Directory of Librarians and Archivists

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Phone: (414) 288-5901
Office: Raynor 360 CD

Mailing Address:
Raynor Memorial Libraries
Marquette University
P. O. Box 3141
Milwaukee, WI  53201-3141

Education: M.L.I.S. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
B.S. (History) Unviersity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
M.A. (History) University of Montana

Rank: Associate Librarian

Professional and board activities : Midwest Archives Conference (currently serving on council, 2007-2009), Society of Archivists. Currently serving a three-year term on the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board (2007-2009).

Publications (selected): “An Anniversary Opportunity: Digitizing Student Yearbooks,” Microform & Imaging Review (35:4, Fall 2006); “Digitization, Donor Relations, and Undergraduate Instruction,” Microform & Imaging Review (35:3, Summer 2006); “Reuben Gold Thwaites and the Historical Resurrection of Lewis and Clark,” Wisconsin Magazine of History (Winter 2004-2005); “ ‘A Masterpiece for the Future’: A History of the Tolkien Collection at Marquette University Libraries,” within The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien exhibition catalogue. (Milwaukee: Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, 2004).

Exhibitions and Conferences Organized (selected): “Marquette University Then and Now:  Images of 125 Years of Faith and Learning in Action,” 2007.  Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University (co-curated with Dan Johnson and Annermarie Sawkins);  “The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder,” 2004;  “The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien:  Drawings and Manuscripts from the Marquette University Collection,”  Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, 2004-2005 (co-curated with Curtis L. Carter and Annemarie Sawkins); “Jack Kerouac’s On the Road:  The Original Manuscript”  Raynor Memorial Libraries, 2004.

Recent presentations: “Integrating CONTENTdm into Public History Instruction,” Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting,” Indianapolis, IN, April 30, 2008; “So You’ve Got a Collecting Policy – Now What?,” Midwest Archives Conference, Louisville, KY, April 17, 2008;  “Documenting the History of Women Religious at Marquette University,”  Seventh Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious, University of Notre Dame, June 24-27, 2007; “Digitizing Large-Scale Print Collections,” Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries conference, April, 2007; “Improving Access to Archival Collections:  A Case Study of Marquette's Native American Catholic Research Collections,” American Catholic Historical Association conference, March 30, 2007.

University service (selected): Centenary of Co-Education Committee, 2007-2010; 125th Anniversary of Marquette University Commitee, 2005-2007.

Consulting: Loyola/Notre Dame of Maryland College Libraries, 2005; Oneida Nation Public Library, 2004; Xavier University Libraries, 2003; Menominee Indian Nation Library, Wisconsin, 2001-2002.