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Laura Crain
Associate Director for Collection Services
lcrain@smcvt.edu
802.654.2388
MLS Indiana University, BA University of Virginia
I've been a librarian at Saint Michael's since 1996. Before coming to Vermont, I was a librarian at Indiana University, and a public librarian at urban libraries in Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio.
I am responsible for collection management and acquisitions at the Library. I am particularly interested in evidence-based collection development.
Recent presentations:
• Presented "The Future is On Demand." New England Library Conference. Burlington, VT: October 3, 2011. (Link to: Book allocation spreadsheet)
• Presented "Libraries and eBook Readers" with Virgil Fuller. Vermont Library Conference. Colchester, VT: May 24, 2011.
• Presented "Reality is What You Make It: Collection Management in Two Vermont Academic Libraries" with Ben Johnson, Vermont Technical College. Vermont Library Conference. Colchester, VT: May 25, 2010.
• Presented “Let the Data Speak: Use Statistics and Collection Management.” Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition. Charleston, SC: November 5, 2009. Article in Charleston Conference Proceedings 2009.
Interests:
My interests and activities include spending time in the sun, raising two sons with my partner Sandra, throwing frisbee for our labradoodle & downhill skiing. Most played songs on my ipod are by Lucinda Williams & the Be Good Tanyas. I volunteer at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility helping to facilitate the Storybook project - incarcerated moms select children's books and make recordings reading the books to their children. The books and the recordings are sent as gifts to their children.
I am currently reading Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel.
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