Spring 2003 Meeting
Sponsored in part by WNYLRC and .

• Jean Currie is Executive Director of the South Central Regional Library Council in Ithaca, New York, a position she has held since 1994. As Executive Director, Ms. Currie is responsible for directing one of New York's 3R's multi-type library consortia with 85 members in 14 counties in the south central part of New York State. She received a degree in Library Science from the New Zealand Library School in Wellington, New Zealand and was the 1992 recipient of the Spirit of Librarianship Award, presented by the Academic and Special Libraries Section of the New York State Library Association.
  
  
• Mihoko Hosoi is the HOSTLINE Coordinator and a public services librarian in the Nestlé Library at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, a position she has held since March 2001. Her primary responsibilities include managing HOSTLINE, a fee-based information search and delivery service for the hospitality industry, and providing reference and instruction services for the internal library users at the Cornell Hotel School. Prior to her current position, Ms. Hosoi worked in library technical services as well as in the hotel and airline industries, and she has also managed her own language school in Japan. She earned her MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  

• Michael R. Lavin is the Coordinator of Electronic Collections for the SUNY Buffalo University Libraries. Prior to this, he worked for more than 20 years as a business reference librarian at SUNY Buffalo's Lockwood Library and at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from SUNY Buffalo, an M.B.A. from Canisius College, and an M.L.S. from SUNY Buffalo. He is the author of Business Information: How to Find It, How to Use It (Oryx Press), now in its second edition, and Understanding the Census: A Guide for Marketers, Planners, Grant-Writers, and Other Data Users (Epoch Books). He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship. He has taught a graduate course in "Business Information Sources" at UB's School of Informatics since 1983. Mr. Lavin is the 1992 recipient of ALA's BRASS/Gale Research Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship.

• Ellen Reen joined the TDC in 1998. She has more than 20 years experience as an information and business intelligence professional in a variety of industries. Ms. Reen has supported the research needs of mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, research and development, engineering and marketing functions. Her experience includes directing efforts to organize, manage and disseminate competitive and business intelligence throughout organizations. Ms. Reen has worked for LucasVarity, Varity Corporation, Bell Aerospace Textron and Phillips, Lytle, et al., SUNY at Buffalo, and Canisius College. She holds a BA in history, a Masters Degree in Library Science and is a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.
  
  
• Dorothy Tao, Senior Project Officer, Information Service, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, University at Buffalo. Dorothy has extensive experience in providing reference and other information services in special and academic libraries. At the MCEERIS, where she has also served as Information Specialist and Manager, the long term goal is to apply new technologies to enhance the provision of earthquake engineering and disaster mitigation information to consulting engineers and researchers, the business community, students at all levels, and the lay public. Ms. Tao's presentation will feature the best practices devised by the Information Service to reach out to their clientele, such as E-News, an online newsletter that users can customize to meet their needs and interests; EQNET, a Web portal for earthquake information; and FAQ's, frequently-asked-questions on the Web. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and earned a M. Education from Southern Connecticut State College and an MLS from the University at Buffalo.
  
  
• Melissa Warner, Senior Information Specialist, Bureau Veritas. Ms. Warner has worked at Bureau Veritas, formerly ACTS Testing Labs, for over 6 years. Previously, Melissa worked for SUNY at Buffalo at the Lockwood Library and also, at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. She has an MLS from SUNY at Buffalo.
  
  
• Heather Wilson is a research specialist with IntelliSearch, a professional fee-based research department of the Toronto Public Library. Before joining IntelliSearch in 1997,Ms. Wilson worked as the resource centre manager for Resource Integration Systems, Ltd., an environmental consulting firm. She has also been actually involved in the Special Libraries Association, serving as the Toronto Chapter President in 2000-2001 and is currently serving as the Chapter's nominating chair.

• students and practitioners to network
• students to interact with their peers at the other upstate schools
• prospective employers, supervisors and colleagues to meet the next generation of special librarians

Students interested in participating in the Showcase must register by March 25.