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American Library Association
CHOICE magazine
Middletown, Connecticut
January 1998-March 2002
Special Projects Editor
Served as editor, development coordinator, and customer service
supervisor for ChoiceReviews.online
Served as subject editor for review content and special features
in the areas of philosophy, religion, and sports.
Online Inc.
Wilton, Connecticut
March 1996-December 1997
Editor, ONLINE magazine
Served as primary editor for a bi-monthly information industry
trade magazine; participated in planning, organizing and delivering
annual Online World conferences.
Bjørner & Associates
February 1991 - 1996
Principal and Sr. Information Specialist
Provided research, editorial, training and consulting services
under contract in multiple subject areas to professional, library
and corporate clients including Gartner Group, IBM, Boehringer
Ingelheim, and National Technical
Library and Knowledge Center of Denmark.
MIT
Libraries
Computerized Literature Search Service
Cambridge, Massachusetts
May 1985 - January 1991
Senior Information Specialist
Performed extensive literature searches on several online systems
and in all subject areas for internal and external users of MIT's
centralized computer search facility. Served on MIT Libraries'
Public Services Instruction Group committee. Recipient of MIT
Libraries Professional Research Grant in 1989. Co-recipient (with
Professors Michael Rappa, then of MIT and Raghu Garud, then of
NYU) of a Council on Library Resources Cooperative Research Grant
in 1990. Participant in University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)
Advanced Research Institute in July 1990, studying the topic of
information literacy.
World of Information
Franconia, New Hampshire
September 1984-1990
Principal
Provided training in information management to educators, library
& information specialists, and business clients. Wrote on
library/information science topics in the professional press.
Performed industry surveys and developed curricula in technical
education areas. Consulted to libraries and businesses on information
technology problems. Performed online searching and document delivery
for selected clients.
Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC)
Boston, Massachusetts
September 1982-September 1984
Automation Consultant
Assisted in developing and marketing the first statewide automated
resource sharing plan. Conducted and published survey of microcomputer
use in all types of Massachusetts libraries in 1983. Promoted
and provided consulting and training services in microcomputer
applications for public librarians.
Massachusetts
Vocational Curriculum Resource Center
(MVCRC)
Lexington, Massachusetts
September 1980-September 1982
Librarian
Designed microcomputer-based systems for and developed a start-up
library run as a project of the state department of education.
Marketed library services statewide. Provided computer training
for librarians and instructors in educational and management applications.
Burlington
Public Library
Burlington, Massachusetts
July 1975-September 1980
Assistant Director
Coordinated and provided reference and adult services in a 40,000-volume
library in an industrial/ residential suburb. Trained circulation
personnel and supervised circulation operations. Trained and supervised
professional reference assistants and high-school pages.
Action for Children's Television (ACT)
Newtonville, Massachusetts
July 1974-July 1975
Librarian
Provided research service for on-site and off-site organization
members, industry leaders and the press.
Nashua High School
Nashua, New Hampshire
September 1971 - 1974 (11/72 - 7/73 living in Denmark)
Librarian and Substitute Teacher
Honeywell Information Systems
Waltham, Massachusetts
December 1968 - September 1971
Library Assistant
M.Ed. Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio and Keene, New Hampshire
M.S. Simmons College, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Boston, Massachusetts
B.A. Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
A card-carrying member since 1976, I have
belonged to several different divisions and from 1990-1995 was
an officer in ILERT (the Independent Librarians Exchange Round
Table, now ILEX,
a section of ASCLA).
American Society for Information Science & Technology
A member since it was ASIS, from 1988-1992 I served as newsletter editor for Special Interest Groups on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Technology, Information and Society.
Association of Independent Information
Professionals
In 1986 I responded to an invitation from Marilyn Levine to come to Madison, Wisconsin to a meeting of "information brokers" .. thus I became one of 26 founding members in 1987; subsequently I served as bylaws chair, vice president, conference organizer (Lowell, Massachusetts in 1989), president (1989-90), past president and oldest gadfly.
IFLA (International Federation of Library Association)
My experience has broadened considerably through participation in IFLA world meetings in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Boston.
Simmons College GSLIS Alumni Association
A continuing association with my professional school is important to me for several reasons. I have served the Alumni Association as president in 1988-89.
I have participated in the Boston Chapter and the Fairfield County Chapter, where I served as Bulletin editor-in-chief from 1992-1994.
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