Speaker: Emily Alling

Emily Alling is in her fifth year as director of the Rice-Aron Library at Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT), where she and three other library staff support the highly individualized work of undergraduate students on a small residential liberal arts campus as well as graduate students enrolled in several low-residency degree programs in sustainability, management, education, and technology. She teaches courses in linguistics and research methods at Marlboro and has also taught for Simmons College GSLIS. Emily has organized several NERCOMP SIGs and serves on the NERCOMP Annual Conference program committee. Her areas of professional interest include open source software in libraries, undergraduate library services, usability, and social media.

Speaker: Jodi Clark

Jodi Clark is in her third year as the Director of Housing & Residential Life at Marlboro College. In her time working with both the student Residential Assistants and professional student life staff, she has encouraged and supported a collaborative style of creating campus programming to better address the needs and strengths of a small, rural campus. Jodi is a member of the Vermont Campus Compact on behalf of Marlboro College, an organization that looks to further develop community engagement opportunities for campuses both on and off campus. Jodi is currently earning her second masters degree in Mission Driven Organizational Management at Marlboro College Graduate School and is passionate about working across sectors and departments in order to maximize creativity and sustainability in projects. 
 

Speaker: Shanti Freundlich

Shanti is thrilled to be making her NERCOMP debut! An alumnae of Simmons College GSLIS, Shanti is currently the Liaison Librarian to the School of Nursing and Health Sciences and the School of Social Work at Simmons College. Her previous librarian work includes the New England College of Optometry, the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, and a year as an Americorps Leader in Service at Mission Hill School Library. Other credits include ACRL Immersion and ALA student-to-staff program. Selected presentations include ACRL-NEC, the Dartmouth Conference and ShareAcademy. Follow Shanti on twitter at @friendly_rock for commentary on her interests in information literacy, user-centered design, health sciences, the intersection of information and social change, and her black lab puppy Marley.

Speaker: Caro Pinto

Caro Pinto joined Mount Holyoke College as Library & Instructional Technology Liaison in 2013. From 2011–2013, she was Critical Social Inquiry Librarian at Hampshire College where she oversaw collections, provided instructional services, incorporated educational technology in the curriculum, and taught digital humanities. From 2009 until 2011, she was an archivist in Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale University Library where she arranged and described three collections relating to the John Hay Whitney and Betsey Cushing Whitney family, taught research education courses, and provided reference and outreach services. Her work has appeared in the The Chronicle of Higher Education and Archive Journal. She is also a reviews editor for dh + lib. Pinto is graduate of Smith College, holds an MA in history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a MS in library and information science from Simmons College.
 

Speaker: Dawn Stahura

I am a Research and Instruction Librarian at Wellesley College, specializing in Anthropology, Sociology, Latin American Studies, and Spanish. I am passionate about teaching, information literacy, and outreach. Exhibits are my thing! When not working on library-related stuffs, I journal write, collage, and work on the sequel to my first novel. I am married to an awesome special effects movie makeup artist and we reside in Salem, MA with our two fabulous cats.

Speaker: Mirna Turcios

Mirna is currently a Library Assistant in Access Services at the Simmons College Library. She has over ten years experience in education non-profit programming and educational settings, as well as three years experience in an academic library. She is passionate about the intersection of information literacy, social justice, and technology. Her library interests include public services, community engagement and outreach, instruction and pedagogy, storytelling, and knowledge management.

She graduated in May 2013 with a MSLIS from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Follow Mirna on LinkedIn or Twitter @msmurnz.
 

Speaker: Alice Whiteside

Alice Whiteside joined Mount Holyoke College as a Librarian & Instructional Technology Consultant in 2011. Previously she was an Information Literacy Librarian at Penn State, where she began working on innovative outreach efforts that continue in her work at Mount Holyoke College. Her professional interests include the intersection of pedagogy and technology, library outreach as a mode of library instruction, and the research practices of artists. She is an active member of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS), currently serving as chair of the Professional Development Committee-Education Subcommittee. Alice holds an MS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in Art History from Bard College.