Harvey Brewster

Harvey Brewster, AFMC OMB Circular A-76 Program Manager and AFMC Manpower and Quality Wartime, FORSIZE and Manpower Requirements Team Leader Mr Brewster spent 19 years in the Air Force as an Enlisted Member and 17 years in the Civil Service. He has worked 26 years in the Manpower and Quality Career Field. He has been the AFMC A-76 Program Manger for 14 years and has worked FORSIZE Wartime Requirements for over 24 years. While in the Military received the Air Force Commendation Medal (w/2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Air Force Meritorious Medal w/2 Oak Leaf Clusters; Selected as Airman of the Quarter (1978 and 1980), Air Force Maintenance, Supply and Munitions Functional Manpower Office; Selected as Air Force Materiel Command Manpower and Quality Civilian of the Year (1996); Selected as Air Force Manpower and Quality Civilian of the Year (1996).

Bonnie C. Carroll

Ms. Carroll is President of Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa), an information resource management company whose mission is to support government and industry in managing information as a strategic resource. She has participated in an assessment of STI in the U.S. for the National Science Foundation, the development of a topography of STI systems for the Library of Congress, and the development of a system to provide input to the DOE's Energy Science and Technology Database. She recently completed a study of how to simplify the record structure for the International Nuclear Information System's Database and a project to develop a reference catalog of Internet resources in area studies. She is consultant to foreign and international organizations, including the Kingdom of Jordan, UNESCO, and the International Council for Scientific Information (ICSTI). In 1985, Ms. Carroll established an Internet Division of IIa to assist business and industry to effectively use the newly emerging network technologies. Ms. Carroll worked at the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information as Director of Program Development and International Activities and Deputy and Acting Assistant Manager for Information Services and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as Information Center Coordinator, Staff of Program Planning and Analysis, as well as Information Specialist and Librarian. Her professional career began as a reference librarian at Cornell University. Ms. Carroll has a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University.

Corilee Christou

Corilee Christou, Director of International Products for LEXIS-NEXIS, is responsible for support of product acquisition, design and interface development for non-US data. Prior to this, she served as the Director of Corporate Librarian Relations, developing marketing, support, and new products for LEXIS-NEXIS’ corporate librarian customers. She also managed the Information Professional Support Group, field based former librarians who help LEXIS-NEXIS’ librarian customers use the LEXIS-NEXIS services more efficiently. In this role, she developed several workshops geared at marketing the information center and creating value propositions for upper management. Corilee has been with LEXIS-NEXIS for fifteen years, during which she has held several management positions. Prior to coming to LEXIS-NEXIS, Corilee worked in several corporate and academic libraries in the Boston area. An active member of the Special Libraries Association, Corilee has held numerous positions with SLA including Marketing Chair, Library Management Division. She received her MLS from Simmons College in Boston and a BA from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

David C. Darkow

David C. Darkow is owner and instructor for Quail Hollow services. He specializes in teaching Pre-Retirement Planning seminars and seminars on other benefit issues. He has taught over two hundred classes for the Office of Personnel Management and the USDA Graduate School. He has taught for dozens of different federal agencies at their own request. He received his academic training from the University of Akron (BA) and his graduate school training at the University of Michigan. During his federal career he completed over 27 post graduate classes in a variety of business, management and social work related fields. He worked in numerous management positions for the Social Security Administration and took an early Retirement in January 1989. He then taught Social Work courses at Cedarville College before resuming benefit seminars in 1991. David was selected by the USDA Graduate School from approximately 1000 faculty members to receive one of the ten "1995 Faculty Excellence Awards". He is the most requested instructor in his field in the Mid-West and his reputation has spread from coast to coast. He is also a member of the following professional organizations: International Society of Retirement Planners; American Association of Retired Persons; National Association of Retired Federal Employees; Chicago Region Social Security Management association (Retired); and the National Social Security Management Association (Retired).

Marsha Dreier

Marsha Dreier - Acting Chief, Technical Library, Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, PL/TL. Ms. Dreier has over seventeen years of library experience and has been a USAF Librarian since 1988. She has brought networking and automation expertise to the Library from Air Combat Command, where she was also on the Automation Steering Committee. At Phillips Lab she has been instrumental in the system upgrade for the Phillips Lab Optical Imaging Program as well as actively involved in the American Libraries Association (ALA) and the Special Libraries Association (SLA). She is a past president of AFLRT (Air Force Libraries Roundtable) within ALA. She also served the State of New Mexico on their Automation Committee and has acted in an advisory capacity for all the state libraries. She received her Masters degree in Library Science from the University of Arizona.

