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Staff Profiles

Bronfman staff-66-Edit Sophie Bury, Head of Library – sbury@yorku.ca  Sophie Bury commenced her role as Head of the Bronfman Business Library on July 1st 2012. She has worked as a business librarian at the Bronfman Business Library since May 2003. She also served in the role of Information Literacy Librarian at York University Libraries from May 2010 to June 2012 which included chairing the Libraries’ Information Literacy Committee. Formerly she was the Business/Economics and Special Projects Librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University Library. She has an BA (Hon) from Trinity College, Dublin and an MLIS from University College Dublin, Ireland. See the Liaison Librarian page for Sophies’s collections responsibilities.
 Angieedited Angie An , Business Librarian – angiean@yorku.ca   Angie An worked as an Information Specialist at the Business Resource Centre of TD Securities delivering research services to investment banking staff and financial services professionals. Also, recently as a Sr. Compliance Officer, she worked to develop a centralized Regulatory Library at TD. Her other former experience includes working as a Research Associate at an executive search firm and as a Reference Assistant at an academic library. Angie holds an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario, an Honours BA from Brock University and she has completed her Canadian Securities Course. See the Liaison Librarian page for Angie’s collections responsibilities.
Bronfman staff-24 David Clink, Circulation/Reserves Supervisor – dclink@yorku.ca  David Clink is the Circulation Coordinator at the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library. He also served in this same position in the now defunct Business and Government Publications Library, York University. He is also a published poet. He has a BA from York University.
Bronfman staff-19-Edit June Hill, Reference Assistant – jhill@yorku.ca  June Hill is a Reference Assistant at the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library. June has a BA from the University of Toronto and an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to coming to York, June worked in the Toronto & Richmond Hill Public Libraries, and in corporate and government libraries. June has also worked as an Information Architect at a major bank and for a web marketing agency.
 Bronfman staff-48-Edit_edited-1 Xuemei Li, Business Librarian – lixuemei@yorku.ca   Xuemei Li has an MLIS from University of British Columbia, PhD (Webometrics) and MSc (Computing) from University of Wolverhampton, UK and B.A (Economics) from China. Xuemei has recently worked at Saint Mary’s University as the Digital Services Librarian. She has years of international trade experience in China. Xuemei is an active Webometrics researcher and is also interested in research impact evaluation. See the Liaison Librarian page for Xumei’s collections responsibilities.
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Glenda Lowndes, Reference Assistant –glowndes@yorku.ca  Glenda Lowndes is a Reference Assistant at the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library. Glenda has an International Business Diploma from Seneca College, a Bachelor of Administrative Studies, Honours Human Resource Management from York University and an MI specializing in Library and Information Science from University of Toronto.  At York U Glenda has worked in many departments including Archives & Special Collections and Scott Research. In addition, she has worked with Markham Public Library and currently volunteers as a Library Intern with Ask | Chat with a Librarian at Scholars Portal.

Bronfman staff-114-Edit_edited-1 Dat Ngo, Circulation Assistant – datngo@yorku.ca  Dat Ngo is a circulation assistant at the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library.  He is the evening supervisor, where he supervises and instructs Unit2 staff, and resolves issues that arise of a circulation nature . He maintains the reserve collection, by placing (and removing) print and electronic materials on reserve at the request of faculty and librarians, conducting an annual review of the collection, and handling patron questions/complaints from faculty, staff and students regarding reserves. In addition, Dat also supports the Inter-Library Loans (ILL, also known as Resource Sharing) service in this library, and processes Inter-Campus Borrowing (ICB) requests.
Bronfman staff-2-Edit Savitree Puran, Circulation Assistant – spuran@yorku.ca    Savi Puran is a circulation assistant at the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library. Savi conducts book searches when items are not located by patrons. She also handles queries regarding overdue items. She is responsible for receiving and processing the new book acquisitions and for maintaining the new book display area. In addition, she maintains the reference collection.
Bronfman staff-104-Edit_edited-1 Kim Stymest, Business Librarian – stymest @yorku.ca   Kim Stymest is a business librarian at the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library. She has worked in government and academic libraries since her graduation from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information with an MISt.She holds a BA (Hon) from York University. Her special area of responsibility is outreach and communications. See the Liaison Librarian page for Kim’s collections responsibilities.
  Dennis Skinner, Circulation Assistant – dgskinn@yorku.ca   Dennis Skinner is a circulation assistant in the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library. He is responsible for binding the current periodicals.
Colin Deinhardt, Part-Time Business Reference Librarian, deinhard@yorku.ca
Amy Menary, Part-Time Business Reference Librarian
  Toni Olshen, Librarian (Emeritus)
 EW_enhanced Elizabeth Watson, Librarian (Emeritus)

 

Updated August 2013