Teachers and Team

Marilyn Arnone (mparnone@syr.edu) is a Research Associate Professor and Associate Professor of Practice at Syracuse University in the School of Information Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Literacy.
http://my.ischool.syr.edu/People/mparnone
http://digital-literacy.syr.edu
view her intro video on YouTube

Lori Bell (lbell927@gmail.com) is Interim Special Projects Coordinator at SCRLC and has worked in a variety of library settings. Learn more about her professional experience, teaching, and publications at https://slisapps.sjsu.edu/facultypages/view.php?fac=belll and  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/lori-bell/2/a2b/b8b
and view her introduction video on YouTube

Loriene Roy (loriene@ischool.utexas.edu) is a Professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin.
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene/

Project Coordinator: Arden Kirkland (ardenkirkland@gmail.com) is a digital librarian working at the intersection of digital scholarship and instructional technology, with a particular interest in students’ active participation in the construction of multimedia digital collections. She holds her MSLIS and CAS from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and her MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
http://ardenkirkland.com

Project Director: Mary-Carol Lindbloom (mclindbloom@scrlc.org) is the Executive Director of South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC).
https://scrlc.org/Staff
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mary-carol-lindbloom/6/a85/24a
view her intro video on YouTube

Project Evaluator: Rae-Anne Montague (rae7@hawaii.edu) is an Assistant Professor and the School Library Media Program Coordinator at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raeannemontague

SU Project Contact: Megan Oakleaf (moakleaf@syr.edu) is an Associate Professor in the iSchool at Syracuse University. Her research areas include assessment, evidence-based decision making, information literacy instruction, and reference services.  Prior to this position, Oakleaf served as Librarian for Instruction and Undergraduate Research at NC State University and a teacher in Ohio public schools.
http://meganoakleaf.info/bio/

Debby Emerson (demerson@clrc.org) is the Executive Director of the Central NY Library Resources Council (CLRC).
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/debby-emerson/4/846/135

Deirdre Joyce (djoyce@clrc.org) is the Assistant Director of the Central NY Library Resources Council (CLRC).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/defjoy

Julia Corrice (jcorrice@scrlc.org) is the Digital Services Librarian of South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC).
https://scrlc.org/Staff
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/julia-corrice/11/63b/172

Nicolette Warrisse Sosulski (librista@gmail.com) is Business Librarian for the Portage District Library in Portage, MI and teaches Collection Development at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC GSLIS).  She has been a chat librarian for public and academic libraries since 2004.
http://www.atyourlibrary.org/librarians-who-mean-business
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/people/faculty/adjunct#librista

Project Coordinator: Arden Kirkland (ardenkirkland@gmail.com) is a digital librarian working at the intersection of digital scholarship and instructional technology, with a particular interest in students’ active participation in the construction of multimedia digital collections. She holds her MSLIS and CAS from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and her MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
http://ardenkirkland.com

Project Assistant: Helen Linda (celestihel@gmail.com) is the Records Analyst for the Vermont Agency of Transportation, her first job outside of libraries in 17 years. Since Records Management is library- adjacent, it doesn’t feel to her like a huge departure. She has never taught as a capital “T” Teacher, but began presenting on conference panels a decade ago, which led to solo conference presentations, which led to regular student library orientation classes, which led to designing instruction formally in her newest role in state government. You just never know where the journey will take you.
https://helenlinda.com/

Graduate Assistant: Samantha Settimio (sjsettim@syr.edu) works under Megan Oakleaf.  Her interests involve digital humanities, critical and digital pedagogy, liaison librarianship, and assessment. She is a current graduate student in the MSLIS program at Syracuse University and will graduate May 2017. 

Diane K. Kovacs (dflprojectcoordinator@gmail.com) has been teaching online since the very early days of the Internet.  She taught the first online library CE course (MLA CE) in 1997 using a tool called Diversity University Moo: http://web.archive.org/web/20041206051839/http://www.gnacademy.org/~lost/projects.html#kovacsmed.  These days, she teaches for the SJSU iSchool and for the UIUC GSLIS LEEP program. Learn more about her professional experience, teaching, and publications at https://www.kovacs.com/dianevitae.html and view her D4L  introduction video on YouTube

Principal Investigator: R. David Lankes (rdlankes@iis.syr.edu) is a Professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University in the School of Information Studies.
http://www.DavidLankes.org