Library Departments & Staff

Tracey Leger-Hornby, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President for Library Services
x5058
tlh@wpi.edu
Tracey is responsible for the overall management and vision of library services. Tracey has oversight of the library’s budget, personnel, and general policies. She communicates and collaborates with other IT managers on programs and issues that overlap and intersect between departments. Tracey welcomes suggestions and comments on the library.

Joan C. Dickert
Administrative Assistant
x6510
jdickert@wpi.edu
Joan provides administrative support for the Assistant Vice President for Library Services.

Deborah A. Bockus
Access Services Manager
x5230
dbockus@wpi.edu
Debbie manages the operations of the Access Services Department which includes the Circulation Desk, Course Reserves, Stacks Maintenance, building maintenance and safety, and the student employee program. She also oversees resource sharing within the Academic Research Collaborative and is the IT Liaison for the Humanities and Arts Department.

Ginny Julian
Access Services Associate
x6603
gjulian@wpi.edu
Ginny works in conjunction with faculty to get reserves on the shelf in a timely and accurate manner. She assists in the operation and supervision of the Access Services Department, and explains rules and regulations as needed. She helps to ensure student staff attendance and is responsible for timesheets and payroll for all our student employees.

Lynne Riley
Access Services Librarian
x5468
lriley@wpi.edu
Lynne Riley assists in overseeing, planning and coordinating all Access Services Department operations. She participates in Reference and Interlibrary Loan services; hires, schedules, and oversees the training of Circulation Student Supervisors. In addition, Lynne serves as the copyright contact for the library and is IT Liaison to the Management, Social Sciences and Policy Studies, and Civil Engineering Departments.

Tressa Santillo
Access Services Assistant
x5101
tsantillo@wpi.edu
Tressa ensures that all items are returned to the library shelves in a quick and efficient manner and supervises a group of students who work in the stacks. Tressa also helps with daily training of all other information desk student staff as well as assisting with day-to-day circulation tasks.

Margaret Anderson
Reference & Processing Archivist
x6112
mandersn@wpi.edu
Margaret is responsible for accessioning, processing, caring for, and making accessible the materials and collections in Archives & Special Collections. This includes university records of historical importance as well as manuscript collections which have been given to WPI. She oversees Archives & Special Collections reference services.

Lora Brueck
Assistant Director, Collections
x6039
lbrueck@wpi.edu
Lora oversees acquisition and cataloging of library books, ebooks and audiovisual materials. She communicates with academic departments regarding their library budgets and purchases. She catalogs WPI projects and ETDs, films, cdrom and music cds for the library catalog and is responsible for making decisions regarding deaccessioning book materials. She is currently overseeing the digitizing of student IQP and MQP reports from 1999 to 2007. Lora serves as IT Liaison to Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Judith Fallon
Periodicals Associate
x6499
jf@wpi.edu
Judy is responsible for sending all materials, both theses and books, to the bindery. She also maintains the current and older periodicals stacks. Judy is responsible for the processing of all incoming periodicals, newspapers, books, DVDs and tapes and notifies patrons when an item that they requested is ready for pick-up. She also maintains the archives of newspaper articles featuring WPI and does scanning of other archival materials.

Martha Gunnarson
Assistant Director and Serials Librarian
x6038
mg@wpi.edu
Martha’s primary responsibility is to manage the periodicals collection, both in print and online. She has developed a partially automated method of adding records for project reports to the library catalog, and does the linking and some quality control for the scanned project reports, as well as some cataloging. Martha is the library’s representative to (and webmaster for) inFIRE.

Kathy Markees
Conservation Librarian
x5675
kmarkees@wpi.edu
Kathy manages library preservation, conservation, and reformatting initiatives. This includes overseeing the book repair unit, conserving items from Special Collections & Archives, monitoring the library’s environment for detrimental conditions, and managing the Digital Reformatting Center. She also prepares materials for exhibition or loans and is a resource to the community for information on the care of books and other conservation issues.

Elenore McGourty
Periodicals Serials Associate
x5413
mcgourty@wpi.edu
Elenore maintains the current print periodical collection and daily newspapers by checking in new issues for 225 titles and claiming lost and damaged issues with vendors as needed. She also oversees the binding of journals and periodicals. She assists the Curator of Archives by gathering and indexing WPI related information in current media and the Assistant Director for Collections Management with creating purchase orders and maintaining use statistics for ebook collections. She also assists with metadata creation for digital collections.

Jacquelyn Mushinsky
Cataloging/Acquisitions Associate
x6496
jmushins@wpi.edu
Jackie orders print material for the library that is requested by academic departments and library staff. She processes invoices and catalogs new library material. She also maintains accuracy and currency of holdings information in the library catalog, updating bibliographic information when necessary. She assists in library promotional and instructional efforts by creating films, posters and flyers and serves at the information desk.

Betty Goodrich
Interlibrary Loan Associate
x5952
goodrich@wpi.edu
Betty serves as a connection for other libraries to borrow materials and processes library materials received and returned by WPI faculty, students and staff from other libraries around the world. She supports online learners by providing them access to print materials.

Laura Robinson Hanlan
User Services Librarian
x5414
lrob@wpi.edu
Laura oversees Interlibrary Loan operations. She assists students, faculty, and staff with research needs through reference consultations and research education. She serves as IT Liaison to the Mathematical Sciences and Mechanical Engineering departments.

Joanne Beller
Reference Coordinator
x6162
williams@wpi.edu
Joanne provides reference and research consultations to students and faculty and coordinates the reference desk schedule and staff training. She serves as IT Liaison to the Fire Protection Engineering Department.

Christine Drew
Manager, Instruction & Outreach
x6163
cdrew@wpi.edu
Christine leads WPI’s information literacy initiatives and provides research education to students, faculty and staff. She coordinates outreach to promote library resources and services and serves as IT Liaison to the following departments: Biology & Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division.

Gael Evans
Evening/Weekend Library Supervisor
x6700
gevans@wpi.edu
Gael provides reference assistance at the information desk.

Laura Robinson Hanlan
User Services Librarian
x5414
lrob@wpi.edu
Laura oversees Interlibrary Loan operations at Gordon Library. She assists students, faculty, and staff with research needs through reference consultations and research education. She serves as IT Liaison to the Mathematical Sciences and Mechanical Engineering departments.

Donald G. Richardson
Assistant Director, Library Systems
x6161
drichard@wpi.edu
As administrator of the Voyager integrated library system, Don is responsible for its management and support and is the primary liaison to the system vendor. He also administers the library’s digital collection management system, federated search tool (QuickFind) and link resolver (FullTextFinder). In addition, he manages the licensing and implementation of many of the library’s electronic databases and resources, such as EBSCOhost, Engineering Village, FirstSearch, Gale, SciFinder Scholar, and Web of Science. He acts as a resource for library staff and users on these systems; consults with CCC and other IT Division staff on systems-related questions; and serves as the library’s liaison to several consortia on database and electronic resource issues. Don also is an IT Liaison to the Computer Science and Physics departments.