Advisory Group Addresses Development and
Planning
The Nebraska State Advisory Council on
Libraries is established by the Nebraska Library Commission,
meeting three times annually and advising the Library
Commission on federal library programs and other issues.
Council members represent libraries in public, academic,
school, and special settings, or are library customers. The
Nebraska Library Commission appointed the following individuals
to serve on the Nebraska State Advisory Council on Libraries
during the 2002-2004 Biennium:
• Becky Baker, Seward Memorial Library
• Susan Baird, Box Butte Development
Corporation, Alliance
• Tracy Bicknell-Holmes, NLA
Ex-Officio Representative, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Libraries
• Jim Bothmer, Health Sciences
Library, Creighton University, Omaha
• Janice Boyer, University of Nebraska
at Omaha
• Nancy Cantin, Medical and Patient
Library, Hastings Regional Center
• John Dale, Lincoln City Libraries
• Steve Davis, NEMA Ex-Officio
Representative, Kearney Public Schools District Media
• Karen Drevo, Norfolk Public Library
• Brenda Ealey, NLA Ex-Officio
Representative, Southeast Library System, Lincoln
• Nancy Escamilla, Scottsbluff Public
Library
• Stan Gardner, Conn Library, Wayne
State College
• Jeff Gilderson-Duwe, Holdrege Public
Library System
• Patricia Gross, Gering High School
• Margaret (Maggie) Harding, NLA
Executive Director, Crete
• Gretchen Healy, Little Priest Tribal
College, Winnebago
• Michael Herbison, Calvin T. Ryan
Library, University of Nebraska at Kearney
• Theresa Jehlik, Omaha Public Library
• Diana Johnson, Stromsburg Public
Library
• Mo Khamouna, Nebraska College of
Technical Agriculture Library, Curtis
• Kathy Lute, Ogallala
• Sharon Osenga, Meridian Library
System, Kearney
• Ken Oyer, Hartigan Medical Library,
Alegent Health, Omaha
• Rebecca Pasco, Ph.D., University of
Nebraska at Omaha
• Kay Schmid, Hruska Memorial Public
Library, David City
• Tom Schmitz, Lincoln Regional Center
Library
• Ruth Seward, Lexington Public
Schools Media Center
• John Seyfarth, Sump Memorial
Library, Papillion
• Mary Ann (MeMe) Smith, Schuyler
Public Library
• Jane Wall, Lincoln
• Jeff Yost, Nebraska Community
Foundation, Lincoln
Mary Jackson, Children’s and Young
Adult Services Coordinator, retired
after eighteen and one-half years with the Nebraska Library
Commission. She was honored at the Library Commission in
February 2003.
Commission staff and library representatives from throughout the state shared refreshments and good wishes. Mary received a card signed by Commission staff, numerous cards from well-wishers statewide, a memory book containing fond recollections of “Mary moments,” and a gift book from Commission staff, When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood, by Robert Coles.
Commission staff and library representatives from throughout the state shared refreshments and good wishes. Mary received a card signed by Commission staff, numerous cards from well-wishers statewide, a memory book containing fond recollections of “Mary moments,” and a gift book from Commission staff, When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood, by Robert Coles.
Library Commission Staff
Arrival:
• Robert Shafer, hired November 1,
2003
Departures:
• Mary Jackson, February 28, 2003
• Dan Hogan, June 30, 2003
• Nancy Busch, August 18, 2003
Reassignments
• Cherie Longmuir: from Readers
Services Coordinator to Panhandle Library System Coordinator
• Kit Keller: from Library Data
Services Coordinator to Planning & Data Services
Coordinator
• Lisa Kelly: from Information
Services Coordinator to Information Services
Director
• Sally Snyder: from Federal Aid
Administrator to Coordinator of Children and Young Adult
Services
Employee of the Year:
• 2002—Allana Novotny
• 2003—Julie Pinnell
• 2004—Dave Eckmann
Manager of the Year:
• 2004—Shannon Behrhorst
