EDUCATION

1991    M.S.L.S., University of North Texas, Denton          

1978    M.P.A., University of Oklahoma, Norman

1970    Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill              

1961    M.A., Texas A&I College, Kingsville                  

1960    B.A., Texas A&I College, Kingsville

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2002 -  Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey  University Librarian        

1998 – 2002 College of Staten Island, CUNY  Professor and Chief Librarian

1/00 – 5/01 Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Flushing, New York, Adjunct Professor (Taught library management)

1996-1998 University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa  Director of Library Services, Senior Lecturer in History

1991-1996 Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport   Director of Library Services, Associate Professor of History (1993)

1990-1991 University of North Texas, Denton   Adjunct Professor of History

(1980-1990 In Business)

1967-1980 Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee  Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of History (1974)

1976-1977 University of Oklahoma, Norman  Visiting Professor of History

1969-1970 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Instructor of History 

1963-1965 Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, NC  Instructor of History and Government

PUBLICATIONS

On Librarianship, Learning, and Management (select)

“Beyond Visual Culture: The Challenge of Visual Ecology,” portal: Libraries and the Academy 2:2 (April 2002): 189-206.

“Rethinking Information Literacy.”  Library Quarterly 71 (January 2002): 1-26.

“From Information Center to Discovery System: Next Step for Libraries?” Journal of Academic Librarianship 27 (March 2001): 197-206.

“Out with Motivation, In with Engagement,” National Productivity Review 18:4 (Autumn 1999): 43-46.

Co-author: "Bridging the Gaps: The CSI Meta-Learning Initiative," 2000 ASCUE (Association of Small Computer Users in Education) Proceedings (June 2000), pp. 96-99.

Co-author: “Meta-Learning Digital Library Initiative, City University of New York,” 1999 ASCUE Proceedings, (June 1999), pp. 121-126.

“Engaging Knowledge Workers: Escaping the ‘Motivation Complex’,” Proceedings,  Computers in Libraries ’98. (Medford, NJ: Information Today), pp, 106-115.  “Outsourcing: Tactic, Strategy, or Meta-Strategy?” Library Administration &  Management 12:1 (Winter 1998): 15-25.

"Core Competencies and 'Learning for Change' in Academic Libraries," Finding  Common Ground, ed. Cheryl LaGuardia and Barbara Mitchell.  New York: Neal-Schuman, 1998, pp. 161-167.  Proceedings, Harvard College conference.

"Can the College Library Become a Learning Organization?"  Advances in Library  Administration and Organization 14 (1996): 39-62.

"Performance Appraisal and Quality Management: Getting Past the Paradox;" in Total Quality Management in Academic Libraries.  Washington: Association of Research Libraries/Office of   Management Services, 1995, pp. 131-139.

On Russian Studies

 "Information versus Ideology: Recent Soviet-Russian Experience," Quarterly Journal of Ideology 16:3-4 (December, l993): 5-21.

"S. M. Kirov," Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History 17 (1980): 33-38.

“Catherine II and the French Revolution," Canadian Slavonic Papers 16:2 (Summer 1974): 187-201.

"Vorontsov and Pitt," (Rocky Mountain) Social Science Journal 10:2 (April 1973):  49-56.

Dissertation: S.R. Vorontsov: Minister to London for Catherine II, 1785-1796.

BOOK REVIEW

Loren R. Graham, What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience?  Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1998.  In Slavic and East European Journal 43:1 (Spring 1999): 232-233.

Dusan Kechmanovich, The Mass Psychology of Ethnonationalism.  New York: Plenum Press, 1996.  In Ethnos-Nation: Eine europäische Zeitschrift 6:1-2(1998): 172.

Janet Donald, Improving the Environment for Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997, in Journal of Academic Librarianship 24:2 (March 1998): 177.

Scott Shane, Dismantling Utopia. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995, in Slavic and East European Journal 41: 2 (Summer 1997): 385-386.

"Books and Articles in Brief," National Productivity Review, Quarterly, Fall, 1993-Spring 2000. 307 short book reviews on management, quality, and organizational change.