NISO Two-Part Webinar - Where Does it Live? Part Two

Helping people gain a greater understanding of the information community — our issues and concerns, challenges and opportunities — is core to NISO's mission. Our events are a key element of this, with our popular webinar program at their heart. And, following the NISO/NFAIS merger earlier this year, all NISO members can now attend all 14 webinars in 2020 completely free of charge! This includes an unlimited number of places and full access to a recording of each webinar for anyone who is unable to attend the event itself.

Ben Walker is the Assistant Dean for Digital Services and Shared Collections at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF). He has worked at UF since 2004, and my research interests include library storage, leadership, and collaborative projects.

Boaz Nadav-Manes is the University Librarian at Lehigh University. Boaz has broad experience in higher education library administration, most recently serving as Associate University Librarian for Access Services and Collection Management at Brown University, with responsibility for the management of collections budget, as well as oversight of Brown Library collection development, technical services, public services, resource sharing, preservation, and off-site storage. Focused on inclusive leadership, Nadav-Manes strengthens ways by which units and departments can work more cohesively as a unified whole to support the success of students, faculty, staff, and broader community members. Before Brown, he served as a Senior Product Manager in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in Leiden, Netherlands, and held several positions of increasing responsibility at the Cornell University Library. He has been active in leadership roles in a number of professional organizations, including in the Ivy Plus Libraries Collection Development, Technical Services, and Resource Sharing groups. Most recently, he served as chair of the The NorthEast Research Libraries consortium (NERL) Program Council Executive Committee. At Lehigh, Nadav-Manes leads the staff and operations at the Lehigh University libraries and oversees the Lehigh libraries’ budget and the university’s participation in the Mellon Foundation-supported Open Library Environment (OLE) library management system and the evolving FOLIO (The Future of Libraries is Open) initiative.

Darby Orcutt is Assistant Head, Collections & Research Strategy, NCSU Libraries, Faculty, University Honors Program, Affiliated Faculty, Center for Innovative Management Studies, and Affiliated Faculty, Genetic Engineering & Society Center, as well as recently served as the Associate Chair of the Faculty of NC State. A national leader in developing business models for data access for content mining and computational research, his current work revolves primarily around support for interdisciplinary research teams. His regular column in Against the Grain, “It’s High Time,” addresses the future of academic libraries.

Jay Forrest is the Data and Statistical Analysis Manager Librarian. Forrest serves as the subject liaison for the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and to the Master of Science in Analytics programs. His service and scholarship focuses on collaborative preservation of the print scholarly record and on using analytical techniques to evaluate and improve library effectiveness. Forrest earned his A.B. from Duke University (Women's Studies|Comparative Area Studies), and holds master's degrees from Georgia State (Geography), Georgia Tech (City and Regional Planning; History and Sociology of Technology and Science), Florida State (Information Studies), and Kennesaw State (Software Engineering). His recent presentations include "Services for Shared Print Collections" (2018) and " Preserving Assets, Maximizing Investments: A Collaborative Model in Process-Focused Facility Design" (2016).

Rachelle McLain is an Assistant Professor & Collection Development Librarian at the Montana State University Library in Bozeman. Rachelle previously worked as a research librarian for 10 years in the law library at Preston, Gates, & Ellis LLP in Seattle. After relocating to Bozeman in 2016, she began working at the MSU Library as a Research & Instruction Librarian before moving into the role of the Collection Development Librarian. In this role, Rachelle has been deeply involved in inventorying, weeding, and moving a large portion of MSU Library’s print collection to an offsite storage facility including contracting with an outside company and a project manager.

Tim Morton manages the Acquisitions department and serves as the E-resources librarian at the University of Virginia.