Martha Bedard was appointed Dean of the University Libraries at the University of New Mexico (UNM) on August 1, 2007. Since arriving at UNM she has served on the Diversity Steering Committee, the New Mexico Consortium of Academic Libraries’ Legislative Committee and the Association of Academic Research Libraries of New Mexico.
She has led the library leadership through a strategic priorities planning session and is now embarked on an ambitious plan to refocus library resources toward more electronic content and services in order to meet the needs of the current generation of students.
Professor Bedard came to UNM from Texas A&M University (TAMU), the 5th largest public university in the U.S. where she served in various leadership roles since 2000 including Associate Dean for Information and Collection Services. Her previous positions at TAMU included Associate Dean and Director of the Medical Sciences Library, Associate Dean for Advanced Studies, and Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives. Prior to TAMU her positions included Associate Director for Library Services, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library, as well as medical library directorships at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh NC, the Medical Center of Central Massachusetts in Worcester MA, and Lowell General Hospital in Lowell MA.
Professor Bedard received a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, from Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg MA, and a Master of Science in Library Science from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston MA. She was tenured as a Full Professor of Library Science at TAMU, and holds that rank now at UNM. She completed a 2 year intensive course of study as an Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellow, and was the holder of the Lila B. King endowed Professorship. She is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, a fully credentialed Health Sciences Librarian, and has a long record of service on numerous library and university committees.
Her professional service focuses on research, presenting and consulting on library management issues such as single point of service, service models for supporting distance education, planning for institutional effectiveness, and the integration of informatics into the curriculum. She is the Principal Investigator for a $400,000 Institute of Museum and Library Services recruitment grant. She is active in the Association of Research Library currently serving on the Scholarly Communications Committee and has many years of national involvement in the Medical Library Association, having served recently as Chair of the Continuing Education Committee, and in the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries as Chair of the Program Committee. Regionally, she is the immediate past Chair of the Board for the South Central Academic Medical Library Directors and just completed service on the Regional Advisory Council for the National Network/National Library of Medicine South Central Region.
Susan C. Awe, Director of Outreach and Research for Management and Social SciencesSusan C. Awe is the Director of Outreach and Research for Management and Social Sciences and an Associate Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico. She has over thirty years of library experience in academic, public, and special libraries. Sue received her Bachelor of Arts in French and English and her Master of Library Science from the University of Wisconsin. She has been a reference librarian for many years and has held management positions in public and academic public service areas. She is an active member of the American Library Association (ALA) and its Reference and User Services section, serving on Booklist’s Reference Book Bulletin’s editorial board for two terms and two terms on the ALA Publications Committee, and she is also active in the Academic Business Library Directors group.
She is the author of two books, The Entrepreneur’s Information Sourcebook and Going Global. She has published many articles and chapters in books, and is the editor of The ARBA Guide to Subject Encyclopedias and Dictionaries (2nd edition). Sue has taught workshops on finding and using small business resources for state and federal agencies in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
Nancy K. Dennis is the Associate Dean of Facilities and Access Services for the University Libraries and an Associate Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico.
She has over twenty-five years of professional librarian experience - fifteen years in academic libraries and ten years in public libraries. Nancy received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Texas Tech University, a Masters of Library and Information Science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a Masters of Management Information Systems from West Coast University in Los Angeles. She has held management positions in technical services and library information technology departments in both public and academic libraries.
She is the author of several articles and has been the project manager and principal investigator for two large National Endowment for the Humanities grants that resulted in the creation of the Online Archive of New Mexico and the newly forming Rocky Mountain Online Archive. She has given numerous workshops and presentations within New Mexico, the region and to national audiences. Nancy’s research and consulting interests include library facility management, digitization and disaster preparedness and recovery.
She is a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and the New Mexico Library Association. As a native New Mexican and professional librarian, Nancy is proud to be of service to the UNM community and New Mexico libraries.
Steven R. Harris is the Director of Collections and Acquisitions Services for the University Libraries and an Associate Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico.
He has worked in libraries for over twenty-five years, including 17 years as a professional librarian. Prior to arriving at UNM in September 2008, Steven was Collection Development and Management Librarian at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. He has also served as humanities reference or English literature librarian at Texas A&M, Louisiana State University, and the University of Tennessee.
He has authored numerous articles about intellectual freedom, literature librarianship, and social media. He is co-author of the books Censorship of Expression in the 1980s: A Statistical Survey (1994) and Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment (2009).
Steven is interested in how new technologies are affecting libraries. He blogs about social media and library collections at Collections 2.0: http://collections2point0.wordpress.com.
Dale S. Hendrickson, Director of Library Information Technology for the University Libraries.
Dale has worked in information technology his whole professional career. Dale received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science before earning his Masters in Business Administration with emphasis is Management Information Systems at UNM. He began his career at Sandia National Laboratories and later worked for Oracle Corp. as a database administrator on major system implementations for the public and private sector in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to joining UNM and the University Libraries in 2004, he worked for Motorola in California managing enterprise applications for a startup venture.
Michael T. Kelly, Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources, Special Collections, the Center for Southwest Research and Special CollectionsMichael T. Kelly is the Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources, Special Collections, the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collection and Associate Professor of Librarianship at the University Of New Mexico University Libraries. Mike has 30 years of professional archival experience working in museums, historical societies, and universities.
He received his BA in history from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, his Master of Arts in History from Iowa State University, and him Master of Arts in Library Science from the University of Denver. His professional experiences include the directorship of the Harold McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum in Cody, Wyoming and Curator of Special Collections at Wichita State University.
He has authored several articles, book chapters, and served as co-author and photo editor for two textbooks. He has been the principal investigator for grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Historical Records Publications Commission. He is currently working on a major digitization project to celebrate the centennial of New Mexico statehood.
