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renate chancellor || gary colmenar || billie frierson || sylva manoogian|| heawon paick|| pedro reynoso || romelia salinas || vang vang

Renate Chancellor

Renate@successNet.net

Ms. Chancellor is a graduate of Point Loma Nazarene University with a double major in History and Political Science. Upon graduation, Renate secured her first library job as Library Assistant at O'Melveny & Myers Law Library. With the initial goal of attending law school, She quickly developed a love for libraries and began a ten year stint working in private and academic law libraries. As a Library Assistant at the UCLA Law Library, Renate decided to return back to school to
obtain a Masters in Library and Information Science. In June 2001, she received her Master's degree and is currently Assistant Librarian at the U.S. Court of Appeals Library in Pasadena, California. She is a member of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, and on the executive board of the California Librarians Black Caucus.

Renate would like to pursue a Ph.D. in the area of information policy, with an emphasis focused on the equity of access to information in the African American community.

NATIONAL MENTOR:

UCLA FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. Leah. Lievrouw

UCLA DOCTORAL STUDENT MENTOR: Janet Kaaya

Gerardo (Gary) Colmenar

colmenar@library.ucsb.edu

Mr. Colemenar was born and spent his early childhood in the Philippines. He came to the United States along with his siblings to join his parents in California in the late 1970s, where they have since settled. He earned his B.A. Degree
in Ethnic Studies at U.C., San Diego with a focus on Asian Pacific American experiences and Cultural Studies. He earned his M.L.I.S. Degree at UCLA in 1996. He was the Library Fellow at U.C., Santa Barbara from 1998 - 2000 where he has since obtained a permanent position as the Asian American Studies Librarian. He is a member of the following library
professional associations, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, Alternatives-in-Print Task Force, and the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table.

Some of his research and personal interest in the field of Library and Information Studies revolve around library education, theory and practice of information, and history of cultural and educational institutions.

NATIONAL MENTOR:

UCLA FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. Jonathan Furner

UCLA DOCTORAL STUDENT MENTOR: Anthony W. Dunbar

Billie Frierson

Bf96Delrio@aol.com

Ms. Frierson has had a distinguished twenty-five year career as a librarian, serving three years with Anaheim Public Library and over twenty-five years with the County of Los Angeles Public Library as Government Documents Librarian, Branch Manager, Regional Children's Librarian, Regional Youth Services Coordinator, Carson Regional Community Library Manager, Area Manager and Assistant Library Administrator.

Billie has distinguished herself in many communities for her multicultural programs, outreach services, collection development, and acquisition of books and materials by and about Samoans, Filipinos, African Americans, Japanese, Hispanics, Vietnamese, Korean, Armenians, Native Americans and Chinese. She worked to establish the first Friends of the Library Group for the View Park Library and the first Bilingual Friends of the Library Group at Graham Library.

Billie Frierson has served on committees with the Los Angeles Unified School District, Compton Unified School District, The National Black Development Institute Association, UCLA-GSEIS Mentor Program and UCLA Francis Clark Sayers Lecture Series Program and several local schools. She is a member of the California Librarian's Black Caucus, REFORMA - Orange County Chapter, and the California Library Association serving on the Membership Committee, Cultural Diversity Committee, Legislative Network Committee and African American Round Table.

NATIONAL MENTOR:

UCLA FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. Mary Niles Maack

UCLA DOCTORAL STUDENT MENTOR: Suzanne Stauffer (ABD)

Sylva Natalie Manoogian

hyesearch@hotmail.com

Ms Manoogian was born in France to Armenian parents, who were survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, she arrived in the United States through Ellis Island in December 1946. Sylva holds a B.A.in Classics from Radcliffe College (1959) and an MLS from the University of Southern California (1969). Her global linkages as a library professional began in 1964 at the Los Angeles Public Library. In 35 years she was promoted from intermittent clerk to principal librarian and Sylva “retired” in April 1999, as the Northeast Area Manager.

She now devotes vast energy as a full time consultant to Armenian library projects worldwide, currently in Jerusalem and Armenia; as substitute reference librarian at LAPL; and at Glendale Public Library in Armenian language collection development.