Annette Gohlke

Annette Gohlke is president and co-owner of Library Benchmarking International (LBI), a small publishing training and consulting firm dedicated to helping librarians achieve excellence in their libraries. Annette became active in LBI in January 1996 after a long and successful career as a federal librarian. She has over 31 years experience directing military school, general, and technical libraries. Her specialties include marketing, acquisitions, financial management, team building, and using technology to streamline and improve processes. She strongly believes in the value of libraries in peoples lives and spent her career improving customer service and reengineering library operations to make them more effective and efficient and gaining outstanding support for library services. Always known as a strong advocate for libraries, Annette is now putting her knowledge and experience to work helping other library staffs achieve excellence through her bi-monthly newsletter on library benchmarking and her workshops.

Dora Grimes

Mrs. Grimes is currently Chief, Library Contract Operations Branch, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Central Library in Silver Spring, MD. In addition to overseeing the library functions performed by both federal and contract staff, she manages the Collection Development, Rare Books, and technical processing areas. From 1988 to 1991, she was the Database Manager at the National Technical Information Service, and has been a Network Librarian at FEDLINK/Library of Congress from 1981 through 1987. Doria was elected President of the District of Columbia Library Association in 1989; and President of the Federal Librarians Round Table of the American Library Association in 1988. She currently serves as a Federal representative to the White House Conference on Library and Information Services Task Force. Mrs. Grimes received her M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and her B.A. from the University of Delaware.

Douglas B. Hansen

Doug Hansen is the Director for Installations Requirements and Management within the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Industrial Affairs and Installations). He is responsible for stewardship of the Department of Defense's military base structure. Installations is focused on achieving three objectives: (1) supporting military readiness and quality of life with sufficient high-quality facilities; (2) appropriately sizing the domestic and overseas base structures; and (3) improving installation management in the face of changing requirements, while meeting energy and environmental mandates. Doug was the Principal Director for Installations under the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations) before assuming his current position in November of 1996. Prior to that service, Doug was Director, Base Closure and Utilization, within the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1989 to 1995; and he was Executive Secretary and Director of Research for the 1988 Defense Secretary's Commission on Base Realignment and Closure. Doug's other government service includes four years as Director for Installation Services in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he was responsible for quality service contracting and for the Department of Defense's implementation of OMB Circular !-76 (The Commercial Activities Program). Before joining the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Doug was the Marine Corp's Commercial Activities Program Manager for over three years. Doug began his government service as a statistician with the Navy's Military Sealift Command. Doug has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Statistics from Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, and a Masters Degree from the American University, Washington, D.C., in Public Financial Management. Doug has also completed the Senior Managers in Government Program at Harvard University. Doug is a member of the American Society of Military Comptrollers and the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association.

Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly is head of the Production Support Team of the Intelink Management Office's Information Management Directorate. He is currently the leader of the Intelink metadata effort and has recently started the Intelink Advanced Systems Interoperability Group. Mr. Kelly was previously a Senior Technical Officer and an Information Services Specialist with the Defense Intelligence Agency. Prior to coming to DIA in 1987, Mr. Kelly was a cataloger at Georgetown University for nine years. Mr. Kelly has served as chair of the Potomac Technial Processing Librarians and co-chair of the Intelligence Community Librarians' Committee. He has a degree in Russian Language and Literature from the College of Wooster, an MLS from Kent State University, and an M.S. in Accounting from Georgetown University. He is most interested in systems interoperability in the Intelligence Community. He maintains an internationally-known Web page on Z39.50 (www.markkelly.com/z3950) and well as a home page (www.markkelly.com).

Bonnie Klein

Bonnie Klein is Program Manager for Gray Literature and Copyrighted Information in the Collections Division, Acquisitions Branch, at the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Ft. Belvoir, VA. Since arriving at DTIC in 1992, Ms. Klein has held a variety of positions, including Non-Print Product Program Manager, Acting Chief of the Cataloging Branch, and Chief of the Special Programs Branch, User Services Division. Prior to coming to DTIC, Ms. Klein had 16 years of service as an Administrative Librarian with the U.S. Army Library Program, working in Hohenfels and Heidelberg, Germany, for the U.S. Army Library Program Europe (USAREUR) and in Uijonbu, South Korea, for U.S. 8th Army. Ms. Klein holds both a BA in Russian Language and Area Studies and a MLS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and also a M.S.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Jolaine Lamb

Ms. Lamb is currently Chief Librarian of the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) Technical Library and AFFTC STINFO, Edwards AFB, CA. She received her B.A. Degree from Chapman University and a M.L.S. in Library Science from the University of California at Los Angeles, CA. Ms. Lamb has served as a Librarian with the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force in general, academic, and technical libraries. She is a member of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the American Library Association (ALA).

