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• Acquisitions Librarian
• Professor

Academic Background        

• Providence College - Master of Business Administration, 1990
• Simmons College, Boston, MA - Master of Library Science, 1977 
• Gregorian University, Rome, Italy:
  • Master of Arts, 1972
  • Bachelor of Arts, 1969

• Management Information Systems - graduate course in the M.B.A. program

Teaching Philosophy

I try to acquire the information resources needed by faculty and students as quickly and as economically as possible.

Research & Interests

I have several areas of research interest. As an acquisitions librarian, I try to keep abreast of developments in the information acquisition, publication, management, and delivery industries. My goal is to remain among the leaders and visionaries of my profession. I also try to keep abreast of new technologies for information storage and management that can improve my efficiency or that can deliver that information more effectively to faculty and students.

 As an amateur historian, I'm primarily concerned with the 18th century. My Battlegrounds of Freedom is the first guide to the Revolutionary War battlefields to be published in over thirty years. The most complete published list covers about 1300 confrontations. In my work on Battlegrounds of Freedom, I tallied over 2100 military actions. I'm currently researching these events, most of which are not covered by history books. This work has resulted in an invitation to serve as editor-in-chief of The Brigade Dispatch: the Journal of the Brigade of the American Revolution.

Notable Academic Appointments and Awards

• ALA ALCTS Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group
  • Chair 2001-2002
  • Vice Chair 2000-2001
• Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief, Electronic Resources Review, 1996-2000
• Senior Editor, CD-ROM World, 1993-1994
• Editor-in-Chief, CD-ROM Librarian, 1990-1993

Publication Highlights

• Battlegrounds of Freedom: A Historical Guide to the Battlefields of the War of American Independence. Ithaca, NY: BUSCA, 2005.
• ABCs of XML: The Librarian's Guide to the eXtensible Markup Language. Houston. New Technology Press, 2000.
• Essential Documents of American History. Ipswich, MA: EBSCO Electronic Publishing, 1998.
• The American Revolution. -- American Journey: History in Your Hands series. -- Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 1996.
• Multimedia on the PC: A Guide for Information Professionals. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.
• CD-ROM in libraries. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science vol. 50, Supplement 13. pp. 89-136. -- New York, Basel, Hong Kong: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1992.
• The Librarian's CD-ROM Handbook. -- Westport, CT, London: Meckler Publishing, 1988.(Supplements to Optical Information Systems; 4).
• Acquisitions Systems for Libraries. -- Westport, CT, London: Meckler Publishing, 1988. (Essential Guide to the Library IBM PC; vol. 11).

Selected Scholarly Presentations and Activities

• "The Ins and Outs of Electronic Invoicing," Charleston Conference on Book and Serials Acquisitions, Charleston, SC, 2005.
• XML Basics. Presentation for the New England Technical Services Librarians Association. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 2002.
• "Negotiating Licenses: What Every Librarian Should Know," paper presented at the Midwest Association of American Law Libraries. Omaha, NE, 1997.
• "Understanding CD-ROM License Agreements," paper presented at the Association of American Law Libraries. Indianapolis, IN, 1996.
• "An Electronic Carriage or a Horseless Book?" paper presented at Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1994 and at the Computers in Libraries International 1994 conference, London, England.
• "Trends in Optical Publishing" paper presented at Computers in Libraries International 1991 conference, London, England.

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