Isabella Elizabeth KentSweet Briar College Library Cochran Library PO Box 1200 Sweet Briar, VA 24595 Office: (434) 381-6315 E-mail: lkent at sbc dot edu Biographical DataPlace of Birth: Greensboro, North CarolinaCitizenship: United States EducationMaster of Library ScienceUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro Specialization: Library Science Bachelor of Arts Honors and Awards for Gifts of Speech Project - (http://www.giftsofspeech.org)
ExperienceDirector Digital Resources and Scholarly Communications Librarian Owner Instructor for Introduction to Women and
Gender Studies Instructor for First Year
Seminar Instructor for Summer Programs Serials/Circulation Librarian Retrospective Conversion
Assistant Conferences – Workshops – PresentationsParticipated in the VIVA Learning Objects Portal Planning Summit held at the University of Virginia on June, 8 2007 with John Ulmschneider, the University Librarian for Virginia Commonwealth University. This technology planning session for VIVA libraries across Virginia was attended by invitation only. Organized a Celebration of Women’s History featuring speaker Susan Scanlan (Class of ’69) who is the chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations and the president of the Women’s Research and Education Institute. This event was held March 23, 2006. Presented concurrent session titled “She Knows Her Own Mind” for the 9th Annual Student Leadership Conference at Sweet Briar College on February 18, 2006. Organized a Pre-conference session with Judy Luther of Informed Strategies for the Charleston Acquisitions Conference titled “Serving Our Users – the Value of Usability.” Featured speakers included Chris Farnum from ProQuest, Barbara Lange from IEEE, Beth LaPensee from JSTOR and Richard Gedye from Project Counter. This session was held November 5, 2003. Foreign LanguageIntermediate-level reading of SpanishGrants
DuPont PACE Grant in the amount of $6000 to develop a ContentDM database from Sweet Briar archives to enhance the Gifts of Speech Project for school years 2007-2009. Verizon
Foundation Technology Initiative Grant in the amount of $3000 from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges to develop and teach three
seminars titled Beginning and Intermediate Courses in Web Site Construction and
Design - Summer 2000
President’s Planning
Committee Grant in the amount of $5500 for three
years for development of the Gifts of Speech web site - Spring 1999
Three grants from the
Regional and State CommitteesVice-Chair of the Lynchburg Area Library Cooperative Member Virginia Academic Library Virtual
Reference Service Task Force Member VIVA (Virtual Library of
College CommitteesAdvisor to Sweet Briar College Women and
Gender Studies Minors Member Honors Fellow Search Committee
Chair of the
Continuing Education
Edward Tufte's Presenting Data and Information on March 28, 2008 SOLINET Metadata for Digitization and Preservation held via the internet on April 16, 2007
SOLINET Just for Copy Cats: TMQ MARC Cataloging Workshop held August 11, 2006 SOLINET Basic Serials Cataloging held on June 16, 2006SOLINET Introduction to the Authority File held on
May 4, 2006
SOLINET Basic Subject Cataloging held April 25 - 26,
2006
Association of Research Libraries Workshop - "Web Development with XML: Design and Application," held April 19 - 23, 2004 SOLINET Digital Library Program Development held June 20, 2003Desktop / Network Software, ILS products and Content Management Systems
Acrobat Organizational MembershipsOmicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society Feminist Educators Alliance of
American Library Association Virginia Library Association Toastmasters International Professional Listserve SubscriptionsALA Feminist Task Force List (FEMINIST)
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