Essential Information Workshop - New York
Navigating Career Opportunities in Libraries,
Research & Knowledge Management
May 31, 2014
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Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza,
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Essential Information Workshop - New York
Navigating Career Opportunities in Libraries, Research & Knowledge Management
Sponsored by Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the New York Black Librarians’ Caucus, Inc., and
REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the
Spanish Speaking
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. — Continental Breakfast and Welcome
Kerwin Pilgrim, Director of Adult Learning, Brooklyn Public Library
Taina Evans, Library Information Supervisor, Brooklyn Public Library 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. — Morning Keynote and Q&A
Steven G. Fullwood, Assistant Curator, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Panel: Careers in the Information Age
Robin Camille Davis, Emerging Technologies & Distance Services Librarian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
Andrew Jackson, Executive Director, Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center
Hannah Lee, Assistant Librarian, Student Multimedia Design Center, University of Delaware Library
Kelvin Watson, Vice President, Digital Services & Strategy, Queens Library General Manager, Queens Library Enterprises
12:30 - 1:45 p.m. — Lunch featuring Career Path Talk Tables With Local Professionals 1:45 - 2:45 p.m. — Networking Break, Visit Resource Tables
2:45 - 3:45 p.m. — Panel: Getting Ready for Graduate School
Nik Dragovic, Collections Assistant, New York University
Manuel Jusino, Intern/Resident, Rutgers University Libraries
Gilda Ramos, MLIS student, Long Island University
Charlotte Roh, Scholarly Communication Resident Librarian, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 3:45 - 4:00 p.m. — Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. — Closing Keynote and Q&A
Tracie D. Hall, Vice President, Strategy and Organizational Development, Queens Library
Andrew Jackson, Executive Director, Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center 5:15 p.m. — Adjourn
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Keynote and Featured Speakers
Taina Evans, Library Information Supervisor, Brooklyn Public Library
MLS, St. John’s University, 2010
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA), Public Library As-sociation (PLA), New Members Round Table (NMRT), Metro-politan New York Library Council (METRO)
Taina has worked as Digital Information Specialist, Children Services Librarian and Dynamic Advocacy Liaison for Brook-lyn Public Library. Through her library work she has main-tained her level of commitment to empower the user through the pursuit of life long learning within libraries.
Steven G. Fullwood, Assistant Curator, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
MLS, Clark Atlanta University, 1997
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), The New York Times Librarian Award (2005), The Bertha & Frank-lin Feder Award for Outstanding Service in Librarianship from The New York Public Library (2010)
Steven G. Fullwood is the assistant curator of the Manu-scripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is also the publisher of Vin-tage Entity Press, and co-editor of the anthology, "Black Gay Genius."
Tracie D. Hall, Vice President, Strategy and Organizational Development, Queens Library
MLIS, University of Washington Infor-mation School
Professional Affiliations & Awards:
American Library Association (ALA), Black Caucus of the
American Library Association (BCALA), 2004 Library Journal Mover & Shaker
Tracie Hall is VP of Strategy at Queens Library. Prior work includes Community Investor, Boeing Co., Asst. Dean, Do-minican Univ. GSLIS, Director, ALA Office for Diversity, and Senior YA Coordinator, Seattle Public Library. Hall has an MA from Yale and an MLIS from Univ. of Washington iSchool.
Andrew Jackson, Executive Director, Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Li-brary and Cultural Center
MLS, Queens College (CUNY) Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, 1996
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Associa-tion (ALA), Black Caucus of the American Library AssociaAssocia-tion (BCALA), BCALA/DEMCO Excellence in Librarianship Award (2011), Outstanding Services to Librarianship Award from the New York Library Association (NYLA; 2011), Innovator of Change Award (2014), Lamplighter of the Year Award from Queens Library (1999)
Activist Librarian; Library Consultant/Advisor; Adjunct, Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies (CUNY); York College, History & Philosophy Dept. and Social Sciences Dept.; Editor, The 21st Century Black Li-brarian in America: Issues & Challenges
Kerwin Pilgrim, Director of Adult Learning, Brooklyn Public Library
MLIS, Pratt Institute, 2004
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA)
As the Director of Adult Learning, Kerwin oversees Brooklyn Public Library's continuum of educational services for young adult and adult learners as well as entrepreneurs, business owners, and investors.
