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Outside of the U.S. Sci/Tech Library Mentors Home

NAME:
Mel DeSart

EMAIL:
desart@u.washington.edu

POSITION/TITLE:
Head, Engineering Library

WORK ADDRESS:
Engineering Library
University of Washington
Box 352170
Seattle, WA 98195-2170

PHONE:
206-685-8369

FAX:
206-543-3305

EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE:
Assistant Engineering Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987-1994; Engineering Librarian, then Coordinator of Science and Engineering Resources and Services, University of Kansas, 1994-2000; Head, Engineering Library, University of Washington, March 2000 - . I'm a member of ACRL/STS and of the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). I regularly attend both the ASEE and ACRL national conferences and often attend ALA Annual and Midwinter. My major current interest is in changing the existing scholarly communication process and in how advocating and facilitating changes to that process will prove beneficial to libraries, their collections, and their clientele. Also interested in integration of information literacy skills into the sci-tech curricula and in marketing of appropriate library collections and services to particular user populations.

TO CONTACT:
Phone or e-mail. Willing to meet either locally or at a conference.

NAME:
Don Frank

EMAIL:
frankd@pdx.edu

POSITION/TITLE:
Assistant Director

WORK ADDRESS:
Millar Library
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon 97207-1151

PHONE:
503- 725-4709

FAX:

EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE:
Was responsible for information and public services at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Was responsible for the Cabot Library at Harvard University. Was responsible for the Science-Engineering Library at University of Arizona. Was responsible for Reference Services at Texas Tech University. Interested in administration, supervision, collection development/management, scholarly communication, reference/information services, instructional activities, and personnel administration.

TO CONTACT:
Phone or e-mail. Willing to meet either locally or at a conference.

NAME:
Kathryn Kjaer

EMAIL:
kkjaer@uci.edu

POSITION/TITLE:
Head of Science Library Reference

WORK ADDRESS:
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine CA 92623-9557

PHONE:
949-824-8521

FAX:
949-824-3114

EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE:
I am currently head of a science reference department with 11 librarians, 6 library assistants, and several student assistants. We serve the faculty, students, and staff in the College of Medicine and the Schools of Engineering, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Information and Computer Science. I am actively involved in the development of our thriving digital reference service and the Libraries' website. I am also Bibliographer for Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy and have over 15 years experience in collection development, faculty liaison, and instruction.

TO CONTACT:
Phone or e-mail. Willing to meet either locally or at a conference.

NAME:
Patricia A. Kreitz

EMAIL:
pkreitz@slac.stanford.edu

POSITION/TITLE:
Director of Technical Information Services

WORK ADDRESS:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, M.S. 82
P.O. Box 4349
Stanford, CA 94309

PHONE:
415-926-4385

FAX:
415-926-4905

EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE:
I currently manage a suite of information services (databases, web, libraries, archives, publications) in a sci/tech high-energy physics academic research institution which is part of Stanford University. Before I was involved in sci/tech, I was head of General Reference Services for the graduate library at U.C. Berkeley where along with management, I did library instruction, reference and did collection development in the social sciences.

TO CONTACT:
Phone or e-mail. Willing to meet either locally or at a conference.

NAME:
Laurel Kristick

EMAIL:
laurel.kristick@orst.edu

POSITION/TITLE:
Physical Sciences Coordinator for Collection Development

WORK ADDRESS:
Oregon State University
121 The Valley Library
Corvallis, OR 97331

PHONE:
541-737-7276

FAX:
541-737-8224

EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE:
Have seven years' experience as a special librarian, working in several aerospace and engineering libraries. Five years experience as an academic reference librarian, specializing in the physical sciences (chemistry, physics, and astronomy). Selector for materials in the physical and general sciences.

TO CONTACT:
E-mail preferred, phone OK. Possibility of conference meeting.

NAME:
Allison Level

EMAIL:
alevel@manta.colostate.edu

POSITION/TITLE:
Agriculture Reference Librarian

WORK ADDRESS:
Colorado State University
Morgan Library
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1019

PHONE:
970-491-3918

FAX:
970-491-5817

EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE:
Twelve years academic library experience with ten in science and technology and two as Head of Reference in a medium academic (non-ARL) library. At CSU I have collection development, reference and instruction responsibilities for agriculture, forestry, and wildlife areas. Current projects include working on an NEH grant with Cornell Univ. for Preservation of Agriculture and Rural Life Literature of Colorado. I am also working on an information literacy program with science faculty and LOTS of collection development projects. I have worked with Blackwell to set up purchase plans and I have chaired a serials assessment task force for our library. I have been active in ACRL sections (STS and IS), including chair and committee member experience. I am also active in USAIN.

TO CONTACT:
Phone or e-mail. Willing to meet either locally or at a conference.

NAME:
Tim McKimmie

EMAIL:
tmckimmi@lib.nmsu.edu

POSITION/TITLE:
Science Reference Librarian

WORK ADDRESS:
University Library Dept. 3475
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0006

PHONE:
505-646-7483

EXPERIENCE/EXPERTISE:
Ten years of reference in a science library of a land grant college. Subject specialties: agriculture and environment.

TO CONTACT:
Phone or e-mail. Willing to meet either locally or at a conference.

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Last updated February 18, 2004