Participants in the ALCTS Metadata Preconference

• Murtha Baca
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  • AV: overhead to connect to pc
  • Biog.: Head, Standards Program, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Italian Literature from UCLA. During the last decade, her work has focused on data standards and structured vocabularies for indexing and accessing information on the visual arts and architecture. She edited Introduction to Metadata (Los Angeles: Getty Trust, 1998; Spanish translation, 1999) and the Union List of Artist Names (with James M. Bower; New York: G.K. Hall, 1994). She oversaw the publication of Categories for the Description of Works of Art, and co-edited, with Patricia Harpring, a double issue of the journal Visual Resources(vol. XI, nos. 34, 1996) devoted to the Categories. She has written articles and taught workshops and seminars on indexing and accessing art information, thesaurus construction, and multilingual equivalency work at museums and other venues in North America, Latin America, and Europe.
• Bayard, Laura
  • Title: MARCit Magic: Abracadabra! From a Web Site to a MARC Record
  • AV: computer; power point 97; projector
  • Biog.: Laura Bayard belongs to the library faculty at the University of Notre Dame where she manages two units: Catalog & Database Maintenance; and, Government Documents Technical Services. In addition to participating on the Bibliographic Access Management Team, Laura is the Library Faculty Affirmative Action Officer; a member of the University's Academic Affirmative Action Committee, a faculty senator, and the chair of the Libraries' Training & Development Committee. She is active in LAMA and in the Indiana Library Federation as an at-large delegate on the Technical Services Executive Committee. She has co-authored articles in the areas of government documents and Web site cataloging.
• Beacom, Matthew
  • Title: Oh Brave New World: Using AACR2 to Catalog Web Resources
  • AV: PC with link to overhead projection
  • Biog.:Catalog Librarian for Networked Information Resources Catalog Department, Yale University Library
• Bliss, Vivian
  • Title: Metadata - a view from the trenches
  • AV: laptop with both disk and CD drives; projection from laptop to overhead screen. While an internet connection would be fabulous it also introduces too many uncertainties. Certainly do not wish to waste any of the time on slow internet connections or remote access server problems. Safer to stay with a prepared screen shots, etc.
  • Biog.: As a Knowledge Management Analyst, I am a member of a small team in Information Services at Microsoft Corp. focusing on information architecture. Information Services (IS)includes the library, museum (archives), MicroNews (the internal company newsletter) and MSWeb (the general portal to the corporate intranet). We began a specific metadata project just over 18 months ago with the goal to improve the ability of MS employees to find information on the corporate intranet and other information stores. To this end, we developed a basic metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies, vocabulary management tools and a metadata registry complete with the ability to create crosswalks between different metadata schemas and stored procedures for internal developers to use in building publishing/tagging tools. These tools and our consulting services are available to all groups across MS. In addition, my team works very closely with the MSWeb team developing and designing the search used on the corporate intranet. I received my Master's from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain in 1997 and a law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1987. My background in law is the perfect resource for my second interest - intellectual property issues in cyberspace.
• Blum, Stanley
  • Title: Integrating Bio-collection Databases: metadata for database semantics.
  • AV: I'll probably bring a laptop (Windows), but will need an LCD projector.
  • Biog.: Stan Blum is the Research Information Manager at the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco. By academic training he is a systematic ichthyologist (classification of fishes; Ph.D. Zoology, University of Hawaii, 1988). Since 1990, however, he has been working full-time in biodiversity and natural history collections informatics. The two most important themes in his work have been: 1) designing integrated information systems for natural history museums (i.e., systems that support a wide variety of collection disciplines, collection management practices, and uses of collection information), and 2) developing data standards and software architectures that will enable data to be integrated across distributed and heterogeneous collection databases.