The following list comprises of in-field professionals who will be attending and participating in this workshop and
supporting our student-attendees.
Panel: Careers in the Information Age
Robin Camille Davis, Emerging Technolo-gies and Distance Services Librarian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) MLIS (Data Curation focus), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2012
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Beta Phi Mu, Association of College & Research Libraries - Greater New York Metro-politan Area Chapter (ACRL/NY), The Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), Modern Language Association (MLA), Alliance of Digital Humanities Organiza-tions (ADHO)
Since joining John Jay in 2012, Robin has led digital projects in the Library, including the recently-launched Digital Collec-tions. Her interests include critical digital literacy, computa-tional linguistics, and digital humanities.
Andrew Jackson, Executive Director, Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Li-brary and Cultural Center
MLS, Queens College (CUNY) Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, 1996
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Associa-tion (ALA), Black Caucus of the American Library AssociaAssocia-tion (BCALA), BCALA/DEMCO Excellence in Librarianship Award (2011), Outstanding Services to Librarianship Award from the New York Library Association (NYLA; 2011), Innovator of Change Award (2014), Lamplighter of the Year Award from Queens Library (1999)
Activist Librarian; Library Consultant/Advisor; Adjunct, Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies (CUNY); York College, History & Philosophy Dept. and Social Sciences Dept.; Editor, The 21st Century Black Li-brarian in America: Issues & Challenges.
Hannah Lee, Assistant Librarian, University of Delaware
MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2009
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Spectrum Scholarships, American Library Association (ALA), Asian/ Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Delaware Library As-sociation (DLA), University of Delaware Library Diversity Com-mittee
Hannah Lee is an Assistant Librarian in the Student Multime-dia Design Center at the University of Delaware. Her respon-sibilities include collaborating with faculty on digital literacy instruction and assisting students in creating multimedia con-tent.
Kelvin Watson, Vice President, Digital Services & Strategy, Queens Library/General Manag-er, Queens Library Enterprises
MLS, North Carolina Central University
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Spectrum Scholarships, American Library Association (ALA), Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)
Responsible for Queens Library’s e-content initiatives and Technical Services Division. Other positions held: Head, Ac-quisitions & Collection Development (National Agriculture Library), Director of Business Development (TLC), and leader-ship roles in sales and marketing for Borders Group & Ingram Library Services.
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Career Path Talk Tables With Local Professionals & Networking Resource Fair
Davis Erin Anderson, Community Engagement Manager, Metropolitan New York Library Council
MLIS, Pratt Institute, 2013
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA), 2012 Library Journal Mover & Shak-er, Rising Star from Special Libraries Association (SLA; 2012) As Community Engagement Manager at METRO, Davis is responsible for building and sustaining a strong community of library professionals in both online and in-person venues. She holds two degree in music in addition to an MLIS from Pratt Institute.
Christine Angel, Assistant Professor, St. John’s University, Division of Library and Infor-mation Science (DLIS)
PhD, University of South Carolina (USC), 2012
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA), American Alliance of Museums (AAM), Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), International Federation of Library As-sociations and Institutions (IFLA), Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
Christine Angel is a Professor in DLIS at St. John’s University. She earned her Ph.D. and Certificate in Museum Manage-ment from the University of South Carolina in 2012 and her M.S. in Library Science from North Carolina Central University in 2007.
