Elizabeth Lorbeer Email & Phone Number

Kalamazoo, Mi, Us

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Founding library director who built a digital library from scratch. The new medical library was fully functional in less than eight months, with over 300,000 electronic resources.Primary liaison between the library and academic departments, residency and fellowship programs, clinics, leadership, administrative units, and student body at the school, and pivotal in expanding the library's role in supporting successful outcomes in medical education, patient care, and biomedical research.… Show more Founding library director who built a digital library from scratch. The new medical library was fully functional in less than eight months, with over 300,000 electronic resources.Primary liaison between the library and academic departments, residency and fellowship programs, clinics, leadership, administrative units, and student body at the school, and pivotal in expanding the library's role in supporting successful outcomes in medical education, patient care, and biomedical research. Ensure seamless integration of information resources by translating the needs of the WMed community and designing innovative services to connect library users to content and the expertise of the WMed librarians. Promoted October 2016 to Chair with direct report to the Dean of the Medical School. On July 1, 2022, promoted to the rank of Professor.AAHSL junior representative to the AAMC Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS) 2018-2019.Clifton Strengths: Achiever, Futuristic, Includer, Belief, Input Show less

Denver, Colorado

Elected Board Member. Term 2018-2021.

Greater Chicago Area

Board liaison to Section Council & Community Council. Term 2017-2020.

University Of Alabama At Birmingham

A member of the library's senior management team. Led the overall management of acquiring, organizing and preserving the library’s collection. Planned the materials budget and monitor expenditures for multimillion dollar budget. Negotiated pricing, contract terms, and license electronic resources and aggregated services with over 300 publishers and vendors. Performed assessment reviews to monitor the effectiveness of the collection and overall user satisfaction. Managed faculty… Show more A member of the library's senior management team. Led the overall management of acquiring, organizing and preserving the library’s collection. Planned the materials budget and monitor expenditures for multimillion dollar budget. Negotiated pricing, contract terms, and license electronic resources and aggregated services with over 300 publishers and vendors. Performed assessment reviews to monitor the effectiveness of the collection and overall user satisfaction. Managed faculty librarians, paraprofessionals and students in all subspecialty areas of the technical services, including acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, digitization, electronic resources, integrated library system, serials, and scholarly communications. Oversaw daily management of the electronic resources management system, link resolver, electronic course reserve system, and metadata for the online library catalog. Worked collaboratively with Alabama libraries of higher education through the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) and the University of Alabama System to coordinate resource sharing of electronic resources. Reviewed and recommend resources that expand shared access among the schools of higher education. Experienced with group purchasing through LYRASIS.Part of the management team responsible for planning the transition to the next generation of the online catalog and web discovery service. Co-creator of the pay-per-view and library-subsidized unmediated document delivery service to obtain non-subscribed articles on demand. This project won the Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries Distinguished Library Award for 2011. Tested and implemented an unmediated demand driven acquisitions service to acquire electronic books.Principal investigator for three National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) grants. Show less

Rush University Medical Center

Supervised librarians, paraprofessionals and work study students in acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, interlibrary loan/document delivery, Medical Center Archives and serials units. Responsible for the successful planning, organization, policy development and direction of the units. Part of the Teach on Peach initiative to support nurse educators in locating the appropriate resources for patient education.All other duties remained the same as those listed below:

Rush University Medical Center

Acquired and managed all print and electronic resources to support the clinical and academic mission of the Medical Center and University. Planned and managed a materials budget of over $1 million. Handled all vendor relations and negotiated electronic licensing agreements. Staffed the reference desk on a weekly basis.Supervised paraprofessional and work study students in acquisitions and collection development.Served on library-wide committees, including the implementation of… Show more Acquired and managed all print and electronic resources to support the clinical and academic mission of the Medical Center and University. Planned and managed a materials budget of over $1 million. Handled all vendor relations and negotiated electronic licensing agreements. Staffed the reference desk on a weekly basis.Supervised paraprofessional and work study students in acquisitions and collection development.Served on library-wide committees, including the implementation of cataloging electronic resources, developing the online A to Z list for electronic resources, and migrating to a Web-based catalog. Show less

Greater Boston Area

Provided reference and instructional services in the life and physical sciences and engineering. Library liaison to the Chemistry and Geology schools and Boston Library Consortium Chemistry Committee.Selected materials in all formats, and managed the acquisitions budgets for chemistry and geology. Reviewed approval plan forms, faculty requests, and evaluated electronic resources for purchase. Responsible for the revision of all the collection development policies in the sciences… Show more Provided reference and instructional services in the life and physical sciences and engineering. Library liaison to the Chemistry and Geology schools and Boston Library Consortium Chemistry Committee.Selected materials in all formats, and managed the acquisitions budgets for chemistry and geology. Reviewed approval plan forms, faculty requests, and evaluated electronic resources for purchase. Responsible for the revision of all the collection development policies in the sciences and engineering disciplines. Assessed the physical condition of the subject collections; making decisions on the replacement, transfer, withdrawal, or preservation of individual works. Show less

Ed.M, Higher Education Administration

Computer Information Systems, Data Management

M.L.S, Library Science

B.A, History