Submitted by Mary K. Taylor
Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Megan Barkelar is the Consumer Health Librarian at the Health Resource Center of Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in her home town of Lacrosse, WI. She provides library services to patients, staff, and community members. She has an undergraduate degree in Information Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and received her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006. Her hobbies include photography.
Caroline Conlon is the Library Director of the Medical Library & College of Nursing Library at St. Anthony Medical Center in DeKalb, IL, where she "manage[s] and participate[s] in the daily operations of these two libraries." She is responsible for strategic long-term planning. She adds, "I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time. I was hired in February as the Information Services Librarian for Saint Anthony College of Nursing. I was also in my last semester of completing my master’s degree. The director who hired me left in May due to her husband relocating, and I was offered her job. I graduated and became director of two libraries all in one week’s time." Caroline received her bachelor's in Art History from the University of Illinois-Chicago and her MLS from the University of Illinois. She is a native of Elmhurst, IL.
Melissa Rethlefsen is the Education Technology Librarian at the Learning Resource Center at the Mayo Clinic Libraries of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She works in both the Learning Resource Center and the Mayo Clinic Medical School library. Her duties include collection development, instruction, tutorial and other web development, reference, and education technology support for medical students and medical school faculty. Melissa's professional interests include social software, public health, and bibliometrics. This native of Winona, MN received her undergraduate degree in English and History from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She received her MLS from the University of North Texas in 2004.