Jodee Kawasaki


Jodee Kawasaki is Reference Librarian with an agriculture information speciality at Montana State
University-Bozeman since 1990. She received a B.S. (1985) and M.S. (1994) in Agricultural Education
from Montana State University and an M.L.S. in Library Science from the University of Arizona in
1989.

She has published in the areas of agricultural information over the past seven years. Topics covered by
her research include a bibliography of rural recycling resources, bibliographies on water quality related
issues, electronic information literacy of Extension professionals, mentoring graduate library science
students, and using email as a survey tool. Her publications at the local level cover finding aids of
historic agriculture manuscript collections held at MSU Special Collections and guides to resources
available at MSU Libraries. Presentations at conferences have been at the state, regional, national and
international levels and related to the topics above, as well as statewide collection development of
agricultural literature. Im 1990, she was awarded a 3-month fellowship to work at the National
Agricultural Library in the Water Quality Information Center.

Ms. Kawasaki's professional and university service include membership in university committees such as
the Faculty Affairs Committee, the Grievance Committee, and search committees. She is an executive
committee member of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists, active in the
United States Agricultural Information Network through the Conference Planning Committee and as
Chair of the Rural Information Interest Group, and a member of the Special Libraries Association, the
Montana Library Association and the Mountain-Plains Library Association.


Norma Kobzina

Dr. Norma Kobzina is Head of Information Services at the newly formed Bioscience and Natural
Resources Library at the University of California, Berkeley. She is responsible for reference and
instruction, as well as coordinating the acquisition and use of CD- Rom databases and other electronic
resources. The new library, which opened in January 1995, is the result of the merger of the former
Biology, Natural Resources, Forestry and Entomology Libraries, as well as the paleontology collection
that was part of the Earth Sciences Library. She currently supervises one professional librarian and two
library assistants.

Since 1980, Dr. Kobzina has been in charge of the Natural Resources collection, which now includes
forestry and entomology; in this capacity she administers a budget of approximately $268,000 for
monographs and serials. The natural resources collection also has a sizable number of state and federal
documents, since the Library is a depository library, and an extensive collection of items received on
exchange. The total collection at the new library is approximately 450,000 volumes, with 8000 active
serials; between 1/3 and 1/2 of these are from Natural Resources, Forestry and Entomology. Norma works
with about 120 faculty members and cooperative extension specialists in the College of Natural
Resources. She was responsible for the collection and reference components of the Entomology, Forestry
and Forest Products Libraries, prior to the merger. For the past two years she worked extensively on
organizing the collection at Forestry to prepare it for the move; this entailed evaluating several thousand
pamphlets and monographs that were previously uncataloged, and determining what materials could be
left in a reading room for the department. Norma has also been consulting with the Soils and Plant
Pathology faculty in planning a new departmental library.

In addition to her responsibilities at the Bioscience and Natural Resources Library, Norma has been a
lecturer at the School of Library and Information Studies since 1981. She has taught the introductory