About Our Speakers (L-R)
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Donovan Lambright
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Joan B. Larson
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Susan Larson Susan is the head of public services and the coordinator of the County Law Library Program (CLLP) at the Minnesota State Law Library. CLLP provides advice and expertise in the operation and maintenance of county law libraries, particularly in out-state Minnesota, where trained library staff is often not available. The program also facilitates and encourages collaboration between county law libraries and their public library partners through the use of the Minnesota Law Libraries Self-Help Network and other resource sharing techniques.
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Matthew Lee Matt is a reference librarian with Minitex, where he creates online tutorials and provides online and in-person library reference training. Prior to joining Minitex, he was a business information specialist with the James J. Hill Reference Library, and before that worked reference desks throughout Hennepin and Anoka Counties as a substitute librarian.
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Traci Lesneski A certified interior designer and LEED Accredited Professional, Traci is a principal in the nationally recognized library design firm MS&R. Traci has designed dozens of libraries across the country, including the prestigious US Senate Library in Washington, DC. Her belief that great design improves the lives of those who work and use buildings ensures that the libraries she designs are not only beautiful, they’re functional, as well.
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Brian J. Lind Brian is a reference/web librarian at Rochester Public Library.
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Jane Littlefield Jane graduated with an MLIS from Dominican University in 2007. Her work at Saint Mary’s University involves a lot of collaboration with the Writing Center, which is adjacent to the Library. Because academic research, writing, and learning go hand-in-hand, the Library and Writing Center have developed a symbiotic relationship to better themselves and their students and to ensure lifelong learning for all parties involved.
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Wayne Loftus Wayne is web services coordinator for the Health Science Libraries at the University of Minnesota Libraries.
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Marcus Lowry Marcus is the teen librarian for the Ramsey County Library system. He previously was the teen services mentor for St. Paul Public Library. He is currently on the YALSA Intellectual Freedom committee, and is also busy with the VOYA magazine’s Top Shelf awards committee.
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James R. Lund James is the director of the Red Wing Public Library and secretary of the PLD Executive Committee.
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Cathy Lutz
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Chris Mallo
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Jeffrey Mandyck A new principal with MS&R, Jeff has made it his personal goal to ensure that design dialogue is embedded in the finished work. Jeff most enjoys the exploratory phase of the design process, when the team discovers the client’s story and begins to uncover its relationship to space. With more than ten years of professional experience, Jeff has worked in the United States and Spain as a lead project designer. He has been involved in fostering collaboration and integrated design and generating and developing concepts and designs for libraries and other public facilities, commercial space, and private residences.
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Joe Matthews
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Cynthia Matthias Cynthia is a dynamic teen services librarian at Hennepin County who has been a leader in innovative programs related to technology since she became a librarian. She received her MLS from the University of Michigan.
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Jessica McIntyre Jessica received an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with particular interest in technology, and is currently assistant librarian at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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Marjorie McPeak
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Ann Melrose Ann has worked as a youth services librarian specializing in web services since 2001, She has specialized in creating innovative library web services for children since 2001. She developed KidLinks and Birth to Six websites (www.hclib.org/kids and www.hclib.org/birthto6) for Hennepin County Library. She began her library career in Ramsey County Library in 1994 after a successful first career as a teacher.
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Suzanne Miller
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Sarah D.S. Monson Sarah is serials manager at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is currently working on her MS in anthropology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She can be reached at ssanford@gustavus.edu.
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Jennifer Munnings Jennifer was hired by the Scott County Library System in 2000 to manage the Scott County Law Library as a branch of the Scott County Library System. She joined the Dakota County Law Library staff, working in the Galaxie Public Library, in 2007.
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Sarah L. Nagle Sarah is a librarian with Carver County Library involved in collection development (fiction, nonfiction, and reference) and readers’ advisory. She received her MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has presented on readers’ advisory at PLA and MLA and participated in last year’s 50 in 75 Book Blast at MLA’s annual conference.
