Librarian Bios-2010 - UCLA

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Librarian Biographical Information
for New UCLA Appointees,
FY 2009/10
LAUC - LA Fall Meeting and Luncheon
California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Monday, November 8, 2010

Adele M. Dobry
Health and Life Sciences Librarian
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
Adele joined the Biomedical Library in October, 2010. No
stranger to UCLA libraries, Adele was employed at the College
Library as a Reference Desk Assistant (September 200g-June
2010) and at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library as a
Reader Services Assistant (September 2008-August 200g). Her
prior work includes: Service Learning Volunteer at the Frank D.
Lanterman Regional Center Library in Los Angeles (April-June
200g); Aurora Project Tutor at Stokoe Elementary School in
Riverside (January-June 2008); and, Supplemental Instruction
Leader at the Riverside Community College (August 2007-July
2008).
Adele earned her M.L.I.S. degree at the University of California,
Los Angeles (June 2010), and her B.A. degree in Political Science
(with honors) with a Cooperative in Law and Society degree
(cum laude) from the University of California, Riverside (June
2000). As a UCLA graduate student, Adele served as a
Reference and Information Literacy Instruction Intern at the
College Library (September 200g-June 2010).
Adele maintains professional memberships in: The American
Library Association, where she is involved in the Library
Instruction Round Table (LI RT); the Association of College and
Research Libraries (ACRL), where she is a member of the
Instruction section; and, in Lifelong Information Literacy (LiLi).

Michelle Gorospe
Access Services Librarian
Law Library
Michelle was appointed to the Law Library in June, 2010, when
she earned her UCLA M.LI.5. degree specializing in Law
Librarianship. Michelle worked in the Law Library as Stacks
Supervisor (2006-10) as a UCLA undergrad, moving from a
student assistant to a half-time staff position. Before UCLA, she
worked in a law firm and had extensive supervisory experience.
Michelle's interests in preservation and archives led her to work
on preservation projects with Jennifer Lentz, Law Library Head
of Collection Development; to intern with Jake Nadal, UCLA
Library Preservation Officer; and, to compile an inventory of the
Law library's Special Collections in a Bibliographic Services and
Collection Management Department internship. Michelle will
implement the Law Library's first preservation program and
develop online finding tools for archival collections at the Law
Library, plus supervise the creation of several digital archives.
As a grad student, Michelle was awarded the SLA Sternheim
Memorial Scholarship, SCALL Scholarship, UCLA Graduate
Opportunity Fellowship, and the ALA Spectrum Scholarship.
Recent scholarships enabled attendance at the California Rare
Book School (Summer, 2010) and the Rare Books & Manuscripts
Section's ALA preconference (June, 2011).
She joined the Southern California Association of Law Libraries'
(SCALL) Committee on Public Access to Legal Information
(PAll), and volunteered for ALA's Discovering Librarianship
project. Michelle has been appointed to LAUe's Ad Hoc
Committee on Mentoring and SCALL's Library School Liaison
Committee, and is working on a LibGuide of legal resources for
non-lawyers.
Simon Lee
Reference, Instruction, and Technology Librarian
College Library
Simon began work at the College Library in October, 2010.
His previous employment includes: Reference/Instruction
Librarian, part-time, at Mt. San Antonio College (from January
to Septem ber 2010); Library Assistant (digital) at the UCLA
Oral History Department (2007-2009); and, Undergraduate
Student Assistant, JFK Memorial Library Reference
Department, CSULA (2002-2005).
Simon earned an M.LI.S. degree from UCLA (2009), and a S.A.
degree with an emphasis in Computer Animation from the
California State University, Los Angeles (2005). As a UCLA
graduate student, he interned at CSULA in Reference and
Special Collections (2008-2009).
Simon holds professional memberships in the American
Library Association, New Members Round Table (NMRT); and,
California Academic & Research Libraries (CARL), in the
California Academic Reference Librarians Discussion Interest
Group (CARLDIG), the California Academic & Research
Libraries Information Technology (CAR LIT), Diversity in
Academic Libraries (DIAL) South, and the Southern California
Instruction Librarians (SClL).
Simon's interests have included working at the Rae Lee
Siporin LGBT Library at UCLA and participating in Library &
Archive OUTreach, a Department of Information Studies
student organization (he was Vice President, 2007-08, and
President, 2008-09). He is a big fan of tennis.

Jennifer Weintraub
Librarian for Collection Development/ Map Digitization Project
Manager
UCLA Digital Library Program
Jennifer started at the UCLA Digital Library Program in May,
2010, and she splits her time between working in Powell on the
3 rd floor and in CRIS at YRL. Prior to UCLA, Jen managed digital
projects and licensed resources at the Yale University Library,
when she was Mass Digitization Project Manager (2007-2010)
and Digital Collections Librarian of Electronic Collections (2000­
2007). Her previous appointments also include Reference and
Electronic Services Librarian, Business Library, Columbia
University Libraries (1999-2000); and, Bibliographer at the Mann
Library, Cornell University Library (1997-1999).
Jennifer earned her M.L.S. degree from Michigan in 1996 with a
concentration in academic libraries, and her B.A. degree with a
major in French history from the University of Chicago in 1993.
Her professional memberships include the American Library
Association (ALA), where she is involved with the Women's
Studies Section.
Jen's research interests include: Digital collections, managing
and providing access to digital resources, learning how people
use digitized resources, and new ways to do research. She is
interested in art, music, swimming, cities, getting to know Los
Angeles, and spicy food.
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