Ph.D., Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982. Dissertation: "The Museum Library: Its Relationship to Educational Programming in Science or Natural History Museums."
Library Certification, Florida State University/University of South Florida, 1964.
M.A., English, University of Florida, 1952.
B.A., English, Meredith College, 1949.
A.A., St. Petersburg Junior College, 1947.
Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Science, The University of Iowa, 1996- ; Professor, 1994-1996; Associate Professor, 1988-94; Assistant Professor, 1983-88.
Teaching Assistant, School of Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980-82.
Supervisor of Educational Services, Science Center of Pinellas County, FL, 1972-79.
Librarian, Science Center of Pinellas County, FL, 1968-72.
Cataloger, Stetson University College of Law Library, 1967-68.
Substitute Teacher and Librarian, K-12, Pinellas County (FL) Schools, 1962-67.
Instructor, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Evening Program, 1958-59.
Museum Librarianship: A Guide to the Provision and Management of Information Services in Museums. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.
Special Libraries in Action: Cases and Crises. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1993.
"Realia." Chapter in Non-Print Materials: Selection and Management, edited by John W. Ellison. Chicago: American Library Association, 1987: 297-323.
"Bad Books in Series: Nancy Drew in the Public Library." The Lion and the Unicorn 18/1 (Spring 1994): 92-102.
"On My Mind: No More Main Entry." American Libraries 25/1 (January 1994) 81-84.
"Searching for the Human Good: Some Suggestions for a Code of Ethics for Technical Services." Technical Services Quarterly 11/3 (1994): 1-18.
"Subject Control of the Literature of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)." With Terrence A. Brooks. Information Processing and Management 28/1 (January 1992): 89-98.
"MARC in Museums: Applicability of the Revised Visual Materials Format." Information Technology and Libraries 9/4 (December 1990): 291-299.
"The Two-Year College LRC: Promise Deferred?" College & Research Libraries 51/5 (November 1990): 531-537.
"Teaching Science in Museums." Trans. into Chinese and published in Journal of the Chinese National Museum of Natural History (Beijing) (Fall 1990): 31-38.
"Beyond Print: Object Collections in Academic Libraries." Collection Building 10/1-2 (1990): 7-11.
"A Paradigm for the '90's." American Libraries 21/1 (January 1990): 18-19.
"Records and Access: Museum Registration and Library Cataloging." Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 9/1 (1988): 97-111.
"Museum, Arts and Humanities Librarians: Career Paths and Professional Development." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 29/2 (Fall 1988): 127-134.
"Teaching the Cataloging of Three-Dimensional Objects." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 29/1 (Summer 1988): 3-14.
"Applying the Revised MARC Format for Three-Dimensional Objects in Museums." Annual Review of OCLC Research, July 1987-June 1988 (1988): 43-45.
"Teaching Science in Museums." Curator 31/1 (March 1988): 39-51.
"Database Management Systems: New Homes for Migrating Bibliographic Records." With Terrence A. Brooks. Library and Information Science Research 9/4 (December 1987): 369-382.
"The Third Dimension: Dealing with Objects in Public Library Collections." Public Library Quarterly 2 (Fall 1985): 33-49.
"The Museum Library Revisited." Special Libraries 75/2 (April 1984): 102-113.
"Mysteries Galore: The Nancy Drew Conference." MAHD Bulletin 24/3 (Winter 1994): 9-10.
"Being Professional: Ethics in Action in the Information Setting." MAHD Bulletin 24/2 (Fall 1993): 3-4.
"'The Convenience of the Reader: How Technical Services Can Contribute to Effective Adult Services." Adult Services (column). RQ 32/4 (Summer 1993): 464-467.
"Professional Development: Some Theory, Some Practice." MAHD Bulletin 19/1 & 2 (Fall/Winter 1988/1989): 6.
"Cataloging Aids for the Small Library." The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management 4/4 (August 1987): 6-7.
