Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Round Table Board: 2011-2012

President (2011 - 2012)

Vicky Crone
Head, Continuing Resources Unit
National Agricultural Library
Continuing Resources Unit Room 002
10301 Baltimore Avenue
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
Phone: (301) 504-5210
Fax: (301) 504-5243
Email: vlcrone@gmail.com

Bio:  Vicky Crone has worked as a Federal librarian for more than 17 years, primarily in technical services. She currently is the Head of the Continuing Resources Unit of the Acquisitions and Collection Development Branch at the National Agricultural Library, where she also serves on the Health and Safety committee, the Disaster Response for Collections committee, the AGRICOLA Strategy committee, and the Collection Development Committee.

Prior to working at NAL, Vicky was an Acquisitions Librarian for the Congressional Research Service, where she purchased monographs for use by CRS analysts, managed the Government Documents procurements for CRS, and oversaw the binding of government documents for the main reading room at the Library of Congress as well as CRS. Before joining CRS, Vicky served in Department of Defense libraries including the Air Force Historical Studies Office, the Naval Research Laboratory, and McChord and Laughlin Air Force bases.

Vicky served as the FEDLINK Advisory Council recording secretary from 2001 – 2007, and on the  FLICC Human Resources Working Group from 2007 – 2010. She has served on the FLICC Preservation and Digitization Working Group since 2005.   Vicky has a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech and a Master of Librarianship from the University of Washington.

Vice-President/President-Elect (2012 - 2013)

Anne Harrison
Library of Congress, FLICC/FEDLINK
101 Independence Ave. SE  LA217
Washington, DC  20540-4935
Phone: (202) 707-4834
Email: anha@loc.gov

Bio: Anne Harrison has been a Network Program Specialist for FEDLINK, a program of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee at the Library of Congress, since 2000.  She supports the federal library community in the areas of preservation, digitization, cataloging, and library automation by administering FEDLINK contracts and serving as liaison to FLICC working groups.

Before arriving at the Library of Congress, Ms. Harrison held positions as a systems analyst at the Department of Labor, a member services librarian at the CAPCON Library Network where she  provided cataloging and library automation support for non-federal libraries in the Mid-Atlantic region, and a cataloging librarian at Georgetown University.

Ms. Harrison holds a B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Kansas and M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College.  In 2006 she attended the Preservation Management Institute certificate program at Rutgers University. Bio:  

Federal Director (2011 - 2013)

Kim (Lyall) Schultz, MLS
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (2008 - 2011)
kim.lyall@gmail.com

Bio: Kim Lyall received her BA in History from Washington College in May 2005 and her MLS from the University of Maryland College Park in May 2008.  While completing her MLS Kim worked as a Student Library Technician at the National Archives Library and Information Center and as an intern at the Department of Justice Main Law Library.  She currently works as an Outreach Specialist at the NASA Center for AeroSpace Information, performing a variety of duties centered around outreach to the NASA STI community.

Kim became active in FAFLRT as a New Members Round Table liaison to FAFLRT, working to connect new ALA members and librarians to the Federal library community.  She also acts as Group Administrator for the Careers in Federal Libraries Google Group which serves to connect job seekers with current federal librarians and information managers.   Kim recently developed an online resume review service  to serve the Careers in Federal Libraries Google Group community.  More information about this service can be found here: http://www.lexisnexis.com/tsg/gov/Best_Practices_2009.pdf.

Kim is an active member in the Special Libraries Association having just presented "Federal Government Information Goes Social? Inspiration from Change.gov" at the Contributed Papers session at the 2009 SLA Annual conference in Washington DC.  Kim's paper can be downloaded here: www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2009/FedgovInfoGoesSocial.pdf.

Armed Forces Director (2011 - 2013)

Erica Stiner
MWR Library Bldg. 160 CODE N6
Naval Station
2601E Paul Jones St.
Great Lakes IL 60088
Phone: (847) 688-4617
Email: estin01s@gmail.com

Bio: Erica Stiner is a Library Technician at the Great Lakes Naval Station MWR Library in Great Lakes, Illinois. When not working, Erica keeps busy as a Master of Library and Information Science student through the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign online program. Erica looks forward to graduation in December 2009 and finding a position as a librarian. She returns to library work after receiving a Master of Social Work and serving as an Americorps VISTA in Clarkson College's Office of Service-Learning and Community Service, Omaha, Nebraska.

