Presenters
NDLA 2001
Name
of Presenter: Suzanne Reymer
Contact person’s e-mail address: sreymer@uswest.net
Present Job Title(s) &
Affiliated Institution(s): Statewide Technology
Librarian, Montana State Library
Title of Program: Libraries Build Sustainable Communities Workshop
Description of Program:
This interactive workshop will help library
professionals, staff, and trustees explore what choices they are making and can
make to contribute to healthier, more prosperous, and more equitable
communities. Since the Earth Summit in Rio, sustainable community initiatives
have taken root at all levels of community around the world. Now ALA has
developed this workshop to help you consider how you can help make your
community more sustainable.
Material that presenter(s)
have that is useful for publicity: Web intro to program: http://www.ala.org/sustainablecommunities/intro.html
Name
of Presenter: Jennifer Berry Jones
Contact e-mail: j.jones@mail.infolynx.org
Title of program: MARKETING? BUT WHAT ABOUT MY GENIUS? OR, REWRITES ARE GOOD FOR THE SOUL
Present Job Title: Head, Technical Services,
Bismarck Public Library
Program Description:
Learn the fine art of
coping--and producing—when your book editor asks for more than you ever thought
you could give.
Biography:
A transplanted Easterner (with Western roots) who now considers North Dakota home, Jennifer Berry Jones moved from the Carolinas 25 years ago. Living in the Dakotas rekindled a longtime interest in the Plains and Western history. Her first children’s book, Heetunka ‘s Harvest: A Tale of the Plains Indians, was published in 1995. It was endorsed by the Council for Indian Education and was a 1997 Flicker Tale Award nominee. Who Lives in the Snow? (Court Wayne Press, 2001) is an introduction to winter ecology in a Rocky Mountain meadow. Jones has been Head of Technical Services, Bismarck Public Library, since 1976. In her spare time, she’s reading, writing, collecting 1950’s vintage dolls, baking pound cakes, and spoiling three cats. She and her husband, Wes, are parents of a grown daughter, Elise.
Name of presenter: Carla
Dewey Urban
Mailing address/s:
MINITEX Library Information Network,
15 Andersen Library,
222 21St Ave. S.,
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Contact person’s e-mail
address: dewey002@tc.umn.edu
Title
of Program: CatExpress — A Cataloging
Option for Small Libraries
Present Job Title(s) & Affiliated Institution(s): Manager, Bibliographic and Technical Services, MINITEX Library Information Network
Description of Program:
CatExpress is an affordable and extremely easy-to-use
option for libraries seeking high-quality records that meet cataloging
standards. CatExpress does not require special software, knowledge of MARC
format, or cataloging experience but it provides access to the entire OCLC
WorldCat database (all 46 million records) Come to this demo to judge for
yourself whether it’s as simple as they claim.
Biography:
Carla Dewey Urban is Manager of the Bibliographic and Technical
Services unit at the MINITEX Library Information Network. For the past six
years she has provided training, support and consultation related to cataloging
and the use of OCLC services to libraries throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Name
of presenter: Donna M. Schaff
Contact
person’s e-mail address: ddschaff@pop.ctctel.com
Title
of Program: A Writing Journey
Present Job Title(s) &
Affiliated Institution(s): Director-
Southwest Transportation
Description of Program:
A Writing Journey: From the outside, publishing looks
like a vast and impenetrable maze. In fact, it looks rather that way from the
inside as well. Donna will tell you about her writing journey, sharing her story
of her road to publication despite bouts of frustration, doubts and rejection.
She’ll answer your questions about agents and editors and publishers- -and
since she writes fiction, she’ll be happy to make up answers to questions she
doesn’t know
Biography:
A
voracious reader of all genres, Donna admits to being a hopeless romantic, so
writing romance fiction was a natural. Her first historical romance, Priceless, was a unanimous winner of the
Diamond Dell Debut contest and a “best first book” finalist for Romance Writers
of America’s prestigious RITA award. Donna can’t imagine anything more
fulfilling than writing stories that touch readers’ hearts and take them into a
world peopled with characters they care fiercely about.
While writing Priceless, she
left a demanding career as a bank AVP and accepted a position as a public
transportation director that allows her flexible hours, perfect for pursuing a
writing career. She and her husband have lived in North Dakota almost all their
lives, but love to travel and tour sites to gather research for books. Her
second historical, Just One Kiss, was
a June, 2001, hardcover release by Five-Star (Thorndike Press). Donna is
currently working on a romantic comedy and a suspense novel.
