Fay Angela Austin

Fay Angela Austin, MLS, CSM, is currently Head of the Monographs Cataloging and Database Management Section within Central Technical Services at Rutgers University Libraries in Piscataway, New Jersey, a position she has held since 2005. Prior to her appointment at Rutgers, Austin was President of Phoenix Information Services, a library technical services consulting company, for thirteen years. Prior to that, she was employed as Manager of Technical Services at the U.S. Department of the Interior libraries and the Goddard Library at NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland. Austin has more than thirty years of experience in technical services as a cataloger, trainer, and manager. She has served on the boards of the Special Libraries Association (New Jersey Chapter) and the United Nations Association (New Jersey Division) and remains active on the IFLA President's Working Group on the World Information Society.