Election Special

ASDAL ACTION

2019 ASDAL ELECTION SPECIAL

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ASDAL Action

Volume 38, No. S1 | Supplement 2019 ISSN 1523-8997

Editor Neal Smith contents

About ASDAL ASDAL is an organization for individuals interested in Seventh-day Adventist librarianship. The Association was formed to enhance communication between Seventh-day Adventist librarians, and to promote librarianship and library services to Seventh-day Adventist institutions.

The association holds an Annual Conference, publishes ASDAL Action, awards the D. Glenn Hilts Scholarship, and is a sponsor of the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index. The Adventist Library Information Cooperative (ALICE), is a service provided by the Association to give Member Libraries enhanced database access opportunities at reduced cost through collective efforts and resource sharing within the Cooperative. CANDIDATES Letters to the Editor President-elect We welcome your comments and questions. 3 Please submit letters to the editor to [email protected] 5 Secretary Membership is open to those who support the 7 Treasurer goals of the Association. Members receive a one- year subscription to ASDAL Action and discounted conference registration. 9 Constitution and Bylaws Committee

Get Involved with ASDAL 11 SDA Periodical Index Advisory All members are invited to get involved in Committee ASDAL. ON the ASDAL website, select Get Involved on the quick links. 12 Site Planning Committee

ASDAL Executive Committee President: Lori Curtis President-elect: Katy Van Arsdale Past President: Per Lisle Secretary: Heather Rodriguez-James Interim Treasurer: Lori Curtis ASDAL Action Editor: Neal Smith

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Ashlee Chism, MSI Research Center Manager – Office of Ashlee Chism is originally from the U.S. state of Archives, Statistics, and Research Indiana, but now makes her home in Maryland, working as the Research Center Manager at the General Conference of Seventh-day Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, which is Adventists a part of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. She earned a Master of Science in Information, specializing in archives and records management, from the University of Michigan, and has been a member of ASDAL since 2014 or so. She is passionate about making archival materials accessible as broadly as possible and telling stories about Adventist history with those materials. (The stories are fact-based, of course.) Her current research interests include Adventist literary culture, lesser known Adventists (especially women), and, on a completely unrelated-to-Adventists tangent, piracy and pirates (as in the illegal seizure of ships and other sea-going vessels and those who engage in that practice). When she’s not working or researching, you can find her reading, exercising, or listening to podcasts.

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Adorée Hatton, BA (English), MA (Librarianship) Adorée was hired as the first University Archivist at University Archivist & Writing Centre Burman University in 2015. She is responsible for transitioning the archive from a volunteer-based Coordinator - Burman University department to a professional university archive. She works with faculty, alumni, and students to support research projects and university advancement. Adorée was also responsible for creating a Writing Centre on campus and continues to coordinate the program to provide tutoring and writing assistance to students and faculty.

Adorée has been a member of ASDAL since 2015, is currently ASDAL Membership Coordinator, and sits on the Adventist Resources Working Committee, the Archives and Records Management Section Steering Committee, and the SDA Classification Advisory Committee. She was also a member of the Local Arrangements Committee during the ASDAL conference hosted at Burman University in 2018.

Outside of work, Adorée spends her time with family and friends in Lacombe, Alberta, and dreams of travel. She has already visited China, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands,

Belgium, Austria, Germany, and France. The next

place on her wish list is a tour of the Balkan

countries. She also enjoys cooking and journaling.

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Jason St Clair, BA MS Technical Services Librarian – Nelson My career in libraries began as a student assistant at Memorial Library, Pacific Union College Walla Walla College. After graduating in 2005, I was hired to manage the Media Center and then the

Circulation Department. During this time, I

completed my masters degree online through Drexel

University. In 2013 I was hired at Andrews

University to manage the Interlibrary Loan

Department, which quickly (and surprisingly) led to

my promotion to Head of Patron Services. Desiring

a return to the Pacific coast, in 2017 I accepted the

job of Technical Services Librarian at Pacific Union

College, which has given me the chance to round out

my library skills with experience in instruction and

periodicals while also concentrating on my two

favorite areas of library work, cataloging and

collection development.

My wife, Becky, and I have been married since 2004,

and we have 3 children (2 girls and 1 boy) with

whom we enjoy travelling, reading, and playing

games.

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Ruth M Swan Retired Library Administrator Thank you for considering my name for the position of ASDAL Secretary for the 2019 election. This biographical sketch comes to introduce and reintroduce me to the membership.

I have been a member of ASDAL for most of my career and have had the opportunity to assist ASDAL with site coordination and membership, as a frequent conference presenter, and as president

Academically, I have earned two degrees at the masters level and a doctoral degree in information studies. I have enjoyed being on the other side of the desk as well, initially as an elementary teacher (Allegheny East Conference of SDA), university tenured professor, and media librarian (Oakwood College), and then as a library administer as Associate Director of Libraries and Interim Director of Libraries (Florida A&M University). Additionally, I have served as adjunct instructor for several universities and provided volunteer, consulting, and fundraising assistance to our schools nationally and internationally.

My current professional memberships include ASDAL, the Alabama Library Association (ALLA), the American Library Association (ALA), and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). I reside in Madison, Alabama, USA.

