Here are some staff you should know who’ve joined the library since last spring.
Sarah Kennedy ’10 started at Mann in July as the Collection Development & Digital Collections Librarian. She coordinates the library’s book selection process (both print and electronic) and serves as the coordinator for liaison services to the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station community in Geneva, NY. Sarah is also the liaison to two departments (Entomology and Food Science). Sarah comes to us from the University of West Virginia, where she was the Agriculture, Natural Resources, Design, and Extension Librarian. Sarah’s net id is sek45.
Kate Ghezzi-Kopel is the Applied Health Sciences Librarian at Albert R. Mann Library. She serves as liaison to the Cornell department of Human Development and the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Kate holds a B.A. in English from Ithaca College and a M.S. in Library and Information Sciences from Syracuse University. Her interests include health information literacy, systematic reviews, social media in libraries, and promotion of evidence-based research practices. Prior to joining Mann Library, Kate was Research Assistant at The Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Intern at the SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library. She also spent several years in academic publishing developing and acquiring content in the fields of biology, communication studies, mathematics, and clinical medicine. Kate’s net id is kwg37.
Chris Johns is our new Lending Coordinator in Mann Interlibrary Loan. Chris has over 15 years experience in the service industry, and has been the owner of Dog Man pet-sitting business since 2011. Chris attended the Finger Lakes School of Massage after moving to Ithaca in 2014 and is a certified massage therapist. As our Lending Coordinator, Chris will be responsible for coordinating all tasks involved with interlibrary lending and Document Delivery services at Mann, and will be the point person for the delivery of library-to-library, Borrow Direct, and interlibrary loan items to the Geneva campus. He will also be working regular shifts on the circulation desk, assisting patrons with their borrowing and poster printing needs. Chris’ NetID is cmj84.
Mary Lee “Mel” Jensen was hired as a part-time reference assistant at Mann Library. She has experience as the Head of Instructional Services and as an Assistant Professor at Kent State University. She was also the Instruction Coordinator at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio. Mel will be working the front lines as a reference assistant where she will help manage reference desk operations, and help triage and answer the thousands of annual questions we get at the reference desk. Her hours will be 8:15am – 1:15pm, Monday through Friday. Mel’s NetID is mj533.
Megan Benson started as another new part-time reference assistant In July. Before coming to Mann, Megan worked in the Orange County Library System in Orlando Florida, and as an Adjunct Professor at Valencia College in Orlando. Megan will also be helping to manage reference desk operations, and helping to triage and answer our volumes of reference questions. Her hours will be 12:00 – 5:00pm, Monday through Friday. Megan’s NetID is mlb459.
Deborah Cooper joined Mann’s Collection Development department as our new Collections Specialist on September 29th. Deborah comes to us from Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) in Olin where she has worked on the arXiv repository team. Previously she worked at the SUNY Cortland Memorial Library where she had reference and collection development duties. She also has Special Collections experience from an internship at the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum of Glass and has done volunteer archival work for Historic Ithaca. Deborah earned an MLIS from San José State University and has a BA in History from Leeds University, U.K. Her net id is dsc255.
This coming spring semester, Mann librarian Sarah J. Wright will again collaborate with the Office of Undergraduate Biology to offer BIOG 3020: Seminar in Research Skills for Life Sciences.
It’s Cornell winter break and the campus is settling into some deep winter quiet. Too quiet for you? Wondering how you might be able to fill your time until the start of the spring semester? Please allow us to name you a few ways Mann can help you with that:
Picture this: You’re working on a systematic review or literature search and you’ve come up with 1,000+ citations. Great! But now what? It takes time to read and select relevant articles, coordinate decision making with your collaborators, and organize your results. When you’re doing a review, this article-screening process can quickly become a daunting task.
As any good researcher knows, there’s no magic wand for getting good research done. But there are some pretty helpful tools out there, and one of the most promising that we think you should know about is PowerNotes, a new desktop application that can make online research much more organized and efficient. PowerNotes is presently free for all Cornellians with a “cornell.edu” email address.
For over two decades, Mann Library’s online collection of free and open-access geospatial data for New York State—known as CUGIR, or, the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository—has served analysts, policy makers and citizen scientists across New York and the world. A recent CUGIR redesign has made finding and downloading geospatial data from the site ever easier. Also new and particularly important for GIS-focused scholarship at Cornell and beyond: CUGIR is now designed to accept geospatial data gathered by Cornell researchers doing work not just in New York State but anywhere in the world.
