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Speaker Bios
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Keynote Speaker |
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Christina Crawford is perhaps best
known for her bestseller,
MOMMIE DEAREST, an
autobiographical account of her Hollywood childhood which was on the
New York Times non-fiction bestseller list for nearly one year, many
weeks at #1.
Subsequently, she has authored one
novel titled Black Widow, and two more non-fiction works. Survivor
is the sequel to Mommie Dearest and was also a bestseller. No Safe
Place, the legacy of family violence has been used as both a
textbook and self-help guide.
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In 1998 she formed Seven Springs Press
to publish the 20th Anniversary Edition of Mommie Dearest from the
original manuscript, in trade paperback and continues to function as
the company publisher.
From 1994 to 1999, Ms. Crawford owned and operated a country inn
and restaurant in north Idaho. For the past three years, she has
been with the Coeur d’Alene Casino where she books the monthly music
concerts and also the bands for lounge entertainment, as Special
Events Manager.
In addition to the current film from Turner Classic Movies: Joan
Crawford: Ultimate Movie Star, Christina may be seen in the World of
Wonder film Out of the Closet: Off the Screen, The William Haines
Story and in the Jason Gould autobiographical short film, playing
herself, which was released as part of a short feature Trilogy. She
spent nearly 17 years as an actress, appearing in off-Broadway,
summer and winter stock plays, numerous commercials, three feature
films including one for 20th Century Fox starring Elvis Presley, two
years on the soap opera Secret Storm at CBS in New York and several
years guest starring on various night time TV series episodes in Los
Angeles.
Ms. Crawford was a commissioner for Children’s Services for Los
Angeles County, founding member and chairperson for ICAN Associates,
a charity, also in Los Angeles. She has done public speaking and
fundraising engagements all over the country for numerous charitable
causes involving children and women, for which she has received many
awards and government commendations.
Her books have been published in Great Britain, France, Italy,
Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
Ms. Crawford attended Carnegie Mellon as a drama major, studied
at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York with Sanford Meisner and
Martha Graham. She received her BA degree from UCLA and her Masters
Degree in Communication Management from the Annenberg School at
University of Southern California, after which she worked in the
corporate communications department at the headquarters of Getty Oil
Company where she produced company films and videos, including one
on founder, J. Paul Getty.
She currently resides in northern Idaho on a 150-acre farm.
Christina Crawford's website:
www.sevenspringspress.com/index.htm
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9:45 - 10:45 a.m. |
Session I |
Fundraising Strategies
By: Jean Elsaesser, West Bonner Library Fundraising
Committee and Grants Team
Bob Fulton, Lewiston City Library Trustee
Kim Golden, Panhandle Lakes Resource Conservation and
Development
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Jean Elsaesser graduated from
Goddard College in Plainfield, VT, with a B.A. in Education with an
emphasis on Children's Literature. She received a M.ED. from
the University of Idaho in Adult/Vocational Teacher Education. She
became a CPA. She taught for several years at Idaho Hill Elementary
School in Oldtown, ID. She has had an accounting practice in
Bonner County since 1987.Jean
has been involved with the Friends of the West Bonner Library since
its inception 1997. She was instrumental the formation of the FOL.
She received the ILA Friend of the Year award in the fall of 2003.
She is currently president of the Friends.
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married, with three children- son, a Carroll College graduate, one
daughter at UCSD; and the other another daughter who will graduate
from Priest River Lamanna High and plans to attend the University of
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Bob Fulton is the owner of
Creative Strategies, a business coaching and marketing consulting
practice in Lewiston, Idaho specializing in small business owner
coaching, business and product market positioning, and meeting
facilitation.
Bob is a graduate of
the University of Montana in Missoula and a 22 year resident of
Lewiston. He is a member of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce and
the public/private partnership economic development organization,
Valley Vision and is the marketing consultant for the North Idaho
Manufacturer’s Association.
His wife teaches in the Lewiston School
District and his two children have graduated from the University of
Idaho, married, and produced 5 grandchildren.
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Kim Golden
graduated from Oklahoma
State University with a major in Wildlife Management. For the
past 11 years, he has served in the position of Resource
Conservation & Development (RC&D) Coordinator, providing assistance
to local people in the 5 north Idaho Counties through a variety of
natural resource, community development and economic development
projects.
He resides in Coeur d'Alene and is married with two girls
in college at Boise State University.
Panhandle Lakes Resource
Conservation and Development
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Curb Appeal—Nuts & Bolts of Web
Page Design
By: Anne Abrams and Charlotte Fowles
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Anne Abrams works
with Idaho librarians and staff to help them gain visibility for their
libraries in their communities and across the state. Since coming to
the State Library in 1997, she has helped secure funding for the
Libraries Linking Idaho Database Project (LiLI-D), orchestrated three
statewide marketing campaigns, presented continuing education
workshops, and consulted with boards and staff on advocacy and
marketing issues.
