Faculty and Staff Accolades (2018-19)

Liz Beckman, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, Special Collections Research Center

  • Presenter, "'Stuck in the Middle with You': Advocating for Students, Interns, and Wage Employees as a Middle Manager in University Special Collections," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia (April 2019).

Kathleen Bell, Grants, Planning, and Assessment Analytics Officer

Amanda Brent, Processing Coordinator, Special Collections Research Center

  • Member, Program Committee, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia (April 2019). 

Theresa Calcagno, IT & Engineering Librarian, Sciences and Technology Team

Heather Darnell, Librarian for Dance, Film Studies, and Multimedia Literacy

  • Participant, Institute for Research Design in Librarianship, for her proposed project, "The Information-seeking Behavior of Filmmakers," Los Angeles, CA (June 2019).

Kimberley Edwards, Information Analyst, Access and Resource Management

  • Vice Chair, Potomac Technical Processing Librarians (2018-2019).
  • Co-editor, Assessment Strategies in Technical Services (2019).
  • Co-presenter, "Responsibilities & Workflows: Keeping Agile in a Rapidly Changing Environment," American Library Association Midwinter Conference, Seattle, Washington (January 2019).
  • Co-presenter, "Managing our Metadata: Pre- and Post-Migration Planning and Workflows," American Library Association Midwinter Conference, Seattle, Washington (January 2019).
  • Co-presenter, "Linked Data Workflows: A Tale of Two Unis," Ex Libris Users of North America Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (May 2019).
  • Co-presenter, "Responsibilities & Workflows: Keeping Agile in a Rapidly Changing Environment," MetroCats, Arlington, Virginia (May 2019).

Brittney Falter, Research Services Coordinator, Special Collections Research Center

  • Moderator, "Engaging and Inspiring: Promoting Archives Through Social Interaction," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia (April 2019).
  • Presenter, "Tweet Others the Way You Want to be Tweeted," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia (April 2019).

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

  • Presenter, "Mentoring Novice Manuscript Editors," Music Library Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri (February 2019).

Stephanie Grimm, Art and Art History Librarian, Arts and Humanities Team

  • Panelist, “Comics for All: the Role of Libraries in Comics Culture and Scholarship,” Comics Studies Society Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (August 2018).
  • Co-Author, “Panel Problems: Issues and Opportunities in Webcomics Web Archiving,” Art Documentation: the Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America (Fall 2018).

Jo Ann Henson, Business & Economics Librarian, Social Sciences Team

  • Chair, CABAL - Capital Area Business Academic Librarians (2018-2019).
  • Presenter, "Factiva - a tool for Business Research Instruction.” CABAL/BLINC (Business Librarians in North Carolina) Joint Annual Conference, Richmond, VA (July 2018).

Kim Hoffman, Lead, Science and Technology Team & Mercer Library

Debby Kermer, Data Services Research Consultant, Digital Scholarship Center

Tricia Mackenzie, Head, Metadata Services

  • Accepted, Leadership Legacy Program, George Mason University.
  • Co-presenter, "Responsibilities & Workflows: Keeping Agile in a Rapidly Changing Environment," American Library Association Midwinter Conference, Seattle, Washington (January 2019).
  • Co-presenter, "Managing our Metadata: Pre- and Post-Migration Planning and Workflows," American Library Association Midwinter Conference, Seattle, Washington (January 2019).
  • Co-presenter, "Linked Data Workflows: A Tale of Two Unis," Ex Libris Users of North America Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (May 2019).
  • Co-presenter, "Responsibilities & Workflows: Keeping Agile in a Rapidly Changing Environment," MetroCats, Arlington, Virginia (May 2019).

Wendy Mann, Director, Digital Scholarship Center

George D. Oberle, History Librarian, Arts and Humanities Team & Affiliate Faculty, Department of History and Art History

Beth Roszkowski, Team Lead, Social Sciences & Head, Arlington Campus Library

  • Co-author, "Self-directed achievement: Building a culture of professional development." In C. Ippoliti (Ed.), The savvy academic librarian’s guide to technological innovation: Moving beyond the wow factor (2018).

Jen Stevens, Team Lead, Arts and Humanities

  • Accepted, PhD in Writing and Rhetoric program, George Mason University.

Diana Tippett, Development Assistant

  • Recipient, Certificate of Achievement: Outstanding Student in Virginia/West Virginia Program, Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Texas (April 2019).

John Zenelis, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian

  • George Mason University Representative, Governing Board, Washington Library Research Consortium (2018-19).
  • Member, Executive Committee, Governing Board, Washington Library Research Consortium (2018-2019).