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Andrea Falcone is the Dean of the W. Frank Steely Library at Northern Kentucky University. In this role, she provides vision, leadership and resources for the library and the Center for Innovation and Technology in Education, the university's academic technology unit. She also oversees the library's two academic programs, the Bachelor of Science in Library Informatics and the Continuing Education Program in Library Science. Andrea has published and presented widely on innovative teaching techniques, improving classroom communication skills, and pedagogical uses of technology. She is the Editor of the Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series published by Rowman & Littlefield and is the column editor for "Perspectives on Public Services," which appears in International Information & Library Review. Andrea earned a Masters in Library Science from Indiana University and a Master’s in English from the University of Toledo.

As a member of the library faculty Nancy provides research assistance to library users, in addition to collection management activities, library space planning, assessment, and requests for information. She teaches in the continuing education program for ALA and is a board member of the Friends of Kenton County Public Library. She earned her Master's in Library Science from the University of Kentucky and enjoys walking, gardening, and college basketball.

As Administrative Assistant / Assistant to the Dean, Lilly helps handle day to day tasks within the Library and the Dean's Office. She started this position in October of 2018 and has loved working with everyone here in the library and at NKU. She earned her Bachelors in Electronic Media and Broadcast from NKU in 2016 and loves anything Disney, spending time outside, and binge watching YouTube.

Kristi Bishop is the Department Head of Access Services, also known as Public Services, here at Steely Library. She started her journey here in 2003 as a Circulation Student Assistant and was promoted to Circulation Student Assistant Supervisor after her first year. Kristi discovered her love for Steely Library right away and continued her work for 4 ½ years until her degree was completed. After working 2 years outside the library she jumped on the opportunity to come back and received a staff position as the Circulation Supervisor/Reserve Specialist. In 2017 Kristi was then promoted to the Department Head of Access Services.

Kristi currently has her BA in the College of Education and is pursuing her BS in the College of Informatics.

Allen is a Research Collections Librarian within the Research & Instructional Services (RIS) Division of Steely Library, and MyLIBRARIAN for Popular Culture, Cinema Studies, History and Geography, Theatre and Dance, Women’s & Gender Studies, Mass Media, and Journalism. He is also serves as adjunct faculty for the Department of Communication Popular Culture program and the Department of English Cinema Studies program.

Allen is from Dayton, Ohio, the Birthplace of Aviation. His has a Bachelor of Arts in Motion Pictures from Wright State University and a Master of Library Science from Indiana University, Bloomington. He specializes in popular culture topics, and is the Area Chair for Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Libraries for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. His publication/presentation topics include comic books in libraries, the Alamo in film, the Marx Brothers, and the Civil War in East Tennessee. His current research focuses on the effects of the Van Allen belt on fresnic freen modulations. Allen enjoys tamanduas and hiccups. Pet peeves include lunar eclipses and pig-Latin haiku.

Danny Lovell is a Library Specialist II in the Extended Collections division of Knowledge Management Services.

In 2006, he began his work in Steely Library as a student assistant in Access Services and quickly discovered that Steely had become his second home. Three years later, Danny earned a BA in History and it looked as though his days at Steely were behind him.

Not so fast.

Like Napoleon’s triumphant return from exile, Danny knew he was destined to return to Steely. And return he did. In 2012, he rejoined his colleagues in Access Services by becoming Steely’s Evening Circulation Supervisor and Stacks Supervisor. In April 2013, Danny accepted a position working in SourceFinder, Steely Library's Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery service. You can find him checking citations, answering questions, and processing SourceFinder requests for the NKU community.

Danny is a native of Northern Kentucky. He enjoys reading, loud music, sarcasm, and he has a healthy obsession with The Beatles.

Perry Bratcher is a Digital Resources and Access Services Librarian.

Perry holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Kentucky as well as a Master of Business degree from Northern Kentucky University. His areas of research concentration are technology and management in libraries. Perry also teaches technology courses for the American Library Association's Library Certification Program. Perry is a semi-professional musician participating in numerous local ensembles and is active in church activities.

Michael has an MLS from the University of Kentucky. He majored in English Literature and Art History at the University of Cincinnati and studied Art History at the University of Chicago. His research as a librarian is focused on universal access, accessibility, usability, and democracy and he speaks about various aspects of web accessibility.

Debbie divides her time between Research and Information Services and Scholarly Communications at Steely Library. Her studies and scholarship have been recognized by the Web Task Force's Chair (Laura Sullivan) which have greatly contributed to the Library's Web Task Force's charge to create a total rebuild of the Library's website. She is also involved in an ongoing scholarly collaboration with the department of Media Informatics.

After long work days, Debbie is also a student in the University of Kentucky's MLS program in Lexington, Kentucky. She is interested in Information Architecture, usability, universal access, and the future of metadata.

