SUNYergy V.3 No.1 'Tis a New Millennium

		January 2001 Volume 3 Number 1 Page 2
	'Tis a New Millennium OLIS Adds Staff

SUNY support for the SUNYConnect initiative is seen in the new faces at the Office of Library and Information Services. By March of this year, two Librarian/Trainers, a Systems (techie) person and an Administrative Assistant are expected to have joined the OLIS staff.

Some of you have met Maggie Horn. We introduced Maggie in [Photograph of Connie Perrin] [Photograph of Maggie Horn] SUNYergy Vol. 2 No. 3. After years of what seemed like "beg, borrowing and stealing" support services, Ms. Connie Perrin has joined OLIS as Administrative Assistant. Along with considerable and relevant experience, Connie brings a varied background to the office. Ms. Perrin has an MS in Education and an interest in and talent for fiction writing.

Ms. Sally Goodwin's time at OLIS began January 4, 2001. [Photograph of Sally Goodwin] LAIP librarians and others around SUNY know Sally from her years at SUNY Oneonta. Joining us as a trainer, Sally offers years of academic library experience that involves work both in technical services and in public services. At Oneonta, Sally gained experience in implementing a SUNY library management system, training and orienting library staff members to that system and working together with other SUNY librarians to achieve that gestalt that is a complex, collaborative project.

Sally is now busy learning more about the ALEPH500 system. She will work with another OLIS Librarian/Trainer in developing a SUNYConnect LMS training program. Karen Gardner-Athey is the name of that second OLIS Librarian/Trainer. Karen joins OLIS in February, from Gaylord Information Systems. Karen has a number of years of library software training experience; training programs developed and presented via a library management software vendor. The Search Committee decided that Karen and Sally bring a breadth of experience (of training and program development, and of SUNY and software vendor relations) appropriate for the SUNYConnect program.

Early implementers of ALEPH receive training directly from Ex Libris. In the future, SUNY OLIS will take over these training duties. Either way, ALEPH training should be viewed as preparation for other SUNY librarians to establish in-house training for their other staff members. Sally's background includes such "in-service" training for Oneonta's Multilis system. In addition, Sally has taught information literacy skills to SUNY students via semester-length courses. Karen offers years of experience developing and presenting a vendor's software training program.

January 25, 2001 was Michelle Moorhead's first day working for OLIS. Michelle [Photograph of Michelle Moorhead] joins the staff as Library Systems/Database Administrator, implementing and maintaining various NT and UNIX machines that are utilized by OLIS for programmatic, administrative and support services. Michelle has a library degree as well as significant "techie" experience, most recently as the System Administrator at the Capital District Library Council.

We are pleased to have a number of talented and experienced individuals as additions to the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services. OLIS would again like to express its thanks to the search committee members for their efforts. And please join us in welcoming our new staff members.

The OLIS is Moving

We need increased office space to accommodate our growing staff. As a result, the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services is in the process of a move (across Broadway) into SUNY Plaza.

Please bear with us as the move is completed. All of OLIS is expected to be moved onto "3 South" by February 1, 2001. This will involve no changes to email addresses, to fax and telephone numbers nor to our mailing address.

But it does mean, you should stop by for a visit, you hear?