Meet the Officer of QCGLISSA ( Queens College Graduate Library and Information Studies Student Association or LISSA to the hip crowd)!
Mark Alpert – President
I'm a comicwright and curmudgeon and have been teaching either high school or college for the last decade. Previous to the presidency, I served as Secretary for LISSA and after I (finally) graduate I intend to continue my work in academia.
Dahlia Wisner – Vice-President
This is my second year as a public library oriented MLS student, and I currently work at the Leo Baeck Institute. I studied the environmentand politics as an undergraduate, and have a strong interest in green libraries and library-related activism.
Brian Mahoney – Treasurer
I am undertaking the MLS as a way to enter archival work and pull together my lifelong interest in photography and documentation with more recent life experience in digitization. I have long been involved as a volunteer, in staff and board levels in community based- and national non-profit organizations.
Raymond Solga – Secretary
I am in my final semester at Queens and I have worked at the library reference desk for about a year. I have wanted to pursue a career in academia since I was an undergraduate, so I plan on becoming an academic librarian and I intend to pursue a second Masters degree in History right after graduation.
Mary Tyson – Webmaster
My primary background is in art, split between fine art painting and graphic design in children's educational publishing. Studying library and information science for me is a path toward public service, and a way to explore information-seeking in an art library setting.
Students in the News
Heather F. Ball will be presenting a paper and sitting on a panel at the 44th Annual International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan in May 2009.
She will also be on a panel for the New York City Regional Archives Student Association that same month.
Busy as a bee, she is also the author of an article tentatively titled "Enhancing Archival Curricula to Incorporate Digital Technologies.” It will be published in the winter issue of Metropolitan Archivist.
Katy Seon Hepner and Kimmy Szeto have been selected 2008-09 ALA Spectrum Scholars. The scholarship includes a one-year, non-renewable, $5000 scholarship, a one-year ALA student membership and a trip to the annual meeting of Spectrum Scholars t the LA summer annual conference. http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/July2008/OFDspectrumscholars.cfm
Amy Johansson's son Lukas Jacob Johansson was born on Tuesday, August 26th at 12:42 PM. He weighed 7.4 lbs and was 21 inches long! She is a third generation librarian and fully expects that the fourth generation is now in place.
Yesha Naik has been employed as a Librarian Trainee at Brooklyn Public Library since November 2007. Her specialty is Young Adults.
Gregory August Raml is a Photo Collection Assistant at the American Museum of Natural History Library - Special Collections Department.
Alumi in the News
Salamah Adjoua-Mullen (06) is a Library Media Specialist at the Howard T. Herber Middle School in Malverne NY .
Matthew Bollerman (99) Library Director at the Westhampton Public Library ( Suffolk County , NY ) was elected to the position of Vice President/President-elect of the New York Library Association's Public Library Section. His term begins at the Annual Conference in November 2008.
John Carey (08) is a Reference/Instructional Librarian at the Health Professions Library:Hunter College Libraries, Brookdale Campus. He wants everyone to know that he was an English major.
Danielle Castronovo ('08) has just accepted a position as the new Archives and Digital Collections Librarian at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Robert Cognato (00) is the Head of Reference at Deer Park Public Library.
John Fahs (08) presented a poster done, in part, for GSLIS 753 (Cool) and GSLIS 790 (Surprenant) at the Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference at Bucknell in the Spring of 2008. You can see his project at flicker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25153598@N04/sets/72157604364389053/
Sarah Gentile (07) & Jen Cohlman (07) are co-presidents of the Greenpoint Brooklyn Library Friends Group.
Sarah Gentile (07) is a Digital Imaging Specialist at the Brooklyn Museum .
Lori (Gluckman) Winterfeldt (05) is Chief, Library Service at the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System - NY Campus .
Liz (08) and Dan Guarino have published a pictoral essay book entitled Broad Channe l (Arcadia Publishers, 2008). It traces the history of the island community that is the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay . The volume, from Images of America series, was compiled using vintage photographs from personal collections and public and private archives; original essays accompany each photo.
Toby Krausz (07) is a metadata librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library.
Martha Lerski (07) had an sculpture show entitled "Spirit of Art," a long-evolving oak piece, at the Ceres Gallery; July 15 and August 9.
Randi Levy (04) is a school librarian at Learners and Leaders, a brand new Early Childhood School (preK-3)in Ridgewood, Queens .
Michelle Mansella-Young (99) Program Director at the Oceanside Library received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the National Library Association, entitled "Picturing America."
Eric McCarthy (06) is now a librarian with the US Army in Europe .
Andrea Nicolay (06) is a Senior Librarian specializing in adult services at the Mulberry Street branch of The New York Public Library.
Michael Rios (03) is an Adult Librarian I at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Philadelphia .
Stephanie Rosenblatt (07) is the Education Librarian at California State University , Fullerton .
Mark Sgambettera (08) has written an article entitled "Historical Societies" published in the third edition of the “Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences.
Winter S. Shanck (06) Archivist, in the Reference Library/Tape Archive at New York 's public broadcasting television station Thirteen/WNET, was among the five Special Libraries Association members who received the Diversity Leadership Development Program (DLDP) Award at SLA Annual Conference in Seattle in June 2008.
Robin Chasen Siefert, formerly Robin Chasen (01) is a librarian at Dowling College and Katharine Gibbs School . Among her other duties she has been teaching Information Literacy.
Patrick Trickel (08) is the Copyright Coordinator at Wested [ California ] ( www.wested.org ) that prepares standardized exams for grades 3-12.
Dawn Zeig (08) was nominated and selected as the New Jersey Association of School Librarians sponsored Emerging Leader for ALA. They are sending her to the ALA Midwinter Convention in Denver and the annual convention in Chicago .