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Dianne L. Narum
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Jennifer Nelson Jennifer is currently a senior librarian in web services and training at the Hennepin County Library. Prior to her current position, she worked in several capacities for the Minneapolis Public Library, most recently as a partnership coordinator working on innovative projects related to digital inclusion and technology with a wide range of community partners and funding sources. An experienced program planner, implementer, and grant writer, she has been a librarian for more than 20 years and received her MLS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Susan Nemitz Susan has been the director of the Ramsey County Library system since 2005. The system has a budget of $9 million, circulates 4.6 million items annually, and employs nearly 150 people. The Ramsey County Library is well known for great customer service, a fantastic collection, and seven convenient locations. Susan has a bachelor’s degree from the College of St. Benedict and a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota.
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Donna Nix Donna has a BA in social studies education from Bethel College and an MA in library science from the University of Missouri. She has work experience as a classroom teacher, school librarian, school library consultant, and reference librarian in public and academic libraries. She came to UST in 1999, and is liaison to graduate and undergraduate programs in education in the College of Applied Professional Studies. She also manages the curriculum and children’s literature collections and teaches RefWorks to individuals or groups on a regular basis. She has been a member of YALSA for almost 30 years and served on the Best Books for Young Adults committee from 1998-2001.
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Gail Nordstrom Gail thoroughly enjoys her work as youth services librarian for Stillwater Public Library. When she is not reading books for young people, Gail can be found chasing squirrels with her 75-pound canine or chuckling at the antics at Dunder Mifflin.
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Angie L. Noyes Angie has worked for Washington County Library for nine years and for libraries in general since she was 16. She was recruited onto the RART steering committee by some crazy—we mean fabulous—people and is now filling out her second time as RART chair.
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Chris D. Olson
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Jennifer O’Rourke Jennifer is an intergovernmental relations representative with the League of Minnesota Cities (LMC) working in the area of aid to cities, economic development and redevelopment, general revenue sources for cities, property tax system, TIF, and liquor and tobacco. She has been involved with Minnesota state government and politics since the mid-90s, and has lobbied for the League since 2001. Before beginning with the LMC, Jennifer worked as a legislative staffer with the Minnesota Senate for six years. She served as the economic administrator for the Economic Development Committee under the chairmanship of both former Senator Jerry Janezich, and Senator Tracy Beckman. She completed her undergraduate degree in political science and public administration at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse in 1994 after growing up on a farm in southern Minnesota.
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Jonya Pacey Jonya has worked in libraries since 1997 and at SELCO since 1999, involved in many aspects of service to its online libraries. Currently, she manages the help desk and some of the ILS administration at SELCO. An active MLA member in all those years, Jonya has served within the MLA Conference Planning Committee, the Minnesota Certification Program Oversight Committee, SSPiN, the MLA Institute for Leadership Excellence (MILE), and more.
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Rebecca B. Patton Rebecca is the public library consultant for the Arrowhead Library System. She has been involved with the MN Certification Program from the beginning.
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Heather Peterson Heather Peterson is a youth services librarian at the Eden Prairie Library of Hennepin County Library. Heather’s YouTube contest has been such a success at the Eden Prairie Library that an online was born this past year.
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Carla Steinberg Pfahl Carla is responsible for providing coordination and promotion for the AskMN service in Minnesota, including training on using QuestionPoint and providing online reference services.
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Mollie M. Pherson
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Barbara J. Pierce Barb has an MLIS from the College of Saint Catherine and works as a library associate at the Highland Park branch of the Saint Paul Public Library. Barb has worked for Saint Paul Public Library for nearly seven years. Barb provides readers’ advisory service to library customers on a daily basis. She suggests titles to folks looking for “something good to read.” She stocks library displays with good reads. She leads the Highland Park Library Book Club. She orchestrated the introduction of Book Clubs in a Bag at Saint Paul Public Library, with input from her fellow Reader’s Advisory Roundtable partners from around Minnesota. She participated in last year’s 50 in 75 Book Blast at MLA’s annual conference.
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Teressa Pivec Teressa has more than 10 years of experience in the human resources field. She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources by the Society for Human Resource Management. She holds a bachelor of science degree from Winona State University in Minnesota. She later obtained her Human Resources Generalist Certificate from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. Teressa holds a special interest in working in the nonprofit and public sector arenas. Her previous experience has included working at The International School of Minnesota, The Council on Crime and Justice, and serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, Central America, as a teacher trainer.
