Ms. Gold is Associate Dean for Public Services at Cal Poly State University’s Robert E. Kennedy Library, reporting to the Dean of Library Services. She is responsible for the development and delivery of library programs and services that support learning, teaching, and research at Cal Poly. She is responsible for leading the work of College Librarian faculty in their efforts to meet the information needs of Cal Poly students, faculty, and staff, including fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for developing life-long skills in finding and using quality information. She is also responsible for leading the Kennedy Library staff in providing reference and information services, circulation and interlibrary services, and course reserves. Formerly Ms. Gold was Head Librarian of the Engineering and Science Libraries at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she led a staff of thirty, including sixteen librarians, in delivering public services across four libraries, as well as developing collections and new services that served MIT’s undergraduate, graduate, and faculty communities. Ms. Gold previously led the Science and Engineering Library at the University of California, San Diego. She has over 17 years experience in the federal information sector, including the National Science Foundation, where she led public website development for several years, and the Library of Congress, where she contributed to public services, science and technology information initiatives, and developing Internet-based services and collections. Ms. Gold has a B.A. degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz; an M.L.S. from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and an M.S. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
Articles
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 1: A Cyberinfrastructure Primer for Librarians, D-Lib Magazine (2007)
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries, D-Lib Magazine (2007)
Presentations
Open Science & Scientific Publishing: Open Access and the Progress of Science, Promise, Permissions, Persistence, & Partnerships (2007)
Conference Proceedings
Chain Reactions: Archives and the Value Chain in Chemistry's Scientific Communications, Proceedings of the NRC Chemical Sciences Roundtable Workshop (2004)
We have heard a great deal about problems of expensive scientific journals; in this last...
Benchmarking for Building Future Engineering & Science Libraries, Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Engineering Libraries Division Annual Conference: Salt Lake City, UT (2004)
FLOW: Co-constructing Low Barrier Repository Infrastructure in Support of Heterogeneous Knowledge Collection(s) (with Karen S. Baker and Frank Sudholt), Proceedings of the Third ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Houston, TX (2003)
Institutional repositories are being constructed today to address the needs of scholarly communication in a...
Building FLOW: Federating Libraries on the Web (with Karen S. Baker, Jean-Yves LeMeur, and Kim Baldridge), Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Portland, OR (2002)
Individuals, teams, organizations, and networks can be thought of as tiers or classes within the...