Speed Career Event: An Evening of Mentoring & Networking

Join us for an evening with experienced professionals in Library and Information Science. We welcome current students, recent LIS graduates who are interested in learning about the career opportunities, as well as current employees considering a move.

During the event, a mentor will chat with each mentee for about 10 minutes to answer questions about the mentor's position, experience or field of library work, then move on to the next mentee.

This is a dynamic, fun and chance to network.
Mentors are:

Eva Harris

Associate Director of Research & Knowledge Services

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP

Areas of Expertise: Information management, electronic resources, leadership, department administration

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-harris-b1971125/

Fernanda Schaefer

Senior Manager, Enterprise Metadata and Taxonomy

NBCUniversal

Areas of Expertise: Metadata management, taxonomy development, taxonomy governance, data strategy, leadership

https://www.linkedin.com/in/schaefernanda/

Harry Gee

Associate Professor and Head of Information Services

CUNY Baruch College

Areas of Expertise: Hire and train part-time librarians; schedule all part-time and full-time librarians for all points of information services to assist patrons; teach 3 credit courses and trading floor Bloomberg workshops; Publish in academic scholarly journals such as “Library Trends”, “Library Quarterly”, and the “Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship”. Also have experience as - LexisNexis: Information Professional Trainer, Research and Competitive intelligence to investment bankers

Kristine Alpi

Associate Dean of Libraries and Information Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine

Mount Sinai

Areas of Expertise: Hire and train librarians who provide expert searching and reference management services as well as educational technologists and medical illustrators. Research impact and publication analysis. Workshop and learning activities development on scholarly activity and measurement instruments. Publish in academic journals in librarianship, education and serve a managing editor for the Levy Library Press open access journals.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristine-alpi-2709853/

Lucy Curci-Gonzalez (she/her)

Executive Director

New York Law Institute

Areas of Expertise: Law librarianship and law librarian administration' very active in professional associations at local, section, and national levels; currently runs a small non-profit that is the third oldest private membership law library in the country

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-curci-gonzalez-5047b04

Marijah Sroczynski (she/her)

Research Operations Manager

Morrison Foerster LLP

Areas of Expertise: Law firm, cataloging, electronic resource management, technical services, knowledge management, manager/supervisor, technology

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marijah-sroczynski-93533a15/

Rebecca J. Littman

Managing Librarian – Music & Recorded Sound Division

New York Public Library

Area of Expertise: Thirty year career in Music & Performing Arts Librarianship

Specializations: Mentoring and training new librarians in the performing arts, especially musicians; Providing reference services & guiding users to the materials they need to be better performing artists; Building physical collections to support local performing artists; Library advocacy

Thomas Eikenbrod

Corporate Research Specialist

Shearman & Sterling LLP

Areas of Expertise: Do research requests for Partners, Associates, Paralegals and Business Development people. Areas of specialty are Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Governance Comp & Benefits, Finance and litigation. Business development and competitive intelligence.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-eikenbrod-62ab9041/

Victoria North

Director of Knowledge Services.

Kirkland LLP

Areas of Expertise: Law Firm Knowledge Management and people management.

Hope to be there!