CE Instructor Bios

CE1 Instructional Design for Distance Learning/Web-based Teaching
Sunday, October 8, 2006  8 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Diane Kovacs

Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting - Internet & Web Training. She has more than twelve years of experience as a Web Teacher and Consultant. She received her M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kent State University in 1993. She has a B.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Illinois, 1985. She has been designing and teaching Web-based MLA CE courses since 2001. Since 2004 she has been teaching Web Design for Organizations for the UIUC GSLIS LEEP program.

Her latest book is The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines, co-authored with Kara L. Robinson, 2004. The Virtual Reference Handbook: Interview and Information Delivery Techniques for the Chat and E-mail Environment is forthcoming from Neal-Schuman in 2006. Genealogical Research on the Web was published in 2002. 

Diane Kovacs is the 2000 recipient of the "Documents to the People" award from the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association. She was also the recipient of the Apple Corporation Library's, Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association's first recipient of the Leadership Award in 1996.

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CE2 Measuring Your Impact – Ruth Holst & Jacqueline Leskovec
Sunday, October 8, 2006  8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Jacqueline Leskovec, MLIS, MA, RN

Jacqueline Leskovec has been with the NN/LM Greater Midwest Region since the fall of 2005. Jacqueline brings experience in the academic, corporate and hospital library realms. She most recently was Assistant Librarian at the University of South Florida Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program in Tampa, Florida. Prior to that, Jacqueline was library manager with the Advocate Health Sciences Library Network, Chicago, Illinois. Jacqueline has over 15 years practice as a registered nurse, including work in quality improvement in addition to her hospital clinical experiences.

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CE3 Proactive Librarianship: Knowledge, Innovation, & Leadership for Newer Librarians
Sunday, October 8, 2006  8 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

La Ventra E. Danquah, MLIS

La Ventra Danquah has been a librarian at Wayne State University Shiffman Medical Library for seven years. She coordinates quality service training programs for library staff, and educational programs for the School of Medicine and College of Pharmacy. Danquah is currently pursuing a Master of Interdisciplinary Studies in organizational development and leadership in learning organizations. She has a Master of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has received numerous professional awards and recognition for her dedication to the library profession and service to the community, including Wayne State University’s Outstanding Contributor Award and Toastmasters International Competent Leader Award. She is a graduate of the Association of Research Libraries and Medical Library Association Leadership and Career Development Program. Danquah has traveled to the Caribbean and West Africa, studying consumers’ access to health information and the impact on health outcomes. She has published articles on health disparities and access to health information on the Internet. She’s a member of several professional library organizations, Toastmasters International, and the International Society for Performance Improvement. Her other passions include spending “quality time” with her husband and son.

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CE4 The Best Medicine: Government Information in the Health Sciences – Carol Krueger & Marianne Ryan
Wednesday, October 11, 2006  8 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Carol Krueger & Marianne Ryan MLIS

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CE6 Getting Started with Information Outreach in Minority Communities
Wednesday, October 11, 2006  1 – 5:15 p.m.

Gale Dutcher

Gale Dutcher is currently the head of the Office of Outreach and Special Populations in the Division of Specialized Services at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. She received a BS degree in biology from Stony Brook University (NY), an MS in zoology from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and an MLS from CW Post College, Long Island University. She came to NLM in 1979 at an Associate Fellow and subsequently worked on the initial development of DOCINE and NLM’s AIDS information resources. As the Head of the Office of Outreach and Special Populations, Ms Dutcher is a leader of the Library’s efforts in information outreach to minority populations with the goal of improving access to information resources and services. The Office of Outreach and Special Populations works with minority serving educational institutions, organizations of minority health professionals, community organizations, faith-based organizations, and tribes and organizations of Native peoples to achieve its goals. Gale’s publications include co-authorship of several papers in the recent JMLA Supplement on NLM’s 2004 Symposium on community-based health information outreach.

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CE7 Keeping Up with NLM's PubMed
Wednesday, October 11  1 – 5:15 p.m.   

Holly Ann Burt

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