Action for Libraries
BCR Welcomes Two More Staff
BCR continues to add new people to the staff, moving forward in our efforts to provide ever better service to members. New additions are Leigh Grinstead, CDP@BCR program coordinator, and Beth Levrault, member services librarian support specialist.
Leigh Grinstead came to BCR by way of the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) and its April merger into BCR and the formation of CDP@BCR. Grinstead develops training materials, conducts training and makes presentations in the area of digitization. She's only been at BCR since early April, and already she has traveled from Delaware to Oklahoma and is off to Minnesota and Tennessee with CDP@BCR courses. She also oversees the CDP@BCR Working Groups, made up of staff from member and partner institutions and which help define digitization standards and best practices.
Grinstead has a BA in art history from Colorado College. Prior to her work at CDP, she served as resource development director for Historic Denver, Inc., and curator and director of the Molly Brown House Museum. She also has worked for the Denver Art Museum, Colorado Historical Society and Fraunces Tavern Museum in New York.
As member services librarian support specialist, Beth Levrault provides member libraries with technical assistance and support for OCLC services and software. She also assists BCR members in troubleshooting product problems, guides members through the ordering process for OCLC products, prepares OCLC profiles and outlines products available to members.
Levrault came to Colorado and to BCR by way of Kansas, where she worked at the Southwest Kansas Library System as Library Consultant/Bibliographic Services manager. She also worked as cataloging coordinator in that same organization. Prior to that, she held a variety of positions in corporate/special libraries, academic libraries and technical college libraries, performing a variety of roles in reference, interlibrary loan/document delivery and acquisitions, circulation/reserves, and corporate/technical research.
Levrault has an MLIS from Simmons College in Massachusetts and a BS in psychology from the University of Massachusetts.