Event Title
Academic or public librarian? Similarities, differences and finding your best fit
Location
LIB 223
Start Date
19-5-2017 10:45 AM
End Date
19-5-2017 11:15 AM
Description
Tina Buck and Peggy Nuhn have both been librarians in various public and academic library settings. They will share their experiences in changing from type of library mid-career, as well as their perspectives on library size, services and finding – or making – opportunities.
Academic or public librarian? Similarities, differences and finding your best fit
LIB 223
Tina Buck and Peggy Nuhn have both been librarians in various public and academic library settings. They will share their experiences in changing from type of library mid-career, as well as their perspectives on library size, services and finding – or making – opportunities.
Comments
Tina Buck is an Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Central Florida, currently focusing on coordinating electronic resources cataloging and maintaining electronic serials holdings. She has been a technical services librarian for more than 20 years, with experience in cataloging, acquisitions, collection management, integrated library system functionality, and discovery layers.
Tina holds a Master’s of Library Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Political Science, both from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to working at UCF, Tina was the Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.
Peggy Nuhn is a Regional Campus Librarian located at Seminole State’s Sanford/Lake Mary campus. She earned her B.S. in Business Administration from Franklin University and her Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. She began her library career managing a municipal bookmobile service, and worked in public libraries before transitioning to academic librarianship.
Peggy supports the UCF/Seminole State concurrent nursing program by providing library instruction to nursing students at the Altamonte campus, and is also embedded in nursing research classes each semester. She is a graduate of the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute, and has served as Region 3 Director of the Florida Library Association (FLA). She is presently serving as a member of the Executive Board of FLA.