EDUCATION
Doctor of Education in Leadership Studies, University of Tennessee, 1999
Dissertation Title: Working and Studying: A Qualitative Investigation into the Personal, Educational and Career-related Effects of Part-time On-campus Employment on Fifteen Non-work-study Student Assistants
Master of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, 1989
Master of Arts in History, University of New Orleans, 1988
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of New Orleans, 1986
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director of Library Services. Cameron University. Lawton, Oklahoma. 7/00 - present. Lead the Library’s assessment, planning, and plan implementation activities in accord with University and Library missions and goals. Prepare budget requests according to assessment and planning results. Manage spending of funds allocated to the library. Facilitate print-to-electronic resource transition. Supervise eight professional faculty members. Supervise two support members directly and seven other support staff members indirectly. Prepare grant applications. Facilitate fund raising activities. Provide service to the University, the community, and to the library profession.
Access Services Librarian. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Chattanooga, Tennessee. 9/94 - 5/00. Supervised the Library’s circulation and interlibrary loan operations. Supervised five full-time staff members directly and twenty part-time student employees indirectly. Taught library instruction classes. Provided reference assistance to patrons. Completed research and publication projects. Provided service to the University and to the library profession.
Technical Services Librarian. The University of Mississippi Law School. Oxford, Mississippi. 11/92 - 9/94. Supervised the Library’s acquisitions, cataloging, and filing operations. Supervised one full-time professional librarian and three full-time support staff members. Maintained all aspects of the library’s automated system. Provided reference assistance to patrons. Assisted in library instruction class teaching.
Computer Services Librarian. The University of Mississippi Law School.
Oxford, Mississippi. 2/91 - 11/92. Assisted students and faculty with research. Supervised use of Westlaw database lab. Helped secure Lexis database lab. Supervised one student employee. Assisted Library staff members with computer software and hardware needs.
Consultant. The University of Mississippi Law School. Oxford, Mississippi. 1/90 - 5/90. Identified and corrected catalog records during transition from print to online catalog.
RESEARCH/CREATIVE WORK
Publications
“A New School for a New State: Cameron State School of Agriculture and the Lawton Community.” Online Exhibit. www.cityof.lawton.ok.us/onlineexhibit/index.htm.
“Cameron Library Development and the Determination to Meet Southwestern Oklahoma
Educational Needs.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 85 (Fall 2007), 280-307. “Academic Friends Groups.” Oklahoma Librarian 52 (July/August 2000): 45. With W. W. Prince. (1999) “Knowledge Worker.” In M. M. Helms (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Management (4th ed.). (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Group). “Working and Studying: A Qualitative Investigation into the Meaning of On-campus Employment to a Group of Library Student Assistants.” Journal of Student
Employment 7 (November 1998): 21-26. “Making the Federal Work-Study Program Work for Academic Libraries.”
College & Research Libraries News 59 (July/August 1998): 490-493. “Perspectives On … Sexually-Explicit Materials Via the Internet: Ethical Concerns for the Library Profession.” Journal of Academic Librarianship 23 (January 1997): 49-50. “Louisiana’s Court of Errors and Appeals: 1843-1846.” Louisiana History 33 (1992): 61-80. Reprinted in W. M. Billings and M. F. Fernandez (Eds.) A Law unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2001).
Professional Meeting Presentations
“Think, Pair, Share! Cooperative Learning Teaching Techniques for the Library Instruction Classroom,” American Library Association Conference Poster Presentation: June 23, 2007. “Oklahoma’s Cameron State School of Agriculture, 1909 - 1927,” Oklahoma Research Day Poster Presentation: April 6, 2007. “Transforming CU Library’s Service Desk Area to Better Meet 21st Century Patron Needs,” Oklahoma Library Association General Conference Demonstration Session, April 4, 2007. With Helen Clements, Barbara Miller and Judy Neale. “Cooperative Learning: Instruction Methods for Reaching Information Literacy Students,” Oklahoma Library Association Pre-conference: April 2, 2007.
“Libraries and the Textbook Pricing Crisis,” Oklahoma State Regents’ Symposium on Textbook Policies: December 1, 2006. “Conducting the Successful Formal Job Performance Improvement Session” panel discussion speaker. Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference: April 1, 2005. “RFID . . . Where no Oklahoma Academic Library Has Been Before” poster session presenter. Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference: March 31, 2005. “Feng Shui Your Library” pre-conference program speaker. Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference: March 25, 2003.
“Evaluation of Databases during TENN-SHARE’S Shared Access to Databases Project” Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference: April 16, 1998. “TENN-SHARE’S Shared Access to Databases Project” TENN-SHARE Fall Conference: November 24, 1997.
Funded Grant Proposals
“Emergency Preparedness Training and Rehousing Historic Documents” National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant. January 2005.
“The Image and the Word: The Exploration and Settlement of the American West Exhibit
and Lecture Program” Oklahoma Humanities Council Grant. October 2003. “First Americans, First Oklahomans Exhibit/Lecture Program” Oklahoma Humanities Council Grant. February 2001. “Development of a Long-term Plan to Preserve Library and Archival Collections and Preservation Training Workshop for Library Staff” National Endowment for the Humanities Grant. July 2001. “Academic Friends of Libraries: Workshop and Consultation.” Amigos Library Services Fellowship Award. May 2001.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Awarded the Dr. Joseph A. Jackson Library Faculty Development Award, 1999.