Anne also writes—for the State Library newsletters,
Idaho newspapers, and national library publications. She is the
membership chair for the Idaho Library Association and sits on the SW
Chapter of the Idaho Press Club board. |
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Charlotte Fowles is the Electronic Resources and Collection
Development Librarian at the Idaho State Library.
She received a B.A. in History from the
University of Wyoming (1980) and a MLIS from the University of Texas at
Austin (1999). The years in between were spent teaching English,
American History, and Sociology in Wyoming, Texas, and for nine years in
Japan. She was the reference
librarian for General Instruction at RIT (Rochester, New York) and the
Information Literacy Coordinator at the University of South Dakota
(Vermillion) before coming to the Idaho State Library.
Since beginning Library School the two topics that
have
interested her most are peoples’ access to information and use of
electronic resources. She is fortunate that she
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can combine the two in her
present job. The teacher in her still wants to show others how to
access reliable information and get them as excited as she is about
library resources.
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Beyond Storytime: Spectacular
Children's Programming Events!
By: Betsy Bybell, Heather Stout
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Betsy Bybell, sometimes known
as “Batsy” to her audiences, is Outreach Services Manager for Latah
County Library District in
Moscow. She also works as a
professional storyteller-puppeteer and will be appearing as a
featured performer at “Stories by the Sea” presented by Oregon
Library Association this coming September. She is a member of the
National Storytelling Network, Puppeteers of America, and regular
on-line contributor to “Storytell”.
www.storyteller.net/tellers/batsy |
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Heather
Stout
received her BA from San Francisco
State University and her MLS from University of Arizona. She has
been a librarian for over nine years working in both school and
academic libraries. Her public library career began in the spring
of 2000, with the Lewiston City Library. Except for a short time as
an academic cataloger, Heather’s focus has always been on
childrens’and young adult library services. She is currently the
Community/Youth Services Librarian for the City of Lewiston.
Heather lives with her husband and two teen-age daughters on a farm
where she enjoys reading, scrapbooking, and attending her daughter’s
various school events.
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Electronic Lexicons for Libraries
By: Timothy S. Hillebrand, Ph.D.
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Timothy
S. Hillebrand
has had a long association with libraries where he first learned to
read, not in school. In Junior High he was often chased out of the
library by a lady with glasses and a bun on the top of her head. But
in high school he found libraries a great place to meet girls. In
grad school he practically lived in them. As the director of the
Santa Barbara Historical Society he helped start one from scratch
and has been involved with libraries at the local and state level
ever since.
Currently Tim serves as Chair of the Trustees and Friends Division
of the Idaho Library Association and is on the Idaho State Library
Advisory Board as well as the Latah County Library Foundation Board
and chairs its Grants Committee.
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Tim enjoys writing articles on various
subjects and is a regular contributor to PocketPC Magazine and is
working on a series of archaeological novels loosely based on his
experiences around the world. He operates a data processing and
electronic publishing company called Synergetics International from
his home office and has taught archaeology and anthropology at
various universities and ran a company that put together
archaeological expeditions all over the globe until retiring in
1988. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa
Barbara.
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11:30 - 12:30 p.m. |
Session II |
Falling Apart - Book Repair with
Eloise Young
By: Eloise Young
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Eloise
Young received her B.S. degree from the University of Idaho and
her MAT from Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington. She was a
teacher for 30 years in Washington State and retired from the
Clarkston School District.
Eloise is a 14 year volunteer at the Lewiston City Library and has
12 years experience in book repairing. She has also done
extensive research in book repair and binding techniques.
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How to communicate with network admin, how to get
training, handout: glossary of terms, possibly a mentoring program:
By: Gina
Emory, Mark Foster and Greg Anders
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Gina Emory has been the technology manager at the East Bonner
County Library District for over 9 years. Prior to being hired on
staff, she owned and operated a PC sales, service, training, and
consulting business with the library district as one of her
clients. She has over 20 years experience in the computer
industry. That experience includes operating and networking IBM
mini-computers as well as PCs. She also has experience from the
dark ages – the punch card era – in software programming. Since
going to work for the library district, she has acquired expertise
in Novell and Microsoft networking as well as a plethora of software
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She served on the State
Library’s ITTF Task Force for several years. During her tenure,
LiLI was conceived, developed, and made operational. She is
responsible for not only all the software and hardware in the East
Bonner County Library District, but for their website as well.
As if all that is not enough to keep her busy, she is the network
consultant and web designer for four other companies in Sandpoint
and Spokane. She is the mother of three. Her youngest will
graduate from high school this year. He will go on to study
computer science in college (of course). She has four grandchildren
ranging in age from 18 months to 9 ˝ years old.
