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Marshall Breeding-Keynote

Marshall Breeding-Keynote

Library collections today have become more complex than ever, with proportions of electronic and digital resources increasing relative to print and other physical materials. To manage these complex, multiformat collections, libraries need to consider many different options, both in the technology tools used and in their operational workflows and discovery services able to provide optimal access.  Rather than operate in isolation, libraries increasingly seek to share resource management and discovery among collaborative partners to expand the resources available to patrons and lower operational costs.  Marshall Breeding will give an overview of the current technologies and recent events surrounding these trends.

 

Rose Nelson

Rose Nelson

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Rose has worked at the Colorado  Alliance of Research Libraries since 2005. She started out as a Systems Librarian and was appointed Assistant Director in 2012. Rose manages Prospector and coordinates the Document Delivery and Catalog Reference meetings. She also is project manager of Gold Rush. Rose was a Technology Consultant for 5 years at the Colorado State Library before she worked for the CO Alliance.   Rose received her MLIS from Emporia State University and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that began in 1974 and was formally incorporated as a non-profit in 1981.  It currently has 14 member libraries and provides services to libraries in Colorado and throughout the United States.

 

Steve Strohl

Steve Strohl

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Stephen Strohl is the Associate Director, Member Services for the MOBIUS Consortium. Steve worked in a variety of special and and academic libraries before spending over a decade with Innovative Interfaces where he worked with libraries of all sizes, types, and many of the largest consortia and multi-type consortia across North America. With MOBIUS Steve is the primary contact with Innovative regarding all functional Integrated Library System (ILS) related matters; he manages MOBIUS’ ever-expanding courier system network and he takes a leadership role in the implementation and training of new and existing members. Steve is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Masters of Arts in Library & Information Science.

MOBIUS, founded in 1998, is a Missouri not-for-profit corporation with 501 (C)(3) tax-exempt status that has grown from 50 founding charter members to 72 members which include 62 academic libraries, 5 public libraries, 4 special libraries, and the Missouri State Library, serving a total of 179 physical branches. MOBIUS manages INN-Reach, a union catalog and resource sharing tool from Innovative Interfaces as well as their Sierra platform, a local integrated library system for 65 of our member libraries.

Martin Garnar

Martin Garnar

Martin Garnar is the head of reference and instruction for the Dayton Memorial Library at Regis University (Denver, CO), where he holds the rank of Professor of Library Science.  Since 2005, he has taught professional principles and ethical issues for the University of Denver’s LIS program.  Martin has been appointed to his 4th consecutive year as the chair of the American Library Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics, is the incoming chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Committee on Professional Values, and has previously served as a member and chair of the ALA and Colorado Intellectual Freedom Committees.  A frequent speaker at state, regional, and national events, Martin’s presentations combine expertise, practical advice, and a healthy dash of humor.

James Hagadorn

James Hagadorn

jamesJames Hagadorn is currently the Tim and Kathryn Ryan Curator of Geology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Although originally hailing from California he has been fortunate to have also lived in Pennsylvania, Montana, Massachusetts and Texas. Everything about “deep time” fascinates him, and he has spent the last twenty years studying modern and ancient environments all over the world.  Much of his research has focused on the latest part of the Precambrian (700-542 million years ago) and the early parts of the Paleozoic (542-450 million years ago), intervals of time that witnessed some of the most profound changes in environments and biota in all of earth history.  Through fieldwork, labwork, and collaboration with academic and citizen scientists, he has studied ancient sedimentary environments, large volcanic deposits, extinct soft-bodied fossils, trace fossils, bizarre microbial structures, and a variety of enigmatic ‘whatsits’.  Although this work contributes to improving our understanding of ancient earth systems, Hagadorn is cognizant of the need to leverage our understanding of ancient earth to better understand future earths.  In particular, how will our earth  change in the future, as a result of human activities?

Clare MacKeigan

Clare MacKeigan

Clare MacKeigan is Chief Operating Officer at Relais International

Bio:
‒ Currently Chief Operating Officer and one of the owners of Relais International
‒ Previously worked for over 15 years in the Document Delivery section of CISTI
‒ Member of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Interoperability Group
‒ Co-editor of ISO 18626, a new standard for ILL transactions
‒ Member of RUSA STARS Vendor Relations Committee

David Whitehair

David Whitehair

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David Whitehair and his group manage many of OCLC’s cataloging and metadata services including OCLC WorldShare Metadata, Connexion, WorldCat Selection, and more. David has been with OCLC for over 20 years. His library career began when he was a freshman at Ohio State University where he worked in the acquisitions department of the library. He received a BS in education from Ohio State University and received an MLS from Kent State University.

David is available to speak on topics related to cataloging efficiencies, the future of cataloging, and the new WorldShare Metadata service.