Presenters and Facilitators

Vibiana Bowman is the bibliographer for Art, Education, Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion at the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers, Camden Campus, as well as the Robeson Library's Web Administrator. She has a B.A. in education from LaSalle University, an M.L.S. from Rutgers University, and is currently at work on a Master's in Liberal Studies. Her areas of published research include Bibliographic Instruction, Library Community Outreach Programs, Web Accessibility, and Educational Web Design. She has authored chapters in two books: Creating Web Accessible Databases and Government Online. Vibiana is active on the Library Instruction Round Table of the American Library Association and is the President of the New Jersey Library Association College and University Section/ACRL-New Jersey Chapter.

Jeris Cassel is Library Instruction Coordinator and Reference Team Leader, Kilmer Library, New Brunswick Libraries, Rutgers University. She earned her M.S.L.S at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Her M.A. at Mankato State University, Mankato, MN, and her B.A. at Longwood College, Farmville, VA, and has also done other graduate work at University of Virginia and at Hamline University. She began her career as a secondary school librarian at Gloucester High School (VA) where she had the opportunity to build an active library instruction program and teach a senior English class. Her academic library career began at Longwood College (VA) where library instruction and teaching a three-credit course in the school librarian certification program were among her varied responsibilities. Prior to coming to Rutgers, she was the Bibliographic Instruction Coordinator at Gustavus Adolphus College (MN). At Rutgers, she provides instruction for various courses and student levels and, for the past several years, has taught the three-credit library research course for juniors in the McNair Program. Jeris is an active book reviewer, the author of articles on topics such as privacy in the electronic age and the early evolution of NREN, and is the co-author of Critical Thinking: An Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow, 1993).

Mary Fetzer is the Government Resources Librarian for Alexander Library and, as such, has taught over 500 instruction sessions during her tenure at Rutgers. She has held various offices within ALA/GODORT and DANJ (the Documents Association of NJ), has taught workshops on international government documents for the Readex Corporation, and has authored numerous articles and chapters in the areas of both federal and international documents

Karen Hartman is the Social Sciences Librarian at The College of New Jersey. She received her M.L.S. from Rutgers and also has a doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of California, Riverside. Her current interests include faculty-librarian collaboration, instruction and collection development for interdisciplinary fields, and assessment.

Carol Kuhlthau, Professor of Library and Information Science in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, is well known for her research on the user's perspective of the information search process (ISP). She has written numerous papers, articles and books, including Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services and Teaching the Library Research Process. She is a frequent presenter on information literacy and user instruction. She is the recipient of the American Library Association Jesse Shera Research Award, the Miriam Dudley Bibliographic Instruction Award, the AASL Distinguished Service Award, and the 2002 Library and Information Technology Association Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology.

Patricia O'Brien Libutti, Ph.D., is the Social Sciences/Education Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries, Archibald S. Alexander Library. She has focused on issues involved in developing virtual collections in her present position, as well as when a Cybrarian, ThinkQuest, Inc. Leadership positions include Planner, ACRL New Publications Program 2003: "Get Me to The Press on Time"; Chair, ACRL/EBSS, and Cybrarian Caucus Chair, SLA/NY. Past publications include Libutti, P. O.(1999).(Ed.). Librarians as learners, Librarians as teachers: The diffusion of Internet expertise in academic libraries. Chicago: ALA/ACRL, 1999 and Libutti, P. O. & Gratch, B.(1995). Teaching information retrieval and evaluation skills to education students and practitioners. Chicago: ACRL/ALA. Currently, Patricia is preparing Digital resources and education libraries: Innovation, invention, and implementation, to be published by ACRL. She most enjoys being a member of the Puppeteers of America.

Jackie Mardikian has over twenty-two years experience in health sciences librarianship. Since 1991, she has served on the library faculty as Medical Librarian at Rutgers University, Library of Science and Medicine. Prior to that, she was on the library faculty at the State University of New York, Health Science Center Library at Syracuse and as Director of Library Services at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ms. Mardikian is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, a certification program of the Medical Library Association. She has served on numerous Boards of library organizations and as Chair of many committees including the Medical Library Association and the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.

Kevin Mulcahy received his both Ph.D. in English Literature and his M.L.S, from Rutgers University. He currently serves as Reference Team leader at Alexander Library at Rutgers, selector for English & American Literature and Linguistics, and Arts & Humanities Team leader. He is the incoming Chair of the New Brunswick Library Faculty. He served for several years as Instruction Coordinator at Alexander Library, and remains an active paraticipant in library instruction.

Leslie Murtha is an Instruction and Information Services Librarian for the Rutgers University Libraries. She has a B.A. in Theater Arts, and an M.L.S. from the School of Communication, Information, and Library Service at Rutgers University, and is currently working on an Ed.M. in Adult and Continuing Education. She is an alumna of Immersion 01, the ACRL immersion program on information literacy, and has recently made a presentation on learning assessment at a program sponsored by the ACRL/NJ User Education Committee. Leslie is the current chair of the Instructional Services Committee of the Rutgers University Libraries.

Eileen Stec is the Instruction and Outreach Librarian at the Rutgers University Mabel Smith Douglass Library where she coordinates all information literacy instruction. During the last year, she designed an online interactive multimedia academic integrity tutorial. Before entering the Library and Information Science program at Drexel University, she spent more than a dozen years practicing as a psychiatric social worker. That training transfers well to the instructional setting. Eileen reports that she is slowly recovering from her severe allergy to statistical analysis.

Stephanie Tama-Bartels received her M.L.S. from the School of Communication, Information, and Library Science at Rutgers University. She is an Instructional Services Librarian for Rutgers University Libraries and coordinates user education for Alexander Library. Ms. Tama-Bartels also has a juris doctorate degree and is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which she did actively for several years prior to entering the M.L.S. program. She is a member of the Rutgers University Libraries' Instructional Services Committee and a Member-At-Large of the NJLA College & University Section/ACRL New Jersey Chapter.

Roberta Tipton is currently Instruction Coordinator, Business Librarian, and Public Administration Bibliographer at the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers Newark. She has worked in government, medical, corporate, and academic libraries for thirty years. After being appointed to oversee instruction in 1992, she was astonished to discover how quickly that one activity took over her job and her life.

Marilyn Wilt joined the Rutgers University Libraries as Training and Learning coordinator in June 2001. Prior to joining the libraries, Marilyn has been director of training and development in both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. She served as Vice President for Programming, and as President of the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development. Marilyn has presented locally, regionally, and nationally on a variety of subjects. She has management experience in both professional music and professional theatre (including one Broadway credit). Marilyn has an A.B. from Harvard; a Masters' in Social Work from the University of Illinois, Champaigne-Urbana; and a Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from the Fielding Graduate Institute. Her doctoral research explores manifesting understanding of self in performance.

Connie Wu is an Engineering Information Specialist at Rutgers University Libraries. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China and M.S. in Library and Information Sciences from Brigham Young University, Utah. She has completed a number of publications and presented numerous talks and lectures at international and national conferences. Two of her publications won national and state awards in 1993 for the outstanding contribution of research published for the year. Currently, Ms. Wu is an associate representative for the Patent Depository Program of the Patent and Trademark Office of the United States. With her combined expertise in patents, trademarks, engineering, and information sciences, she has provided assistance and consulting services to patent law firms, publishing companies, and database providers for technology transfer, new product design, and database analysis since 1988.