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Mark Foster
has been the Technology Specialist at
the Post Falls Public Library since the spring of 2000. He has a BA
in Computer Science from Walla Walla College, and prior to working
at the Post Falls Library was the lead technical support person for
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Greg Anders
has been the Computer Systems Administrator for the Idaho
State Library since June 2000. He has an A.A.S. in Business
computer Programming, a 1 yr. Certificate as a Mainframe
Programmer and has been working on computer systems of
various types since 1990. His first exposure to computers
(other than watching Star Trek) was a device called the
F.A.D.A.C. (Field Artillery Deflection Azimuth Calculator)
in the U.S. Army in 1980. Prior to working at the State
Library, Greg worked for Micron, Morrison Knudesen and other
firms. He even operated his own computer retail sales and
repair company for over 10 years.
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Opening Your Cyber Door with LiLI-D
By: Charlotte Fowles
(See Charlotte's speaker bio listed under Session I, "Curb Appeal—Nuts & Bolts of Web
Page Design.")
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Idaho Library Networks: Trends and
Triumphs
By: Gina Persichini and Erin McCusker
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Gina Persichini is the Networking
Consultant at the Idaho State Library. She joined the ISL team in October
2001, after 7 years of service with multi-type library consortia in
Florida. Gina received her Master’s Degree in Library and Information
Science from the University of South Florida in 1995. Her professional
interests are focused on resource sharing, training, and cooperative
arrangements among libraries. |
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Erin McCusker became a member of
the Idaho State Library staff in April of 2003. She brings a teaching
background and over 11 years of public library experience to the
position. She is pursuing her Masters of Library Science through Emporia
State University and will graduate in May of 2004. As the Library
Consultant based in the Boise office, she works with librarians, trustees
and staff members primarily throughout Southwest Idaho. Her aim is to
support librarians’ efforts as they continue to provide excellent library
services in Idaho. |
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12:45 - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
Luncheon speaker:
"Sacagawea" Dramatization
By:
Sara Edlin-Marlowe
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Sara Edlin-Marlowe has been part
of the Idaho Humanities Council's Speaker's Bureau for several years
now. She tours with three shows:
Sacagawea
A Conversation with Georgia O'Keeffe
Six Women of the Hawaiian Monarchy |
Sara lives in Spokane where she
teaches in the Applied Education program at Spokane Community
College. She teaches Speech and helps her husband with the
Drama program at Spokane Falls Community College. Two days a
week, she works on the Whitworth College campus where she serves as
the Faculty Advisor to the student run radion station, KWRS.
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This summer, Sara will be directing
Downriver for Create in Newport, Washington.
Downriver is a musical about the Canadian explorer, David
Thompson, who surveyed the Columbia River. Also this summer,
Sara will be presenting Native American stories in the Spokane City
Libraries. In her spare time, Sara swims, walks and does T'ai
Chi Chuan (Tie Chee Ch Wan).
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2:30 - 3:30 p.m. |
Session III |
Teen Literature -- What to Buy/How to Sell
By: Viki Ash-Geisler, Ph.D.
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Viki Ash-Geisler
has spent the last 20 years honing her skills as a youth services
librarian. She began her career at the Kingwood Branch of the
Harris County Libraries. After almost 10 years in the field at a number of
different libraries, she returned to school to earn a Ph.D. from the
University of Texas. From 1996 to 2000 she served as an Assistant
Professor at Texas Woman's University teaching children's and young adult
literature as well as courses in children's programming and public
librarianship. In October 2000 she joined the staff of the Spokane Public
Library as Youth Services Coordinator where her job responsibilities
include collection development for children and young adults.
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Early Idaho History: Libraries as
Research Centers and Publishers
By: Dennis and Lynn Baird
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Dennis
Baird has been a faculty member at UI since 1974. He has
graduate degrees from University of Michigan and Michigan
State. He is currently head of Reference at the UI Library. He has
taught forest and environmental history at UI and have been active
in conservation and historic preservation issues. He has authored
several books and articles dealing with Idaho forest history, and
several books of primary sources on the history of the Nez Perce
people and the Clearwater valley.
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Lynn Baird has
been a faculty member at UI since 1974. She has graduate degrees
from University of Oregon (MLS), UI (MPA). She is currently head of
Access Services at the UI Library. She teaches independent study
courses in library science: Acquisitions and Collection Development,
Adolescent Literature, Censorship. She is active in ILA
(currently Secretary) and legislative affairs.
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Showcase Your Library with LiLI-D
By: Anne Abrams
(See Anne's speaker bio listed under Session I, "Curb Appeal—Nuts & Bolts of Web
Page Design.")
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Public Library Policy: The Pulse of
Service
By: Marj Hooper
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Marjorie Shelby Hooper has worked with public library boards since the
late 1970s. As a regional administrator in northern Idaho, she worked for
a governing board of over 20 members. Marj has been a public library field
consultant at the Idaho State Library since 1985. She has worked
statewide in board continuing education and recently become responsible
for coordinating the Continuing Education program of the State Library.
Marj has said, "I have always enjoyed working with library boards. They
are important advocates and cornerstones of library services. Library
boards are an essential link to the community and often are not thanked
sufficiently for their dedication towards libraries." |
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