Presenters and Facilitators

Jeanne Boyle is Associate University Librarian for Public Services and Communications at Rutgers. She has also served at Rutgers as director of the science research libraries and in a variety of public and technical services positions. Before coming to Rutgers, she held positions at the Newark Public Library and with the legislative reference service at the New Jersey State Library. In her current position, Jeanne is responsible for coordinating the Libraries' public services activities on the three campuses in Camden, New Brunswick/ Piscataway, and Newark as well, as interlibrary loan and document delivery services, imaging services, public relations and publications activities, and the Libraries' Web site. Jeanne chairs the ACRL Copyright Committee and manages the listserv of the ACRL Public Service Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group. She is also chair of the Terms of Service, Copyright, and Privacy Policy Committee for the Faculty Development Center of the New Jersey Virtual University. She is a member of the Rutgers Committee to Review University Copyright Policy, serving as chair of the Subcommittee on Scholarly Communication and Fair Use. Jeanne is a double alumna of Rutgers, earning her M.L.S from the School of Communications, Information, and Library Studies and her A.B. from Douglass College, where she majored in English.

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.

Marianne Gaunt has been University Librarian at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey for the last six years. She has spent the largest part of her professional career at Rutgers University Libraries serving in a variety of capacities, including the Director of Alexander Library, Associate University Librarian for Research and Undergraduate Services, and Acting University Librarian. She has also held the position of Head of the Serials Department at the Rockefeller Library of Brown University, and Reference Librarian at the Lavoisier Library of E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Wilmington Delaware. Gaunt's professional interests have focused on humanities computing and digital library management, having developed the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities in the late 80's and the ACRL Discussion Group on Electronic Text Centers in the early 90's. She is currently Chair of the Executive Committee of New Jersey's academic library consortia, VALE (the Virtual Academic Library Environment), chair of the Association of Research Libraries' Scholarly Communications Committee, a founding member of the International Scholarly Communications Alliance, a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries, the Executive Board of Early English Books Online, the Executive Board of the New Jersey Center for the Book, and a member of OCLC's Research Libraries Advisory Committee. On the Rutgers campus, she is currently co-chairing the University's Copyright Policy Review Committee and serves as a member of the Press Council of Rutgers University Press. In April 2000, Gaunt received the Distinguished Service award from the College and University Section of the New Jersey Library Association. Gaunt has a BA in French Language and Literature from Montclair State University, NJ, and an MLS from Drexel University.

Triveni Kuchi is Social Sciences/Instructional Services Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries. She holds an MLS from the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, and an M.A. in Economics from University of Bombay, India. She is the academic liaison from Rutgers University Libraries to the Department of Sociology at the New Brunswick Campus and is the Sociology Bibliographer. Her current research interests include digital reference issues, and library or librarian portrayals and user relationships.

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

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 M.Ed. in Adult and Continuing Education. She is an alumna of Immersion 01, the ACRL immersion program on information literacy. Leslie is the current chair of the Instructional Services Committee of the Rutgers University Libraries, and the vice-chair/chair designate of the User Education committee of the NJ chapter of ACRL and the College and University Libraries Section of NJLA.

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.

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 over twenty-five 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.