Debbie was nominated by her colleagues for the Regents Distinguished Service Award in 2018.

Crissy manages W. Frank Steely Library's inter-library loan (SourceFinder) department, as well as the Scholarly Communications department. Before joining NKU, Crissy worked at both the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and the Edward L. Pratt Research Library at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Professionally, she has experience in cataloging, serials, government documents, inter-library loan, circulation, reference, copyright, medical librarianship, scholarly communications and repositories. She is interested in Open Access, Open Education Resources, technology, information literacy and sharing.

Crissy graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Master's of Science in Library Science and from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. She enjoys volunteering time for social justice issues in her community.

John Schlipp is an Intellectual Property Librarian and Professor of Library Science at W. Frank Steely Library at Northern Kentucky University.

John holds a master's degree in Library Science from the University of Kentucky. He is the manager of the IPAC: Intellectual Property Awareness Center at Steely Library. The IPAC assists those in need of information about intellectual property to cultivate their research, creativity, and innovation. Prior to receiving his MSLS in 2000, John worked in the communications industry for 15 years. His scholarly contributions include a textbook entitled Intellectual Property and Information Rights for Librarians (ABC-CLIO: Libraries Unlimited, 2019) and a chapter in the textbook Distributed Learning Librarianship (ABC-CLIO: Libraries Unlimited, 2011). He teaches LIN 405 Intellectual Property & Information Rights for the NKU Bachelor's Degree in Library Informatics.

Andrea joined the Steely Library faculty in 2010 as an instruction librarian, but she began her career at NKU in 2007 as a library graduate assistant. In her current role, Andrea coordinates the library's information literacy program, working with multiple departments on campus to integrate information literacy concepts into courses. She's also a part of the GEARUP team, the university's quality enhancement plan designed to integrate information literacy across majors. Andrea is also an adjunct for the Library Informatics program and for the Department of Communication. She has masters' degrees in Library and Information Science from Kent State University and Communication from NKU (norse up!). Andrea is an active member of the Kentucky Library Association. Outside of the library, you might find her running around town or spending time with her family, exploring all that Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati has to offer.

Mary Todd Chesnut is the Lead Faculty Member for the Library Informatics Program and Professor at Northern Kentucky University. She has been employed at Northern Kentucky University since 1988 and a member of the library faculty since 2002. Mary earned her MSLS degree from the University of Kentucky in 2002.

She currently teaches LIN 101, LIN 175, LIN 300, LIN 414, and LIN 496 and leads curriculum and program expansion for the Library Informatics Program. She received NKU’s Online Faculty Member of the Year Award in 2012. Since 2006, Mary has volunteered her time as a regular fiction reviewer for Library Journal and as a Personalized Talking Print Reader for the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Mary’s scholarly pursuits focus on information literacy and online learning. When not at NKU, Mary enjoys card making and antiquing quests with her family, where she searches for greeting cards from the 1940s.

Jill Liebisch is the Graduate Library Information Specialist at Steely Library with emphasis on intellectual property research and education through the university’s Intellectual Property Awareness Center (IPAC).

Jill is a native to Northern Kentucky, and received her B.A. in Public Relations from NKU in 2011. Jill is not a stranger to Steely Library. She began working as a freshman student assistant in 2008, and a year later became a student supervisor while embracing the Steely Library environment that encouraged her journey towards becoming a professional librarian. She is currently completing her second year of graduate school as a part of the Kent State University M.L.I.S. program. Jill has previous library event programming experience, and an interest in working with teens and young adults.  

Since late 2007 Lois has managed the Special Collections and University Archives department which includes university records, regional history collections, rare books, a non-circulating book collection to supplement the archival records, and the university records and information management program.

Lois has been a practicing archivist for over twenty years with experience in local historical society, local town government, and college and university records. She speaks on archival topics at archival, library and history conferences, is active professionally and is a successful grant writer.

Her research interests include archival arrangement and description, and photographs.

Lois holds an M.A. in History/Archival Methods from U Mass Boston, an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, is a Certified Archivist and has earned the Digital Archives Specialist designation from the Society of American Archivists. She is the author of two books - Archival Arrangement and Description: Analog to Digital and the award winning Archives for the Lay Person: a Guide to Managing Cultural Collections.

Vicki manages the University Records Management program and educates university employees on their compliance with Federal and State records laws, and NKU records management policies, procedures and guidelines. She advises university offices and conducts records management training.

In addition, Vicki provides University Archives research and reference assistance to employees, students and outside patrons. Her University Archives responsibilities include the management, preservation and accessibility of open permanent university records.

Vicki joined the Special Collections and University Archives department in May 2007. She has a MA in Public History and a BS in Finance from Wright State University. She holds both the Certified Archivist and Digital Archives Specialist professional designations. Vicki currently serves as the committee chair for the Midwest Archives Conference Mark A. Greene Award.