Sharon L. Nelson
Associate Director for Systems and Technical Services, Associate Professor

B.A., Northern Illinois University
M.S., University of Illinois

Email: slnelson@niu.edu
Phone: (815) 753-2021
Room: 267A

Biography

Sharon L. Nelson joined the Law Library in 2006. She is responsible for the implementation and use of all modules of the Voyager integrated library system, with particular responsibility for serials and acquisitions. In addition to her previous work in library systems, her experience includes positions in information technology and medical librarianship. She has been actively involved in the statewide I-SHARE library consortium and with the annual international conference for users of the Voyager system.

Articles

• The Connection between Animal Abuse and Family Violence: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, 17 Animal L. 369 (2011).
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Short Articles/Columns

• Working Smarter: Two Approaches to Time, Task and Life Management, CALL Bull. (Winter 2011), at 20, available at http://new.chicagolawlib.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Callbull218.pdf
• TechBuzz: LibraryThing: A Social Networking Site for Book Lovers (And Libraries Too), 34 CALL Bull. (Spring 2009), available at http://new.chicagolawlib.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/callbull211_revised.pdf
• Program Report: Encore, Enterprise, Primo and WorldCat Local: Explore the Evolving Discovery Tools for Your Catalog, 34 Tech. Services L. Libr. (September 2008), available at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-01/34-01.pdf (last visited Aug. 27, 2010).
• Program Report: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Rethinking Bibliographic Services in the 21st Century, 34 Tech. Services L. Libr. (September 2008), available at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-01/34-01.pdf (last visited Aug. 27, 2010).
• Program Report: Cool Tools: Energizing Law Librarianship with Web 2.0, 34 Tech. Services L. Libr. (September 2008), available at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-01/34-01.pdf (last visited Aug. 27, 2010).
• Program Report: TS-SIS Hot Topic: Technical Services and the Three Rs: Reinventing, Restructuring, and Renewing, 34 Tech. Services L. Libr. (September 2008), available at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-01/34-01.pdf (last visited Aug. 27, 2010).
• Program Report: Blogging and Beyond: New Communication Streams for Technical Services Librarians, 33 Tech. Services L. Libr. (September 2007), available at  http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/33-01/33-01.pdf (last visited Aug. 27, 2010).
• Information Technology and the Teaching Role of the College Librarian (with Kelly L.K.
  Collins), 39 The Reference Libr. (1993).
• Medical Ethics, 67 Ill. Libr. (1985) (Annotated Bibliography).
• Creating a Tailor-Made Training Program for the OCLC ACQ Subsystem. 2 The Nat'l ACQuirer (OCLC ACQ Users Group Newsletter) (1984).

Professional Association Presentations

• Web 2.0 Technologies (panelist), MAALL Annual Meeting, Fayetteville, AR, October 2008.
• E-Reserves with Voyager and EZproxy: Fast, Cheap and Good (with Gretel Stock-Kupperman).
  Endeavor End-User Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2006.
• An EZproxy Diary: A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementation in the Small Library. Endeavor
  End-User Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2003.