i, thanks for visiting my faculty page. Here's a little bit about myself: I received the M.L.S. from McGill University, Montreal, in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. Prior to coming to Georgia in 1993, I was on the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa for three years. I have served as a school media specialist and a community college librarian in the wonderful state of Maine.

In the summer of 1993, Jean Donham and I were awarded the American Association of School Librarians Highsmith Research Award for research on the collaboration and consultation roles of school library media specialist. We published a series of articles on our research in School Library Media Quarterly in 1994 and 1995. I have also co-authored a book with Marilyn Joyce, a secondary school media specialist in Maine, called Making the Writing and Research Connection with the I-Search Process, published by Neal-Schuman in 1997.

Additionally, I have published articles on the I-Search process in Emergency Librarian and Knowledge Quest. In 1996, Dr. Lyn Henderson of James Cook University in Northern Queensland, Australia, and I received a Spencer Grant for research on espoused and actual mental models of teacher librarians and students before, during and after teaching/learning episodes with electronic databases. We currently have a book contract for publication of our research in this project focusing on our use of stimulated recall methodology. For those interested, we have published an article on this research in School Library Media Research, the online research journal of the American Association of School Librarians.

I also have publications in the online distance education area and from my Fulbright in Botswana during the 1999-2000 academic year.

For additional information and some course information, check out my Information Page for personal and research interests plus favourite web sites.