Nancy received her B.A. in 1974 from Florida Atlantic University and her M.L.S. in 1989 from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received her  interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in Education Administration from UMKC in May 2001.  She was the Serials/Acquisitions Librarian at the Miller Nichols Library before coming to the Leon E. Bloch Law Library in 1990 as the Cataloging Librarian.  In October 2004, she became the Director of Technical Services for the Law Library.  She was elected as the Chair of the UMKC Librarians' Council in 2005.  She has served as one of two UMKC IFC representatives to the UM System since 2005.  Dr. Stancel is a member of the UMKC Faculty Grievance Panel.  She has served two terms as secretary of the UMKC Faculty Senate. On the national level, she was chosen to serve one term on OCLC's Collections and Technical Services Advisory Committee and she chaired the MLNC/OCLC Users Group and served as secretary for that organization for two terms.  She was the Chair for the UM MERLIN Quality Control Committee in 2001.  

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