Faculty and Staff Accolades (2015-16)

Kathy Butler, Health Sciences Librarian

  • Co-Author, “Research consultation assessment: Perceptions of students and librarians.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 42(1), 83-86 (January 2016).

Jason Byrd, Head, Information Services

  • Co-Author, “Research consultation assessment: Perceptions of students and librarians.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 42(1), 83-86 (January 2016).
  • Co-Presenter, “Making Connections with One Button Studio,” Maryland Library Association Meeting (May 2016).

Erika Coronado, E-Resources Specialist

  • Recipient, University Libraries’ Library Staff Excellence Award (Fall 2016).

Kimberly A. Edwards, Information Analyst

  • Presenter, “Oh, That’s Where That Went: Managing a Physical Inventory Using Microsoft Access,” Ex Libris Users of North America Annual Meeting (May 2016).
  • Co-Chair, D.C. ExLibris User Group (2016).
  • Co-Chair, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Catalog Management Interest Group (2016).
  • Member, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Monographs Board (2016).
  • Member, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Planning Committee (2016).
  • Member, Voyager Product Working Group (2016).
  • Member, Library Information Technology Association, Program Planning Committee (2016).
  • Co-List Owner, MarcEdit Listserv (2016).
  • Board Member, Potomac Technical Processing Librarians (2016).

Michael English, Online Learning Coordinator and Instruction Librarian

  • Co-Presenter, “Embedding the Librarians, Embedding the Students: Creating a Community of Inquiry in Online Library Instruction,” NCLA College and University Section Virtual Conference (March 2016).
  • Co-Presenter, “Making Connections with One Button Studio,” Maryland Library Association Meeting (May 2016).

Ian Fairclough, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian

  • Participant, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Global Council, as an alternate delegate from the OCLC Americas Regional Council, Dublin, Ohio (April 2016).
  • Presenter, “What’s in a Name (Authority Record)?  Rose is a Rose, but is Rosie?”, Virginia Library Association Professional Associates' Forum, Williamsburg, Virginia (May 2016).

Steven K. Gerber, Music, Theater, and Philosophy Librarian & Adjunct Professor, School of Music

  • Presenter, “Behind the Benign: Contextualizing a Photograph of Girls Playing Recorders” (an interpretation of a 1933 photograph from Mason Libraries’ Special Collections that illustrates musical activities of Hitler Youth), Southeast Music Library Association Annual Meeting, Duke University (October 2016).
  • Along with Dr. Jesse Guessford, School of Music, awarded a $25,000 grant from Mason’s Students-As-Scholars program (December 2016). In Summer 2017, Gerber and Guessford will hire and mentor four undergraduate music researchers to create open-access performing editions of 18th- and 19th-century musical manuscripts at the Library of Congress.

Peggy Griesinger, Metadata Librarian

  • “Process history metadata for time-based media artworks at the Museum of Modern Art, New York,” Journal of Digital Media Management vol 4. no. 4 (2016).
  • Contributor, “Resource Guide for Underserved Student Populations,” as part of the American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leaders 2016 program. Peggy and her co-authors presented a poster about this resource at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida (June 2016).

Claudia Holland, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Officer

  • Appointed George Mason University Representative to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia-Open Virginia Advisory Committee (January 2016-Present).
  • Delegate and Planning Committee Member, 2016 Open Scholarship Initiative Conference, hosted by the National Science Communication Institute, UNESCO, and George Mason University (April 2016).

Joi Jackson, Online Learning Library Specialist

  • Co-Presenter, “Embedding the Librarians, Embedding the Students: Creating a Community of Inquiry in Online Library Instruction,” NCLA College and University Section Virtual Conference (March 2016).

Madeline Kelly, Head, Collection Development

  • Presenter, “What is “Good Enough” Collection Assessment?”, ASERL Collection Assessment Practices Webinar (February 2016).
  • Book review, Getting Started with Demand-Driven Acquisitions for E-Books. Journal of Web Librarianship, vol. 10, no. 2 (April 2016).
  • Book review, Data Visualizations and Infographics. Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 42, Issue 3 (May 2016).

Maoria Kirker, Instruction and Assessment Coordinator

  • Presenter, “Teaching Squares: Shaping Up Instruction through Peer Observation,” Washington Research Library Consortium Annual General Meeting, Arlington, Virginia (March 2016).

