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Arlene Cohen Associate Professor, Circulation and
Outreach Services Librarian, RFK Library, University of Guam
Arlene Cohen, an Associate
Professor at the University of Guam, is the Circulation/Outreach Services
Librarian at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Library. She holds a MLS from the
University of Washington in Seattle, with an extensive background in resource
sharing. Before moving to Micronesia from Seattle in 1987, she worked in a
variety of settings at the University of Washington in support of resource
sharing activities, including positions at the Pacific Northwest Bibliographic
Center and the Pacific Northwest Regional Health Sciences Library.
At the University of Guam since
1990, she has been instrumental in developing the university's pivotal role in
supporting regional resource sharing networks. She was involved in establishing
the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA) in 1990,
holding several offices including President. Also active in IFLA, she is
currently serving as the IFLA Management of Library Associations Section
Secretary. Through the years, she has be involved in publishing resource
sharing tools including the recent Union List of Serials in Pacific Islands
Libraries (2002), and was just awarded an IFLA grant to publish an updated
directory of libraries in the Pacific Islands. In 2001, she was an invited
participant to the IFLA Core Program for Universal Availability of Publications
/ Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) First Pacific Community Workshop,
in New Caledonia and is part of several working groups. She has presented
papers throughout the world on her work with her most recent publication
appearing in a 2002 issue of Interlending and Document Supply (Vol. 30:2)
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