My last day at Maryville University is June 25, 2008. In a few weeks after that date you will find me at the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library in the position of Metadata and Emerging Technologies Librarian.

Research guides and other useful information about using the Maryville University Library resources are maintained on the  library web site and on the Subject Guides server.

This web page is just my repository for my own professional/scholarly work.

Librarians, please feel free to contact me with any questions about any of my work or presentations.

I am both a reference librarian and the only systems librarian at Maryville University.

What does a systems librarian do? (my own list)

My resume/curriculum vitae (updated February 24, 2008)

My single biggest ongoing project is maintaining and improving my own OpenURL server for Maryville. It is hosted off-campus. It is a perl program I wrote (based on a tiny bit of starting code from Andy Powell many years ago), heavily customized for the Maryville/MOBIUS context - this service is entirely open source; please contact me for more information or a copy of the main program or any of its supporting scripts (extra programs I wrote to manage the journal holdings files). Other libraries in Missouri using my software are Drury University and Truman State University.

I also maintain our subject guides system, using the open source Mediawiki software (the basis for Wikipedia). This content management platform enables our reference librarians to make available the handouts they use with bibliographic instruction class sessions and otherwise document useful resources and tips for our students. I also contribute to the content.

Professional Presentations

MOBIUS 2008 Annual Conference, June 2008 - Tan-Tar-A
Finding and Getting: Google Books, Google Scholar, and Free OpenURL Browser Tools

• PowerPoint presentation
• Handout (PDF)

MOBIUS 2007 Annual Conference, June 2007 - Tan-Tar-A
Automating Tasks: Macros, Millennium scripting with AutoIt, and Telnet scripting with Perl

• PowerPoint presentation
• Handout (Word doc)
• Flash video of demo of AutoIt with Millennium Create Lists

St. Louis TechExpo 4 - March 2006:

• OpenURL Introduction - handout, PowerPoint
• E-Journals - speaker notes and handouts (Word doc)
• Javascript and Google Searching (Double-header) - Javascript handout, PowerPoint (note - the Google CheatSheets came from http://www.infopeople.org/training/past/2005/extr_googling/)

Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference, Spring 2006 - presentation on usage statistics and decision making;  permanent conference archive of presentation, with PPT and AVI format video of actual presentation, with audio

MLA 2005 (105th annual conference) - joint presentation with Gail Keutzer - Evolving Online Tutorial Formats (PDF version of PowerPoint, 1.26MB)

MOBIUS 6th Annual Users Conference (June 2005) - Using Millennium Access to Compare Title Lists - this is a Flash video, not downloadable as a file - when the icon changes to a hand, click to continue the video;  handout given at presentation

Technology Expo 3 (2005) - OpenURL: An Introduction - PowerPoint,  handout (Word), Page with test links

MLA 2004 Presentation - ILLiad and ILL - Joint with Nada Vaughn (PPT, 12 MB!)

MOBIUS 2004 5th Annual Conference Presentation - Millennium Statistics and Excel Pivot Tables (PDF, 1MB)
     Accompanying handout listing record types, fixed fields reportable by Mill Stats (Word doc, 28Kb)
     Accompanying AVI video showing final steps in Pivot Table creation (300Kb)
           You may need the free player, camplay.exe (324Kb) to view this video

MLA 2003 Presentation - From Citation to Full Text - Linking and OpenURL (PPT, 1.8 MB)

MOBIUS 2002 Presentation - Integrating full text and traditional serials holdings (PPT, 712K)

MLA 2002 Presentation - Integrating full text and traditional serials holdings (PPT - 593K)

(Note: the 2002 MLA presentation is not identical to the 2002 MOBIUS one)

In-House Presentations

Materials used in training/presentations for the library staff at Maryville.

RSS and Podcasts (ppt)

USB ports and Flash drives (ppt)

Meebo for virtual reference - not a single PPT presentation, but a combination of a live demo page and a short PPT  that just has screen snapshots of other library web sites using Meebo

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