Candidate Information
2008 TS-SIS Election

Candidates -- Vice Chair/Chair Elect:
Chris Long
Julie R. Stauffer

Candidates -- Secretary/Treasurer:
Edward Hart
Wendy Moore

Candidates -- Member-At-Large:
Richard Paone
Betty Roeske

Candidate for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Chris Long
Photograph: Chris Long.

Long Statement:

As hard as it is for me to believe, I am approaching my fifteenth year as a law librarian. I cannot imagine how I would have coped in the early years without the guidance and support of my colleagues in TS-SIS. TS-SIS has also provided me with numerous opportunities for professional growth, especially in the offices I have been privileged to hold. The position of Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect is yet another opportunity to learn new things and work with some of the finest librarians I have had the pleasure of knowing. I would be honored to serve the members of TS-SIS if elected.

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Candidate for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Julie Stauffer
Photograph: Julie Stauffer.

Stauffer Statement:

I am honored and humbled to be nominated as a candidate to the TS-SIS board. I look forward to serving the community that has been a valuable professional resource to me. I hope to perpetuate this tradition so that membership can continue to grow and benefit from the work of the section.

Stauffer Bio:

Julie Stauffer is the Head of Acquisitions and Serials at the University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library. She has held this position since 1996. Prior to that she spent two and half years as the Assistant to the Director of the University of Chicago Library, and four years as a serial cataloger at the D'Angelo Law Library.

Within AALL, Ms. Stauffer is a member of the ALL, OBS, and TS Special Interest Sections. She is currently the Layout & Design editor of the Technical Services Law Librarian, and has served on the AALL OBS-SIS & TS-SIS Joint Research Grant Committee. She was a speaker for the "30 Sites in 30 Minutes" program at the 2003 AALL Annual Meeting and was a coordinator of "New Horizons in Collection Development: Approval Plans" at the 1998 AALL Annual Meeting. She is also a member of the local chapter, CALL, and served on the CALL Union List Committee, 1991-1994.

Ms. Stauffer completed a BA degree at Davidson College, a MA degree the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a MA degree the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.

Candidate for Secretary/Treasurer:
Edward T. Hart
Photograph: Edward Hart.

Hart Statement:

The need of technical service librarians for a forum such as this special interest section grows more important everyday. On nearly every front we confront changes as the roles of libraries evolve, and we strive to respond providing the best possible service to our users. This evolution occurs while most of us find ourselves ever more limited by the lack of available resources. The TS-SIS allows us to share our thoughts on these issues and many others, building a true community. It takes a great deal of effort to make such a dynamic section run smoothly and this requires dedicated leadership.
I welcome the opportunity to serve our community as Secretary/Treasurer and to support the effective management of the section.

Hart Bio:

Edward currently serves as the Acquisitions and Serials Librarian for the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center at the University of Florida. He oversees the collection development while supervising the purchasing and processing of resources for accession to the collection. Starting this semester, he is an adjunct professor of law teaching advanced legal research to second and third law students. Prior to taking this position in July 2005, he served for five years as the Acquisitions and Collection Management Librarian for the New England School of Law Library.

Edward earned his MSLIS from Simmons College, his JD from New England School of Law, and BA and MA in history from Valdosta State University.

He has been a member of AALL since 2000 and member of ALL, GD, and TS Special Interest Sections. Currently, he is member of the AALL Membership Retention Committee. In 2004, he served on the local hospitality committee for the annual meeting in Boston. Was an active member in LLNE from 2000-2005, serving as its Government Relations Chair, 2003-05. He is now a member of SEAALL and serves as chair of the chapter's Membership Committee. He also was the academic library member of the Massachusetts Committee for Relations with Information Vendors for 2002-2005, serving as chair 2004-05.

Candidate for Secretary/Treasurer:
Wendy E. Moore
Photograph: Edward Moore.

Moore Statement:

When I first began working in law libraries 9 years ago, TS-SIS helped me learn and navigate the peculiarities of legal materials and gave me support in knowing that there are other technical services librarians dealing with the same challenges. I am honored to be nominated as Secretary/Treasurer for TS-SIS and if elected would work hard to provide TS-SIS with the continuity, consistency, and attention to detail necessary to carry out the duties outlined in the TS-SIS Handbook. Serving as a member of the TS-SIS Executive Board, I would work to strengthen TS-SIS service to its membership and to provide a voice for technical services issues to the wider AALL membership.

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Candidate for Member-At-Large:
Richard O. Paone
Photograph: Richard Paone.

Paone Statement:

I want to run for office because I believe I can contribute more to TS-SIS than articles and columns.
The challenges to TS-SIS are the same as those facing all of us as individuals. The Section must remain relevant to all law librarians who work in the technical services area, whether as catalogers, serials librarians, acquisitions or database management. We must struggle with new cataloging rules, such as RDA, that are ever closer to implementation. Metadata and FRBR can be of great benefit to patron use of our catalogs, once we gain an understanding of them. New integrated library systems offer improvement, but implementation can be difficult and lengthy. Finally, encouragement of member participation is vital. Our member library professionals have so much to offer, and yet may be reluctant to contribute. Fresh input is vital, if TS-SIS is to remain important to our profession, indeed, vital in furtherance of our profession and to educate us as technical services professionals.

Paone Bio:

I have been a member of AALL since 1986, when I began library school.

I have belong to TS-SIS and OBS-SIS since Jan. 1994.

I have attended every AALL annual conference since 1993 (CONELL) except 2004 and 2006.

I am a contributing editor to Technical Services Law Librarian ("Serials issues" column, 2005-present)

I have written two articles for TSLL, one on cataloging 3 dimensional items ("Oh no - a Board Game: Some Tips for Cataloging This Unlikely Acquisition." Technical Services Law Librarian. Vol. 24, no. 3 (1999))
and one on cataloging ICAO publications ("Trials and Tribulations of Cataloging ICAO Materials" Technical Services Law Librarian. Vol. 30, no. 3 (2005)).

I am a member of the TS-SIS Cataloging and Classification Committee.

Candidate for Member-At-Large:
Betty Roeske
Photograph: Betty Roeske.

Roeske Statement:

Networking via the Technical Services SIS has been a valuable resource throughout my professional life. I feel very fortunate to have access to so much expertise. As print resources cease to exist and the information is only available electronically, the role of the Technical Services personnel is changing. It is important that we maintain standards and guidelines just as we have for the print resources over the years. This quality control is an important function of the TS SIS. The TS SIS Board maintains the charges that guides the committees in this valuable work.

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