She has been an active member of the American and California Library Associations since 1968, and was accorded honorary lifetime membership in the Library Association of Armenia for championing its establishment in 1994, publishing numerous articles and presenting papers on international librarianship and Armenian culture and heritage. Sylva’s contributions to multilingual library services have earned her recognition, as well as, appreciation reflected by numerous local, state, national, and international awards

NATIONAL MENTOR:

UCLA FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. John Richardson

UCLA DOCTORAL STUDENT MENTOR: Ciaran Trace (ABD)

Heawon Paick

hwpaick@netscape.net

Ms. Paick was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea. Upon receiving her B.A. in Japanese, she came to Maryville College in Tennessee for an International Student Scholarship to learn “real” American English for a year. Heawon decided to stay an additional semester in pursuit of an advanced degree.

Heawon's career direction has been heavily influenced by her Aunt, who is a librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her librarian career started out with a brief stint at a local book distributing company, working as a Children’s Librarian at Washington Irving Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. During 7 years with LAPL, she has worked as a Children’s Librarian and Young Adult Librarian and a Cataloger. Continuous growth through education is a life-long endeavor for Heawon. Thus, her pursuit of a post-MLIS certificate through the PRAXIS program. Upon completing the PRAXIS program, her goal is to pursue Doctoral degree.

NATIONAL MENTOR:

UCLA FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. Virgina Walter

UCLA DOCTORAL STUDENT MENTOR: Ya-Ling Lu

Pedro Reynoso

pedro.reynoso@libraries.claremont.edu

Mr. Reynoso is a recent M.L.I.S. graduate from San Jose State University, joined The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges as Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian in September 2002. He is the new Chicano Studies, Religion, and Women's Studies Subject Specialist. Pedro considers himself a generalist, having held a variety of information-related assignments during the past four years. He has worked as Reference Librarian at Laney College (academic), Redwood City Public Library (public), and Joseph Azevada Elementary (school).

Advocacy for information literacy and access was the common thread binding these experiences. Pedro has also been an Assistant Editor/Translator for El Mensajero Newspaper in San Francisco. His volunteer service includes a one-year apprenticeship at KPFA Community Radio in Berkeley. Recently, he was appointed REFORMA's Newsletter Editor for 2002-03.

NATIONAL MENTOR:

UCLA FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. Gregory Leazer

UCLA DOCTORAL STUDENT MENTOR: Barbara Miller (ABD)

Romelia Salinas

RSalina@exchange.calstatela.edu

Ms.Salinas received her Masters in Library Science from UCLA in 1994 and has been working as an academic librarian since then. She currently holds the position of Social Sciences Librarian at California State University Los Angeles (CSULA). Prior to her position at CSULA she worked as the Internet Development Librarian at the University of California Riverside, Center for Virtual Research. During her time at Riverside she was highly involved in the establishment of the Community Digital Initiative, a university based effort to develop information and computer literacy in the local community. She has also worked at the Chicano Studies Research Library at UCLA.

Romelia recently finished her term as the Los Angeles Chapter President of REFORMA, the national association to promote library and information services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking. On a national level she recently was reappointed to REFORMA's Information Technology Committee.

NATIONAL MENTOR:

UCLA FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. Anne Gilliland-Swetland

UCLA DOCTORAL STUDENT MENTOR: Charlotte Lee (ABD)

Vang Vang

vang_vang@csufresno.edu

Ms. Vang was born in Laos. Her family immigrated to the U.S. in 1978 when she was four years old. Vang is a graduate of Roosevelt High School in 1991 and went on to UC Santa Cruz where I graduated in 1995. In 1997 she received her M.A. in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston, MA.

After graduation, Vang spent a year working as a reference librarian at the Rodney A. Briggs Library (University of MN, Morris). Since then she has been a reference librarian at Henry Madden Library (CSU Fresno). Vang has also done some classroom teaching at Fresno State and Fresno City College. She enjoys teaching as much as being a reference Librarian, and finds the two roles very challenging, exciting and rewarding. Her career plan includes pursuing a doctorate degree in either Library Science or Education.

NATIONAL MENTOR:

UCLA FACULTY ADVISOR: Dr. Marcia Bates

UCLA DOCTORAL STUDENT MENTOR: Jeanna Hartel