Directory of Librarians and Archivists

E-mail
Phone: (414) 288-5969
Office: Raynor 262

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

Education: M.S.L.S. Dominican University
M.A. (American Church History) Columbia University
Ph.D (American History) Graduate Center, City University of New York

Rank: Associate Librarian

Responsibilities: I provide general reference and instruction services, as well as advise on the acquisition of resources, especially history.  As the liaison librarian to the Department of History, I support the teaching and research needs of faculty and students, including research assistance and instruction.  Along with another librarian, I help provide similar services to the Department of Theology, particularly in Biblical Studies.

Web pages: Selected Internet Sites: History; Dictionaries & Thesauri; Quotations
Research Starting Points: History

Professional memberships: American Library Association; Association of College and Research Libraries; Organization of American Historians; The Historical Society; Labor and Working Class History Association

Publications in Librarianship (selected): “Using Technology to Teach Critical Thinking, Logic, and Information Literacy,” (with James B. South and Timothy S. Yoder), in Technology in the College Classroom: Humanities, ed. Mark Girod and J. P. Steed (Stillwater, OK: New Forums, 2007): 25-40; review of Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities, ed. Orville Vernon Burton, in Portal: Libraries and the Academy 3(2) April 2003): 346-48; “Academic Reference Service and the Patron’s Inquiry: Ewing and Hauptman Revisited,” Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 21, No. 5 (September 1995), 388-89.

Publications in Reference Books (selected): "Germans” and “Janitorial/Custodial,” in Eric Arneson, ed., Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History (New York: Routledge, 2007): 514-18, 711-14; “Anarchists” and “Metropolitan Unionism,” in Richard Sisson, et al., eds.,The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007): 1283, 1299-1301; “Eight-Hour Movement,” “Furniture,” and “Turnvereins,” in James R. Grossman, et al., eds., The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004): 265, 321-22, 835-36; “Labor: The Gilded Age through the 1920s,” in Mary Kupiec Cayton, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of American Social History, Vol. II (New York: Scribner, 1993): 1459-1473; "Wood Workers of Chicago," in Mari Jo Buhle, et al., eds. Encyclopedia of the American Left (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990): 845-46.

University service (selected): Library Representative to the University Academic Senate, 2007-2008; Member of the Faculty Council, 2007-2008; Library Representative to the Committee on Faculty, 2003-2007; Vice-Chair of the Committee on Faculty, 2004-2007; First-Year Reading Faculty Discussion Leader for four years