Laura Crain

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 - moms select children's books and make recordings reading to their children.

I am currently reading Scattershot:  My Bipolar Family by David Lovelace and Following Atticus by Tom Ryan.  My sons and I are on a Kate DiCamillo run with Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and The Magician's Elephant.