sherryb

Portland State University

Sherry Buchanan, MFA, MSLIS, is the Interlibrary Loan Coordinator at Portland State University, managing the workflow of an Interlibrary Loan operation that fills over 21,000 requests per year. She has twelve years of experience within three academic libraries, having worked in Circulation, Reserves, Interlibrary Loan, Reference and the classroom. She is a founding member of the Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference, having served as Program Coordinator, Chair and Scholarship Coordinator. Sherry's research interests include the open access movement, scholarly communication, best practices for filling grey literature requests and just-in-time interlibrary loan acquisitions.

Expertise:

Conference proceedings, papers, grey literature, obscure documents, overseas publications, archival records; if it exists, I can locate it.

Favorite books:

Tim McCreight's Fundamentals of Metalsmithing