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Lori N Curtis, MA MLS Librarian and Archivist WORK HISTORY: 1987-2006 – Assistant Curator of Special Collections / Associate Curator of Special Collections / Head of Special Collections and Archives, University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) 2006 – 2019 – Archivist / Associate Chair / Chair, Department of Archives and Special Collections, Heritage Research Center, and University Archivist, Loma Linda University. Liaison Librarian to the School of Religion. Special collections cataloger.

Currently involved in the following professional organizations:  Society of California Archivists  Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences  American Association for the History of Medicine  American Theological Library Association  Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians  Adventist Resources Section Working EDUCATION: Committee—2006-2018 B.S. Social Studies/History – Pacific Union College  Archives and Records Management (1980) Section—2014-2018 M.A. English History and Early Modern European  President-elect / President / Past History – University of California – Riverside (1983). President—2013-2016 Thesis: 18th and 19th Century Electoral Behavior in  Treasurer—2018-2011 the town of Lewes.  SDA Classification Advisory M.L.S. Special Collections and Rare Book Cataloging Committee—2016-2019 – University of California – Los Angeles (1987).  Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians Thesis: State and Future of Rare Book Cataloging

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Neal Smith Jr, MS JD Scholarly Communications Librarian - Neal Smith is the Scholarly Communications and R.A. Williams Library, AdventHealth Digital Services Librarian at AdventHealth University. He specializes in copyright education and University electronic systems. He builds and maintains digital research platforms for the R.A. Williams Library, supports faculty scholarship, and answers research and reference questions. Prior to joining the faculty at AHU, Neal worked as an intern at the U.S. Copyright Office and a legal reference librarian at the Western New England University School of Law. Neal has an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and a JD from the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where he served as notes editor for IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review.

Neal has been part of ASDAL since 2016, when he served on the Local Planning Committee for the conference held at AdventHealth University. In 2018, he was elected ASDAL Action Editor. Neal looks forward to continuing to be part of the future of ASDAL.

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COMMITTEE (2 VACANCIES)

Darel Bennedbaek, MLIS Librarian Darel earned his BA Hons in English Literature from the University of New Brunswick, Saint John (2008), and his MA in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alberta (2012). He worked at Burman University from 2012 to 2019. At Burman University, he has worked as the systems librarian and in various other capacities, including information literacy and collection development. His primary research recently has been in the perception that students have of librarians (in collaboration with Sheila Clark and Darren George) and the application of VR in universities (in collaboration with the faculties of English, Arts, and Education).

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COMMITTEE (2 VACANCIES)

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ADVISORY COMMITTEE (1 VACANCY)

Cristina Thomsen, MA MS departments, and campus and community committee University Librarian – Southwestern service round out her contributions. Adventist University A multidisciplinary educational background feeds

Cristina’s love of the academic environment. Her BA

in Biology (minors in Chemistry and History), led to

an MA in History of Science. Cristina worked several

years as a medical entomology bibliographer at Loma

Linda University, as an assistant to the Vice President

for Research at the University of Wyoming in

preparing a $6 million grant proposal to the National

Science Foundation, and 13 years as an

environmental historian for Heritage Research

Center in Wyoming. She transitioned to the library

profession, earning an MS in Information Studies at

the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. She has

served as Southwestern’s library director since that

time.

Along the way, language studies and interests in the

natural world continue to engage Cristina. Her extra

commitments at Southwestern include serving as

interim director of Southwestern’s Thomsen

Observatory. Cristina Thomsen is the library director at the Chan

Shun Centennial Library, where she has served since Librarianship as a profession has afforded Cristina 2004. She focuses on library collaboration within the opportunity four times to mentor other college statewide TexShare group, collection development, library directors through the ACRL’s program for grant writing, budgeting, strategic planning, and new directors. Cristina relishes our profession’s outreach. The library renovation in the plans for the commitment to open access to knowledge. next five years, fund raising, and library redesign will comprise much of her focus. Advising general studies students, providing instruction for liaison

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Christy Scott, MISLT Education Services, Assistant Librarian II Christy Scott is the education services librarian at – Center for Education and Research, Peterson Memorial Library, where she coordinates information literacy in the general studies and Walla Walla University Libraries discipline research classes. She holds a masters degree in Information Science and Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri and a B.S. in Elementary Education from Union College. Her professional interests include technology in libraries, children’s literature and services, and media and information literacy. During her time at Walla Walla University, she has been involved in collection management, reference services, interlibrary loan, and information literacy.

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Pamela Stevens Interim Library Director – Kettering Under the auspicious mentorship of Gilbert Abella, College Library Pam Stevens is the Interim Director at Kettering College Library. Her job entails budget management,

special projects management, supervising and

training the circulation manager and student workers,

assisting the technical services librarian, liaison to the

religion department, leisure collection developer and

manager, and outreach services. She has designed

and implemented time saving platforms for faculty,

staff, and students while promoting library

resources. Having a design background has helped

in the creation of interesting and engaging

promotional content as well as helping nursing

students create conference quality research posters.

Promoting the library is natural to Pam as breathing

because everything to do with libraries has always

inspired her even before she became a librarian.

Soon after acquiring her Bachelor of Architecture

degree from Andrews University, Pam acquired her

architecture license and practiced for twenty years. At

a turning point in her life, she studied for and

acquired her Master of Information and Library

Science from Wayne State University completely

online.

Pam is the first wife to the legendary Ernie Stevens

and has two amazing sons and loves dogs and, of

course, reading.

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