• Boehr, Diane
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  • AV: computer and display (Powerpoint)
  • Biog.:Diane Boehr has been a Cataloging Unit Head at the National Library of Medicine since August 1998. She oversees both print monograph cataloging and serial cataloging in all formats. Prior to joining NLM, she served as a Library Services Consultant for Costabile Associates, Inc., where she provided cataloging services in all formats for a wide variety of libraries, including working on metadata standards and creation for the Dept. of Veterans Affairs and the National Institute for Literacy. She is the current chair of the ALCTS Media Resources Committee, and the former chair of the Cataloging Policy Committee of OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers). Diane received her MLS from the University of Maryland, where she now serves as an adjunct professor, teaching bibliographic control.
• Camden, Beth Picknally
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  • AV: I would like to be able to project from a PC (I can provide a laptop if necessary). If you are supplying the PC, I will need PowerPoint software. I would also like an internet connection. If all goes as planned I can do a live demo. If an internet connection is not possible, I will incorporate the video clips into my PowerPoint slide show.
  • Biog.: I have been Director of Cataloging Services at the University of Virginia since 1997. Previously at UVa, I have held positions as Associate Director of Cataloging, Library Training Coordinator and Head, Copy Cataloging. Before coming to Virginia in 1989, I worked at the University of Notre Dame as the Head of Catalog and Database Maintenance, and Humanities Cataloger. I received my MSLS at the Catholic University of America in 1984.
• Eden, Brad
  • Title: The Instructional Management System (IMS) standard: solutions for interactive instructional software and dynamic learning.
  • AV: Powerpoint 7.0 on PC clone
  • Biog: Brad Eden is currently Head of Cataloging for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Previous employment included Coordinator of Technical Services for the North Harris Montgomery Community College District, remote cataloger for the NEEDS Project, and Head Cataloger at NASA/Johnson Space Center. Dr. Eden also holds a masters and Ph.D. degree in medieval musicology and often presents papers and research in this area. He has actively: participated in ALA and ALCTS endeavors regarding metadata, and is also an adjunct faculty member conducting metadata seminars for the OCLC Institute. He is currently the ALCTS Paper Series Editor, and does book and multimedia reviews for a number of electronic library journals. His experiences on the NEEDS Project have recently been published in the _Journal of Internet Cataloging_, and a futuristic article included in the _Cybrarian Manual_, 2nd edition.
• Fietzer, William
  • Title: Interpretive Encoding of Electronic Texts Using TEI-Lite
  • AV: PC with Powerpoint software and Internet access capability
  • Biog.: William Fietzer has been an Assistant Librarian at the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities since 1997. As Digital Resources and Humanities Cataloger, Bill works with a variety of TEI-related committees and initiatives in the campus community including the Electronic Text Research Center and the Cooperative Online Resource Catalog Committee. On the national level he is a member of the ALCTS CC:DA Taskforce on Metadata and chair of the Outreach Subcommittee of ALCTS's Network Resources and Metadata Committee. He has presented talks on "Cataloging Electronic Resources in Music" for the Midwest Library Association and "Using the TEI Header" as part of "Creating, Encoding and Delivering Electronic Texts and Finding Aids for Scholarly Use" at the 1998 CIC Conference on Metadata. His publications include "Technical Services Librarians and Metadata: Reining in the New Frontier" and "Working our Way through Wonderland: Technical Services and the Sociology of Metadata" in Technicalities.
• Garrison, Bill
  • Title: The Colorado Digitization Project: An Overview
  • AV: I would like to have PowerPoint available if that is possible. If it isn't, I can get away with some handouts.
  • Biog: Current position: Head of Cataloging at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Active in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging having served on the PCC Standing Committee on Standards the the BIBCO Operations Committee. ALA activities: currently Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of ALCTS/CCS and am a member of the ALCTS Fundraising Committee. Have recently served on the ALCTS Membership Committee and the ALCTS Leadership Development Committee. Have also served on the ALCTS/CCS/Subject Analysis Committee, ALCTS Policy & Research Committee, the LITA/ALCTS Authority Control Interest Group and the ALCTS/CCS/Catalog Management Discussion Group. Also was elected Secretary of ALCTS/CCS several years ago. Have been on the Metadata Task Force of the Colorado Digitization Project since its inception in the Fall of 1998 and have attended 2 of the OCLC Institute's seminars on metadata. Have also chaired the Cataloging and Reference Group that designed and implemented Prospector (the Colorado Unified Catalog).
