Sherry Huffer Technical Services 40 years

1
Sherry Huffer ? Technical Services ? 40 years

• Hired in 1968 and has spent all 40 years in the
  library.
• Began in data entry, when we used keypunch
  machines.
• For many years our interface with Vanderbilt
  Accounting.
• Still responsible for paying many of the invoices
  in Order Services.
• Has a very generous spirit, and is a very
  talented cross stitcher.

2
Paula Covington ? Central Library ? 35 years

• Latin America and the Caribbean A Critical Guide
  to Research Sources (General Editor and
  contributor).  
• Recipient of the José Toribio Medina Award for
  outstanding contribution to research and
  scholarship in Latin American Studies. 
• Former President of the Seminar on the
  Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials
  (SALALM), an international association of Latin
  Americanists, and Panelist, International
  Congress of Americanists, Warsaw.  
• Project Director, National Endowment for the
  Humanities grants Contributor, NEH grant for
  Cuban preservation and digitization project.

3
Skip Pfeiffer ? TV News Archive ? 35 years

• He has dedicated his entire 35 years of service
  at Vanderbilt to the Television News Archive.
• Skip is the rock of the TV News Archive.   
• He has indexed or abstracted more of the 800,000
  plus items in the Archive database than anyone
  else -- probably more than everyone else!    
• Skip is a great tennis player and was once
  described as like playing against a wall every
  ball is returned. 
• He is also a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball fan. 

4
Alice Cunningham ? Technical Services ? 35 years

• Hired in 1973 in GTS, when we were the Joint
  University Libraries.
• First job was filing and searching in the
  National Union Catalog.
• Has worked in verification since 1980.
• Our verification historianvaluable for
  historical procedures.
• An excellent cook and party organizer!

5
Sue Davis ? Technical Services ? 30 years

• Studied Art History, worked in circulation and
  copy cataloging.
• Graduate of Peabody Library School.
• Became our first Preservation Librarian.
• Reminds us to guard carefully the materials in
  our care, paper as well as digital.
• Known for her sense of humor.

6
Russ Mason ? TV News Archive ? 30 years

• Russ has dedicated his entire 30 years of service
  to the Vanderbilt Television New Archive. 
• Among his many jobs, he is the one who records
  the news every night as he has done for over 20
  years. 
• Russ is always looking for ways to improve the
  collection.
• Russ family has him all over the country son
  Neil a drummer with his band American Bang often
  on the road, daughter Kate who went away to
  School in Southern California, and wife Jennie,
  who lives in New York and sometimes makes
  commercials in Australia. 
• Russ is a softball player, rotisserie baseball
  participant, and a Cubs fan.

7
Brenda McKee ? Law Library ? 25 years

• Started in Resources Services in 1983. After 5
  years, moved to the Law Library and has been
  there ever since.
• Believes in volunteering at VU, her sons schools
  and at church.
• Brenda is a member of ALA, a Notary, a Deputy
  Dore, and she sings with the Head Notes.
• She is most proud of her family and they all love
  Vandy!

8
Larry Romans ? Central Library ? 25 years

• Bibliographer for Political Science,
  Communication Studies, European Studies, Leisure
  Reading, and Managerial Studies former
  bibliographer for History and Economics. 
• Larrys Government Information web page has been
  featured in USA Today. Only Wikipedia the
  American Political Science Association page
  outrank his Political Science page on Google. 
• Member of ALA governing Council since 1992 and
  current member of the ALA Executive Board. 
• Former Chair of ALAs Government Documents Round
  Table (GODORT) and winner of its two top awards
  -- the Documents to the People Award for
  outstanding leadership and the James Bennett
  Childs Award for lifetime contributions. 
• An early promoter of instruction, Larry began the
  Communications Studies BI sessions 20 years
  before becoming the disciplines bibliographer.
  Personally gives more sessions annually than were
  done by the entire Central Library 25 years ago.

9
MAT Trotter ? Divinity Library ? 25 years

• MAT was hired as student circ desk worker in the
  Divinity Library August 1979.
• In 1983, she became the full time staff asst. to
  Dorothy Parks.
• MAT has worked in the Annex, Science Library, as
  a Research Asst. to Malcolm Getz, and on the
  Microcon project in GTS.
• She returned to the Divinity Library in 1994.
• Mat enjoys gardening, reading and cooking.

