Economics (Political Sociology), Polytechnic of North London (Librarianship) and
the. Open University (MBA). SUSAN KURTAS. Librarian, Dag Hammarskjöld ...
Fall 2013
Issue 108
DANJ Annual Conference
Global Information: Local Access Friday November 1, 2013 Friend Center Princeton University DANJ thanks its co-sponsor LibraryLinkNJ—The New Jersey Library Cooperative
Table of Contents 2013 DANJ Conference Schedule ....…....…………………….....pg. 2 2013 DANJ Conference Speakers.……………….….……………...pg. 3 2014 DANJ Conference: Save the Date…………………………...pg. 6 Affordable Care Act Websites………………………………………...pg. 7 FDLP 2013 Fall Conference Cancelled…………………………….pg. 8 1
8:30-9:15 9:15-9:30 9:30-10:00
Registration and Breakfast Conference Welcome and Special Awards
Libraries and Access to International Documentation—Trends and Speculations IAIN WATT Director, UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library
10:00-10:45
Why UN Documents? SUSAN KURTAS Librarian, UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library
10:45-11:00 11:00-Noon
Break
International Sources in the Classroom Panel Discussion EMILY RILEY, BETH PATTERSON, CARLOS YORDAN, and MARY FETZER
Noon-12:10
New Jersey Documents Awards Presentation
12:15-1:15 1:15-2:00
Lunch
The NGO Information Problem: Collections, Access and Preservation Challenges JIM CHURCH Librarian, University of California Berkeley
2:00-2:45
Strategies for Unearthing Foreign Government Documents on the Web JEREMY DARRINGTON Politics Librarian, Princeton University
2:45-3:00
Annual Membership Meeting, Election Results
3:00-3:30
TOURS Firestone Library, League of Nations Collection Mudd Manuscript Library, IGO Collections 2
IAIN WATT Chief, Dag Hammarskjöld Library at United Nations Iain Watt has been Chief of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library since February 2013. He was previously head of service of the Library of the European Parliament, head of Reader Services at the Public Record Office (UK) and worked in the public library services of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden. He was Secretary to the IFLA Section for Library & Research Services for Parliaments 200709. Iain was educated at Edinburgh University (Politics), London School of Economics (Political Sociology), Polytechnic of North London (Librarianship) and the Open University (MBA). SUSAN KURTAS Librarian, Dag Hammarskjöld Library at United Nations Susan Kurtas earned her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004 and joined the United Nations in 2005. has been working as a reference librarian throughout that time, with responsibility for maintaining and updating the UN Documentation Research Guide and other online tools. MARY FETZER Deputy Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services Alexander Library, Rutgers University United States Government Information Sources with the late Joe Morehead, her passion has tended toward international documents.Her thesis for her Master's degree in political science was on United Nations documentation, and she continued to present seminars and to write articles in that area.In 2002 she received the ACRL/ Congressional Quarterly Marta Lange/CQ Award for contributions to bibliography in law and political science.From 2009-2011 Mary served as Interim Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services at Rutgers, and now serves as its Deputy AUL-RIS.
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ELIZABETH PATTERSON Government Documents and Reference Librarian, Drew University Dr. Patterson has worked with Government Documents for over 20 years, as a student, staff, and professional Librarian. Currently, she is the Government Documents and Reference Librarian at Drew University Library. Prior to returning to the Drew Library in 2005, Beth worked with government information in the health field as a research librarian in industry. Beth received B.A. in French Literature and a Ph.D. in history from Drew University and her M.L.I.S. from Rutgers. EMILY C. RILEY Ph.D Candidate, Princeton University Emily Riley is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Princeton University. She received her B.A.History and Economics from Ohio University in 2012. She studies post-1945 European history, focusing on financial history during postWorld War II reconstruction. Her research has taken her to archives in the United States and Italy, including the US National Archives, the United Nations Archives,’s Archivio Centrale dello Stato and Archivio Storico della Banca d’Italia, and extensive CARLOS L. YORDAN Associate Professor, Drew University Dr. Yordan is Associate Professor of Political Science. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations at the London School of Economics. At American University, he completed a M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies and a B.A. in International Studies. He joined the Department in August 2005. Prior to Drew University, Carlos taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Hamilton College. Healso was a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s Peace Studies Program and a Visiting Fellow at Rutgers-Newark’s Division of Global Affairs.
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JIM CHURCH Economics, Development Studies, Political Economy and International and Foreign Government Information Librarian, University of California Berkeley Jim Church is the librarian for Economics, Development Studies, Political EconomyInternational and Foreign Government Information at the University of California Berkeley. to that he served as the State, Local and United Nations Documents librarian at UC San Diego and the Librarian for Economics and Intergovernmental Information at Yale. began working in libraries at Princeton University where he served as the manager of the United Nations collection under Susan White. has authored numerous journal articles, two book chapters, and presented at many conferences on international governmental and nongovernmental information. Most recently, at the 2013 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Singapore, he conceived and organized the Government Information and Official Publications Section (GIOPS) paper session for Development Action: Governments, Civil Society and Libraries.
JEREMY DARRINGTON Politics Librarian, Princeton University Jeremy Darrington is the Politics Librarian in Princeton University's Firestone Library. He joined the Library in September 2010. Jeremy earned a BA in international studies from Brigham Young University and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington. He also has an MA and is ABD in political science from UC Berkeley. Jeremy’s academic interests include European politics, technology in libraries, government transparency and access to government information, open data, and digital privacy. Outside of the library, Jeremy spends most of his time volunteering in his church and spending time with his wife and 4 children.
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Save the Date DANJ Fall 2014 Conference Friday October 31, 2014 Princeton University 350 Years of New Jersey Next DANJ meeting is December 13 at Rider University. Please visit the DANJ website for dates and places of future DANJ meetings. http://www.danj.org/
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Affordable Care Act Web Resources
Helping patrons with the Affordable Care Act (NWPL) http://nplwebguides.pbworks.com/affordablecare Health Care Reform (Rider Research Guide) http://guides.rider.edu/healthcare_reform Health Insurance Premium Credits in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Congressional Research Service) http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41137.pdf Potential Employer Penalties Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41159.pdf Health Insurance Exchanges Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) http://www.ncsl.org/documents/health/CRS-ExchgRpt81512.pdf ACA Resource Links to Information (NJ State Library) http://lll.njstatelib.org/news/2013/sep/17/ aca_resource_links_to_information
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GPO cancels the Fall 2013 Conference, rescheduling for the Spring. The date of the rescheduled conference has yet to be determined.
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