• Gorman, Michael
  • Title: "Metadata: hype and glory"
  • AV: None
  • Biog: Michael Gorman is Dean of Library Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. From 1977 to 1988 he worked at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Library as, successively, Director of Technical Services, Director of General Services, and Acting University Librarian. From 1966 to 1977 he was, successively, Head of Cataloguing at the British national bibliography, a member of the British Library Planning Secretariat, and Head of the Office of Bibliographic Standards in the British Library. He has taught at library schools in his native Britain and in the United States--most recently as Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Science (summer sessions) and as Bradshaw Lecturer at Texas Woman's University.
    He is the first editor of the Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second edition (1978) and of the revision of that work (1988). He is the author of all three editions of The concise AACR2 (1979, 1989, 1999); editor of, and contributor to, Technical services today and tomorrow, 1st (1990) and 2nd (1998) editions; and editor of Crossroads (1984) and Convergence (1991) (proceedings of the 1st and 2nd National LITA Conferences), and Californien, published in 1991. Future libraries: dreams, madness, and reality, co-written with Walt Crawford, was honored with the 1997 Blackwell's Scholarship Award. His most recent book, published by ALA in 1997, is entitled Our singular strengths: meditations for librarians. Mr. Gorman is the author of more than 100 articles in professional and scholarly journals. He has contributed chapters to a number of books and is the author or editor of other books and monographs. He has given numerous presentations at international, national, and state conferences.
    Michael Gorman is a fellow of the [British] Library Association, the 1979 recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation, the 1992 recipient of the Melvil Dewey Medal, and the 1997 recipient of Blackwell's Scholarship Award. He is President of the Library and Information Technology Association (1999-2000).
• Hillmann, Diane and Eric Miller
  • Title: Title: "Libraries and the Future of the Semantic Web: RDF, XML and Alphabet Soup"
  • AV: Projector for Laptop presentation (Eric will supply the laptop); screen or suitable projection surface.
  • Biog: Diane Hillmann is Head, Technical Services Support Group, Cornell University Library. She is a member of MARBI, representing LITA. She has been involved with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative since 1995 and currently serves as the chair of the DC-Guides Working Group and as a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Committee.

    Eric Miller is a Research Scientist in the Office of Research at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. He is the Co-Chair of the W3C RDF Model and Syntax Working Group, a Member of the W3C RDF Schema and W3C Metadata Coordination Groups and serves on the Directorate of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

• Hirons, Jean
  • Title: Seriality and AACR2.
  • AV: As to AV materials, I will definitely want a set up for PowerPoint. I do not bring a lap top to ALA with me and hope that one will be provided. Right now I am using PP7.0.
  • Biog.: Jean Hirons is the Coordinator of the CONSER Program at the Library of Congress. Jean's activities at LC have included the editing of the CONSER Editing Guide and CONSER Cataloging Manual. She also coordinates and founded the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program. Jean has been involved with the revision of AACR2 since she co-authored and presented the paper "Issues Related to Seriality" at the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR in 1997. In 1999 she issued a report with specific recommendations for revision of rules for serials and electronic resources for consideration by the Joint Steering Committee. {I don't know what the status of things will be by next July!!!} Jean was awarded the 1996 Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award for her contributions to the education of serials catalogers.
