President – Catherine Taylor
Catherine graduated from the Library and Information Technology program at Red River College in 1997 and has done a little of everything since then. She has worked in 13 different positions in 11 libraries and is very thankful that so many other Library Technicians get pregnant and go on maternity leave! Catherine is currently on leave from the University of Manitoba at the St. Boniface General Hospital Library.
Catherine completed a B.A. (Hon) from Brandon University in 2007 and is now pursuing an M.A. in Sociology at the University of Manitoba. She is also working on getting her Master Gardener certification through the University of Saskatchewan.
She volunteers at the Orioles Community Garden as a Board Member and gardener and is a member of the Daniel McIntyre-St. Matthews Community Association Greening Committee. Her volunteer experience within the library community includes:
- MALT representative on the Manitoba Library Associations Working Group
- Manitoba Libraries Conference, Registration Coordinator, 2007 and 2009
- MLA Conference, Speaker, 2000
- CASLIS Manitoba, Secretary, 1999/2000
- Manitoba Association of Library Technicians, Program Coordinator, 1997/1998
Catherine was presented with the MALT Library Technician of the Year Award in 2007 and was nominated for the 2011 Canadian Library Association Library Technician Interest Group Award of Merit.
She lives in Winnipeg’s West End with her partner, their dog and two cats. She spends her spare time knitting, reading, cooking and wait… what spare time?
Past President – Pamela Southam
Pamela is the unofficial MALT archive. She began volunteering as a Student Representative, and continued on the Executive as Vice-President and then President. Pamela was also the MALT Representative on the 2007 Manitoba Libraries Conference planning committee.
She graduated from the Library and Information Technology Program at Red River College in 2005 and has worked for the University of Manitoba ever since. She now works at the J.W. Crane Memorial Library at Deer Lodge Centre.
Pamela is a self-professed science fiction geek and has volunteered for various Sci-Fi events in Winnipeg including KeyCon and ComicCon. Pamela and her husband live in Winnipeg’s West End.
Vice President / President Elect – Tomaz Booth
Tomaz was born and raised in Winnipeg, though he has lived several different places throughout his life. His mother is from Guarulhos, a suburb of Sao Paulo, a city in Brazil, and his father is from Midland, Michigan.
In his free time, he enjoys writing, reading (mainly comedy and science fiction), spending time with family, friends and his 3 cats and 1 dog. He also enjoys spending time at his cabin in Payuk Lake, Manitoba and watching films (especially foreign films) and playing video games.
Tomaz attended the University of Manitoba for 2 years before entering the Library and Information Technology Program at RRC. During his time at the U of M he studied History and Spanish and concentrated on Latin American History.
He was honoured and proud to have been a part of the 2011 graduating class of the Library and Information Technology Program at RRC and looks forward to continued learning and his career as a Library Technician.
Treasurer – Elizabeth Stregger
Elizabeth graduated from the Red River College Library and Information Technology Program in 2009. She is currently employed by the University of Manitoba as the Library Assistant for Outreach Services at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library.
She was the Registration Coordinator at the 2010 Manitoba Libraries Conference and Volunteer Coordinator at the 2009 Conference. Other volunteer work includes cataloguing online resources for the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources and organizing a fundraiser for the Princess White Dove Library. She served two terms as Secretary on the Manitoba Association of Health Information Providers (MAHIP) executive.
Elizabeth has a B.Sc. in Physical Sciences and a B.Sc. in Geoscience, both from McMaster University. She recently returned to school to complete her Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario through their new distance education program.
She has lived all over Canada and the world, but now calls Winnipeg home. She is a knitter extraordinaire, a committed yoga student and owner of two lovely Humane Society cats.
Secretary – Marge Dyck
Marge has worked on a contractual basis for the library of the Central and Arctic Region, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) since 2001. As it is a small library, she performs a variety of duties, from cataloguing, to ILLs, to shelving as well as helping to write two DFO reports. Marge feels that the technician’s relationship with a librarian could be compared to that of an engineer to the architect. The technician executes the plans, and creates or provides the tools needed to fulfill the librarian’s schemes for their libraries.
Marge has previously served on the MALT executive, and she also enjoy volunteering at church where she runs one of the catering groups, at her golf course where I run the Business Ladies League, and at her curling club where she runs the Friday Night Mixed League with her husband. She is married and has two adult daughters. She loves to read, travel, golf, curl and meet new people.
Newsletter Editor – Eric Wesselius
Eric graduated from the Red River College Library and Information Technology Program in 2007. He is currently employed by the University of Manitoba as a reference assistant at the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library.
Eric worked in health care for 18 years before taking the Library Technology program, both as a health care aide and as support staff. He also worked in a variety of media jobs, among them as part of the layout and design staff at the Brandon University student newspaper, The Quill. He also worked for local media company DigiPix Media doing layout and design, disc duplication, acting as a technician for conferences and assisting in filming events and commercials.
During the 1990s, Eric was a volunteer, board member and head of security at the Brandon Folk Music and Art Festival. Originally a farm boy from near Shilo, he currently lives in the West End of Winnipeg with his wife and their three cats.
Membership Coordinator – Candice Phillips
Candice Phillips is a 2011 graduate of RRC’s Library and Information Technology program, and a happy workaholic who currently holds jobs at 3 different libraries!
She has a passion for working with students and educators and her greatest satisfaction comes from knowing she has helped improve someone?s information seeking skills. She likes to spend her free time reading historical fiction, playing with her two dogs, and power shopping. She plans to pursue studies in politics and government to reach her goal of one day working in a law library. Candice welcomes any opportunity to discuss new and innovative ideas being used in libraries.
Communications Coordinator – Katie McKee
Katie began working as a page while in high school at the local public library. After graduating from high school she picked up a library clerk position at the local community college, which sparked her interest in a career as a library technician.
Katie completed the Library and Information Technology program from Red River College by Distance Education.
Currently she works 2 part time jobs as a library assistant and a research consultant/ content designer.
Katie loves sports, especially hockey and snowboarding, reading, coffee and of course knitting.
Red River College Student Representative – Diana Saunders
Diana is currently in her first year of the Library and Information Technology program at Red River College. She completed a M.Sc. in Entomology from the University of Manitoba in 2003 and a B.Sc. in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of Winnipeg in 2000. She is also working as a page at the Millennium Library. Diana looks forward to her career as a Library Technician and sees herself thriving in an academic or special library environment.
Some of the jobs Diana has enjoyed include: biology lab instructor, math tutor, field researcher for biodiversity studies, and Environmental Specialist for the Florida Environmental Protection Agency. She is currently pursuing a volunteer position as a tutor for the Winnipeg Public Library literacy program. She lives in St. Vital with her partner and their cat. Her spare time activities include genealogy, cooking and reading a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction.
Red River College Student Representative – Lee Pauls
Lee hails from Winnipeg. She was born on Easter, which inspired her grandfather to suggest the name Esther Bunny but her parents wisely chose Lee.
She was one of those kids who always had her nose in a book, especially at her brother’s hockey games. Her love of reading and learning got her interested in becoming a Library Technician, though she took a winding path to get here. Lee studied psychology at university and dropped out of beauty school before entering the program at RRC.
Art is one of Lee’s passions and some of her pieces are inspired by books she has read. She also knits, a popular activity among our executive. Lee is married and has a Yorkshire terrier named Nash, after the basketball player (her husband’s choice!).
