Services Provided:
Reference Desk, Library Instruction,
Collection Development for and Liaison to International Studies
Research Interests:
I write library history. I view libraries,
and especially public libraries, as "barometers" of
social and cultural thought.They reflect and mirror what
is going on in American society. Library history is an "aspect"
of social and cultural history.As such it is best
approached by archival research.I am also interested in
the status concerns of librarians as expressed in faculty
status and other issues related to what may be called "status
anxieties".Finally, I have a deep interest in American
military history,especially the USMC.
Favorite Quotes:
"Clio,the muse of history,is as permeated with lies
as a street-whore with syphllis." Arthur Schopenhauer
"There are no accidents in life" Father Alexandr El 'caninov Diary
of a Russian Priest
"Whereof one cannot speak,thereof one must
remain silent." Wittgenstein
"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready
in the night to visit violence on those who would do us
harm.".
George Orwell
Favorite Historian:Jackson Lears
Personal Interests:
Reading history and biography, doing historical research.
Publications
Books:
Studies
in Creative Partnership: Federal Aid to Public
Libraries During the New Deal. Scarecrow
Press, 1980, 145 pages.Editor and contributor.
Book Chapters
"Carnegie
Libraries" in The American
Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2007):
659-660.
Invited
"A Period of Peace and Harmony: The Bunge Years,
1971-1981" in Tradition and Vision: Library and Information Studies
at the University of Wisconsin, A Centennial History (Madison: School
of Library and Information Studies 2006): 110-129.Invited
"Arthur
Curley" in Dictionary of American
Library Biography. Second Supplement. (Westport,
Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2003): 60-64.Invited
"Women's
Club Culture and the Failure of Library Development in
Illinois, Michigan and Ohio" in Carnegie Denied
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992): 53-78.Invited
"Ralph
Ulveling" in Supplement to
the Dictionary of American Library Biography. Englewood,
Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1990: 138-144.Invited
Articles
“The Librarian as a "Bookman.” Public
Libraries 35 (Jan./Feb. 1996): 60-63.Peer
Reviewed
"Has the American Public Library Lost Its Purpose? Defending
the Intended Mission." Public Libraries 33
(July/Aug. 1994): 191-193.Peer Reviewed
"The
Michigan Imprints Inventory of the Historical Records
Survey " Detroit in Perspective
A Journal of Regional History
IV (Winter 1980):111-117. Peer Reviewed
"Professional
Development Leaves as a Stepping Stone to Faculty
Status," Journal of Academic Librarianship,
IV (March 1978), 19-20.Peer Reviewed
"The
Temperance Movement in Milwaukee: 1872-1884." Historical
Messenger, Milwaukee County Historical Society,
31 (Winter 1975): 98-105 Peer Reviewed. Reprinted,
in part, in The Badger State: A Documentary
History of Wisconsin. Grand Rapids:Eedrmans,1978.
Essays
“On Why Librarianship Isn’t a Profession.” RQ 35
(Fall 1995): 145-146. This essay was published
as a letter
"Some Thoughts on National Character and War
and Human Progress." Journal of Library
History 22 (Fall 1987): 470-475. This
essay was published as a response to Paul Sturges' essay "British Librarianship
and the First World War: A Commentary." Journal
of Libary History 22 (Summer 1987)285-293. .
"Searching for Darlings: The Quest for
Professional Status." College & Research
Libraries News 54 (December 1993): 641-643.
“Bibliographic
Instruction in a Collegial Setting”, LIRT
News, VI (December 1983), 3-5.Invited
Reviews:
No silence! Libraries & Culture 34, no. 4 (Fall 1999): 428-30.
Richmond Rejects A Library: The Carnegie Library Movement in Richmond, Virginia in the Early Twentieth Century. Library & Information Science Research 16 (Winter 1994): 78-80.
Materials and Methods for History Research. College and Research Libraries 41 (March 1980): 148-151.
Archive-Library Relations. American Archivist 40(April
1977): 242-243
Other Scholarship:
Co-editorship: Association for the Bibliography
of History Bulletin. 1984-89.
“The Encouragement
of the Fine Arts at Oakland University: The
Meadow Brook Music Festival, 1964-1972." This
research was the result of a four-month Professional
Development Leave awarded for April-August 1977.
Editorial
Work
Libraries
and the Cultural Record Ocassional Referee
Michigan
History Ocassional Referee
Utah State University Press
Presentations:
“Women’s Club Culture and the Failure
of Library Development.” Library History
Round Table. San Francisco. 1986.Invited
"Carnegie Libraries as Symbols for an Age: Montana
as a Test Case.” Montana Library Association Great
Falls Montana 1991.
Theses:
Who has cited my research
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Service:
Kresge Library:Sometime member of Merit,
CAP,Social and Executive Committees.Chair ad-hoc Committee
to Review the Constitution.
University:Sometime member of University Research Committee,
Academic Standing and Honors Committee(Chair 1981-1983),
and Academic Conduct Committee
Awards and Honors:
National
and Regional
Contemporary Authors, v. 113
University Awards:
Sabbatical, Winter Semester, 2005
Honoree at Board of Trustees meeting, April 5 2001
Nominee
for University Research Award 2001
Sabbatical, August 14, 1998-January 3, 1999
Nominee
for University Research Award 1998
Sabbatical, January 3, 1992-April 24, 1991
Sabbatical, August 26, 1985-February 1, 1986
Professional Development Leave, April 23-August 14, 1977
Other: Going the Extra Mile award From the Board of Trustees Rochester Hills Public Library This was for my work as a Reference Librarian.
Grants:
Travel To Collections Grant $300 UW SLIS 2006
Research Grant, $660, from Oakland University, 2004
Research Grant, $997, from Oakland University, 1994
Research Grant, $500, from Oakland University, 1993
Research Grant, $1,000, from Oakland University, 1991
Research Grant, $1,000, from Oakland University, 1989
Research Grant, $400, from Kresge Library, 1988
Research Grant, $300, from Kresge Library, 1987
Research Grant, $150, from Kresge Library, 1986
Research Grant, $500, from Oakland University, 1985
Research Grant, $600, from Oakland University, 1979
Research Grant, $500, from Oakland University, 1977
Educational Background:
M.S. Library Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973
M.S. History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1971
(Specialized in American urban history and modern European history)
B.S. History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1968
(Minor: political science)
Graduate Study, School of Education, 18 Graduate credits, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1971-72
Employment:
Cleveland Public Library History Department 1974-1975
Oakland University Kresge Library 1975-
Rochester Hills Public Library (p-t) 1988-2001
Academic Distinctions:
High Honors in History; Senior Honors; Senior Honors Thesis; Gardiner P. Stickney Scholarship; Wisconsin Leadership Scholarship; Wisconsin State Tuition Grant; Phi Alpha Theta History Fraternity
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