• Intner, Sheila
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  • AV: none
  • Biog.: SHEILA INTNER is a professor in the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons College, where she teaches cataloging & classification, collection development, bibliographic instruction, & preservation management. She has written or edited 15 books, & is working now on the 3rd edition of her cataloging textbook, STANDARD CATALOGING FOR SCHOOL & PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Sheila edits TECHNICALITIES, a monthly newsletter for technical services librarians & database managers, & FRONTIERS OF ACCESS TO LIBRARY MATERIALS, a monographic series published by ALA Editions, which included Dora Chen's book on serials management. Sheila teaches workshops around the country & abroad on topics in cataloging & collection development -- especially nonprint cataloging & the evaluation & strategic planning for collections -- most recently at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, but in the last few years, she also has taught cataloging at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the University of Haifa, & in the Marshall Islands in Majuro, & planning for collections in Wuhan, China, & Berlin, Germany as well as at SEFLIN headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She consults for public & academic libraries, both large & small, as well as the small special libraries of the Jewish Vocation Service of Boston & Temple Beth-El Library in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Some of her recent consulting included the City University of New York, Smith College, Union College, & Springfield (MA) Public Library. Sheila currently is the Immediate Past President of ALCTS & served as an ALA Councilor from 1995 to 1999. She has worked on numerous committees of CCS & CMDS & now is a member of ALA's Education Committee, the Spectrum Task Force, & several other ALA-wide task forces.
• Jul, Erik
  • Title: Metadata: Taking a Strategic View
  • AV: I would need a computer projection unit to display a PowerPoint presentation or I could use a computer provided by the conference and run my PowerPoint from a diskette.
  • Biog.: Erik Jul is Associate Director, OCLC Institute, an educational division of OCLC established in 1997. Mr. Jul has also managed work in OCLC's marketing division and Office of Research, where he investigated library standards and practices used to catalog Internet resources. Some of Erik's work influenced the develoment of USMARC field 856, the InterCat Catalog, and Persistent URLs (PURLs). Erik is a regular contributor to library publications and sits on several editorial boards. Mr. Jul joined OCLC in 1985 having completed a Master's degree and doctoral course work in Classics at The Ohio State University. He was graduated summa cum laude in 1982 from Hope College, Holland, Michigan, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He holds an MBA degree at Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio, with an emphasis on knowledge management and organizational leadership.
• Keisling, Kris
  • Title: "Archival Finding Aids as Metadata: Encoded Archival Description" (or something to that effect)
  • AV: I will most likely do a PowerPoint presentation and I can bring my own laptop but will need a projector and attendant cables, screen, etc.
  • Biog: Kris Kiesling has been Head of the Department of Manuscripts and Archives at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin since 1990. Previously she was employed in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Michigan, where she earned her MILS in 1988. She has presented numerous workshops on cataloging archival materials using MARC and Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts, as well as on the implementation of Encoded Archival Description. She was a member of the EAD design team, and is currently chair of the Society of American Archivists Standards Committee and the EAD Working Group.
• Lynch, Clifford
  • Title: Vision for the Future - Accessing Webpages
  • AV: none
  • Biog.: Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the Universit of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation, where he managed the MELVYL information system and the intercampus internet for the University. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council and the National Research Council Committee on Intellectual Property in the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
• Mangan, Elizabeth U.
  • Title: Navigating LC's Cartographic Treasures.
  • AV: Want a computer with a web link so that I can access the Library's website and demonstrate some aspects of the web site. As a back-up I will bring the files on a CD-ROM so the equipment should also have a CD-ROM drive and a copy of PowerPoint, if possible as I would also use that to create the back-up using the CD. I will not be bringing any equipment other than the CD. I am not the technical person for this.
  • Biog: Elizabeth Mangan started at the Library of Congress in September 1968 as a Special Recruit. Following her internship, she joined the Geography and Map Division as a map cataloger and became a supervisor in 1976. In March 1997 she became Head of the Technical Services Section and served as Acting Chief from August 1998 to September 1999. She has been involved in the development and publication of numerous technical manuals, guides, and standards. She assisted in developing the MARC format for Maps and co-authored the subsequent content designation manual. Additionally she was instrumental in the publication of the Map Cataloging Manual, Geographic Cutters, MARC Conversion Manual: Maps and the G-schedule. She assisted the Federal Geographic Data Committee in developing the Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata. She is directing the revision of Cartographic Materials: A Manual of Interpretation for AACR2 for the Anglo-American Committee for Cataloguing Cartographic Materials and is a deputy member for the Library on the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Ms. Mangan has been involved in the National Digital Library Program for Cartographic Materials since its inception in the early 90s.