"Education for Special Librarianship: A Special Case?" MAHD Bulletin 17/3 (Winter/Spring 1986/1987): 5.
"Agony or Access: Understanding the Catalog." Iowa Library Quarterly 23/2 (Spring 1986): 65-73.
"Lucy Says: 'Learn Things!': Professional Development." MAHD Bulletin 16 (Autumn 1985): 5.
"John Cotton Dana: Librarian and Museum Revolutionary." SpeciaList [sic] 7 (October 1984): 3.
Eight invited book reviews.
"A Nancy Drew Mystery: Missing Books, Missing Author." Nancy Drew: Proceedings of the Conference, April 1993. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. In press.
"Journal Frequency Analysis of the Literature of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), 1987-1989." With Terrence A. Brooks and Robert M. Brooks. American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting, Toronto, Novembe r 1990.
"The AIDS Literature: Continuing Changes in Publication Patterns and Subject Access." With Terrence Brooks. Accepted for publication, JASIS.
"Museum Directors and the Museum Library: A Study of Resources for Management Decision-Making in Not-for-Profit Organizations." In preparation for Special Libraries.
"Using the Invented Wheel: Museum Registration and a Tested Format." In revision for Curator.
"Subject Access and the Development of a Knowledge Base: The History of AIDS in the Medical Literature." In preparation for Social History of Medicine.
Continuing investigation of verbal subject access: chaos patterns in the development of subject access to new areas of knowledge and research; specific persons and circumstances of retrieval.
Information-seeking strategies and behaviors as used by managers in their decision-making.
Continuing investigation of MARC to the registration of various kinds of museum objects and collections; the subsequent sharing of the data on local and national databases; the potential impact of MARC format integration.
Indexing and storage of image-based data.
Programmed and computer-assisted instruction of topics in first-level Description & Organization course. (Continuing.)
"Preserving and Indexing the Photographic Records of the Iowa Library Association." Grant application to: The Iowa Humanities Board, June 1993. Funded: $8,500.
"An Investigation of the Application of the Revised MARC Format to Three-Dimensional Objects in Museum Collections." Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Library School Research, July 1987-June 1989. Funded: Approx. $5,000 (equipment). Final report pu blished by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin, Ohio, August 1989.
"Museum Libraries: Slow Waltz on the Information Highway." Invited paper presented to the Committee on Information and Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Washington, D.C., August 1994.
"Libraries, Museums and Information." Position paper sent to the chairman of CIDOC/ICOM at his request to be read to the members, September 1993.
"Total Quality Management in the Health Science Library: Hanging On in the Hierarchy." Presented to the Polk County Biomedical Consortium (PCBC). Des Moines, IA, May 1993.
"A Bibliographic Mystery: Missing Books, Missing Author." Nancy Drew Conference, The University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA, April 1993.
"Museums and Libraries: Meeting at the Catalog." National Science Foundation, Workshop and Conference on the Computerization of Natural History Collections, Kellogg Biological Station. Kalamazoo, MI, November 1992.
"Faculty Perspectives on Forces Shaping the Curriculum: Bibliographic Control." UI School of Library and Information Science conference. Iowa City, March 1992.
"Names in New Territory: Subject Terms in the Literature of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)." POROI (Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry) Seminar, University of Iowa. Iowa City, March 1991.
"DDC20: A Workshop." Nebraska State Library Commission. Omaha, August 1990.
"MARC for Art: Sharing Collection Information." Museums, Arts and Humanities Division, SLA Conference. Pittsburgh, June 1990.
"The Twentieth Edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC20): A Workshop." UI School of Library and Information Science. Iowa City, September 1989.
"Culture and the Subject Search: The Rhetoric of Retrieval." POROI Conference on Discourse, Rhetoric, and Culture, University of Iowa. Iowa City, March 1989.
"Career Paths and Continuing Education Needs of Museums, Arts and Humanities Librarians." Association for Library and Information Science Education. San Antonio, TX, January 1988.
