Keywords

  • business
  • collection development
  • instruction
  • library
  • reference

Horne, Angela Kimberly

Director

Angela Horne, MBA'07, is Director of the Management Library. She received her Masters in Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  She has held various positions in the the Management Library since 1999 and is involved in various Cornell University Library-wide committees and initiatives.

research

research and scholarship focus

Business librarianship, organizational development, mentoring.

affiliations

head of

librarian in

teaching

teaching focus

Entrepreneurship, careers, business information

service

current professional activities

Chair, SLA CUBL Research Agenda committee

library liaison to

background

educational background

  • 2007  Master of Business Administration, Cornell University and Queen's University, Ithaca, New York and Kingston, Ontario (one degree for each school)
  • 2001  Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers, Johnson Graduate School of Management Executive Education Course
  • 1996  Master of Library and Information Studies, ALA-Accredited, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 1990  Bachelor of Arts with combined honours in English and Russian, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 1989  Russian language and culture study, Pushkin State Institute of Language, Moscow, former Soviet Union

professional background

  • Johnson Graduate School of Management Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
    • Director, June 2007 - present
    • Assistant Director and Head of Public Services, August 2005 - June 2007
    • Coordinator of Public Services and Head of Reference, June 2004 - July 2005
    • Public Services Librarian, June 1999 - September 2001
  • Physical Sciences Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
    • Reference Specialist, September 1998 - May 1999
  • Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Halifax, Nova Scotia
    • Electronic Initiatives Librarian and Departmental Webmaster, July 1996 - September 1998

awards and distinctions

  • 2006  Nominated for Johnson School recognition award
  • 2005  UNYSLA Chapter member award for outstanding service
  • 2003 and 2002  MARS (the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of RUSA, the Reference and User Services Association, a division of ALA) selected MyLibrary as an innovative web-based reference service in the category of "Personalized Library Services
  • 2002  Management Library staff received the Johnson School Team Award
  • Quoted in ”The Graying of the Library Profession: A Survey of Our Professional Association and Their Responses," Rebecca T. Lenzini, Searcher, Vol. 10, No. 7 (July/August 2002)
  • Selected as one of 24 participants for the 2002 Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute in Emerald Lake, Alberta
  • Quoted in Shontz, Priscilla K. Jump Start Your Career in Library and Information Science.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002
  • Management Library Reference FAQ was recognized in 2002 by RUSA as an “Innovative Web-Based Reference Service.”
  • Four CUL internal grant proposals were successfully funded (Web Guides, Intellectual Capital, MyLibrary focus groups, Library Events Database)
  • The Wordsmyth website was chosen by RUSA as a “Best Free Reference Web Sites 2001” (see http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/marsbestref2001.htm).  I was one of thedevelopers of this site’s interface.
  • Inaugural winner, OCLC/CLA Award for Promoting Technology in Libraries, presented at Canadian Library Association Conference, June 20, 1998, Victoria, British Columbia

featured in

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • "Making the Most of Mentoring," New Librarian, New Job, ed. Cory Tucker and Reeta Sinha, Scarecrow Press, 2006.
  • Review of "SalaryExpert.com."  Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship.  11(4), 2006.
  • With Nate Rupp and Scott Wicks.  "The Cornell-Queen's Boardroom EMBA: a View from Inside," Kaleidoscope (December 2005), http://tinyurl.com/y95jg6
  • Review in Business Information Alert: "Design and Implementation of Web-Enabled Teaching Tools," v. 16, no. 8, September 2004, p. 7.
  • With Terry L. Kristensen. "The Development of MyContents, an Enriched Electronic Tables of Contents Service," portal: Libraries and the Academy, 4, 2 (April 2004): 205-218.
  • With Oya Rieger and Ira Revels. "Linking Course Web Sites to Library Collections and Services," The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30, 3 (April 2004).
  • Guest editor (with Margaret Law), Feliciter, 2004, 50(2) -- special issue on Human Resource Management.
  • "A Business Plan Model of Employment for Librarians," Expectations of Librarians in the 21st Century, ed. Karl Bridges, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003: 61-63.
  • Multi-author effort, "MyContents:  Making a Dream into Reality", Kaleidoscope, April 2002, 2-4.
  • Reviews in Reference Reviews:
    • "CareerOneStop.org," v. 18, no. 1, 2004
    • "Famous Quotations Network," v. 17, no. 1, 2003
    • "Canadian Encyclopedia," v.16, no.6, 2002
    • "Glossarist.com," v. 16, no 1, 2002
  • "Mentoring Matters", August 2001, Kaleidoscope, http://tinyurl.com/yxkrmz
  • "Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus," Feliciter, Vol. 46, No. 7 (June 2000), 20.
  • Co-authored article, “MyLibrary: Personalized Electronic Services in the Cornell University Library,” D-LIB Magazine, vol. 6, no. 4 (April 2000), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april00/mistlebauer/04mistlebauer.html.
  • "Trekking to Victoria with Technological Shoelaces Tied Tight: The Path to Winning the Inaugural OCLC/CLA Award." Feliciter 44:3 (1999), pp. 160-163.

 

talks and presentations

  • Invited presentation. "Mentoring".  Syracuse University, April 20, 2005.
  • Invited presentation, “Career Information:  Fast and Free,” June 2004 SUNY Career Development Officers (SUNY CDO) Conference, Lake Placid, New York.
  • Co-presenter (with John Fereira), MyContents Poster Session, LITA Forum 2003, October 2003, Norfolk, Virginia.
  • Co-facilitator (with Suzanne Cohen and Thad Dickinson), Personalized Services Roundtable, ACRL National Meeting, April 11, 2003, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • “Guiding Remote Users:  Challenges and Opportunities”, IRPC Reference Retreat, March 17, 2003.
  • Co-presenter (with Thad Dickinson), MyLibrary poster, NYLA Annual Conference, October 26th, 2002, Buffalo, New York.
  • Invited co-presenter (with Michael Cook), “Mentoring Matters: The Re-Invention of the Cornell University Library Mentorship Program”, April 3, 2002, Spring WNY/O ACRL Meeting, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
  • Guest lecturer on topic of special libraries, Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (July 14, 2002, October 8, 2002, and September 30, 2003).
  • Invited speaker, SCRLC, March 31st, 2000 – “MyLibrary's Impact on Public Services” (with Suzanne Cohen), part of “Personalize "Your" Library and Privacy in the Information Age” Workshop, Ithaca, NY.
  • Demonstrated Wordsmyth as "Work in Progress" at "Tech Tools '99", Syracuse, NY, October 29th, 1999.
  • Presented "The Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus: An Overview,” CUL Professional Development Week, Kroch Library, Cornell University, May 18, 1999.
  • The co-authored paper Conducting Usability Testing -- Sympatico on the Internet was one of only four papers chosen to be read at the CASLIS Student Paper Session at the Canadian Library Association Conference, June 8, 1996.
  • The co-authored paper The Development of Found-IT!, The Internet Thesaurus, and Its Practical Application in the Special Library was one of only four papers chosen to be read at the CASLIS Student Paper Session at the Canadian Library Association Conference, June 8, 1996.

 

Keywords: business, collection development, instruction, library, reference