True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Kristin Woodward

Kristin Woodward is the UWM Libraries’ Teaching and Learning Team lead and heads the Libraries’ efforts on Open Education Resources (OER). In this latter role, Kristin and colleagues in UWM’s Center for Excellence and Teaching (CETL), through their support of …

True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Max Yela

Max Yela has led UWM Libraries’ Special Collections–the premier public collection of rare books and special printed materials in southeastern Wisconsin–since 1994. The collection consists of over 100,000 printed items from the 15th century to the present, covering a wide …

True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Lynne Jones

Lynne Jones joined the UWM Libraries staff in 2018 as electronic & continuing resources librarian in the Collection & Resource Management (CRM) division. A member of the Collection Management department, she participates in the acquisition, management, and delivery of continuing resources …

True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Beth Kucera

Beth Kucera heads the UWM Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department, the Access Services unit that lends books and delivers articles to other libraries around the world and, at the same time, borrows research materials for UWM scholars. In 2018-2019, the …

True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Abigail Nye

Reference and Instruction Archivist Abigail Nye loves both halves of her job—assisting scholars on what she calls their “treasure hunts” and introducing undergraduates to the Archives’ potential—and each, she notes, directly impacts UWM’s strategic goals of research excellence and student …

True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Linda Kopecky

Linda Kopecky leads the UWM Libraries’ Research Services team, helping to support an exceptional community of scholars and researchers: UWM is ranked as one of the nation’s 115 Research I universities. She and her team members work proactively with faculty …

True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Joe Tomich

Joe Tomich is a cataloger/metadata librarian at the UWM Libraries, and co-chair of a team that oversees content in Alma, the new UW System-wide shared library management system that has improved discovery and searching. His supervisors add these titles to his job …

True Librarian — Interviews with UWM Libraries Staff: Aaron Dobbs

Aaron Dobbs, who has been UWM Libraries Circulation Services Coordinator since 2011, also serves as one of the Libraries’ administrators of Alma, the new UW System Libraries program that manages library resources. Aaron began working in the library as a student in 1996 while …