10
Janet Thomason ? Central Library ? 25 years

• Hired as Circulation Supervisor at the Science
  Library in December 1983.
• Became Circulation Supervisor of the Central
  Library in February 1985.
• Since that time, supervised various Central
  Library departments including Reserves, Microform
  Media, Periodicals, Stack Maintenance and
  Reference Maintenance, and Building Services.
• Headed the barcoding project for Central Library
  in preparation for the switch to an automated
  library system was a member of one of the
  committees charged with selecting an automated
  library system both in 1986 and again in 1996.
• Chair of the Disaster Preparedness Taskforce, as
  a part of the Preservation Self Study conducted
  in 1992.
• Survived the renovation experience of Project
  Havoc in 1987, and coordinated the pulling of
  books from floors that were closed during that
  time. Became the resident expert on the fire
  alarm system in the GLB, and now provide training
  and updating of the evacuation plans for the
  Central Library.

11
David Carpenter ? Central Library ? 20 years

• Hired as the Psychology Bibliographer in 1988,
  and has covered many subject areas including
  Anthropology, Economics, datafiles, and
  Sociology. 
• Served as Head of Reference at Central Library
  for over 6 ½ years and completed a 1-year term
  as Acting Director of Walker Management Library
  until September 2006. 
• Currently serving as Acting Director of Central
  Library since July 2007 (following a
  coast-to-coast hike across Scotland with his wife
  in May 2007 to prove his stamina for the new job
  challenge!). 
• Lives in and commutes from Bowling Green where
  his wife, Michael Ann Williams, is the head of
  the department of Folk Studies and Anthropology. 
• Loves travelling to Scotland and the Maritime
  Provinces plays the mandolin, belongs to the
  Nashville Old-Time String Band Association, and
  attends the annual 4 day MerleFest in North
  Carolina each year.

12
Dewey James ? OUL ? 20 years

• Dewey started working full-time for the library
  in 1988, though he started here earlier than that
  with VTS.
• He was promoted to supervisor of copier services
  and building services manager in 1994.
• In 1997, he became supervisor of the mailroom
  operation as well.
• Dewey was awarded an Innovation/Creativity award
  in 2005.
• Dewey has a Private Pilots License, and enjoys
  riding motorcycles with his dog Tiki, he is
  certified in both Auto Mechanics and High Power
  Rocketry.

13
Deborah Brooks ? Management Library ? 20 years

• Deborah began as a serials control clerk at
  Walker Management Library. Her role has evolved
  countless times since then, currently Manager of
  Operations, but remains Deborah the Psychiatrist
  is IN Brooks.  
• Graduated from Peabody, worked for Ingram
  Industries, and found her professional calling
  as an honorary librarian.
• Deborah was nominated for a Commodore Award.
• Loves being a grandmother to her three
  grandchildren Tyler, Derriona and Gabrielle.
• Originally from Mobile, AL she makes a killer
  jambalaya, but misses being near the ocean, so
  she vacations by water whenever possible.
• Basketball, football, Olympics, you name it,
  Deborah loves sports she holds season tickets
  to Vanderbilt Football.

14
Denise Chavez ? Technical Services ? 20 years

• Natural teacher
• Attention to detail working with authorities
• Interested in technology, both hardware and
  software
• Shows concern for her co-workers
• Involved with Girl Scouts as trainer and leader

15
Linda Tesar ? Law Library ? 20 years

• Reclassified thousands of titles including the
  Law Librarys entire foreign and international
  collection, the state reporters, administrative
  reports, and legislative histories.
• Coordinated various projects to correct, add or
  amend the Law Librarys U.S. government documents
  collection in Acorn, including a piece by piece
  survey of 114,000 items.
• During the Law Schools renovation, orchestrated
  the transfer of 24,000 volumes to the Annex, the
  removal of 8,000 volumes from the collection, and
  the preparation for storage of 18 tons of U.S.
  government documents.
• Organized, created inventory guides for, and
  began digitizing the Law Schools collection of
  documents from the Krupp trial in Nuremberg.
• Involved in various activities for the American
  Association of Law Libraries including 2002/2003
  Placement Committee chair, editor/design editor
  of Technical Services Law Librarian, and
  2008/2009 chair of the Technical Services Special
  Interest Section.

16
Linda Hand ? Technical Services ? 20 years

• Hired in the Serials Department in GTS in 1988.
• The welcoming face everyone sees when they arrive
  in Order Services.           
• Always makes a positive contribution to morale
  and efforts of Order Services.
• Tenacious problem solver.
• Proud grandmother.

17
Yvonne Boyer ? Central Library ? 20 years

• Bibliographer for Art, History of Art, French
  Italian, and Librarian for the W.T. Bandy Center
  for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies.  
• Getty Research Institute Scholar Associate,
  Special Collections Library, 2007-2008.  
• President of Art Libraries Society of North
  America/Southeast Chapter, 2007-2008 and hosted
  Chapter Conference at Vanderbilt, 2007.
• Chair of Romance Language Discussion Group (RLDG)
  and member of the Planning Committee of the
  Western European Studies Section Conference
  (WESS) in Paris, France, 2004.  
• The ARL Editorial Committee selected Yvonnes
  submission of the Gilbert Sigaux Collection of
  the W.T. Bandy Center to represent the Vanderbilt
  Library in the ARL 75th Anniversary publication,
  Celebrating Research Libraries Rare and Special
  Collections from the Membership of the
  Association of Research Libraries, 2007.