Armed Forces Director (2011-2013)

Lucille M. Rosa
Head, Tech Services
Eccles Library
Naval War College
686 Cushing Road
Newport, RI 02841-1207
Phone: (401) 841-6492
DSN: 841-6492
E-mail: rosal@usnwc.edu

Federal Director (2010 - 2012)

Angelique Simmons
Librarian
USAG Hohenfels - MWR Library
Unit 28216
APO AE  09173
CIV:  (49) 09472-83-1740
DSN:  314-466-1740
Angelique.Simmons@gmail.com
angelique.d.simmons@us.army.mil

Secretary (2011 - 2013)

Kathleen Hanselmann
Chief Librarian
Presidio of Monterey
543 Lawton Rd., Suite 617a
Montery, CA 93944-3214
(831) 242-5140
DSN (314) 768-5140

Kathleen Hanselmann is Chief Librarian for the Presidio of Montery in Monterey, California. She was the Library Director of RAF Lakenheath Base Library located in the United Kingdom from 2007 - 2012, where she won 2010 Air Force Library of The Year.   She has directed other Air Force Base Libraries, McGuire AFB, Air Force Academy Base Library, Nellis AFB since 2001.  Before that she worked at North Las Vegas Library as a Reference Librarian and Washoe County Library System as a Children’s Librarian. 
 
Prior experience includes:  working for a law firm in Dallas, Texas Instruments as the Semiconductor Librarian.   She developed a Library Services business for the University of Texas at Dallas before going to Turkey to work at an isolated military library.   When the base was closed in the run up to the first Gulf War, Kathleen worked for the Turkish Institute of Statistics in Ankara, Turkey for two years.
 
She moved to Germany in 1992 and worked at Patch Barracks, an Army Library in Stuttgart and for Radio Free Europe in Munich.   Kathleen has been active in ALA and SLA since 1980 and served on the ALA Sirsi-Dynix Award Committee for Improving Library Workers’ Salaries and Status.

Kathleen Hanselmann received her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981, her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Northern Illinois University in 1972.
 

Treasurer (2011 - 2013)

Jane Killian
Supervisory Librarian
FBI Laboratory Library
2501 Investigation Parkway
Quantico, VA  22135
(703) 632-8368
jane.killian@ic.fbi.gov

Bio:  Jane Killian currently serves as the Supervisory Librarian in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Laboratory Library and has since 2006.  Jane began employment in the FBI in 1998 as the Public Services Librarian for the FBI’s Academy Library and began its bibliographic instructional program as an accredited class through the University of Virginia Continuing Education Program.  As a UVA adjunct instructor, Jane has instructed domestic and international executive and upper management law enforcement personnel.

Before federal service, Jane was the circulation and Interlibrary Loan Librarian at Berry College Memorial Library in Rome, Georgia.  Prior to graduation as an MSLIS student at the University of Kentucky, Jane worked in the King Reference Library and the Geological Sciences Library.

Jane has been a member of the FAFLRT and ACRL groups of the American Library Association, the Special Library Association, the Georgia Library Association, and the Intelligient Community Librarian’s Consortium.  Her undergraduate degree is in journalism from the University of Georgia.

Past President

Karl Debus-Lopez
Chief, U.S. General Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave SE
Washington, DC 20540-4330
Email: kdeb@loc.gov

Bio: Karl Debus-López has worked in a broad range of management positions in technical services with a focus on acquisitions and collection development for his nineteen year career as a librarian.  He currently serves as the Chief of the newly formed U.S. General Division within the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate at the Library of Congress.  The U.S. General Division selects, catalogs, and processes Copyright and CIP monographs and serials and manages the Dewey Decimal Classification system operations for the library.  Previous to his work at the Library of Congress, Karl worked at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) as the Head of the Acquisitions and Collection Development Branch and Chief Collection Development Officer for the Library.  At NAL, he was instrumental in the creation of NAL's new digital repository, AgSpace, and has implemented a number of time and cost savings functions within the Technical Services Division including rapid cataloging services and electronic ordering and invoicing functionality between NAL's principal vendors and Ex Libris/Voyager. 

Prior to working at NAL, Karl served as Associate University Librarian for Collections and Technical Services at Georgetown University, managing all technical services and collection development operations.  He also served as Acting Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Georgetown University and was a key library leader who developed a new library for Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar.  In addition to his employment at NAL and Georgetown, Karl has been employed as the Head of the Acquisitions and Serials Department at the University of Wisconsin--Madison where he assisted in a significant reorganization of the library's Technical Services Division.  He has also served as Head of the Technical Services Office at the Executive Office of the President Library, Head of Monographic Acquisitions at NAL, and Acquisitions Librarian in the Serial Records Section at the National Library of Medicine.  He has received many awards for job performance and special projects.  Karl was elected to the position of Chair of the ALCTS Acquisitions Section from 2005 to 2006 and served on the ALCTS Board during that time.  He has a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University, a Master's in Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a Master's in Library Science from the University of Maryland.