Dena is the Director of Outreach and Research Services at the Fine Arts & Design Library. She also coordinates library outreach to graduate and professional students and serves as subject librarian for Theatre and Dance. She has a strong personal interest in dance and has taken class in many forms of dance, including ballet, modern, African, jazz, tap, flamenco and Middle Eastern.
For ten years, she served as a reference librarian in the Centennial Science and Engineering Library. She took several Native American music classes which led her to research in Native Alaska dance. She presented papers at the congress on Research in Dance in New York City in 2001, and at the International Dance Conference in Taipei, Taiwan in 2004. Recent research in cultural meanings in contemporary quilts and quilt art has been presented at the American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association joint meetings in Albuquerque.
Rebecca Lubas, Director of Cataloging and Discovery ServicesRebecca L. Lubas is Director, Cataloging & Discovery Services at the University of New Mexico Libraries, where she coordinates a group of catalogers working in many formats. Before coming to New Mexico in 2008, Rebecca was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries as Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services and Special Formats Cataloger.
As Special Formats Cataloging Librarian at MIT, Rebecca was responsible for original cataloging of monographic AV resources at MIT Libraries, and the training of copy catalogers in AV formats. Rebecca was a founding member of MIT Libraries’ Metadata Services Unit. Prior to her time at MIT, Rebecca was Serials Cataloger and Audiovisual Cataloger at Ball State University.
Rebecca was President of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers in 2005, and has spoken at ALA Discussion Groups. She was a featured speaker at Library Week in Kosovo in 2006. Rebecca has an MA in English Literature from Ball State, an MLIS from Louisiana State University, and a BA from the University of Notre Dame.
William Michener. Director of e-Science InitiativesWilliam Michener is Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico. He has a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the University of South Carolina and has published extensively in the marine, ecological, and information sciences. During the past decade he has directed several large interdisciplinary research programs and cyberinfrastructure projects including the NSF Biocomplexity Program, the Development Program for the NSF-funded Long-Term Ecological Research Network, and numerous cyberinfrastructure projects that focus on developing information technologies for the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
He currently directs the New Mexico DoE and NSF EPSCoR Programs and the DataONE project—an NSF initiative designed to preserve and promote the use of biological, ecological, and environmental data. He is especially passionate about changing the scientific and academic cultures so that data are recognized and treated as important products of the scientific enterprise—essentially equivalent to publications in their potential value to science and society.
Teresa Y Neely, Director of Access ServicesTeresa Y. Neely, Ph.D., is Director, Access Services, for the University Libraries and an Associate Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico. Teresa holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from South Carolina State College (now University), and received her M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees (Library and Information Science) from the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.
Teresa’s research and scholarly interests include diversity, information literacy, instruction, staff training and development, reference services, and management issues in academic libraries including disaster recovery and physical collection maintenance, and she has published and edited several books and multiple articles and book chapters. In 2007, she completed a White Paper on Diversity commissioned by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Executive Board, co-authored with Dr. Lorna Peterson (State University of New York at Buffalo) titled “Achieving Racial and Ethnic Diversity among Academic and Research Librarians: The Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of Librarians of Color;” and is currently under contract to complete two book-length projects, one tentatively titled Deconstructing 2PAC: The Lyrical Poetry of Tupac A. Shakur (Scarecrow Press, Inc.); and one under contract with ALA Editions with library colleagues at the University of New Mexico tentatively titled, How to Stay Afloat in the Academic Library Job Pool.
Teresa is a member of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries. She is also a consultant for information literacy assessment and will be completing training as a mediator in the UNM Faculty Dispute Resolution Group in September 2009.
Johann van Reene, Associate Dean for Research, Science and International InitiativesJohann has more than 55 publications, including four Monographs and Proceedings and six Chapters in books. Recent research and grant topics include: Enhancing communication and knowledge discovery among KARST scientists, collaborative work-spaces for analyzing and annotating scientific data sets, the future of science and technology collection development; the benefits of and systems providing open access, Web-based enabling of education and research, distributed learning objects and metadata harvesting, and a 12 year project on consortial support for digital library initiatives and information technology manpower development in Latin America (Director of Digital Library Linkages for the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium). He is a board member (seven years as chairman) of the Alliance for Information Science and Technology Innovation. He currently is PI/co-PI on three grants, the Latin American Knowledge Harvester, LA-ENERGAIA: Energy Policy, Regulation, and Dialogue in Latin America, and IDEC: the Imagery Data Extraction Collaborative.
Frances C. Wilkinson, Deputy DeanFrances C. Wilkinson is the Deputy Dean of University Libraries and a Professor of Librarianship at the University of New Mexico. She has over twenty-five years of academic library experience.She has twice served as Interim Dean for University Libraries.
Fran received her Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, in Communication and her Master of Public Administration from the University of New Mexico; she is currently working toward a doctorate in Educational Leadership at UNM. She received her Master of Library Science from the University of Arizona. A member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and a past president and treasurer of the UNM chapter, she is also a member of the Pi Alpha Alpha (Public Administration) Honor Society.
She is the author of four books and over fifty articles, chapters, columns, and reports; she has given numerous workshops and papers; and she has served as a column editor for a peer-reviewed professional journal and on several national editorial boards. Fran’s research and consulting interests include leadership, management, competitive procurement, disaster preparedness and recovery, acquisitions, and computer ergonomics.
She is active in the American Library Association (ALA) and the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and received the prestigious ALA-ALCTS Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award in 2000. Fran is a member of the New Mexico Library Association, New Mexico Association of Research Libraries, and the Albuquerque/Santa Fe/Los Alamos Equal Employment Opportunity Council. She is also a mediator with UNM’s Faculty Dispute Resolution group. Fran is or has been a member, chair, or elected officer on numerous university, state, and national committees and advisory boards.