Name
of presenter: Larry Woiwode
Contact
person’s e-mail address: woiwode@ctctel.com
Title
of Program: What Place is North Dakota
Present Job Title(s) & Affiliated Institution(s): Visiting scholar, Jamestown College: Writer, Raiser of Quarterhorses
Description of Program:
Aristocrat of the West, The story of Harold Schafer, 2
discussions of working on 2 biography with 2 living persons, and some of the difficulties
encountered, with one-half presentation time open to questions from
participants.
Biography:
Woiwode’s fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Harpers, Paris Review, Partisan Review, and a variety
of publications, including two dozen stories in The New Yorker. His books include What I’m Going To Do, I Think, Beyond the Bedroom Wall (finalist for the
NBA and Book Critics’ Circle Award), Indian
Affairs, Silent Passengers, and the memoir What I Think I Did, his sixth book to be named a “notable book of
the year” by the New York Times Book
Review. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, has conducted writing seminars across
the U. S. and in Europe, and for four years was director of the writing program
at SUNY-Binghamton. In 1995 he received the Award of Merit Medal from the
American Academy of Arts & Letters, for “distinction in the art of the
short story,” presented once every six years, and has received the Aga Khan
Prize, the William Faulkner Foundation Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize,
among others, and presently resides in rural North Dakota where, with his wife
and family, he raises registered quarter horses.
Name of presenter: Tammy
Mays, MLIS
Contact person’s
e-mail address:
tmays@uic.edu
Title
of Program: MEDLINEp1us: Online Consumer
Health Information
Present Job Title(s) &
Affiliated Institution(s)
Consumer
Health Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Greater Midwest Region
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Library
of the Health Sciences
Description of Program:
Looking for
quality consumer health information on the Internet but finding too much, too
little or inadequate information? This program is designed for public
librarians responsible for information services to the general public. This
class will examine MEDLINEp1us the
new National Library of Medicine website for consumer health information.
Biography:
Biographical Sketch
Tammy Mays,
MLIS
Consumer
Health Coordinator
Greater Midwest Region
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Tammy Mays received her MLIS from the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1997. Prior to joining the Greater Midwest Region, Tammy
was an Associate Fellow (1997-1998) at the National Library of Medicine in
Bethesda, Maryland. After completing the Associate Fellowship program, Tammy
relocated to Wisconsin, where she was the Outreach Coordinator for two years at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health Sciences Libraries.
Currently
as the Consumer Health Coordinator, Tammy is responsible for building a
consumer health program for the region by developing instructional materials,
presenting and exhibiting at professional librarians’ and health professionals’
meetings. She also trains public librarians, consumers and health professionals
to search NLM’s consumer health products and services.
Name of presenter: Jeanne Narum
Contact person’s e-mail address: jnarum@ndak.net
Title
of Program: Genealogy Sources on the
Internet
Present Job Title(s) &
Affiliated Institution(s): Circulation/Technology
Coordinator Minot Public Library
Name of presenter: William DeJohn
Bill
William DeJohn
MINITEX Library Information Network
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
15 Andersen Library
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455—0414
PH: 612/624-2839
1/800/462-5348 FAX: 612/624-4508
Contact
person’s e-mail address: William.T.De-John-1@tc.umn.edu
Title
of Program: MINITEX update
Name
of presenter: Ceil Anne Clement
Mailing
address/s;
Box
1
Hettinger,
ND 58639
Title
of Program: Once upon a story ….
Present Job Title(s) & Affiliated
Institution(s): Teacher
Description of Program:
“Once upon a story…” Story telling, the oldest form of communication is alive & well from festivals to libraries & classrooms & around kitchen tables. This will include history & technique of story telling as well as many tales: multi cultural, audience participation, tales with music and original tales.
Biography:
Ceil
Anne is a fifth grade instructor in the Hettinger, North Dakota, Public School
System. She has been telling stories to school children, library audiences,
civic groups, conferences, and festivals in North and South Dakota and Montana
since 1985. She obtained her Master’s
Degree in Reading and Storytelling from East Tennessee State University in
1991. She belongs to the National Association for the Preservation and
Perpresention0f Storytelling (NAPPS).
Name of presenter: Stella B. Cone
Contact person’s
e-mail address:
scone@state.nd.us
Mailing address/s:
North Dakota State Library
604 East Boulevard Ave.
Dept. 250
Bismarck, ND 58505-0800
Title
of Program: Using the netLibrary
Present Job Title(s) &
Affiliated Institution(s): Head of Reference Services, North Dakota State Library
Description of Program:
An introduction to the benefits of using the netLibrary. How to become a netLibrary member, perform searches, and work with e-Books
Biography:
I am a native of
North Carolina who moved to North Dakota in August of 1988. My educational background included a Bachelors
of Business Administration from
Pikeville
College, Pikeville, KY in 1988. In 1995 I earned a Master of Science in Library
Science form Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion Pennsylvania.
