MLIS DAY

Patricia Profeta

Patricia Profeta has a 36 year professional history within higher education. She currently leads the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at Indian River State College as its Associate Vice President with the areas of Grants, Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment, and Employee Development under her purview. Prior to her AVP responsibilities, she most recently served as the Dean of Libraries at IRSC where she led its multi-campus library system. Part of the team that established the College’s Pioneer River Press, she liaises as its Research Manager when needed. She participates as a peer leader for the College Foundation’s Lifelong Learning Institute. She sits as an active member of the Indian River County 4-H Foundation Board. She earned her BA and MLS degrees from Rutgers University, a certificate in community college education from the University of Central Florida, and a PhD in Information Science from Nova Southeastern University. Prior library employment includes faculty positions at Rutgers University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She has authored and/or edited various grant applications, articles, and chapters; presented at the state and national levels on topics such as accountability, assessment, copyright, accreditation, government resources, strategic planning, multi-literacies, and knowledge management; and served in leadership roles on institutional, state, and national library and education committees. She serves as an evaluator for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges. She was recognized by the Association of Florida Colleges with the 2015 statewide Leadership Excellence Award. She has been recognized with numerous exemplary practice awards for technological applications, library practices, and teaching techniques. She is an avid reader, DIYer, and a dog owner to a recalcitrant Dachshund named Riley.

Lorelle Anderson

Lorelle Anderson received her Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1997, and her Masters in Library Science from the University of Maryland in 1999. As a library student, she worked for Covington and Burling in their legislative library in Washington DC. Post-graduation, she spent six years as a law firm librarian at Crowell & Moring LLP before becoming the Assistant Director of Public Services at the Florida A&M University College of Law.

Tina Buck

Tina Buck is an Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Central Florida, currently focusing on coordinating electronic resources cataloging and maintaining electronic serials holdings. She has been a technical services librarian for more than 20 years, with experience in cataloging, acquisitions, collection management, integrated library system functionality, and discovery layers. Tina holds a Master’s of Library Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Political Science, both from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to working at UCF, Tina was the Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.

Shalu Gillum

Shalu Gillum is Head of Public Services at the UCF College of Medicine’s Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library. She received her JD from Nova Southeastern’s Shepard Broad Law Center and her MLS from the University of South Florida. Ms. Gillum began with the library as Public Services Librarian in 2010. She currently oversees the reference, instruction, circulation, outreach, and marketing aspects of the library. She is a senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). She is currently participating in Year 13 of the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute.

Cynthia Kisby

Cynthia Kisby is the Personnel Librarian and Head of Regional Campus Libraries for the University of Central Florida in Orlando. She has coordinated online searching, library instruction, and staff development services at UCF and has experience as a librarian in public, school, medical, and academic libraries. Cynthia is a former teacher and Peace Corps volunteer, past president of FACRL and a former executive board member of the Florida Library Association. She received her MALS from Dominican University, her BA from U of Illinois, and a Diplome Annuel from La Sorbonne, Universite de Paris. She was certified by the Society for Human Resource Management for 2003-2006.

Stacy Bloomingdale

Stacy Bloomingdale received her MLS from the University of South Florida in 2014 and her BA from UCF in 2011. She currently works as an adjunct at Valencia College Libraries in Technical Services as a Catalog Librarian and at Daytona State College as an Adjunct Reference Librarian.

Grace Moore

Grace Moore studied English and French at Rollins College, and has a master’s degree in Library Science from UNC-Chapel Hill. As a student, she worked and volunteered in various public libraries, with a focus in youth services, as well as the libraries at UNC and at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She worked for two years as Children’s Librarian at Selby Public Library in downtown Sarasota, and since January 2015 has been the Tween Librarian at Winter Park Public Library, where she selects materials and presents programs for middle grade readers.

Dr. Penny Beile

Dr. Penny Beile is Associate Director of Research, Education, and Engagement at the University of Central Florida Libraries. Prior to UCF she worked at University of Kentucky, Miami University in Ohio, and Louisiana State University. Penny holds a M.Ed. and M.L.S. from the University of Kentucky and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from UCF. She has published extensively on information literacy assessment and test construction and has served as a consultant to Educational Testing Service for the iSkills assessment and to Carrick Enterprises for both the SAILS and TATIL assessments. She has never questioned her decision to be a librarian and wonders how the 25 years she’s been a librarian have passed so quickly.

Nardia Cumberbatch

Nardia has been a full time librarian at Valencia College since 2014. Previously, she was an adjunct librarian at the John C. Hitt Library at the University of Central Florida. During graduate school, she was the webmaster for FAME (Florida Association for Media in Education).

David Hartman

David Hartman has a Master’s degree from FSU and an undergraduate degree from UCF (History). He has worked in public libraries (Louisville, GA), academic libraries (Valencia Community College, Osceola Campus), and special libraries (Harcourt Brace) before finally settling into his dream job at Walt Disney World as the Walt Disney Attractions Technology Librarian, a position he has held for 20 years. He is co-compiler of the six volume work, Biographical Rosters of Florida’s Confederate and Union Soldiers, 1861-1865.

CJ Ivory

CJ Ivory is Assistant Professor and Instructional Services Librarian at the University of West Georgia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Central Florida and Master of Library & Information Science from Florida State University. She began her professional career as a Librarian Intern in the Business & Science Department of Miami-Dade Public Library System. She has also held librarian positions with the University of Central Florida, Everglades University, and Valencia College.

Edward Meyer

For 38 years Edward Meyer, Vice President of Exhibits & Archives for Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, has traveled around the world collecting unusual stories and unbelievable artifacts to fill Believe It or Not! books and museums. He is a walking encyclopedia of information, some strange, some gross – but all true! He has acquired over 20,000 different museum artifacts, everything from a pin valued at $1 million dollars, to a two-trunked elephant, to Marilyn Monroe’s happy Birthday Mr. President dress, to Lee Harvey Oswald’s mortuary toe tag, to a meteorite from Mars. The list is endless. Editor of the famous Ripley’s Believe It or Not! newspaper syndicated cartoon, and books, producer of countless Ripley museum films, and a researcher for over 200 hundred Ripley television shows, Meyer has appeared on radio and television programs around the world as the Ripley historian and raconteur, the man with the world’s best job!

Peggy Nuhn

Peggy is a Regional Campus Librarian located at Seminole State’s Sanford/Lake Mary campus. She earned her B.S. in Business Administration from Franklin University and her Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. She began her library career managing a municipal bookmobile service, and worked in public libraries before transitioning to academic librarianship. Peggy supports the UCF/Seminole State concurrent nursing program by providing library instruction to nursing students at the Altamonte campus, and is also embedded in nursing research classes each semester. She is a graduate of the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute, and has served as Region 3 Director of the Florida Library Association (FLA). She is presently serving as a member of the Executive Board of FLA.

Mary Page

Page serves on the library advisory boards for Oxford University Press and the National Academy of Sciences. She has made presentations at the Charleston Library Conference, and at American Library Association annual and midwinter conferences, Page is a past president of NASIG, the North American Serials Interest Group, and a past president of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association.

Carol Seiler

Carol Seiler, MLS, has been with EBSCO as an Account Services Manager for 10 years. Carol has worked within or for libraries for many years with experience in public, medical, and academic libraries. She is a certified Serials Holdings trainer with SCCTP (Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program) as well as CHIS (Certified Health Information Specialist) with MLA (Medical Library Association).