• Marko, Lynn
  • Title: Working Toward a Standard TEI Header for Libraries
  • AV: Overhead projector for laptop or transparency presentation.
  • Biog: Brief Biography: Lynn Marko is the Head of Monograph Cataloging Division at the University of Michigan Library, a position that she has held for many years. From her perspective, one of the pleasures of working in an innovative library is the complexity of the problems and the creativity required to find their solutions. Cataloging with its present day expansion beyond AACR2/MARC remains a creative and important endeavor, in her view. She has published several articles and given many talks on the wider view of cataloging.
• Mayer, Constance
  • Title: VARIATIONS: Creating a Digital Music Library at Indiana University
  • AV: I'll just need a Windows-based computer (with a floppy disk drive and Powerpoin installed), a projector, and a screen.
  • Biog: Constance Mayer is currently Head of User Services at the Cook Music Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. She has graduate degrees in music and library science from Indiana University and has worked in various capacities in the music library since 1986. She has been interested in the application of technology to music instruction since the early '80s and has worked with the VARIATIONS project, particularly in the areas of user interface design and workflow management, since its inception in the early '90s.
• Medeiros, Norman
  • Title: Visionary or Lunatic: One CORC Participant's Psychiatric Evaluation
  • AV: As far as AV support is concerned, I plan to do a PowerPoint presentation using PowerPoint 97. I would like to be able to run my own slide show so the set-up should include a laptop on the speaker's podium or some other mechanism to allow me to speak and change slides at the same time.
  • Biog: Norm Medeiros is Technical Services Librarian at New York University Schoo of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Rhode Island School of Library and Information Studies, Norm has published in the areas of cataloging and web site development, and currently serves on two Dublin Core working groups. His research interests include the usability of web-based OPACs, metadata as a means to resource discovery on the Web, and how best to layer a marble wedding cake -- he will be married this fall.
• Miller, Eric see Hillmann, Diane
• Reynolds, Regina
  • Title: ISSN: Link and cross-link for data and metadata
  • AV: As far as AV support is concerned, I plan to do a PowerPoint presentation using PowerPoint 97. I would like to be able to run my own slide show so the set-up should include a laptop on the speaker's podium or some other mechanism to allow me to speak and change slides at the same time.
  • Biog.: Head, National Serials Data Program since 1992. Member, CONSER AACR Review Task Force; corresponding member, ISBD(S) Review Group; member, ISSN Manual Revision Working Group Have done extensive writing and and speaking on the topics of cataloging of electronic serials and rule revisions and standards to accommodate electronic serials. Winner, 1999 Bowker/Ulrich’s Award for Serials Librarianship. Chair, CONSER Task Force on Electronic Resources, 1994-96 Faculty member of several ALCTS Serials Cataloging Institutes,presented workshops on cataloging online electronic serials former Member, ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Committee Member: LC’s BeOnline project team
• Rodriguez, Carlos
  • Title: Anticipating the Deluge: The INFOMINE Project and its Approach to Metadata
  • AV: LCD Projector, Internet Connection, Projector Screen
  • Biog: Current Position: Coordinator of Information Technology, UC Riverside - Science Library
    Education: MLIS - UCLA 1995 (Specialization in Information Systems)
    Current Member of LITA, ASIS, ALA and REFORMA
    Co-Chair, REFORMA Information Technology Committee
    Member, INFOMINE Development Team since 1995
    Co-Webmaster UCR Library Website
    
  • Abstract: In late 1993 it became evident that there would be an explosion of not only content on the web, but a growing amount of information that would be useful to the academic community. We realized that librarian structured metedata projects would prove to be very helpful to the growing number of Internet users having difficulty finding useful, relevant Internet resources. In addition, we realized that traditional collecting criteria, indexing and subject cataloging could be carried forward and become more valuable in the new medium. However, due to exponential growth of useful websites, we realized that these traditions would have to be modified, made simpler and more streamlined. It would be too expensive and time consuming to do otherwise. MARC would be important but full MARC would be a luxury that could not be afforded. Thus we created our core approach which includes, somewhere between cataloging and indexing, providing descriptions of the resources and using a minimum number of mostly traditional fields (i.e. author, title, subject, keyword) Since then other approaches have been introduced (i.e. Dublin core, Resource Description Framework.) A description of the INFOMINE (http://infomine.ucr.edu/) project and it's integration into the California Digital Library (http://www.cdlib.org/) will be discussed.
