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Sherry Buchanan
Library
Portland State University Library
Information expertise
Conference proceedings, papers, grey literature, obscure documents, overseas publications, archival records; if it exists, I can locate it.
Favorite books and authors
Tim McrCreight's Fundamentals of Metalsmithing
About me
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 nearly ten 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.