EDUCATION
B.A., History, University of Missouri—St. Louis, 1969 (Graduated Magna Cum Laude)PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEB.S., Data Processing, Washington University in St. Louis, 1983 (Recipient of 1983 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence)
M.L.S., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1970 (Recipient of U.S. Office of Education Fellowship)
Washington University in St. Louis2001- Associate Dean (Access, Bibliographic and Information Services)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES1997-2001 Assistant Dean for Access and Bibliographic Description1980-1997 Head, Cataloging and Classification Services
1974-1980 Chief, Cataloging Department
1972-1974 Head, Cataloging Division
1970-1972 Cataloger
1972-1975 Instructor, Basic and Advanced Cataloging, University College
Member, OCLC Users Council, 2000-2003Chair, MOBIUS Access Advisory Committee, 1999-2001
Member, MOBIUS Coordinators Advisory Group, 2002-
Member, CIP Advisory Committee, 1995-1998
Member, OCLC Database Services Advisory Committee, 1992-1994
Chair and Member, Program Planning Committee, St. Louis Technical Services Librarians Group, 1978-1981, 1989-1993
Member, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Library Administration and Management Association, North American Serials Interest Group
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
The Get Function: Models for Interlibrary Loan and Circulation, Panel Moderator, MOBIUS Annual Meeting, June, 2000.Using the ISO ILL Protocol as Part of an ILL Improvement Process, Panel Presentation, ALA Annual Conference, June, 1999.
Organizational Transformation Through Incremental Change: One Library’s Ongoing Success Story, Panel Presentation, ACRL National Conference, April, 1997
Automated Authority Control, Presentation, Authority Control Workshop, Association of St. Louis Area Archivists, June, 1989.
“Global Change Capabilities to Improve Authority Control in an Online Catalog”, Information Technology and Libraries 8:272-283 (Sept. 1989) (with Kay Kanafani).
Implementing an Automated Library System, Presentation, St. Louis Community College, January, 1986.
Use of Archival Tapes for Retrospective Conversion, Presentation, St. Louis Technical Services Librarians Group, May, 1985.
Implementation of AACR2, Presentation, Southwest Missouri Regional Library Network, April, 1981.
“Strategies for adopting AACR2”, Show-me libraries (Aug. 1981)
Serials Cataloging in AACR2, Presentation, St. Louis AACR2 Institute, October, 1979.