Renée Curry, Ph.D.
Director / Associate Professor, Institute for Human Communication
California State University, Monterey Bay, Bldg. 2 Rm. 112
renee_curry@csumb.edu
tel: (831) 582-5018
fax: (831) 582-3780

Professor Renée R. Curry, one of the facilitators of the project, has been elected Director of the Institute for Human Communications at Monterey Bay beginning August 2001. She has been involved with the information competency project of the CSU since 1995. She was part of the original information competency team at CSU San Marcos, along with librarian Gabriela Sonntag. She has delivered two presentations on information competency at AAHE along with Lorie Roth from the Chancellor's office and various representatives from the CSU campuses. Professor Curry and Gabriela Sonntag developed a focus group study at San Marcos to assess the information competency skills of the campus' first general education graduates. The results of this study as well as a sample of well-regarded information-competency activities appear on the CSU San Marcos web site. Professor Curry has also developed information competency activities for her own literature classrooms and has facilitated the use of these activities at two CSU Teacher Scholar Summer Institutes. Professor Curry has recently moved to the CSU Monterey Bay campus (as of August 2000), and she is quite excited about beginning the process of developing and implementing information competency activities and assessment at CSU Monterey Bay.

Bill Robnett
Director, Library Learning Complex
California State University, Monterey Bay, Bldg. 12 Rm. 112
william_robnett@csumb.edu
Tel: (831) 582-4448
fax: (831) 582-3354

Librarian Bill Robnett is the CSUMB Library Director since August 1998. He began his 22-year academic library career as the Science Librarian at Oberlin College. He then served as Director of Reader Services and Collection Development at Rice University Library, followed by an appointment as Director of the Central, Science, and Observatory Libraries at Vanderbilt University. He is a nationally recognized authority on reader services and collection development in academic libraries, and in 2000 was elected Vice-President/President-Elect for the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association. In 2001 he chairs the California State University Council of Library Directors Electronic Access to Resources Committee. Presently he is a member of the editorial board of the journals, Serials Review and Journal of Access Services, and previously was a member of the Library Advisory Council of Springer New York Verlag. He recently was appointed to the Advisory Board of theLibraryPlace.com, a venture of the Baker & Taylor Corporation that is creating an Internet community for public, school and academic librarians to provide a board range of information resources, products, and services. He has published and given presentations at national and international conferences on various aspects of academic libraries, including collection development in the electronic environment and pricing models of electronic serials. He has a B.S. (honors) in Zoology and an M.S. in Botany from Texas Tech University and the M.L.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Pam Baker
Reference and Instruction Librarian
CSUMB Library, Bldg. 12 Rm. 125
pam_baker@csumb.edu
Tel: (831) 582-3887
fax: (831) 582-3354