"Pattern, Form, and the Structure of Information." Center for Particle Materials Processes, University of Iowa. Iowa City, April 1986.
"John Cotton Dana: Librarian and Museum Revolutionary." Special Libraries Association conference. New York, June 1984.
Referee for Special Libraries, Library and Information Science Research, Serials Librarian (continuing basis)
. Consultant, Dewey Decimal Editorial Policy Committee on the revision of the schedule for 570-599 (Biological Sciences) for DDC21. 1993-94.
Consultant, the Committee on Descriptive Cataloging (ALA) regarding developing rules for the description of electronic journals and interactive multimedia for future inclusion in the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. 1993-94.
Proposal for Association-wide continuing education workshop, "First (and Second) Aid for Important Papers." Accepted by SLA for 1994 pre-conference program. September 1993.
Referee for NEH grant. September 1993.
Proposal for Association-wide continuing education workshop, "Intermediate Cataloging: Description and Subject Access." Accepted by SLA for 1993 pre-conference program. September 1992.
With Dr. Barbara Zucker, proposed, planned and developed a program, "Extending Visitor Experiences Beyond the Museum," for sponsorship by the AAM Education Committee, April 1992. July 1991.
Evaluation of an operations manual for the client resources collection, Haynes-Lineberry Transition Center, Greensboro, NC. June 1991.
Editor/checker for data dictionary and MARC formulations for Museum Computer Network (MCN) and Syracuse University Art collection. June-July 1989.
Consultant with Ohio Consortium of Medical Museums re: OCLC records, November 1988-April 1989; grant-writing, June-July 1989.
Consultant for records automation project, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medical Museum. October 1988, March 1989.
Reviewer: K-12 library media standards, Iowa Department of Education. 1987.
Reviewer for in-service certification course for public librarians, State Library of Iowa. 1986-87.
Bibliographic Standards Committee for the Iowa Locator, a union catalog in CD-ROM format. 1985.
Old Gold Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1985, 1987
Smithsonian Institution Visiting Scholar, 1984
Beta Phi Mu, University of North Carolina, 1982
Louis Round Wilson Fellowship, University of North Carolina, 1981
Phi Kappa Phi, University of Florida 1951
Kappa Nu Sigma, Meredith College, 1949
Silver Shield, Meredith College, 1949
Phi Alpha Phi, St. Petersburg Junior College, 1947
American Library Association, 1964-
Association of College and Research Libraries
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
Library Information and Technology Association
Special Libraries Association, 1979-
H.W. Wilson Awards Committee, 1992-94
Museum, Arts and Humanities Division
Chair, Professional Development Committee, 1984-90, 1992-94
Editor, MAHD Bulletin, 1990-92
Pittsburgh (1990) Conference Planning Committee, 1989-90
Member, ad hoc Futures Committee, 1983-86
Chair, Career Guidance Committee, 1983-86
Science-Technology Division
Member, Awards Committee, 1989-93
American Association of Museums, 1972-
ad hoc Museum Libraries Committee, 1980
Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1982-
UI Institutional Liaison
American Association for State and Local History, 1984-
Museum Computer Network, 1990-
Convener, Libraries and Information Centers SIG, 1993-
Iowa Library Association, 1983-
Resources and Technical Services Forum
Convener, Special Libraries Round Table
University of Iowa
Libraries Committee, Faculty Senate, 1989-92
Faculty Assembly, College of Liberal Arts, 1988-92
Collections Coalition, 1989-
Goals and Objectives Committee, 1992
Exhibit Planning Committee, 1992-93
School of Library and Information Science
Admissions Committee, 1986-89, 1993-
Curriculum Committee, 1983- (Chair, 1986-93)
Instructional Resources Committee, 1984-85
Recruitment Committee, 1983-84
Conference co-chair
One-Person Library, Spring 1989
Subject Cataloging, Spring 1987
The Library Bill of Rights, Fall 1985