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Patricia Post
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Cheryl Prentice After teaching composition courses and directing a Writing Center at a state university for 13 years, Cheryl moved to Saint Mary’s School of Graduate and Professional Programs eight years ago to establish its centralized Writing Center. She soon discovered the unique challenges of teaching research writing skills to a highly diverse and non-traditional population of non-residential graduate students. Cheryl’s undergraduate work was in English; she holds a masters degree in education, with emphasis on adult learning.
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Jane Prestebak Jane has been involved in creating the content for the Research Project Calculator (RPC) and, most recently, in updating the content to include an educator’s component to support the teaching of the research process to students.
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Nicholas A. Prieve Nick is a teen services librarian at the Marshall-Lyon County Library. In order to meet patron needs on a shoestring budget, he started thinking outside the box and using creative marketing and programming to build programs in the area. By combining resources with local businesses and enlisting the gracious help of guest artists and speakers, the Marshall-Lyon County Library has been able to offer a number of teen programs on a tight budget. Innovation and creativity in tough times equal awesome programs!
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Linda J. Prybylo Project manager for the “Message in a Tube” program at Carver County Library, Linda has coordinated the project that connected teens with ecological awareness issues and helped them create videos that were mounted on YouTube.
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Joe Raiola Joe has had a flourishing career as a solo performer, comedy writer, producer, director, and speaker on first amendment issues. His controversial solo show, Almost Obscene, was hailed by the New York Times as “a ruefully amusing lament for the ineradicable hypocrisy of humanity.” After two decades of touring, Joe remains a favorite on the lecture circuit with The Joy of Censorship, his critically acclaimed lecture program on the first amendment seen at countless libraries, colleges, and professional conferences, and broadcast nationally on C-SPAN’s American Perspectives. Joe began his career in 1984 when he teamed up with National Lampoon alumni for a series of classic magazine spoofs, including Cosmoparody and Like A Rolling Stone. The following year, he joined “the Usual Gang of Idiots” at MAD Magazine, quickly becoming one of their most prized contributors. Joe is currently MAD senior editor, a title he insists “means nothing, since I work at the only place in America where, if you mature, you get fired.” A graduate of Adelphi University, where he developed a love for radio, Joe is a frequent co-host of the Woodstock Roundtable, heard Sunday mornings on WDST, 100.1 FM in Woodstock, NY and streaming online (live and “on demand”) at WDST.com. During his “off time,” you might find Joe bushwhacking in the Shawangunk Mountains or backpacking as “Bandanna Man” on the Appalachian Trail.
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Mark Ranum
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Sally G. Reed Sally is the executive director of the Association for Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF), a division of the American Library Association. ALTAFF provides support, education, and consultation to those groups affiliated with their local libraries to help increase and maximize their support. Prior to accepting this position in 2002, Sally had spent nearly 20 years in library administration running small public libraries in New England and the Midwest, most recently as director of the Norfolk Public Library in Virginia. Sally is the author of eight books on library management, advocacy, volunteers, and fundraising and numerous articles for professional library journals. She has presented programs and workshops to hundreds of Friends of Library groups, library boards, and librarian groups nationally and internationally. Sally is the 2000 recipient of ALA’s Herbert and Virginia White Award for promoting libraries and librarianship.
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Dan Reeves Dan has been a reference and instruction librarian at the Rasmussen College Campus in Brooklyn Park since January 2007. A native of Ohio, Dan has graduated from two Minnesota colleges. He holds an MLIS from the College of St. Catherine University and a BA in philosophy from Metropolitan State University. In addition to working in the library and teaching information literacy, Dan is on the Teaching and Learning Committee, co-chair of the IT Subcommittee, and programmatic liaison to the Surgical Technology Program. He lives in Fridley with his wife and 2.5 kids (the .5 is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Igby).
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Amy Reinhold
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Marian R. Rengel Marian is responsible for the promotion of Minnesota Reflections, including the recruitment and coordinating of contributors.
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Sara Ring Sara is chair of TSS and bibliographic and technical services at Minitex.
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Annemarie Mikulich Robertson Annemarie is the cluster support manager for the Central Cluster of the Dakota County Library System. She is assigned to the Galaxie Library. Annemarie came to the library world after completing stints as an associate director of MIS and budget director for the Fairview Community Hospital system. She has worked as a reference librarian in the Dakota County and Washington County Library systems for many years and enjoys managing the reference services in Dakota County’s busiest library.
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