18
Chris Waldrop ? Technical Services ? 15 years

• Serials receiver since 1993 began in Order
  Services Mail Room
• Go-to person for electronic journal or database
  order problems
• Expert in Workflows as a tester, trainer,
  resource to others
• Quirky sense of humor poet, renowned joke- and
  story-teller
• Devoted to the family Dalmatian show dogs and
  cat, Hugo

19
Robert Wright ? Central Library ? 15 years

• President of the Association of Information
  Technology Professionals for two years.
• Presently the newsletter editor for Association
  of Information Technology Professionals.
• Have served as a Technology Support Coordinator
  since the beginning of that function.
• Developed the basic billing procedures for
  Central, Divinity, and Peabody libraries.
• Self-described as part customer service
  representative, late night Reference librarian,
  sometime security person, occasional handyman,
  and full-time night time face of the Circulation
  Department of the Vanderbilt Central Library.

20
Jeffrey Taylor ? Technical Services ? 10 years

• Recently promoted to LAIV in Cataloging and
  Authorities Team.
• Cataloged all Vanderbilt and Peabody theses and
  dissertations from 1998-2008.
• Enjoys a challenge translates French for fun,
  volunteered to learn map and music cataloging.
• Almost finished PhD in Philosophyall but
  dissertation.
• Fan of William S. Burroughs.

21
Melinda Brown ? Central Library ? 10 years

• Melinda started as the Economics, Philosophy, and
  Womens Studies Bibliographer, and her job title
  has changed four times in 10 years.
• She coordinated the development and
  implementation of the 2007 Vanderbilt Visions
  library session seen by approximated 1700 first
  year students. 
• Co-founded the Committee on Undergraduate
  Information Literacy (CUIL) made up of
  representatives from all four libraries that
  served undergraduates, the Writing Studio and the
  Center for Teaching, as well as other interested
  University parties. 
• Served as Acting Head of Reference and
  Instruction Coordinator for the Central Library
  since January 2008. 
• Recipient of 2 Library Innovation /Creativity
  Awards.

22
Regina Berry ? Technical Services ? 10 years

• Has a B.A. in Russian, minor in European Studies
  from Vanderbilt.
• Has also studied Czech, French, German, Spanish,
  and Uzbek.
• Formerly worked in Office of Schedules and
  Reservations for Sarratt Student Center.
• Fast worker always willing to take on new tasks.
• Long-time Nashville resident who walks to work
  each day.

23
Kitty Porter ? Science Engineering Library ?
10 years

• Start date of September 1, 1998.
• Has achieved Fifth Level of Understanding in all
  matters SFX.
• Will testify in any court of law that dogs really
  are Womans Best Friend.
• Would agree with the sentiment that being a
  grandmother is great fun.
• Although Kitty is highly intelligent, she is
  currently unavailable to be Secretary of the
  Treasury.

24
Joseph Collins ? Management Library ? 10 years

• Joes library career began as Evening Circulation
  Supervision, Walker Management Library (1998)
  Stacks Assistant, Annex (1999) Evening Access
  Services Supervisor, Walker Management Library
  (2006).
• Danced hip-hop on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in
  May '08 for the Father/Daughter dance with Green
  Hills School of Dance.
• Loves snowboarding so much he worked at a Ski
  Resort living in cramped dorm-like conditions  so
  he could get a "free" Season Pass. -Mammoth Mtn.
  CA (1991).
• Met his wife serendipitously when they both
  decided to "runaway" to Colorado. He worked at a
  Youth Hostel while she was staying there.
• Attended school for 5 months in Cannes, France
  attended the Cannes film festival of 1987 and
  backpacked through Europe at the same time.

25
Molly Dohrmann ? Special Collections ? 10 years

• Molly has processed the largest collection ever
  received in Special Collections ,the Louis
  Nichols Papers, which has 444 boxes.
• One of Mollys fortes is conducting oral history
  interviews. She is praised by the interviewee as
  putting them at ease and being a cheerful
  interviewer. This is a natural for her, as she
  worked at WPLN as an interviewer of noted
  writers.
• She is a graduate of the George Peabody College
  Library School.
• Molly has a Scottish Terrier named Robert Burns,
  or Bobbie for short, that she dotes on.