A.M. Lindsey

A.M. Lindsey is a training and development specialist at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Since 1988, she has developed, delivered, and evaluated training on various environment, safety, and health topics, served as an organizer and facilitator for public outreach workshops, and conducted regulatory and performance needs analysis. Her current projects include development of a self-assessment program for training, web pages for training offices, competency-based training programs for the Department of Energy, and a course for the Department of Defense Office of Scientific andTechnical Information Policy, How to Reduce Information Anxiety: Marking DoD Technical Documents for Distribution. Ms. Lindsey holds a Master's Degree in Human Resource Development from the University of Tennessee.

Deborah Muldoon

Captain Deborah Muldoon is an Acquisition Attorney for the Operations Division of the Directorate of Contract Law at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. She was stationed at Wright-Patterson in July of 1995 after serving as an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate at Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA for 2 1/2 years. In the Operations Division, Captain Muldoon has encountered all facets of contract formation, to include advising on the largest A-76 study ever undertaken by Aeronautical Systems Center. Captain Muldoon received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics in 1989 from Syracuse University and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force on 15 May 1989. She then received an educational delay of her active duty commitment to attend law school at Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts. She received her Juris Doctor degree in 1992. Captain Muldoon performed an ROTC legal internship during the summer of 1991 at Electronic Systems Division (ESD), Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. She entered active duty in October 1992 and was assigned as an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.

Pat L. Powell

Ms. Powell has 20 years experience in administration and information services in state and federal government as well as small business program and contract management. Her responsibilities at IIa include interaction with senior level information officials in federal agencies and businesses. She is involved in developing all programmatic activities relating to information projects performed by IIa including reference and research work through traditional and electronic sources. In recent months, her oversight and management responsibilities for IIa's Information Services Division has carried her to taking the lead in developing a new niche for the company in managing libraries on Air Force Bases across the country and she is leading the transition from government to contractor management at Cannon AFB Library, Clovis, NM, and Eglin AFB Library, Ft. Walton Beach, FL. Ms. Powell has managed major contracts and projects for small businesses and state government, and managed federally-funded programs that included preparation of reporting requirements as well as administration and oversight of all contract requirements. She has managed programmatic, technical, and support staff in government, engineering, educational, and service organizations and she has in-depth experience in contract administration including budgetary and financial management, technical editing and proposal writing, marketing, public relations, and personnel management. Ms. Powell served as Commissioner of the New Mexico State Library System making policy decisions regarding programmatic, budgetary matters, and development of an Affirmative Action Statement for the Library. Ms. Powell has a master's degree in Information Science and a bachelor's degree in English and Business Administration.

Carol Ramkey

Carol has a BA in Sociology/Anthropology from Wilson College, PA and an MLN from Emory University in Atlanta. She worked in corporate (Georgia Power Co.) and academic (Shepherd College and Salisbury State) libraries prior to beginning her career as an Army/DoD Librarian. Carol began working for the Army as an Intern at the Army's Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe and has been a Reference and Administrative Librarian for the Army at Fort Leavenworth and in Korea (Camp Red Cloud) and Germany (Hanau). She was the Chief of Army Studies and Military Documents at the Pentagon Library prior to coming to DTIC in September 1996. At DTIC, Carol is the Branch Chief for Reference and Retrieval Services under the User Services Division. Her staff is responsible for preparing the demand bibliographies in The Technical Reports, Work Units and Independent Research and Development databases, managing the Current Research Summaries and Current Awareness Bibliographies, identifying and ordering documents for users, and tracking order status and complaints. As a native Virginian, Carol is happy to be back living and working in her home state. She loves the Washington DC area (in spite of or maybe because of it's craziness) and enjoys many of the cultural, historical and recreational opportunities available in the area.

