Teri Switzer is the dean of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Academic Library.

Kristen Race is the founder of Mindful Life, which provides brain-based solutions for schools, businesses, children, and families as they try to become more resilient to modern day stressors. Her products and services are rooted in the science of the brain with influences from the fields of mindfulness and positive psychology, designed to improve brain function and brain development in adults and children. Race has spoken nationally at the National Association of School Psychologists Conference and the International Scientific Conference for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators, as well as in local communities across the country and has appeared on many television news programs, providing parent education on topics ranging from bedtime battles to sibling rivalry. Race created and developed a unique method for teaching mindfulness skills to children and trains teachers nationwide in the program, called the Mindful Life Schools Program. The program is currently being used in schools around the country. Race has also discovered that the foundation of her work with children transfers to business leaders, executive teams, and athletes looking to perform their best by reducing stress and increasing focus. Race received her doctorate and master’s degrees from the University of Denver, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado. She currently resides in Steamboat Springs, Colorado where she can be found mountain biking, hiking, playing soccer, and chasing her kids down the ski mountain!

 

Lars is the Resource Sharing Librarian and Head of Organizational Development at the University of Kansas Libraries. He continues to be involved with resource sharing as he collaborates with other leaders in the newly combined Acquisitions and Resource Sharing Department. So plenty of data, assessment, technology, and other means of helping this blended department. He also helps provide and support others in a variety of library staff and organization development needs from facilitation, project management, to the Strengths concept, mindfulness (thank you Colorado ILL Conference), and more.

 

Lars’ research interests involve values our patrons place on our services, assessment, and various types of organizational development. In fact, a forthcoming research project will merge the values work and identification of the type of training staff need to support what patrons’ highly value.  Creativity and innovation are vital components of much of his research interests.

 

Lars has a number of published articles but really loves to engage with others through presentations. He has presented in the state of Kansas, the Colorado ILL Conference,  Northwest ILL Conference, IDS Annual Conference, various conferences inTexas, Wisconsin, and other places in the US. He has also presented internationally in Sweden, Bulgaria, and Iceland.

 

If you want to include any personal items, feel free to:

• Life-long Kansan so several memorable family trips to “Colorful Colorado”.
• Married to a wonderful lady who is a special education teacher
• We have two wonderful daughters and two awesome cats (wonderful and awesome about 98% of the time)!
• Loves to travel when he has time and money. So library conferences, especially ones in amazing places like the Colorado ILL Conference, helps quench the travel thirst.

Katie Birch is Portfolio Director for Delivery Services at OCLC. In this capacity, Katie oversees WorldCat Resource Sharing, including the WorldCat policies directory and IFM, as well as ILLiad, VDX and WorldCat Navigator. Katie is a librarian with 10 years experience in resource sharing and document delivery. Before joining OCLC in 2005, Katie was project manager and business development manager at Talis.
Katie is available to speak on the many aspects of library delivery services.

Eric Forte, Member Services Consultant, joined OCLC in October 2010. Most recently, Eric was Associate Dean for Library Services at Boise State University, managing public services and IT and coordinating assessment activities. Eric previously served as Economics Librarian, Reference Services Coordinator, and Head of Access Services at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also chaired the University of California system’s Resource Sharing Committee. Eric’s writings include Fundamentals of Government Information: Mining, Finding, Evaluating, and Using Government Resources (Neal-Schuman, 2011) and The Basic Business Library: Core Resources and Services (ABC-CLIO, 2011). Eric holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his undergraduate degree is from the University of Texas at Austin, and he began his library career as a librarian at former Western State College of Colorado.

Kathleen S. Mannino is an Assistant Professor at The College of New Rochelle in New Rochelle, New York. Presently she holds the positions of Reference, Interlibrary Loan, and Reserves Librarian at the Mother Irene Gill Memorial Library. Kathleen holds library instruction sessions for undergraduate, graduate, post graduate and non-traditional students using differentiated instruction methods. In 2004, she received a Master of Library and Information Science from The Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University and a Master in Communication Studies from The College of New Rochelle. Kathleen co-authored “A Case for Integration of Interlibrary Loan and Reference”, published in the December 2012 Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, 22:5, 197-203. In May, 2012 her presentation at the Westchester Library Association Annual Conference, “Technology Tools and Universal Design: A Librarian’s Quest for Access for All” was well received. Prior to becoming a librarian, Kathleen held a Support Staff position as Assistant to the Systems Librarian at Gill Library.

Hong Ta-Moore is currently a reference/ILL librarian at the Library of Congress. He has nearly three decades of library experience, which includes reference services, cataloging, management, selection, library instruction, circulation, and collection maintenance. He is a co-author of the article “A Case for Integration of lnterlibrary Loan and Reference” which was published in the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Electronic Resources in December 2012. He holds a Master of Science in Library Science from Catholic University of America, and a Master of Public Administration from University of Baltimore.