Before joining
the staff at the ND State Library I was circulation manager of Raugust Library
Jamestown College from 1988-1994. I have been a member of the staff of North
Dakota State Library since June of 1995. From 1995 to 1999 I was the Head of
Services for the Disabled and in 1999 I was appointed as Head of Reference
Services. I have been a member of North Dakota Library Association since 1989.
Name
of presenter: Peggy Brooke
Mailing
address/s;
9611
ND 42,
Crosby,
ND 58730
Contact
person’s e-mail address:
Title
of Program:
Present Job Title(s) &
Affiliated Institution(s)
Description of Program: Writing on the Prairie
Biography:
I was born and raised near Crosby, North Dakota,
received my degree in elementary education from Carroll College in Helena,
Montana, and met and married my husband John there. Since 1983 we have lived
and farmed near Crosby. We have four sons who are now grown. I taught every
grade K-6 except 1st grade in my 18 year teaching career.
I have published over a dozen articles for magazines
including Guidepost, Today’s Christian Woman, These Times, and Virtue Magazine.
I have written and published a weekly column called “Windmills”, a woman’s
viewpoint on prairie living, for several North Dakota newspapers.
In 1982, my first book, WHAT PRICE FREEDOM, was
published. It is the story of a year in our life in Montana when my husband
left his banking job to go horse logging. WHAT PRICE FREEDOM was selected as a
feature book for Family Bookshelf in 1983.
JAKE’S ORPHAN is my second book. It is a young adult
novel set on the North Dakota prairie in 1926. It was published in April, 2000,
and has received the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award
for 2001. JAKE’S ORPHAN has also been nominated for the 2001 North Dakota
Flickertale Award. I am currently working on another young adult novel, THE
COLORS OF TRUE, also set in North Dakota.
Name
of presenter: Francie M. Berg
Mailing
address/s;
402
S. 14th St. ,
Hettinger,
ND 58639
Phone
567-2646
Contact
person’s e-mail address: fmberg@healthyweight.net
Title
of Program: Enjoy Health at Any Size: It’s about You!
Present Job Title(s) & Affiliated Institution(s): Adjunct Professor—Univ of ND School of Medicine; Editor-Healthy Weight Journal
Description of Program:
Your body is okay. Your size is
okay. The good news is that scientific research supports the paradigm shift
toward Health at Any Size, away from setting weight loss goals. It’s time to
stop dieting, stop restricting food, stop talking body dissatisfaction, and
instead move on to acceptance and respect of oneself and others. Learn to eat
in normal, healthy ways (both “how” and “what”). Change distorted thinking to
finding the healer within, using positive imaging and self-talk, relieving
stress, and shaping a healthy balance in life. In her presentations Francie
Berg, licensed nutritionist and author of “Women Afraid to Eat” and “Children
and Teens Afraid to Eat,” demonstrates with vivid slide photos, hands-on
activity, and discussion how people can break free in today’s weight-obsessed
world and help others to health and well-being. She advocates a shift to the
new Health at Any Size paradigm that encourages everyone to eat well, live actively, and fèel good about yourself and others.
Biography:
An internationally known authority on weight and
eating, Frances M. Berg, MS, is editor, publisher and founder of Healthy Weight Journal. She is a
licensed nutritionist, family wellness specialist, and adjunct professor at the
University of North Dakota School of Medicine. The author of ten books, Berg
has presented seminars at national and international conferences, and been a
guest on national television, including Leeza, Qprah and Inside Edition. Her
Latest books are Children and Teens Afraid to Eat: and Women Afraid to Eat.
Material that presenter(s)
have that is useful for publicity: Web intro to program: http://www.healthyweight.net Click: Seminars/workshops or : Press Room
Name
of presenter: Dr. Edward F. Keller
Mailing
address/s;
529
2nd Ave. W.
Dickinson, North Dakota 58601
Phone: 701-225-5302
Contact person’s e-mail address:
Title
of Program: Changing Times
Present Job Title(s) & Affiliated
Institution(s): Retired dentist and a
full time author
Description of Program:
“Changing
Times”.... Growing up on the Dakota prairies in the 1920’s and the 1930’s …..
how
in my retirement, I wrote eight
books and self-published six of them…the latest book is “My Mother’s Apron”. .
.a childrens history picture book.
Biography:
Dr. Edward F. Keller was born in Strasburg, North
Dakota. He attended a rural one room school near his farm and a seminary high school
-in Canton, Ohio. After three years in the military, he attended St. Thomas
College, St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated from Marquette University School of
Dentistry, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. Keller began his writing career five years
ago, after retiring from 42 years of practicing dentistry in Dickinson, North
Dakota. He resides with his wife, Shirley, in Dickinson. They have seven grown
children and 15 grandchildren.
