Submitted by Mary K. Taylor
Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Margaret Chappell is Reference/ILL Librarian at Kettering Medical Center, OH. Her main responsibilities include literature searches, article requests, and interlibrary loans. Margaret originally worked in public libraries, stating “After 12 years in public libraries, I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to make the switch to a hospital library setting in 2005.” She has an undergraduate degree from the Ohio State University and is a 2002 graduate of Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science. Margaret’s home town is Wintersville, OH. Her hobbies and interests include music, movies, and sports, “especially Ohio State football.”
Brenda Fay is a librarian at the Hurwitz Medical Library, Aurora Sinai Medical Center, in Milwaukee, WI. She performs research for staff, patients, and families, orders medical and consumer health materials, and markets library services to the hospital and the public. She also serves on two Planetree Work Teams: Spirituality, and Patient Education and Information. Brenda states, “I’m really excited about bringing in more consumer health materials and marketing those to our community. Health and wellness information doesn’t have to be complicated or boring!” She received both her B.A. in Biological Aspects of Conservation and her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This Menominee Falls, WI native was a children’s librarian for five and a half years before taking her current job, and states that while she misses “the frenzied activity of storytime, hugs from the kids, and decorating for summer reading programs,” she believes that her research, computer, people, and personal skills can be put to greater use as a medical librarian. Brenda adds, “My two favorite things are traveling and reading. Recently I’ve been to Japan and China and would like to go to Vietnam or Thailand in 2007 or 2008, although I might be able to hold out for MLA in Hawaii in 2009! My favorite reads are historical mysteries. Some authors on my bookshelves are Sujata Massey, Diana Gabaldon, Peter Tremayne, Anne Perry, Ellis Peters, Elizabeth Peters, and Fiona Buckley…I could go on but I won’t. I also play fiddle in the Irish traditional style. Milwaukee is a great place for Irish culture, events and music!”
Anna Fleming is Acquisitions Librarian at Galter Health Sciences Library of Northwestern University. She purchases materials in all formats for the library, serves on the collection management team, and coordinates licensing of electronic resources. She is particularly interested in licensing trends. Before starting her current position, she worked at the University of Chicago Press in Library Relations Marketing and in Custom Licensing. She states this enabled her to learn “learned much about the complicated terrain of licensing scholarly content from that glimpse into the publisher side of the business.” A native of Venice Beach, CA, she received a B.A. in English & American literature from the University of California, San Diego. Anna is a 1999 graduate of the School of Information at the University of Washington.
Nancy Fouts is Medical Library/CME Assistant at Provena Health in Urbana and Danville, IL, working with the medical librarian and the CME coordinators. She attended library school at Kent State University. Her home town is Champaign, IL.
Lisa McGuire is an assistant librarian in the Reference and Instructional unit of the University of Minnesota's Bio-Medical Library in her hometown of Minneapolis, MN. She is liaison to the School of Dentistry, School of Public Health, and the Center for Women's Health. Lisa's professional interests include digital reference services. She has an undergraduate degree in art history, and is a 1999 graduate of Dominican University's MLIS program. Her interests embrace gardening, cooking, and travel.
Stevo Roksandic is Director of the Mount Carmel Health Sciences Library in Columbus, OH, a part of the Mount Carmel Health System. He is responsible for strategic planning, operations, budgeting, and staffing of the library, which is a department within the Mount Carmel College of Nursing and is also responsible for Graduate Medical Education. His professional interests include knowledge management, use of innovative technology in library operations and networking, and library management. He states that he is “very glad that I have opportunity to apply my extensive customer service experience, my business knowledge, leadership skills and continuous learning commitment with my library experience in an academic and professional health care organization.” Stevo will graduate from Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science in the spring of 2008. He has an MBA from Franklin University, which is located in his home town of Columbus, OH. His personal interests include traveling, movies, music, and cooking. He adds, “I have traveled around the world 3 times and I am fluent in five languages.”