Nominees for GLA Academic Division Officers - July 2008

Vice Chair/Chair Elect

Lorene Flanders

E. Lorene Flanders was appointed Professor and Director of Universities Libraries at the University of West Georgia in 2005. She is a member of the Association of College & Research Libraries and the American Library Association, and served on ALA’s Emerging Leaders Selection Committee in 2006 and 2007. A member of the Library Administration & Management Association, she served as the mentor for the 2006-2007 ALA/LAMA Emerging Leader project “Millenials in the Workplace.” She currently chairs the Awards Committee of Georgia Library Association and serves on the GLA Scholarship Committee. She is a member of Southeastern Library Association, the University System of Georgia’s Regents Academic Committee on Libraries, and the Library Council of the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education. She has served as a bibliographer for the Georgia Historical Society since 1999, developing the bibliography of Georgia history materials published annually in the Georgia Historical Quarterly.

Yadira Payne

Yadira Velazquez Payne is a Puerto Rican army brat that was raised in Europe and Japan. She is a married mother of 2 teens. Her interests are in fine arts, travel, cultures, languages, swimming, and reading. She recieved her BA in Spanish (Culture; not Education) with a Minor in Cultural Diversity from Augusta State University in May 2003 and her MLIS in June 2007 from Drexel University via their incredible online program. Currently, she is the Government Documents Librarian at Augusta State University's Reese Library. Even though she is a neophyte librarian she is interested in running on the ballot as vice-chair/chair elect for GLA's Academic Division so that she may learn from this well rounded group as well as contributing in a highly active way. She is interested in GLA's Academic Division because it is a non-stagnant ever evolving group that does not fear change and embraces life-learning. While her professional experience is brief she is the GLA's Gov Docs Interest Group's current Secretary and the vice-chair/chair elect; she is on the GLA Handbook Committee; she was on this years ballot for ALA's GODORT secretary; she has certified the Spanish translation for ALA's ACRL Guidelines for Academic and College Libraries; member of ACRL's Anthropology and Sociology Section; member of ALA's Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange; member of ACRL's Women's Studies Scetion; and member of ACRL's Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee. She applied for and recieved one of the nationally competitive grants from ALA and Nextbook for Let's Talk About it:
Jewish Literature for the theme Modern Marvels. This neophyte librarian is aspiring to take an active role in GLA's Academic Division and to grow with its members thus becoming family.

Secretary/Treasurer

Patty Phipps

Patty Phipps has been a Catalog Librarian at Georgia Tech since 2003.  Her professional activities include GLA and Academic Library Division membership since 2004.  She was elected as GLA 2nd V.P./Membership Chair for 2005.  She served as Chair-Elect and Chair of the GLA Technical Services Interest Group in 2006 and 2007.  As member of the GLA Georgia Library Quarterly Board, she co-edited the book reviews column from Spring 2006 to Spring 2007.  She has participated as a member of the GLA Government Documents Interest Group (GDIG) since 2005, serving as a member of the nominating committee for officers in 2006.  She has attended the GaCOMO conferences and GLA midwinter meetings since 2004.  Patty has been a member of ACRL since 2004.  She served as Secretary of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Georgia Chapter from mid-2005 through 2007.  She was editor of the SLA Information Technology Division's bi-monthly bulletin b/ITe from mid-2006 to 2007.  She edited the program and publicity materials for the SLA SARC III Conference Public Relations Committee in 2005. Patty currently serves as a member of the ALA GODORT Cataloging Committee (2008-2009). 

Lisa Smith

I am an Information Services Librarian at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. I began my library career at Georgia Southern University in 1989 after receiving my M.L.S from the University of Alabama. I worked as a Reference Librarian for several years before my strong interest in health sciences librarianship prompted me to accept a position as an Outreach Medical Librarian for the Magnolia Coastlands Area Health Education Center. In that position, I served as the coordinator of Project INFORM (Information for Rural Medicine), an Information Access Grant project from the National Library of Medicine designed to provide reference service, document delivery, medical information resources, and computer access to rural and underserved hospitals and clinics in a 39 county area throughout southeast Georgia.

In 2005, I earned an M.Ed in Instructional Technology, and in July of 2006, I returned full-time to Georgia Southern to work once again in the Information Services Department. My major responsibility centers on information literacy. I recently served on the Georgia Southern First-Year Experience (FYE) Taskforce which undertook the challenge of revising the First-Year Student Orientation course and other aspects of the first year experience. While serving on that Task Force, I worked to ensure that information literacy was included in the list of learning outcomes. In addition to working closely with the FYE, I serve as the subject specialist and liaison to the School of Nursing, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Biology. I have presented at COMO several times, both on health education topics and information literacy. Throughout my years in the field I have enjoyed attending the Academic Division programs.

ACRL Representative

Rubye Cross

Rubye Cross is the Periodicals Librarian for the Collection Acquisitions Management Department at Georgia Institute of Technology, and enjoys the challenges presented in serials management. She has over 20 years of library experience, including 7 years in public libraries and 14 years in academic libraries. She has worked in both technical services and public services. Rubye currently is responsible for ordering and receiving serials in print, oversight of any needed binding of all library materials, and maintains the Current Periodicals stacks. In addition to her other duties, Rubye is also a member of NASIG, serves on the ALA ACRL University Libraries Section Committee (Membership), the GLA Membership Committee, and is the Secretary of the Technical Services Interest Group for GLA.

Dewi Wilson

Born in California, I lived in the Los Angeles area until 1952. Teenage years were spent in Marietta, Georgia: I received my diploma from Marietta High School in 1958. My college education took place at Vanderbilt University (BA and MA in French, 1963 and 1968), in Nashville.
I lived in France, studying and teaching English, 1965-8. I came to librarianship late, after many years as a manager of retail stores, a French teacher, and a travel agent. One of my clients suggested that I enroll in library school, which turned out to be congenial to me. I graduated (MLS) from Clark Atlanta University’s School of Library and Information Studies in 1990. For the next three years I worked part-time at a law firm, Cobb County Public Library in Marietta, The Carter Center of Emory University, and the Sturgis Library at (then) Kennesaw State College. I was very happy to become a full-time reference librarian in the fall of 1993, at Kennesaw State, where I have been ever since.

My specialty at Sturgis Library has been Reference Collection Development. I have participated in many projects with faculty from different departments, especially in areas having an international connection, such as our annual “Year of…” programs that feature an academic exploration of foreign countries. I give many bibliographic instruction sessions each semester, and I have taught or co-taught several honors courses.