Tom Sanville

As Executive Director of OhioLINK since July 1992, Tom Sanville is leading the installation of the OhioLINK system at the member libraries. It became operational in November 1992 with 6 libraries in the union catalog and 2 journal citation databases. It now includes the libraries of 57 higher education institutions and access to a variety of over 65 reference and research databases He is shaping the continuing development of OhioLINK as a vital provider of advanced information services to the Ohio higher education community. OhioLINK will be aggressive in statewide provision of journal and other full text and digitized non-text based materials. It was "the first US consortium to license Academic Press’ 175 electronic journals and Elsevier Science’s +1000 electronic journals for all its members. To accomplish its work OhioLINK has a staff of 14 and works extensively with committees comprised of member library staff. OhioLINK serves a student and faculty population in excess of 500,000 in the 57(and growing) universities and colleges. Sanville, of Worthington, Ohio, was formerly Vice President of Marketing for Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Inc., Dublin, Ohio, where he participated in the successful expansion of OCLC's product line and the tripling of OCLC's customer base over a ten year period of employment. He has a B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Sharon L. Serzan

Ms. Sharon L. Serzan is the manager of DTICs DoD Scientific and Technical Information (STINFO) Manager training program. She joined DTIC in 1988 as the head of the DTIC collection development program and assumed her responsibility for the STINFO training program in 1991. Prior to coming to DTIC, Ms. Serzan was head of the Acquisitions Division at the Naval Postgraduate School Library for eight years and for many years worked as a librarian for the Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Serzan holds a BA from the State of New York at Albany and a MLS from Rutgers University.

Keith Shafer, PhD

Keith Shafer received the B.A. degree in computer science and mathematics in 1986 from Mount Vernon Nazarene College, Mount Vernon, OH, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Dr. Shafer is currently a Consulting Research Scientist at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin, OH USA. His research interests include automatic subject analysis, name resolution systems, methods for automatically constructing corpus grammars and tools for manipulating tagged text.

Sheila Glanton Shellabarger

Sheila Glanton Shellabarger is Head of Reference and Research Services at Wright State University's Fordham Health Sciences Library. She joined WSU in 1992 after serving five years as Library Director at Kettering College of Medical Arts. At Wright State, she has assisted in the design, implementation, and on-going refinement of LIBNET, the University Libraries' information and research network. She is very active with the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) and recently completed four years of service as the ALAO Newsletter co-editor. She hold the following degrees: B.S. (Miami University), M.Ed. (Wright State University), and M.L.S. (Kent State University).

Len Simutis

Len Simutis is Director, Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) at The Ohio State University. He joined Ohio State in 1992 when ENC was created with funding from the U. S. Department of Education. From 1990 to 1992, he served as Interim Director of the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) while on leave from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. From 1984 to 1990 he served as Dean of the Graduate School and Research and Special Assistant to the Provost for Academic Information Systems at Miami University, and Professor of American Studies and Geography. At Miami, he was a member of the faculty team that received the 1992 EDUCOM award for software in the social sciences. From 1971 to 1984 he was a member of the faculty, chair, and assistant and associate dean in Environmental and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. While at Virginia Tech he was one of the first six faculty appointed to the Academy of Teaching Excellence. He has recently completed six years of service with the Ohio Humanities Council, with the last two years as chair, and has served on the technology advisory committees of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Federation of State Humanities Councils. He has an A. B. from the University of Illinois, and an M. A. and Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota.

Kathleen Tiller

Kathleen Tiller is a Reference Librarian at the University of Dayton Library. She is part of the reference team that has been developing the UD Library's web pages, and has provided library instruction for both on-campus and off-campus students for the past 14 years here atUD. Prior to this position she taught English (grades 7-12) for 12 years. Most recently she has co-developed a Web-based library research skills tutorial for use by freshman composition classes.

Jeff Trzeciak

Jeff Trzeciak has been involved in library automation for more than 11 years. For the past seven years, he has been Head of Automation Services for the Wright State University Libraries. His responsibilities include support of the local OhioLINK system for WSU and its seven Dayton-area hospital libraries. He is also responsible for managing LIBNET, the University Libraries' information and research network. Access within the University Libraries is provided through a Novell network with more than 200 workstations. External access is provided via the World Wide Web. LIBNET was one of the first systems of its kind in Ohio. As a result, Jeff has had many opportunities to speak at local, regional, and national conferences.

Kathleen Webb

Kathleen Webb is the Government Documents Librarian at the University of Dayton Library. She has taken a leading role in the reference team developing the UD Library's web pages. Most recently she has co-developed a Web-based library research skills tutorial for use by freshman composition classes.