Guest Speakers

 

Military Libraries Greatest War: Preserving the Past, Capturing the Future

2007 Military Libraries Workshop

3-7 December

Kansas City, Missouri

 

 Dr. Lee G. Bolman – Lee Bolman is an author, scholar, consultant and lecturer who hold the Marion Bloch Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at UMKC. His B.A. in History and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior are from Yale University.

 

 

Dr. Bolman’s teaching and writing over the last three decades has explored the intersection of organizations and leadership. In recent years, Dr. Bolman’s work has been primarily conceptual and philosophical, with occasional empirical studies. Dr. Bolman favors the space and freedom to develop an argument that writing books offers as opposed to writing articles, and his primary interest is in writing for managers and students of management, trying to distill the products of management scholarship into clear, succinct and practical lessons for leadership.

 

 

Dr. Bolman has written numerous books on leadership and organizations with co-author Terry Deal, including The Wizard and the Warrior: Leading with Passion and Power; Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership; Leading with Soul: an Uncommon Journey of Spirit; Reframing the Path to School Leadership; Escape from Cluelessness: a Guide for the Organizationally-Challenged; Becoming a Teacher Leader; and Modern Approaches to Understanding and Managing Organizations. Dr. Bolman and Mr. Deal’s books have been translated into more than ten languages. His publications also include numerous cases, chapters, and articles in scholarly and professional journals.   http://www.leebolman.com/

 

 

Robert Patrick - Robert W. “Bob” Patrick is the director of the Veterans History Project, a program of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.  The project is to collect and preserve oral histories and documentary materials from veterans of World War I through the current conflicts.  Patrick came to the Veterans History Project with more than 30 years of experience leading organizations and is skilled in the areas of project management, human resources, veteran’s affairs and policy development.  For more than five years, he served a critical role in the National World War II Memorial project and directed the historic memorial dedication.  He is a retired US Army colonel.

 

 

 Andrew Pace - is Head of Information Technology at NCSU Libraries, where he has participated in several successful initiatives, including ILS migration, web interface design, and served as project manager for development of NCSU Libraries' ERM system and faceted browse (Endeca) online catalog.  Prior to NCSU, Pace was a product manager for library vendor, Innovative Interfaces.  Pace recently completed a term as at-large member of the LITA Board and was recently elected Vice President/President Elect.  Pace is a frequent speaker and writer on several library topics. He is the "Technically Speaking" columnist and "Hectic Pace" blogger for American Libraries magazine.  http://blogs.ala.org/pace.php

 

 

 

 

 The "Unshelved" Guys 

 

About Gene Ambaum

Gene is the pen name of a public librarian from the Seattle area. He loves graphic novels, television shows  from his childhood, pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain. He continues to make the mistake of letting Bill write his bios.

 

About Bill Barnes 

Bill is a native New Yorker who was dragged all around the world by his parents at a very formative age and finally ended up in the wilds of Seattle. He is a trained software designer and very much an untrained cartoonist.

 

 

 

 Ann Seidl has a master of library and information services from the University of Denver and is the writer and director of the full-length documentary film "The Hollywood Librarian: A Look At Librarians through Film."  She worked for 8 years to finance and produce the film, the first of its kind, and has been distributing it in libraries since September.  During Banned Books Week, over 5,000 people saw The Hollywood Librarian in 85 locations in the US and 7 in Canada.  She is working on continuing with US screenings in libraries, as well as releases in Canada, Australia and the U.K.

 Before going to work full time on film production, Ms. Seidl was a research consultant specializing in geographic information systems in libraries, and plans to resume her research consulting after the film comes out on DVD.

 

 

 

Barbara Fullerton is the Manager of Librarian Relations for 10-K Wizard in Dallas, TX. She graduated from Emporia State University with a Masters in Library and Information Science and is currently working on her PHD at the University of North Texas. Barbara also has a paralegal certificate and a B.A. in mass communications.  Barbara has spent about 12 years in the library field working for various corporate law departments and law firms in the Kansas City and Dallas areas.  She is the author of a variety of information articles and is also a regional and national speaker on technology gadgets, Internet resources, computer technology, and library issues.  http://dallnet.blogspot.com/ and http://handheldlib.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

John Dubuisson received an undergraduate degree in History from Louisiana State University in 1995 and a MSL from the University of Alabama in 1999. He spent three years enlisted in the Alabama Army National Guard, and two years enlisted in the United States Army. He served as a reference and instruction librarian at Louisiana State University from 2002-2004. He currently serves as a documents and reference librarian at the USACGSC Combined Arms Research Library. He enjoys salt-water fishing and Southeastern Conference Football.

 

 

Metz, Edward has worked at the Combined Arms Research Library (CARL), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas since Jan 2003, first as a reference librarian, then as chief of the acquisitions division and now as systems librarian. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a BA in Political Science and German in 1987 before entering into the Army where he served for 9 years as an artillery officer with tours in Germany, Korea and Southwest Asia. He returned to graduate school in 1998 and earned an MA in German Literature from UW-Madison and then went on to complete an MLIS from UW-Milwaukee in 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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