About Us: Staff Directory

Name

Email

Ext #

Accountable For

ADMINISTRATION

Director

• Kevin Dodds (Librarian)

kdodds@yrl.ab.ca

226

• Administrative & Board matters
• System membership
• Policies
• Problems/complaints

Assistant Director

• Wendy Sears Ilnicki (Librarian)

wsears@yrl.ab.ca

225

Administrative Associate

• Laurie Brock

lbrock@yrl.ab.ca

221

• Calendar administration
• Personnel changes (Trustee Library Board Chair, Librarian, etc.)
• Contact changes (address, phone, cellular, fax, email, etc.)
• Meeting minutes
• Reception

Accounting Technician

• David Gould

drgould@yrl.ab.ca

232

• Accounts payable
• Accounts receivable
• Invoice/statement questions

Accounting Clerk

• Norma McNeill

norjane@yrl.ab.ca

237

BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES

Bibliographic Services Manager

• Wendy Sears Ilnicki (Librarian)

wsears@yrl.ab.ca

225

• Allotment Accounts
• Delivery and schedule
• Concerns about materials purchased through YRL
• Cataloguing procedures, options and information

Inter-Library Loans & Reference

• Lynne Barnes
• Janet Killips
• Lori McLachlan

lbarnes@yrl.ab.ca
jkillips@yrl.ab.ca
lmclachlan@yrl.ab.ca

222
234
243

• Inter-library loans (VDX) - Lynne & Lori
• “Ask A Question” (AAQ) - Lynne & Janet
• Curriculum support (subject requests) - Lynne
• Storytime & aboriginal kits - Lynne

Acquisitions

• Gigi Cashaback
• Laurelle St. Pierre

gica@yrl.ab.ca
slpierre@yrl.ab.ca

235
244

• Publisher information
• Title verification, cost, imprint and publisher
• Questions about “on order” titles
• Cancellations
• Standing orders - Laurelle

Cataloguing

• Janet Killips
• Marian Sorge
• Lynne Barnes

jkillips@yrl.ab.ca
mjsorge@yrl.ab.ca
lbarnes@yrl.ab.ca

234
242
222

• Maintaining the integrity of the TRAC database
• Cataloguing procedures, options, changes and information, including OCLC
• Additions and deletions to the YRL database
• Process only books

Circulation/Shipping/Mail

• Molly Basom
• Gigi Cashaback
• Lori McLachlan
• Norma McNeill

mmb2@yrl.ab.ca
gica@yrl.ab.ca
lmclachlan@yrl.ab.ca
norjane@yrl.ab.ca

240
235
243
236

• International collection - Lori
• Supplies (i.e. barcodes, labels, etc.) - Lori & Molly
• Delivery on demand for school libraries - Norma
• MARC records for school libraries - Gigi

Drivers

• Richard Burgin
• Greg Harrison
• Dave Sharek

rburgin@yrl.ab.ca
gharrison@yrl.ab.ca
dsharek@yrl.ab.ca

269
269
269

• Delivery of all materials to public and school libraries

CLIENT SERVICES                                                             After Hours Emergency Support 1-877-452-TRAC (8722)

Client Services Manager

• Robert Zylstra (Librarian)

rzylstra@yrl.ab.ca

233

Client Services Associate

• Vacant

• Polaris staff client - troubleshooting & training
• CAP grants
• Library automation
• Library inventory projects
• TRACpac catalogue

Training & Development Librarian

• Elizabeth Forseth (Librarian)

• Stephanie Thero (Librarian)

eforseth@yrl.ab.ca

sthero@yrl.ab.ca

223

224

• Training Assistance:
• General Questions regarding YRL services
• Collection development and evaluations
• Workshops
• Public library needs assessments and plans of service
• Provincial library legislation and regulations
• Library operations, policies and procedures
• Online databases
• Polaris staff client - training
• Programming assistance
• Promotion and marketing of library services
• TRAC/TAL card
• Library space planning
• Inventory projects
• Weeding library collections

Desktop & Network Administrators

• Rembrant Puzon
• Robert Tuininga

rpuzon@yrl.ab.ca
rtuininga@yrl.ab.ca

265
262

• Internet/network problems
• Email
• Firewall issues
• Support for desktop service, software applications and computer hardware
• Polaris printing and connectivity