26
David Hughett ? OUL ? 10 years

• David has been involved with both interlibrary
  lending and borrowing since he came to ILL in
  2003.  
• He has collected comic books since his childhood.
  He frequents the Great Escape weekly, and his
  work area is protected by Cthulhu. 
• Before ILL stole David away, he worked in the
  Central Libraryfrom 1998 to 2001 with
  Circulation for stacks maintenance, and from 2001
  to 2003 in stacks maintenance for both
  Circulation and Referenceand has an encyclopedic
  knowledge of the collections. 
• Prior to Davids current 10 years with the
  Library, he also worked here (1984-1988) in
  newspapers and current periodicals. 
• David earned his M.Ed. degree from Tennessee
  State University in 1992, and Masters work in
  History at Vanderbilt in 1984.

27
Celia Walker ? Peabody Library ? 5 years

• Celia joined the Library in 2003 in the role of
  Director of Communications and Institutional
  Advancement. She has chaired both the
  Communications and Staff Development committees.
  She coordinated the Librarys many development
  activities in cooperation with the Universitys
  Alumni and Development operation.
• Celia took on the role of director of the Peabody
  Library in 2007, first in an acting capacity and
  then for the longer term. 
• Celia has served as one of the grants team and
  contributor to the Volunteer Voices IMLS funded
  project. 
• Celia grew up in east Tennessee and is a long
  time resident of Nashville having attended
  Vanderbilt for her masters degree in Art History.
  Before her library life, Celia was senior
  curator for American Art at Cheekwood.  Celia
  received her masters degree in Information
  Science from UTK in 2005.
• She has two children, Grace, who is a student at
  Indiana University and Paul who is a senior at
  Battle Ground Academy. Her cats keep her company
  at home, too, and she spends a great deal of time
  gardening and cooking and pickling the results.

28
Jodie Gambill ? LITS ? 5 years

• Archives Assistant, Special Collections, July
  2003-May 2007.
• LITS, Term Professional, May 2007 to present.
• MS in Information Science, May 2007 (UTK)
• Web committee and co-web mistress Tenn-Share.
• ALA New Members Round Table.
• Loves dogs and football.

29
Lara Beth Lehman ? Peabody Library ? 5 years

• In fiscal year 2007/2008, Lara Beth entered an
  amazing 4,176 new items to the Curriculum
  Materials Center catalog.
• She serves as co-chair of the Tennessee Library
  Association Reference Roundtable.
• She loves to read and is an avid fan of
  childrens literature.
• She is a devoted East Tennessee native.
• She loves rock tumbling and makes jewelry with
  the polished rocks.
• She is a music fan, remaining faithful to her
  college bands on tour.
• She is a wonderful combination of an easy going
  and exceptionally enthusiastic person.

30
Kelly Lockaby ? Central Library ? 5 years

• Pulled all the volumes to be transferred to the
  Library Annex from the 3rd, 5th, and 7th floors
  of Central Library in support of the massive
  transfer project.
• Helped move all the books from the 2nd floor to
  the 3rd floor of the Central Library--and then
  removed all the shelves from the 2nd floor to get
  ready for the Divinity renovation project. 
• Moved all the bibliography collection (5704
  volumes) from the 4th floor to other
  locations--and removed the shelving to create
  room for the Leisure Reading collection and a
  popular new study area. 
• Pulled all 1,253 bound periodicals for the JSTOR
  project, so that the volumes could be transferred
  to the Library Annex. 
• Replaced all the dim, faded labels from volumes
  in our bound periodicals collection with new,
  easy-to-read labels.

31
Brent Tenpenny ? Management Library ? 5 years

• Brent has worked at 3 libraries in the Jean
  Alexander Heard system  He began work as
  Periodical Department Supervisor, Education
  Library (1983) Evening Supervisor, Walker
  Management Library (1986) Coordinator of Access
  Services, Education Library (1987) Serials
  Department Supervisor, Massey Law Library (1994)
  and Access Services Manager, Walker Management
  Library (2003).
• Worked in private industry where he established a
  corporate records management system and led a
  conversion of records to digital format
  (1998-2003).
• Selected to work on a new Faculty research
  database for the Owen website (2004).
• Appointed as member of the Walker Management
  library renovation project (SEMAT ) task group
  (2006).
• Has experience as a Bartender and an electrician.

32
Greg Weldy ? Annex ? 5 years

• Greg wants to rename the Library Annex
  Million-O-Books (and yes, he does shop at
  Books-A-Million).
• If he didnt work for the library hed like to
  design rock gardens.
• His recreational goal is to build a canoe from
  bamboo chopsticks.
• Greg and his wife Pia enjoy building park trains.
• Did you know Greg has participated in
  archaeological digs to Guatemala and hes had
  interesting travels in Spain, Mexico and Chile?