President

Stacey Costabile

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Stacey graduated from Illinois State University in 2004 with a B.S. in Graphic Design. Moving from one Bloomington to another, she is currently pursuing a master's in library science at Indiana University, as well as obtaining her school media certification. While at SLIS, she plans to focus on library technology, digital libraries and young adult and teen services. When not residing in a Bloomington, she lives in the south suburbs of Chicago, where she can be found doing any and everything geeky. Besides reading, her hobbies include theatre (costuming and acting), typography, everything J.R.R. Tolkien and Harry Potter, attending conventions of any kind and drinking far too much coffee.

Vice President

Virginia Vought

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Virginia Vought is pursuing an MLS, focusing in public librarianship and public library administration. She currently works as a reference assistant in the undergraduate library Information Commons and as the graduate assistant to Carrie Donovan in library instruction. A true Hoosier, Virginia earned her B.A. in English and music minor at Indiana University, graduating in 2005. After graduation, she worked as a writer in Los Angeles before moving back to Indiana to dive into librarianship. She's very happy to be back in beautiful Bloomington, this time with her new husband, Cory, and their ill-behaved cat, Stuart.

Treasurer

Janet Anderson

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Janet began her second semester at SLIS this year after moving to Indiana in August with her husband, 1 1/2 year old daughter, and dog and cat to obtain her MLS. She received her bachelor's in English Education from Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota (yes, it IS cold there) a LONG time ago. After teaching high school English, Speech and Theater for two years she began to pursue other careers including management and administration. She and her husband moved to Illinois in 2001 while he worked on his master's degree in theater and they are now very happy to be here in Bloomington, IN. Janet is primarily interested in public librarianship and is excited to be the Treasurer of the ALA-SC. She also works as an Instruction Assistant in the Information Commons and volunteers at the Monroe County Public Library. In her spare time (what's that?) she likes to spend time being a bum and doing nothing with her family.

Secretary

Rebekah Kati

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Social Chair

Sarah Morrison

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Sarah graduated from Washington State University in 2004 with a B.A. in English with Teaching Preparation. She began the MLS program at IUB in Fall 2007 and is focusing on public libraries. She is currently working as the User Services Coordinator at the Kinsey Institute Library, where she enjoys doing reference work and shelving materials, among other things. Future career goals include working in Reference, Readers’ Advisory, or Young Adult Services at a smallish public library anywhere west of the Rockies.

Webmaster

Eyad Makki

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Eyad Makki holds a BS in Management Information Systems. He currently studies Master's in Information Science, School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. He started working in the field of IT in 1997 until present. Eyad worked for several companies in Saudi Arabia developing and designing websites and Multimedia Flash intros. Now he is a freelancer who is the developer and webmaster of several websites. Eyad has experience in web design, web development, multimedia and web management as well as web promotion.

Faculty Advisors

Mary Popp

Mary Pagliero Popp serves as one of the faculty advisors (along with Dr. Thomas Nisonger) for the ALA Student Chapter at IU. An IU SLIS graduate, she has spent 35 years with the Indiana University Libraries in various capacities and occasionally teaches courses in SLIS. At present, she serves as the Public Services Librarian for Information Technology, working on IUCAT (the state wide library catalog), and the IU Bloomington Libraries web site. In addition to the MLS, she holds an M.S. in Adult Education. Mary has been active in the American Library Association for many years, and has served as President of the Library Instruction Round Table and as Chair of MARS (a section related to electronic public services) in the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA).

Thomas Nisonger

Tom Nisonger was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, the fifth consecutive generation born in the state. He has a B.A. from the College of Wooster, MLS from the University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. After working as a professional librarian at the University of Manitoba and the University of Texas at Dallas, he joined the SLIS faculty in 1988. He currently teaches Collection Development and Management, and Evaluation of Resources and Services. His research interests include library evaluation, scholarly journals, and citation analysis. His other interests include travel, ethnic food, bridge, current events, and political humor.