Ann Koopman

AISR Staff Directory

Ann Koopman, AM

Ann Koopman is the editor of JEFFLINE, supporting the JEFFLINE communities and AISR’s online resources. She works parttime, usually Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ann also assists faculty with copyright issues for education or publishing, assists in staffing the reference desk and writes the AISR News blog.

Interests & Expertise

Contact Ann for consulting or support in:

adding special materials to a JEFFLINE community,
public blogs for departments or student organizations,
construction of custom electronic resources,
copyright issues,
off-campus access, and
access problems encountered using JEFFLINE resources.

If you use the JEFFLINE Comments form to send inquiries or comments about JEFFLINE pages, Ann is one of the team who will answer.

Background & Training

A librarian for over 30 years, Ann was previously the manager of the Jefferson Digital Commons, and head of the Information Services Department at Scott Memorial Library. Before coming to Jefferson in 1995, she was the Science & Engineering Reference Librarian at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). She earned her master’s from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. Her AB from Lawrence University was in anthropology and religion.

Professional Activities

Ann is currently serving a term on the board of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). She is also an assistant editor of the Sci-Tech News, the quarterly journal of the Science-Technology Division of SLA. In the past, she has served on the boards of Sci-Tech and the local SLA Philadelphia Chapter for many years.

Ann is a member of the American Library Association (ALA), the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MLA).

Publications & Presentations

Koopman, Ann, Dan Kipnis and Lisa Palmer. "Challenges and Opportunities for Medical Institutional Repositories" A webinar cosponsored by Bepress and SLA BIO Division. Available in slides-only format or as a webinar archive.

Koopman, Ann and Dan Kipnis. "Feeding the Fledgling Repository: Starting an Institutional Repository at an Academic Health Sciences Library."
Medical Reference Services Quarterly 28(2):111-122, April-June 2009.

Koopman Ann and Dan Kipnis. Poster: “The Jefferson Digital Commons-Starting an Institutional Repository at an Academic Health Sciences Library.” Presented at the national MLA conference,
Chicago, IL, May 2008.

Koopman, Ann "Feeding the Fledgling Repository," Presentation, Special Libraries Association Annual Conference (Denver), June 2007. Available at http://jdc.jefferson.edu/aisrpubs/15/

Koopman, Ann "Bibliographic Citation Management Software for Web Applications" Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 7(1/2), 2002 and co-published in: Database-Driven Web Sites, Haworth, 2002.

Matus, Nancy and Ann Koopman "Bibliographic Citation Management Software" CE Course, Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting (Philadelphia), June 2000.

Koopman, Ann "Support for Collaboration & Publishing: Bibliographic Citation Management Software" Pre-Conference Workshop (CE course), CHES/Slice of Life Symposium (Philadelphia), June 1999.

Forrest, Jane, and Ann Koopman "DHNet: A Model for International Research Collaboration"
Journal of Allied Health, 27(1):39-44, Winter, 1998. (Proceedings from the Second Annual World Congress on Allied Health, Telford, England, July 23, 1997)

Koopman, Ann, et al. "Maintaining a Knowledgebase for Dental Hygiene: Issues and Answers from the DHNet Project" Multimedia poster presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries Biennial Meeting (Nashville), April 1997, and at the Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting (Seattle), June 1997.

Pope, Cristina A., and Ann Koopman "Reference Manager : Improve Personal and Collaborative Access to Research Information through use of Personal Bibliographic Management Software" Pre-Conference Workshop (CE course), Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium (Philadelphia), April 1997.

Koopman, Ann, et al. "Anatomy of a Web Project: Development of an Integrated Training Resource for Animal Research" Paper presented at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference (Boston), June 1996 and presented as a demonstration at the Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium (Philadelphia), April 1996.

Koopman, Ann and Sharon Hay. "Large-Scale Application of a Web Browser in an Academic Library" College & Research Library News 57(1): 12-15, January 1996.

Koopman, Ann. "Library Web Implementation: A Tale of Two Sites" Cause/Effect 18(4): 15-21, Winter 1995.

Murray, Rod and Ann Koopman. "The JEFFLINE Digital Office: Innovations in Educational Technology" Presented at the MLA Philadelphia Chapter Fall Symposium Reading and Writing the World Wide Web, November 1995.

Koopman, Ann and Sharon Hay. "Swim At Your Own Risk: No Librarian On Duty: Large-Scale Applications of Mosaic in an Academic Library" Paper presented at the 2nd World Wide Web Conference, Chicago, IL October 1994. Printed in the conference preprints and posted among the conference papers at URL: http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/LibApps/hay/WWWPap.html

Personal Interests

If you ask Ann about African violets, she will smile and try not to bore you. She grows them to compete at shows. You can see some of her plants at her club’s website.