Jefferson Bailey, Strategic Initiatives Manager, Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
MLIS, University of Pittsburgh, 2010
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Associa-tion (ALA), AssociaAssocia-tion of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Society of American Archivists (SAA), Mid-Atlantic
Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (ART), code4lib
Jefferson manages METRO's strategic initiatives. Before join-ing METRO, Jefferson worked on digital preservation projects for Library of Congress and has worked at Brooklyn Public Library, Frick Art Reference Library, Atlantic Records, NARA and NASA.
Arpita Bose, Health Sciences Library Director, New York Meth-odist Hospital
MLIS, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Associa-tion (ALA)
Tatiana Bryant, Professor, Reference and In-struction Librarian, New York University (NYU), The City University of New York (CUNY)
MLIS, Pratt Institute, 2011
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Fellowship from Loyola Marymount University (2014), Research Center for Leadership in Action, Social Sector Leadership Diversity Fellowship from New York University (2014), Museum Library Education and Digitization Scholarship (M-LEAD) from Pratt Institute (2010) Tatiana Bryant is a MPA candidate in public and nonprofit management and policy at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is currently an adjunct professor and academic librarian in New York City. Carol Cave-Davis, AHIP, Medical Library Director & Coordina-tor of Library Services for Medisys Health Network, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Medisys Health Network
Career Path Talk Tables With Local Professionals & Networking Resource Fair
Megan Goins-Diouf, 5th of July Resource Center for Self-Determination & Freedom Manager, Reference Archivist, Weeksville Heritage Center
MLIS, 2011
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Associa-tion (ALA), Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Scholarship I am an information professional with a diverse background in librarianship, archives, preservation, collection manage-ment, curating, copy-editing, and photography. Since 2007, I have worked in African-centered research libraries & ar-chives.
Natiba Guy-Clement, Librarian 1, Schomburg Center for Re-search in Black Culture, The New York Public Library MSLIS, Pratt Institute
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Associa-tion (ALA), Black Caucus of the American Library AssociaAssocia-tion (BCALA), Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Natiba Guy-Clement started her career as a Page in 1999 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Driven by her love of Libraries, she has worked at the New York Public Library for the past 15 years where she is now a Librar-ian.
James Marcum, Professor, Queens College, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS)
MLIS, 2001
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA)
Timothy Johnson, Africana Studies Librarian, New York Univer-sity
MLS, Case Western Reserve University, 1979
Mimi Lee, Adult, Urban & Diversity Specialist, New Jersey State Library
MLS, Florida State University, 2001
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA), Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), Public Library Association (PLA), Association of Specialized & Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), International Relations Committee (ALA-IRC), Office for Literacy and Outreach Ser-vices Advisory Committee (ALA-OLOS), Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT), New Jersey Library Association (NJLA)
Mimi Lee is a project specialist at New Jersey State Library. She is responsible for providing consultant services in the areas of adult services, urban libraries, continuing education and diversity. Mimi earned her MLS from Florida State Uni-versity.
Natalie Milbrodt, Associate Coordinator, Metadata Services, Queens Library MLIS with Certificate in Archives and the Preservation of Cultural Materials
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA), Society of Ameri-can Archivists (SAA), Oral History Association (OHA) As the Associate Coordinator of Metadata Services, Natalie Milbrodt oversees cataloging activities at Queens Library and contributes to the team responsible for the library’s acquisi-tion, digitizaacquisi-tion, access & preservation of archival collec-tions.
Alexsandra Mitchell, Adjunct Assistant Curator & Reference Librarian, The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Libraries
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Career Path Talk Tables With Local Professionals & Networking Resource Fair
Miraida Morales, PhD student, Rutgers Uni-versity
MLIS, Rutgers University, 2012
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Spec-trum Scholarships, Beta Phi Mu, MLIS Fac-ulty Award for Scholarship (2012), Turock Scholarship (2011), Phi Beta Mu Scholarship (2011), H. Gilbert Kelley Scholarship (2011), SCI Departmental Award (2010)
Miraida is an ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellow at Rutgers Uni-versity. She was recently the taxonomist at 1stdibs, an online marketplace of antiques and design—a position she obtained after receiving her MLIS from Rutgers.
