On 9 December 2022, two local librarians, Anne O’Sullivan (Manager, Customer Services and Branch Operations) and Mary Horman (Cataloguer, Collections Services) from the London Public Library (LPL), came into Dr. Rubin’s LIS9002 classroom for an invited guest talk, entitled “Cataloguing in Practise at London Public Library.”
Brief Biography:
Anne O’Sullivan is a Western MLIS grad and current Manager, Customer Services and Branch Operations at London Public Library (LPL). After starting as a children’s librarian, she moved into management at Calgary Public Library where she worked for six years. Anne returned to Ontario in 2016 to take on the position of Manager, Information Services and Programming at Milton Public Library, before assuming her current role at London Public Library in 2018. Anne oversees day to day operations for eight branches of LPL, as well as the Library’s Collections department, which has an overall materials budget of $2.5M per year.
Mary Horman is a graduate of the MLIS program at McGill University. After starting out as a public services librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York, Mary started working at Virginia Commonwealth University where she worked as a reference librarian, cataloger, and Head of the Government Documents department, and later at Holy Cross College and the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana where she worked as a cataloger. Upon returning to Canada, she worked several years as the archivist and records manager at Renison University College affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. She started as a Cataloguer at London Public Library (LPL) in October 2022.
Both talks were well received by the students who also had lots of questions during an informal Q&A session that followed their slide show presentations. Dr. Rubin expressed gratitude for the LPL’s outreach from the information professionals to the students that one day will be in those roles as well.
*Disclaimer: the in-person guest speakers and the whole audience are masked due to the COVID19 health guidelines at Western in the Fall 2022.