Librarian Bios-2010 - UCLA

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.