Ngozi Okoro, Resource Specialist, Pratt Insti-tute
MSLIS, Pratt Institute
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA), Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
Good researchers do not have all the answers, just the re-sources to ask good questions. With an MSLIS from Pratt Institute and a BSCE from Howard University, I work with us-ers and stakeholdus-ers to deliver design solutions to key ques-tions.
Jina Park, Archive Assistant, Fairchild Archive, Condé Nast MSLIS, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2012
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Associa-tion (ALA), Asian/Pacific American Librarians AssociaAssocia-tion (APALA), Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ACRL-RBMS), Art Li-braries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), Art LiLi-braries Society of North America - The New York Chapter (ARLIS/NY) Jina Park earned an MSLIS with a Certificate in Special Collec-tions from UIUC. She is currently the Archive Assistant at the
Fairchild Archive and the Acquisitions & Technical Services Intern for the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Reference and Instruc-tion Librarian, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY)
MLS, Queens College
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Urban Libraries Council, New York Black Librarians’ Caucus (NYBLC)
Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz is a faculty librarian, an archivist at the Lesbian Herstory Archives and a writer, completing her MFA in Fiction at Queens College. She produces theater highlight-ing the art of women of color with Rivers of Honey Cabaret.
James Soucé, Assistant Manager, Technical Services, The New York Public Library MLS, Pratt Institute, 2001
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Spectrum Scholarships, Beta Phi Mu
James Soucé has served in NYPL for 16 years, as both a Systems Analyst & Ref. Librarian. He has been recognized for exceptional commitment in 2005, and is the 2012 recipient of the Jean M. Campbell Award for Excel-lence in Reference Service (NYPL).
James Vorbach, Director, Division of Library and Information Science (DLIS), St. John’s University
Panel: Getting Ready for Graduate School
Nik Dragovic, Collections Assistant, New York University
MSLIS, Pratt Institute, 2014
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Spectrum Scholarships, American Library Association (ALA), Archivists Round Table of Metropoli-tan New York (ART)
Nik earned his library school degree in the Spring 2014 after pursuing a program of study including archives, film and me-dia, user experience, and data librarianship. He also holds a BA in journalism and sociology from New York University.
Manuel Jusino, Rutgers University Libraries Intern/Resident, Rutgers University
MLIS, Rutgers University, expected comple-tion 2015
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA), New Jersey Li-brary Association (NJLA)
Manuel is a graduate of Gordon College (Wenham, MA). After two years of biomedical research at Johns Hopkins, Ma-nuel returned to NJ to earn his MA within the Federated De-partment of History at Rutgers & NJIT. He is currently pursu-ing his MLIS.
Gilda Ramos, Library Assistant, Patchogue-Medford Library
MLIS, Long Island University, Summer 2014 (expected)
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Spectrum Scholarships
Library Journal named me “Paralibrarian of the Year 2011 for outstanding library service. In 2012, I started my MLIS at Long Island University.
I was honored by the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) in November 2013 for my work helping the
immi-grant community in Long Island. I received the ALA Spectrum Scholarship in 2013 as well as 2013 Suffolk County Library Association Scholarship. In 2011 I received a New York State recognition hosted by Senator Lee Zeldin and in 2009 Suffolk County Executive presented me a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition as a “Diamond in Our Community.”
All these recognitions have encouraged me to pursue a ca-reer in library science. Now, that I am about to graduate, I am sure the best is yet to come.
Charlotte Roh, Scholarly Communication Resi-dent Librarian, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2013
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Spectrum Scholarships, American Library Association (ALA), REFORMA, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), Association of Re-search Libraries Career Enhancement Program (ARL-CEP), Special Libraries Association (SLA)
Charlotte Roh spent 8 years in New York working in academ-ic publishing but left the city life for country comfort in pas-toral New England, where she works on the 19th floor of the tallest library in the world.