• Ruschoff, Carlen
  • Title: ISO Standards Development for Metadata
  • AV: If I need anything, it will probably be an overhead projector.
  • Biog.: Carlen Ruschoff is the Head of Cataloging at Georgetown University where she supervises a staff of 14 in both copy cataloging and original cataloging in all bibliographic formats. Carlen has been active in the development of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd Edition through participation on the ALA Committee for Description and Access. She has been a planner and a trainer in many cataloging workshops and institutes sponsored by ALA, CAPCON, PALINET, and LC. Until 1999 she served on the editorial board for two journals: The Journal of Academic Librarianship and Library Resources and Technical Services. She has authored several papers on developments in cataloging as well as retrospective conversion and outsourcing cataloging. Over the past year, she has employed her cataloging expertise in providing access to electronic information through metadata standards. In addition to cataloging activities, Carlen represents the views of the American Library Association on standards developed under the auspices of the National Information Standards Organization. Carlen will assume her role as ALCTS President following the ALA conference in Chicago. Carlen received her MA and BA degrees from the University of Minnesota.
• Treadwell, Wendy
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  • Biog.: Wendy Treadwell has been the Coordinator of the Machine Readable Data Center at the University of Minnesota since its creation in 1989. The MRDC provides research and instructional support for the use of social science data within the University of Minnesota Libraries, including access to ICPSR data sets. The MRDC also serves as a coordinating agency of the Minnesota State Data Center, providing archiving and custom services for Census and other federal data for the State of Minnesota. Ms. Treadwell has been an active member of the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) and the International Association of Social Sciences Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) since 1990, currently serving a two year elected term as APDU President and appointed term as IASSIST Treasurer. She is also a member of the International Association of Office Statistics (IAOS) and serves on the Standing Committee on Regional and Urban Statistics (SCORUS).
• Younger, Jennifer
  • Title: Metadata and Access to Information Resources
  • AV: I would like to do a power point presentation, which would be on disc, not live, so would need a computer (not Mac) for that. If no one else is using, I can do the more traditional way through overheads.
  • Biog: Jennifer Younger has been the Director of University Libraries at Notre Dame since October 1997. With the formal dedication to take place in October 1999, her position will be designated the Edward H. Arnold Director of Libraries. Before, she served in senior administrative positions at The Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with experience as well at Northwestern University and the U.S. State Department Library in Washington, D.C. A Wisconsin native, she received all of her degrees (B.A., M.A. and Ph.D) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing the doctoral degree as a part-time student and full-time practicing librarian. She has held a number of positions in the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, serving as the president in 1993/94, and is currently the editor of the Associations journal Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS). She is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences in areas including library organization and management, access standards and technical services, with publications on these topics as well. She has also been a member of several external review panels appointed by the ALA Committee on Accreditation and will chair the panel visiting Oklahoma State University in spring 2000. An avid scuba diver, she sets aside time for an annual trip to warm waters and coral reefs, and if time permits, a visit to a nearby library. ·