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Call Number Spring 2007
CHARLES PACE, LIBRARYJOURNAL
MOVER & SHAKERCharles Pace (MS '90), director of Fargo (ND) Public Library
since 2001, became director of the St. Louis County Library in
October 2006. In the five years he was in Fargo, he opened the
first branch library in North Dakota, conducted a library card
campaign that netted 3000 new borrowers, increased circulation
by 60 percent, and successfully campaigned for a temporary sales
tax to raise $12 million for a new library and two branches. He
reports that he applies key lessons learned when he was employed
at Houston Public Library where they conducted a powerful
visual marketing campaign as well as a drive to give every childin Houston a library card. When he
was chosen by Library Journal as a
Mover & Shaker in 2006, he stated
that he sees his job as "being the cre-
ator of conditions that allow my
staff to bring their natural talents
and abilities to the forefront and to
succeed." He says that he does not control but merely influences
others. As Library Journal stated in the magazine's write up about
Charles, "Judging by the record, [he does so] pretty effectively."MORE NONTRADITIONAL POSITIONS
FOR SLIS GRADUATESThe fall 2006 issue of Call Number
included an article about a number of gradu-
ates who hold nontraditionalpositions or work
in unusual settings. Nontraditional refers to
areas such as publishing, bibliographic utility,
technical writing, indexing, and many other
areas. Other graduates carry out traditional
functions in nontraditional settings or nontra-
ditional functions in traditional settings. *
Margaret Coleman (MS '99), Detainee
Base Librarian at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is
unable to tell us anything about her work,
but the position would certainly fit into the
nontraditional careers category. A former
classmate tells us Margaret enjoys the heat
but can not stand the humidity. She has
adjusted well, however, and is enjoying her
work.
Susan Michael
(MS '06) is the dir-
ector of product
design at Thomson
Learning Solutions,
a start-up within
Thomson Learning
that is charged with
finding new ways
to use technology in publishing products.
She reports that she is applying what she
learned in Drs. Enoch and Moen's classes
about metadata and database each day in her
position, which involves user-centered
design of educational software. "SLIS grads
have the opportunity to find new ways toapply library and information science meth-
ods and principles," she says. "For example,
the field of software design needs their
insights and organizational skills as informa-
tion architects, systems analysts, and data-
base designers."
Philip Montgomery (MS '05), Archivist
Special Collections Librarian, Rice Universi-
ty, Fondren Library Woodson Research Cen-
ter, is doing interesting things with virtual 3-
D environments. He is very active in a Rice
project to create a
virtual 3-D campus
in Second Live to
study how educa-
tion and informa-
tion systems work in
a 3-D environment.
He is also putting
up an exhibit from
the library archives
using D-Space and Second Life. Philip says
that he is very grateful to UNT/SLIS for giv-
ing him a good education and opening so
many doors for him.
At Oracle, Mark Wilcox (MS '96) serves
as Principal Product Manager, Oracle Identi-
ty Management, world's largest developer of
Enterprise Software. "Regardless of which
organization you work for," he says "most
likely it is using at least one of our software
components." He is responsible for a num-
ber of different functions, but his primaryresponsibility is to
determine which
new features should
go into the compa-
ny's products as well
as communicating
what those functions
are and why they are
useful to the sales
force and customers. He also works with the
sales team, supporting and consulting, to
determine how to use the company's soft-
ware to solve customer's business problems.
Additionally, he writes documents to show
how to use the software and maintains the
product's internal and external web-sites and
internal knowledge management resources.
Mark has high praise for the preparation he
received at SLIS which, he says, "gave me the
opportunity to explore and learn new tech-
nologies mostly through active encourage-
ment to explore." He also points out the he
"learned to apply basic principles in organiz-
ing non-traditional materials and the process
of conducting a proper reference interview,
something I use every day." He adds that he
"learned how to properly communicate in
different 'mediums' such as in-person, phone
chat, forums and email."
*The editor would like to hear from others
whose positions, like those above, fall outside
traditional areas of library and information
science. Contact: Margaret Irby Nichols,
940/382-9777 or at nichols2514@charter. net.ALUMNI QD
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