Awarded, with others, the Dr. Joseph A. Jackson Faculty Development Award, 1995.
Publication voted Louisiana History’s best article of the year, 1993.
Awarded the George G. Windell Graduate Thesis Prize, 1989.
Received Distinction in History Award, 1987.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (LAST FEW YEARS)
Participated in Association of College and Research Libraries’ e-learning session “Getting Started with Screen casting,” March 11, 2008. Live Webcast. Participated in Blended Librarian e-learning session “Designing Instruction to Get your Students Involved: Doing it Successfully in One Session” March 6, 2008. Live Webcast. Attended Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education conference “Strategies for Institutional Engagement” February 4, 2008. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Participated in Association of College and Research Libraries e-learning session “The Role of the Librarian in Combating Student Plagiarism” October 16, 2007. Live Webcast. Participated in Association of College and Research Libraries Regional Information Literacy Institute July 13-18, 2007. Normal, Illinois. Attended American Library Association Annual Conference 2007 June 23 - 26, 2007.
Washington, D.C. Completed Association of College and Research Libraries’ online course “Assessing Student Learning Outcomes” October 30, 2006 - November 18, 2006. Online course. Attended Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference October 17, 2006. Norman, Oklahoma. Attended American Library Association Annual Conference 2006 June 22 - 28, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana. Attended Association of College and Research Libraries “Assessment and Beyond: Starting it Off, Pulling It All Together and Making Decisions” June 23, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana. Planned, with others, and participated in “Using the Association of College and Research
Libraries Standards for Assessment, Accreditation, and Institutional Outcomes”
April 27, 2006. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Participated in Association of College and Research Libraries/Harvard Leadership
Institute August 7-12, 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Coordinated and participated in “Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery”
May 12 – 13, 2005. Lawton, Oklahoma. Coordinated and participated in Cameron University Library staff development workshop
“Leadership: The Big Picture and Supervision that Works”
January 5, 2005. Lawton, Oklahoma.
Attended Cameron University Library staff development workshop “Legal Research
Update” January 3, 2005. Lawton, Oklahoma. Attended National Conference of Academic Deans “Balancing Excellence and Access in
Higher Education” July 24 - 26. Conway, Arkansas. Coordinated and participated in Oklahoma Library Association Administration
Roundtable Workshop “Conflict in the Stacks? Conflict Management Strategies for
Librarians” February 19, 2004. Lawton, Oklahoma.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Membership in/Service to Professional Organizations
Oklahoma Council of Academic Library Directors, Chair, 2005 - 2007
Oklahoma Council of Academic Library Directors, Vice Chair, 2004 - 2005
Oklahoma Council of Academic Library Directors Expanded Instructional Support Committee, Member, 2004 - 2006
Association of College and Research Libraries, Member, 2004 -
American Library Association, Member, 2004 -
Oklahoma Library Association Administration Roundtable Member, 2002 - present
Oklahoma Library Technology Network Advisory Committee, Academic Library
Representative, 2002 - present
Association of College and Research Libraries, Oklahoma Chapter, Board Member, 2002 - 2004
Association of College and Research Libraries, Oklahoma Chapter, Newsletter Editor, 2002 - 2004
Oklahoma Library Association Administration Roundtable President, 2002 - 2003
Amigos Fellowship Program Selection Committee, Member, 2001 - 2003
American College and Research Libraries, Oklahoma Chapter, Member 2001 - present
Oklahoma Library Association, Member, 2000 - present
Oklahoma Council of Library Directors, 2000 - present
TENN-SHARE Interlibrary Loan Mentor Program, Mentor, 1999 - 2000
Program Co-chair, Tennessee Library Association 1999 Conference, 1997 - 1999
TBR/UT Borrowers’ Card Task Force, Member, 1999 - 2000
TENN-SHARE Trial Access Project, Coordinator, 1997 - 1998
TENN-SHARE Collection Development Committee, Member, 1995 - 2000
Tennessee Library Association, Member, 1997 - 2000
Tennessee Library Association Resource Sharing Roundtable, Member, 1997 - 2000
American Association of Law Libraries, Member, 1991-1994
University Committee Service
North Central Association Higher Learning Commission Visit Preparation Steering Committee, Criterion 1 Team Co-chair, 2008
Cameron University Public Exercises Committee, Member, 2006 -
Cameron University Festival “CU in Good Health” Book Discussion Program Committee, Chair, 2004 - 2006
Cameron University Festival “CU in Good Health” Committee, Member, 2004 - 2005
Interview and Selection Committee for an Architectural/Engineering Firm to Assist in Preparing the Reynolds Proposal, Member, 2004
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Grant Proposal Concept Committee, Member, 2004
eLearning Task Force, Member, 2001 - 2003
Deans’ Council, Member, 2000 - present
Self-Study Steering Committee, Member, 2000 - 2001
Faculty Council, Library Representative, 1999 - 2000
Graduate Council Representative, 1999 - 2000
Library Management System RFP Group, Member, 1998 - 2000
Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable, Member, 1999 - 2000
Convocation Committee, Member, 1999 - 2000
Committee on Committees, Member, 1999 - 2000
SACS Student Development Services Committee, Member, 1999 - 2000
Faculty Rating of Administration Committee, Member, 1995 - 1998
Outreach University Task Force Service Committee, Member, 1996 - 1988
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