Shelly Phipps (Class of 1972)
Shelly works right here at the University of Arizona Library. Shelly was the recipient of the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award in 2002. Of note: Carla Stoffle, Dean of Libraries and former Acting Director of SIRLS and Allen Veanor, SIRLS adjunct faculty have also won this prestigious award. The award honors her work in organization and staff development, particularly her efforts to bring learning organization concepts to library's that are structuring for the future, her many official posts within ACRL as chair of 2 divisions, service on program planning committees, and support of strategic planning for ACRL, and her leadership role in helping the University of Arizona and other libraries develop team-based, customer-focused organizational structures. Shelley is currently the Assistant Dean for Team and Organization Development at the University of Arizona Library in Tucson where she has spent her entire professional career (with one year at Duke University as a CLR Management Intern).

John Howard Carter (Class of 1998)
John is the manager of instructional support services at Southern Illinois University's Morris Library in Carbondale, Illinois. John has had both an article published and has presented a poster session in 2002. The details are as follows: Publication: Snyder, Carolyn, Howard Carter and Mickey Soltys. "ATC: All That Collaboration," Library Administration and Management v. 16, no. 4, (Fall 2002), pp. 194-197.
Poster Session: "Changing the Tires Without Stopping the Bus: Reinventing Morris Library," with Susan Tulis, Illinois Library Association Annual Meeting, September
2002.

Jan Knight (Class of 2000)
Jan Knight, an independent research consultant and Owner of Bancroft Information Services, will be helping small businesses understand that market research and competitive intelligence is within the reach, and the budget, of small companies. Among her many activities, she recently led a workshop entitled "Jump Start Your Own Market Research using the Internet" at a February 26th meeting of the Arizona Small Business Association (ASBA).

Kurt W. Wagner (Class of 1994)
Kurt is the Head of Library Information Systems in the David and Lorraine Cheng Library at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. He is currently managing his Library's migration from DRA to Endeavor and inaugurating a wireless laptop loan program for the Library. He has also designed and continues to manage the Library's web page at www.wpunj.edu/library. All of this and he is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and he occasionally teaches at the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He married Victoria Heenan in June 2001. She's head of Lending Services at the Library.

Sue (Susan J.) Trombley (Class of 1999)
Sue is Catalog Librarian at Arizona Health Sciences Library. Her current professional position is a direct result of a SIRLS Internship in the Technical Services Dept. that she did as a SIRLS student in 1998, with then Dept. Head, Mary Holcomb (also a SIRLS grad). When the internship ended, the job was converted to a Student position; when she graduated from SIRLS, it was converted to a Professional, project-oriented position; then to its current form. Sue has published the article: "Database management: errors in the catalog!" Catholic Library World, 71(4): 220-224. (Revision of paper presented in 2001, at a Medical Library Assn annual regional meeting.) Sue explains that she has a nursing background and that she feels that this background with her SIRLS degree makes her current position ideal.

Gary W. Markham (Class of 1997)
Gary is Assistant Librarian and Head of Music Cataloging at Florida State University. He joined the faculty in 2000. Mr. Markham previously served as the Technical Services and Catalog and Electronic Resources Librarian at Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas. After receiving the B.A. degree in music from Roanoke College in 1984, he studied musicology at Virginia Commonwealth University under the direction of Dika Newlin, a noted Schoenberg scholar, and received the M.M. degree in Flute Performance in 1988, graduating with academic and performance honors. In 1997 he received the M.A. from the University of Arizona, Tucson, where he majored in Information Resources and Library Science, specializing in music librarianship. His writings have been published in various publications, most recently in the Library Journal in 2000. As a flutist and piccoloist, Markham frequently performs in solo and ensemble venues and was the principal flutist in the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra before coming to FSU.

Mary Feeney (Class of 1998)
Mary is the Social Sciences Librarian & SIRLS Liaison at The University of Arizona Main Library. In just the last year she has made the following presentations: "So You Want to Be a Librarian?: Getting the Most Out of Your Graduate Library Program Experience." Presented with Lisa Hussey at the Arizona Library Association (AzLA) Conference, Phoenix, AZ, December 2002 and "The Performance Effectiveness Management System." Presented with Shelley Phipps, Joe Brewer, and Rae Swedenburg at Living the Future 4: Collaboratively Speaking, A Library Conference on Organizational Renewal, Tucson, AZ. April 2002.

Natalie Giauque (Class of 2000)
Natalie is currently Head Librarian at the South Campus Library at Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a distance student, Natalie worked for Salt Lake County Library System and for Stoel Rives Law Firm before taking her present position.

Christine Schmidt (Class of 2001)
Christine is currently employed by Denver Public Schools. This is her second year at Rishel Middle School. During her first year (2001-2002) as well as this year they have received "Statewide Recognition as a Developing Colorado Power Library". This is a cooperative project of the Central Colorado Library System and the Colorado State Library. They are one of only a few schools in the DPS district to receive this honor.

Elizabeth Gowens (Class of 2002)
Elizabeth is the Assistant Librarian at DeVry University in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Abbie Zeltzer (Class of 2002)
Abbie continues to work with two Tohono O'odham libraries since completing her internship with the Gates Foundation Native American Access to Technology Project. Abbie completed an IMLS Professional Assistance Grant Needs Assessment of the San Xavier Learning Center. Currently she is facilitating the New Planning for Results (strategic planning) for the Venito Garcia Library and Archives in Sells, Arizona, funded by the Arizona State Library.

Jennie Stapp (Class of 2002)
Jennie Stapp receieved the Montana Library Association Sheila Cates Scholarship for 2002, presented a paper entitled Creating and Archives Study Program at the University of Arizona at the Conference of Intermountain Archivists in May, did an internship at the Western Archaeological and Conservation Center and landed a job right out of school as the Technical Services Librarian at the Montana Historical Society.

Christine Dykgraaf (Class of 2002)
Christine received the Outstanding (local) Student Award for 2002 from SIRLS and she has decided to go on to earn the Ph.D. in Library Science at SIRLS. She works as part time as classified staff at the University of Arizona Main Library. She will be presenting a paper at the annual conference of The Middle East Studies Association of North America in Anchorage, Alaska in November. Her paper title is: "The Ramifications of the USA PATRIOT Act and Other Post-September 11 Legislation on Middle East Collections at Major U.S. Research Institutes."

Teresa Wilt (Class of 2002)
Teresa is Assistant Librarian at the Research Library for the Legislative Counsel Bureau in Carson City, Nevada. She is in her 4th year at SIRLS; but was hired with the requirement that she finish the degree in 2-3 years. Teresa insists that she would not have this job if it were not for the SIRLS Distance Ed. program. And she "LOVES" her job. She has created the Library's website, available at: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/lcb/research/library