Peter Cookingham (POC), Project Director
Pete joined the MSU Libraries in 1985 as the only full time librarian devoted to the subject area of turfgrass. His background is in recreation and park administration with a BS and work on a masters from University of Wyoming. He also spent ten years in the public, not-for-profit, and private park industry, including 3 years as General Manager of a 1,700 member, 1,800 acre Property Owners Association. His information and library science masters is from the University of Illinois. Pete provides the oversight for TIC and the development of TGIF working closely with supporters of TIC as well as guiding the work of the staff and the student employees of TIC.

Nora Carr (NKC), Serials Student Supervisor
Nora's primary responsibilities at TIC are overseeing the student budget, student employee hiring and supervision, handling serials, and processing orders for materials for the collection.

Michael Schury (MJS), Digitization; TGIF, TIC Website, Related Websites, and Database Maintenance
Mike was a student employee at TIC while finishing bachelor’s degrees in accounting and psychology. After working full time in the accounting field for a few years, Mike rejoined TIC in 2005. His current duties include the project management of digitization efforts, overseeing website changes, assisting in student supervision, and providing maintenance of TGIF.

Student Employees
There are many students working in TIC. They come from very diverse majors such as: nursing, computer science, museum studies, jazz studies, accounting, and crop and soil sciences to mention a few. In many ways, the students are the backbone of the unit. They provide the inputting of the basic descriptive records, indexing and abstracting. In addition, they proof the records to ensure that errors are caught and
corrected. Additionally, as TIC continues to partner with publishers and associations to digitize and make available publications, roles played by TIC student employees continue to expand. Student employees are relied upon to determine online article availability, maintain URLs, design websites, create web pages, file and organize materials, serve walk-in traffic, and an assortment of other tasks!

Volunteers and Interns
Interns from library and/or information science programs provide staffing for projects that might not otherwise be completed for years. Volunteers such as retired faculty contribute time and expertise to work on projects that the staff and student employees would not have to time to complete or the knowledge to complete.

Library Administration
Clifford H. Haka, Director of MSU Libraries
Shawn Nicholson, Associate Director for Digital Information, of which TIC is a unit

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