Library re-org: New names, same great service!

How's this for a New Year's resolution? The SFU Library is kicking off 2016 with a major reorganization!

Our overall goal is to realign our people and responsibilities in order to meet emerging researcher needs. From a Business/Economics perspective, this restructuring will result in some significant changes around who to contact if you need assistance.

 

We're very pleased to introduce Moninder Lalli as the liaison librarian responsible for Graduate Business programs based at the SFU Vancouver campus.  Moninder will be found most often in the Belzberg Library at our Vancouver campus, but will also be visiting the Burnaby campus regularly.  She can be reached at: Moninder_Lalli@sfu.ca or 778-782-5043.

In addition to the MBA programs, Moninder will continue to serve as the liaison librarian for the Departments of Sociology/Anthropology (including Labour Studies) and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. Moninder brings a wide range of experience to this position: She's also worked with the School of Resource & Environmental Management and with SFU's First Nations Student Centre. In addition, she was a business librarian at a university in Saskatchewan earlier in her career. 

 

Mark Bodnar will continue as the liaison librarian supporting business researchers at the Burnaby Library (16.33 years and counting!), but his role will now expand to include business programs at the Surrey campus, as well as the Department of Economics.  This is actually a bit of return engagement for Mark as he was the Economics Librarian from 1999-2003. He's also been responsible for supporting the Schools of Communication and Resource & Environmental Management for short periods during his time with the SFU Library.

Mark will be based at SFU's Burnaby campus, but will be visiting the Surrey campus regularly.  He can be reached at: mbodnar@sfu.ca or 778-782-3044 or via Skype at markb-sfulibrary.

Note that email is the best way to reach both Mark and Moninder since their duties often take them out of the library.

 

If you're wondering where Carla (Economics), Ania (Business - Surrey), and Megan (Business - Vancouver) have gone, they are all still with us, but in new roles:

• Carla Graebner will continue as the Data Services librarian, an area that is growing increasingly busy as more researchers seek assistance managing and storing their own research data and accessing data products produced here or elsewhere. Carla will also continue as our Government Information librarian. Based on past experience, many of our business & economics researchers will likely continue to make use of Carla's expertise as both raw data and government information resources are key to bus/econ research. Carla can still be reached at cgraebne@sfu.ca or 778-782-6881.
  
   
• Ania Dymarz has shifted over to our Burnaby campus where she is now our Head of Learning & Instructional Services here in the library.
  
   
• Megan Sorenson will now be making the Fraser Library in Surrey her home base as she will be the liaison librarian for the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. She'll still be visiting the SFU Vancouver campus, though, as she is also the liaison librarian for the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing.

As mentioned above, these changes are part of a major reorganization touching on our support for almost all disciplines here at SFU.  The end result will be that we'll have more people in place with the expertise (and time) to help SFU researchers with such "new scholarship" activities as creating data management plans, understanding digital scholarship and Open Access publishing, working with GIS, navigating complex copyright rules as instructors and authors, and adopting/developing Open Education Resources.

We will all be adjusting to our new roles during this semester, but we're hoping we can make the change as seamless as possible for you. If you aren't sure who to contact about any sort of a library matter, just start with either Mark or Moninder and they will get you connected to others as required.

Okay, deep breath... and let the Spring Semester begin!