and research on variety of topics for government officials, academia, journalists, researchers and non-governmental organizations. Presently, he is working as "Reference and Research Specialist" in the Information Resource Centre of the U.S. Embassy, Islamabad. He is a Salzburg Seminar fellow and has professional memberships of American Society for Information Science and Technology, Special Library Association (SLA) and Pakistan Library Association. He is the President of SLA Asian Chapter.
[edit] International Conference Attendee Travel Grant
Charles Banda] is the Reference & Electronic Resources Librarian at Copperbelt University Library in Zambia. Mr. Banda holds a MLIS (UB) and BALIS (UNZA). His job involves providing reference services to the library users and management of electronic resources. He also offers information literacy skills to library users particularly those that are new to the library resources and its services. In the future he hopes to secure a scholarship that will enable him to pursue a PhD in Information Science.