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Event Organizers
Edwin Maxwell, Library Information Supervisor, Flatbush Library/Caribbean Literary & Cultural Center MLS, Queens College, 2009
Professional Affiliations & Awards: American Library Association (ALA), Library Journal Mover & Shaker 2014, ALA Spectrum Scholar, New York Black Librarians’ Caucus (NYBLC) - Donna Hoke Scholarship, ALA Discovering Librarianship
Edwin is the Library Information Supervisor of the Flatbush Branch at Brooklyn Public Library. He is a fighting advocate for transformational services in public libraries, and was named a 2014 Library Journal Mover & Shaker.
Gwendolyn Prellwitz, Assistant Director, Office for Diversity, Spectrum and Related Grants, American Library Association (ALA)
ALA’s Office for Diversity is delighted to facilitate this event through the support of IMLS. Our warmest welcome to all attendees and thank you to Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the New York Black Librarian’s Caucus Inc., and REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Ser-vices to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking and all of the local volunteers who made this event possible!
Hannah Lee, Assistant Librarian, University of Delaware
MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2009
Professional Affiliations & Awards: Spectrum Scholarships, American Library Association (ALA), Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Delaware Library Association (DLA), University of Delaware Library Diversity Committee
Hannah Lee is an Assistant Librarian in the Student Multimedia Design Center at the University of Delaware. Her responsibili-ties include collaborating with faculty on digital literacy instruction and assisting students in creating multimedia content.
Kai Alexis Smith, Adjunct Reference Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center MSILS, Pratt Institute, 2013
Professional Affiliations & Awards: ,American Library Association (ALA), Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), New Members Round Table (NMRT), Association of College & Research Libraries - Greater New York Metropolitan Area Chapter (ACRL/ NY), Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), Art Libraries Society of North America - The New York Chapter (ARLIS/NY)
.I’m an aspiring arts & humanities research librarian and 2014 American Libraries Association (ALA) Emerging Leader. I re-ceived a MSLIS in May 2013 from Pratt Institute. I've benefited from diversity initiatives and look forward to paying it forward.
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This event is one of five Knowledge Alliance Essential Information workshops in Seattle, Chicago, Los
Angeles, Atlanta and New York during the month of May. These workshops are designed to help
pro-spective LIS students from underrepresented groups prepare for graduate education, navigate career
options, and connect with diverse network of peers and mentors to help break down the complexities
of a transforming industry and build a path that suits each individual’s goals and skills. The Knowledge
Alliance began through the IMLS funded Discovering Librarianship project sponsored by the American
Library Association’s Office for Diversity. Discovering Librarianship built a network of in-the-field
recruit-ers comprised of early career librarians from previously successful divrecruit-ersity recruitment programs to
de-velop recruitment materials and serve as ambassadors for the profession at career and graduate
educa-tion fairs across the country. These activities are made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and
Library Services [RE-03-10-0063-10].
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123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Our mission is to inspire libraries and museums to advance
inno-vation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. Our grant making, policy development,
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This event would not be possible without the support of our sponsors: Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the New York Black Librarian’s Caucus Inc., and REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Lati-nos and the Spanish Speaking. Our wonderful contacts from each site—Edwin B. Maxwell, Craig Hayes, Kerwin Pilgrim, Han-nah K. Lee, Kai Alexis Smith, Tracie D. Hall, Andrew Jackson, Kelvin Watson, Natalie Milbrodt and Arpita Bose —have made programming and scheduling for the Essential Information Workshop-New York City a reality.
Support from the American Library Association’s Office for Diversity is beyond measure. Our professional colleagues from the other Essential Information Workshops locations—Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle—have provided immeasur-able inspiration, collegiality, and connection.
The Essential Information Workshops came to being through the generous donation of time and talent by many profession-al volunteers. We are grateful for your support. Many thanks to the ever expanding Knowledge Alliance!
