Staff profile: Cheryl Beredo
How do you find your dream job at the Kheel Center?
Who she is: Cheryl Beredo, director of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Staff profile: Nick Cappadona
How do you help build the Library's next-generation search experience?
Who he is: Nick Cappadona, interface designer at Mann Library
Staff profile: Beth Kelly
How do you choose the right words to make music findable?
Who she is: Beth Kelly, music cataloger
Staff profile: Ken Bolton
What do a librarian and an air traffic controller have in common?
Who he is: Ken Bolton, research librarian at the School of Hotel Administration
Staff profile: Gabriela Castro Gessner
Seeing an outsider's perspective through the eyes of a librarian/anthropologist...
Who she is: Gabriela Castro Gessner, research and assessment analyst
Pleasure reading
"The Library has a huge number of popular fiction and nonfiction titles -- from 'The Hunger Games' series to Malcolm Gladwell's newest book to a dozen Orson Scott Card novels. Pleasure reading is a great way to escape the pressures of academic life and disappear into another world for a while."
- Wendy Wilcox, Access Services Librarian
Data plan consultations
"I've used the consulting service from the Research Data Management Services Group (RDMSG), and they were immensely helpful in reading the data management plans (DMPs) for two recently submitted NSF grant proposals.
Statistics help at Mann
"I recommend talking to the people at the Statistical Consulting Unit at the desk in Mann. They give great advice and really helped me to prepare for a seminar I gave in my department."
- Jessica Bliss, graduate student in the Division of Nutrional Sciences
Interlibrary Loan staff
"The smart and efficient Interlibrary Loan people. They are always helping one do the thinking!"
- Kora Bättig von Wittelsbach, faculty member in Romance Studies
Indian folktale collection
"I could rekindle lost memories of childhood spent in my school library as a kid while browsing the storybook and folktale collection in the Kroch Asia section. Malgudi Days is my all-time favorite. R. K.
