Career Timeline

A concise summary of my library career and education

As years pass, more years will be added.

2017 First trip to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for data presentations at Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, and National University of Mongolia

2016 In Bergen, Norway for first IASSIST Conference serving as IASSIST Secretary (elected for 2015-2019 term)

2015 Graduated Rutgers Graduate School of New Brunswick (GSNB) with Master’s in Statistics and Biostatistics and began three-year term as Head of Research and Content Department in New Brunswick Libraries, created after Research and Instructional Services reorganization

2014 Serve as member of Rutgers AAUP/AFT Bargaining Committee during contract negotiations

2013 Title changed to Data Librarian, reflecting the emphasis on this role that I will hold until my retirement

2012 Begin first term as Rutgers University Libraries Faculty Chair (then called Faculty Coordinator)

2011 Started Master’s program in Statistics and Biostatistics at Rutgers GSNB and ended involvement with the American Library Association

2010 Began additional role as Research Data Manager for RUcore (until 2013)

2009 Attended first IASSIST Conference in Tampere, Finland and began IASSIST activity

2008 Assumed new role as Data and Economics Librarian, marking switch to focus on data librarianship

2007 Began first term as New Brunswick Libraries Faculty Chair, and rode the bus around New Jersey with Rutgers New Faculty Traveling Seminar

2006 Begin term as Chair of the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association (ALA), my peak involvement in business librarianship

2005 Received tenure and promoted to Librarian II (equivalent to Associate Professor) at Rutgers

2004 Conclude service as Chair of the BRASS Annual Program Committee for ALA Annual 2004

2003 Serve as Interim Data Librarian for the first time

2002 Attended first international conference, “Central Asia 2002”, in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

2001 Named to BRASS Preconference Planning Committee

2000 Named Chair of Thomson Financial/Primark Student Travel Award Committee (BRASS)

1999 Moved to Rutgers University-New Brunswick as Business and Economics Librarian, with rank of Librarian III (equivalent to Assistant Professor) based at the then Kilmer, now Carr Library

1998 Begin professional memberships in American Economic Association and American Society for Information Science and Technology, later dropped as my professional focus emerges

1997 Attended first ALA Conference in San Francisco, beginning a run of continuous attendance interrupted only twice (Toronto 2003, Chicago 2005) by external circumstances until 2009, and joined BRASS

1996 Graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with M.S.L.S. and started first library job at University of Alabama in Huntsville as reference librarian/subject specialist for several disciplines, appointed as Assistant Professor of Bibliography

1994 Started Library School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1993 Left Ph.D. program at Penn with M.A. in Economics

1990 Started Ph.D. program in Economics at University of Pennsylvania

1989 Graduated from Columbia University (Columbia College) with B.A. in Economics

1986 Graduated from St. Martin’s P.E. School