Before I joined the U.S. State Department as an Information Resource officer in September, 2002, I was the director of the Library at the James
Monroe Center for Graduate and Professional Studies
of Mary
Washington College. I was a reference librarian at MWC's Simpson
Library for five years before this, from July 1994 until August 1999 when I started this job.
I had lots of fun planning a new library and meeting new people.
Teaching
A big part of my job was providing course-related library instruction
to students taking courses at the JMC. These classes focused on:
Along with Jack Bales, reference
librarian at Simpson Library, I taught a one-credit course entitled Library
Science 101: Library and Internet Resources. I also teach workshops
on how to develop effective search strategies, how to evaluate Web-based
information, and how to make Web pages.
The following are some of the workshops and presentations I have done:
| Ernie
Ackermann and I have published several textbooks over the past few
years. The latest one is Learning to Use the Internet and World Wide
Web, published by Franklin, Beedle & Associates in April, 2002.
The cover of that book is shown here: |
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Internet & Web Essentials: What
You Need to Know, written with Ernie
Ackermann, was published in July 2000.
Read a review of this book by Dale Farris. |
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| April 2000 brought the second edition of the
textbook "Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide
Web." The third edition of this title was published in August 2002.
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review by Dale Farris, President, Golden |
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The second edition of "The Information Specialist's Guide" was also published in April 2000: |  |
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January 2000 brought the millennium edition of the "Information Specialist's Guide to Searching and Researching on the World Wide Web." The cover of that book is shown on the right: |
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In early 1999, Franklin
Beedle published our third book,Internet
Today. The cover of that book is shown here:
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| In late 1998 "The Information
Specialist's Guide to Searching and Researching on the Internet and the
World Wide Web" was published, also by Franklin, Beedle & Associates. The cover of that book looks like
this:
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The first book Ernie and I wrote was Searching
and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. It was published
on December 15, 1997, also by Franklin, Beedle & Associates.
The cover looks similar to the one shown here: It is no longer in print. |
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This is kind of what I look like now.
The picture to the right is me
in about 1957.
I grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan (home of President Gerald Ford) from the time I was 5 years old until I went to college at Michigan State University. I majored in English Literature and graduated in 1976. I lived in Mary Mayo Hall. In 1977 I went to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for graduate school. I received my Masters of Arts degree in Library Science in December, 1978. From 1979 until 1982 I worked at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan in Ann Arbor as Research Librarian. In 1983 my husband Jack and our two children, Tracy and Hilary (Hilary was only 3 weeks old!) moved to Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, where we lived for almost 2 years. In 1989 we all went to Cairo, Egypt, where we lived for 5 years. I worked at the American University in Cairo Li
brary as a reference librarian. The picture below is of my daughters and me horseback riding at the Giza pyramids in Cairo.
Below is a picture of a resort near
Nuweiba, in the Sinai. The mountains in the distance are on the other side
of the Red Sea. From this spot, you can see Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, and Israel
while standing on the beach.
In 1994 we returned to the states
and I was hired by Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia
to be a reference and bibliographic instruction librarian.
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Last updated March 1, 2004 .