Head, Reference Services, Gaston County Public Library, 1555 E. Garrison Blvd., Gastonia, NC. 704-868-2164. January 1999-to date.

• Responsible for Reference at the main library, serials for the county system, the local history and genealogy collection, and ILL.
• Supervise full-time and part-time employees;
• Write staff manuals and procedures;
• Produce public information materials including web pages;
• Do bibliographic instruction;
• Select reference tools, adult non-fiction, serials, databases.

Assistant Department Head and Librarian, Documents/Maps/Micromaterials Dept., University Libraries, Florida State University, Tallahasee, FL, 32306. June 1981 to January 1999.

Administrative:

Assistant Department Head

• Hired, trained, supervised full and part-time employees;
• Wrote manuals and training materials;
• Served on library and university committees;
• Supervised Department's collection control/stack maintenance for paper materials.

Unit Head, United Nations/State Unit

• Oversaw all functions for UN depository including processing and cataloging;
• Oversaw State (all states except Florida) collection.
• Before Department reorganization (1996), was also responsible for documents from Florida, Great Britain, Canada, and international organizations.

Reference/Bibliographic Instruction:

• Provided reference service at Information Desk and via telephone and email;
• Wrote Library Research Guides for web pages;
• Taught workshops on Netscape, Internet resources, OPAC and other databases;
• Did bibliographic instruction on all aspects of the Libraries or focused on special topics as requested by faculty;
• Served as the University Libraries' liaison with the History Dept;
• Served on a multi-university cooperative resource development team on British history.

Joint appointment as Shared Librarian at Colquitt-Thomas Regional Library, Moultrie, Ga. and Southwest Georgia Regional Library, Bainbridge, Ga. Worked alternate two week periods at each library. November 1974--June 1981.

Colquitt-Thomas: [Now Moultrie-Colquitt Library]

In charge of Reference Dept.
• Selected reference books and major portion of adult non-fiction purchases;
• Weeded adult and children's collections and sorted gifts;
• Responsible for Georgia Collection and worked with patrons interested in genealogy and local history;
• Taught workshops, spoke to civic groups and other organizations, and led library instructional tours.

Southwest Georgia:

In charge of Genealogy and Local History Department.
• Set up department, wrote criteria for collection, selected and cataloged all materials (books, periodicals, microfilm, maps, archival materials);
• Worked with patrons in person and by mail and with classes in local schools;
• Did series of videotapes on beginning genealogy for use on local cable TV;
• Did general reference work and cataloging as needed.

M. A. (History), Florida State University, 1991.

Thesis: The Commercial Careers of Some Native Florida Plants.

M.L.S., Florida State University, 1973.

B. A., University of Connecticut, 1970.

Major: History. Minor: Sociology.

North Carolina ECHO Digitization Institute.

Georgia Archives Institute, cosponsored by Georgia Dept. of

Archives and History and Emory University. One month full-time.

ARL Office of Management Studies, Library Management Skills

Institute.

Family History Research in the United States Seminar, University of

Connecticut.

Computer training courses/workshops on various topics.

"A Creek Indian Bibliography: Sources for History, Biography and Genealogy."

Online at http://www.rhus.com/Creeks.html.

"The Information Wave: A Collection of Current Awareness Links."

Online at: http://www.rhus.com/wave.html

"Vegetable Hair: The Spanish Moss Industry in Florida."

Florida Historical Quarterly, v. 66, no. 3 (January 1988.)

"Abstracts of the Southern Spy",

Southern Genealogist's Exchange Quarterly, March and June 1977.

Transcripts of Revolutionary War pension applications.

Southern Genealogist's Exchange Quarterly, various issues.

Indexes to History of Decatur County [Ga.] and History of Colquitt County [Ga.]

Used in Reprint Company editions.

"Books for the College Bound" for Colquitt-Thomas Regional Library.

[OCLC 3791925]

"Early Botanists"

January 1997 for various organizations.

"James Burgess: A Life in Creek Country."

Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, May 1994.

"Palmetto Industries."

Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, May 1991.

"Beginning Genealogy."

Six week course for Center for Participant Education, Florida State University. Taught three times.

At Florida State University:

• Florida Library Research Cooperative Team for British History;
• University Libraries Home Page Committee;
• Working Group on Library Research Instruction.
• Florida State University Faculty Senate;
• Florida State University Parking Services Advisory Committee; also Subcommittee on
  Bicycle and Pedestrian Concerns;

  Chair, University Libraries Services Evaluation Committee;

  Chair, Task Force on International and State Government Documents;

  Chair, Task Force on International, British, Canadian and Foreign Government Documents;

  Task Force on Library Renovation;

  Services Committee -- SACS accreditation;

  Faculty Advisory Committee;

  Task Force on Assessing Training Needs;

  Subcommittee for a Long Term Vision Statement of the Document Delivery Planning Task

  Force;

  Promotion Committee;

  Merit Review Committee;

  Various faculty search committees.

Other:

• Society of Florida Archivists, Secretary-Treasurer, 1983;
• Society of Georgia Archivists, on program committee which organized joint SGA/GLA
  workshop on archival techniques for librarians, 1980/81;

  Georgia Library Association, Secretary of Reference Division, 1980/81.

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