LCCN, October 22, 2014
ISSN 2324-6464 Two New Chiefs Appointed in the Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access Directorate-Vera Clyburn and Zbigniew Kantorosinski- I am delighted to announce the appointment of two chiefs in the Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access Directorate. Effective September 7, Vera Clyburn became chief, U.S. Arts, Sciences & Humanities Division, and Zbigniew Kantorosinski assumed the chief's position in Germanic & Slavic Division. New Chief of U.S. Arts, Sciences & Humanities Division- Vera Clyburn is the new chief of the U.S. Arts, Sciences & Humanities Division. She is a supervisor with over twenty years of experience in technical services, supervision, and management. Throughout her career, she demonstrated success in supporting the Library's mission in technical services, planning and implementing multi-year and multi-group activities, and encouraging collaboration with unit partners. She served as acting Assistant Chief in the former U.S. General Division and the U.S. & Publisher Liaison Division and Assistant Chief in the former History and Literature Cataloging Division. In these roles, she was responsible for supporting the chief with staff management, managing special projects, and assisting with project development and implementation. She served as head, Science, Medicine, and Agriculture Section, where she was responsible for managing upwards of twenty full-time equivalent staff (including contractors and volunteers), developing and implementing projects, and overseeing contractual obligations. She also served with collateral duties as Leader/Section Head in these former sections: Technology II Team and Physical Sciences Team; Music & Sound Recording Team III; and Anglo American Team II. In these capacities, she provided leadership in various cataloging divisions to diverse groups of librarians, technicians, contractors and volunteers. She holds a B.S. degree in Library Science from South Carolina State University and an M.L.I.S. degree from the University of South Carolina. Vera managed projects at the directorate and division level that included managing LC's book transfer effort with the National Agricultural Library in return for its Cataloging in Publication Program participation; leading initiatives such as the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate's American Mathematical Society pilot to enrich LC bibliographic records with controlled subject terms from a non-library source; and leading various multidivisional processing groups such as SWAT initiatives to decrease and/or eliminate large volumes of targeted materials. These SWAT initiatives included the Altshuler SWAT (a multi-year Library-wide effort to inventory the collection of more than 225,000 78 r.p.m. records) and the annual arrearage reduction projects she coordinated that processed upwards of 62,000 items. In these, she planned and collaborated on activities with staff in the former Special Materials Cataloging Division, the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, and the Rare Book & Special Collections Division to cover project timelines, procedural documentation, and staff training. She served as the contracting officer's representative responsible for overseeing her section's Health and Medical Works contracts. She worked on the Agriculture Collection Policy Statement Review and the U.S. General/U.S. Publisher & Liaison Division Reorganization Committee. Notably, Vera served as a Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Loaned Executive, August 2007 - February 2008. In this capacity, she coordinated the CFC promotion campaign with other loaned executives from various federal agencies in the National Capital Area. She managed four accounts that raised more than $1,033,446 for the campaign. Professionally, she has been actively engaged in the Potomac Technical Processing Librarians, the regional affiliate of ALCTS, the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, an ALA division, serving as chair of the group in 2011. New Chief of Germanic & Slavic Division - Zbigniew Kantorosinski is the new chief of the Germanic and Slavic Division. He brings to the position both expert knowledge of acquisitions and extensive familiarity with the Central and East European collections and publications field. He has implemented and maintained acquisitions programs for Central and East Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America, and South and Southeast Asia. Earlier in his Library career, he edited and compiled a major bibliography of Slavic and East European studies and while in the European Division, documented and published articles and brochures on materials from the Library's Slavic collection. He has served on numerous Library committees; acted as a Contracting Officer's Representative for Overseas Operations Division contracts and inter-agency agreements; provided consultation and liaison at all levels in the Library, with the Department of State and over one hundred U.S. and foreign university and research libraries participating in the Library's Cooperative Acquisitions Program. He holds a B.A. degree in Political Science and Economics from Northeastern University and a M.A degree in Polish Studies from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Prior to his appointment as chief, Zbig served as the senior overseas operations officer in the Overseas Operations Division, where he assisted and advised the Library's six overseas field directors in matters related to the administration of the offices (in Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, Nairobi, Islamabad, New Delhi and Jakarta). He also served as the program officer for the Library's Cooperative Acquisitions Program (CAP). From the end of May through the end of August, he was acting field director in the Nairobi Office where he managed a staff of twenty-two Foreign Service Nationals responsible for acquiring, processing, cataloging, collating and shipping library material to LC Washington and to some thirty CAP participants. From 2004 to 2007, Zbig was head of the African and Middle Eastern Acquisitions Section and managed a staff responsible for acquiring and processing material from thirty-one countries. From 2000 to 2004, he was a senior instructor in the former Instructional Design and Training Division, where he developed, prepared and presented classroom instruction on information technology and software packages for the Library's acquisitions programs, cataloging activities and cooperative projects. From 1992 to 2000, he was a senior acquisitions specialist in the former Order Division and then in the Central and East European Acquisitions Section responsible for the acquisition of library material from Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uzbekistan, and the former Yugoslavia. From 1986 to 1992, he worked in the European Division as an editor and compiler of the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, an annual publication prepared at the Library for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He was also a bibliographer of the Library's holdings of Polish-language materials. Professionally, among other activities, Zbig is a member of the Middle East Librarians Association and the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America.