Phat Le, Lead Systems Technician

  • Recipient, University Libraries’ Library Staff Excellence Award (Spring 2016).

Andrew Y. Lee, Social Sciences Librarian

George D. Oberle, History Librarian

  • Completed PhD dissertation, Institutionalizing the Information Revolution: Debates over Knowledge Institutions in the Early American Republic (2016).
  • Book Review, Richards, Robert J., and Lorraine Daston, eds. Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty : Reflections on a Science Classic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, in CHOICE Vol. 54 no. 2 (October 2016).
  • Book Review, Rader, Karen A, and Victoria E. M. Cain. Life on display: revolutionizing U.S. museums of science and natural history in the twentieth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, in CHOICE (May 2015).

Genya O’Gara, Associate Director, Virtual Library of Virginia

  • Co-Author, “Sharing the Spotlight: Open Access Publishing and Undergraduate Research,” in K. Smith and K. Dickson (Eds.), Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Implementation. Rowan Littlefield (2016).
  • Co-Author, “Changing the Conversation: Using Agile Approaches to Develop and Assess Collections Holistically,” Charleston Conference 2015 Proceedings (2016).
  • Co-Author, “The Evolution of Collaborative Collection Development within a Library Consortium: Data Analysis Applied in a Cultural Context,” in B. Doherty (Ed.), Space and Organizational Considerations in Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations. IGI Global (2016).
  • Book Review, Edward M. Corrado and Heather Lea Moulaison’s Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, & Museums in Archival Issues (2016).

Anne Osterman, Director, Virtual Library of Virginia

  • Co-Author, “The Evolution of Collaborative Collection Development within a Library Consortium: Data Analysis Applied in a Cultural Context,” in B. Doherty (Ed.), Space and Organizational Considerations in Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations. IGI Global (2016).
  • Co-Presenter, “ICOLC Collaborative Usage Statistics Initiative,” ICOLC North America (April 2016).
  • Co-Author, “Introduction to Usus, a Community Website on Library Usage, and a Discussion about COUNTER 4,” Serials Librarian (June 2016).

Michelle Polchow, Electronic Resources Librarian

  • Book Review, Amy Affelt's The Accidental Data Scientist: Big Data Applications and Opportunities for Librarians and Information Professionals, in Against the Grain (April 2016).

Beth Roszkowski, Lead, Social Sciences Team and Arlington Campus Library

  • Recipient, University Libraries’ Distinguished Faculty Award (April 2016).
  • Co-Presenter, “Unleashing Staff Potential: Professional Development Through Self-Directed Achievement,” Maryland Library Association Meeting (May 2016).

Jen Stevens, Team Lead, Arts and Humanities

  • Member, ACRL Literatures in English Section Membership Committee (2016).
  • Co-Presenter, “Mapping Artists' Books through the Digital Humanities,” College Book Art Association 2016 Conference, Nashville, Tennessee (January 2016).
  • Book Review, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, CHOICE #53-2469 (February 2016).
  • Review, MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest interface), CHOICE #53-3317 (April 2016).

Joy Suh, Geospatial Resources Librarian

  • “From Traditional to Crowd and Cloud: Geospatial Data Services at GMU,” in L. Kellam and K. Thompson (Ed.), Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice, American Library Association (June 2016).

Robert L. Vay, Archivist

  • Presenter, “Mason: the First 15 Years,” College of Humanities and Social Sciences Alumni Event (June 2016).

Patricia West, Head, Gateway Library

  • Co-Presenter, “Embedding the Librarians, Embedding the Students: Creating a Community of Inquiry in Online Library Instruction,” NCLA College and University Section Virtual Conference (March 2016).
  • Co-Presenter, “Making Connections with One Button Studio,” Maryland Library Association Meeting (May 2016).
  • One of 42 participants selected for the American Library Association Leadership Institute, a four-day immersive leadership development program for future library leaders (June 2016).

John Zenelis, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian

  • Chair, Nominating Committee, Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (2016).

The Special Collections Research Center team created the following exhibits

  • Collections of Distinction: Primary Source Materials in the George Mason University Libraries (March-April 2016).
  • When We Were "This Year's George Mason": Mason's Run to the Final Four (April–June 2016).