Some of my
presentations have been:
At the 2000 North Dakota teachers convention, at the 2001 Bad1ands Reading Conference, at collage creative writing classes, at teachers groups, adult groups,nursing homes, and at 41 North Dakota schools to 4th grade North Dakota history classes.
Name
of presenter: Cathy A. Langemo
Contact person’s e-mail address: cathy_langemo@nisc.cc
Title
of Program: Tracing Your Dakota Roots
Present Job Title(s) &
Affiliated Institution(s): Partner-
Dakota Roots
Additional Presenter(s): Jo Ann B. Winistorfer (partner in Dakota Roots)
Description of Program: See Biography
Biography:
Jo Ann B. Winistorfer is the retired
associate editor of the North Dakota REC/RTC Magazine, headquartered in Mandan,
North Dakota. She was with the magazine for 30 years, as an artist, family
editor, managing editor and associate editor.
Jo
Ann is a member of the North Dakota Professional Communicators and the National
Federation of Press Women and is a Certified Rural Electric Communicator. She
has long been interested in genealogy and is a member of the Bismarck-Mandan
Historical and Genealogy Society, North Dakota State Genealogical Society and a
number of Norwegian genealogy groups and bygdelags. She also served as a
volunteer librarian at the LDS Family History Center in Bismarck for several
years. Jo Ann, whose special interest is Norwegian genealogy, has attended and
been a presenter at numerous genealogy workshops.
She
and her husband, Nick, own a farm near Pick City, where they raise Black Angus
cattle. They have three children, two daughters-in-law, six grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
Cathy A. Langemo
is the owner of WritePlus Inc., a writing, editing and research firm in
Bismarck, North Dakota. She offers various services, including resume and grant
writing, promotional materials, magazine and newspaper articles, book
publishing and events planning and organizing.
However, Cathy’s heart is in the historical and genealogical research
she performs for people across the country. She has also worked on her own
Swedish, Scotch, English and French genealogy off and on for many years. Cathy
has worked the past several years as a part-time reference assistant at the
State Archives and Historical Research Library in the North Dakota Heritage
Center, Bismarck, where she assists patrons with their research. Cathy is a
member of the Missouri Valley Historical Society, Bismarck-Mandan Historical
and Genealogical Society, North Dakota State Genealogical Society, Three Crowns
American- Swedish Association, State Historical Society of North Dakota
Foundation, Society for the Preservation of the Former Governors’ Mansion,
Westerners, National Historical Society, National Trust for Historic
Preservation, North Dakota Professional Communicators, National Federation of
Press Women, North Dakota Library Association, Business and Professional Women
and AAUW. Besides work, Cathy’s life centers around her husband, Rick Knudson,
pool league and reading. Between them, they have four children, two
daughters-in-law and seven grandchildren.
Together,
Jo Ann and Cathy own Dakota Roots, a genealogical publishing and
presentation company, through which they self-published “Tracing Your Dakota
Roots: A Guide to Genealogical Research in the Dakotas” in 1999. The book is in
its second printing and has received four awards—three regional and one
national.
Jo
Ann B. Winistorfer and Cathy A.
Langemo, authors of “Tracing Your Dakota Roots” and partners in Dakota Roots,
will review the library resources genealogists find most useful and that
librarians might consider for their holdings.
Jo
Ann and Cathy will also discuss the self-publishing process from acquisition of
an ISBN number to selecting a printer to marketing the end product.
Name of presenter: Curtis L. Wolfe, CIO Information Technology Department
Mailing address/s:
600 E Boulevard Ave,
Room 103,
Bismarck, ND 58505-0100
Phone: 701-328-1000
Contact
person’s e-mail address: cwolfe@state.nd.us
Third
General Session Speaker
Title
of Program: New Statewide Network and the Implications for State Libraries
Present Job Title(s) & Affiliated Institution(s): CIO Information Technology Department
Biography:
Curtis
Wolfe became the 17th member of Governor Schafer’s cabinet on October 15, 1999.
He was re-appointed as Chief Information Officer and Director of the
Information Technology Department by Governor Hoeven in December 2000. He began
the information technology consulting firm Wolfe & Associates, Inc., in
1974. Initially based in Alaska and later relocated to Albuquerque, it offered
a variety of services including system planning and acquisition, custom
application development, telecommunications network consulting and information
technology audits. In 1996, Wolfe sold his firm to SOS Staffing Services and
became president of the IT Division. As a consultant, he completed several
studies for North Dakota, including a technology review of all state agencies
for the Legislative Council. The 1999 Legislature elevated the former
Information Services Division of the Office of Management and Budget into a new
cabinet agency called the Information Technology Department and created the
Chief Information Officer position. He has a bachelor’s of science degree from
the U.S. Air Force Academy. Curt and his wife, Nancy live in Bismarck.